WE WILL KILL YOU

This is an odd deck which I find hard to analyse. My gut reaction is that it can't quite afford to do everything it wants to do. I guess it plays one biggish remote and throws out some naked remotes with PAD, contracts and traps.

Playing against Jinteki is hard. Whatever the corp, you want to make early runs to force them to rez ICE, but with Jinteki you're liable to be punished with net damage. Nonetheless, you can't afford to be timid about the early game. If you don't run the corp keeps all the money they saved to rez ICE. Rich corps are bad news.

Here's a three step plan that's harder to follow than it is to say: 1/ Play your important cards (your breakers + key combo cards) 2/ draw to five 3/ Run!

Note that playing your programs before running vs. unknown ICE is the opposite of what you do against most corps. You're more scared of having your cards discarded from hand by Neural Katana than trashed from play by Grim.

As is usually the case, having a killer installed is a priority. Sentries are the most likely ICE type to seriously hurt you. Once you're able to break sentries, the world becomes a much less scary place and you can happily drain the corp's funds by running centrals and forcing them to rez ICE.

This deck is an object lesson in why you shouldn't run last click. It's splashed more than half it's influence on scorched earth, but provided you always clear tags before the end of the turn those Scorches are dead cards.

You can put a lot of pressure on this deck (and most jinteki decks) by hitting R&D every turn. You have to be prepared to hit Snare! of course, but if you can skim agendas before they're even drawn then it's game over. Traps and assets make R&D vulnerable to repeated runs, because you can trash them and run again to see a new card.HQ might also be a good target if the corp isn't throwing out a load of remotes.

Sometimes you should run remotes on principal - to stop the corp bluffing through agendas - but you should always run prepared for the worst, as if every unadvanced, naked remote is a Snare! Of course the moment the corp's money dips below three it's open season for running. 'Turning off' Snare!s by making the corp spend creds is a big deal. You should try not to squander the window afforded by a corp's money going low.

Thanks!!! I know this is kind of weird not telling how to improve it but how to beat it. What identity and archetype would you suggest?

I don't think it's weird to want advice running against Jinteki. As a faction they're known for punishing unskilled runners. Although I'm often pretty opinionated, I'm not an expert myself, but I think my advice above is pretty uncontroversial.

Choosing an archetype to beat a single deck is kind of anathema to me. I like to build decks with the idea that they could come across anything. There are, however, a couple of decks that this corp doesn't like to see. One obvious problem is Whizzard. Whizzard is odd because his power is sometimes worthless, but against decks that play assets in naked remotes he's really upsetting. The classic Andy/Gabe deck that hammers account siphon and parasite probably also has no issue with this. Komainu in particular is really bad against parasite. Shapers have Deus Ex, which neuters scary net damage. You only need one - SModcode and clone chip do the rest.

Ok im probably going to go with a gabe deck.