i find it odd how nobody mentioned Soul Burner, who's deck was so good the writers themselves stated they had to pull absolute nonsense to even give him a challenge.
That statement when taken into the context of his opponents running things like Hydradrive, Dinowrestler, Despair from the Dark Turbo and Appliancer is a lot less impressive. In fact basically the only competent deck he had an on-screen duel against was Rokket, and in both times he dueled Rokket, Revolver was sandbagging and trying to lose.
6:45 Legit, Rebecca was playing better early 2000s Yugioh than any duelist in Duelist Kingdom. She was running a resource loop with Sangan/Witch, had a defensive lock which forced you to either summon a 2 tribute monster or spend removal to get rid of Millennium Shield, she had Cannon Soldier to burn for game, and Shadow Ghoul as a backup beatstick if her strategy got hit. And then in the KC Grand Prix filler arc, she shows back up with Scapegoat, Imperial Order, and Gravity Bind. Girl is goated.
Rebecca was a menace in the KC Grand Championship. I would’ve loved to see her rematch Yugi with the deck she used that season and I think some of the strategies she implemented for that season would’ve given the King of Games some problems. Heck, I think she’d have given Kaiba problems with her deck.
Unironically Rebecca is one of the most intelligent characters in the DM era. Here only follies was being a side character and a women in a yugioh anime
@@rhysjonsmusic tbf, she technically has a 3 to 1 win-lose ratio, so that's better than i think every other woman in the anime does (and honestly some men)
She was American national champion at the age of twelve or something. Former champion was Bandit Keith. She beat a guy in his, like, 30s, who reached semis in the Duellist Kingdom and was also cheating.
6:45 Rebecca is such a funny character because she randomly comes back 3 seasons later with, no joke, a *burn* deck, with cards like Gravity Bind and IO to stall. And all things considered, a shockingly competent one compared to all the other shit decks
since that season and the one before, Orichalcos, was filler, they took advantage to make adds for the game per se. For example precisely in the Rebecca duel Yugi explains the concept of chain link.
i love how vrains included meta relevant cards, the fact that revolver is worried about judgement arrows so he fucking plays IMPERIAL ORDER to lock down spell cards was incredible to me
@@MBTYuGiOhNot just Mind Crushing Judgment Arrows, but Mind Crushing it in response to it being searched. He was playing like a competitive player, and then Lightning had a card that added Arrows from the Graveyard back to his hand.
I'm actually wondering if Revolver could still somehow pull a win against Ghost Gal if he Storm Accessed into Gumblar/Zeroboros instead of Trisbaena specifically.
I personally count the Lightning Duel as a draw in the final results, since the 1 LP was just for show o explai why he didn't die. That duel should be seen as a win since Revovler forced him too cheat twice, in one occasion preventing him from going to game. Edit (01/16): Ideally, I see and would count this as a Revolver Win (like Kaiba would be, non-cheating, result vs Noah). However I say Draw in regards on what the objectivily counts as consequences and events inside of the show, as well the duel ended. In another words, how it is put on the paper and registered, including the fact Lightning cheated. Revolver was a better/stronger duelist than Lightning overall. I don't count the end of this duel as a loss for revolver in any shape or form.
I count the lightning duel a win tbh. He had him on gun point but lightning said WAIT! IF YOU KILL ME JIN ALSO DIES. So they play a little bit more and end up drawing at which point lightning cheats to survive at 1lp
Potentially even funnier (or more depressing), Blue Angel loses with _game on board_ a minimum of twice, to a lucky Playmaker topdeck and Soulburner flexing Fusion of Fire.
@@elijahpadilla5083 I have to wonder how thing would've gone in the Playmaker duel if she had any other card in her hands besides Dark Angel (given by Hanoi with the Virus that affected her), since it is the only card left in her hand after she tries to win through her skill. In Soulburner case, if memory serves me, it was kinda of a gambit when he attacked: Her deck weakness was the low ATK of her cards, but she improved by adding cards like Colabane. During their turn, Soulburner and Flame expected her to play Colabane (that she addded back to her hand the prevous turn and they knew that) to compesate for weakness and therefore trigger his Violet Chimera effect. If she didn't she could've make a comeback next turn (his LP was only 100) or continue the duel. She actually didn't need to use Calobane to survive, but, likely due to this psychoological factor, she was more inclined to activate it to conserve her life points or thinking that she didn't use, she would lose (Chimera effect was unknown to her). As the series went on, almost everyone she was dueling against started to put cards to stop/counter her burn tactics (like Soulburner's Gate of Fire trap). That is why she played her decks with a mix of offensive and burn. But several times she had game even when countered, yet (due to writers and plot) her loses were due to pulling some of nowhere which would never be used again due to being highly specific (Bohman Interference Canceller plus Hydradriver Mutation combo, and using Tesseract Monarch; all only in this duel). Only in S1 her dules were realtively fair when she lost (even the Playmaker one, since he let himself get damaged to prop his Storm Access, and his initial hand had 4 mysterious card that could've been made into anything to minimize damage if she tried to do the Trickstar Lycoris OTK on him).
