How to beat/farm Kalin Kessler

Duel Links tips to defeat Kalin Kessler Lvl 40, decks to farm Kalin Kessler Lvl 40, and rewards.

update 16/10/2019

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Event Guide	Kalin Kessler
How to beat/farm Kalin Kessler	Playmat Farm

Six Samurai

Skill	Beatdown!
Essential cards	Legendary Six Samurai - Kizan Legendary Secret of the Six Samurai Secret Six Samurai - Fuma Rocket Hermos Cannon The Claw of Hermos Shien's Dojo Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En
Cost	Expensive
Pack (Box reset)	Warriors Unite

Example Deck




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Set Skill

[Skill] description	User
Beatdown! This turn, the Atk of all Level 5 or higher face-up monsters on your field increases by the number of monsters of Level 5 or higher on your field times 300.	Vellian Crowler

Drill Barnacle

Skill	LP Boost α
Essential cards	Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu Drill Barnacle The Fang of Critias Power of the Guardians Tyrant Wing Tyrant Burst Dragon
Cost	Budget
Pack (Box reset)	No Box Reset Neccessary

Standard Version




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Lvl 500 or above Version

Note: This Deck is used to deal with Kalin Kessler Lvl 500 or above




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Set Skill

[Skill] description	User
LP Boost α Increases starting Life Points by 1000.	Jack Atlas

Karakuri Synchro

Skill	Beatdown!
Essential cards	Level 4 “Karakuri” Karakuri Komachi mdl 224 "Ninishi" Karakuri Steel Shogun mdl 00X "Bureido" Karakuri Shogun mdl 00 "Burei"
Cost	Expensive
Pack (Box reset)	Revolution Beginning

Example Deck [Credits to ジャックジャック @JackJack_DL]




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Set Skill

[Skill] description	User
Beatdown! This turn, the Atk of all Level 5 or higher face-up monsters on your field increases by the number of monsters of Level 5 or higher on your field times 300.	Vellian Crowler

Power Tool Dragon Decklist

Skill	Labyrinth Builder
Essential cards	Power Tool Dragon Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce Level 2 Tuners Equip-Spell Cards
Cost	Expensive
Pack (Box reset)	Visions of Ice

Standard Version




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Budget Version




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Set Skill

[Skill] description	User
Labyrinth Builder Shuffle 2 cards from your hand into the Deck to create "Labyrinth Wall" on your side of the field. This skill can only be used once per Duel.	Paradox Brothers

Red Dragon Archfiend Decklist

Skill	Mark of the Dragon - Wings
Essential cards	Lvl 5 Monsters Lvl 3 Tuners Trident Warrior Delta Flyer King's Consonance
Cost	Expensive
Pack (Box reset)	Primal Burst
Pack (Box reset)	Secrets of the Ancients

Example Deck




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Set Skill

[Skill] description	User
Mark of the Dragon - Wings At the beginning of the Duel, add 2 "Dark Resonator" to your deck and 1 "Red Dragon Archfiend" to your Extra deck.	Jack Atlas

Notes

Usually you pass the first turn if you go first. This is so you can Special Summon Toon Cyber Dragon and Earth Armor Ninja.
The first Synchro you make should be a level-8 monster using Toon Cyber Dragon/Earth Armor Ninja and a level-3 Tuner as materials.
You can make your second Synchro monster with The Tricky and a level-3 Tuner to make a level-8. Or you can use Trident Warrior with a level-3 Tuner to make a level-7. Trident Warrior with Delta Fly can make level-8.
Flare Resonator boosts the attack of the Synchro monster you make with him as material.
Battle Tuned lets you banish a Tuner from the graveyard and boost your monster's attack. Use this on a Signer Dragon to triple the damage.
King's Consonance is good against Kalin's Infernity Archer, basically negating the attack and giving you a free Synchro monster.

