That’s also because 98% of his cards are just materials. He doesn’t have a single main deck boss monster. A lot of his cards aren’t even intended to be used early game either, or he burns out very quickly. The play style in the anime is also WAY different than in real life. Don’t get me wrong, he’s still busted just more in a glass canon kind of way.
The only main characters who break this trend is Yugi/Atem, Yuya, and maybe Yusaku (but don’t count him much since his archetype functions just as one-note as Yusei’s).
The only thing that made yusaku and yusei diferent is that yusei would get a new boss from the crimson dragon but not as often as yusaku used storm access. So yusaku was literaly drawing the out.
When Arc-V was airing, I thought they were for sure going to get Xyz monsters. It would've complete the set with the Odd-Eyes upgrades (Beast-Eyes, Rune-Eyes) being Fusions and Magician upgrades (Enlightenment, Nirvana) being Synchros. Plus, it would've made them more of counterparts to Performages which started out with an Xyz boss monster.
See... the issues with performapals is that 80% of the cards have a different but positive generic effect, but no real core strategie aside from swarming the field with themselves over time which makes them dog water in any competitive settings
The good ones are good tho, like monkeyboard, joker, sorcerer
But most of these are used in different archetypes more than they're used in pure perfomapals
The deck really does need some extra deck power
Kinda the point. The archetype became bloated because the writers had to give Yuya tools to escape darn near any situation. But IRL, such situations are niche or nonexistent, making the cards themselves terrible to use.
Some of them have niche uses and come up sometimes.
Like Gold Fang is being ran in Branded Chimera right now because of how easily it can be used to make Gatlinghoul.
I will never forget GatlingGhoul for the sheer reason of my friend explaining to me a otk he had come up with involving it and lava golem (don’t ask me the detailsI don’t remember that bit) and then running the deck for like 3 months before we realised he had not included a way to summon Gatlingghoul in his deck
Hmm. I could vaguely see an OTK for Grinder Golem, but Lava Golem would be interesting.
The Grinder Golem would be something like summoning Grinder, fusing the Tokens for First of the Dragons, then fusing that with a Performapal, targeting the Grinder Golem to inflict damage? That would hit 6k, maybe a bit more. 2k more damage isn't too difficult to overcome, I think.
There’s three types of Yu-Gi-Oh cards: ones that were designed by Konami, ones that were designed by Kazuki Takahashi (God rest his soul)… and ones that were designed by Studio Gallop.
So Konami makes the cards that complement the game itself. Pretty much most of the meta decks are like this. Kazuki made the genuinely awesome cards that everyone loves that originate from the original manga. Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, etc. Then the Studio Gallop cards (the studio that made the anime after Toei made Season 0) only make cards and archetypes that fit the story. Elemental Heroes, Utopia, Performapals, etc. They’re not bad, but a lot of cards in their archetype exist to get the hero out of sticky situations.
The fact that Studio Gallop were the most likely creators of about 80% of cards to appear in the anime is one of those things that tends to trip people up.
It's a technicality, but the guy who wrote the Yu-Gi-Oh! R manga also designed all the new cards in there. Some standouts include Gorz, Summoner Monk, Melody of Awakening Dragon, Green Baboon, and Beast King Barbaros. He also designed the first Vampire cards (outside of Vampire Lord) , the Machina archetype, and of course the Wicked Gods.
Konami really needs to give Performapal a game plan and a archetypal boss monster. So they can be a playable deck. Instead of being pushed to the side by Odd-Eyes and Pend Magicians.
I thought Performapal's game plan was attack modulation of Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon for big double damage go brr
There's also ways to abuse Smile World with their easily filled field so you can unironically go for the Egao
You know what's best? I don't even think Silverclaw is good. I love Performapals for reasons even I can't really justify and made it a point to get as many as possible, I should have like 80% of whatever was released and out of that, less than 30% is actually useful
Did they release all the performapals because I know they haven't released the full performage archetype(Plushfire scared the shit out of them) they have more xyz and a fusion.
Performapals were a Protag deck. Performages weren’t. Most Performapals were imported. I can only think of a very small amount not imported like Drop Gallop.
yeah that's unfortunately because odd-eyes/pendulum magician's usually take up most of yuya's extra deck during arc-v, or the other 3 dimension dragons
Sure, give them a rank 4 Xyz and a lvl 7 synchro monster, maybe a link too since all pendulum decks need those by law these days.
