Do you agree it's rigged?

Like so many people here have said its not the competition that gets harder you actually start to have poorer draws at higher ranks where you only recieve one available path and when take it they have the cards set to beat you already.

Im playing Noble Knights and it's my first turn, Turn 2. I use Merlin to pull Med and only have Gwen as an equip, so I go to summon Custen, they use TTH. I activate Merlin to stop it and they have another TTH to stop the activation of Merlin.

I lose because the opponent was given the perfect counter to the only path I was given. The only thing I could do and their opening hand had both copies of the card they needed to stop it.

If thats not a fix to you then I you are in denial. The opponent always has a back up card to your negation. Always.

Yes. You can feel the change the second you enter higher ranked, KC Cup etc. Your starting hand dead draw frequency greatly increases.

And Im not talking about like "Oh they wrecked my setup and I didn't draw anything to recover "

I mean whether you go first or second, you have no path to victory. They will take the only combination of 5 cards in your 20 card deck that dont flow together and you'll draw it back to back to back in different ways.

Leading to a loss streak, Whereas you just won several before that as your draws seemed real.

Your cards will look good but match outcomes are already preset and youll start noticing your good hands are always stopped by a counter in the next card they draw and that leads to your loss. I wait for opponent to set up their Synchro and I use TTH to remove the 2 monsters.
A plan killer and now Im leading, right?!?!

They now have no monsters or cards in their hand and I hit them for 3200LP. Their next card drawn is to special summon 2 cards from the graveyard and they use it to get back those monsters and create their god hand and beat me.

Its all a setup to be seen as a back and forth competition.

Starts up Duel Links

Goes into a match

First Draw is 3 non effect monsters + Space Typhoon

Opponents first draw is every necessary card to get Buster Dragon Destroyer fusion + the necessary back row to make it unstoppable.

I turn off Duel Links. This is MY Duel Links. Its not like others. I see everywhere that Buster Blader deck is inconsistent and nobody uses it yet this happens everytime I see the deck...

People will tell you "Its not rigged. Why did I get to KoG? You just need to grind"

The algorithm sets different people up with different match ups. Some go through and some are repeatedly set up in a no win situation.

Just go and watch a recent YouTube video about your favourite deck making the Legend climb to KoG where itll show you their 8ish consecutive wins and you'll see the opponents rarely pop off immediately.

I was watching one for a deck I gave up on and they encountered Dinomist 3 times and in all 3 matches, Dinomist never filled their red/blue pendulum zones. Not once in 3 matches.

Yet every single time I face Dinomist, theyve filled everything by turn 2 and aren't beatable.

Same thing goes for LunaLight and Blue Eyes. Luna Light will always start with a card that stops me from breaking their cycle and Blue Eyes always starts first and lays 1-2 Karma Cuts or Providence, nullifying my opening move nearly every time.

The last 2 times I have played vs Heavy Samurai, they have immediately brought out their god hand, destroyed my monster and spell zoned cards to allow them 2 attacks. Always immediate loss...and I know how to beat them. I know which cards to prevent them from using, but it always fails me because they always have the card to counter my card.

Yet watching these matches on YouTube, these cards that are used on me religiously never come or they come late enough that a strong enough defense is already foritifed.

Ill be watching YouTube and say "Ok. Now theyll reveal thats a Karma cut" and its not and the Streamer wins. Then the next match Ill say "Aaaand you lose because thats gonna be a TTH" and its not lol. And there is a lot of people failing to get their god hand out, which I never see... Almost ever. Its almost like fair matchmaking :)

Watching the Youtube matches is like watching the game I wish I was playing. Thats how you know something is up.

Its as if they set a limit for you per season.

I was at Legend 4 a week and a half ago and trying for KoG, which I can never achieve. I go back to play today and Im at Plat 2 due to the rank drop of a new season, but I can't win a single match. I was OTKd 6x in a row.

Thats not possible with a deck that easily made Legend before grinding to now just not be able to make any variety in their opening draws. Its as if a certain % get held back in order to try to generate revenue lol.

This has never happened to me. Im so confused by this. It feels like a different game. I would never have played this if I knew this switch would suddenly flip. There has obviously been a change

They go first and summon a non effect 3200 monster and a 1200 monster. No backrow.

My turn. OH! I was dealt 5 spell cards!

GG! Totally non fixed game. If the opponent doesn't have a God hand I will have absolutely no offense. My hand MUST be worse than theirs

Hahahahaha. I don't even need write anything. Just look at all these posts. Same garbage happening to me at key intervals.

If I go first, dead draw 7/10 times in Legend.

If they go first, perfect hand setup, they cycle through 15 activations I can't stop because they are first, lining everything up so when I do get my turn, no matter what cards I have, itll be immediately negated and Ill lose. By the time I get my turn, they have 3 2500-3000 monsters on the field, a Karma cut, Pulse mines, and Typhoon.

I have drawn my only 4 effect monsters and a trap card. They immediately use Typhoon to destroy it. And now Im sitting here with 4 non effect monsters when literally any other monsters or cards could've helped me here.

Its not in my head. I don't just remember the negative moments and forget the wins. I will go on a 8 loss streak, win 1, lose another 5.

My deck reached Legend 3 a week ago, but now the game wants to hold me at Plat 2 so I feel the need to make a purchase to better my deck.