Thread:XXX exmachina XXX/@comment-16107481-20180122155855/@comment-34398808-20180122163732

I figured go with Pendulum because Pendulums play the duality role of power and support. They can add oomph from a different point of view, depending of what it is you feel is needed at the time. Synchros are basically sticks in the mud nowadays. They have no immediate advantage, or whatever advantage they do produce is offset severely by the cost of bringing them out. On average, you need to do a -2 to yourself to bring one out, and if it has a beneficial Effect upon being Summoned, it only shrinks the deficit to -1. A Synchro that becomes a 1 - 4 - 1 upon being Summoned would be considered too powerful, even with this age of hyperspeed Link Summoning, which only furthers my choice of using Pendulums.

As to the streamlining, yeah, it may be streamlined to hell and back, but it's better than an Archetype that does too many things at once and gets lost in its own strategy without actually accomplishing much.