@@underdogchris1753 typical anime bs, he was in another duel that was temporarily paused, and during that, him and Luke dueled, with Yuga using a spare deck. Yuga’s ace Sevens Road Magician was in his other deck, not the spare one, and yet he drew it. We find out he turned his ID card (which is needed for people to duel in Sevens and can be turned into Monster cards) into another copy of Sevens Road Magician to defeat Luke
@@josaete2297 it is but it's funny that the first duel between (first duel) Yuma and shark, Yuma and Kite ( their first encounter) and the result of Yuma vs Astral was what's the same in both anime and the manga . Also the anime almost went a different direction then what it did so I think it's still count
@@markissacs7784His Rival is literally Chazz, I can see why people would say Zane, but nope it’s Chazz. If I’m not mistaken I’m pretty sure someone even says it in season 3.
@@markissacs7784 It’s up for debate on who Jaden‘s rival is in the show. Much like Yumas rival which people debate on whether it’s shark or kite. I would say that People mostly lean towards Chazz but many people also believe Zane to be considered a rival as well. From my perspective I see Chazz as the official rival but Zane is not only a better rival but at the very least close to being the rival. And to my knowledge Dylan(yugioh everything) considers both of them to be Jaden‘s rival and the same goes for me
@@bearbbb12 isn’t Zane more of a rival for his little brother. Jaden didn’t have much interaction with Zane for him to be considered a rival. They didn’t share similar goals or situations they didn’t push each other. If I recall Zane’s little brother is the one that had something to prove. So by the mere fact that Jaden and Zane never had any rivalry with each other I don’t see how he can be considered a rival. Next you gonna try to convince me Tea was Joey’s rival too cause she beat him in duels in early days of Yugioh and he never won a rematch against her
Regardless of dueling records, I think we can all agree that the Yugioh franchise as a whole really knows how to do the rival character right. Think of how confident, domineering and just downright cool most of them have been throughout all the series. Kaiba, Kaiser, Jack, Kaito, Reiji, Revolver… Think my favorite will always be Reiji. That dude was god-tier with his dueling until the plot demanded he stop winning so the main character could end the series in the spotlight.
i mean, it kinda makes sense. in the Arc-V series, polymerization was kinda starting to be seen as an "evil" spell, with all of duel academy using it against the other dimensions. however, the more accurate explanation would probably be that archetype specific fusion cards would help with searching them, so that every deck that uses fusion monsters wouldn't have to use PVA
@@GlacierMoonDragon all but zane listed have that. Kite and the chazz (manjome) do. Shark's number in zexal's first 2 episodes gets to 3000 atk due to its effect (by design). It's also the only dragon type he ever uses.
Technically zane beat jaden in the 3rd duel too. It was when they were in that yubel world and jaden was feeling bad about himself and Zane said you could've put up a better defense but no you gave up and chose to lose from his cyber end dragons attack.
To me, Shark was Yuma's real rival. He's the only one who dueled Yuma the most times. And all their interactions had the most personal tension and stakes, especially in the final arc of season 2. Kite? Kite was just there to fill the obligatory 3000 ATK Ace Dragon Player quota. Beyond that, he was Yuma's rival in name only. He had no real care or interest in Yuma beyond just getting his numbers. And even then, until the end of Season 1, he really only cared to acknowledge Astral as his real opponent for the numbers. Then once Season 2 gets here, Kite's real rival shows up in the form of another Galaxy-Eyes user, Mizar.
Yeah. Kite viewed Yuma just as a number holder, nothing more. He was surprised by Astral, but that's it. He had his own agenda the whole time. How can you consider someone a rival, if that someone has no interest in you. It's like considering Joey and Kaiba rivals. They're antagonistic to each other, but it's not a rivalry if one doesn't care that the other even exists.
@@roncerjani9063 I'm really not lying to you when I say that some people out there actually consider Jesse Anderson a main character from GX. Even going as far as to say he's the Joey of that Season Just look at TV Tropes). *How?* He doesn't even *Do* anything. He doesn't show up until Season 3. He's never around that long. And outside of helping the others get back home to their world, *he Never. Does. Anything.* But then again, that's just coming from someone who's only seen that installment's dub (can't even find Season 4 JAP on the web right now). Does Jesse at least do anything in Season 4 to your knowledge?