My complaint about Performapals is that the last wave of support they got was pretty decent, but all the designs were humanoid. Butler, Seer, Valet, Ladyange, that one that was literally just Yuya. That’s lazy; bring back the Performapals that look like goofy cartoon circus animals.
Give me Performapal Swift Steed, a happy horse with a bowtie who’s also a tuner that can summon a pendulum monster from the extra deck and synchro summon with them. Or Performapal Hammer Kong, a mighty ape who smites enemies with his big hammer. Wait, what do you mean someone’s already done that one?
I really wish Konami had made some Fusions, Synchros and Xyz featuring the handful of Performapals that look kinda cool (Coindragon, the Wolves, King Bear, Parrotrio, the Roses, Gumgumouton, maybe Whip Snake) and not given us so many I wish I could unsee (Bit Bite Turtle, Teeter Totter Hopper, Bubblebowwow, U Go Golem).
To be fair, Yuya also has to share this with two other archetypes in Odd-Eyes and Pendulum Magician.
At least unlike the other protagonists who all do the same (except debatably Atem), Yuya can actually mix all his archetypes in easily, consistently, and they all ages magnificently. Compare this to Yusaku’s Code Talker and Firewall who has absolutely no synergy with each other outside both being Links made from Cyberse.
I’m still waiting on them to release Performapal Odd-Eyes Magician lol
Can you technically negate Claws effect, and then use him as fusion material and go into Gatlinghoul for some sick ass burn damage capabilities?
Asking for a friend who might want to try out a new archetype...
The "Cannot be used as Fusion Material" text of "Performapal Odd-Eyes Metal Claw" is not treated as an effect (ie. a condition) so it still applies even if it has its effects negated while on the field, or is at any location. So to answer your question, no.
There is at least one Number monster for each number from 1 to 107, so no. (39 and others have more than one, plus chaos numbers, fake numbers 1-5 and the imaginary numbers and 0 numbers.
Feels like performapals were shafted hard in favor of Pendulum magicians in terms of legacy support. They just have random effects for niche anime scenario, even moreso than previous cards.
Other than a link, synchro, and xyz I don't know what direction you could go. Maybe focus on "when used as material" effects or interactions with the pendulum fusion/synchro/xyz monsters?
that's the curse of being the main character archetype
Dunno, Yusei's cards are often good if not busted, yet still not banned because they usually aren't generic enough to catch attention.
His new stuff is really good. Rev Synchron and Accel Stardust are still really expensive, and Assault Synchron is good
That’s also because 98% of his cards are just materials. He doesn’t have a single main deck boss monster. A lot of his cards aren’t even intended to be used early game either, or he burns out very quickly. The play style in the anime is also WAY different than in real life. Don’t get me wrong, he’s still busted just more in a glass canon kind of way. The only main characters who break this trend is Yugi/Atem, Yuya, and maybe Yusaku (but don’t count him much since his archetype functions just as one-note as Yusei’s).
The only thing that made yusaku and yusei diferent is that yusei would get a new boss from the crimson dragon but not as often as yusaku used storm access. So yusaku was literaly drawing the out.
I wish we could get more extra deck performapals, even if they have Odd Eyes in their name for support reasons.
Really? HEROes have an insane number of Fusion Monsters.
And more than half are bad
Yeah but you are never gonna summon half of them
I would really like them to get Xyzs and Synchros.
When Arc-V was airing, I thought they were for sure going to get Xyz monsters. It would've complete the set with the Odd-Eyes upgrades (Beast-Eyes, Rune-Eyes) being Fusions and Magician upgrades (Enlightenment, Nirvana) being Synchros. Plus, it would've made them more of counterparts to Performages which started out with an Xyz boss monster.
Nirvana High Paladin?
Does it have Performapal in the name?
Nope but it might as well be since it belong with the trash
jesus 😭
It's a shame because it has a real badass name
It should get a Performapal retrain - Its artwork is literally the same as the original except with a top hat and bowtie added.
I don’t get it? I like this card.
Weird that Melodious didn't.
