# Best performing monometal?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [January 6, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058 "2019-01-06T00:39:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@zslane](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zslane)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/165 "2019-03-25T17:53:39Z")
I think it is odd that 2sick has two yoyos basically named the same thing. _Fianchetto_ is Italian for “flank attack”.
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### Author:  [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/166 "2019-03-25T18:18:57Z")
They may have the same translative meaning, but they are two distinct chess terms.
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### Author:  [@zslane](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zslane)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/167 "2019-03-25T18:22:41Z")
So you’re saying that the Flank is named after the corner areas of the board, while the Fianchetto is named for the bishop placement in those areas?
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### Author:  [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/168 "2019-03-25T18:54:35Z")
Right, a Flank attack is a type of attack where White attempts to control the center with pieces from the sides of the board rather than with pawns in the center. Fiancetto, refers to the specific move of placing the Bishop in the square in front if the Knights home square.
So a Fianchettoed Bishop could definitely be part of a Flank attack, but not necessarily.
At least that’s my understanding…
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### Author:  [@zslane](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zslane)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/169 "2019-03-25T18:58:25Z")
> [@Myk\_Myk](#):
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> So a Fianchettoed Bishop could definitely be part of a Flank attack, but not necessarily.
The fianchettoed bishop is so integrally associated with flank attacks that the two are virtually synonymous in common chess parlance. I guess I’m the only one who sees a conspicuous degree of overlap there. 🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/170 "2019-03-25T19:02:43Z")
May be best to say Fiancettoing the Bishop is a specific move, whereas a Flank Attack is a type of opening?
Anyway, they are not considered synonymous in Chess terminology, but I guess there is overlap.
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### Author:  [@Applepooh](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Applepooh)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/171 "2019-03-25T19:08:48Z")
Not sure if it’s been mentioned yet, but the G2 Reaper is one bada$$ playing monometal.
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### Author:  [@excesspeople](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/excesspeople)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/172 "2019-03-27T13:56:12Z")
The CLYW Compass, it can handle anything the VTwo can plus it has a hub that’s great for fingerspins. Swap out the responsive snow tires and it can handle even longer tech tricks.
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### Author:  [@AngryGumball](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AngryGumball)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/173 "2019-03-28T04:16:24Z")
If you’re going on budget, the Yoyofficer Yacare is a monster…excellent throw!
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### Author:  [@Mazdarx7FD](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mazdarx7FD)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/174 "2019-03-28T04:34:03Z")
Hmm, there is a monometal in my hand right now that might be the one :wink:
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### Author:  [@EthanV](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EthanV)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/175 "2019-03-28T04:37:33Z")
Saw it in the stream early morning 🙂
I was literally almost late on my graduation day too
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### Author:  [@noodles](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/noodles)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/176 "2019-03-28T10:30:09Z")
kuntösh cannot be dissagreed with
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/177 "2019-03-28T10:42:33Z")
# ö
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### Author:  [@noodles](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/noodles)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/178 "2019-03-28T10:46:54Z")
öôps
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### Author:  [@Imdavid122](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Imdavid122)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/179 "2019-03-28T21:28:14Z")
Yeet
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### Author:  [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/180 "2019-03-28T21:52:24Z")
What does that even mean?
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### Author:  [@eternalmetal](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/eternalmetal)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/181 "2019-03-28T23:10:29Z")
Best definition ive been able to muster is that it is the opposite of “yoink”, so it’s kind of like throwing something. Its a meme based on a video where some chick takes her empty can of soda, yells “yeet”, and chucks it into a crowd of people. Kids are now saying it to mean almost anything.
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### Author:  [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/182 "2019-03-28T23:11:10Z")
Yeet 🤘
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### Author:  [@zslane](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zslane)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/183 "2019-03-28T23:15:04Z")
Memes are precisely why I don’t expect to be able to communicate with the next generation.
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### Author:  [@eternalmetal](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/eternalmetal)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/best-performing-monometal/297058/184 "2019-03-28T23:25:52Z")
Honestly it reminds me of back when I was a kid pre-internet and people said the same things about “ghetto” speak. But instead of being just a regional thing, it is straight up generational via social media bubbles. Im slowly becoming old and curmudgeonly because im gradually starting to hate all of the new meme words that come out.
Like, I feel kind of like these guys look if I were to ever try and level with Gen Z dialect
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTqTRLiCjFY)
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