The Loneliest Monster in Yu-gi-oh! 

worth noting that wyrm have a summoner monk and _two_ rotas without the level restriction, the generic one also having a mode that rummages without any loss of card advantage. if anything, it's the other way around - wyrms don't get a lot of support, but it's _pretty damn good_ for type support and it's keep from being a problem because _dragons_ don't get to benefit from it also, wyrms seem to have a lot more of a focus on grave manipulation and banishing, which may not _sound_ like the case because of what decks are prominent between the types, but wyrms have quite a bit of support and a decent chunk of their archetypes based around it, whereas dragons only really have chaos dragons and dragon rulers with little leaking out of those areas. there's also the theme of self-destruction, which is actually pretty interesting with how few prominent pendulum wyrms there are ( which itself is its own kind of interesting, given the type debuted in the arc-v era ) oh, and there's also the whole theme of using dragons _and_ wyrms, most prominent with dracocension. i think there's actually a really interesting archetype concept there, since the actual relationship between the types has been kinda stuck behind generic support nobody uses

I figured it was mainly an excuse for Konami to print even more dragons without worrying about oversaturating the type.

There's a joke in Seven in the episode, where Asana (wyrm user) duels for the first time. Seeing design of her monsters, main co assume they are dragons and ask Luke (dragon user) what he thinks. He corrects them saying it's not dragons, but wyrms. Everyone then asks what's the difference and he replies: "No idea" with dead serious face.

And as far as it's relatively scarcity, I actually DO think it's just down to the newness of the type. Yes it's not the newest, but it's the 2nd newest after Cyberse. And Cyberse was SO heavily promoted as a new type (being closely associated with the Vrains anime and Link summoning in general) that it's only natural that the number of Cyberse cards quickly surpassed the number of Wyrms.

Well dragons are the best mythical creature given their wide adaptability and shear coolness

You’re also forgetting sea serpent originally be sea dragon (which feels like the most redundant change but even so both of the distinctions feel bad and should probably just be “ Sea monsters” )

@@empireyouth5791 i actually didn't know that one. Thank you random stranger

Which is bizarre, since the game launched in the West with multiple cards explicitly named "Angel."

To be honest I think that change was for the better it made archetype not inherently angel or demon based make more sense with the typing.

Japan has the far superior names for types. Sea Serpents are called Sea Dragons and Wyrms are called Phantom Dragons, if I remember right.

Who knows for sure? It would be interesting to see what direction they do take for a fire attribute fish type, I can say that much

Suship should've been the FIRE Fish deck since sushi is literally carved-up fish.

Underwater Volcano type fish might be Fire attribute, Fish that swim in Lava can also be a Fire. Mermagma maybe a new archetype

if this works with volcanics payne would go wild if this arctype gets released

Mako sumani: shut up and take my money

Squaleruption (Squalid Eruption) Tuning Squaleruption Hammertone with Squaleruption Tiger Synchro Summon! Squaleruption Megalotonne!

Moby Dick archetype. Double edge sword of fish hunting fish in the deep mantle of the earth with a whale hunter who has become consumed by the hunt to the point of becoming one himself.

It's awesome we have fire attribute aqua. Suship (twice as awesome is the fact there fun imo)

that's actually pretty impressive. i mean imagine a fiery fish with bond so hot that they become the coolest archtype in the game. i suppose we can call them brotherhood of fire fish! a'ight imma sign out.

i also like Sincro's

I was also thinking about a drowned zombie archetype, like the mobs in Minecraft.

I hate that the first concept that comes to mind for this combo for me is "Corpse Balloons"

@@PinesOfChaos hehe that would be fun to see too

Fart ghost archetype Konami please...

Windy ghosts, like LOTR's army of the dead. It could work.

But IT DIDN’T F***ing Work now Did It!

Yu-gi-oh! OC - These Don’t Exist (As an Archetype, there MIGHT be a single monster...) EARTH Winged-Beast WIND Reptile WATER Pyro FIRE Thunder LIGHT Fish DARK Aqua EARTH Fish WIND Pyro WATER Insect FIRE Aqua LIGHT Sea-Serpent DARK EARTH Sea-Serpent WIND Rock WATER Fiend FIRE Fish LIGHT Pyro DARK EARTH Pyro WIND Fiend WATER Zombie FIRE Insect LIGHT Aqua DARK Fish EARTH WIND Zombie WATER FIRE Beast LIGHT Fish DARK EARTH WIND WATER FIRE Rock LIGHT Zombie DARK Is EVERY Tyranno a LIGHT Dinosaur?!

