Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-86.141.100.22-20191103144205

Let me just say one thing about ragnarok. Anticipation is an essential trait on defence. Pretty much, if you have not got any anticipation monsters of defence, than the opponent can abuse this fact. They can literally just bring a turn transfer monster and give an extra turn to a charmless or zyla, and then they can just take out the team in one go. There are so many extra turn skills out now that are crazily OP if there is no anticipation monster, so therefore to stop people from running these you NEED and anticipation monsters. And the best anticipation monster in the game, ragnarok. If ragnarok is a must in every defence team, then he should be OP As well as that, Guil seems to keep going on about how madam fusion destroys ragnarok, and as a madam fusion user myself, I have to disagree. I use madam fusion with Eisul, and this combo destroys most anticipation monsters, as even if they are paired with tanks, they are forced to attack the eisul, so cannot stop my madam fusion from trait disabling everyone. This combo is insanely good, but there is one big counter to it. Ragnarok, when paired with a taunt tank, can completely shut down this combo, as ragnarok just keeps removing the trait disable with archangels blessing, making it impossible to ever break through. Ragnarok + taunt is the only counter in the game I have found to this, but it is used in literally every high level defence team. Now, pair this up with a dodge area monster with NER (Wyrmlad, Hornet or O’reilly, this team also becomes undeniable by thalassa, as the dodge area monster cannot be denied and then does NER, and this makes a literally undeniable, uncounterable team, which will not work without Ragnarok. This is why ragnarok is used in literally every top player defence team, and if you look at the top players they almost all have ragnarok + taunt * dodge area on defence Finally, the misconception that ragnarok is weak against taunt. Out of all of ragnarok’s useable skills, 2, dwarfs stomp and queens call, are bad against taunt. Compare this to 6 skills: No more Failures, Archangels Blessing, Undead’s ritual, Blacksmiths masterpiece, Death door, and Demon’s flames, that either counter taunt tanks or are not affected by them. Even the two ‘bad against taunt’ skills aren’t too bad against taunt tanks: one will remove positive effects (Potentially Mega Taunt) and the other will give your team immune to control, and they both will deny for 2 turns. So really, ragnarok is actually quite good against taunt monsters. People also are saying all the OP monsters are better than him, but he is better than sherezar, who has literally no way to deal with dodge area, and fusion, who is awful on defence and gets destroyed by by far the most common defensive combo, ragnarok + taunt.