As someone who has never seen Zexal, is Astral comparable to Atem? If so, would that make it similar to how DSoD Kaiba focused primarily on Atem as opposed to Yugi?
@@markissacs7784 a "convoluted storyline" that almost every shonen uses, is widely looked on by writers in general as good practice, and applies to even real life or unscripted storylines (like sports and esports tournaments) on a daily basis. If you're going to be wrong, at least think of the MOST OBVIOUS thing that could debunk your thinking. Like, I don't know... the fact that it gets used by basically every story system other than romance, and even THAT occasionally still uses it.
You forgot Kite and Yuma did duel three times and there second time was the first time Yuma and Astral used Zexal morph and that duel was a draw so your point still counts but Its also kinda funny how both Zane and Kite got a win, draw, and no result. Also who else agrees that Jaden should have dueled Zane right after the Zane vs Syrus duel in Season 2 when he was still possed by the Cyberdarks because I was absolutly expecting it and would have finally given Jaden a win against Zane and he could have saved Zane I guess from the darkness instead of it never being explained how Zane went back to normal in Season 3.
I think that second duel technically counts as an Astral duel, but I can give you that. But like, what? Kaiser was never possessed by the cyber darks, that's only the path he chose as a pro duelist : he intentially stopped respecting his opponent for more power. And he stayed like that until the very end of the show, he never reverted to his former self
@@bigfish5544 I mean in Season 2 the last we see of Zane is him just him leaving after he defeats Syrus and gives Blair his medal cause he doesn't care about the tourtament anymore and then in Season 3 he's just suddenly cooperating with everybody to duel Jessie to get them back home. Preety stark stark diifrence if you ask me so he defiantly became good again and from her on out he's helping the main crew by givng Syrus words of encorgment and helping to get return Jaden back to normal from the Supreme king he even uses his main cyber dragon cards again like Cyber End Dragon in the duel with Yubel controlling Jessie which he discarded because he considered them weak compared to the Cyberdarks in Season 2. He defintly changed form Season 2 to Season 3 we just don't know how.
@@sitharthbalu4728 he was never evil. He helped Fubuki regain control over darkness in season 2, and it was confirmed he never sought revenge nor felt any hatred for anyone. He just wanted to win at all cost, a mentality he kept in season 3. He only dueled Johan cause Johan was a person he wanted to beat: he had the same fighting spirit and love for dueling as Judai and he wanted to prove himself againts him. He helps his brother the same way he helped Fubuki in season 2, and he was basically transported in the other dimension against his will anyway. The point is, he has never been evil or ill intended, he still cared about his friends but was just a lot more competitive and brutal. And by the way, he still had his cyber cards in season 2, he used Cyber end dragon against his brother. He just didn't have the occasion to use them much. I think you don't understand his character very well.
@@bigfish5544 Okay then why did he force his little brother to wear those things then that cause electric sicks when you loose life points if he was still such a good pearson then and cared for him like you said he did. During his duel with Chancellor Cheparpard when he destroyed Cyber End Dragon he litteraly said "I can still hear it crying and I don't care". The Chepard even says he has become evil and power hungry so he has asks Fubiki to go and try and stop him and Zane defiantly did mean to help Fubiki because you can see at the end of thier duel when he tries and sees if the darkness in Zane's heart is gone but it isn't. Zane is was never a good character after the duel with Edo in Season 2 he went evil and didn't care for anybody other then himself and only become good again in Season 3.
I always found it weird that Kite and Yuma never got a rematch once Yuma was more experienced. Apparently there was going to be an episode where Galaxy Eyes prime photon dragon wouldve temporarily brainwashed kite, forcing him into a rematch with Yuma. The episode was cut due to rewrites, but the duel was repurposed for the manga.
Kite should’ve been the protag for Zexal. Keep astral and orbital, for whatever comedy stuff has to be written they’d be fine. So you have Kite struggling with using different kinds of power to achieve his goals. You can still have Shark as the rival, perhaps Kite is implanted within a school to find out which students have Numbers as “a large amount of them have been detected in that area”. Then maybe Dextra and Nistro are implanted as substitute teachers or something.
The rematch was a draw, though technically that started as a Duel against Astral solo and Yuma joined him later to form Zexal, but… yeah, 3 duels and no losses.