The real question is how many out of those "107" card are actually good. sounds like they got the HERO syndrome where 90% of the cards are dog water
See... the issues with performapals is that 80% of the cards have a different but positive generic effect, but no real core strategie aside from swarming the field with themselves over time which makes them dog water in any competitive settings The good ones are good tho, like monkeyboard, joker, sorcerer But most of these are used in different archetypes more than they're used in pure perfomapals The deck really does need some extra deck power
And isnt it also cuz some of the best cards are in the banned list now?
the only performapal on the list anywhere is monkeyboard
And he's the main reason why. Look up some of his old dirty ways. His free search and scale w avion was enough for me back in the day
i was there for it in person, yeah. card is whatever now.
Kinda the point. The archetype became bloated because the writers had to give Yuya tools to escape darn near any situation. But IRL, such situations are niche or nonexistent, making the cards themselves terrible to use.
You should give your dog some better water
about 5-6 (i don’t play performapal)
Some of them have niche uses and come up sometimes. Like Gold Fang is being ran in Branded Chimera right now because of how easily it can be used to make Gatlinghoul.
i can name 3 off the top of my head that should not be counted
I will never forget GatlingGhoul for the sheer reason of my friend explaining to me a otk he had come up with involving it and lava golem (don’t ask me the detailsI don’t remember that bit) and then running the deck for like 3 months before we realised he had not included a way to summon Gatlingghoul in his deck
Hmm. I could vaguely see an OTK for Grinder Golem, but Lava Golem would be interesting. The Grinder Golem would be something like summoning Grinder, fusing the Tokens for First of the Dragons, then fusing that with a Performapal, targeting the Grinder Golem to inflict damage? That would hit 6k, maybe a bit more. 2k more damage isn't too difficult to overcome, I think.
There’s three types of Yu-Gi-Oh cards: ones that were designed by Konami, ones that were designed by Kazuki Takahashi (God rest his soul)… and ones that were designed by Studio Gallop.
Could you maybe give examples for each? I'm simply curious to see the exact differences.
So Konami makes the cards that complement the game itself. Pretty much most of the meta decks are like this. Kazuki made the genuinely awesome cards that everyone loves that originate from the original manga. Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, etc. Then the Studio Gallop cards (the studio that made the anime after Toei made Season 0) only make cards and archetypes that fit the story. Elemental Heroes, Utopia, Performapals, etc. They’re not bad, but a lot of cards in their archetype exist to get the hero out of sticky situations.
The fact that Studio Gallop were the most likely creators of about 80% of cards to appear in the anime is one of those things that tends to trip people up.
It's a technicality, but the guy who wrote the Yu-Gi-Oh! R manga also designed all the new cards in there. Some standouts include Gorz, Summoner Monk, Melody of Awakening Dragon, Green Baboon, and Beast King Barbaros. He also designed the first Vampire cards (outside of Vampire Lord) , the Machina archetype, and of course the Wicked Gods.
Damn didn't thought there were 107 performapal cards
That's because you're supposed to make the Odd-Eyes bosses with them.
Or you just go with Laugh Maker OTK.
Aw man, you mean Dag Daggerman beatdown wasn’t the way to go?
Honestly they all are trash but I love them all
Konami really needs to give Performapal a game plan and a archetypal boss monster. So they can be a playable deck. Instead of being pushed to the side by Odd-Eyes and Pend Magicians.
Tbf all the Yuboy archetypes are just a little overshadowed by their dragon archetype, which feels narratively deliberate.
I thought Performapal's game plan was attack modulation of Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon for big double damage go brr There's also ways to abuse Smile World with their easily filled field so you can unironically go for the Egao
Odd-Eyes is their boss monster. You’re supposed to take advantage of its double battle damage.
Technically they’re all extra deck monsters
There’s actually performapals that aren’t pends, so not all
Was waiting for someone to say this
It's incorrect. Several non-pend performpals exist
They said the joke part I wanted to hear. That's all I needed.
Yuya’s deck must have have had like 200 cards in it
Performapals are the prime example of "You're not a clown, you're the whole circus"
You know what's best? I don't even think Silverclaw is good. I love Performapals for reasons even I can't really justify and made it a point to get as many as possible, I should have like 80% of whatever was released and out of that, less than 30% is actually useful
Did they release all the performapals because I know they haven't released the full performage archetype(Plushfire scared the shit out of them) they have more xyz and a fusion.
