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destona32 · 4 months

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desu!'s Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024 QUALIFIERS - RUSH DUEL division Day 1 Write-Up

Decided to spend some time today to attempt and get a decent ranking on the Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024 QUALIFIERS event for the RUSH DUEL format. Yu-Gi-Oh Rush Duels is probably my favorite card game so I figured trying to level up my gameplay by writing this out would be fun.

The current ladder is littered with three decks from what I can tell. Machines (strongest deck in the format), Harpies (strongest f2p deck i assume), and Magnum Overlord (funny one turn kill deck).

Aggro is also floating around as it's basically the same deck as it was on launch day just with the staples that trickled out from set to set added. I've only seen them a few times but enough for me to call it out. Also shout out to Cyberse. Already a really strong deck, but Chaos Femtron really powered it up it seems.

Current Stats:

Global Rank: 681 / Regional Rank: 63 (this stat barely gets updated so idk) Times Dueled: 61 Victories: 30 Winning Percentage: 49.18%

Deck Profile:

Card explanation & other thoughts underneath if you're interested in hearing me yap.

I decided to run pure Spellcasters because I want to walk the road to victory just like Yuga, the protagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh SEVENS. Also because I got tired playing my main deck, Noodle Ninjas. This list isn't really anything too special, Spellcasters has been solved for a while now, it's just personal preference when it comes to ratios at this point.

Skill: Sevens Accel Road When activated, this raises the ATK of a Normal Summoned monster whose current ATK is 1600 by 800 ATK until the end of the turn. After turn 4, it can search Seven's Road Magician for the cost of returning a card from hand to the deck. The searching effect can only be done once per duel.

Easily the best skill for pure Spellcasters as it grants access to our deck's boss monster when we need him. The turn 4 requirement comes up quite a lot however as it makes going first feel awful. Not only are most Rush Duel Turn 1 boards just a bunch of monsters in Face-Down Defense Position and some Set Spells/Traps, but we still aren't able to search for our boss monster on our next turn as it's only Turn 3. If we go second, we can search our boss monster the second turn we get to play. This wouldn't be an issue if Duel Links let us decide if we wanna go first or second but whatever.

Monsters

3x Seven's Road Magician - Yuga's ace monster. It's able to send a card from the top of the Deck to the Graveyard to gain ATK equal to [the number of different Monster Attributes in the owner's Graveyard] x 300. If all 6 Attributes are in the Graveyard, then Magician can reach 3900 ATK easily and beat over all other boss monsters who aren't Maximum Summoned. Of course, that doesn't happen every game so as long as there are 2 monsters with different Attributes, Seven's Road Magician becomes 2700 ATK and that's more than enough to clear the 2500 ATK threshold of most boss monters.

3x Seven's Road Witch, 2x Torna the Windweaver, 1x Magician's Valkyria - These are the 1600 ATK monsters that are allow us to activate our skill. Both Witch and Torna are Level 6, so they require us to Tribute one monster for us to summon them, however Magician's Valkyria is a Level 4 so she's just normal summonable. With the skill, they all become 2400 ATK monsters, underneath the typical boss monster ATK value but it's better than 1600 ATK.

Witch is the main card we want to find as she lets us send a card from our hand to the Graveyard to Special Summon out Seven's Road Magician from our hand and then give herself 400 ATK, making her 2800 ATK. In regular Rush Duels, she'd be pretty situational as you need to have drawn Magician alongside her, but with the skill we can literally just cheat and get him, allowing us to just have 2 high ATK point monsters on field for the cost of getting rid of 1.5 cards in hand from Witch and the Seven's Accel Road. Of course, sometimes we just have Magician in hand already, so we only need to toss 1 card out!

Torna allows us to change the battle position of a monster on the opponent's field. One hurdle Rush Duel decks need to overcome is the "Set 3, pass" As you're able to summon however many times you want in a Rush Duel, if your board of 3 monsters can't overcome 3 Defense Position monsters, you just aren't doing any damage. Torna allows us to turn one of our opponent's set monsters to Attack Position and get in some damage. It can also help with many boss monsters as most have very little DEF, so we can attack over them after putting them into Defense Position with Torna. WIth the skill, he basically becomes a boss monster for 1 turn, but if we're able to summon out Seven's Road Magician, then we can push for even more damage. Torna is also our WIND Attribute monster.

