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Apparently, if I remember correctly, the director for 5Ds actually played Yu-Gi-Oh and wanted to make Yusei a smart duelist who actually put thought into his deck.
@@seir5772 I made a synchron deck when 5D's was new. You would have to have a bunch of random cards like xx-saber wayne or the tricky to get a barely decent combo going
Back then, stupidly easy. Granted, Yusei had protagonist plot luck, but synchro decks were stupidly good at filling the field with fodder big monstsrs. Helps that Yusei had a lot of the synchro spam cards
link format I made a synchron deck, al be it using summon sorc/needle combos but also plant combos, and with saraphiknight i could easy end on 2-3 negates and either trish/omega or cyberse quantum dragon
Zombie Synchros at its peak had a monster that dumped monsters into the grave and SS'd them, would draw a card for anything SS'd from grave, and had a lot of good Synchro targets.
@@xSkye629x that's why it was banned in the first place. No one knew what it did so tournaments were stretched out over multiple days of debate and had to eventually be abandoned due to not coming to a conclusion.
@@brandon6034 Trust me, Pot of Greed is busted especially in the context of a game like Yugioh were there's no mana nor energy to balance out the pacing of the game.
@@noble0155 Akiza had so much potential just to become a benchwarmer. Same what happened to Zuzu in ACR V. The writers of the anime just terrible in writing girls in general.
Level eater in my opinion should get an errata that restricts you to synchro summoning only, that way quasar players can be content and the ftks won't be a problem
@@vicentserrano9268 Just use anti-ennemy varret at the moment you declare the ATK and he won't be using any trap card at the moment of declaration of the attack
Yusei is the first and only protagonist outside of playmaker who never really felt like he got saved by the ridiculous one off random card. He also played with much more strategy compared to yugi or jaden who normally relied on the heart of the cards. He's also way more charismatic than playmaker even if their skill and play style would be amazing to see clash
Wait are you seriously watching 5D's? Yusei play card called Stay Force which is basically Neo Space if Neo Space is trap card and cost 1000 life point. He also Play Card called Low High which is basically trap card that mill randomly 3 card from top of your deck to increase attack if its a monster but if the atk actually become higher than the opponent. Your monster go bye bye. Also don't forget that Converging wishes is probably the most convoluted power boost anime card ever exist. If i want to be honest Jaden is actually the most less BS. main char in term of card. For power boost he has Honest and Battle Fusion. For searcher its E-Call and Rota. For battle interuption its Necro gardna and negate attack. Jaden is actually the only protagonist that didn't have a convoluted and stupidly situational card in Yu-Gi-Oh!
@@hi-i-am-atan Super Junior confrontation is not stupidly situational like Low High. It's also usefull in a way if your opponent have multiple monster and you only have one. It's worse Waboku but still playable unlike Stay firce or Low High.
@@riqua27 it's a negate attack that requires very specific field setup, which may not even prevent you from losing a monster keep in mind, when i say "requires very specific field setup," i don't mean to actually benefit from it. you literally _cannot use it_ unless you have a face-up defense position monster. no, to actually benefit from it, you need both very specific field setup, and _your opponent_ to have very specific field setup and that benefit is ... a bit of battle damage. and maybe triggering a battle effect that's detrimental to your opponent, except people don't really run cards that blow themselves up after they attack so that's basically only if you have catastor chilling in defense for some reason honestly, high and low is far _less_ situational than that. it's a mill 3 that just requires a face-up monster to be attacked, with the small bonus of maybe reducing battle damage or forcing a tie. sure, it sucks for the purpose that yusei used it for and is outdone by just setting a ryko, but you can _actually activate it reliably_ and it even accomplishes something beneficial after you do so. pretty hard to say that's more situational than "negate attack, but i want it to be dead 99% of the time"
I attribute some of yusei's draws to deck building as he seems to be one of the only protagonists that actually seem to care about deck building rather than relying on luck and one off cards in their deck. That's like saying tcg players pull cards from their ass when in reality card ratios make all the difference in deck building
@@gjeep6764, it's when he summons Shooting Star Dragon or Shooting Quasar Dragon. It's called Accel Synchro. He goes so fast he goes into a speed dimension and reappears usually behind his opponent with the monster summoned.