In defense of Specter: 1. He played the pure Sunavalon u-link...which looks pretty, but does absolutely nothing and blows itself up if you fart at the trees. 2. He went against the main villain with a custom archetype that basically read "just do whatever" and revolved around Seal of Orichalcos 2.0 (which just like said Seal also was glued to everyone's starting hand)
They also had searchers for Judgement Arrows. I think it also had a skill to grab it for speed duels, too. But for the most part, yeah, it was glued to everyone's hands, lmao
@@pickyphysicsstudent201Like, he roflstomped Aoi, only lost to Yusaku because he couldn't help but flex, and lost to Lightning because Armatos Legio is literally playing with a Deck of custom cards (Sunvine Plunder specifically has destruction protection for itself and the card it steals, so the Armatos Legio Lightning uses pops, negates, and then pops again)
Honorable Mention: Barrett from Arc-V. Dude played a fusion archetype that was pure jank, but somehow got Yuya in a two card lock that made him unable to attack, use his extra deck, or play any card in his hand, then got steamrolled by a terminator using Earthbound of all things and disappeared from the series forever.
Bro that pissed me off because those effects didn't stop him from going into odd eyes rebellion. The cards used to lock yuya's monsters didn't stop them from being used as material
@@MDKShadyActually, they did because Yuya also got Rhongo'd with the traps. So Sergey just swiping in and annihilating him with Miracle Synchro Fusion unironically saved Yuya for a moment. If only it was YUZU WHO SAVED HIM
I like Yuri and Predaplants but yeah he had no business winning as much as he did. If he had Dracostapelia and used Super Poly offensively and not as a counter to people stealing his monster then it would be a different story.
@@theKingmaker108 he had Ivy Bind Castle, which is by far the strongest card... ever, actually. Of course he won that much (even though he didn't use this card very often)
@@heleno6917 Second half of Arc-V has very questionable writing, Ivy Bind Castle is one of such example when writers just giving up at making Predaplant threatening and instead just give him one time almost generic Floodgate and called it a day.
I mean lets be honest, Kallin's no contest was a straight up win for him and is only a no contest on the technicality that they couldn't kill the protagonist, so his set up broke right before he was about to lose a game where if you lose you die. For all intent and purposes that was a win for him and a loss for Yusei and treating it as anything else is dumb
Later in the series they even point out "crashing a D-Wheel in a Riding Duel counts as a loss" to the extent a WRGP team has it as their main strategy.
Kalin's win against Yusei in their first duel is basically the equivalent of getting internet connection loss on Master Duel right before an otk. Sure, you didn't get to otk, but you still take the win. And if we take Crash Town into account (which no reason not to), Kalin has a pretty good win rate.
Legit his only two losses are to Yusei, and by the time they dueled in Crashtown Yusei just knew the matchup very well by virtue of his previous two duels with him
Yeah, Reiji's winrate was insane for a series' Kaiba. IIRC, his only loss was against the big villain of the entire series... and he STILL did more damage to him than anyone else.
like, i'm sorry but aside from Yami-yugi in DM era, he's the only character that managed to pull off an infinite FTK. Reiji was literally in a league of his own.
In Alito's defense, the only reason he loses his duels is because Yuma is constantly pulling custom cards out of his ass that would not be useful in any other scenario except for against exactly Alito. Like read the anime only card Emperor's Armor and tell me that was not an ass pull to let Yuma beat Alito with Number 54: Lion Heart of all cards.
His power is to make up custom cards for the situation, that's shining draw. Have you read the dog shit vanish sage card that he uses to win against vector?
@@hazavair5755 Vanish Sage was used against Heartland but Yuma didn't even Shining Draw Emperor's Armor which literally means he has that card in his standard deck. Still one of the biggest ass pulls.
