25 AWESOME RITUAL SUMMONS! (YGO Anime) 

I love how when a person ritual summons, the other duelists and side characters react like “A ritual monster!?” Like even they forgot about them.

Let's face it, if Alexis was the protagonist in GX instead of Jayden, we'd have had an entire series of ritual summons instead of fusions.

Alexis Rhodes by far is the best duelist with a ritual summon deck. Too bad the writers cared about her as much as Konami cared about the ritual summon mechanic.

Jesus, Kaiba summoning Chaos MAX Dragon subbed was fucking intense. Rituals really deserve more love

Having a main character who only specializes in ritual summoning would be pretty cool

We're here for this Ritual love Can't get enough Ritual love All Hail the (non-existent) Ritual Dimension

So Atem and Yusaku are the only protagonist to perfect a ritual summon. Cool!

My favorite ritual summon from the franchise is when Yugi summons the Magician of Black Chaos against Pegasus. It just looked cool as he descended to the field

Alexis/Asuka is the best Ritual Summoning duelist! Hands down!

Haven’t even began the video, but hands down Shinato King of a Higher Plane & Zera the Mant stand out as childhood core memories. Hope they make the list :)

When Declan has mastered all summoning methods, except for ritual

I didn't even realise that most ritual summons came from Duel Monsters. Yet Alexis has done it the most

When you realize Mieru and Alexis could have taken down Z-Arc. Tarotrei sets Z-Arc face down and Dakini forces Z-Arc to leave the field since it can't use it's effects face down and Z-Arc has 0 protections against Rituals.

The summoning method that you use when the extra deck is locked

When Asuka’s theme plays it’s no longer just a regular duel it’s a duel on a dance floor

My personal favorite is Magician of black chaos especially when yami said : CHAOS SCEPTER BLAAAAST

Ritual is my favorite method! Can you imagine my joy when my favorite monster, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys got Ritual support? I was over the moon about it! I bet if Ritual monsters were kept in the extra Deck they would be more popular.

I forgot Joey used that ritual. The design of that ritual spell is probably the laziest card design I've seen. They basically too Black Magic Ritual and put a dragon silhouette in the image.

Ritual summoning is my favorite summon method, I wish there were more ritual based archetypes (like Vendread, but actually good) or more ritual duelists in the anime

Asuka's chest is The only buff she got in arcv

My favorite summoning method! 😃 Favorite is probably Five Headed Dragon, Exodia Necross, or Magician of Black Chaos in the Virtual World arc

I’ve always liked Ritual summoning in Yugioh and my favourite Ritual monster has to be Cyber Angel Dakini.

Honestly wish aura had more screentime to help in arc v. They were building up the new generation of duelist and she could have had a cool ritual pendulum deck where the pendulum let's her ritual summon using the monsters instead of the spell card to make rituals better to have. But like arc v everything goes downhill in synchro taking so long.

Ritual summons are forgetable but pendelums is something Konami wants us to forget

In Duel Monsters we got an abundance of these, so I won't complain. GX the same thing, giving us Cyber Angel. 5ds I understand why it would be hard to make Ritual in Speed Duels. In Zexal, really wish we got Ritual, but since we only got a few Fusions and no Synchro, I let it pass. In Arc-V... COME ON! You had the perfect chance to give more support to Rituals by creating a Ritual Dimension! You could have some characters from the DM era in it! I'm happy that Vrains at the very least gave Ritual a comeback by Yusaku using it almost every single duel he was in after Cyberse Magician first appearance.

Magician of black chaos is still my favorite summon in the show

Magician Of Black Chaos, Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon and Water Leviathan and finally Lord Of The Red since that card in the Anime is litterly body armor

Finally a ritual summons method has spotlight and video it rightfully deserved I hope there be main characters that used ritual summon and monsters in anime

Thank you Dylan for a Good Video! I liked all the Ritual Summonings in this video. It would be cool to see Ritual Summonings in Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens.

Having never seen DM in original Japaneese the music is pretty epic for these

I wish they would give more character from the Legendary Duelist packs more Ritual monsters like Mako and Pegasus. Or a whole box dedicated to just Rituals!

