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Using Skills in Duel Links

Yu-Gi-Oh's mobile Duel Links game follows a simpler "speed duel" rendition of traditional games. Life points are cutting from 8000 to 4000, starting easily are four instead of 5, extra decks have 6 cards instead of fifteen, main decks are 20-thirty cards instead of 40-60, and merely three monster and spell/trap zones exist per player. The second main phase is as well eliminated, and the game just spans cards through a certain point (the synchro era as of this writing).

While some fans prefer standard rules, these changes keep games fast and heady. Only another big change is the introduction of character skills, offer diverse abilities that tin can make or suspension your duel—which reign supreme? These are the ten best-activated skills in Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Links!

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10. Time Passage

Character: Carly Ruby-red
Effect: 1 Fortune Lady monster you control gains three levels until stop of plow.
Limit: Once per turn, twice per duel.

Pretty easy to tell whether you'll want this skill: are you running the Fortune Lady archetype? If not, go with something else. Only when you are, you'll find few better supports.

Fortune Ladies gain ATK and DEF based on their level, then increasing a level past three can really make a deviation in combat. Some of their effects also trigger when their levels increase, similar "Fortune Lady Earth" inflicting 400 damage to your opponent. Throw in the fact that yous can activate the skill not once but twice per duel (though just once a turn) and you've got a tempting complement to the theme.

9. Master of Destiny

Grapheme: Sartorius
Effect: Your get-go three coin tosses volition all be heads.
Limit: Requires your deck to have 7+ coin-related cards with unlike names.

Few Yu-Gi-Oh cards rely on coin flips, only they do exist, and like the Pokémon TCG, you lot almost always want your coin tosses to land on heads. Rather than exit this to chance, Sartorius automatically makes your first iii results heads, bending luck to your favor.

Not only does this empower the hazard-based antics of the Barrel Dragon and Arcana Strength themes, information technology's an splendid supplement to"Cup of Ace" (semi-limited as of this writing). Ace is a spell card that basically becomes the long-banned "Pot of Greed" when you lot land heads, just cartoon ii cards.

Menu advantage is specially important in this game since your opening mitt is diminished, making a rigged Ace even more alluring. The downside is that your deck needs vii or more dissimilar coin-flip cards for the ability to piece of work, so you'll have to run other coin-tossing effects likewise.

8. Baggy Sleeves

Character: Bandit Keith
Result: When your level 5+ monster is destroyed in battle, you lot draw two cards at your next draw phase.
Limit: Due north/A

Tribute-summoning high-level monsters requires monster sacrifices, making them especially costly to lose. Keith's Baggy Sleeves helps you recover, giving double the draws at your next plough after losing a level five or higher monster in battle.

With no "once per" restrictions, this ability can trigger equally much as you need, keeping your manus stocked throughout the lucifer. You tin trigger it yourself past purposefully attacking a stronger monster, though you'll rarely want to since the draws are delayed. Baggy Sleeves works well with several archetypes, but especially favors the Lightning Dragon theme.

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7. Master of Rites

Grapheme: Shared (bachelor to many characters)
Effect: Render a bill of fare from your hand to your deck, then choose to add a random ritual spell or ritual monster from deck to hand.
Limit: Twice per duel, and but later on you've lost at least 1000 life points.

Not to be confused with Alexis'southward "Primary of Rite 2" skill, this generic ability greatly increases the consistency of ritual themes. Ritual monsters are powerful beasts that can sacrifice monsters from the hand (and sometimes graveyard) instead of field, but using them requires a combination of ritual monster, spell, and materials.

Normally, this makes rituals loftier-chance high-reward, but you can drastically lower the risk with Rites. Up to twice per duel, it basically lets you lot remove an unneeded carte du jour from your mitt to pull a random ritual monster or spell from your deck. You don't get to pick which carte exactly, but y'all practice get to pick the type, and so yous can choose between monster and spell. Of course, if your deck simply has ane ritual monster/spell (or multiple copies of one), yous know exactly what you're pulling with each option, ensuring you lot accept what you need.

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vi. The Necktie that Binds

Character: Shared
Effect: Your confront-upward monsters gain 100 ATK per monster y'all control until end of turn.
Limit: Once per turn.

In my opinion, this is the best non-exclusive aggro ability in the game. Sure, since Duel Links simply has 3 monster zones, that means the boost maxes at just 300, but since information technology's per monster, that's a potential 900 bonus damage you're dealing. And extra ATK isn't just useful for harm, it helps successfully topple enemy monsters in battle.

