Hola Community.

Auckland is back in. Need advice on Hugo decks what symbol and meta update. Nice to be back although others may not agree.

So fill daddy in please all my old buddies :-)

floating fatman said:

New Hugo spams foundations, then ends with more cards than should be legal.

He is awesome. Death/Earth is a very nice spread, and so is All/Earth. Strategies include the playing of foundations and drawing of cards. He can also use, to best effect, the Earth Character response on Huge Wrestling Army.

Homme Chapeau said:

Just build E. Honda with Your Mind is Known to Me. I don't how you'll win, but you sure as heck won't die.

Duckman said:

Felines + Plasmas?

Hugo + Criminal Past + Battle Prowess

MarcoPulleaux said:

In a country with a play group of 5, who quit for a period at the time Realm of Midnight was released which subsequently went out of print.

Thanks for the feedback :-) And that's five more players than Australia lol. I need to pay more attention to what Ducky says about how the game has changed since we been away.

Is anyone having super success with Hugo recently? Is he viable in the current meta? Any super secret tech on abusing him. And where is Gouhadou and Vikramas with the welcoming matt? Hey bros and old friend has returned right behind Ducky San.

Like I said... nice to be back hola everybody now and from back in the day...Auckland is back...awrrriggghhhhtttt!!!! :-)

floating fatman said:

I dunno what is with Omar but Vik quit he wouldn't even show up for the SCC so I doubt he will be coming back too ufs...

Hey Scuba howzit? Wow! No Vik someone better track him down. C'mon Gou hola. I hear death is pretty money these days again. And James is doing a bitchin' job in card design even Ducky has been propping him hard.

Yet to do the full research checking out all the new death cards. I'm getting all excited again have missed playing UFS and forgotten how orsom it was playing pink and black polka dot suit before and during the super-freak days. And what a rollercoaster and circus that was. Will get back when the man with the plan gets back to me. Don't need Hugo to be broken or competitive. I'm here for love... coz It's my father's name :-)

Duckman said:

I have access to 4 sealed boxes. Wanna purchase? =D

I've been toying with the Huge One off All, and it started out as a theme deck for my little bro. Man, Criminal Past is something good, and with my slow loop of Gigas Breaker, Fight or Flight and Valuable Experience, the big hand size small vitality dudes won't last long. Pack in some extra All defense such as Make a Difference, and you be lasting that little longer. All also nabs you those hard-to-find promos like Chester's Backing, BRT, and Lord of the Makai to boost that powerful on your Gigas.

My 2 Cents on Hugo for now.

Son Gopaul said:

Try playing a foundation, then the Gigas Breaker combo so you get to renew your hand a bit.

Son Gopaul said:

throw in king's games too. <3 getting a chance to discard feline spike with Make a Difference or Criminal Past a Tiger Fury/High Plasma Beam before any damage pumps.

MarcoPulleaux said:

Email [email protected] with a price.

lol...ducky what are you like?

So I am assuming OTK are still no probs for tier one decks? Even tho Hugo got more life than all of creation.

Who are the OTK monster killers that Hugo drivers should really fear?? (Sorry for sounding so out of touch ;-)

Hanzo Kick!! Always fear the ninja.

The vitality thing should suit you well in our meta, I think the real issue will be a kill switch with the amount of damage reduction and life gain around. Killing over several turns is very hard, it kind of has to be an all or nothing. So you'll have to fit a 1 turn kill and a way to make it stick in to the deck.

floating fatman said:

Zi-Mei, Chun-Li (kinda), and any earth/order deck.

yeah I hear you uso...I miss the go find stuff switch. Would be munni to do the rush ethos 'do stupid stuff' switch too.

Attacks? And yeah I got a click to play with in Glasgow (one hour train ride) when I move in August.

There are lots of OTKs nowadays...

Double Feline Spike, which requires 4 momentum and 2 control checks at 7 and 10 difficulty, to generate SIX 4H8 attacks, and there's a Stun:2 thrown in on the 1st and 4th attack. There are Air decks that can do this turn 2.

Fire Kick, Ryu's Shin Shoryuken or Curse of the Ancient Marnier; big Powerful attacks. Fire Kick would take 12 momentum to 1shot Hugo, Shin Sho' 11, but Curse could do it in much less.

Shredding Vibrato and/or Tsurane Kiri, they basically hit twice and start off at 6 and 5 damage respectively, so it's easy to get really big really fast with some damage pumps.

If you leave yourself open, Evil can make some pretty nice strings nowadays. Reverse Flayer - Midnight Launcher - Knight Breaker hits for a total of 31 damage with no pumps, for example.

Fury of the Ancients is a 5M3 Multiple:3 attack that uses destroyed foundations instead of discarded momentum for its Multiple keyword. Combined with the promo Zi Mei (who has a free E, basically give +damage = to 7 minus a control check... so regularly +2, but up to +5 depending on the deck} and other damage pumps, this can stack up quick.

2x Fight or Flight + 2x big moves can deal 40 damage

Ouch! I see what you mean. I guess the damage reduction kids will need to be money. That's a whole lot of soak and still looking too OTK or chip like nukehead and defcon the rest of existence in the next turn.

Min maxing his game text efficiently suggests that the hand-draw warp drive designed around damage soak and pump seems the most obvious route.

Hmmmm a little bit of old school and a twist of the new,I feel, is coming. Where are the Hugo-naut sponsors of old whom I was always able to plaguerize (inbox shhhh).

What no loving from Vik and Omar? Please don't make me crawl to Matt and John now lol ;-)

Hey FF! Great to see ye again!

Last I hear Omar's computer was fragged, hence the lack of GouHadou love.

If you want an unorthodox strategy, you could fill your deck with Earth/Fire foundations (running Earth). There are plenty to pick from with Shadowar out.

A deck last night used Origins Unknown (from SNK04: The King of Fighters) to speed an attack up crazy style, then followed with Cobra Blow as an action to super-pump the damage. Yes, Cobra Blow is from RoM, but it's only an uncommon, so not too hard to trade for.

I actually run a Fatman theme deck: nothing but E. Honda and Hugo cards, off Earth.

However, Death and Earth are both flexible right now, as Ragnar and Rashotep have both. Running just Earth, you have Siegfried, Astaroth, and Yi Shan support. Running just Death, you have Nightmare, Tira, and Zhao Daiyu support. Running All, you have Astrid, Ivy, and Algol support. And that's only touching the latest sets.

Plenty of room for creativity, sir. Enjoy!

P.S. As others have mentioned, Criminal Past is awesome. Great for preventing that OTK.

Fatman theme that's money...Good old phat-e styles for the win. Yeah Criminal Past I think Ducky and Joshua will be hiding those puppies lol. Dude stylin' strats as always thank you bro. :-)

By the by - Monster Lariat ain't so good in Hugo, but Hugo's Body Press is astonishingly good.

floating fatman said:

Doesn't have Air, why on earth would I want it? Also it happens to be an Uncommon form a set we didn't buy. So solly cholly.

Card doesn't seem fantastic to me anyways, I would much rather Block ;p

Failed2k (sup bro) is right All ain't got the hand draw like it had back in the day :-( Dan and the all star 8th bill of punishment money train...GOOD TIMES!

Hmmm still workin' it peoples... looks like its ALL and love is the message and the message is LOVE!