I can't wait to see your list of Best Xyz Summons and Pendulum Summons

Something to think about: anime Zarc WASNT immune to Ritual monsters! (The Nephyis archetype feels like a perfect counter, since they can even use Zarc’s destruction effect against him)

The real winner here is tristan and his ability to get possessed in every yugioh arc.

The BLS summon still has to be one of the best. Actually prefer the dub’s light and darkness intertwine line more. And then Mai just surrenders, like that’s the power ritual monsters should basically have. It’s almost weird we have BLS and Chaos Max but then Konami was like here’s also an evil hamburger and a messed up turtle (as much as I love those cards too ha)

⚠️ Lengthy post alert. You have been warned. ⚠️ I honestly love Ritual Monsters, even though I understand that they're terrible in the context of modern YGO, which contributes to their overall forgotten status. One of my personal favourites is Odd-Eyes Gravity Dragon, which I wish Yuya used (just *one* instance would have been enough) since Ritual was the only summoning method he didn't use; he even tribute summoned a few times. What's worse is the effect fits perfectly for anime writing - put Yuya up against someone playing heavy or oppressive backrow (not quite Crimson & Steel Chain levels mind you 😂), such as BB - would have definitely made that duel better instead of the muckshow we got - and have him summon Gravity Dragon to make a typical protag-style comeback and... _voila_ anime asspull & badass summon rolled into one. Alternatively, they could have given Reiji an awesome D/D/D Ritual Monster early-ish on to further show his own mastery over every summoning method and continue to build him up as this incredibly skilled duelling prodigy. But that's what happens when you've got too crowded a cast and quite frankly poor writing (egao >>> interdimensional war, we get it) - you miss out on opportunities that would have been *so* easy to write in without really changing the story. For example, it's by no means perfect because I'm literally thinking of/writing this on the fly but this is how I would write in Reiji getting a D/D/D Ritual Monster... • Ep.23 stays largely the same, with Yuya learning Fusion in order to defeat Meiru, the first - and only - Ritual user we see (until Season 3 anyway, making it a new summoning method never previously shown/used before, including by Reiji). • Axe most of that post-duel scene since at least 90% of it is irrelevant and instead cut to Reiji, who was sat in his office watching the duel (he was already keeping tabs on Yuya since he believed Pendulum Summoning would save the future, so it would make sense for him to continually monitor its first and best known proponent in action wherever possible). He mutters that Yuya has finally begun to evolve as a charisma duelist and faintly smiles. • We're then treated to his internal monologue about how interesting this new 'Ritual Summoning' is (in the same way as he did when he first heard about Pendulum Summoning), and although he has never encountered it before, it appears much easier to learn/understand - he vows to do so immediately in order to have as many tools in his arsenal as possible - the battle to come will take everything he's got and more (or something equally as ominous... as long as it hints at a bigger overarching plot that we as the audience aren't privy to yet it'll do - it gives the audience their first taste of Reiji being 3 steps ahead of everyone else). Ep.23 ends here. • Ep.24 is almost identical as far as main plotline is concerned, but we'll add an incredibly brief scene at the beginning (literally like, 10 seconds if that), where Reiji is studying a window on his screen with blue monsters (Rituals) and spells (Ritual spells) and doing that OTT typing animation that must legally be present anytime a writer wants to show that a particular character is clever. We could even show sheen/glare on his glasses to really emphasise that. 😂 • When it next cuts to him (just as Shun & the LDS Trio begin their duel), we see Reiji close the window (a progress bar finishes and a message saying 'Sent' flashes briefly before - in the following episode this would be revealed to be card data for a D/D/D Ritual Monster & Spell, which has been sent off to be developed) so he can spectate the duel. As soon as Shun wins, Reiji calls his developers to ask if "they" have been completed yet - he is told so but warned that no testing has been done - he dismisses this concern, stating that 'an opportunity to conduct the field test has presented itself.' • The episode then continues as normal (the Yuzu & Yuto scene followed by Shun meeting Reiji face-to-face). This time, Shun outright challenges Reiji, who simply states 'I would _rather_ talk but seeing as you're clearly a man of action, that would get us nowhere.' and readies his duel disk, thinking to himself _"time for that field test"_ (or something equally cool, calm & collected as would be befitting of his character, I'm not the best at writing dialogue lmao). Ep.24 ends here. •Ep.25 is virtually unchanged since the main focus is the Yuya & Gongenzaka duel; the one scene where Shun & Reiji will discuss Leo & Duel Academia shows them in the middle of a duel first - Shun has 4000 LP & controls Rise Falcon, while Reiji, about to take his turn, has 4000LP & controls a stacked board (the exact board state doesn't matter since it's only meant to continue building Reiji up as this incredible duelist; I'd personally give him Doom King Armageddon, Flame King Genghis, Gust King Alexander & Wave King Caesar, with Scale 10 Savant Kepler & Scale 1 Savant Galilei in his Pendulum Scales). • Reiji draws for turn and we see the top of the card he pulled - it's a blue monster, causing his eyes to widen in anticipation. He gives another cliché Yu-Gi-Oh-esque short speech, this time about how he plans to use his complete summoning mastery to save their world, but in order to do so there is one more method he must first master - while he is speaking we will be shown flashbacks of him creating and sending those cards to his developers (this is where the Ritual Monster reveal bit takes place) - he then proceeds to Ritual Summon his new monster and OTKs Shun with it (don't ask me how haha, it doesn't exist so give it any effect you like as headcanon, within reason of course lmao). Then story exposition between the two happens and then cut to Yuya & Gongenzaka as normal. Honestly I'd rather have a *full* duel between Reiji & Shun but for this amended scene to fit in the episode it would have to roughly be the same length as the original, meaning we'd only see the conclusion & subsequent exposition. I know this is a long AF comment but keep in mind if animated, these scenes wouldn't take more than a few minutes each so as to fit within the same time constraints as the originals did. I'd like to think this would be an improvement, but given just how many people in the community have rewritten Arc-V is some form or another (to better results), it's not exactly a standout achievement. 😂 If you got this far, thanks for coming to my TED Talk. 😂

