YU-GI-OH! POWER OF CHAOS
JOEY THE PASSION
Playing Tips
by Girl With Pigtail
zell_alwayz@yahoo.com
December 2009
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Introduction
2. Basic Tips
3. Junichi Tips
4. Last Words
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1. INTRODUCTION
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Foremost, this playing tips were meant for beginners on Yu-Gi-Oh! Power
of Chaos card game. Doesn't mean that advanced players can't use it
though. The tips given were those that I used oftenly when I'm still
new playing it and didn't have much strong cards, yet I also gave tips
for stronger cards incase you're dueling a pretty strong opponent that
strong cards can sometimes be useless.
There are three kinds of this guide. One is the one you're reading now
which is tips for Joey the Passion game. Other is tips for Yugi the
Destiny game and the last one is for Kaiba the Revenge game. You can
download the other two tips separately from www.neoseeker.com on each
game's respective FAQ pages.
In Basic Tips, I put tips that can be used on any games, meaning it
didn't matter who you fought. Either Yugi, Kaiba, Junichi (US Version:
Joey. Bleh.... Don't expect you'll see that name again here since I'll
further on use Junichi to refer him), or against one of your real-life
friends. In Junichi Tips, I put tips especially meant to use for
battling Junichi. In Yugi Tips I put tips for dueling Yugi and in Kaiba
Tips are tips to fought Kaiba.
So, that's about all for the introduction. Let's start with the tips.
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2. BASIC TIPS
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1. Tips for which character you should play first.
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If you're a beginner, I strongly recommended to play Yugi in the
Yugi the Destiny game first. I didn't mean to underestimate him, but
Yugi didn't use that much powerful cards and I believe he was meant
to be played by the beginners first, seeing the way Yugi played and
the cards available in his game, also the way his tutorial gave you
basic knowledge around cards and duels. After you feel you're strong
enough and Yugi is no longer a challenge for you, duel with Kaiba
in the Kaiba the Revenge game next after is my recommendation. Kaiba
is stronger than Yugi, in the Power of Chaos game only of course,
and in my opinion too of course. Playing Kaiba is a lot harder in
term of he had a lot bigger list of cards that can be used by the
both of you compared to the cards in Yugi's list. The last one I
suggested you to duel with is Junichi in Joey the Passion game. You
might say that Junichi was the weakest of three in the original
story of Yu-Gi-Oh!, but in Power of Chaos he's not a hard opponent,
he's an ANNOYING opponent. Remember how Junichi had the habbit of
'gambling' by using a LOT of spell and trap cards on the original
story? Well, he did it again in Power of Chaos. That's why he's
annoying to fought with and recommended to be last. Also, unlike
Yugi the Destiny and Kaiba the Revenge games, Joey the Passion offer
different types of difficulty under his Options page. You can set
Junichi to use his own normal deck or let him use all Power of Chaos
cards just like you're allowed to use all the cards you've collected
during your plays against Yugi and Kaiba, which if you choose to
enable this option it will make Junichi even more annoying to duel
with. Still in the Options, you can also choose to let the both of
you use Forbidden Cards or not. I think Konami also meant for you to
play Power of Chaos in this order of Yugi-Kaiba-Junichi since Yugi
and Kaiba got tutorials while Junichi not.
2. Tips for amount of number on your main deck.
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Remember that there is a limit of 40 cards minimum and 80 cards
maximum. If you're a beginner, feel free to use the max number to
strengthen your deck. But remember that quantity isn't always better
than quality. After you feel your deck is strong enough, try dueling
someone using the min number to test your skill on playing and on
deck construction. Note that Yugi and Kaiba will always use 40 cards
in their deck no matter how much cards you place in your deck, while
Junichi sometimes added between 1-10 additional cards if you have
more than 40 cards on your deck but will go back using 40 if you
also use 40. If you're dueling a friend, you can try made a rule
with him/her about how many cards allowed in each decks.