Made this for brainstorming fanfic archetypes

@@Ramsey276one Here I go, I will go by the listed ones given by attribute. EARTH Winged-Beast Easy, an archetype of what are long-legged, generally terrestrial birds. Ostriches, Secretary Birds, Flamingos, etc. With the secretary bird, we can connect this to a secondary theme, and make it an archetype of "business birds" which further emphasizes why they're Earth - they spend most of their time in the office. Fish Desert sharks! Sea-Serpent Sea Serpent is tough in general because it's so vaguely defined, but I think it could be done. There's a mythological Scottish monster known as the Nuckelavee, that dashes out of the ocean and causes drought. So let's say that the theme of the archetype is that we look at supernatural creatures from the British isles, like the Selkie, the Glaistig, the Pooka, etc. and they cause drought. Pyro First thought is "magma," but one might consider that to be more like a FIRE Rock-Attribute. However, magma is something that is more "earthy" and when I get to FIRE Rock, I think there's another very good concept to work with. So, the EARTH Pyro archetype is a bunch of magma creatures. Lava Golem is a FIRE Fiend but I'm thinking something similar to that. A possible gimmick that I think could be neat is if they worked like anime Carboneddon and had GY effects that activated if a certain number of cards in the GY were "above" them - the idea being similar to the GY being a "volcano" and they burst out of it when pressure has built up. WIND Reptile Plenty of lizards who could be made into air-themed but I say we go with the central idea of the entire archetype being frilled lizards. They're lizard kites, with their frills being extravagant and colorful. As an aside, for some reason Balloon Lizard is EARTH attribute. Rock I'm going to take inspiration from two similar archetypes here. The first is Aroma - their Aroma Jar is a WIND Rock type, and so the idea I'd go for is that the archetype is based on minerals being used to make scents. The first thing that comes to mind on that note, of fragrant minerals, is smelling salts - which are associated with athletes. We already have both boxing and sports archetypes, but how about an archetype of GOLEM athletes? They could be based on different fragrant minerals, and they'd have floating effects since when they get destroyed they leave behind their scent. Pyro There is no point of reference for what sort of monster would be a WIND Pyro, so I decide to look to folklore. I'm thinking of the Djinn of the Middle East - now, we have a few genies in the game and they aren't Pyro type, nor are they WIND attribute, but in the original sources, jinn are said to be spirits of both fire and air - and a WIND Pyro would capture that perfectly. If we're going for a more accurate set of Djinn, they would not be inherently good or evil, so having "morally neutral" types instead of Fairy, Fiend, LIGHT, DARK (etc.) makes more sense. Fiend Diskblade Rider is the card I'd look to as the primary inspiration for this one. Demonic motorcycle gang. I thought it was neat that in some of the video games, you could go up in a tag duel against him and Chaosrider Gustaph (who is a warrior instead of a fiend for some reason) and they both had decks filled with Traps/Spells respectively. Fiend motorcyclists, with a Spell and Trap lineup to support them, and they banish cards from the GY to get boosts. Zombie Honestly, I think it's a little weird how despite being one of the most famous monsters in Japanese lore that tengu are so underrepresented in Yugioh. The ones we have vary in type from Winged Beast to Beast-Warrior to Fiend but there are a couple in Mayakashi. Here's a way we can make them Zombie-type: Tengu used to be associated with war, but that association has faded. Let's make this archetype be the spirits of these older tengu who died in the wars. FIRE Thunder Not that tough, honestly it's weird that only one monster of this combination exists and it's a Magikey. Thunder represents electricity, so how do we get it on fire? Live wires, I'd say. Let's make it an archetype of goofy electricians, but, like, really incompetent ones. They're FIRE attribute because they constantly get into accidents and cause fire hazards, and