In my opinion +5000 may be off but they will still need to be forced to use it at some point. You need to have a cushion zone for the 'What-ifs' when they trigger draw you can always assume its 5000 added to their hand. If your opponent draws a card off of a draw trigger, or for their turn. The other most helpful thing to note about counting guard is considering triggers. Make your opponent sit behind their unable to intercept Grade 1s because they will be forced to retire them before pushing, as opposed to you wasting attacks to clear them out for them.Īlso less rear guards means less hand because they need to play more to cover themselves and be agggressive

When they have rear guards in the front row and they are grade 1s and 0s dont attack them, when they do have grade 2s focus at least 1 attack to try and bring down their interceptors, I'm pretty sure they will guard those. Ask your opponent if you can see their drive checks again, if they let you then make a quick note of the values and grades if you can (if you combine this with magic numbers their hand of 6 grade 1s and 0s can easily be brought down to 2 or 0 in a turn) If you can keep up with what they are checking then you can store a number of how much guard they have (and set a goal to waste a specific value before pushing fully for game)

Get to know card pictures and grades (Usually, grade 0s will have 10000 guard) Grade 1s and 2s will have 5000 and 3s have nothing This is best for some more competitive games but it's basically called 'Counting Guard' In Cardfight!! Vanguard trigger pulls are the main source of gaining advantage and the best way to turn the tides.īy watching what your opponent draws and keeping track of what cards (or at least the guard value they draw you can keep ahead of their game (in combination with magic numbers!) For those of you who do not know what it is, it is basically carefully observing your opponent's trigger pulls.

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