Yellow Enel EB05 Guide

• Your Life keeps coming back: Charlotte Smoothie, The 3 Sweet Commanders, Borsalino, Teach and Linlin add Life, and your 4000 Trigger Characters (Daifuku, Oven, Smoothie, The 3 Sweet Commanders) play themselves for free when they come off your Life.
• Charlotte Linlin makes those 4000s 8000s on your turn. On their turn they're 4000s again: that's what Charlotte Oven's On K.O. and Charlotte Pudding!! are for.
• It's slow: Pro won 18% of its yellow Enel games that ended by turn 10 and 39% of those on turns 11-12.

The list

CHARLOTTE LINLIN OR MARSHALL D. TEACH = KEEP. NEITHER = MULLIGAN.

• This isn't Pro's habit: Pro keeps every hand with Charlotte Pudding (OP17-109) and sends back most others (65% of its hands), but the same-hand test gives Pudding hands no edge kept. Over 360 games played both ways, the rule did 60% and Pro's own choices 55%.
• Why Linlin and Teach: they're your finishers and your Life engine. Everything else you find on the way: Streusen digs, the Puddings draw.
• Keep: Zeus, Marshall D. Teach, Charlotte Pudding!!, Charlotte Pudding, Charlotte Oven. Mulligan: Charlotte Pudding, Zeus, Charlotte Daifuku, Charlotte Daifuku, Charlotte Oven: a fine curve, but no Linlin or Teach.

• Why: you're the long-game deck. Going 2nd gives you the extra card and one more DON!! every turn, and you won only 18% of the games that ended by turn 10.
• What players do: strong players went 2nd in 18 of the 22 games where they chose.

• Going 1st, everything comes a turn later: Charlotte Oven (47%) on your 3rd turn, Charlotte Smoothie (53%) on your 4th, Teach (41%) or The 3 Sweet Commanders (31%) on your 5th, Linlin (64%) on your 6th.
• Then the 8000 board: Pro's Character attacks went from about 0.5 a turn before Linlin to about 2 a turn after.
• Charlotte Pudding!! before you pass: with spare DON!!, playing it beat ending the turn 45 times in 61.
• On 10 DON!!, your Leader's swing before The 3 Sweet Commanders (better 21 times in 29).
• The kill: 63 of Pro's 65 kills came on its 6th to 11th turn; Linlin attacked in 54 of them.

TAKE THE HITS. YOUR LIFE COMES BACK. COUNTER AT 0 LIFE.

• Why: a Life card comes to your hand as a card, a Trigger Character plays itself, and on their turn your Leader puts a Life card back the first time you reach 0. Pro countered only 4% of the attacks at 4 Life and 11% at 3 Life.
• At 1 Life, take it (better 170 times in 270): you go to 0, your Leader refills you to 1, and your counter is still there for the next hit. At 0 Life, Pro countered 73% of the attacks.
• From 4 Life down to 2, it's a coin flip: counter when the hit would set up their kill.
• The Leader: 9.3 attacks a game and 4.6 on Characters (the Leader won 114 close calls in 187). Against Sabo, hit its board.
• Your 8000s ask for +4000, and 92% of those landed. Your 5000 Leader into a 5000 asks for a 1000 counter and lands about half the time: each one still costs them a card.

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. Yellow Enel is still rare on the ladder (361 games), so most rows have no players' number yet. Our Pro AI: 100 games per matchup.

Xebec (OP17-039)

Practice vs Xebec · Hard AI

• Go 2nd (our Pro AI 46% vs 22%) and get to the long game: before Linlin, your attacks mostly cost them cards (about 8 free counters a game), not Life.
• Gloriosa (OP17-046) puts a cost 5 or less on the bottom of your deck: every 4000 you have except The 3 Sweet Commanders. Rocks Pirates returns a cost 6 or less; Linlin and Teach are safe.
• At 1 Life, take it (better 15 times in 21); late, block with Borsalino (better 5 times in 7).

Buggy (OP09-042)

Practice vs Buggy · Hard AI

• Lean 2nd (our Pro AI 40% vs 34%) and survive to Linlin.
• Counter earlier than usual: at 3 Life countering was better 6 times in 8, at 2 Life 6 in 10.
• Crocodile & Mihawk (ST25-003) has them trash a card instead when your effect would remove a Cross Guild Character, so Zeus's K.O. won't stick. Alvida switches off Borsalino's Blocker when it attacks.

Sabo (OP13-004)

Practice vs Sabo · Hard AI

• Go 2nd (our Pro AI 54% vs 16%).
• Hit their board (5.9 attacks a game on Characters vs 2.9 on the Leader): Saul and Ripley count as cost 16, out of Zeus's and Teach's reach, and power up every 2-cost.
• Loki (OP17-119) K.O.s your Characters with a total cost of 4 or less: Streusen, Zeus, a Daifuku or a Pudding.

Nico Robin (EB05-010)

Practice vs Nico Robin · Hard AI

• Go 2nd (our Pro AI 56% vs 38%).
• The long game isn't yours here: both decks build 4000 Trigger boards under Linlin and add Life, and Megalo (EB04-018) K.O.s your rested 4000s on their turn.
• At 1 Life, take it (better 28 times in 35).

Kaido (OP17-058)

Practice vs Kaido · Hard AI

• Your worst matchup: go 2nd (our Pro AI 28% vs 18%). Kaido ramps to a 12000 on its 4th turn; your Life and your board have to outlast it.
• Their 10-cost Kaido (OP17-063) K.O.s a cost 6 or less the turn it lands (any of your 4000s, or Borsalino); their Charlotte Linlin (ST34-004) makes one of yours base power 0.
• At 2 Life, take it (better 13 times in 19).

The rest

• Law: go 1st (our Pro AI 86% vs 76%). Jewelry Bonney is the Character to hit, and at 2 Life take the hit (better 11 times in 13).
• Shirahoshi, Luffy ST10 and Rosinante: go 2nd and take hits: against Shirahoshi, Pro won with 2.6 Life left on average.
• Luffy & Ace: go 2nd (our Pro AI 48% vs 32%); survive their fast start. Their Luffy (ST30-012) rests Borsalino when it attacks.
• Purple Enel: lean 2nd, and counter at 2 Life (better 16 times in 27): their Double Attacks take 2 Life a hit. Zeus and Teach can't touch their Enel (OP15-118).
• Luffy OP13 and Sugar: go 2nd.

• Mulligan: Charlotte Linlin or Marshall D. Teach = keep. Neither: send it back.
• Turn order: go 2nd; the exception is Law (go 1st).
• The curve (going 2nd): Streusen, Charlotte Pudding, Borsalino, Teach, Charlotte Linlin on your 5th turn; then keep adding Life.
• Defense: take the hits; at 1 Life take it; at 0, counter. Play Charlotte Pudding!! before you pass.
• Attack: mostly the Leader (their board against Sabo). The kill: your 6th to 11th turn, with Linlin.

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

Our Pro AI: its EB05 games, Pro on both sides (updated 10-25); plays, counters and close calls from 144 detailed Pro games; the same-hand test from 360 games played both ways. Players: EB05 ladder games (updated 10-26), farmed games removed.