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How to Get Drop Skills: decks and tips

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update 20/04/2018
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How to get drop skills

What drop skills are

Some skills are obtainable as drops from Legendary Duelists from the gate or the ones that appear in Duel World, the skills that you can get are random from character exclusive skills, such as "Destiny Draw" of Yami Yugi and "Harpie's Hunting Ground" of Mai, to common skill drops, such as "LP Boost" skills and "Draw Sense" skills, that all characters can get.

Which duelists to farm

Lvl 40 Rex is the best!

You can fight any Legendary Duelists (LD) to get a chance to drop skills, the easiest ones being Tea Gardner, Weevil Underwood, Rex Raptor or Odion. Additionally it's better to duel against the lvl 40s since the chance of getting better cards, gems and skills are higher compared to the lower lvls. Rex is considered the easiest because he doesn't have any attack increasing cards other than his field spell, and most of his monsters have only about 1800 attack.

LDs you may avoid


Some Legendary Duelists like Kaiba, Joey, Bandit Keith or Ishizu are known to be difficult to farm, especially if you are using standard farming deck using cerberus.

Be careful on spending Gate Keys


Keep in mind that the colored gate keys, other than white, are used by 2 characters. If you plan on choosing one then make sure that you check the other character to see if you want to get a specific card from them, so that you don't end up using all of that colored key.
→ Details of Gate Key

Character featured events are chances!

There have been multiple event featured in the game, and during those event periods, players can challenge them without spending Gate Keys! The GameA website also shows decks to farm those LDs for a limited time with no set skill.

PvP Duels

There's also a chance for a skill to drop when you play PvP. This only applies to Ranked Duels, and Casual Duels. Friend Duels won't give you any rewards. This can be a better option sometimes if you are low on keys, or don't want to spend any, and you can keep dueling other players without a limit. The common strategy that people like to do is to go to Casual Duels using decks that causes them to lose the duels fast, or simply keep passing the turns until your opponent beats you.

Decks to farm skills

The main thing that you'll want to achieve is a high score, and can farm fast and consistently. Cerberus decks are often used due to how easy it is to get attack more than 9999 damage which gives 3000 pts, and the cards needed in a Cerberus decks aren't difficult to obtain.
→ How to get a high score

High Score Scorpion

I strongly recommend you to use this deck for the following three points:

  • No card from booster packs needed.
  • Can get around 6,000 score against Rex stably.
  • No skill is required that means you can use any character with this deck.

Deck recipe is currently in progress. Stay tuned!

High Score Cerberus

Basically your Yami Yugi, Weevil Underwood, and a character who has already acquired drop "Draw Sense: Light" skill, can handle a deck with cerberus and put 19 spell cards which includes stop defense works. Their "Sorcery Conduit" skill and "Draw Sense: Low-Level" skill allows you to get the monster to your hand. This is known to be an easy way to achieve a high score.
→ High Score Cerberus: deck recipe

Tethys deck

Tethys deck can be used to farm easily farmable LDs like Rex Raptor pretty fast and consistently, and it also doesn't require any character specific skills so you can use it on any characters. Unfortunately, Tethys was only available through an event, but if there are future obtainable ways and you get 1 or 2 copies of her, you can use her in the Tethys fairy deck for skill farming.

Other useful cards

If you don't have cerberus or scorpion then you can use any cards that can increase your attack points endlessly like Mystical Beast of Serket, Guardian Baou or Piercing Moray + Jam Breeding Machine. This will need to be used in a different deck using fusion summon, ritual summon and other ways to get a higher score.

Skills to aim for

While the character exclusive skills aren't a necessary thing to have, some skills are really good depending on your deck and some are fun to use.