3. Tips for monsters in your main deck.
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Some of you are an attacker type meaning you'll most probably put a
lot of monsters with big ATK number in your deck and some of you are
a defensive type meaning you prefer to put a lot of monsters with
big DEF number in your deck. But to my opinion, the best deck to use
against Yugi, Kaiba and Junichi is a deck consisted a balanced
amount between monsters that were meant to attack and monsters meant
to defend. Don't put monsters with 5 stars and above too much in
your deck. You can only summon them if you have tribute and you
can't tribute if you don't have a monster to be placed in your
field. Carefully place flip effect monsters in your deck, making
sure they'll do good more to you than to your opponent. Once you
have it, I suggest to place these cards in your deck:
a. Some Giant Soldier of Stone, Mystical Elf and other monsters with
2000 DEF with 4 stars or lower as your normal defensive monsters.
b. Some Neo the Magic Swordsman or other monsters with 1700 ATK or
more with 4 stars or lower as your normal attacking monsters.
c. One or two Summoned Skull. It's a monster with 2500 ATK and only
need one tribute to summon it so it's a pretty good monster to
have. Between all cards that are 5-6 stars, this card is the best
for you to use as an attacking monster.
d. One or two Labyrinth Wall or Millenium Shield. They are monsters
with 3000 DEF and only need one tribute to set in the field. The
best thing about these cards that as long there's no Equip card
on Blue-Eyes White Dragon, not even the mighty Blue-Eyes can
destroy it. It's your best defensive monster.
e. A Cyber Jar is strongly recommended as one of your flip effect
monsters. It'll destroy all cards on field and you can place and
draw new cards from your deck. It's very useful if you're dueling
a strong monster you can't destroy.
4. Tips for spells in your main deck.
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A lotta spell cards can be useful while some can be useless for you.
See the monsters you have in your deck and decide what kind of spell
cards you think will be helpful for them. Spell cards like Change of
Heart, Dark Hole, Harpie's Feather Duster, Monster Reborn, Pot of
Greed and Swords of Revealing Light were proven to be very useful
anytime. Put some of them in your deck once you have them.
5. Tips for traps in your main deck.
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Once you have it, ALWAYS have Mirror Force, Trap Hole, Waboku and
Negate Attack in your deck. There are a lot more trap cards can be
used, depending on the type of monsters and spells cards you got in
your deck, but the ones I've mentioned above were useful anytime.
Also put Fake Trap to protect your traps if you want to. Magic
Jammer can also be useful to prevent opponent using a spell card,
but remember that you need to have a card in your hand to be
discarded to the graveyard if you want to activate Magic Jammer.
6. Tips for Side Deck.
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Side Deck is the deck consisted of max 15 cards under your main deck
that you can use as cards exchange during Match Duel. I actually
never use the Side Deck since I never wanted to change the main deck
even in a Match. But should you need to, I recommend putting some
monsters with effect and some spells or traps.
7. Tips for Fusion Deck.
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I rarely use the Fusion Deck but it's good to have if you want to.
Junichi once beat me using FIVE fusion monsters thanks to his Fusion
Gate activated and all of his fusion cards are at hand. A battle I
hate to remember. Try placing a pretty strong fusion monsters like
Gaia the Dragon Champion, Skull Knight, Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon
or even Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon once you have it. Monsters with
ATK lower than these cards are not recommended since it'll be pretty
much useless in a duel. Also, I suggest you don't put the monsters
that become the 'ingredient' of a fusion monster in your battle
field. Just keep them in your hand until you got Polymerization or
Fusion Gate activated.
8. Tips for rock-paper-scissor.
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There's no fix rule about what will the computer choose, but you can
try using scissor first since I found the computer like to choose
paper for about 50% of the times. If you won, I recommend to choose
to go first, but you can choose to go second if you wanted to see
your opponent's moves first. But I STRONGLY suggest to go first if
facing Junichi. Like I've said before, dueling him is annoying and
going second will only make it worse. Trust me.
