Duel Links Meta Snapshot August 2025 Week #2

Published on August 11th, 2025 by
Bismut

Tournament Analysis

Hello! This Tournament Analysis article series aims to summarize the tournament-winning metagame based on data from a weeklong period (for both Speed and Rush formats).

Today's report is based on tournaments held from August 4, 2025 to August 11, 2025

  • Speed Format
  • Rush Format

Performance Metric

Remarks

Similar results to previous week. Probably the metagame is settled by now with Despia as the deck to beat, followed but Chimera, Utopia and Ancient Gear.

Chimera is the deck with still room for optimization, we have seen builds with Loading... package, with Loading... and Loading... to have more bodies on field, with different staples like Loading... , Loading... or Loading... , etc.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Quantum Dailies #456 SE 56 Chimera Utopia
Suisen Weekly #161 SE 53 RA Nouvelle
Super Latam Weekly #3 Swiss 84 Despia Despia
Quantum Dailies #458 SE 52 Despia Chimera
JTVCup #2 SE 41 Utopia Despia
Seal Cup #44 SE 26 Sky Striker Gusto
Galaxy Rush #24 SE 30 Hero Sevens Road
Quantum Dailies #457 SE 56 Ancient Gear Despia
Starry Cup #57 SE 65 Utopia Shaddoll
6K Duelist Kingdom #2 SE 71 Despia Speedroid

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Quantum Dailies #456 - Mako@Tsunami
1st Place in Quantum Dailies #457 -
Eren
1st Place in Seal Cup #44 - Help_Me
1st Place in Suisen Weekly #161 -
ClearMinder
1st Place in JTVCup #2 -
Sao

Performance Metric

Remarks

Meta is settled now. Light Galaxy and Hero are the stronger decks and Loading... reduces the meta diversity, eliminating decks focused on OTK (Baseball, DG, Redboot). Still a better meta because OTK strategies were little to non-interactive.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd
Rush Duel Links Weekly #36 SE 34 Light Galaxy Light Galaxy
Cloudy City Rush Weekly #35 SE 26 Hero Sevens Road
Quantum Rush #76 SE 27 Hero Red-Boot
Galaxy Rush #24 SE 30 Hero Sevens Road

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Quantum Rush #75 -
Zack_144
1st Place in Rush Duel Links Weekly #36 -
hawPirrorro
Skill Galactiva Oblivion Draw
30 cards
3 copies
Transam Lika
3 copies
Extra Plorer
3 copies
Star Traleo
3 copies
Galactiara Eve
3 copies
Galactica Oblivion
2 copies
Transam Linac
3 copies
Secret Order
Polymerization
Curse of the Rising Light
3 copies
Fusion
Negate Attack
2 copies
Shiny Shady
2 copies
Strange Traveler
2 copies
Eternal Galactica Oblivion
2 copies
Space Fusion - Extra Plasmer
3 copies
Galactiara FUSE Eve

Prerequisites

  • A registered Konami ID linked to your master duel game
  • Must login to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB using the same Konami ID
  • If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed

Export Guide

- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers
For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers.
After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
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- Manually
  1. Click here to copy the export code
    2.
  2. Go to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB and click My Deck => Add a Deck
  3. Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
    • (PC Only): Press F12 to open the DevTools window => Navigate to the Console tab in the window => Paste the export code => Hit Enter
    • OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code, then if you're on mobile look for the *globe* icon and tap on it to run the code (Chrome only), for PC users just hit enter.
  4. The deck will save automatically
  5. Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

Click here for a more detailed guide

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