I still can't get past Floor 11. How is that deck a level 20? I've had an easier time against legendary duelists. Can anyone give me some tips on how to get past these annoying pests?
As long as your normal summon beatstick can hit above 1800, you should have a relatively easy time to go up the floors to level 20, just pair yourself with defensive spells/traps
If you have access to mako Tsunami and have some of age of discovery, I got up to top using that deck. Starfish helped a lot.
Only problem was 20+ when he uses needlefish in his frost flame dragon deck.
That "Lv20" Emperor of Flame deck definitely should be a Lv35 deck or something. It has Salamandra which boosts ATK by *700*, Shooting Star Bow - Ceal to lower your ATK by *1000*, Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu to add the said equip cards to hand and trim the deck at the same time, and finally Tenkabito Shien who is outright immune to trap cards.
There are only a few ways to deal with it:
1. Use non-trap monster destruction cards: Exploder Dragon, Yomi Ship, 4-Starred Ladybug of Doom, Super Rush Headlong.
2. Use non-trap cards to switch from atk to def: Sphere Kuriboh and Enemy Controller.
3. Use cards that destroy spells. Not ideal since the AI gets 3 Salamandra on first turn shockingly often.
4. Riryoku can help, so long you survive.