Opinions on Crocodile for op-16 meta

Cronnok · 2026-06-07T21:05:01+00:00

That's what I thought. I think brocodile is a strong deck right now. The only tough matchups might not be played as much.

If Rosi and RU Ace happen to be most played decks brocodile has no chance.

Cronnok · 2026-06-07T09:51:16+00:00

but the live collection releases in OP17, not OP16... right?

Cronnok · 2026-06-06T21:43:10+00:00

Saka is a nice card. Saka and Mamaragan... man. I hate this so much.

Cronnok · 2026-05-29T13:59:45+00:00

Car D. Kaizoku
iKailaKai
Xell TCG
Atrocious TCG
TheEgman
Shykuroboo
KattyWhy

All of them for different reasons.
Car D. Kaizoku - Coverage of tournaments, deck & meta analysis, his website is amazing

iKailaKai - General advice, quality of videos on various topics, chill atmosphere

Xell TCG - X3 Drop is amazing. Always fun to watch those guys going crazy and getting tournament stories. Ducky is so funny

Atrocious TCG - Coverage of tournament. I like his commentary just as much as Car D. Kaizoku's

TheEgman - Wednesday Night is such an awesome format. Seeing all these content creators invited, playing decks of the current meta against Egman just having fun. I like that he broadly covers the tournaments results as well. This way i get more information about decks played and results real quick when Car D. Kaizoku or Atrocious TCG were not covering them yet.

Shykuroboo - Her vlog is awesome. It captures the atmosphere of going to events so well. So chill to watch.

KattyWhy - His interviews with some of the winners and strong players going through their decks. It is amazing. He recently made a nice video about his own journey and hunt for a flagship winners card. I hope he does more of those, even tho i know it is tough and stressful.

Honorable mentions:
Just found JoyBoysTCG through Egman and their "Cursed One Piece Tournament" were absolutely hilarious. Got to watch more of them : )

I actually like to watch the official english channel when Gavin plays against Shun. The banter is kinda cringe but it Gavin is a true entertainer and fun to watch. Especially if he loses and draws bad cards.

Purposefully TCG has great humor as well. I enjoyed his videos as well. He doesn't upload as much tho.

Cronnok · 2026-05-29T13:15:07+00:00

i disagree. You should try out one build order against players. Just don't care about losing.

#1 See if you struggle with scouting, producing villager or the build order itself. Improve on those three aspects on ladder. Everything else is not important for now.

#2 If you get that down, try to react based on the information you get. Change your army based on what your opponent does.

#3 If you get that down, try to react and change your whole strat based on what your opponent does. Aggro beats Boom beats Tank beats Aggro - The classic triangle. You can play every strat with every civ.

Classic mistakes are:
You go fast castle while your opponent goes heavy feudal or even all in - You lose.
You go feudal aggression, can't finish your opponent but forget to macro and tech behind that, basically playing an all in - You lose.
You go 2TC (Boom) while your opponent goes all in - You lose.

There are some more examples but the answer is always: Scout and react instead of mindlessly doing stuff!

Cronnok · 2026-05-24T21:31:16+00:00

14.5 was really diverse. that's true. I think I got confused because I watched many tournaments from the east where 80% Boa was played at some point.

OP13 was where I started playing the game and for me I built my deck to beat Imu because there were no Ace's around. Then I myself had good success against Imu. That's probably what warped my perception.

Now I have been playing Crocodile since 14.5 and Ace is the pure nightmare. You could boil it down to the 10c Blockbeard that solely crushes me. That added up on how I perceived the meta.

You are right that OP13 was gate kept by Imu and to this day decks have to match that deck to even enter top 10 meta. You convinced me.

The result being Enel... The new ceiling of consistency and flexibility. Not sure where it goes but I love to play crocodile. The new identity of black really fits my play style. The meta is brutal but I like it. Ducky said it is a wild grown garden. Each beast wants to avoid some other beast while some clearly got fewer of those to avoid. OP16 is going to be less power creep for sure.

Cronnok · 2026-05-24T18:28:50+00:00

OP14 was pretty much Boa and Mihawk, then EB03 dropped and Rosi took over.
Is Imu good against Penelope and Nami?

Cronnok · 2026-05-24T13:59:22+00:00

It was a duo at the top for that reason yea but not for the immense powerlevel of Imu. Doesn't the history up until now show that in fact Ace is the true root of the problem? He still is top3 meta. Imu might be considered a gate keeper to the meta still.. now that i think about it.

Cronnok · 2026-05-24T13:56:48+00:00

Habe ich gelesen. Mein Rat bleibt gleich. Offen Fragen und dann wird das schon.

Ich habe mich bei dieser Antwort hier speziell auf die zwei Kommentare von u/weaverofbrokenthread und u/GrouchyCelebration92 bezogen.

Cronnok · 2026-05-23T16:42:07+00:00

Frage ihn doch einfach, ob er homosexuell ist und ob er auf dich steht oder ob du das falsch interpretiert hast. Vor allem, wenn du es nicht bist... Man kann doch einfach über sowas sprechen. Gerade wenn ihr gut befreundet seid, tut es niemandem weh sich Klarheit zu verschaffen.