9. Tips for placing monsters in the Monster Card Zone.
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If I had a monster with a big DEF at hand, I'll always place that
card face down first before anything. It's best to defend yourself
first, in my thought. If you wanted to summon a strong monster in
face up position so you can attack, take a look first at opponent's
spell/trap zone. If there's a card there, you might want to use a
spell card to destroy it first before summoning. Or if you don't
have a spell card, summon a weaker monster first so if it's a Trap
Hole or Mirror Force, at least it's not your stronger monster that
was destroyed by opponent's trap.
10. Tips for setting spells and/or traps in the Spell/Trap Card Zone.
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ALWAYS place one trap/spell at a time, unless you have a Fake Trap
or Magic Jammer to prevent your opponent from destroying the trap/
spell cards. You can place a lot of trap/spell at a time if you're
sure that your opponent didn't have or have used up all of his/her
Heavy Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Mystical Space Typhoon or
Nobleman of Extermination.
11. Tips for summoning tribute monsters.
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The best monster to be used as a tribute, in my opinion, is your
defensive monsters. Tribute an attacking monster if the monster got
low ATK or if you summon it just to activate its effect like Sonic
Bird or Senju of the Thousand Hands, or if there's no other cards
in your field. If there's a card or more in your opponent's
spell/trap card zone, if you can, destroy one or more of them first
before summoning a 5 stars or more monsters.
12. Tips for activating spells and/or traps.
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Activate traps like Time Seal or Jar of Greed and suchs once your
opponent is between his/her Draw and Standby Phase (you'll be
prompted the question of "Do you wish to activate a trap or quick
spell card?"). It'll prevent him/her to do anything toward your
trap card's effect. If there's a trap card or more in your
opponent's zone and you want to activate one or more spell cards,
activate your spell card that you think as least useful first,
incase one of the trap cards in your opponent's zone is a Magic
Jammer or Imperial Order. If you have a strong DEF monster such as
Mystical Elf in defense position and your opponent summoned Neo the
Magic Swordsman or other monsters with ATK lower than your
monster's DEF, don't activate your Trap Hole. Let him/her attack.
But if you have a strong monster like Vorse Raider in attack
position and your opponent summoned a monster with lower ATK such
as Maha Vailo or something, also in attacking position, I suggest
you activate Trap Hole since most probably your opponent will
activate one or more equip card to increase his/her monster's ATK
power.
13. Tips to play Yugi, Kaiba and Junichi a little bit easier.
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Well, I've posted some of these in NeoSeeker's cheat section but
incase you missed it.
a. Do you know that you can activate some of your opponent's trap
card? The only condition to do this is for you to have at least
one of below trap cards placed face down in your field.
1. Waboku
2. Robbin' Goblin
3. Spellbinding Circle
4. Crush Card (only if you have a Dark monster with ATK 1000 or
lower placed on your field)
5. Acid Trap Hole (only if you or your opponent have a face down
monster)
The traps on your opponent's field that can be activated by YOU
are:
1. Crush Card (only if there's a Dark monster with ATK 1000 or
lower face up on Kaiba/Junichi's field. Yugi didn't have this
trap card in his card list)
2. Spellbinding Circle (only if there's at least one monster on
your field)
3. Two Pronged Attack (only if there are at least two monsters
on Yugi/Kaiba/Junichi's field and at least one monster on
your field)
4. Castle Walls (only if there's at least one monster face up on
Kaiba/Junichi's field. Yugi didn't have this trap card in his
card list)
5. Reinforcements (only if there's at least one monster face up
on Yugi/Kaiba/Junichi's field)
6. Metalmorph (only if there's at least one monster face up on
Kaiba/Junichi's field. Yugi didn't have this trap card in his
card list)
Now, how to activate it? Well, you'll be prompted the question
of "Do you want to activate a trap or quick spell card?" if you
have one of the trap cards I've listed previously on your field
in face down position. Select "Yes" even if you don't want to
activate them. After selecting "Yes", don't activate your trap
card, instead hover your mouse above Yugi/Kaiba/Junichi's trap
cards. If the cards I've listed above is there, there will be
the word "Activate!" show up. Well, this is when you decide to
activate it or not. This can sometimes help you, for instances:
1. The monster(s) in your field is on defense position, none of
them are in attack position. If you activate your opponent's
Spellbinding Circle, then he'll be forced to choose one of
your defending monster. You can freely summon an attacking
monster without the Spellbinding Circle that can stop it from
attacking.
