Also the fun fact is: Yusei learn Fusion summon after meeting Yugi and Judai in the past (Yu-Gi-Oh Bonds beyond time event happened before that episode).
in the Duel links lore, whenever Yusei lost to Judai in a duel, Yusei said he wants to learn more about Judai's fusion summoning/strategy so that he would not lose next time whenever he battled vs fusion monsters players
Wouldn’t that go for Yuma as well? He only xyz summoned, while jaden only fusioned. Not counting normal, special or tribute since everyone did that and those are basic summoning methods.
@@sinbad4696 Gimmick from 5D's it was similar to XYZ summoning except they don't have overlay units nor have rank up or rank down cards to make new monsters.
@@Justcallmeaqua420 Its also nothing like XYZ summoning. XYZ summoning checks to make sure that the levels of the two monsters are the same. Synchro summoning requires you to add (oh no, basic math) the levels of the monsters together and bring out a monster that has that EXACT total of levels. You also need a tuner monster, but that's no different than having a monster with polymerization stuck (heh) to the back.
Iirc, According to what we know of the timeline, Yusei actually fusion summoned the one time because he was inspired by Jaden doing it in Bonds Beyond Time, he knew Fusion could be done with a Synchro Monster after Jaden used Junk Gardna to make Neos Knight.
Wouldn't be surprised if that was also his original anti meklord strat before he found accel synchro. Also rip assault modes. They aren't canon, if they were jack would legit just win every single duel against new world because of his destroy everything effect.
To add on,it's actually cause he was trying to accel synchro but has yet to learn its mechanism,when he saw Jaden's fusion, he decided to use speed fusion as a way to compensate before learning accel synchro
@@s4xtt Yeah, I always like to think about how 5D's could've gone on if Yusei never figured out Accel Synchro and had to stick with Synchro Fusion, because they're supposed to be similar power...
Its funny how kite can do fusion and ritual summon but not Yuma. It would've been awesome if Yuma used polymerization to fuse utopia with something else. So many possibilities yet never explored.
There was that time he and Shark teamed up against the #61 and #19 users and “fused” Utopia with Black Ray Lancer. He used Armored XYZ to equip Utopia to BRL giving it the ability to destroy a Number monster by battle. It was a cool scene to watch.
@@thesteadfastduelist6258 you are correct, but I was hoping for a pure fusion summon with a fusion spell card but I guess that's the closet we'll ever get to Yuma combining his ace with someone else's ace monster.
@@thesteadfastduelist6258 That wasn't a fusion though, it was just a monster equipped with another monster. Also speaking of Utopia/Black Ray Lancer, I hope they make that into in actual card if it gets printed (it might be a Leo Utopia Ray situation to where both monsters aren't actual cards in the show, just one monster equipped with another and will get made into an actual card in the game)
And on the same way, if we say Shark is Yuma's Rival, then he is the only Yugioh Rival that have never Fusion Summon as well. Thou Kaito did Fusion Summon once in Zexal I
Lore-wise, Xyz summoning is like the merging of "distant souls", so it is totally understandable that Yuma never Fusion summons since Xyz already embodies that Fusion concept.
I was thinking the exact same thing but I lacked the knowledge to put it into words, i was thinking “but doesn’t Xyz summoning fuse 2 cards together to bring in a number card?”
Yugi & Judia: let us explain Yuya: That cool, You guys Fusion Summon alot Yusei & Playmaker: We didn’t Fusion Summon alot but it was good time Yuma: WhAt A fUsIoN sUmMon??? Astral:(face palm)
@@lpfan4491 rituals irl are always the left behind mechanic no one uses, so it actually makes more sense that the only madman that uses rituals is the protagonist
@@luissaumeth8000 And whenever Rituals do get support, it's usually just a singular archetype that revolves around ritual summoning. Generic ritual stuff really isn't a thing. Personally speaking, Yu-Gi-Oh needs to take a break from introducing new summoning mechanics, and should instead focus a bit more on different strategies. They've obviously done that throughout the franchise, but that mostly takes a backseat to the main summoning mechanic of each show.
Also can you make a short about how Shark and Revolver are the only rival characters in Yugioh to never fusion summon (granted Revolver did have a fusion monster, but he never summoned it)
@@jaredhamilton425Shark dueled Yuma way more than Kite did and they both had way more character development from dueling each other. Kite only dueled Yuma half as many times as Shark did and it was extremely one sided. Meanwhile Shark and Yuma have both won against each other making the rivalry more even. Heck, after Kite became Yuma's friend he stopped dueling him and he had his own rival which was Mizar. Shark however dueled him in every single season. By the time they dueled Don thousand Yuma and Shark were way above Kite considering how easily Don thousand beat Mizar who was equal to Kite.