they get fired. Aqua This one already exists in Suship. Fish We really could just make it an archetype of fish who are on fire, and their fire is so powerful that it even burns underwater. Sometimes, simple works. Maybe their archetype gimmick is that they play around negation? Insect I'm leaning towards army ants, but, like, a literal army. Technically we have tended to place military-themed cards in EARTH, but not if we choose to make them fire ants. Beast This one is almost too vague, "take animals and put them on fire," technically it has already been done with stuff like Fire Fist. You can really do anything you want with the archetype as long as they're Beastly and also on fire. Rock I mentioned in EARTH Pyro that magma comes to mind for this combination.... But how about METEORS? WATER Pyro Here we're in completely unknown territory since we're dealing with the "diametrically opposed" combination. But, let's give it a little leeway - Suship also was given leeway. How about oil monsters? They aren't Aqua-type since they are on fire, but they aren't FIRE attribute because their bodies are liquid? Alternatively, we could make them not oil but they could be, dudes who oil up their bodies and then light themselves on fire, inspired by Turkish Oil Wrestling but way more hardcore. So they are less liquidy. Insect Lots of aquatic insects, it's a bit weird that they're so uncommon as it is. Let's follow Pokemon's cue and make the insects have a sort of "alien" look to them, where they encase themselves in bubbles like space suits. Fiend Plunder Patroll does it, but I suppose we can say that they include non-WATER so they don't count. Ice demons are something that could easily be an archetype. As an aside, in Dante's Inferno, the deepest circle of Hell is actually portrayed as extremely cold. Zombie This is going to get WEIRD, but I would say make them an archetype based on CLASSIC POETRY. Why? Well, there's a lot of references that could be made here, to poems by people like Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Bronte... Robert FROST. Why are they Zombie type? They're ghost writers! LIGHT Fish I kind of enjoy the lore that Yugioh has extremely rare fish that are very desirable that people would risk their lives to get them, such as Terrorking Salmon and Seven Colored Fish (though they seem to have domesticated Seven Colored Fish if they can sell it in the market). Let's make that concept into an archetype, perhaps the fish are literally adorned with precious metals. Sea-Serpent So, you know Abyss Dweller? It's an aquatic dragon with bioluminescence. Well, technically Abyss Dweller is still a WATER attribute, but that's the idea I'd go with for a LIGHT Sea Serpent archetype. They live deep in the ocean and are based on horrific monsters that are vaguely draconic, they are LIGHT because of their glowing bodies. Zombie Technically this is Eldlich but the archetype is one monster and a bunch of Trap Monsters. I'd count it. Pyro The only real LIGHT Pyro we have is the Helios series. But that gives a perfectly good idea to work with: stars. And this gives a springboard: there are a classification of stars that are dwarf stars. Dwarves, in Norse mythology, are the greatest of blacksmiths. Meteors were associated with amazing weapons in ancient history because they could house very pure iron. Yep, this is fitting together in an EXTREMELY satisfying manner. Aqua Jellyfish are Aqua-type, and often sting so you can make electric jellyfish. DARK Aqua There's the obscure, very bad monster Mucus Yolk that is a DARK Aqua and the design is that it's a bacteria. I say make an entire archetype of this type, oriented around Traps. Specifically, they will support the Virus cards - similar to Traptrix, they will search and recur your viruses, and I'd say give them a field spell that negates the effects of monsters in the GY while a Virus effect is lingering as their gimmick. Fish Do something involving eels. They're aquatic predators and stealthy, they can be made DARK. How about for fun we make it a "whip" archetype, where it's actually a bunch of people using eels as weapons? Or, that gives a better idea - an archetype of fish-themed assassins. You could have an eel, a puffer fish, an angler, a marlin etc.