Magician's Valkyria is our monster Legend card, which are cards we're only allowed to pick 1 from our available set for each card type. 1 Monster, 1 Spell, and 1 Trap. As mentioned earlier, she's here to activate the skill on normal summon but she does have interesting edge cases. The obvious one is her effect where she forces the opponent to attack only her on the field, but her 1800 DEF is another appealing quality. Level 4 monsters in Rush Duels only rarely be over 1500 ATK, so they won't be able to destroy her and it'll possibly waste an incoming attack from the opponent. This quality is surprisingly useful that I find myself setting her more than summoning her to activate the skill.

3x Mystic Dealer - Our WATER Attribute monster. Mystic Dealer allows us to send a Spellcaster from hand to the Graveyard to draw a card. Not only does he allow us to dig a little bit deeper into our deck, but he lets us send monsters to the Graveyard to boost up Seven's Road Magician's effect. Also in horrible situations where we draw 3 Seven's Road Magician, 1 Spell/Trap, and 1 Mystic Dealer, we're actually able to play and not just be sad.

1x Thunder Gazelle, 1x Sparksheart Girl - Our FIRE Attribute monsters. Thunder Gazelle barely comes up, but he allows us to make one of our monsters inflict piercing damage, allowing us to deal damage through Defense Position monsters. While good, our opponent must have no card in their hand for it to activate and we can't exactly control that (but it is likely to happen as Rush Duels rules encouraging emptying your hand to draw more cards). We also need one of our boss monsters on our field for it to be effective as piercing damage from a 1300 ATK body is pitiful.

Sparksheart Girl is here because I don't have a second Gazelle and she's probably the best FIRE Spellcaster, which only matters just in case I need to use Mystic Dealer. Her effect allows us to lower a face-up monster by 500 ATK at the cost of discarding a Level 4 monster from our hand, which is not very good as we preferably would like to play the cards in our hand.

2x Seven's Road Mage - Mage allows us to send a card from the top of the Deck to the Graveyard and allows us to lower a Level 7 or higher monster's ATK by 400. Not only that, but if Magician's on the field, it also lowers the opponent's monster's by [number of Spellcaster Type monsters in the owner's Graveyard] x 100 which is useful to push for game. The second effect is appealing enough that it makes me want to run him over cards like Speedy Performer.

2x Light Sorcerer of Sanctity, 2x Light Sorcerer - Our LIGHT Attribute monsters. Sanctity allows us to pay 300 LP to lower a face-up monster's ATK by [the number of face-up LIGHT Attribute Spellcaster Type monsters on the owner's field]. Light Sorcerer is a 1500 ATK normal monster who is also a LIGHT Spellcaster. I'm sure you can see the synergy there. Also I guess Magician's Valkyria is a LIGHT Spellcaster too by the way.

2x Doraido - There are 2 EARTH Spellcaster monsters in the format. Straynge Cat who has 0 ATK and 1400 DEF and Doraido who has 1200 ATK and 1400 DEF. Normally, I'd play Straynge Cat out of spite but I do wanna take this event a little seriously, even if it's against my morals.

Spells/Traps

I run 6 Spells and 2 Traps in this deck, which I find to be a decent ratio to encounter them throughout the game. This format is defined by strong battle traps, so Spell/Trap removal is pretty high. Of course, I want my traps to not be destroyed, so having a decent amount of spells that I can set throughout the game will hopefully let my opponent waste a few of the removals on that instead of the traps.

1x Tribute to the Doomed - The Legend spell card of my choice. This card lets us just destroy a monster on the field by discard a card. This card easily deletes any Maximum Summoned monster, any large ATK monster we can't clear, or even just a set card so we can push for damage. Monster Reincarnation isn't particularly useful in our deck as our deck requires a good amount of Tributing and we don't have any engines to make it easier like Seahorse Carrier or Crawling Torso. Shield & Sword is genuinely a decent pick as it swaps the ATK and Def of all face-up monsters, typically making their values smaller... But it encounters many problems. Maximum Summoned monsters straight up ignore the effect, the Machine deck's boss monsters have 1600 DEF, which means we can't get over it without our Tribute Monsters, and Blue-Eyes decks are running around since it's a structure deck and those monsters have 2500 DEF. It just makes Blue-Eyes White Dragon lose 500 ATK, great. There's also Negate Attack which stops us from our attack and lets the monster turn back to their normal stat values. I find just deleting a card is more consistently better.

