Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links: How to Summon Wake Up Your Elemental HERO

To Fusion Summon Wake Up Your Elemental HERO in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, you must fuse one "Elemental HERO" Fusion Monster and at least one Warrior monster. Because Speed Duels use a three-zone field layout, the standard strategy uses Elemental HERO Sunrise to search Miracle Fusion, banishing the required materials directly from your Graveyard rather than sacrificing your active field presence.

Material Requirements

Wake Up Your Elemental HERO can only enter the field via Fusion Summon and requires two distinct categories of materials:

• Primary Fusion Material (1 required): Must explicitly be an "Elemental HERO" Fusion Monster. Common eligible targets include Elemental HERO Sunrise, Elemental HERO Brave Neos, Elemental HERO Flame Wingman, and Elemental HERO Great Tornado.
• Secondary Materials (1 or more required): Any Warrior-type monsters. Main deck staples qualify from the hand, field, or Graveyard, including Elemental HERO Stratos, Elemental HERO Liquid Soldier, Elemental HERO Shadow Mist, Vision HERO Faris, and Vision HERO Vyon.

Step-by-Step Miracle Fusion Combo

You can establish the required Graveyard materials and search your Fusion Spell in a single turn using standard HERO combo lines:

1. Start the Vision HERO Engine: Discard a HERO monster to Special Summon Vision HERO Faris from your hand. Place Vision HERO Increase into your Spell and Trap Zone. Tribute Faris to Special Summon Increase, then use Increase's effect to Special Summon Vision HERO Vyon from the Deck.
2. Set Up the Graveyard: Use Vyon to send Elemental HERO Shadow Mist from your Deck to the Graveyard, triggering Shadow Mist to add Elemental HERO Liquid Soldier to your hand. Banish Faris from your Graveyard with Vyon to add Polymerization to your hand.
3. Summon Elemental HERO Sunrise: Activate Polymerization, fusing Liquid Soldier with Vyon or Increase. Sunrise triggers on summon to add Miracle Fusion from your Deck to your hand, while Liquid Soldier allows you to draw two cards and discard one.
4. Activate Miracle Fusion: Cast Miracle Fusion to banish Sunrise from your field (or an Elemental HERO Fusion Monster already in your Graveyard) alongside one or more Graveyard Warriors to Fusion Summon Wake Up Your Elemental HERO.

Combat Scaling and Burn Damage

Wake Up Your Elemental HERO has a base statline of 2500 ATK and 2100 DEF. It gains 300 ATK for every Fusion Material used in its summon, and it can attack opposing monsters during each Battle Phase up to that same material count.

After damage calculation when battling an opposing monster, Wake Up Your Elemental HERO destroys that monster and inflicts effect damage equal to its original ATK.

Floating Targets and Matchup Limitations

If a face-up, Fusion Summoned Wake Up Your Elemental HERO is destroyed by battle or card effect, its secondary trigger activates to Special Summon any Warrior monster directly from your hand or Deck.

• Destiny HERO - Plasma: Summon to negate all face-up monster effects controlled by your opponent.
• Elemental HERO Stratos: Summon to search another HERO monster for your next turn or destroy opposing backrow.
• Elemental HERO Shadow Mist: Summon to add Mask Change to your hand for quick-play disruption.
• Elemental HERO Liquid Soldier: Summon to leave a monster body on the field for follow-up plays.

Counterplay and Vulnerabilities

• Effect Negation: Cards such as Effect Veiler or Breakthrough Skill reduce its ATK to the base 2500 and disable both its multiple attacks and its post-battle burn effect.
• Non-Destruction Removal: Effects that return monsters to the hand or banish them (such as Compulsory Evacuation Device or Ice Dragon's Prison) remove Wake Up Your Elemental HERO without triggering its floating effect.
• Direct Attacks: Wake Up's multi-attack and burn triggers only apply when battling monsters; it can only attack once directly if the opponent's field is empty.