Yuma just feels like if bandit keith was the protagonist. So much cheating! Literally stacking the deck with cards that arent even in it! Might as well have the whole exodia set in his sleeve
@@undeadinside3571 Not stacking. Pulling cards that literally did not exist until 2 seconds ago out of his ass. One time Yuma takes a card ALREADY in his hand and goes "Now it does this other thing".
Do we just not talk about how Zane went from playing Cyberdragon OTK with banned cards to playing Cyberdark. And I don't remember him winning a single time after losing to his brother.
You're probably thinking of when Zane went on a losing streak after losing to Aster and was forced to play in the cock and ball torture underground to pay rent
In Yuma's defense, he literally got Utopia Beyond in the second to last duel of the show, and then Astral took all the Numbers for the last one. No excuse for the other two tho.
@@ianr.navahuber2195 It does suck that the idea of using the numbers as toolbox for Yuma hardly ever comes up, I think early on he summons Leviathan Dragon, a rank 3 bug, and then until the very end he suddenly uses Big Eye agains Sharck/Nasch
Reiji Akaba's deck was so insane that he found an infinite loop against a guy who could infinitely revive and he wins just because his opponent doesn't want to go through the infinite revival anymore.
To be fair the reason why that loop happened in the first place was because even though the cards involved where OPT each time the guy came back to the Game It counted as a new turn
My favorite example is Noah having Yata-Garasu, but never actually uses him for his ability, instead only summons him once for his spell to give him LP. Obviously Chaos stuff didn't exist yet but imagine THAT being Yata's claim in the anime, one LP gain use.
You're misemembering how that went. He summoned Yata because it had enough ATK for lethal if Shinato could beat over Atem's set monster, but it was Obnoxious Celtic Guard whose effect meant he couldn't beat over it and he had to just pass. But EVEN IF he succeeded, he wouldn't have been able to use Yata's effect because it had enough ATK for lethal
Noah also used Yamata Dragon, a card that lets you draw until you have 5 cards in hand every time it inflicts damage. He never makes a single attempt to empty his hand at all to use that effect, despite having spells and traps he could have set.
To be fair, Mai Valentine did dominate canonically. She was like, a professional celebrity duelist who won tournaments. She just had the misfortune of dueling the Main Characters on screen.
Arc V makes no sense if you think about it too hard, like how the Xyz Dimension was conquered by people going "Normal Summon Ancient Gear Hunting Hound, pass", or that Yuto apparently was a top duelist when his boss monster only worked in the anime on level 5+ monsters... on the xyz dimension.... where most things don't have levels.
Arc V could fill up this whole video, its protagonist is one of the handful of people playing pendulum in pendulum format and yet he has the second worst w/l record out of the protagonists in the mainline series.
I subscribe to the theory that Yuto had a ton of weird PKs that never saw the light of day that had no other purpose than to manipulate Ranks into Levels for Rebellion to take advantage of. Imagine stuff like "An Xyz Monster that was Summoned using this card on the field as material gains this effect. ● If this card is Xyz Summoned: You can target 1 face-up Xyz Monster on the field; it becomes treated as Level 5, until the end of the turn."
Because they also did real damage to the city and they didn’t just use hound they used gear soldier and chaos giant and speaking of chaos giant there was a scene where it looked like they weren’t summoned in a duel and were just summoned straight up and did real damage
Bro have you watched zexal? Half of the duels they have one xyz monster on the field and like 8 discount negate attacks. None of them know how to play xyzs
you know since mai was mentioned, you know what makes mai valentine funny? her harpie lady deck, specially with orichalcomalos support hard countered raphael in almost every single way. and she gets offscreened by raphael. like they legit realized that they couldn't come up with a duel where mai would reasonably lose vs raphael so they had to offscreen her.
Sadly, some of these are because of the "female characters, lol" attitude. Every girl that had any significance in the plot was portrayed as this frightening, 500 IQ duelist in their first duel, only to be defeated by the protagonist and nerfed beyond reason. After the Dark Signer arc, Aki got turned pretty much into twins' caretaker and fanservice, because Crow happened I guess and Alexis, who was regarded as an absolute top student in the most prestigious dueling school and has an impressive off-screen win rate just served as a cannon fodder for villains, getting abducted from time to time.
I mean, Shin Yoshida (who was head writer for 5Ds post-Dark Signers, Arc-V, and VRAINS) outright said he doesn't know what to do with female characters so he just sidelines them. Dude literally forgets how to competently use a character just because they have tits. Which sucks, because the other writers in the series he was in charge of made some positively amazing ladies and he dunked them in the garbage.