2x Magical Stream - This card lets us destroy a Spell/Trap card if we control a Spellcaster, basically any monster in out deck. Battle traps are very strong in Rush Duels as it doesn't have a Main Phase 2 which allows a player to fix up their board if something bad happens in Battle Phase. Negate Attack was mentioned earlier, but there's also Buffered Slime and Widespread Ruin. It's a well-known secret that these three cards are pretty game-winning, so... hopefully we can destroy them.

1x 7 Shift - This card lets us Special Summon a Level 7 or lower Effect monster on the field by discarding a card. It's not good here because we already shit out Magician every other turn. It can technically help us with a bricked hand of Tribute monsters, but we still need to draw it. This would be the 3rd Magical Stream if I had it. Duel Links wants me to waste my time leveling up Yuga to Level 35 before I can get it.

2x Talismanic Seal Array - This card lets us shuffle 4 monsters from our Graveyard to lower an opponent's monster's ATK by the [the selected monster's level] x 200. This card easily lets us hit over boss monsters with ease while also letting us refuel our deck. We can reuse our Magician and our Witch pretty easily when our deck is running lwo on numbers. This is also our main way to defeat Maximum Monsters as the ones typically ran have 4000 ATK, which our Magician cannot clear even with all Attributes in grave.

1x Negate Attack - Our Legend trap card. When an opponent declares an attack, we flip it up and they suddenly can't attack with any monsters this turn. It's better than Widespread Ruin as that card destroys the opponent's highest ATK monster, which is nice but it doesn't fully stop an entire battle phase from happening now does it.

1x Buffered Slime - When an opponent's Level 8 or lower monster attacks, this card lets us take no battle damage. However if our Lifepoints are higher than 3000, then we take 2000. Of course, if the opponent was going to go for game that turn, then that's a more than acceptable condition. The only issue with this card is that Maximum monsters are Level 10, so this card doesn't do anything for them. Everything else though... This card fucks.

General Thoughts

So far, I think this deck is more than capable at fighting toe to toe with the common decks in the format right now, but I do find that we can easily explode and die if the draws are just not in our favor. It happens. I'm probably gonna keep rolling with this deck as I find it to be pretty versatile and it's honestly just fun

The main problem being the amount of Tribute Monsters being ran at 8. Drawing too many Tribute Monsters is a death sentence as it depends on drawing at least one other monster that is Level 4 or lower. Luckily if we draw one of the Level 6 monsters, we only need one, but drawing Seven's Road Magician with other high tributes is pretty much game over.

I am thinking of giving Magnum Overlord a try as I have the cards for it or even running Noodle Ninjas again. Overall, the format has felt pretty varied and fun compared to the last Goha Festival or whatever, which was dominated by Royal Rebels, so I actually do feel inclined to try and get a high rank.

#des speak #yugioh #des tcg #rush duel #duel links

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chancellorxofxtrash · 7 months

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5, 6, and 7 for the writing meme. Fics of choice.

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

Ask me about reaching out and the corporation who had a hand in kidnapping Kenzaki in that one

It's Nebula from Narita Ryohgo's work. The two characters specifically mentioned are an aloof woman who is Yagiri Namie and the guy in a gas mask is Kishitani Shingen

They are both in Durarara, and neither of them is morally fucked up at all

6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?

Everything about Sinéad in silent treasures. She grew up in New York, and her family is quite... convoluted. She considers herself Korean-Irish-American mostly, but it's a bit more complicated. Her boyfriend is a thai crime lord she met while traveling the world, and they live together, and it'll take them forever to actually get married. Sinéad absolutely has no fear (dealing with assholes like the Great Leader at least) and is terrifying, something she inherited from her biological father.