@@Honest_Mids_Masher the thing is, Kite has more in common with Kaiba than Shark. Kite has a level 8 light dragon that has an upgraded form that requires 3 materials to summon. He’s also the resident dragon user. Part of his antagonism at first is because of his little brother, who is being used against him by the main antagonist of the season. Galaxy-Eyes and Blue-Eyes are even complimentary to each other because of how similar their stats are.
@@jaredhamilton425 That doesn't necessarily mean he's the rival however. Reiji has level 8 dark fiends, and his Fusions don't follow any of that criteria and while he has a little brother it isn't the main cause of his antagonism. Just because there's similarities between two characters it doesn't mean they fulfill the same role. Like I said Shark and Yuma dueled way more, they both won and lost against each other making them have an even rivalry, and they both lead to their own character development, if Kite really was Yuma's rival they would've dueled way more instead of 3 times and would've had a final climactic duel but that's what Shark did instead. Most of these are textbook rival roles.
Also Yuma ans Jaiden are the only ones to not use multiple summoning methods Yumi:Rituals+Fusions Yusei:Synchros+Fusion Yuya:Fusion+Synchro+XYZ+Pendulum Playmaker:Link+Fusion+Synchro+XYZ
Judai/jaden has fusion summon, contact fusion and transformation summon with effect of metamorphosis and NEX And yuma has xyz summon and rank up xyz evolution
@@shaddowblack0279contact fusion is still just fusion, it isnt a different type of summon. NEX and metamorphosis just special summon a fusion from the extra deck it isn't a special mechanic. Rank up spells are not a special mechanic they just summon an xyz from the extra deck. Xyz summoning using an existing xyz monster is still just xyz summoning. Edit: the xyz summoning using an existing xyz monster is mentioned in case you say you weren't referring to rank up spells for "rank up xyz evolution" and instead to summoning things like C39 utopia ray.
I love that duel, and it would have been hilarious and potentially really amazing to actually have them lose that duel. Teaching team 5ds to function as a team. And if I remember the WRGP bracket correctly, Team 5ds still could have moved on considering Unicorn lost to team catastrophe.
Plus it would save them from writing yet another duel where Yusei plot armors himself into yet another win. Like I love 5ds but my god the amount of times yusei won a duel he had no business winning was absurd
Now that you say this, sometime in the future, there will be some Fusion Monster with Utopia and some other monster, like Black Ray Lancer or Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. Just you wait!
Well, to be fair he started out pretty lousy and only really got marginally better by the end. He didn't really get better, he just got OP cards. I don't even think Astral was that good, he was just better than Yuma. Shark was good, though.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 As much as I enjoy the BM to a fictional character, outside of shining draws (a mechanic that every single protag has used at least once, in some variation, what overpowered cards did Yuma use? I think it's time for you to go back and actually watch all of the anime again. May I recommend the official site if you don't feel like dealing with Crunchyroll's greed?
Fun Fact: I think the only rival that has never fusion summoned (if we consider kite as the Zexal rival) is Revolver despite owning a fusion monster he never summoned it on screen
Actually, no one fusion or synchro summoned in zexal except that one time when Kite was dualing with shark, he fused two photons lizards together. Because in zexal Xyz Summon is the main summon technic
The only reason I knew who it was is because in Zexal I think there were only Xyz summons all the way through at least that I can remember. But also in the first half of the Zexal era Konami was weirdly opposed to printing anything for the extra deck other than Xyz monsters. They were pushing the new mechanic WAY too hard and there was a lot of community push back. The first really good card that came out for the extra deck that wasn't an Xyz Monster was in Cosmo Blazer with Crimson Blader. It was supposed to be support for Fire Fist but was and still is an amazing generic Level 8 Synchro.
I immediately knew what the answer to this was cause Zexal is the only show I watched in it’s entirety and I had no idea what fusion or synchro summoning was.
Yusei needed to counter the Meklords, which steal synchros, so he decided to go with Fusion. However, he decided to also blow the surprise before actually facing the Meklord users.
Hilariously, Yusei already had an Anti-Machine Emperor card: Turbo Warrior. It is unaffected by the effects of Level 6 and lower monsters, and all the Machine Emperors were Level 1.
