At YCS Atlanta in 2016, 29 of the decks in the top 32 were PePe, and it was only with the emergency banlist that made forbidden the use of Plushfire and Tellarknight Ptolemaeus, alongside the limiting of Monkeyboard, that the deck was pulled back down to Earth
Usually, your play puts another powerful monster on the field next to your boss monster, which is the Guardian Chimera that has the effects of drawing cards from your deck and destroying cards on your opponent's field
Not only is this a powerful effect, but it doesn't target or destroy either
Link Generation does have some more tanky cards, like Suppression Collider , but by and large Link Generation offers by far the least offensively compared to the other two options
It recurs itself so its okay at 1