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

I'll always be proud of the work I put into The Case Files Of The Desire Agency. I was doing the most about how to adapt the Vamp! worldbuilding, and everyone's roles in it. I could probably work more on it, and maybe have them actually interact with Vamp!ires next time.

Also Tales from the Cyberse Court. ONE DAY. ONE DAY I'LL GET BACK TO IT AND SORT IT OUT but Spectre is next and he is. Difficult. To Me.

Thank you!

#flaim ita

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offlineblues · 1 year

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VRAINS s3 spoilers talk (read more cuz i'm talking to myself at length)

i've really been thinking lately that i put myself in extreme turmoil by watching all of season 3 of VRAINS in one 6 hour sitting

of course, i didn't KNOW it was going to go the route it did. i honestly assumed it was going to be more like a catastrophe (similar to the Tower of Hanoi? or Bohman?) major event threatening LINK VRAINS type of thing. i don't know, i was always seeing vague spoiler fanart that i couldn't understand that led me to think it may be in some kind of ruin, or about Cyberse World. why would i always see so much sadness in the fan works? i was just confused about what simulations were ever mentioned, too.

i couldn't have even come close to predicting about Ai's suffering. or, even that he would be an enemy at all. seeing Yusaku selfishly believe in Ai even when everyone else was quick to be his enemy in return, it's just painful. the first time Yusaku gets to see Ai smile is when he's so far away. why... and the reasons why are too much to bear all the time. it's way to heavy

i went through every emotion possible, the highs and the lows, and haven't recovered even 10 months later. i'm a mess— though, having Duel Links to ease my pain with reunion trailer right away really did help. except some people really waited 3 YEARS for any closure. you are too strong

that being said, i want to redraw my first VRAINS aiyusa picture in October when it's been 1 year for me since episode 120 lol. this love story really got me bad for a whole 10 months straight and every day i am thinking About Those Characters...

#i've been in agony for like 300 days straight btw #caroblogging

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ina-bon · 1 year

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Make way for the new King of the Cyberse World.

#yugioh vrains #Aqua vrains #aoi zaizen #miyu sugisaki #my art #Ina bon’s art

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kcuf-ad · 1 year

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I can vision the Cyberse and spirit world playing a major role in S2 or 3 with Jaden and Yusaku visiting and obtaining some new cards.I can vision Bohman defeating Zane after his fallout at Pro instead of MD and brainwashing him to join Society of light and he plays a light or ice version of CYBER DARK and Syrus or Jay would be the one to snap him. Still salty over Zane and Syrus s4 arc. If Shima does appear I can see him having crush on Skye and making Yusaku jealous.

The Cyberse is actually just one of the 12 dimensions and thanks to it, both of them have a new cards which allows them to get their getback. That might sound interesting, but Cyber Dark will still be used sorry about that. Him jealous? OF SHIMA?! Bro no, he would just look at him and think to himself, "Good luck with that."

#yugioh gx #yugioh vrains

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merryfortune · 2 years

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This is where it all begins (right here, on the outside looking in)

Written for Multiamory March 2023

Day 17: QPR

Title: This is where it all begins (right here, on the outside looking in)

Ship: not applicable | Ai/Earth/Ryoken/Spectre/Yusaku

Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains

Rating: T

Word Count: 1,365

Tags: Not Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies, Ai & Yusaku, Earth & Spectre, Queerplatonic Relationships, Polyamory Negotiations, Outside POV

Ryoken was never going to get it.

Deep down, he always knew that. He was just an observer. The one looking in. But it had become a lot easier as of late.

The creation of the Ignis had been traumatic for Ryoken to witness. It was treated like a school trip, an excursion. A fun little romp in science and ethics: history was being made in secrecy here.

History just so happened to sound like the screams of electrocuted children and how the Ignis were created either. That wasn’t pretty, either. To see the melding of the organic and inorganic, created from the inside out and from top to bottom. It was all very disturbing and it all haunted Ryoken’s nightmares.

He was a child. What was he doing in that laboratory? What were any of them doing in that laboratory? Either him or the children they were experimenting on. His Father… His Father, Ryoken had come to accept, was not a good man and he was not a man that he had to obey anymore.