Sylvan Synchro Decklist

Skill	What Grows in the Graveyard
Essential cards	Sylvan Monsters Naturia Rosewhip Spore
Cost	Expensive
Pack (Box reset)	Rampage of the Forest
Pack (Box reset)	Blazing Rose

Example Deck




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Set Skill

[Skill] description	User
What Grows in the Graveyard Begin the Duel with 1 "Dark Verger" in your Graveyard.	Akiza Izinski

Tips

Sylvan monsters let you setup your plays by putting monsters in your graveyard. Particularly setting Sylvan Komushroomo is a good first turn move because he can excavate 5 cards from your deck.
You want to get Spore and World Carrotweight Champion in your graveyard so they can be Special Summoned.
Use Spore with World Carrotweight Champion or Naturia Rosewhip with Sylvan Komushroomo to make a level-5 Synchro monster.
Naturia Rosewhip and World Carrotweight Champion will be used to make a level-7 Synchro monster. You can also use Sylvan Guardioak with Spore.
Making a level-8 Synchro monster can be done with Sylvan Marshalleaf, Dark Verger, and Naturia Rosewhip. You can use Naturia Rosewhip with a level-5 Synchro monster, or Spore with a level-7 Synchro monster.
Fairy Meteor Crush lets your Synchro monsters do piercing damage letting you maximize damage. Big Bang Shot can also be used, and also give an attack boost.
Vermillion Mech Dragon is only worth making when using Sylvan Hermitree and Spore as materials.

Kalin Kessler's Decklists

: Lvl 500

Monster Cards	QTY
Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu	1
Infernity Archer	1
Infernity Dwarf	1
Dark Grepher	2
Infernity Archfiend	2
Infernity Necromancer	2
Infernity Beetle	2
Infernity Avenger	2
Spell Cards	QTY
Foolish Burial	1
ZERO-MAX	1
Infernity Launcher	2
Mausoleum of the Emperor	1
Trap Cards	QTY
Infernity Break	1
Damage Gate	1

: Lvl 1000

Monster Cards	QTY
Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu	1
Infernity Destroyer	1
Infernity Archer	1
Infernity Dwarf	1
Infernity Randomizer	1
Infernity Archfiend	2
Infernity Necromancer	2
Infernity Beetle	2
Infernity Avenger	2
Spell Cards	QTY
Foolish Burial	1
Infernity Launcher	2
Mausoleum of the Emperor	2
Trap Cards	QTY
Infernity Break	1
Damage Gate	1

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Meowth

Any ideas for a deck that could get the 30000 damage in one duel?
Or is perchance it allowed to be through multiple duels just on the same spawn?

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<< Anonymous(Pikachew)

Cas Reply

Mate you rock your deck works like a charm! awesome job

<< Anonymous(Pikachew)

Anonymous Reply

yeah mate thanks for suggesting. i believe the black rose piercing is the best for those who can afford subterror with no box reset. finally completing the event with that deck with power tool dragon as support.

for duels with less than 30k LP left i used the labyrinth wall power tool dragon with 3 power of the guardian, 3 meteor crush and 3 tryce. much more consistent and faster.

<< Anonymous

Pikachew Reply

I changed the direct damage for more consistency and up to 150k damage (70-80k avg):

Skill: Balance
3x Drill Barnacle
3x Big Eye
2x Raging Flame Sprite
3x The Fang of Critias
3x Power of the Guardians
3x Tyrant Wing
3x Jar of Greed

Big Eye is nice because it lets you see the top 5 cards and rearrange. Using Jar of Greed after lets you get 2 critical cards for the first damage turn.

<< Anonymous(Pikachew)

Kagura Reply

1x tiki curse plus 6x lvl 4 trap cards??

Anonymous

How to farm him at Gate

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Mr.Cheap

Normal Duel: 500k-800k
Turbo Duel: 1000k-1,400k

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<< Anonymous(Mr.Cheap)

Anonymous Reply

How are you doing 500k with those random cards?

<< Anonymous

Sigma Reply

I don't see it doing anywhere over 100k. I think the person added an extra 0 and emphasized its crappiness.

<< Anonymous(Sigma)

Anonymous Reply

Red-Eyes Black Dragon Sword.

Although I still can't see it doing that much damage.

<< Anonymous

Doubt intensifying Reply

Very doubted how these cards make huge damage

Anonymous

Drop rate for those 2 new SR cards are so low. So far i only got 1 copy dropped from raid, and already at 15mil event points.
Is it only me or everybody experience the same thing?

