Top 10 Worst Pendulum Monsters Part 2

Pendulum Monsters and Pendulum Summoning are a unique part of Yugioh's game design not shared by any other game. They demand players to rethink the way fundamental mechanics such as the Extra Deck, Graveyard and Spell cards work, and because of this, have a bad reputation for confusing newer players. Today we’ll be explaining some of the worst Pendulum Monsters in the game as well as what makes them so bad.

Script by DylanTT
Edited by S

├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10. Performapal Smile Sorcerer: (0:20)
9. Zany Zebra: (3:33)
8. Dark Doriado: (5:12)
7. P.M. Captor: (7:04)
6. Twilight Ninja Kagen: (8:46)
5. Magician of Hope: (10:58)
4. Ghost Beef: (12:38)
3. Frightfur Meister: (14:39)
2. Rain Bozu : (16:20)
1. Pazuzule : (18:21)

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[stuckincollege]

If you ever feel useless, remember:
PM Captor searches PENDULUMS from the GRAVE and PROTECTS ZOMBIES
You know, the archetype that never wants to be in the grave and the archetype that wants to be in the grave

[buchiklop]

Yuya has such a weird deck. He has some majorly game-breaking cards, especially once he gets all the Dragons near the end of the show, and eventually has, like, 12 different Boss Monsters he can use. But then his main Tuner is Tuning Magician, which gives your opponent LP while forcing you to take damage, while the last few arcs has him constantly use Smile World during Duels, despite being a trash card.

[jo-neallewis]

To be fair, Twilight ninja kagen came out during a time when ninja's weren't playing as a flip deck. It was the original ninja's that were flip monsters and the new ninja's have flip effect but between those periods the strat was spam hanzo out as much as possible and setting up your ninjustsu's for interpretations

[CobaltDraco]

Slight note with Rain Bozu: I believe the intention with it was to play in a deck with a LOT of pendulum monsters, seeming as those get added to your extra deck upon being destroyed. Thus, your extra deck would slowly grow beyond the normal limits and allow Rain Bozu to gain more attack. Still not good, but at least makes sense.

[ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

I swear these worst lists are so much fun! I like brainstorming ways of making the “worst” cards into GREAT cards.
Also, I think we can use Pendulum monster cards as a base for porting over MAXIMUM monsters from RUSH. Have normal monster effect on the bottom text while having the MAXIMUM effects in the top box.

[tylerdurden]

Dark Dorado is actually really good as a tech card for fortune fairy's (not the best deck I know) as long as you put fortune fairy chee on top of the deck you can get a guaranteed two free special summons that you can use to link or keep them on the board for your miracle stone.

[gensteps]

PM captor WAS for the longest time the ONLY zombie pendulum, however that is no longer true, since the release of Daidalatant the Liquid Giant

[SoxUnleashed]

Something I think is overlooked with Performapal Smile Sorcerer is that both the level 8 summoning issue and the need for higher than base attack points can be completely solved with Soul Pendulum. Increase your high scale 8 to scale 9 and then all pendulum monsters thereafter gain 300 atk per counter on soul pendulum.

I use this combo quite often in lower tier Master Duel as nobody ever really expects a draw 6 off of one monster effect.

[arutemu]

Prior to the release of Darkwing Blast Twilight Ninja Kagen was pretty important to the Ninja archetype. Ninjas didn't have many options to special summon their ace monsters like Hanzo and Getsuga, so the pendulum cards had to carry the entire archetype.

[andrewshearsby]

Dark Doriado's pendulum effect seems handy for a charmers deck.

[ianr.navahuber]

Performapal Smile Sorcerer can still be saved if :
1) they make a new Smile pendulum monster that is Scale 9 (and either a Magician or an Odd-Eyes)
2) Make more support that actiually further encouraged you to play Smile world (either by playing specific monsters or cards). instead of just being "just more ATK just because"

[SeelieFhey]

Frightfur Meister actually enables some funny stuff in Fluffal. You can use it to tribute a monster and summon Lilith, Lady of Lament from the deck, who can then using her effect get you a copy of necro fusion. Setting you up to possibly make tiger or cruel whale on the opponent’s turn for an additional piece of distruption.

[ryanwilson-wilhite]

On Magician of Hope, it would also benefit from all the other pendulum magicians if it was Dark since they support Dark Spellcasters in the archetype. (the Zarc cards especially, not including the new support coming out.)

[sdsd]

Magician of Hope is definitely not a bad card. It’s a generic rank 4 that summons a monster from the hand; its problem is that the effect was balanced too much by negating the effects of the monster it summons.

[CaptinSpyke]

Dark Doriado's only really reliable way to resolve her effect is to summon her with enough material to make Saryuja on board and then draw all 4 of the monsters you just stacked the deck with. I've seen meme combos that do this to turbo out stuff like all the barrier statues

[trentonalbers]

Cool video! I think it’s worth mentioning that another downside of PM Captor is its scale of 5 since 4 and 5 are considered the worst scales a monster can have.

[soukenmarufwt]

Dark Doriado only exist for lore reasons.

Such as finally mastered the dark attribute as before she mastered every other attribute except dark.

Dorado is part of the Charmer lore.

[burningfox]

I think if more zombie pen monsters exist, PM captor might get better since zombies benifits a lot from self-mill. Which means those pendulum monsters will end up going to the gy.

And who knows, maybe a zombie monster or continuous spell/trap (like a zombie world retrain) that makes pen cards go to the gy might come out one day.

[ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

14:39 a try at fixing this one:

Frightfur Meister: The Amended (DARK)
Level 8
Pendulum Scales: 5
You can Tribute 1 Level 4 or lower "Frightfur", "Fluffal", or "Edge Imp" monster; Special Summon from your Deck, 1 Fiend monster with the same Level, but with a different name. You can only use this effect of "Frightfur Meister" once per turn.
Fiend/Pendulum/Effect
During your Main Phase: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Frightfur", "Fluffal", or "Edge Imp" monster from your Deck, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Fusion Monsters. (Quick effect) You can Tribute 2 or more Fiend monsters; Special Summon 1 "Frightfur" Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, whose Level equals the combined original Levels of those monsters, (This is treated as a Fusion Summon.) then increase this card’s ATK/DEF the tributed monsters combined ATK/DEF. You can only use each effect of "Frightfur Meister" once per turn.
ATK/0 DEF/0

[gajeelshadowdragon]

Idk if this has been an idea yet for a video but have you ever considered the question of “Which type of extra deck card(Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Link) has the best cards and could be considered the dominate extra deck card type?” Just seems like it would make A very interesting video and debate within the community.