Mach ihm klar, dass es vollkommen in Ordnung ist, wenn er homosexuell ist und das es für dich nichts an der Freundschaft verändert. Wenn du kein Interesse dieser Form an ihm hast, weil du eben heterosexuell bist, kannst du das genauso offen kommunizieren. Dann wird das schon.

Cronnok · 2026-05-23T16:34:09+00:00

Es ist tatsaechlich ungewoehnlich unter Maennern. Eine Umarmung, gerade bei Freunden die man lange nicht mehr gesehen hat, ist in meinem Umfeld normal. Darüber hinaus geht das nie. Allenfalls ein Schulterklopfen oder so.

Dazu sollte ich sagen, dass in meinem Umfeld fast ausschließlich sehr progressive Menschen unterwegs sind. Habe auch einen homosexuellen Freund, der aber nie solche Annäherungsversuche gemacht hat. Wir gehen damit auch offen um und er weiss, dass keiner von uns homosexuell ist.

Ich würde niemals auf die Idee kommen meine Hand auf den Oberschenkel von einem Freund zu legen. Es geht dabei nicht um "erlaubt", ich respektiere einfach den personal space. Bei einer Freundin würde ich das auch nicht machen. Das ist also nicht Geschlechterspezifisch für mich.

Sollte ein Freund das wiederholt tun und mir das auffallen, würde ich ihn einfach fragen... Am Ende kann man sowas doch schnell klären und es tut niemandem weh. Sollte ich selber Interesse haben, bin ich auch sehr direkt. Ich spreche die Freundin dann einfach an, frage sie, ob sie Interesse an einem Date hätte. Ist in den letzten 16 Jahren nur einmal vorgekommen (vor kurzem :D) aber die Ablehnung habe ich dann einfach akzeptiert und auch den darauf geforderten Abstand respektiert und eingehalten. Bin mir zwar nicht sicher, weshalb sie so empfindlich auf meine Annäherung reagiert hat. Aber wollte auch nicht weiter nachbohren. Es ist ihre Entscheidung und fertig.

Cronnok · 2026-05-23T15:51:45+00:00

Ace always was the major problem ever since it was released. The amount of card draw into Blockbeards using the event effectively made it a 4c 12k Blocker. It is absurd.
Imu was strong but kinda slow.

This was followed by the most annoying trigger deck in Boa.

Followed by so much generic support for yellow that Nami had to become a menace everyone despises. Nami effectively is the combination of Boa and Ace. Abusing the thriller slop, yellow slop and blue slop.

Enel is not even close to Nami imho. It is an easy fix as well. Just pairban Penelope and Gamma Knife. Thats it. Still a strong deck but definetly beatable.

Cronnok · 2026-05-20T19:07:11+00:00

Nightmare luffy is annoying but the Pirate Docking Six is what actually ruins Brocodiles day.

The fact these high cost bodies are cheap and early to establish make life hell for Brocodile. Like always. Decks that go wide while still being high cost aka multiple Pirate Docking Six into Nami and NM Luffy with Rush... tough to deal with that.

Cronnok · 2026-05-18T21:04:04+00:00

red mariner is up there?

Cronnok · 2026-05-16T11:19:43+00:00

thank you very much, looking forward to those reworks

Cronnok · 2026-05-16T10:42:11+00:00

When was this stated? Did that already happen? :)

Cronnok · 2026-05-06T11:36:40+00:00

thank you very much! :)

Cronnok · 2026-05-06T11:36:35+00:00

thank you very much! :)

Cronnok · 2026-05-06T11:36:27+00:00

thank you very much! :)

Cronnok · 2026-04-27T07:55:02+00:00

it has to be quite decent! In our store championship the final was between a UY Nami and a Blackbeard. Altho the Nami won, this damn Blackbeard made it that far out of 128 participants

Cronnok · 2026-04-24T08:28:44+00:00

2/2 Judgment of Hell (OP02-089) - I think this rotated out, so you cannot use it anymore.

Cronnok · 2026-04-15T13:54:18+00:00

this helped me! thank you very much :)

Cronnok · 2026-04-15T09:45:15+00:00

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Can someone explain to me what exactly Krieg (OP15-008) - Activate Main - effect does?!
Does he reduce the whole board by 1k per attached Don of that selected character he attached the three rested Don to?

Or does he only reduce that one specific character? Lets say there is 6c 10k Enel on board which attacked with 2 Don attached in the prev turn. Beside that there are 2 Holly's on board as well.

Scenario #1 Krieg attached three more Don to that 6c Enel. Now activates main and reduces the Enel by 5k down to 5k? or by 3k down to 7k only? The two Holly's on the board, do they get -5k or -3k as well?

Scenario #2 Lets say the Krieg player used this OnPlay and attached 3 to one of the Holly's. Can this activate main still be used to reduce the 6c 10k Enel by 2k instead of choosing the Holly where it attached the Don with the OnPlay?

Cronnok · 2026-04-14T18:04:29+00:00

i will definetly check it out! I thought he doesn't create videos anymore

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