The match up is never a slam dunk though and they very much can give you trouble regardless. Turns out resolving an early relm is always scary.

It depends on the monsters variant. Mono water and water lightning are favorable for the most part, even without cloud, but fire water isn't great. The access to amaterasu is huge for them. Cloud does help by slowing them down and making you a bit less reliant on lb totto, though.

The Monsters match-up appears pretty bad from my results here, but that is not exactly the case. Those games were, unfortunately, where my deck kind of decided to brick a bit and with the amount of pressure they can generate quickly it's not a match-up where you can stumble a lot.