Alexis Rhodes deserves more attention

Me: sees Zera the Mant also me: Duel Links A.I

Well those are almost every ritual summon in the series dxdx Awesome video

Hey, thanks for showcasing my favorite summoning mechanic in Yu-Gi-Oh. Was kind of hoping you would have showcased Vivian Wong's ritual monster "Dragon Lady," but I understand some of the featured demonstrations of ritual summoning fall through the cracks. BTW, my favorite ritual summon from the Yu-Gi-Oh anime is "Magician of Black Chaos."

my favorite ritual summoning will and always will be Blue-Eyes Chaos Max Dragon

Love how youtube knows exactly what to show me I'm currently building drytrons and magikeys, 2 decks that use ritual summoning

Awesome. I love ritual summoning

Kite being the only Zexal character who ritual summoned

Blue-eyes Chaos Max Dragon's summoning was epic.

Ah yes the good old days where Five headed dragon was a fusion ritual monster…….wait what? XD How did the anime get it mixed up?

I cant wait for a link summoning and pendulum summoning video. Hopefilly you have a great day dylan

Blue Eyes Chaos Max Dragon is my favorite.

With this video we can say Asuka is the true ritual player.

6:35 Yusaku: A contract has been made. The sage who wields dark power inherits the two souls. Ritual summon!! Descend, Cyberse Magician!! Judai/Yugi: *Huh?* Judai: What did you just say? Yusaku/Yuga: You mean the summoning chant? Yusa: Dont you use it too? Yuga: You use the summoning chant when summoning a powerful monster. Especially the ace one. It should be cool and awesome! Yusa: Exactly. Yugi: So I should shout it loud in a duel? Judai: No way! I am not saying something cheesy like that. Who created these CHILDISH summoning chants anyway? Must have been Yuma or Yuya. Yuga/Yusaku/Yusa: *Points to Yusei* Judai: IM SORRY!!!!!😭 Yusei: **deadpan** Just keep dueling😑

Being a Machine-Type specialist, I have always lamented the lack of Machine-Type ritual monsters...

