Man, I just finished teaching how to play competitive vs to a friend, and I did it by handing him a HV deck and letting him learn as he played. He already knew the basic rules (from watching the flash thingy from UDE where professor X teaches you how to play), and just needed a primer on competitive play. During the course of the teaching session, he was able to learn various basic guidelines about proper VS system play. Lessons like:

Lesson 1: Perhaps the most important lesson of all, HV taught him that every good VS System decklist starts with four copies of EOME. By extension, each good deck must also splash as many teams as it needs so that it can easily fix problem match-ups with hate.

Lesson 2: Team-ups are for wimps. If you team-attack you can't deal breakthrough, and if you reinforce you can't swing back with the character you exhausted. It is therefore always a bad idea to do any of those things.

Lesson 3: If a character costs more than five, or if a plot twist costs more than three, it's not worth playing.

And just like that, the competitive VS scene grows by one more player. I am relating this experience to you so that you, too, can help aspiring sharks to get their fins as fast and with as little effort as possible.

either HV and good ol' chicken supreme is the supreme(pun intended) vs competitve teaching tool, and reading this post, im really more and more pissed off by EOME, the fact that our game has turned just about to a toolbox decked game is bad, and the fact that affiliations r less and less important sucks just more....damn u EOME...

I hope breaker that you can see that ukyo is dripping with sarcasm.

actually he's soaked in it. Regardless of what he used to teach his friend.

Breaker, Squadron ("Chicken") Supreme implies that Flying Kick is a worse version of Surprise Attack. I'm glad I didn't learn to play using that deck.

Titans is the best teaching tool. Formation, Team attacking, right attacks, calculations, etc. This is the best way to teach the roots of vs. and then some. Plus, it's competitive for probably forever.

Personally, I like to use New School to teach new players how to play the game. It is a nice and simple deck that requires little thinking.

All three sound like fairly dull and subjective lessons. Poor guy.

damn you Zarbon! you stole my joke......

Does bringing him in and then killing him count in the overall score?

I always thought it was a bit too simple. Almost makes the game Yugi-like. Anything like that could scare away potential sharks

I always found Avengers Reservist to be the best teaching deck. It's fun to play, reasonably competitive, and has cool characters. Good Guys is also good for teaching, for simmilar reasons.

I can't help but feel that some of you are missing the point. There are lots of decks that are good for teaching someone how to play. HV, on the other hand, is excellent for teaching someone how to win.

As for Titans, it basically teaches you that with enough practice, you too can exert three times as much effort as a HV player to get roughly the same result.

you made a fiunny.. POST 4

aw the hell need post 5

The decks I learned VS from-

The New Brotherhood
Avengers Reservists
Squadron Supreme

I taught my brother how to play with-

Common Enemy
Curve Sentinel


Ooo, nice and curvy.