Fun Fact: there is not a single duel in any of the shows or movies where Kaiba doesn't summon Blue-Eyes. Even when it's technically not Kaiba like Ghost Kaiba or Kaibaman, or even Yugi using Kaiba's deck.
Yuma also never ritual summoned and while he has used a ritual monster in a duel, it wasn't even his as he took over in one of Kite's duels when he was unable to continue and that meant taking his remaining life points and all the cards Kite had in his field as well as the ones in his graveyard and one of these cards happened to be a ritual monster because Kite wanted to mix things up a bit and use something other than XYZ summon
@@therandomgamer18 Sigh... To be fair, I was talking about the newer summoning mechanics then the older ones. Such as Link Summoning in any season besides Vrains. Or XYZ summons before Zexal. So I never said that Ritual summoning didn't exist, I just said that some of the summoning mechanics didn't exist in their seasons, which is true.
@@therandomgamer18 Sorry if I came off angry at you, but after re-reading my comment I saw how you misunderstood my comment. That is why I replied with a more concise reply to you. And made it a bit more clear that I was talking about the future summoning methods.
I honestly wish they would have done a team duel with Yuma and Kite and fused their aces together to make something like "Galaxy-Eyes Utopic Dragon" or something
I actually knew that without the process of elimination Yuma doesn't have a single fusion card in his deck and if he did he never got the chance. Or he left them at home 😂😂
Fun fact, Kaito is the only person in YuGiOh Zexal to use another form of summoning that isn’t Xyz. Funnily enough it was fusion summoning that he used.
Funny thing is that while Yuma didn't fusion summon, there were still fusion summons and ritual summons in the series. Both are done by Kaito, whos deck was built with the power of "other dimensions". Which also tracks really well with the fact that Kaito tribute summons his ace monster, and his deck is specifically anti xyz monsters.
Honestly, with how long it took the kid to learn Xyz (one of the more accessible summoning mechanics, especially at the time) I shudder to think what would happen if someone so much as suggested using fusion summoning to him.
Imagine atem season 1 fusion summoning monsters that do not exist in ways that cannot be used to summon execpt its Yuma and nothing happens while arterial explains that he is an idiot and needs certain cards to fusion certain monsters
Yuya was also the only protag to do Advance summoning methods, meaning he used the monsters of said method to perform said methos again(Synchro using a Synchro monster, Rank-Up Xyz, and Fusion with a Fusion monster). The only thing Yuya didn't do was Accel Synchro
Yuma hasn’t done any summoning mechanic besides Xyz and we only see three fusions and one ritual summon in the entire run. Well at least we saw a ritual summon after not seeing a single onscreen one during 5ds. We saw a Lycanthrope for a few seconds, but not the summon so for all we know it could have been cheated out.
Well Yuma deck (onomat, Utopia) is locked him from summoning from ex-deck except XYZ, like zubabancho effect But i think it would be awesome if the deck did not lock him, imagine a link/fusion Utopia it will be awesome (and konami can make a lot of money)
Very few, if any, cards Yuma used actually locked him into Xyz summoning specifically. It's just that lore wise there's no reason to fusion summon since Numbers are treated as stronger than normal cards and can only be destroyed in battle by other Numbers in the anime.
Unless you're Kite or Roku, then you're won't be fusion or ritual summoning any monsters in Zexal.. (Also, the leader of Triad or Terror during the World Duel Carnival finals, but I'm sure no one ever remembers him.)
Small correction, but Yuya used all of the "Extra Deck" summoning mechanics at the time, but not "all mechanics" as he at no point used a Ritual Summon. A shame really as given Aura's crush on him, it would have been the perfect opportunity to have him use a one-off Odd-Eyes Ritual Dragon.
Yuma was going to fusion summon in a tag duel with shark to create F 61 utopia Drake Which would a bed a fusion and XYZ monster but they scrapped the idea before the show started and if you’re ordering what F stands for it beads fusion so basically would be fusion 61 utopia Drake
techncily rush isnt fusion summon its fusion shockan and its completly diffrent name. but i can let that one slide cause its basicly same thing and theres prior fusion monsters doing it XD
Kek. Just because the maincard is written as Fyujon instead of Yūgō in rushduels does not mean that the actual summoning-term changes. It's still a fusionsummon.