@@elijahpadilla5083he didn’t write arc v tho, as seeing as he did the sky striker manga and how rush duel anime writes better female characters it was probably a studio issue
@@elijahpadilla5083 I don't understand how anyone can admit, without being tortured, that they don't know what to do with female characters. That's like admitting they think the opposite sex is some sort of incomprehensible alien.
Revolver was the master of classic staples, he litterally won two times by just flipping Mirror Force and then won another time with freaking Imperial Order, he was in fact so strong that Lightning only defeated him through cheating :v
Mai is a hilarious duelist, because she is consistently a pain to beat in the video games because of how much synergy her deck has, in addition to support cards like Harpie's Feather Duster that are just incredible. Naturally, the only duels she wins in the series proper are offscreen.
To be fair, Blue Angel is a Charisma Duelist which is basically the in universe equivalent of a dueling celebrity. And she kinda has to entertain her audience. I doubt most people would find an FTK that doesn't let your opponent play fun.
With the format in VRains, Aoi should’ve been taking duelists out left, right and center with her Trickstar deck. Yet she kept coming out on the losing end. Alexis should’ve also won a lot more than she did in the GX anime. She had one of the best decks in the show with her Cyber Angels and was constantly losing.
To be fair, her initial deck was weak Monsters, with subpar effects(With the exception of Cyber Gymanst), and a goal to summon one semi-decent Fusion and nothing else. And she didn't adopt Cyber Angels until later. Which she did win against Chazz, and Titan.
I wonder why nobody mentioned Edo on GX. The guy could have access to an unnafected Skill Drain that steals a monster per turn. How the fuck do they beat that?!
Attacking over it, and Saiou just overall had the bigger beatsticks
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MBT, it is vital that you make a tournament based on the most popular tournaments in each anime but with the new support to each character's respective archetypes.
so can we talk about how lyrilusc unironically would probably be unbeatable in arc-v. all they do is attack and "but i don't take the damage because i activated my assembled nightengales effect and my monsters also aren't destroyed" and then she just attack 19 times directly ignoring all board states and wins
Funny how the two Bracelet Girls who got kidnapped at the very beginning were the ones who would have absolutely dominated if they had been allowed to cut loose.
Arch-V had Gong, who should've had his games won just by the Superheavy Samurai's Effects ALONE. Heck, add two copies of Anime Bezerker Soul/Pot of Benevolence/Rise to Full Height's in that Bad boy if you want to do Call outs....
How did no one mention Noah Kaiba during his duel with Yugi where he has a competent life point regaining deck, a busted version of Shinato, and multiple times to win with his Spirit monsters, including even via Yatalock?
Fun fact, Noah would have won if at one point he'd forced Big Shield Gardna into attack mode instead of Kuriboh, and in the Japanese anime, Noah commented in the moment he attacked Kuriboh because he was vindictive that it'd attacked him a few turns earlier. Noah lost his duel because of his own immaturity, which was kind of an underlying theme in the Japanese Noah.
My contribution: Julia Krystal (Japanese name Masumi Kotsu), the Gem Knight girl. She played Gem Knights, with Brilliant Fusion might I add, and never once pulled off the FTK. She could have been a real threat, even blasting Zarc to the other side of eternity, but she was just the rival of Zuzu (Japanese name Yuzu Hiiragi) ie the Melodius girl.
Joey back in the day had some powerful normal summons like Goblin Attack Force, Gearfried the Iron Knight and Panther Warrior, fucking Jinzo and some ridiculous shit like Roll of Fate, Anime Graceful/Skull Dice, even Maximum Six was a decent tribute summon, hell his boss monster was Raigeki on Legs. And yet he lost time and time again. To Seeker, to Marik, to Kaiba and finally to Zigfried. This man should have won more duels than Atem ever did.
He also had Little Winguard, Alligator's Sword and Battle Warrior. Also consider the fact that almost half his deck is composed of gambling effects. He realistically wouldn't have half as many wins as he does if he wasn't so lucky. His deck was garbage even my Duel Monsters era standards. He just happened to have some good cards thrown in there.
@@esteban8471 Those gambling cards did ridiculous things though. Skull Dice fucking divided the attack of a monster by your die roll and roll of fate was sixth sense on crack in a spell card.