I said it on YGS's recent video on "An Idiots Guide to Pendulum Summoning" and I'll say it again. Adding Pendulum Rituals would be a serious boost for the monster type. Conceptually, their pendulum effects could be ritual spells, or you can pendulum summon pendulum rituals without needing to tribute, or really anything. In recent years there have been some decks that have been able to work them in well, but you'd need to run a deck based around them. Atm, you can't really just slap any old ritual in a deck and still have a cohesive build (unless you add more than just a few and basically make it a ritual deck, defeating the purpose of sliding a few in). I'd like to see a proper expansion to ritual summoning, like possibly Ritual monsters that serve as the spells whilst in the hand, and you can activate them to summon themselves without the need for a specific ritual spell. Maybe in YGO "Eights", but let's not get our hopes up...

My two cents on Rituals: In anime they looked cool but actually playing them is cumbersome with having the Ritual Spell/Monster and acquired Tribute fodder on the ready. Wasn't until generations later, Rituals would get support every so often let alone have a meta Ritual archetype.

There are so many underrated Characters in Arc-V. Aura is one of them.

The OG Duel Monster series Ritual summon will alqays be my Favorite.

Wahhhh I miss Watching Alexis doing the rituals. Plus her Cybers is so pretty

rituals really do get the shaft. They just don't appear enough, but at least they have cool summon animations. (which the other summons also have...)

What would be interesting is if, in the beginning, each Ritual Spell actually had special requirements for its summon.

As a Cyber Angel Player I can say Ritual Summoning is awesome.

Atem Magician of Black Chaos is the best one. He came from clouds.. so nostalgic!

I have always loved ritual summoning its honestly such a cool method. Sad that even in the show where dimensions are named after summoning methods there isn't a ritual one

12:14 Oh boy here comes Lycanthrope “License-throp” 👁👄👁

My favorites are from the original series that adapt the manga scenes. In Takahashi's Yugioh, the monster becomes the new Ritual monster (unless stated otherwise like with Ritual of the Masked Demon Beast that just needs a light and dark offering). Gaia goes through the gates of chaos to become Chaos Soldier. Black Magician in the manga matches Yami Yugi's colors (blond hair with blue armor and red around the rim). Black Magician becomes Magician of Black Chaos. BMoC is the epitome of Yami Yugi's bondage design. There's just something different about the summons after the original series. They just don't have... soul... to get me excited. Chaos Soldier and BMoC, for example, gave me chills. But I like Vishnu though. She got nice oppai and double cheeked up. Props to the anime staff for that.

I would like to see a list related to Maximum Summons but since only 5 have made appearances in the anime so far, it’ll likely be a Top 5 best maximum monsters list. Number 1 will likely be Yggdrago or Vast Vulcan.

I love how the enemy is just like "gishki da to!?" Everytime they ritual summon like it was that big of a deal

Yugioh summoning Black Magician of chaos in his duel with noah was always so cool to me.

Reminds me of grinding ladder to get gems in master duel I used the ritual starter deck from the destroyer of worlds story and just filled it with a bunch of level 8 ritual monsters and their spells and just kinda made level 8 turbo ritual the worst thing I could really do with it was open up into bls and a few traps or spells but I could basically just throw a new lvl8 on the field every turn to thwack you in the face while I was grinding packs was kinda fun

Nice.

Ritual is my favourite summoning method as one of the first ritual monsters was the (arguably) most famous member of the chaos archetype (other than chaos MAX dragon) BLACK LUSTER SOLDIER

I use ritual deck that's supported by Cyber Angel Dakini & Izana along with the Phoenix of Nephytus. Adding Cyber Angel Vrash into the deck would definitely boost it.

I'm glad Drytron exists to give ritual mechanics more to work with.

My all time is Atem Summoning his "Magician of Black Chaos". I haven't seen VRAINS, but I'm surprised that they're using such a Forgotten Summoning Mechanic.