It really hits me hard when they got banned, synchrons where my first deck i built and now that so many cards got banned its not the same that im at the point of quitting even doe its a dumb reason
But may i posit, pot of greed plus magical stone excavation, clearly the bestcombo in the game "i play pot of greed which allows me to draw 2 more cards from my deck, next i play magical stone excavation ; by discarding 1 spell from my hand, i can add 1 spell from my graveyard back to my hand and I choose POT OF GREED. Next, I activate...POT OF GREED, of greed allows..."
Am I the only one who wants Turbo dueling irl, I mean, I don't even need it to include an actual motorcycle, but instead something similar to how it was in the old DS games...
Definitely. Out of all the Yu-Gi-Oh handheld games, my favorite was, without a doubt, Reverse of Arcadia. That game, I feel, had developed Turbo Duels best.
@@nkyfong not really All you really need is a quick Google search on Alexis aster crow jack and kite Knowing the other series just kinda makes you feel bad when bad things happen to the dimension they're currently in but arc v does a good job of that
It's the mechanic that got us to the modern times in Yu-Gi-Oh, it's also the one that requires some of the most work, it's not as free as Xyz, Pendulums, and Links, but not as restricted as fusion
@@alonsoarana5307 what do you mean its totally more restricted than fusion now, it requires a specific type of monster and a specific other type of monster, and fusions require like 2 monsters that are just not the same
Before links synchron was my absolute favorite deck. The 3 card combo to get to Quasar Dragon with quickdraw synchron level eater and sychron explorer was awesome. It was really my first taste of modern ish Yu-Gi-Oh and I became forever hooked. Now I play danger zombies without rivalry of warlords basically design to stop dragonlink and dino's.
While we’re on the topic of Yusei’s cards, share with us your stor(ies) of resolving Converging Wishes. I wish they’d retain the Clustering Wishes name instead.
The reason why Yusei has the best deck out of all the Protagonists is because his deck is, at heart, a Synchro Spam deck. A lot of protagonists have to jerk off the new summoning mechanic their series focuses on. Their decks are made to be versatile but not powerful and extremely bricky. How many random one-off Fusion Monsters did Jaden make once, in a filler episode of GX? Same with Yuma & Xyz? Yuya with random prefromer pal pack filler? The anime prioritises random specific effects which gets the protag out of a pinch and that's not very conducive for a good deck design. Fact of the matter is Synchros can be used to make a wide range of levels, whereas most Xyz deck focus entirely on one Rank/Level Number. Fusions also fall into this really specific niche. That being said the Yu-Boys from Arc-V had much better designs in their archetypes. Predaplants follows a modern Fusion design of being really generic, whereas Phantom Knights are good engine for Rank 3s.
yusei deck was garbage (i have try to run it in ygo pro and it bricks alot), he was also guilty of playing an EXTREMELY situational card each episode just so he could never played again, season 1 judai deck was the most consistent deck of all the protagonists. Besides the protagonists: hell kaiser, aki izayoi, crow, johan, z-one, insector haga, asuka tenjoin, serena, evil carly and rebecca were the most consistent decks.
No its not if you check his deck list and supports that he had its fairly balance but it won't top regionals or tournaments with the decks that are now in the game. Also Jaden's deck was trash in the first season then came neos and spacians then evil but only used for a few episodes then but now its how you play meta decks that's it best deck 5 negate board pass turn. You choose what deck you want to play work around the deck adapt and try testing it out but no meta here and there.
to answer the question about yuma: like three or four dude's main strategy was genuinely to play bujins, but he didn't have yamato or any bujin cards for that matter so he just did it with utopia instead. when he _did_ remember that he had other xyzs, zexal was generally good about letting them see at least another duel somewhere down the line the only real victims of "single duel filler" are, like, the numbers that he _actually bothered to make use of,_ but couldn't be bothered to remember after the fact. albeit, that's a weird case in this context since those numbers _were_ used by someone else before then, so ...