Perhaps the most important decree that his Father had made that Ryoken no longer had to adhere to anymore was his rit that the Ignis were to be destroyed.

The very creatures that he had violated ethics and ruined lives for, unsurprisingly from such origins it did seem like they would be bound for destruction. They would kill their very creators and wreak havoc on the world around them, causing armageddon or various other catastrophes that would end humanity.

Knowing that, it did seem noble to destroy what had been created but they had allies. They had people who fought for them and their true nature was revealed.

They were more like the children they had studied from, they just wanted to be hugged and loved and nurtured. Not put into little tanks with only themselves and agony. They wanted to grow up well, not remain stagnant or menial.

Ryoken could see now the bonds that the Origins and the Ignis had between each other. It was psychic. It was soulful. It was powerful and it was all consuming. He was just glad that, although it had taken more than ten years, they were finally at peace with themselves and humanity. Protected and sheltered in the network, flitting between here and their own Cyberse World. Caring not for the world at large, just for what was closest to them.

He got to see that most obviously in the platonic pair-bonds of Ai and Yusaku as well as Earth and Spectre.

He was their lover and the Ignis were their attachments.

Ryoken was never going to quite get it. Why they were so bonded and why it went so deep that when one was hurt, so was the other or what it was about this partnership which did not remain with the usual constraints of a defined relationship. He had no Ignis of his own. He had merely watched and he was going to continually watch but now, it brought a joy to his heart to see the recovery and the healing. That meant a lot to them all, himself and his Knights included.

Ai and Yusaku were of course the template. They were the tried and tested, put through everything and they came out the other side of it. Even death. They wanted to prove that the Ignis and the humans could get along and so, they were partners. They defied the digital fate of the simulations and they changed the world.

Or maybe just their world. Their little world which was always going to be tied back to the Lost Incident but it was the centrepoint for many important bonds. Even if they were, at times, painful.

Just look at Earth and Spectre.

Earth did not take kindly to learning that his Origin was a Knight of Hanoi and had been plotting his and his kin’s downfall. Spectre did not take kindly to the chance of being rejected. There was a hole in his heart, a tear in his cheek: both because of Earth. He simply could not risk that he would incur Earth’s wrath and there was some.

The Earth Ignis did not have a way with words but he did have a way with glares and stubbornness. Only softening up, like mud, when Ai managed to mould him into something a bit more open to the idea of change. As things had changed. It was no longer us versus them but unsurprisingly, the cuts ran deep. He was right to have a mistrust of humans given what he had been put through and his own Origin had not exactly filled him with sunshine and rainbows on that front either during the Incident.

It was hard to believe that such a fiend as Spectre had turned over a new leaf but he had. Ryoken would vouch for that. Although, his word was not trustworthy to Earth but eventually, he came around. He believed in the trustworthiness of Yusaku and if Yusaku said that only good things could come from concepts of reconciliation and the like, then he would give it a try.

With a little time, Earth and Spectre were able to cultivate a bond that just as deep and unique as the other Igis and Origin pairs, sewn in forgiveness and that made the others happy to see. Ai and Yusaku especially. It had taken a lot of work but it really did seem like peace in paradise, even beyond what Ryoken kept a close eye on with regard to Windy and hs Origin as well as Jin with Lightning.

He tried to look at it all but Ryoken did often find himself coming in closest to him, both physically and emotionally. He shouldn’t have favourites of the Incident and yet he did. It couldn’t be helped. Yusaku was the boy he had honeypotted beforehand and Spectre was the boy he had brought home afterwards.

They both wanted him and what was best for him. Though they disagreed on methods and morals, Ryoken could say that he liked where it had ended up. It had ended in the Kogami Mansion but no longer was it a mausoleum to his Father and his sins. It was now a place he enjoyed, where the colours on the walls were not solely because of the orange sunsets that it attracted or the blue nights and so on and so forth. But rather, because there was genuine joy in the household.

It all seemed impossible to Ryoken, and yet it was not and for that, he was thankful. He dreamed enough nightmares when he slept from what he had observed as a child, he did not need his life to be a waking hell either. Not anymore, not that Playmaker had finally unshackled him from being a prisoner of his past.

