The Worst Duo Elements

[UndeadSpider1990]

What are the worst element pairings? And can you make them work?

I love coming up with new and unfamiliar decks; there may not be such thing as a truly unique deck any more, but there are certainly unusual ones - and some with good reason.

I once made a beginner-tier / deck that was aptly named "Windark" (that's a joke; it never wins ), and I figured with a real lack of synergy in the newbie meta these could be competitors for worst duo. But with Fog and Stiletto being a solid defense for just 3, , and Shard of Freedom being one of the strongest cards in the game (like with Vampires, for example), I just couldn't keep this on the list.

So how about some others?
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Do your worst

*Edit* Definitely struggling for a good / deck

[andretimpa]

  / is easy

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from trials 10 vs DC

and so is /

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from TPvP6 vs majofa

[DoctorC]

Ship all da elements, anything can be shipped.

 / usually aren't a thing (Dissanctuary, 'nuff said). I haven't seen duo  and either. Same for  and . That said, I don't really count as a super deckbuilder or a pvp player.

[UndeadSpider1990]

Ship all da elements, anything can be shipped.

 / usually aren't a thing (Dissanctuary, 'nuff said). I haven't seen duo  and either. Same for  and . That said, I don't really count as a super deckbuilder or a pvp player.

Yeah actually I just built / as a stall, that seems to be the way to go with those. I'd love to see / ! I enjoy the red and yellow, so they *must* be a great combo right?

*Edit* Actually, time seems to have a lot of non-synergies. , , , ? I think it can work with if you combine Mitosis with Shard of Readiness though. Instosis was a FG-killing machine before they nerfed the shard.

[worldwideweb3]

You can combine saders with discord, like team light did last war.

[Espithel]

*Edit* Actually, time seems to have a lot of non-synergies. , , , ? I think it can work with if you combine Mitosis with Shard of Readiness though. Instosis was a FG-killing machine before they nerfed the shard.

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[UndeadSpider1990]

Looool came up with this beast:

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5fb 5fb 5fb 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dr 7dr 7dr 7ee 7ee 7ee 7ee 7ee 7ee 7f2 7f2 7f2 7jp 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q8 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 8po

So good. Bahaha.

[UndeadSpider1990]

*Edit* Actually, time seems to have a lot of non-synergies. , , , ? I think it can work with if you combine Mitosis with Shard of Readiness though. Instosis was a FG-killing machine before they nerfed the shard.

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Are we counting the upped 0 version? I think if it's just splashing Sundials that's not exactly a duo, though I appreciate that's how they're sorta officially categorized.

[Higurashi]

The worst duos might be found when you combine two "complete" elements, i.e. Fire and Darkness. Raging Dolls do nothing Phoenixes don't apart from Liquid Shadow resistance and potential vampiric attackers, so that's probably the least rewarding synergy. Darkness does benefit from the stronger CC in Fire; there's always going to be something.

Another method is to add the worst unupped element to a complete one, such as Gravity and Aether. Add Animate Weapon and you have a good deck, but that's a trio. Gravity is consistently the hardest to build with for Team Aether since Psion came out and made Charger obsolete in the duo.

Life and Aether has the same problem when you can't include Animate Weapon. Frogtal is a fine deck, but Silences being the only pseudo-PC it has, it's usually just better to run Psiontal. PU Dragons is great with Jade Dragons, but it works with any element.

So I guess you either find the worst duo deck, or you look at how little an element adds to another. Two different ways to measure.

[CactusKing]

Looool came up with this beast:

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5fb 5fb 5fb 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dr 7dr 7dr 7ee 7ee 7ee 7ee 7ee 7ee 7f2 7f2 7f2 7jp 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q8 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 8po

So good. Bahaha.

Has one RoL. Is therefore not a duo

[JonathanCrazyJ]

It's also worth considering duos from 'in element' style rules perspectives.

For example, without 50% in element, can build patient DeVu/Scarabs, but if it needs to be 50% , there's very little usable synergy with other than possibly just splashing RT, but it's usually not worth it

[Blacksmith]

  is a bit iffy as well.

Ship all da elements, anything can be shipped.

 / usually aren't a thing (Dissanctuary, 'nuff said). I haven't seen duo  and either. Same for  and . That said, I don't really count as a super deckbuilder or a pvp player.

Yeah actually I just built / as a stall, that seems to be the way to go with those. I'd love to see / ! I enjoy the red and yellow, so they *must* be a great combo right?

*Edit* Actually, time seems to have a lot of non-synergies. , , , ? I think it can work with if you combine Mitosis with Shard of Readiness though. Instosis was a FG-killing machine before they nerfed the shard.

Don't forget about sundials+ . Sundials    But besides that they don't have much.

Btw here are a lot of Duos:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/deck-compilations/the-uncompleted-guide-to-duo-beginner-decks/msg1088689/#msg1088689