Talk:Tournament of Dragons/@comment-121.215.145.190-20130723135321/@comment-13020706-20130724010458

DEF is irrelevant when you're attacking and ATK is irrelevant when you're defending.

The guy with 185k attack for his DEF deck might be using very lopsided ATK cards as DEF cards. This tends to overstate his DEF because only the ATK value of an opponent's DEF deck is revealed.

The guy with 150k - 160k attack in his DEF deck is probably using very DEF intensive cards. In other words, he is using the right cards for DEF. Since the cards he uses has relatively low ATK in comparison to DEF, he has fooled you into thinking his DEF value is quite low.

And skill triggers are also probably a factor too. But mostly it is to do with using the proper cards for ATK and DEF.