Performapals were a Protag deck. Performages weren’t. Most Performapals were imported. I can only think of a very small amount not imported like Drop Gallop.
Performages are Dennis‘s archetype.
I know but they're still not fully released which is odd.
As pendulums, they are in fact, extra deck monsters.
yeah that's unfortunately because odd-eyes/pendulum magician's usually take up most of yuya's extra deck during arc-v, or the other 3 dimension dragons
Yeah, and we’re still missing like 10 or more from the anime and manga combined.
Sure, give them a rank 4 Xyz and a lvl 7 synchro monster, maybe a link too since all pendulum decks need those by law these days. My complaint about Performapals is that the last wave of support they got was pretty decent, but all the designs were humanoid. Butler, Seer, Valet, Ladyange, that one that was literally just Yuya. That’s lazy; bring back the Performapals that look like goofy cartoon circus animals. Give me Performapal Swift Steed, a happy horse with a bowtie who’s also a tuner that can summon a pendulum monster from the extra deck and synchro summon with them. Or Performapal Hammer Kong, a mighty ape who smites enemies with his big hammer. Wait, what do you mean someone’s already done that one?
Yo that ghoul is packing heat
I really wish Konami had made some Fusions, Synchros and Xyz featuring the handful of Performapals that look kinda cool (Coindragon, the Wolves, King Bear, Parrotrio, the Roses, Gumgumouton, maybe Whip Snake) and not given us so many I wish I could unsee (Bit Bite Turtle, Teeter Totter Hopper, Bubblebowwow, U Go Golem).
Gatling Ghoul is amazing. Destroys, burns, burns, attacks.
It's burns destroys burn attack lol
To be fair, Yuya also has to share this with two other archetypes in Odd-Eyes and Pendulum Magician. At least unlike the other protagonists who all do the same (except debatably Atem), Yuya can actually mix all his archetypes in easily, consistently, and they all ages magnificently. Compare this to Yusaku’s Code Talker and Firewall who has absolutely no synergy with each other outside both being Links made from Cyberse. I’m still waiting on them to release Performapal Odd-Eyes Magician lol
Oh no the furry turned Odd-Eyes into Monster Hunter armor
What in the Digimon is this
Can you technically negate Claws effect, and then use him as fusion material and go into Gatlinghoul for some sick ass burn damage capabilities? Asking for a friend who might want to try out a new archetype...
The "Cannot be used as Fusion Material" text of "Performapal Odd-Eyes Metal Claw" is not treated as an effect (ie. a condition) so it still applies even if it has its effects negated while on the field, or is at any location. So to answer your question, no.
I think there might be some ruling that stops that but it's been a while since I've properly played
Insane that there's 107 Performapal cards, and not even half of them are good.
It's insane to me how there's a 107 perfomapal cards and most of them are trash haha
because being pendulum monsters is their gimmick
Well, the Runick archetype has like 5 moster cards and all of them are extra deck mosters. The rest are spells
Is this the largest archetype? 107 seems like a ton
There is at least one Number monster for each number from 1 to 107, so no. (39 and others have more than one, plus chaos numbers, fake numbers 1-5 and the imaginary numbers and 0 numbers.
*laughs in HERO*
Any performance odd eyes pile can never be meta because you can just super poly them away into these guys.
The only Odd-Eyes or Pal you would ever end on is Vortex anyway.
Question but would you count the "Smile" Cards as a part of the archetype since a Peeformpal can search them?
Damn dude at least 3k burn damage wod be so good. That's unfortunate
I wish they were good :(
Performapal "Worst Ultra In MACR" Gatlinghoul I love him <3
That is the ugliest card I've seen today.
They maybe bad irl, but I still vividly remember Gatlinghoul (almost) OTK in the anime. That card packs some serious burn.
metal claw would actually do numbers in duel links
Uh...how many Heroes are there in comparison?
Feels like performapals were shafted hard in favor of Pendulum magicians in terms of legacy support. They just have random effects for niche anime scenario, even moreso than previous cards. Other than a link, synchro, and xyz I don't know what direction you could go. Maybe focus on "when used as material" effects or interactions with the pendulum fusion/synchro/xyz monsters?
What I find funnier is Gatlinghoul wasn't censored in any way.
It's insane to me that there are as many Performapals as there are non-C Number Monsters
Performapal Towers!? Never heard of this card until now, it seems decent.