"With legacy support" might be a bit of a loaded question because people saying "but they did have something that was really meta" oftentimes it's not being played pure like they do in the anime. Ishizu cards are a busted GY engine, I don't think I've heard many people talk about playing them with Exchange of the Spirit. Sunavalon, is it even any good without Rikka? Pepe was tier 0 and there were characters who were aligned using 2/3rds of the deck... But the last 3rd canonically didn't exist, and most of the Extra Deck cards that Pepe would use as its win-con also either are confirmed to have not existed in the Arc-V canon or are simply never implied to exist (like the Rank 4s that might be locked in the dead Xyz dimension). Crow, well, the series was focused on Riding Duels and no Black Whirlwind in Riding Duels. I've heard Rebecca's deck in her intro is good because it actually was taken directly from a champion player's decklist. I love Manjoume and think that he generally did have a good showing but some of his more prominent wins like sweeping the Genex tournament could have been shown on-screen. Taking a loss to Amon really just sits with me the wrong way, in part because all it really served to do was hype up Amon, and I really think Amon is like the most irrelevant of the transfer students and his story arc is more of a time waster in season 3 than it is interesting. Yeah his absolute pile even with the support that makes it an actual strategy may not be meta but Manjoume is always presented as one of the strongest duelists in GX so him not getting enough important wins after S1 leaving him pegged as a jobber is kinda bothersome. Seeing a GX sequel where he goes for full on Ojama ABC Link combos would be a treat. Speaking of the Genex tournament it also reminds me of Rei, who went as far as to be put in a prominent spot in the season 3 opening implying she'd become a main character but after her upgrade to "main" cast member she didn't even have a single duel on-screen shown fully until a tag duel where she barely does anything. Because of how nothing of a duelist she is while she's supposed to be as good as Obelisk Blue duelists, in the video games she used LIGHTSWORN. Would have been sick.
They also don't consider the effects being different in the anime. For instance, sunavalon has more restrictions and no Sowing. Phantom Knights Cloak, Boots, and Gloves don't have their grave effects. Terrortop doesn't have its search effect.
Amon was wild, having a completely separate arc from the main cast that never actually connects to the main plot besides a duel with Edo. Then he is sent to the stars before it goes anywhere.
0:07 Dire's tv show reference 3:03 Trickstar's were so powerful they had to make Aoi getting brainwashed mid-duel just to make her lose 6:48 to be fair, jack as a comic relief is really better. 7:08 I am pretty sure Declan / Reiji only lost to Yuya and Zarc.... and that's it. Otherwise he had perfect win record. 7:22 Revolver only lost to Yusaku / Playmaker, Soulburner, and Lightning... And Lightning had to cheat to win, otherwise their duel wiuld have been a draw. 7:49 that's part of yuga's charm. also, that most of the time yuga seemed to be 3 steps ahead of everyone even when he lost. only times the dude lost his chill was when going against ladybug related sutff. and people say that he takes it a step further in GO RUSH
Lightning didn't just cheat, he cheated MULTIPLE TIMES. First he used a hostage when Revolver had game so he had to pass or kill said hostage, and when Lightning activated a burn effect that would KO both of them, he cheated to gain enough life points by STEALING THE DATA OF HIS HOSTAGE'S MEMORIES so that he had enough to survive with just 1 Life Point after the burn went through. This is some Seto Kaiba levels of "Guy who should have won but lost to blatant cheating"
Let's be honest, guys, the strongest Yugioh player was that computer that was straight up playing stun to stall so that Yusei couldn't get through the door. Anime characters never build their decks optimally so realistically they won't have outs most of the time, as they just win by having protagonist plot armor drawing whatever weird specific card that's only useful in that specific scenario.
Lechter (the Jinzo deck master guy) in season 3 of the anime gave himself an ability to completely stop only the opponent’s traps for the entire duel, AND ran pre-errata imperial order, but still got clapped. If anime characters doubled in on the lockdown strategy rather than constantly trying to out muscle the protagonists in the end, they’d have won a lot more.
It's probably not a good idea to advertise a card game by showing all the ways to not let the opponent play the game though. It's kinda why they don't use FTKs unless they also show the out for it or make it super Jank.
No. Its cause the writers don't know how to write duels that isn't caveman beat down and makes broken cards to make their jobs easier rather than actually learning what's optimal. Writers don't play YGO.
@@soukenmarufwt5224dude, they do. The between-chapters shorts in the GX manga were all about the writer trying to build competitive versions of character decks.
