Link-climbing with Hiita
It's your turn, you start setting up your board, and your opponent decides it's time for an Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring. That sucks!
Fortunately, if you can manage to get 2 monsters on the board, you can recover, thanks to Hiita the Fire Charmer, Ablaze.
When to perform this pattern
Generally you only want to do this if you get interrupted in such a way that your usual combos can't be performed anymore.
If you can continue the combo, it might be worth continuing as-is in order to avoid over-extending, although having the extra material from Hiita does make things easier.
Requirements
- 2 monsters, at least 1 FIRE
- A FIRE monster in your opponent's GY
Steps
- Link Summon Hiita the Fire Charmer, Ablaze using 2 FIRE monsters.
- Activate Hiita's effect to Special Summon the FIRE monster in your opponent's GY to your side of the field.
- Link Summon Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames using Hiita and the stolen monster.
- Activate Princess's effect to revive a FIRE monster from your GY.
- Link Summon Amphibious Swarmship Amblowhale using Princess and the revived monster.
Outcomes
You can still end on Amblowhale while getting interrupted by an Ash Blossom, although it does lead to a weaker endboard (no Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf recycling, no I:P Masquerena in the GY to revive later).
About Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy
You can do the same thing with [Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy], if your opponent has a DARK monster in their GY, and one of your monsters is Ponix. You Link Summon Relinquished Anima using Ponix, before continuing the pattern.
Because there aren't too many DARK handtraps going around, this is usually something you get to do going second, against decks that play DARK monsters.
Still, it's worth experimenting with Dharc to see if it's a good fit against the current meta.