Popular Drop Skills

[Skill] descriptionUser
Destiny Draw
Can be used each time your Life Points decrease by 2000. In the Draw Phase, instead of doing a normal draw, draw the card of your choice.
Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi
Last Gamble
Can be used in your Main Phase, starting from the fifth turn. Upon activation, reduces your LP to 100 and discards 2 cards from your hand. You roll a die and draw that number of cards. This skill can only be used once per Duel.
Joey Wheeler
Joey Wheeler
Duel, standby!
Gives 1 more card in each player's starting hand.
→ Burn OTK
Tea Gardner
Tea Gardner
Harpie's Hunting Ground
Begin the Duel with the Field Spell "Harpies' Hunting Ground" on the top of your deck.
→ Harpy Beatdown: deck recipe
Mai Valentine
Mai Valentine
Titan Showdown
Whichever player has double or more LP than the other takes double battle damage.
Rex Raptor
Rex Raptor
It's a Toon World
Begin Duel with the Continuous Spell Toon World activated.
→ Toon: deck recipe
Maximillion Pegasus
Maximillion Pegasus
Creator
Can be used if your Life Points drop below 2000. In the Draw Phase, instead of doing a normal draw, a powerful card, from outside of your Deck, is added to your hand. This skill can only be used once per Duel.
Maximillion Pegasus
Maximillion Pegasus
Fiend Farewell
Can be used when one of your monsters is destroyed by battle. 1 random Fiend-Type monster from your Deck is sent to the graveyard.
→ Fiend Farewell: deck recipe
Yami Bakura
Yami Bakura
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
Paradox Brothers
Three-Star Demotion
Can be used when your Life Points are 1,000 or below. Until the End Phase, reduce the Level of all monsters in your hand by 3. This skill can be used to "Suijin, "Kazejin", and "Sanga of the Thunder," regardless of your remaining Life Points. This skill can only be used once per turn.
Paradox Brothers
Paradox Brothers
Shadow Game
At the end of their respective turn, each player will lose LP equal to "100" times the number of cards in their own graveyard.
Yami Marik
Yami Marik
Life Cost 0
You can use the skill when your Life Points are 1000 or less. You do not have to spend Life Points to activate a card until your opponent's next turn ends. You can only use the skill once per Duel.
Odion
Odion
Firm as the EARTH
Can be used after your Life Points are at 3000 or below. Play the Field Spell "Gaia Power." If there already is Field Spell on your side of the Field, rerturn it to your hand. This skill can only be used once per Duel.
Bastion Misawa
Bastion Misawa
→ Check skill database for more drop skills

FAQ

How can I set/switch Skill?

In the deck edit mode, tap the skills at the top and it will show you a list of skills that you have unlocked that can be used.

What will happen if I get replicated skill?

Getting duplicate skills will automatically be converted to gems while duplicate unnecessary rare cards can be converted to gold or SR/UR orbs.

Comments

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Mihawk
Playing vs lvl 40 LD is 8 times as expensive as lvl 10 (in terms of colored keys) but really easier
I seriously would like to know the drop rate of each :/
<< Anonymous(Mihawk)
Anonymous Reply
No, get rare Drops is better with LD lv40 because you need get a ¨Rainbow chest¨ and you get easier Rainbow chest with LD lv 40.
<< Anonymous(Mihawk)
Pegasus Reply
Incorrect. The higher the score, the better the rewards.
<< Anonymous(Mihawk)
Anonymous Reply
I've seen just common sense in the comments so far. The guy wants to know the % of drop @ lvls 10, 20, 30, 40 so he can evaluate the cost/benefict of farming the duelist @ X lvl. That's it.
<< Anonymous(Mihawk)
J Reply
the drop rate of farming lvl 40 LD is 4.xx% and if you farm lv 30 duelists it's about a 1% chance (for each chest)
in the subreddit is a guy who collected the data of over 500 duels against lv 30 and 40 LDs
ACiDvision
Why is everyone so determined to get toon world skill? HHG is a much better field spell skill and even that is vulnerable but less so than toon world is. One despell and ur toons r useless. I guess now u get get a second toon world from lvl 35 Peg but controller is better. Toons are purely for the fun of the deck.
<< Anonymous(ACiDvision)
ACiDvision Reply
Oops, i was wrong about getting toon world at lvl 30 lol my bad. I did want to ask though, does anyone no if its possible to get a drop skill from a LD outside of the gate?
<< Anonymous(ACiDvision)
Anonymous Reply
You could get a common skill drop about 1 out of 6 or 7 duelists in or out of the gate. The rare skills unique to each character have a much lower drop percentage. In or out of the gate does not matter. I've gotten skills from multiple lvl 10's outside of the gate
<< Anonymous(ACiDvision)
Anonymous Reply
@anon "You could get a common skill drop about 1 out of 6 or 7 duelists in or out of the gate" you're just VERY LUCKY
Doritos42
One question:For farm a specific skill(in my case "it´s a toon world"),its best to hit only one LD several times or may be different duelists?
Anonymous
I find that farming lvl 10 duelists is the best way to farm skill set. I get like 5 chest per duel and those chest can contain skill. Ive been testing it and ive gotten 3 skills so far in ny 10 duels.
Rimbatuz
Can i get common skills (like draw sense:light) from CD or only from LD?
anonymous
You need to get 10 skills on Pegasus character, and then you can get "It's a Toon World" skill drop from any Legendary Duelist (lvl 40 LDs are the best from getting drop skills).
<< Anonymous(anonymous)
Kanchi Reply
My Pegasus had 12 skills so it's still drop toonworld ?
<< Anonymous(anonymous)
Anonymous Reply
I guess so.
<< Anonymous(anonymous)
Robert R. Reply
Sry but your wrong i got it second duel with a sd
Anonymous
I just got the "Welcome to toon world" skill after about a month of farming. Thank god it's over
<< Anonymous
Underkat Reply
What level were you farming??? I've been farming this for about a month also :((((((
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
I was farming level 40 legendary duelists. Although you can get the skills from the lower levels. I got a duplicate of the skill "creator" this morning. The toon world skill definitely felt impossible for a while, don't lose hope lol
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Duplicate was from a level 10
Legend23
I made a deck specifically for farming skill drops. Pricey but it works. Consistent 5k-6k+ scores. Works pretty much on any duelists and you don't need any skills. Rex is the best to farm though with this deck, since he's the easiest of all the legendary duelists.
I put in kuriboh, etaqua, mirror, and water balloons to stall.