During ZEXAL's run, I had conceptualized at the time the idea of "Xyz Fusions" based on two monter combinations: when C39 Utopia Ray fuse with ZW Leo Arms and they had this Utopia Leo Arms fusions, and then when Shark combined Black Ray Lancer with Submersible Carrier Aero Shark. I thought of this concept as a sort of "counter" to the Chaos Xyz monsters that the Barians were summmoning, partly inspired by 5Ds when Antinomy was trying to teach Yusei how to Accel Synchro as a counter to the Meklords. I never went too in detail except that the Monsters to be combined must have had the same Rank, and when they "fused" (which would be a Xyz monster) the Overlay Units would be passed on to the new summon
I mean they kinda of did that already with Utopic future requiring to non- number xyz and in a way with odd eyes rebellion dragon even tho u have to change the rank into a level it actually looks like dark rebellion and odd eyes actually fused
For reference. I thought there were 5. Maybe they were on the 6th one but I only really knew the first 3 and I could never remember the name of the 4th one. Shows how long it’s been for me.
Man Arc V was really something, that dark aspect and story is crazy and animations are top notch. Svery dragon js simply beautiful, still loving that scene of Odd eyes raging dragon. Wish they handled ending a bit differently but nevertheless probably one of the best yugioh series
Out of all these series I think Arc-V and the OG are my favorites. I watched all of Zexal with my son when it came out every Saturday morning and that show got me back into collecting and eventually playing again. I never saw 5D's and gotta get around to that one day so unfortunately I can't say much about it. GX was pretty cool but never finished that and I haven't seen the last two series yet. I watched the first episode of Vrains but at the time I was watching too many shows and just never bothered with it. That being said, man was Arc-V super cool, I really liked how all the summoning mechanics had their own little dimensions and were at war with one another. The whole 5Ds/ Synchro arc was the best one and my favorite archetype of all time was in that series being Fluffals/Frightfurs. My cousin/best friend bought me a preconstructed deck for my birthday and from then on that's been my main. To me no other archetype comes close, maybe Infernobles but even then, I just love how simple it is and easily they can end duels in a single turn. They've never seen a banlist and won't likely ever, unless Konami decides to limit Patchwork but I usually only run two of those anyways. So if anyone hasn't seen Arc-V yet, I highly recommend that one, it's got just as much cheese and anime BS as the OG series but it's still more faithful to the card game. So many cool cards came out at that time too, like Phantom Knights, Clear/Crystal Wing and Predaplants.
Out of all the main characters from ZEXAL, only Kite fusion summons at any point (Kite is also the only character in ZEXAL overall to Ritual Summon). (Yes there are some minor charecters in ZEXAL who fusion summon, but of the main cast Kite is the only one).
I always thought that the overlay something was sort of like a pseudo fusion it wasn't really fusion summoning but you're still taking two monsters to make one monster without actually summoning them and they're still technically a part of the summon monster by becoming overly units so they're kind of like fusion monsters but not at the same time so it's that weird kind of gray area
Yeah the more I think about it yeah this is true, Zexal had by far the oddest decks of the whole franchise with alot of stuff being "archetype" like yet not owning to a name brand and this is q really crazy occurrence considering the fact that I believe that out of all of the yugioh animes Zexal was by far the most restrictive given the fact they never veered outside of xyz summons outside of maybe one character fusion summoning some kind of magnet dragon or something Zexal was a great series yet a very confusing one
I mean to be fair the xyz Mechanic is technically a fusion ritual type of event. It takes 2 monsters that can be moved into one new monster. And that 1 new monster can use the effects of the other 2 monsters to its benefit and still gain special abilities.
more interesting fact the number font seen on number monsters are actually designed in such a way that 39 is 62 while upside down hinting at yuma and kite's rivalry, since kite wielded number 62 galaxy eyes prime photon dragon at yuma wielded number 39 utopia
And considering that Duelist Alliance les s you search for Pendulum Fusion Pendulum Xyz Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, that can search Pendulumgraoh dragon, that can search a Ritual monster OR spell EACH TURN(if you play two) And Spiral Flame Strike can search any Odd-Eyes, which includes Tuners and a Fusioner!
Yusei also summoned a fusion monster against Jack Atlas in a practice duel when trying to find ways around the synchro devouring meklords but I can’t remember if he actually fused or if he cheated it out
first time i heard of that Rush Duel or the Battle Royale version that was on switch that had make your own decks i was hyped til i found out it wasnt as good as i thought maybe to others but idk
That's interesting. It's nice that not everybody feels the need to run every single type of card. Especially when in the shows Canon it's established that players choose decks based off of their own personalities rather than what is objectively good like we do in real life.