Leichter did try to stay on that, but couldn't - he had been running out of LP, so he couldn't keep IO on the field anyway, and after that, all he had was Satellite Cannon
Anyone remember that 1 off character from arc v play beastborgs. The guy had a continuous trap that prevented almost any action in the game and some how still losses
In Yuga's defense, he is a game creator. Game creators don't care that much about winning and care more about people enjoying the game. Sure he said "Rush Duels will be easier to play and win." But I think he's mature enough to get over it. Although I have to admit, Yuga should have won more duels especially with "Sevens Wonder Fusion". It was pretty broken since it was probably limited (or banned. I don't remember that much about rush duel banlist.) After it debut in the show!
"But I think he's mature enough to get over it." he very much isn't. he gets pretty frustated when he loses. it's part of the character. he also gets super happy when he beats luke for the first time.
@@VivosaurACE by show I mean go rush. And yeah, he did only have two losses there. (But seriously, why did Yudias gets more wins despite barely doing anything especially in season 2?)
As someone who made multiple games as a kid to make and play with friends... I think Yuga losing in his own format is good! I didn't design this because I wanted to wipe everyone, I taught you this game because its got SAUCE and it SLAPS and its perfect for are group with x number of people.
Ok this video was perhaps the biggest banger in MBT’s recent history, maybe it’s the YGO anime obsession in me but I just could not stop laughing Also fun fact Luke does not lose a single rush duel for the entirety of the show until the LITERAL final episode when Yuga FINALLY beats him once (& The⭐️Lukeman losing does not count the show even says this)
I would love to see Sawatari with complete Abyss Actors support tbh. He would beat Z-ARC if he was the first person to duel him and with Link 1, 2 and Mellow Madonna (I don't think he had her) he could've done very well, not to mention off-engine cards like Beyond the Pendulum.
A lot of arc-v characters had super strong archetypes but lost due to plot armor. Zarc was on pure supreme kings, there’s no way he should have beaten _anyone._
Shingo was actually very close anyway and I am pretty sure he is the closest anyone got to actually making Zarc panic, guy looped Rise of the Abyss King with Abysstainment to wipe his field only for Zarc to go 'nuh huh since there's extra deck monsters in the GY I can't be destroyed' or something
Can we just sit back for a moment and talk about how busted Pegasus' deck is? - Relinquished and Thousand Eyes Restrict - Toon monsters that can attack directly in a 4000lp format - And Toon support cards like: Toon Kingdom, Comic Hand, Mimicat and Toon Briefcase that wouldn't be printed till 2015 but Pegasus is causally using in the GX era.
@@ssjbread2803 In the Pyramid of Light movie, where they followed the IRL rules, yes, but they didn't have that effect in the anime. If they did, Pegasus would win turn 1 or 2 against everyone. Against Yugi, he summoned Toon after Toon against him, to the point where he had 3 on field at once, in a format where the starting LP is 2000.
4:40 What does this guy mean? Throughout the entirety of 5ds Crow only lost one duel(if we are not counting team duels where he did get taken out) and that was a duel he lost on purpose.
Also how about the exact opposite Raphael played Guardians. A deck that mechanically does not work and he is the only person to beat the Pharaoh fair and square. Must have been carried by the SOUL CHARGE! He randomly had
He actually loses by using Soul Charge (he intentionally lost) The reason his deck worked to any degree was because he had Backup Gardna which let him move his equips to his guardians, and Eatos was way better in the anime as a beatstick
He's saying this like Trudge didn't also have Assault Dog, Handcuffs Dragon, Montage Dragon, Wiretap, his deck was really stacked against a deck such as Yusei's.
I want to know what their excuse for dennis and disrespecting his performage deck. The deck wasn't inherently broken on it own, only through off theme interactions. The character actually had decent duels even after he revealed he was part of the fusion force. He even had a epic duel with yuya post zarc. Sawatari gets yosenju support and OG support for abyss actor (his manga deck was monarchs). Why am i now qaiting year 6 soon for performages SUPPORT?!
to be fair on the last post. being good at your own game is WAY harder than it looks. I'm currently making my own trading card game, and one of my players immediately became the best player over night as he kept finding different ways to blow out the game and loop resources. the guy is fucking insane. even I WHO CREATED THE GAME dont understand the game to the stand level as my play testers.
S2 GX Aster with Destiny Heros, goes from beating Zane with Cyber Dragons and Jaden with Pure E-Heros. By the end of the season loses to Jaden with Neo Spacian/Neos, and Sartorious with Arcana Force.