Just the best function is, this skill is once per turn, non duel, so you tin repeatedly spam it for extra ability every round. And call up that face-downwards monsters count and will help empower your face-ups.

5. Cyber Style

Character: Zane Truesdale
Effect: Summon a "Proto-Cyber Dragon" from outside your deck in set on position for each m life points you are beneath 4000. They can't be used as tributes or materials except for fusion summons.
Limit: One time per duel and only with 3000 or less life points.

Cyber Style helps Cyber Dragon themes chop-chop rebound from a losing match. Information technology works better the lower your LP is; if you lot're at thousand or less, you tin can potentially cast iii Proto-Cybers, each with 1100 ATK. And since they come from outside the game, you don't need them in mitt (or deck) to summon them, leaving your other resources intact.

You won't be able to tribute these monsters, and then you can either use them as blockers or fusion cloth—since their effect changes their name to "Cyber Dragon", they're perfect for fusing behemoths like "Chimeratech Rampage Dragon".

4. Spell Specialist

Character: Shared
Effect: Increases your chances of having a spell in your opening hand.
Limit: Requires five or more spells in your deck.

At starting time, this effect might not seem cracking, just upping the odds that you'll observe at least 1 spell in your starting four cards. But for decks that heavily rely on specific spells, this tin be a lifesaver, preventing dead easily full of mismatched cards.

While it's not for every theme, Spell Specialist is a pop choice for the current peak-tier Shiranui theme, helping its zombie-summoning players nab powerful spells like "Enemy Controller" and "World Legacy Clash".

three. Sorcery Conduit

Character: Yami Yugi
Consequence: Instead of your regular draw, draw a random spellcaster monster from your deck.
Limit: Tin can exist used each fourth dimension your life points have decreased by thou.

Once your LP has dropped enough to activate it, Conduit replaces your regular draw with a spellcaster from your deck, useful when you lot're hunting specific monsters. Admittedly, this upshot is but of moderate utilize to many themes, but it's essential for the Elementsaber + Invoked combo that's currently in tier two (right below superlative) of the meta.

Basically, Conduit guarantees you'll draw the deck's 1 spellcaster, "Aleister the Invoker", a necessary cloth for the fierce Invoked fusion monsters. Normal summon Aleister to tutor your "Invocation" fusion spell from your deck and you're basically set to fusion summon, all thanks to the describe-tampering power of Conduit, the skilled currently used in 100% of the theme'due south builds.

2. Compensation

Character: Shared
Effect: Ship your deck's top card to your graveyard and recover 300 life points.
Limit: Can be used each fourth dimension your LP decreases by 1000.

Compensation's two abilities may seem minor, but they add up. Milling your deck's top menu preps your graveyard, potentially leading to combos yous wouldn't otherwise take admission to. And that 300 health might mean the difference betwixt losing and surviving long enough to counterattack.

Plus, these effects don't have any "per duel" limits, so they'll continuously assistance throughout your friction match. All-in-all, Compensation is a good skill when you're not sure what else to use or have a graveyard-reliant theme (like the meta-dominating Darklord fairies).

1. Sealed Tombs

Character: Ishizu Ishtar
Effect: Until your adjacent turn, neither player can banish or special summon from the graveyard.
Limit: Once per duel.

We've seen some peachy skills, but to be honest, Tombs wins by a landslide, currently seen on numerous high-tier themes like Shiranui, Dark Magician, Blackwings, and Ritual Beasts. Locking downward the graveyard from both summons and banishment is a huge detriment, potentially leaving your opponent with a dead turn. Of form, you endure the aforementioned restriction, but you'll have presumably already played any graveyard-needing effects earlier activating the upshot.

Ironically, Tombs works well against many of the decks that use it; letting Shiranui players net other Shiranui players at key moments. Sometimes it actually is all-time to fight burn with burn down.

Time to come Duel Links Updates

We've covered the best character abilities yet, and with ongoing support, we'll undoubtedly meet more than. As of this writing, we're nonetheless waiting on xyz, pendulum, and link monsters to enter the game, which should bring new characters, skills, and other twists to the arena.

One time they shake things upward, nosotros'll see which effects stand the test of fourth dimension, but for now, vote for your favorite Duel Links skill and I'll see y'all at our next Yu-Gi-Oh countdown!

Omega on February 24, 2020:

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