2. You have more than one monster in your field and you want to
summon a pretty strong monster. If you activate Two Pronged
Attack first before summoning, your opponent will be forced
to destroy two of his monsters and one of your monster that
was already on field. Then you can summon the strong monster
without worrying the Two Pronged Attack will destroy it.
3. If your opponent got some pretty weak monster(s) face up on
his field, activating his Castle Walls, Reinforcements and
Metalmorph will be helpful to prevent him from equipping it
on stronger monsters.
However, if it turned out to be Crush Card that you activated,
it can be pretty stressful due to the fact that you'll lost all
your monsters with ATK 1500 and above to the graveyard for
the next three turns. But if you have Monster Reborn and/or
Premature Burial on hand, Crush Card will be helpful to summon a
5 stars or more monsters without tribute. Crush Card WILL NOT
destroy monster(s) that were Special Summoned after its
activation.
b. Relinquished is a good Ritual monster to have in your deck. This
monster need Black Illusion Ritual spell card and one tribute
monster only. It's better than any other Ritual monster cards
that usually needed a lot of monsters to be tributed and didn't
have ATK or DEF around or a bit above 2500, while Relinquished
have no limit of how much ATK/DEF it can had so it's the best
Ritual monster you can have. At first Relinquished only have 0
ATK and DEF but you can activate its effect to absorb a monster
on your opponent's field (absorbing a face down monster will
resulted Relinquished's ATK/DEF to stay 0) and Relinquished will
have the EXACT ATK and DEF as the monster it absorbed. Absorb a
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Kaiba will be sorry he ever
summoned it XD. What will happen to the absorbed monster? It
will be Relinquished's equip card. It's a good way to have a
strong monster and eliminate your opponent's strong monster
altogether. Also, if your opponent try to attack Relinquished,
the equipped monster card will be the one destroyed instead of
Relinquished and the damage you received will also be received
by your opponent. And, if your opponent have a stronger card on
his field and didn't attack Relinquished due to it's effect, try
attacking the monster. Of course you'll lost and your equipped
monster on Relinquished will be destroyed, but on Main Phase 2
you can activate Relinquished's effect once more to absorb the
stronger monster thanks to the fact that Relinquished's effect
can be activated on any Main Phase as long as there's no monster
equipped by it. Don't you just love Relinquished? ^^a However,
there's one draw back on Relinquished which is its 0 ATK/DEF. If
there are two or more monsters on your opponent's field with ATK
higher than Relinquished's absorbed monster, it will destroy the
equipped monster and destroy Relinquished too. I usually have
some Waboku or Negate Attack handy to prevent this by letting
one of the strong monsters destroyed Relinquished's equipped
monster then activated Waboku or Negate Attack when the second
strong monster tried to destroy the naked Relinquished. On my
next turn, voila, absorb the strongest monster on the field and
fire away!
c. Once you have it, ALWAYS place one or more Wall of Illusion on
your deck. This card had an effect of returning any monster
attacking it to the owner's hand. It has a DEF of 1850 also so
non-tribute monsters like Vorse Raider and Gemini Elf with ATK
of 1900 are the only ones that can destroy it. Summon Wall of
Illusion ONLY if your opponent had a strong tribute or fusion
monster on his field. If your opponent's tribute or fusion
monster attacked Wall of Illusion, it's returned and if there's
no monster to be tributed or fusioned, you won't see that
monster again for a while. Pretty helpful.