I'm glad Resonators got an equally good search card as Tuning, though without the mill.... speaking of which ya gotta do the Master Of Faster Jack Atlas now
IIRC, resonators don’t have many cards they want in the GY, unless you have one of the nova dragons on the field and want more tuners in the GY for the attack buff
@@supreme_king_obama1158 it took me a while to learn that Stardust and Red Dragon got a lot of retrains or evolutions Also: Ojama lime is going to be the most OP card 200 years from now.
9:37 There is a cheat that me and my friends used to do with Tuning back in middle school, it was around the post 5d's pre zexal era, was that when you shuffle your deck after picking up the synchron, you can sneak level eater or anything you want to mill to the top of the deck and mill it. We all came to know it eventually and became more strict with deck shuffling.
I feel Miracle Synchro Fusion was also a card Yusei used that kept being quite useful for several metas, especially in Psychic oriented decks that could call out Ultimate Axon Kicker with fair ease, which was a solid monster that was immune to destruction effects, had piercing and you gained life equal to the ATK of the monster it destroyed in battle...
He didn't play that one. I was surprised too while building my yusei deck while using the wiki as reference (where miracle synchro fusion is not listed)
Yusei's gimmick was literally that he has bad overly specific cards that you could only use in 1 anime scenario and I personally think that's fucking hilarious
Noticed ya skipped a protag, Judai/Jaden from Gx, but that makes sense he played pure elemental heroes (No masked heroes) and then Neos Spacians. However he did play some op cards, and would be cool to check out. Edit: anyone wants a list of op cards Jaden used, have to say Grand Mole, Necro Gardna, Dandylion, Rainbow Neos, Hidden Armory, and Aqua dolphin. Honourable mentions to Bubbleman, E call and Hero signal. But Jaden's number 1 competitive card that he used was Super polymerization, don't need to explain this one. Edit 2: Can't believe I forgot Honest
Jaden Actually play a lot of broken card. - Demise of the Land - Card Trooper - Dandylion - Bubleman - Honest - Gracefull Charity - Mirage of Nightmare - Super Poly
I would like to maybe see jack atlas or some one from the GX era, since you did most of the duel monster characters, and are moving on to later series. I would say jaden next to round out the main protagonists but i can only think of Bubbleman, for some old decks and aqua dolphin which was used recently, unless neos would count cause of the occasional rainbow neos play, so i don't think a video on him would be long enough or interesting enough.
With the winrate of course Yusei is. Though Yusaku didn't lose any duel if I remember but he lost a lot against a bot during his kidnapped days if you count that one. But in terms of OP cards god Atem takes the cake for that.
@@pauloazuela8488 Idk if the god cards are like Pokemon's legendaries, where you can say a protagonist is more powerful having acquired them. Atem beat a pierced street punk, Kaiba (clap, clap), and Marik (who isn't a technically skilled duelist--he relies on Ra a lot). BUT, tbh I'm a nostalgia head. I like Atem and little Yugi most.
@@pauloazuela8488 Monster Recovery, Card of Sanctity, Kuribandit, In general some broken spells and traps but monsters sucked outside of EG, Sangan, Witch of the Black Forest... what else?
Iconic, sure, but with Shooting Star Dragon, you kind of need to build the deck around him a bit more and Junk Warrior is in competition with generic Level 5 Synchros.
I absolutely came to adore those super weird and awkward anime moments in where it's like: "Ahh man, I can't wait to see what kind of super-scenario-specific and wacky card they came up with this time!" 🤣😂 I feel like they probably specifically wrote duels from the anime to intentionally showcase all the random jank from concurrent sets.