@@Zetact_ Did you see the Fire Shark comment, by any chance? Fella got me inspired in a minute! XD

@@Ramsey276one WATER Pyro could easily be steam-powered animals akin to Dinomist.

I still dont get what Slaamangrrat is suppose to be

@@eavyeavy2864 Great Salamanders.

Heh. I was waiting for you to whip out your Raigeki, but I guess it’s better make your own chum, huh? Now that I’ve tossed Volcafin Moby and Volcafin Sinbad overboard, I can activate the Spell Card, Volcafin Fusion! By banishing Volcafin monsters from my Graveyard, I can fish up infernal power beyond your reach. So I’ll banish Moby and Sinbad…and begin my fusion! Relentless hunter of behemoths, song resonating through the earth… Seeker of treasures, flames burning everything in your way… Resonate and explode! Rise from the infernal depths, and uphold the world itself! *Fusion Summon!* Tectonic Volcafin Bahamut!

@@mistletoecanary God damn it 4Kids!

Lavasioth.

or cooked fish

@@mistletoecanary I really should have scrolled through the comments note the first time I saw this video

Interesting I will have to get that image for next time I talk about type.

If a recall correctly Llinkuriboh as a cyberce icon was implemented in Duel Links back in 2020 when the type icons where implemented

Actually master duel redrew every single type icon from previous games

@@ScarletDeclan the old type icons from the PS1 era needed some work specially the dragon and dinos

@@livanbard I definitely agree. And the new master duel ones are fun. I especially like the aqua one being just revival jam haha

In the anime they only refer to him as Psycho Shocker so yes

@@AlexTCGProYT So it's a Shocker

My guess is some relation to Kamen rider, the bad guys in the older series are known as "Shocker" and usually their MO is cybernetic implants and that sort of thing.

@@AlexTCGProYT they said his full name on his very first summon

Psycho shocker was supposed to be what he does.

probably because lavals, and a decent chunk the pyro type as a whole, already fill most of the design space that comes with it i suppose there isn't much, if any, representation of for pyromancy _proper_ - i.e. the use of fire for _divination._ and, hell, rekindling the attribute wouldn't turn its nose up towards a sylvan-esque deck that can set up the grave with proper deck manipulation

Zoroa, the Magistus of Flame is alone among his Magistus buddies who all have their own archetypes, so watch this space! (Do not watch this space I am desperate for more magistus and magistus-related cards)

Is it too much to want to set my heart ablaze? Also Pyromancers just scream burn decks but I don’t care as spellcasters are lit

they can't come up with a clever pun for it yet

@@jamesaditya5254 pyrotechnics is fine

Yeah, I think they went fire-aqua to avoid all the good generic water and machine support, as one would expect a naval archetype would be water-machine.

@@Kylora2112 Aqua, Fish, Sea Serpent has a bit of shared support, unsure if any of that stuff still works well. Sharks has mostly Fish iirc. Since these were stuff like roe and prepared fish cuisine, I get the basis for dodging machines, but Aqua over Fish is a bit of a "they picked that one just because".

I could imagine a "steamfish" archetype of fire-fish attribute. Maybe it's an archetype that doesn't have a ton of OTK possibilities, but is easy to summon in large numbers and they do passive direct damage on turn change when on the field and could have spell or trap protections to stop them from being wiped out by opponents abilities forcing an opponent to grind through them.

I could definitely see "Fire-Breathing Fish" being the name of an old school one-off. Does it make sense for a fish to breathe fire? No. Could it have been something Konami printed two decades ago? Definitely.

Since firefish sounds lazy and hellfish would need censoring, how about Hotwater as the archetype name? Also, Hotwater can allude to the phrase "you're in real hot water now" and refer to its Attribute/Type combination. Hotwater's gimmick could center on burn damage via banishment (burnishment?) as they swim in and out of the abyss.

Qiulin and Jiao are great examples

Because in OCG wrym type is named "Phantom dragon" type which i think referring to Eastern dragons (Dragons that have long body like serpent and has 4 legs. It kinda similar to wyrm except they can fly instead of traveling under the ground and most of them are good dragons and sacred dragons because in most of Eastern cultures, dragon is the sacred being and instead of bringing destruction like Westen dragons, they bringing rain, blessing and protection.)

Till you bring up lyndwyrm

Wyrm can be many things depending on the author world building. In dark sun they were fake dragons since in that world becoming a dragon is a major feat of sorcery and requires sacrifice

@@livanbard there's also the genelogical tree of dragons. Which contains dragons, wyvern, drake, amphthere, lyndwyrm, wyrm. Which destinctly defines each one. So you're right. It's up to the author's creativity and their cultural upbringing.

So basically they're digimon.

@@Hynotama Pretty much

Waiting for Yggdrasil to make an appearance and rival Holactie

So THAT'S why GBA era Yugioh games have forest, thunder, shadow, and dream attribute monsters! The elemental rock-paper-scissors was annoying at times.

IIRC in Duelist of Roses we have this attributes

I think you can argue psychic was originally meant to be a type too, what with espa roba.

Lmao I was thinking sparkman before I finished reading that 😂

Light-Electricity is also just a common association in Japanese games. In a lot of games with elemental magic, the light element is often the one giving you your lightning attacks, like in Chrono Trigger, for example.

@@Celestia282 Not only that, In the Dragon Quest series, the Main hero, who usually is associated with the light or just general goodness, usually is the one who has access to the Zap (the lightning/thunder based spells) spell line in those games! A lot of times they exclusively have access to it even!

And Blue-Eyes White Dragon, of course!

@@Celestia282 also a common association in at least the english language considering the word 'lightning' literally has 'light' in its name.