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3. JUNICHI TIPS
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1. The first thing for you to consider before battling Junichi is the
difficulty level. If you're not sure that you're strong enough to
face him at his max power, on his Options page choose to let Junichi
use his own deck instead of Full Power of Chaos deck. This way,
he'll have lesser strong cards to use. You'll see him using all the
cards he normally used in the manga/anime. But when you think you've
had enough of the 'easy Junichi' then let him use Full Power of
Chaos deck instead of his own deck. This is when Junichi will be a
royal pain in the neck for you. I don't recommend a Match until
you're used with his playing pattern in a Single. Learn Junichi's
moves before taking him on difficult duels.
2. Like what I've mentioned before, dueling Junichi is pretty much very
annoying due to his spells and traps, so the first thing I suggest
is to make sure you ALWAYS have Harpie's Feather Duster, Heavy
Storm, Mystical Space Typhoon or Nobleman of Extermination in your
deck. You might don't place them much when battling Yugi or Kaiba,
but for Junichi, they are your life saviour. I always have at least
one of each.
3. If you can spare it, place Seven Tools of the Bandit in your deck to
prevent Junichi's trap activation with the cost of your 1000 LP. Or
you can also use Royal Decree to negate ALL trap cards on field. But
that means your traps will not be working either. Think carefully.
4. To prevent Junichi's spell card activation, having traps like Magic
Jammer or Imperial Order will be useful. The drawback is both of
these cards will cost you. Magic Jammer will cost you a card in hand
to be discarded to the graveyard and Imperial Order will take away
your 700 LP on each turn it stayed activated. Or you can copy
Junichi's act to activate Imperial Order to prevent your spell card
activation and on his next turn he'll destroy Imperial Order by not
offering 700 LP to keep it stay in field. I did that once and it's
pretty good.
5. If you let him use Full Power of Chaos cards, Junichi's deck will
be consisted of a wide variety of cards which is tons of spells,
traps and effect monsters. These are the tips for some decks of his:
a. If you see a lot of fusion ingredient monsters or fusion
subsitute monsters on his field, meaning he'll place Fusion Gate
one or two on his deck and if you don't keep a spell remover card
handy to destroy Fusion Gate, you probably end up losing by his
fusion monsters. If you're counting on fusion monsters also, then
this could be your advantage to use his Fusion Gate field card to
summon your fusion monsters. The most common fusion monsters he
used were B. Skull Dragon, St. Joan, and Twin-Headed Thunder
Dragon, so prepare stronger fusion monsters to counter these
cards. Or use The Last Warrior from Another Planet if you dare.
b. If you see a lot of Aqua/Fish monsters on his field, Junichi will
most probably have a combo of Umi field spell card, The Legendary
Fisherman, and Tornado Wall. Legendary Fisherman then will be an
annoying monster to deal with and Tornado Wall will get you
nowhere. If you're not using Aqua/Fish monsters, destroy Umi
immediately.
c. If you see a lot of Insect monsters on his field, it gets even
more annoying. He'll have a combo of Perfectly Ultimate Great
Moth, Insect Queen, DNA Surgery, and Forest field spell card. I
found this combo to be very annoying since Junichi will use
Forest to increase Insect monsters ATK and DEF, then activated
DNA Surgery to change ALL face up monsters' type into Insect and
increase Insect Queen's strength to double of double of double,
plus Insect Queen's... eggs or something that will add its ATK
even more! If you see him using DNA Surgery to change every
monsters into Insect, destroy it or beat him as fast as you can.
If he's using DNA Surgery to change monsters into Warrior type,
he don't have Insect Queen on hand and you'll probably be okay.