Blue Angel. Trickstars were meta, _VRAINS_ was letting people play actual meta decks . . . and she still gets ROFLstomped by anyone with a tickle stick. Yes it was abundantly clear that the franchise hated female characters doing well, but it's hard to believe that _VRAINS_ wasn't at least trying to prove that.
To be fair to revolver, dude never got borrelend dragon. Apparently link 5 is a huge thing in VRAINS Also team unicorn 100% would have gotten the win on yusei. But because of plot armor, yusei's opponent (idgaf about the name) decided to BM which cost him the duel.
Genuinely, Team 5Ds vs Team Unicorn is the worst duel in the franchise for me. It shafts Akiza and Jack, two characters who are already struggling for screen time and relevance in the plot post-Dark Signers, have Yusei solo the enemy team, and at the last possible second have the leader of the team act out of character and crash for lethal damage so that Yusei can have that squeaky clean lossless record
Yuuga really wasn't playing seriously a lot of the time. There was a duel where the list he cooked that day was running SPARKS at 3. (Episode 30, vs Tiger) Bro was cooking so many decklists it's crazy. Also has a knack for running into the guy/gal who's gonna play a move he doesn't think is possible. Truly unfortunate. People clown on him for losing a lot but it's not like he misplays basically ever.
so if you ever get around to playing world championship 2011 (i'm currently in the middle of a playthrough) i would like to suggest leo. his constructed quality power tool deck is IN-sane in the sort of sealed format you have to play in. the only outs are exactly grand mole.
I haven't read it, but I looked into this one Yugioh OCG-based official manga, that like is shounen Yugioh but playing the real card game, and there was one two-part issue where one player running Drytrons got clapped by another playing Ursarctics. My boyfriend has Drytrons, and I played Ursarctics for a while, so I know the power disparity between them.
I think you glossed over Kalin with Hundred Eyes Dragon. It wasn't Phantom but in the Extra Deck. Hundred Eyes Dragon copied ALL DARK monster effects in your GY at the SAME TIME. It also had the little extra bonus of adding any card in your deck to your hand if it's destroyed. On top of that, the nature of the Dark Synchros being negative levels gave them blanket immunity to a lot of card effects. For example, something like Level Limit - Area B (Yes I know it's not something big to worry about, but that's the kind of stuff I mean). Also, its Level, in real play would absolutely break the game with Cyberdarks. Not even with the more modern support they got. Just the original 3 basic bitch main deck cards. They attach a lv3 or lower dragon to themself, and gain its ATK. So that's an easy 3800 ATK. And what happens to equipped cards when the monster they're equipped to gets destroyed? They get destroyed too. So your opponent kills your Cyberdark. Guess you get to replace it with any card in your deck now. Oh, you used the Cyberdark as a Link/Xyz/Synchro/Fusion/whatever material? Guess you get a card from your deck now. If we could combine 2 anime characters and make an absolute curb stomper of a deck, it would be Kalin + Zane
She had to be told to put fusions in the extra deck. Also she did not have the new support and she is a girl and the Yu-Gi-Oh writers have a thing about not letting girls win (see, Mia, Rebecca, Aki, Blue Angel)
I wouldn't mind Yuzu losing if she didn't lose significance. Before they jumped into the Synchro dimension, she felt like a de facto protagonist, growing as a person and developing her deck. And then fan favorite characters came back and she kinda disappeared in the shuffle.
@@xerael4659 And what a coinkydink, the same longtime director of 5D's takes over for a similar length of the rest of the show, and the redheaded female lead with boundless potential that everyone loves is completely deflated of relevance in favor of an overrated birdbrain with zero character development.
@@christopherb501 Arc-V, out of all season probably felt like a card commercial the most. Screenwriters trying to squeeze in as many different characters and decks as possible.
@@xerael4659GX would like a word, that show had a gigantic revolving door for one-offs that existed solely to showcase stuff from each new release *and* a major character whose strategy was "random new BS.dec" (Chazz, who plays 8 different archetypes in the anime and a completely different deck in the manga).
Without Irony, Syrus would have been busted if he had Barbaroid and Dragonroid from the get go. The roids were so good Dragonroid had to specify to not get Speedroid mixed in with Mixeroid. Except Mixer is also a Wind too. And then there is Super Vehicroid - Mobile Base summoned off an instant fusion Pair Cycloid. Or Pair Cycloid Power Bond that attacks for game. Or Call and City. Don't worry about those though. Speedroid can search Salamangreat Zebroid X. Functions as a normal monster in the era, but can get Blaze Phoenix on the field. Or Ignition Beast Volcannon. Or Bombing Beast Fire Bomber. I've lost the point, but it is a bit silly to imagine Zane getting Flash Fusion Burned for 8k.