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Yeah, funny how after we talk here, I finally got an Archfiend's Call from treasure box XD

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

congratz for those already got 3 copies each. now we can keep assisting to get more gems, i guess. im still keeping my vestiges and beacon for level 500 and 1000 as obviously those are way harder

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

I experienced low drop rates for the new SRs during the first two days, but its been better today. 28 million points now, mostly from auto duel assists and turbo duels. Only used 2 beacons so far. I'm only still in it for the insane amount of R jewels for card upgrades at normal card trader.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

yeah by today most ppl should got 3 copies each of new cards.

still havent use any vestiges/beacon as lvl500 only appears once so far for me and i manage to beat it with turbo duel crow powertool balance as i stated above. 200k + damage as i got luck no earthbound. 3k vestiges now

Anonymous

Layer*

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Anonymous

And What Monsters in the extra Player
?

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UK_Guy

My own version of the drill barnacle deck.
It goes with the skill: Balance.
Super based, it never fails.

You can replace those 2 copies of Wall of Disruption with these cards if you don't have them:

- Curse of Anubis
- Windostorm of Etaqua.
- (Maybe) 2 copies of Legacy of Yata Garatsu could help as well. (Extra drawing power)

That's all.
100% win rate, you'll only lose if Kalin has more than 150 000 HP, but hey, this deck is super easy to build.

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<< Anonymous(UK_Guy)

Anonymous Reply

cool

Anonymous

Pyramid of light deck?

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Anonymous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoPuidkVD8U

Farming Kallin any level and guaranteed you can defeat him by yourself.

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<< Anonymous

Jess Reply

Thank you so much

Anonymous

I just realized that Kalin doesn’t hide behind defense position monsters anymore, or at least not as much as he did last time. Guess I can take the piercing spells out of my farm deck now.

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<< Anonymous

Ohgurnam Reply

Really? He still does that with me... always swarm his own monster zone in literally every turn, he only put his Archer in ATK position. Thanks to Drill Barnacle deck

<< Anonymous(Ohgurnam)

Anonymous Reply

It depends on the level. Once you start facing him at higher levels, he started putting his monsters in defense.

Anonymous

I;m using dragunity deck...working pretty well,You can do 5k-10k...dmg in 1 turn easily

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

5k-10k per turn isn't that much

Anonymous

With the best draw (Fang of Critias + Tyrant wing to make Tyrant burst dragon, 2 Power of Guardians and Raging Flame Sprite) at the beginning, you'll be able to inflict 248 K damage maximum (after 5 turns). To go above this, you have to be a lucky person and draw the second an third RFS.

With bad hand, you must draw.
Good Goblin Housekeeping is the best choice.
I tried with 2 copies of Dark Worl Dealings but it's a little dangerous because for one card you want (if you're lucky), you pay 2 cards.
I prefer Jar of Greed that give you +1 next turn.

I don't use traps to protect myself, perhaps with high level immortal it's preferable.
Then replace the jar by Canadia (my preference because you can activate easyly) or Wall of Disruption.

Good game.

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

No image then :
3 Raging Flame Sprite
3 Fang of Critias
3 Tyrant Wing
3 Power of Guardians
3 Goblin of Housekeeping
3 Jar of Greed
1 Dark World Dealings (not essential)
1 Mage Power (not essential)

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

No skill required? Any character will do?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

What is raging flame spirit? How the hell do you get 248K!? My highest is like 20K using this deck.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

No skill necessary. But you can use draw fire to be sure obtain Raging fire sprite after turn 1.
RFS is a monster like Bernacle but is fire. Use "search" and you can see it.
For the 248k max, it's arithmetic. With Tyrant Burst Dragon on RFS, you can attack 3 times. Each time you direct attack, RFS gain 1000 and 2 PoG gain 1000. You can make 15 attacks from the beginning to the end (3×5 turns).

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How to beat/farm Kalin Kessler

Table of contents

Six Samurai

Example Deck

Set Skill

Drill Barnacle

Standard Version

Lvl 500 or above Version

Set Skill

Karakuri Synchro

Example Deck [Credits to ジャックジャック @JackJack_DL]

Set Skill

Power Tool Dragon Decklist

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Set Skill

Red Dragon Archfiend Decklist

Example Deck

Set Skill

Notes

Sylvan Synchro Decklist

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: Lvl 500

: Lvl 1000

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