He would never have believed that he would be able to observe such domestic and idyllic bliss between his own right hand man and his previous arch-nemesis and yet. He did. He had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with them, cups of tea and coffee in between, and went to bed with them.

Best of all, Ryoken could see them in what was a highly unnatural habitat for them given their previous containment of being inside of little, white boxes but this, he so much more preferred. He liked to see them smile and bicker, to be happy and annoyed.

He liked to see them with their Ignis, too.

Ryoken liked to catch Yusaku and Ai out the corner of his eye. They liked to do schoolwork together and Ai often made Yusaku watch his soaps and Yusaku would be a good sport about it. He liked to overhear how Spectre and Earth made plans to garden, what was and was not in season and the like. It was much more heartening to him to be witness to this over the screams and sobbing.

Ryoken was never going to understand the specific bond between Ignis and Origin but at least he had the privilege of watching them in far more agreeable circumstances than where they had come from as children.

#multiamorymarch2023 #yugioh vrains #vrains #yugioh #fujiki yusaku #yusaku fujiki #kogami ryoken #ryoken kogami #spectre (vrains)#earth (vrains)#ai (vrains)#saviorshipping #motherearthshipping #aiballshipping #networkshipping #rockdustshipping #writing tag #This is where it all begins (right here on the outside looking in)

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millenniumdueled · 11 months

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Monsters. Technically there's more- synchro, xyz, link, pendulum.... but those are summint yoes. There's Psychic, Cyberse, and the newest Illusion type. Funny enough, the Illusion type features some of your old favorites.

oh!!!! oh, yup. i mean, i only kind of knew about it, but other me dueled someone who used xyz monsters... i think that's pretty cool!! for now, i'm going to keep using what my world is used to... i'd hate to accidentally use something that shouldn't exist yet, especially in a tournament or something? and i don't want to have too much of an advantage when they are introduced...

but i'm really looking forward to seeing how the game evolves!!

#answers

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shifuto · 5 months

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also the SOLtis height chart for funsies 👀

the Ignis are different heights, so it would make sense for their SOLtis bodies to reflect that! I know Aqua is the smallest, but so is Windy (although one might not notice that at first), and Earth is much larger than all others, so it would make sense for him to be the tallest

I think Flame, Ai and Lightning are all about the same size in their Ignis forms, but I think it would be fun for Lightning have that 1cm "advantage" over Ai and also for Flame to be the same height as Takeru, instead of taller

I might design all their SOLtis forms at some point, just for fun, but in my headcanons, Aqua, Windy and Earth remain as Ignis by choice (for Aqua it's more convenient to move around in Aoi's duel disk, or freely in Link Vrains/Cyberse World; and for Windy and Earth, they prefer to avoid humans, so they stick to Cyberse World instead)

the other three end up in romantic relationships with their originators, hence having a SOLtis form would be more convenient for them

#ygo #vrains #ygo vrains #shif writes

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blogchaindeveloper · 1 year

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How To Become Cybersecurity Expert: Scope, Skills, and Salary

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Salary Expectations for Cybersecurity Specialists

The salary of a cyber security specialist can vary based on factors such as location, experience, education, and certifications. However, the average salary in the United States is approximately $117,419 per year. Experienced professionals can command even higher earnings, while those with advanced degrees or certifications enjoy enhanced job prospects.

In conclusion, cyber security is a dynamic and rewarding field that offers a wide array of career opportunities. By understanding the role, acquiring the necessary skills and certifications, and exploring salary prospects, you can embark on a fulfilling journey to become a cybersecurity specialist. Online cyber security certification courses are readily available to help you gain knowledge and skills in modern information and system protection technologies. With dedication and the right tools, you can help safeguard the digital world from cyber threats and play a crucial role in our increasingly digital lives.

If you're interested in pursuing cyber security or blockchain security certifications with a focus on emerging technologies like blockchain, consider exploring the offerings provided by the Blockchain Council. The Blockchain Council is a respected consortium of subject matter experts and enthusiasts dedicated to advancing blockchain research and development, exploring use cases and products, and disseminating knowledge for a better world.

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