Luffy OP13 EB05 Guide

• It's free: a DON!! rested on their turn stands up again on yours. No cards, and nothing off your next turn.
• Your engines stand DON!! back up: Usopp 2 at the end of your turn, Sanji 2 when it lands and 1 more at the end of your turn, the 4-cost Nami up to 5 at the end of the turn, Charlestone 3 in the middle of their attack. Thousand Sunny puts the DON!! on your Leader every turn.
• It runs out: it's one pool for their whole turn. The first attack on your Leader each turn got through 18% of the time, the fourth 43%.
• Big hitters beat it: Xebec's and Kaido's 9000s and 12000s need 3-4 DON!! each.

The list

The most played EB05 Luffy OP13 list on MetaHub (16 players' games with this exact list).

USOPP OR THE 4-COST NAMI = KEEP. THOUSAND SUNNY WITHOUT THEM = KEEP, IT DIGS FOR THEM. NEITHER = MULLIGAN.

• Strong players show the same: their kept Usopp or 4-cost Nami hands won 76%, the mulliganed ones 69%.
• Neither is a lean, not a rule: kept and mulliganed hands both won 53%.
• These are players' own choices, not the same hands played both ways: read them as what works for players, not proof.
• Keep: Monkey D. Garp, Thousand Sunny, the 4-cost Nami, the 4-cost Nami, Usopp. Mulligan: Monkey D. Garp, Sanji, Sanji, the 6-cost Luffy, Roronoa Zoro: no 4-cost, no Sunny, and four cards with no counter.

• Sanji on 5 DON!! effectively costs 3: it stands 2 DON!! back up when it lands, and 1 more at the end of your turn.
• Zoro makes your Leader a 7000 until the end of their next turn: to attack with, and to defend with before any DON!!.
• Play the 6-cost Luffy before you attack (strong players did in 55 of 61 turns): it stands 4 DON!! back up.
• The kill: of strong players' 119 wins, 97 ended on their 5th to 8th turn, most often their 6th (39).

EACH ACTIVE DON!! = A +2000 COUNTER THAT COSTS NOTHING. IT NEEDS A DON!! ON YOUR LEADER AND 5 OR FEWER ACTIVE DON!!.

• Strong players rest exactly that many (83% of their 730 rests, never one more). When their DON!! could stop an attack they used them 85% of the time, and not one of those got through.
• Even at 4 Life: when one DON!! was enough, strong players rested it 92% of the time. A hit costs a Life card; the DON!! cost nothing.
• Use Thousand Sunny before your Leader attacks (613 of 622 turns): the same DON!! is +1000 on your attack now and the DON!! x1 for their turn.
• Never 6 active: strong players started 734 of their opponents' turns with 6+ active zero times. If you'd end with 6, spend one more or stand one fewer.
• Counter cards come late: strong players used one on 9% of the attacks on their Leader at 4 Life, 54% at 0 Life. Charlestone is the best: +4000, and it stands 3 DON!! back up.

Players: EB05 ladder games, every bounty level, with farmed games removed (the same two accounts playing each other 8+ times, one side winning 85%+); '-' under 30 games, or under 15 a side for the split. Our Pro AI: 100 games per matchup.

Buggy (OP09-042)

Practice vs Buggy · Hard AI

• Go 1st, by a lot (75% vs 55%). Most of their attacks need 1 DON!! (the Buggy Leader at about 6000); only 13% needed 3 or more.
• The 10-cost Buggy (OP09-051) and Gravity Blade Raging Tiger bottom-deck your Characters: Laboon saves a 7000-or-less (not Zoro) for 2 of your cards rested. Keep a Charlestone for the 10-cost Buggy.

Xebec (OP17-039)

Practice vs Xebec · Hard AI

• Your worst, either turn order (players 25% going 1st, 24% going 2nd).
• A quarter of their attacks need 3+ DON!!: Shiki and Edward Newgate at about 9000. Keep Charlestone and your 2000 counters for them, and let the DON!! cover the Leader's 6000s.
• Gloriosa (OP17-046) bottom-decks a 5-cost-or-less (Sanji, Bonney, Usopp, the 4-cost Nami); Laboon can save it.

Nico Robin (EB05-010)

Practice vs Nico Robin · Hard AI

• Go 1st, by a lot (85% vs 63%), though players chose 2nd against her 16 times in 18.
• Her attacks are the smallest here: 83% need just 1 DON!!. Race her Leader. Megalo (EB04-018) K.O.s a rested 8000-or-less: Sanji, Bonney or Usopp after they swing, not Zoro.

Trafalgar Law (OP14-001)

Practice vs Trafalgar Law · Hard AI

• Lean 1st. Two big swings a turn, half of them needing 2 DON!! (Jewelry Bonney's 7000, Urouge). The 9-cost Law (OP14-009), a 10000 with Rush, needs 3: rest the exact number for each.

Sabo, Kaido and yellow Enel

• Sabo (55%): go 1st (67% vs 42%). It swung about 3 times a turn at strong players' Leaders: plan which hits to take at high Life. Loki (OP17-119) K.O.s a total cost of 4 or less.
• Kaido (25%): go 2nd (35% vs 23%). Both 10-cost Kaidos and Charlotte Linlin (ST34-004) are 12000s that need 4 DON!! each.
• Yellow Enel (28%): go 2nd (35% vs 22%).

• The fix for the first one: going 2nd, play Thousand Sunny with one of your 2 DON!!, rest it to give that DON!! to your Leader, and keep the other active: rested on their first attack, it makes your Leader a 7000.

• The defense: with a DON!! on your Leader and 5 or fewer active, each DON!! you rest on their attack is +2000. Rest exactly (their power - yours) ÷ 2000, rounded down, + 1.
• Set it up every turn: Thousand Sunny's DON!! on your Leader, then end with 4-5 active (Usopp 2, Sanji 1, the 4-cost Nami up to 5). Never 6.
• Use it: if your active DON!! can stop the attack, stop it, even at 4 Life.
• Mulligan: keep Usopp or the 4-cost Nami, with or without Thousand Sunny; Sunny alone too. Neither: send it back.
• Turn order: go 1st against Buggy, Nico Robin and Sabo; 2nd against Kaido and yellow Enel.

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Our other EB05 guides: Xebec, Sabo, Buggy, Nico Robin, Trafalgar Law, Kaido, purple Enel, Luffy ST10, yellow Enel, Luffy & Ace, Shirahoshi, Rosinante, Moria, Sugar and Boa Hancock.

Players: EB05 ladder games (updated 10-26), farmed games removed; mulligans from players' 377 hands with a known result; the DON!! defense, plays and kill turns from strong players' 152 games with every decision. Our Pro AI: its EB05 games (updated 10-25).