If you look the meta decks, most decks don’t have enough cards to remove yubel. And if they takes those cards they would loose more against other decks.
And people don’t know yet how to chain traps/fast effect toblock yubel from spawning.
And all the other decks that could win against yubel;
Gladiator beast, silent spellbooks are week to sacred Phoenix.
And there isn’t that much brick in the game with 3 island and 3 yakshas. You have tons of way to destroying your owns monsters if you play them in the right orders. But you need to play this deck a little to understand it.
Against yubel.
Yubel got 0 attack and will 🔥 his own monsters. So if you just play 1 monster/1 trap each turn. Or use kuriboh in your deck. You can stall the game until yubel deck run out of cards.
If you prevent the fire Kings and Phoenix cards to do direct attacks, then the yubel deck cannot harm you. In mirror comp I win because other Yubel run out of cards with too many planet pathfinder and sangan.
And don’t 🔥 yakshas. It help the yubel player when you 🔥 his monster. Just force him to 🔥 his own monsters and keep your strength.
Stardust dragon is a common counter I have seen too. But people think 1 is enough. If this cards become too common or if the buster blader dna deck become common. Just use more forbidden chalice to counter them.
Some decks are good against yubel but not against the meta. Especially sea stealth attack and maybe armed dragon.
You may want 1 or 2 cards of the souls to get this nephtis Phoenix from your deck. 2 alone might not be enough.
And since Phoenix destroy your back row I recommend fast effect cards that you keep in hand: forbidden chalice and forbidden dress, or last case the Econ to complete
You don’t have kuriboh, any of them can work to stall when you don’t have a good hand, traps are not that effective cause you destroy them and the opponent can remove them,
Took me 35 games from plat 4, And luxun deck also win most of the time against mine, so it’s just that there is not that many counter deck played. Most of the deck I encountered were cosmobrain and masked hero.
Magestik
Deman