That's what I thought. Awesome. But Konami does have a game that gets us to SUMMON monsters. Tribute summon.. 😒 RITUAL summon 😱😱!!!

If you look at the majority of the Alien archetype, they all have very lizard like features with a few exceptions here and there. Worms are really all over the place in terms of their visual design, I feel that in this case since they are extraterrestrials they just lumped them into the Reptile typing like Aliens to keep type synergy with itself.

Reptiles are the SCP type

Psychic type didn't exist when Worms were made so they had to put them somewhere. Reptile was very underdeveloped so they felt it was a good fit that could help fill out an attribute.

Reptiles be like: "Aliens and snakes. Those are all the reptiles. Yup."

This is a good idea, and it's a shame that the only seafood archetype is RAW seafood.

they could've made suships fire fish

Could be a life point benefitting archetype maybe? Like everytime they attack or are summoned you get life point gains but then also have normal other effects, would make them pretty good and for once make a life point gaining strategy more viable since it’s a side benefit of the archetype while also doing something to hurt the opponent. Maybe even could be you gain some points and at the same time the opponent loses those points

Always thought FIRE Thunder would be a badass combo

In concept they are.

I mean yeah, they’re digital monsters, so you’re not wrong :P

More like NetNavis

@@pn2294 ah, I see you’re a gamer of culture as well.

yeah that's def the case

It feels like Wyrm is where they put stuff that is either a Chinese dragon, a god that they refuse to use DIVINE/Divine Beast on for flavor reasons, or both.

Why is why it’s disappointing that they aren’t more prominent in the anime They could’ve used it for the Dimension Dragons

Especially if you consider that Wyrm-type was released 1 year after Dragon Rulers, who just broke the game.

But it DIDN’T F***ing work now Did IT!

In the skeleton timeline he got adopted but the Skull Servant family, so he's doing alright.

@@Excellsion ohhh I didn't know that yay ! :> happy doggo

@@Excellsion Skull Servants fill my heart with so much joy and happiness, it's incredible :) And now theres another reason to like them even more.

the dog is marron

The dog wasn't really abandoned, in where arf thou artwork you can see the boy actually looking for him but they missed each other. Fortunately, skull servant family took care of maroon after it died and turned into skull dog.

also, this is a great video and an interesting topic

Thank you so much!

Thank you!

What would you have in mind for talking about the different monster types?

@@tcgtheory1147 There could be a lot of things, For instance, I would suggest explaining each summoning concept, like the ones we saw in the anime, Or easiest to hardest summoning methods, Anyway just seeing something related to that, But you can do anything related to YGO.

@@tcgtheory1147 honestly a correlation between different monster types and typings would be nice. I think it’s safe to say that most fusions are warriors, dragons are most xyz and synchro, Pendulum would probably be spellcasters, Links dominated by cyberse and probably fairys for ritual

@@polaroideternalhaven8671 I'd imagine there's also correlations like, say, WIND-Synchro (Stardust, Speedroid), DARK-Fusion (HERO, Predaplant, Chimeratech, Dark Magician...), Cyberse-Link (Code Talker), etc =P

@S V holactie is a real card in the OCG

It's not a "cop-out" answer, it's the objectively correct answer.

Wait scraps are magical, this entire time I thought they were just machines trying to pretend to be living things ~~ I got that impression from the scrap scarecrow, as the The scarecrow‘s job is to be as real looking as possible the rest of the scraps do the same~~ but I guess this technically doesn’t have to be true Since it’s only one card I based this thought on

But then what about raidraptors? Those are winged beasts but they're clearly just big mech birds.

@@DaShikuXI funny enough I have a theory for those specifically, The theory being they are actually war mech suits and the red Raptors true a parents are in their spell/trap artwork (specifically the glowing white bird that constantly appears) that being the truth forms

Dinomist? 🤔

@@empireyouth5791 They are just srap parts held together by magic, the typing might refer to the soul of the animal being used to hold all those scraps together, the ffects of "when destroyed get some scraps from the gy or deck, is just you recovering the trash left to infuse it with another being

Unfortunately, anglerfish would more likely be classified as LIGHT. Still hoping for that FIRE Fish rep.

FIRE Fish would most likely be whatever lives next to deepsea volcanic vents.

@@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa Ooh, I love that idea!

@@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa or magma dwelling fish

Pyro-type is so woefully undersupported.

Thanks !