Wizard101: How I Became Number One on Leaderboards

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• published: 09 Aug 2015
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Click show more to read my advanced guide on PvP. A blade armament pet is strongly recommended for my strategy because it gives you two extra kinds of blades that stack. Staying alive is most important. Even though I am leaving I still want to give back to the pvp community and share what I have learned. The 10 Commandments of PvP: 1. Never give up during a match even if you think you will lose. The moment you give up is the moment you start making mistakes. Believe in yourself and try your best to pull out a win until the very last turn. 2. Respect the game and respect the players. Don't ever underestimate anyone no matter how bad they seem. I learned that the hard way so take it from me. Never talk trash and never give 2 cents to the trash talkers or haters. Kiba is a great duelist and can definitely beat Yugi, but everyone knows Yugi is the best Duelist in Yu Gi Oh. 3. As the famed military strategist Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, you have to know yourself and know your opponent to win every battle. That means knowing all the spells you can make use of with your school and every other school so you can always be prepared and never be caught off guard unexpectedly by what your opponent uses. 4. Queue management is a top secret concept only very few pros know about but I'm going to share it with you all. Basically it's not all about jumping into ranked matches and winning, although that's the big chunk of it. Queue management means looking at all the 1v1 matches going on and seeing what kinds of opponents are fighting right now. Are they 76 balances you usually beat or are they 100 storms that you usually lose against? That should influence whether you join queue or not, and that is the art of queue management. 5. Be the most try hard duelist you can be. Farm bazaar for hours to find those triages (and aftershocks if your strategy doesn't heavily rely on the speed you kill). As well as other tcs that can help you. Make the perfect pets and farm the perfect health jewels. It all does matter. There's a million ways to be a try hard. For me personally every match I have paper by my side during matches and I write down what kinds of blades I use so I don't accidently use the same kinds of blades. I also use a calculator so I can know exactly how much my hits will do, and how many blades I need to kill. A basic formula is the base of your hit times your damage times all your blades. For example a 1000 damage attack with 58 damage and two 40% blades will do 1000x1.58x1.4x1.4= 3096 Don't forget their resist. If they are warlord multiply it by .5 or .7 if you have infallible. 3096x.7=2167 6. Create your own way. Copying others will only get you as far as others who also copied that person. I know it sounds hypocritical because deaths out there might simply want to copy my strategy which works very well. However the best duelists have their own unique strategies, such as angel, an ice who uses lore and avail, or me, a death who has never used a single drain spell or poison in 3rd age. 7. Humbly take advice from anyone. And I mean anyone. When someone offers advice, I listen to it no matter what their rank is and then judge for myself if the advice is good or bad. I have learned from some of the best duelists in the history of the game, many of whom do not play anymore. But I have learned just as much from people I really didn't expect to learn from. Sometimes I try to give random duelists advice and they all seem too proud to listen to me. Don't be one of those duelist too full of themselves. 8. A loss is not a loss if you learned something from your loss. The only ways to see the flaws of your strategy and your deck is to get beat by someone with a better strategy and better deck. A spell you hardly ever use or need? Take it out. A spell you would of won with if you found it? Put more in. Don't change your deck like the waves of the ocean but when there is a clear pattern then adjust accordingly. Learn from every loss. How and why did you lose? What could you have done to win? 9. Overcome all your setbacks. And there will be a lot of setbacks. At one point in time I questioned if I was good enough to even get to warlord because everyone I faced was 50 ice who used to be the highest ranking legit duelists of 2nd age. However during that time was when I learned the most and I overcame my setbacks to achieve number one. Everyone who boosted in 2nd age didn't want to pvp right after reset fearing they would lose. But those beginning losses are the most valuable lessons I have ever learned in pvp. 10. Pvp is fun! You can only be the best if you truly and absolutely love pvp. Have fun with it! It's a game after all. If you have a bad beat don't rage and just move on. Stay positive and have fun! Words cannot express how thankful I am to everyone who have made this game so enjoyable for me. From the bottom of my heart I thank all my friends for being such amazing people! Thank You!!!