Originally Posted by Vic47

I'd say this is kinda outdated, since nowdays there is no actual reason to fight even Rank 4 opponents, since you are getting the equal amount of Shards for a win against both Rank 1 and Rank 5 opponents. I always fight Rank 5 people with a deck of 5 of my best Sexy cards (always updated with the Sexy cards i've recently got from other Events, camaxed out to lvl 110 with SR and Ex Wild Cards) and never lose. Though, of course, i always fight Babe opponents, but i never even check for who is helping me. Just try to get the best Sexy cards you can with the highest possible SED from this list:

Then max them out fight Rank 5 Babe Opponents and you'll never lose.

If merely going after shards, then by all means farm the rank 5s with your maxed out cards. To rise in rank, however, you should be able to put together a deck that can at least beat rank 2 consistently. Every point helps, even the ones you get from DEF wins.

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Your winning streak is a big thing in Shards events. What I do, and this won't work for the absolute top ranks, is fight all rank 5 opponents until I've maxed out the overall event streak. I look for potential beginners for targets...ones having not fully leveled Airu/Yuri/etc. as their display card (I run a Sexy deck). Then once I've finished the 300 streak I fight the rank 1s for bonus points and position. By the time I switch over, most of the BS trap decks have settled in the rank 2-4 positions and I no longer have to worry so much about running into a Babe deck with 2 Moes hoping for a Moe helper.

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Originally Posted by Vic47

I'd say this is kinda outdated, since nowdays there is no actual reason to fight even Rank 4 opponents, since you are getting the equal amount of Shards for a win against both Rank 1 and Rank 5 opponents. I always fight Rank 5 people with a deck of 5 of my best Sexy cards (always updated with the Sexy cards i've recently got from other Events, camaxed out to lvl 110 with SR and Ex Wild Cards) and never lose. Though, of course, i always fight Babe opponents, but i never even check for who is helping me. Just try to get the best Sexy cards you can with the highest possible SED from this list:

Then max them out fight Rank 5 Babe Opponents and you'll never lose.

If merely going after shards, then by all means farm the rank 5s with your maxed out cards. To rise in rank, however, you should be able to put together a deck that can at least beat rank 2 consistently. Every point helps, even the ones you get from DEF wins.

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Your winning streak is a big thing in Shards events. What I do, and this won't work for the absolute top ranks, is fight all rank 5 opponents until I've maxed out the overall event streak. I look for potential beginners for targets...ones having not fully leveled Airu/Yuri/etc. as their display card (I run a Sexy deck). Then once I've finished the 300 streak I fight the rank 1s for bonus points and position. By the time I switch over, most of the BS trap decks have settled in the rank 2-4 positions and I no longer have to worry so much about running into a Babe deck with 2 Moes hoping for a Moe helper.

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I went for 3 + 1 + 1 (offense, don't care much about defense here).

Reasoning:
The top S card can beat all B cards and every S card other than itself (which seems to be 50/50?)
The top B card can beat all M cards and every B card other than itself
The top M card can beat all S cards and every M card other than itself

Effectively, 3 of my cards are "best against weakness and same", the remaining 2 cards are my "style focus", which decide what types of decks I attack.

Next, I put the *best* card I have into LB, since that is the first fight of the duel.
Because I pick a "weaker" opponent (B when I play with S), I have a pretty fair chance to get the advantage on the first hit.
However, until the fight has started, I do not know my opponents helper. Most people put their strongest card into their center slot, turning that into a helper, so there's a big chance that the helper appearing in that first duel is a "strongest card". And I'd rather have a Lilith Lil as my LB attacker in that fight (fairly good chance to beat S and B helpers) than a Kozue Amami, who would beat all B helpers, but would often lose against S helpers (friends' centerliners!).

So, the top card on LB is purely for dealing with helpers.

Overall, it's slightly weaker in defense (but can surprise attackers), but works pretty well in the offense against both pure and mixed decks.