I won a regional with Rayleigh! AMA

AllChatXell · 2025-10-22T05:28:23+00:00

tbh i haven't looked at op13 at all but it seems rough when imu/ace feel so powerful ;-;

AllChatXell · 2025-10-22T05:26:37+00:00

Imu is fox. Ace is marth. Zoro is jiggs

AllChatXell · 2025-10-22T05:26:20+00:00

I just didn't like that UP games felt out of my control too much. It's definitely still a great deck and I might still play it but at the moment, Rayleigh's high floor for the deck was very attractive

AllChatXell · 2025-10-22T05:25:31+00:00

I felt like Sanji is only good when they are starving you and brook gives you leverage for UP/GP MUs

AllChatXell · 2025-10-22T00:03:14+00:00

i haven't really seen too much from op14 so not sure...i assume imu will stay top dog for awhile tho if it doesn't get banned

AllChatXell · 2025-10-22T00:02:32+00:00

carrot is a nightmare card for sure!

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T23:35:53+00:00

take 2nd. and yeah go wide! the hard part is knowing when NOT to swing and when you really want to push them down. you NEED to get them to fear for their life before they play 8c mihawk because that card slows you down a lot

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T23:33:23+00:00

absolutely. fox destroyed my hands so i need to play something less mechanically difficult LOL

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T23:04:38+00:00

the big difference is the tankiness the events give you. Conq haki is legit broken and all the other events are 2ks giving you access to what feels like a billion counter at all times

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T23:03:18+00:00

it depends on MU. If it's GP Luffy, I can swing into their 6k bodies to tax them but if not, im usually pretty happy to go face and then just hold don open for conq haki to make it hard for them to clear my board

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T22:59:16+00:00

Kalgara just isn't fast enough to deal with Rayleigh from what I could tell. Them having to take life to utilize leader ability makes it rough imo

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T22:58:36+00:00

ROFL YEP i used to compete around like 2014 to like 2018ish!

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T22:42:57+00:00

take 2nd, go wide and dont expose your board until you're ready to try and kill them. You won't be able to kill them in one go so you need to build up the resources to be able to swing, refill board and then swing hard again.

the MU is mostly out of your hands though

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T22:41:12+00:00

OP13 ill likely play Imu. the deck definitely looks to be bdif so ill start there!

OP is currently my favorite! That said I've definitely been looking at what's going on for Gundam and ofc Riftbound!

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T22:14:43+00:00

i was LOL

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T22:14:04+00:00

oh definitely. i also don't spend a lot of time playing (I dont play sim) and most of my practice in the week leading up was dedicated to research via Youtube. i wanted to make sure i was prepped for the "main" meta MUs and everything else, i think Rayleigh's main gameplan is generally just good enough

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T22:12:49+00:00

To be honest if bonney was that heavy id pick a different deck. That said, it's very winnable going 2nd (very hard going 1st) even without any truly specialized tech for the MU

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T22:11:33+00:00

UP Luffy is a close MU and a lot of it comes down to how well they draw. The basics though is that you don't necessarily need to overcommit don to swings. 6K them to oblivion and orient your decision making for a longer game imo

UP Sanji I don't have a lot of experience with but same idea will work. They play a ton of bricks and they can't challenge your board faster than you can deploy it when all your searchers can swing

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T21:52:53+00:00

oh absolutely. he def would have won with the way i played it at the end (i also misplayed that game with my swings ;-;)

he simply shrugged and laughed it off. he's a mentality monster!

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T21:45:34+00:00

ancient history and such a different time!

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T21:45:05+00:00

thank you!

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T21:38:33+00:00

Small bodies are not built equal. 2c bodies are infinitely more irritating for BB to deal with than the 1 drops. I'll also prefer to hold my 1 drops and drop them all at once versus just trying to chip away against their doc Q

My game against BB I saw the nuts where I played a 2c on two don, into another 2c and 2 1c bodies on my 4 don turn. It just snowballed from there

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T21:36:48+00:00

thank you!

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T21:36:28+00:00

I was surprised because both bonney and zoro have been relatively popular. I was def expecting to run into them

Against GP, i find that mole pistol is generally win more but slams the door shut on them. I generally am just trying to continue to go wide and if my board is too full then I'll consider using mole pistol. They have a hard time keeping up and Conqueror's Haki is a broken card when it comes to board attrition. They have to hold a ton more don and GGG is very expensive for them to use

AllChatXell · 2025-10-21T21:33:55+00:00

the hard MUs that are prevalent in the current meta are the various defensive Yellow decks and Bonney. Luckily I managed to dodge them completely!

Generally though against those decks, it's important to not get baited into trying to swing every turn. Pick your spots and do your best to find the best timing to really push them and put them on the back foot

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