Shaolin

Shaolin is an Archetype focused on themselves; Most Shaolin monsters are Warrior-type LIGHT monsters, with some exceptions: Shaolin Statue and Shaolin Dragon are Rock and Dragon-type monsters, respectively, and Shaolin Bird and Shaolin Dark Dragon are WIND and DARK monsters, respectively.

Playing Style
As mentioned above, the Shaolin cards focus on themselves. In other words, they need to be used together, either to be Summoned, to activate an effect and even actually have ATK and DEF points. This is their biggest weakness: Alone, most Shaolin cards are weak and even useless. In addition they have two other weakness:


 * 1) Most Shaolin monsters are level 5 or higher. You will need enough monsters to tribute. Thankfully, some Shaolin cards can Special Summon Shaolin monsters. Also, there is a Shaolin monster that can counter this weakness.
 * 2) As mentioned above, most Shaolin monsters are LIGHT Warrior-type monsters. If your opponent has Anti-LIGHT and Anti-Warrior support cards, you must be prepared to deal with these cards. Thankfully, as mentioned above, not all Shaolin monsters are LIGHT and/or Warrior-type monsters.

However the advantages of using Shaolin monsters is that in most times they have high ATK and DEF, and great effects that may help you to quickly win the duel, provided that you have enough Shaolin cards in your deck.

Trivia

 * The Shaolin cards are based off and named after Chinese-related things, animals, people and even stereotypes.