Yusaku yusaku. Lightning bullshits revolver by turning his partner into one singular lifepoint. Them he gives soul burner the duel of his fucking life and loses
Id also bring up Bakura the only entertaining DM character to me. The dude in Battle City had an extremely well thought out deck and gameplan with destiny board, Dark Necrofear to blank an attack and reflect the damage back, The Dark Door to make it so yugi can only attack with one monster and had dark Sanctuary up on the field. He lost because of a Kuriboh Then there's his duel with Evil Marik. He literally had Hades, Earl of Demise and Dark Necrofear out at the same time which was game on board but good Marik somehow convinced Bakura that it's a good idea to give Evil Marik Ra to steal it when he wouldve gotten it after he won anyways.
What happened was that Bakura tried to tribute Headless Knight, Goblin Zombie, and Earl of Demise to kill Marik with his own Ra, but Marik played a BS trap card to blank the monster's ATK after they were tribute summoned so that Ra had 0 ATK. "Giving" Ra back to Marik was not really a choice for him at that point
@@nopunchman Damn I could've sworn he had those other monsters I mentioned out at the same time. Regardless yeah that loss imo was BS considering it was game regardless.
He did get those monsters out after the 0 ATK Ra BS. Like, he tributed Ra for Hades. But Marik had Vengeful Bog Spirit, so Bakura had to wait a turn, which was all Ra needed...@@Honest_Mids_Masher
Revolver also has a lost to Soulburner. But he was playing Salamangreat so it's understandable you'd forget that, since salamangreat is way to strong of a deck
the episode made it look like it was a dumb move, but my vote goes out to the Rare Hunter who had 3 sets of Exodia in his deck. if his deck was built more toward actually pulling the cards rather than relying on luck, he could've gotten the win instead of being flooded with doubles he had to set as sacrifices
I'd like to think that the in-universe characters actually play broken decks competitively. For instance, Ishizu plays full power Tearlament, Yugi plays Gandora FTK, Kotori plays the Agent, Specter playing Rikka Sunavalon, etc.
She Dueled once and lost once, to Kaiba. The idea was to force Kaiba to die to self-burn from attacking with Obelisk and triggering Blast Held by a Tribute. However, that's when Kaiba got a vision and interpreted it as him having to use Blue-Eyes, which is where he ends up just tributing Obelisk away
Shout out to the OG, Pegasus. Relinquished & Thousand Eyes Restricts were so good back then, Yugi had to bullshit not one, but two new Kuriboh abilities just to defeat them.
Toons in general are fucking busted in a 4000k LP Oh you just summoned some big monsters to protect your life points? Fuck you I'm going to attack directly for game
@@rhysjonsmusic you can't attack directly in Duelist Kingdom era tho. The alternate losing condition is to not summon monster while you don't control one on field. And you only has 2000 LP
@@raydhen8840 I said 4k LPs, it should be pretty damn obvious I was not talking about Duelist Kingdom. Pegasus should be walking around Battle City and wrecking house. (And before you say it, yes I know he's dead in the manga but he's alive in the anime so hush)
Dextra (butterspy lady) should not have lost to Vetrix. She literally made a loop that made it so any move they makes damages the opponent, had double the LP of the opponent, and only lost because the opponent had the ability to swap monster names and stole her memories
Fun fact. The Yugioh writers flat-out said by the time of Vrains they had no choice but to pretend some character's canon cards didn't exist to make duels still work. That is why Firewall Dragon is only in 3 duels despite being Yusaku's ace card.
Still say the card should have just had power-level errata anyway, and been given it diegetically in the show with the card being hacked and slightly repaired, or something.
Bro. I would love a DM remake where some guy just wins everything because he's not playing some stupid deck. Actually, fuck it. Fan work where the main character is some guy who really likes Goat format who accidentally gets sucked into the DM world because of shenanigans right at the start of Duelist Kingdom and just continually wrecks everybody by playing actual good strategies for the time period.
Yea, uh, one problem - Goat doesn't kill very fast, and if any Egyptian God is summoned, Goat has no outs, since they have no non-targeting non-destruction removal
Bandit Keith should have NEVER lost. Fuck the tributes, monster effects. This man blatantly told Joey his Warrior monsters can't even do damage to his MACHINES. This type of advantage is insaneeee