If you don't have those pricey cards you can just use metamorph, etaqua and embodiment which you get from level rewards. Enemy controller works too.

Kuriboh - can be replace with Econ, etaqua, or embodiment
Mirror wall - can be replace by metamorph
2x moray - you need to must have atleast one moray. I have 2 because I happened to have 2. I want consistent draws. I've only use painful escape maybe once or twice so far.
2x yomi ships - can be replace by needle or any water monsters. I have 2 because I want to get rid of his high beatstick.
1x kaiser - have this cuz of its high atk and is water, can be replace by any water monsters or hunter with 7 weapons.
2x - jam breeding machines. You need to must have at least one for this deck. 2 for consistent.
1x balloons - can win you the match such a good card. Can be replace by any equip spells or umi.
I'll probably migh replace it for 2nd balloons though, but surprisingly I've been drawing umi consistently so I'm keeping it for now and you don't want to discard those water monsters so.
Micro ray - this is a good card if you want to get high assessments, if you don't have this you can replace it with riyoko and combo it with either stop defense or etaqua. Rex will have at least one face up monster. He use that trap card "Fossil Excavation".

There you go. Feel free to give suggestions and share this deck with others. I'm glad to help fellow duelists.



<< Anonymous(Legend23)
CreativiTimothy Reply
Great deck! I have a similar deck using Piercing Morays. My issue is when I draw the slime breeding machines before the morays which is when I have trouble. At that time though, I had o wonder balloons or kuribohs s I guess that makes up for it
<< Anonymous(Legend23)
LadyRen Reply
I don't have metamorph or mirror wall, is there something else I could replace it with?
<< Anonymous(Legend23)
Legend23 Reply
@Lady- you dont need them it just there to stall. You can replace it with 2nd water balloon, etaqua, econ, kuriboh, half shut, or anything that can stall.
<< Anonymous(Legend23)
Jj Reply
Is summoned skull in the game I seen a room one but not the other
Anonymous
Question, for the sake of just obtaining a particular characters drop skill, and not for cards/keys/gems, would it be more cost effective to farm Lvl 10 LD's? There are just a few skills I really want and frustrated I still can't get them even with high score farm decks. Any suggestions?
Underkat
I've been trying to get toon world for the past week and must have atleast 10 skills for Pegasus now but still no toon world. So frustrating!
Gabriel
Thanks a lot!!!! :)
Anonymous
Has anyone gotten It's a toon world? I've never seen anyone with it.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
yesterday i got it
<< Anonymous
aa Reply
just got today

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