Love how some of these ritual were only rituals in the anime like 5 headed and exodia necross

Zexal was so focused on XYZ summoning that I actually didn't find out Photons had a ritual monster until I started playing Duel Links, a little before I got to the Kaito vs Heartland duel, but even with it's suprisingly good effects for a Photon monster that wasn't GEPD, I never expected to see it used in the anime. When I got to the duel and saw the summon I was legitimately shocked and thought "Holy shoot they actually did this, it's incredible" Kaito in a show where everyone spams XYZ monsters as their aces just comes in with both Fusion and Ritual summoning with an ace being a Tribute/Special summoned monster, like dear god, he feels like he would have had a Synchro monster if synchros made appearences in Zexal, considering the Galaxy Eyes archetype and it's supports has monsters for every summoning method but Synchros in the Master Rule format

Cyber Angle Vrash or Black Luster Soldier are the two best for me the latter as its the first time we really see Ritual Summon and the former just wipped the field like a wreaking ball. Its also a real shame that Asuka kept getting the raw end for number of duels in both Arc-5 and GX as she was really the only Ritual Summoner in all the serises and those one esspecially and it would have been nice to see her duel Zarc honestly, have her duel with Jack and Gong would be the best place to put her, or right after Gong was taken out. Also that duel does show how forgotten Ritual Summon is as Zarc never had a plan for a Ritual summoner.

One of my favorite summoning methods. Not really meta, but there is something satisfying for me when I pull them off.

I recently got back in to yugi oh with a buddy and we have avoided the new layout/ruleset and we are avoiding things like links and pendulums because they are just meh. I put together 2 specific ritual decks. One is overall and the other focuses one Demise and Ruin. Both are easily my strongest decks with things like impcantations and djinn. Glad they did something for rituals

10:29 - that's impossible, no one's ever been able to summon him

For your next top 10 list, I'd love if you could do 'Top 10 battle royals', that is, duels involving more than two people. These were actually pretty uncommon in the Yugioh anime and it would be cool to look at some of the best.

I fun fact actually main a ritual deck alot

Surprised that there was no ritual summons in 5Ds I can definitely see Akiza, Luna, Divine, or the Dark Signers using them

You should do 25 awesome finishers. For example, Magician of Black Chaos final attack vs Pegasus, Black Paladin final attack vs Kaiba, Valon's "THE END OF CRUSHER" final attack vs Otogi and Rebecca, and so on.

Lord of the Red and Cyberse Magician are my favorites

Can’t help but think that if ritual monsters were in the extra deck it would solve a lot of the problems

Black Luster Soldier will always be the best ritual summon. The OG.

DSOD is probably the inspiration that brought Vrains

In the fusion summoning video I stated I didn't think there were even 25 different rituals in the anime. I see I was wrong. The major ones I missed were joey's second ritual in season 3, lycanthrope in gx, chaos max in the movie, and five head dragon/exodia necross being counted as rituals. Zera the mant is my favorite ritual. It's such a weird card, wish it got a random retrain or something

My favorite is cyberse Magician and magic ritual cyber-ritual

Bruh I haven't watched Arc-V's first episodes in a long while and only now do I realize that Aoi Yuki voices Mieru lmao

Hopefully RU-vid doesn't forget this video like we did with the summoning method

12:56 LMFAO dude that is literally MOBC's ritual spell card but with the silhouette of Blue eyes white dragon 🤣🤣🤣🤣

2:52 damn😳

My favorite Ritual monsters are black luster solider and magician of black chaos those where the Best ritual Summons of all time

Exodia necross was changed to a effect monster in the card game but you still used contract of the forbidden one to summon it

Can we get ritual summoning for series 8?

My favorites have to be Black Luster Solider, Lord of the Red, and Cyber Angel Vrash.

Favorite Lord of the Red

I love Ritual Monsters. Lord of the Red and Magician of Black Chaos hype!! Also Vrash is thicc af 😚

Ritual cards need more love

Next, Xyz... Xyz has always been very visually appealing to me so that should be great.