Hey that’s what’s up I suggested this topic on the dark synchro video! I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not but either way thanks man! Always love your videos :)
Debris Dragon + tuning ware with double summon + quill bolt hedgehog from the graveyard = Stardust was my go-to comeback plays back when I was in school and we didn't have Op decks
I think we're forgetting some of the anime cards he used, such as Angel Baton, the pot of greed substitute for speed duels that led to a ton of advantage.
Because Speed Spells were never printed in the TCG it would be difficult to review them in a video talking about anime cards that saw play at tournaments :)
I know it wasn't exactly super strong but i remember the day i got scrap iron scarecrow. When yugioh was a bit slower the amount of frustration it caused among my friends cause it was a negate one attack every turn. :) hehe
Back in full power orcust format, there were 3 ganes of a locals where effect veiler won me the rounds not by its hand trap effect, but because i was able to normal summon it and synchro off oviraptor and giant rex into trishula. BROKEN
Here's a fun one: how bad was Lawton's deck from the 5D's Crash Town arc? I remember watching the sub and the comments were ablaze on how bad his deck is in order for him to have five spells/traps and one monster in his opening hand every time.
He probably tampered his duel disk to rig his deck shuffling. I know it was brought up in Zexal in the first tag duel when people were pulling similar shenanigans but it's not that much of a stretch for someone who's main strategy is an FTK to begin with.
@@mikzpwnz_3199 Don't think so. In DM, it showed off how Marik's ghouls were cheating, so I think if Lawton was cheating, it would be showing us how he was. As it stands, I'm sticking with Anime luck.
one of my biggest problems with yusei's deck was how good it was, and im not talking about the idea that it was broken but more of that he had good to great cards yet its said that he got all of his cards from the garbage. so monsters like junk synchron someone just threw away. then you got debris dragon, sonic chick (even though it wasnt mentioned it was still a good card in the anime because it can just stay alive for yusei) and quillbolt hedgehog which was just free summoning from the gy, these are not monsters you get from the trash. i would of preffered if they were normal monsters honestly, with a few effect monsters that helped make synchro plays like junk synchron, then his spells that are specific make more sense because, again, he got most of his beginning deck from the trash. so normal monsters then spells specific to normal monsters, with not really good effect monsters like speed warrior in the mix and then the ace and sub ace.
You have to remember 99% of the trash comes from Domino City. The richest place on earth. I'm sure plenty of snobs throw away good cards cause they are slightly damaged.
@@WitheringAurora I'd rather those be the sub ace monsters. And this isn't to say it's wrong and my way is better, it's just how I feel. I would love to see him play a deck like he did at the prison, then collect better cards as he goes. But again that's just me.
@@bryandragon75 level eater was banned for a reason and so was jet...synchron although jet synchron hurt alot.. seeing it banned..since I used to use two.. I'll needed to find another level 1 tuner to substitute.
@@Ahloveyafuhso they were banned for horrible reasons, they got abused outside of their decks. Yuseis deck is boarderline unplayable now it's not as powerful as RDA to begin with
@@Ahloveyafuhso the only decent replacements would be the drivers unown synchron changer synchron and effect veiler but it still doesnt fix the huge hit to speed that losing level and jet did triple quasars were still possible without level now it's not possible at all unless u burn through the deck which doesnt work compettively
Level eater will be errata eventually basically making it both a hard once per turn and only let’s you ss synchro from the extra deck for the rest of the turn
the only reason starlight road isn't banned, especially with the new release of stardust dragon support, is because on it's print it left a teeny-tiny detail from it's anime counterpart: that special is treated as synchro summon. Think of it a lil bit.
This is a strategy I try to use with Yusei in Duel Links. Set a card I'm not afraid to get rid of, special summon Junk Forward with its effect. Special summon Card Breaker by getting rid of the facedown card, summon Junk Synchron. Instant Stardust
If I remember, there's a card specifically for that combo where if it's destroyed by a card effect (Card Breaker the reason) then you can special summon Speed Warrior, pair it with card breaker you have a free XYZ/Synchro card