If you're also an Insect cards user, it'll probably an advantage
for you. I'm not sure since I'm a Dark monster player like Yugi
and no one I know are using Insect deck.
d. If Junichi's using a lot of Fairy monsters, it's not too hard.
He'll probably have Luminous Spark, Hoshiningen and tons of Light
monsters. It's a decent combo that'll need you be weary.
e. Also there's a combo of Rocket Warrior and those three Magnet
Warriors (Alpha, Beta, Gamma), which could be dangerous if Rocket
Warrior have a stronger monster on it side. I suggest destroy
Rocket Warrior first.
f. It's easy if Junichi's using a lot of effect monsters. Not as
easy as I said it, but at least not as painful for you. He'll
usually have all three copies of Giant Germ, Bubonic Vermin,
Nimble Momonga, and Revival Jam on his deck.
6. One trap card that could be annoying to deal with is Junichi's Fairy
Box. He ALWAYS have this trap no matter what deck he used. I usually
didn't attack any of his monster if this trap was activated. If
there's no monster to attack, I will try to attack Junichi's LP tho.
I strongly recommend to destry Fairy Box immediately.
7. A spell card you should be cautious of is Scapegoat. Junichi LOVED
to place one or more of this on EVERY deck he used. It's annoying
if you have to destroy each one of those four Beast Token one by
one.
8. Junichi also ALWAYS have Graceful Dice and Skull Dice on his deck.
Just beware.
9. He didn't have the habbit of using Card Destruction so maybe you
could use Exodia against him. But he sometimes placed Morphing Jar
so it's a bit risky too.
10. Relinquished may or may not be helpful when dueling Junichi. He's
not much of a power player in term not all of his monsters are big
ATK monsters like Kaiba's (Junichi is a gambler, keep that in mind,
so his best arsenals are his spells, traps and effect monsters).
Just plan carefully if you wanted to have Relinquished in your
deck.
11. You'll get a star on the Duel Mode page each time you level up your
skill by defeating Junichi on a duel. The stars not only represent
your strength, but also Junichi's. As you have increased in power,
so will he. He'll be harder and smarter to duel with so expect a
long battle once you're over five stars.
12. You can play with your friends on Junichi the Passion, I mean, on
Joey the Passion game. Remember this if you wanted to test your
skill against a real human. Just go to Duel Mode page and select 2-
Player Duel.
13. Junichi is a nice person, we know that in Yu-Gi-Oh! original manga
and anime. And he's being his nice self again in Power of Chaos. If
after winning a duel against him you received card(s) that you
already have on your inventory, Junichi will ask if you want to
draw another card(s). If you say "Yes" then the previous card(s)
will be returned to him and you get another card(s). If you say
"No" then you can keep the previous cards. The reason you might
want to say "Yes" is if you're trying to complete your Card List or
if the card(s) you received are the one(s) you don't like. I think
the reason he offered to change was because he wanted you to have a
complete cards collection. He's just really nice.
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4. LAST WORDS
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Dueling Junichi will annoy you a lot if you're a beginner, so I really
don't recommend him to be played by beginners. Like playing Kaiba, you
should be very careful and just take it slow when facing Junichi. He is
the one that will really test your skills on deck construction and card
using on a duel.
Thanks for reading, hopefully it'll be useful for you. If there's
anything you can add to this tips, please feel free to e-mail me at
zell_alwayz@yahoo.com with "Joey the Passion Tips" as the subject line
(sorry, but I'll ignore other subject). Feel free to print it for your
personal use. You can also use this tips in your own guide or put it in
your website, as long you didn't change anytn in it and give me, as the
author, the proper credit. Obviously, I will be happy if you let me
know by e-mail first, but I won't mind no e-mail as long you properly
credited me. Oh, and DON'T MAKE MONEY OUT OF IT!!
This guide is created by Girl With Pigtail (that's me!) at December
2008, copyrighted to me of course. Find this tips and my other guides
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