Best Summon Mechanic in Yugioh

[Astaro]

After the original Yugioh and several spin-offs, the main Yugioh card game rounds things off with 6 major summon mechanics and monsters: Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, and Link

How do you rank each one?

For me:

1) Link
2) Xyz
3) Fusion
4) Synchro
5) Ritual
6) Pendulum

Link Monsters and Summoning takes it for me. As the last mechanic introduced in the game, Konami learned from the mistake with Pends which were too experimental and convoluted and went with the next logical progression of Xyz, which have dominated the game uncontested for years, with Links Monsters while coming up with a creative method of keeping them balanced where in exchange for being by far the most efficient to summon monster in the game, they rely on Link Markers to be able to summon more than one monster.

I like Links for their efficiency, the fact that they made placement of cards on your board important to the game for some nice added depth to the game never seen before, and how they allowed for more card design with main deck monsters since with them, decks can now have monsters that don’t all either need to be the same level for Xyz or requires Tuners for Synchro like it was before.
Finally, the cards themselves look awesome. Cool blue boarders with contrasting Link markers.

So, name which is your favorite of the 6 Monster types.

 

[Nightlord101]

Synchro summoning is still my favorite to play even with the new blackwings support: Big burn damage for your opponent of the new assault dragon just using their monsters affects 700 points damage each time.

This dragon builds up counters very fast, it’s quick effect Depending on how many counters it has even more damage is Afflicted on the opponent.

 

[Bob74h]

Fusion was best handled
synchro and the others are just summon more without anything really that unique about them

 

[Nightlord101]

Fusion was best handled
synchro and the others are just summon more without anything really that unique about them

Pendulum is still my least favorite of the summoning mechanics, Though the new Zarc support does look pretty nice.

 

[Bob74h]

Pendulum is still my least favorite of the summoning mechanics, Though the new Zarc support does look pretty nice.

I think fundamentally pendulums and links at least tried to do something unique
Which makes them superior to xyz and synchro which are just generic extra deck stuff

 

[Astaro]

Links are even more generic in their requirements than either Synchro or Xyz.

I think all mechanics brought something unique to them. Links made placement of cards and columns relevant

Xyz made it so matching levels was important and their unique thing where the monsters used to make them don’t go to grave but rather, are stacked underneath the Xyz monster as it’s materials to use in some manner for their effects

And Synchros were an improvement to Rituals, removing the need of a Spell card and having the monster in the Extra Deck so that all you needed were the monsters with the right levels when added. The trade off to this far better consistency being at least 2 monsters required on field and one of those monsters being a Tuner as well to Synchro Summon

 

[Bob74h]

Pendulum is still my least favorite of the summoning mechanics, Though the new Zarc support does look pretty nice.

Zarc support is cool ig
I dont really play the game anymore though so dont mean much to me plus was never the biggest fan of zarc


his anime version of the supreme king dragon was relatively powerful tho tcg nerfed it to the ground

Xyz made it so matching levels was important and their unique thing where the monsters used to make them don’t go to grave but rather, are stacked underneath the Xyz monster as it’s materials to use in some manner for their effects

The method by which you play the xyz deck does not differ to how you would play an synchro deck
the only difference is the summoning material used

Where with pendulums
the difference is not solely not the materials


and lol at the overlay material argument
are you really going to pretend that stacking cards underneath a monster to amp it would be a xyz exclusive thing

Cubics and relinquished do the same

And Synchros were an improvement to Rituals, removing the need of a Spell card and having the monster in the Extra Deck so that all you needed were the monsters with the right levels when added. The trade off to this far better consistency being at least 2 monsters required on field and one of those monsters being a Tuner as well to Synchro Summon

I didt like the change to speed based gameplay from gx to 5ds
It's lazy instead of innovating and making unique deck ideas

You just make the new deck faster amd more broken then before
just remake yusei's deck but better and better with more fast stuff

 

[Astaro]

Zarc support is cool ig
I dont really play the game anymore though so dont mean much to me plus was never the biggest fan of zarc


his anime version of the supreme king dragon was relatively powerful tho tcg nerfed it to the ground




The method by which you play the xyz deck does not differ to how you would play an synchro deck
the only difference is the summoning material used

Where with pendulums
the difference is not solely not the materials


and lol at the overlay material argument
are you really going to pretend that stacking cards underneath a monster to amp it would be a xyz exclusive thing

Cubics and relinquished do the same




I didt like the change to speed based gameplay from gx to 5ds
It's lazy instead of innovating and making unique deck ideas

You just make the new deck faster amd more broken then before
just remake yusei's deck but better and better with more fast stuff

Relinquished doesn’t do that. Whatever monster it takes with its effect is Equipped to it and moved to the S/T zone as an Equip Spell. Same with Cubics.

 

[Peroroncino]

Tribute summon is still the best, the others made the game faster but there's little to no tactics anymore and everything is about OTKs

 

[Bob74h]

Tribute summon is still the best, the others made the game faster but there's little to no tactics anymore and everything is about OTKs

I like og fusion summon before the modern game made everything so fast
but yea 100 percent agree

 

[Peroroncino]

I like og fusion summon before the modern game made everything so fast
but yea 100 percent agree

Fusion is fine even contact fusions, if you're lucky enough to get the right cards for it or you have the cards to search for them then you deserve to summon

 

[Bob74h]

Fusion is fine even contact fusions, if you're lucky enough to get the right cards for it or you have the cards to search for them then you deserve to summon

Yea it was good
before konami ruined fusion by making so hyper fast

 

[DoflaMihawk]

Ritual and Fusion is all I've ever use, all these newfangled rules are too much for this old timer.

 

[Astaro]

Ritual and Fusion is all I've ever use, all these newfangled rules are too much for this old timer.

Drytron, Nekroz, and Dogmatika are dope Ritual strategies.

Fusions have had insane representations over the entire decade. Tearlaments is one of the best decks in this entire games history and was a Tier 0 deck all throughout 2022

Tons of other great Fusion strategies over the years: Shaddoll, Thunder Dragon, Invoked. Heroes and Neo Spacians with all the new support both got, Albaz Despia as a close number 2 for best Fusion deck in the game after Tears

 

[Nightlord101]

Drytron, Nekroz, and Dogmatika are dope Ritual strategies.

Fusions have had insane representations over the entire decade. Tearlaments is one of the best decks in this entire games history and was a Tier 0 deck all throughout 2022

Tons of other great Fusion strategies over the years: Shaddoll, Thunder Dragon, Invoked. Heroes and Neo Spacians with all the new support both got, Albaz Despia as a close number 2 for best Fusion deck in the game after Tears

Got to say the explosion fire pack for the BK are amazing, not sure what tier to put it at though.

There new key card king Dempsey really gets the deck going, though i wish they had their own rank-up magic card.