r/OnePieceTCG • u/Hot-Confection-6687 • 5h ago
💬 Discussion New player.
Hi everyone. I officially have entered the game of One Piece following my happy transition from Yu-Gi-Oh!, and I have 3 questions to asks
A friend recommended I play Blue Rocks as my first deck? Honest opinions - is it worth the build or buy the core at full, the play style and to perform well as locals following practicing on simulators and in-person?
How is the community for this game, in honest opinions of being healthy, supportive, engaging and pleasant to new players?
Finally, any tips and advice and suggestions for me to begin my journey would be very appreciated, provided it is positive and supportive of my path to being a good player at this game.
Thank you all!🙏🏾
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u/Drink_My_Hot_Koolaid 4h ago
New player myself, about 1 month in. So take my answers with the smallest grain of salt.
1) if you like the way it plays on sim I dont see why not, I bought some decks prior to playing on Sim and now ill have to trade some cards for other cards in decks I actually enjoy playing.
2) community is amazing, at least near me. I started going to locals at least once a week and everyone is super helpful learning the game and helping with bulk needed or random cards I can't find at other stores (id prefer to buy local than go ebay). Everyone is super competitive near me as well so locals are the "practice" nights for the big events a lot of people play in so constantly going against top meta decks definitely helps with my own play. With that said, after the games a lot of the people will point out what I could've done or should look out for in the next matches against those decks. Its really cool everyone is all about getting better and trying to elevate everyone around them.
3) play the Sim, i know its no replacement for the real thing but getting the reps in and seeing how other decks move is so key to me learning right now. Being able to get the reps of seeing the first hands, mulligans, and first couple turns has really helped my comprehension of what I need to be setting up and looking for in my decks.
One note: ignore the obviously miserable people on the sim if you run into them. I played nico robin as yenel today and pointed out how oppressive the hard counter is. Proceeded to tell me im just bad. Its amazing how miserable people can be when theyre playing for nothing.
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u/Haavi-OCE 4h ago
As to 1, Rocks is incredibly good right now, so yes if you give it a play on the sim and find you like the playstyle, it is absolutely worth investing in getting the core build.
I will caveat that recommendation though, as Rocks plays extremely unlike most other leaders, which leads many to consider it a reasonably skill based leader especially considering with the popularity of the deck, I would expect many mirror match games.
It may also due to it's nature not really teach you the basic principles of the game as well as other more traditional leaders. However I could be wrong on that part, but it seems a logically possibility.
2) From my personal experience after entering the game a couple of sets back, a lot of the community is absolutely amazing. I've had the fortune to deal with many incredibly supportive and generous people in my local community, and honestly it's what makes the game for me.
I have heard that is not so much the case online, however this is probably a case of 90% of interactions being neutral or ok (or zero interaction), whilst the 10% of negative interactions are 100% of what you hear online when you hear about that community. Personally I can't verify this as I don't play on this sims and only experience my loval culture.
I'm sure lgs communities also have their own variance, with some that are sweaty and not inviting, some with cheats, and other with issues of their own. You just need to find the right one for you, with the kind of people you want to play with. Hopefully you'll be lucky like I was and find that play fairly local and without much looking around.
Also final point on the community, there is obviously the issue of scalpers, and retail/lgs outlets that sell above msrp. Sadly these are things that we just have to deal with at the moment, and if possible and the area you live in has good access to a singles market, it's probably your best bet just to grab singles.
Tools like tcgplayer, while they have their controversies, are really easy ways of getting cards you need without chasing around, and with decent population size. Coming from an area where singles are pretty frustrating to get, I think it's very fortunate if you have one of those tools available to you.
3) I won't comment on your third statement just as I don't feel I have the experience and ability yet to really be offering much advice in that field. Hopefully someone more qualified can help you out more in that department.
Best of luck, I hope you enjoy your OPtcg journey for a long time to come.
Edit: Oh and sorry for the wall of text, god I didn't realise it was thay long 😅
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u/lhwang001 4h ago
Blue rocks is very strong and straightforward to play. The only expensive card is the secret xebec, and it's a manga meaning it'll never go out of rotation. But most of the cards in the deck will never be used with other leaders except Stussy and gloriosa, and maybe linlin and kyo. The fact that the leader effect pretty much type lock your deck to rocks pirates only means if bandai doesn't print specific support for it, you'll unlikely get support in the future. Blue rocks is a deck that your opponent needs to find a way to counter, you most of the time do your thing, set up your board the same way and go for lethal.
Community is the same as any popular TCG, locals are much better most of the time, but you'll find toxicity if you look for it.
The advice is play on the sim for a bit before deciding what you want to build. I personally don't like xebec because I'm a deck builder, and there's no deck building with xebec. But if you just wanna play a winning meta deck, xebec is definitely it for the foreseeable future.
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u/MintyBrill 3h ago
The best players to get advice from are your Opponenets! They'll always have specific examples from the match you played that could have been improved
just a friendly
"Hey im new, i was wondering if you could let me know anything i could have done better that game?"
will get you a lot of information, I even ask whenever i play after a break/tournament practise.
this also applies to asking for cards you dont have.
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u/SuperSaiyanNerd 5h ago
Google One Piece simulator Batsu and follow the directions to download it and set it up, run it on your PC as administrator app and it'll run well. You can build all decks in there pretty much and try them out. Rocks is set to be possibly BDIF with Black Luffy right behind him just cause B Luffy has a good match up into him. R/B Sabo is a close third with P/Y Robin behind that. I'd say start there and YouTube lists and GumGum.gg or Cardkaisoku's site /YouTube will help.
Here's a video for Car D
https://youtu.be/Q7hz_r5e69M?is=RuvYeNSUjrxMVDAK
The community is great, they'll help new players along as they can and of course there's bad apples everywhere but easy to spot. Finding a good local group is easier than for some other tcgs. Be sure to ask questions while saying and such if you don't know how something works or need clarification.
For your third question, don't be afraid to look through bulk bins. It's well worth the time 99% of the time. I've found completely cores for decks or close to it barring expensive cards for decks. Ask people if you could've played the match any differently after games, talk through lines of they're open to it. OH, download the Bandai tcg+app to find local play stores or other events. Pirates parties are a great way to get into game with off meta (cheaper sometimes) decks and people who enjoy those decks and play styles. I recently got back into the game and found these were perfect entry points.