Fun fact: the last move Kite makes in the rematch is a parallel to Zane's last move in his and Jaden's draw both Yuma and Jaden activate a spell to boost their monsters atk and Kite and Zane both respind by playing the same card as Yuma and Jaden respectively only Jaden had a backup plan with his Final Fusion trap
Katio actually had three duels with Yuma, the one you didn't mention, which was their second duelwas a draw, though Astral was in full control for 99% of the duel with Yuma joining during the final turn
Kaito and yuma actually dueld 3 times the first one was no result because kite left cause of his little brother the second one was a draw and third duel it was so shocking that kite won.
Zane be runnin a deck that can double a doubled attack boost... I mean have you ever played Cyber Dragon Turbo?? Machine duplication, Chimeratech Fortress Dragon, fucking LIMITER REMOVAL??? Back before pendulums were a thing, my Cyber dragons topped 4 and it was never expected over shaddolls, Nekroz, etc. And that was a T-0 format too...
If we count Zane as a rival for Jaden, should we also count Jack Atlas as a rival to Yuya? Since, like Zane and Jaden, Jack and Yuya dueled at least 3 times. Two of the duels were also multi-parters. Plus, he played a significant role against Yuya for most of the Synchro Dimension arc and was one of Yuya's final duels.
Kite’s one of my favorite designs for the rivals. I mean don’t get me wrong, Kaiba steals first because his appearance just suits how extra he can be so well, but Kite looks cool, has cool duels, his motives are somewhat understandable, and just has a badass personality.
Well the kite one make sense, I use photon dragons and they aren't the best for actual effects negations (except from photon lord, hope harbinger and the starlieges) but they are really powerful when it comes to attack numbers, not surprising he never lost to Yuma as he's kinda stupid (and utopia is only good at delaying his death by negating attack) What would Yuma do if Kite pulled out the photon dragon + afterglow dragon into the prime photon dragon then discarded afterglow into GY to summon another photon dragon + raise prime photons attack to 11k+
I would say Kaito's first duel was a "no result" like Yusei and Kiryu round 1, TECHNICALLY yeah it was a no result but lets not kid ourselves Kaito and Kiryu CLEARLY were the winners
Yeah. Also Jounouchi VS Malik was technically a no result but everyone counts it as Malik winning, even though Jounouchi passed out before any of them could win the duel.
Kaito had a draw with Yuma, the 2nd Match when Yuma used Zexal form and Kaito was gonna lose, had to deus ex machina a basically ring if destruction to make a draw
Technically, Yuma won the first duel against Kaito because Kaito left the duel to save Haruto. That is technically a surrender, and if Kaito surrendered, then Yuma won. It's still a no result in my opinion, but you could argue that Yuma won because Kaito surrendered the duel (Just like Yuya VS Reiji Round 1). If you wanna go with real life rules, if you leave a duel, you lose because you surrendered. Of course, the game in real life is different to the one in the YuGiOh universe, but you still could argue that Yuma won that duel.
Didn’t technically kite duel Yuma 3 times first ending in no result technically kites win because he just needed to call the attack and then win and then the 2nd was a draw and then 3rd a win for kite
Wait a sec Yuma amd Kite have mkre than 2 Duels with each other as but either their are interrupted by something or simply ended in a Draw (as example the first time Yuma/Astral and Kite jave met was on a Road with a Truck (yes a Truck which had almost hit Tori if i remember Correctly) the Time was standing still and they had a Duel but this Duel was interrupted because something was mit Hart (Kites Little Brother) and Kite just...Flyes away
Actually Yuma and Kite dueled at least three times. The second time was when Yuma and Astral first discovered the power of Zexal and the end result was a draw
Not that surprising considering the hero is always supposed to win unless it's one of those emotional losses that help him get stronger. Just goes to show how badass these 2 were, although Yuma is one of the weaker duellist. Sure he's a pretty powerful duellist in his own show but of he went up against any of the previous duellist Protagonists I doubt he'd win. Yusei would demolish him, so would Yugi or Atem both are badasses. Even Jason aka Judai would beat Yuma. Sure XYZ Summoning would make things tricky for them especially if they didn't expect it but they'd still win.
I don't think there's anyway that Yuma was beating Kite, if Kite was actually using a good photon deck he would be able to pull photon dragon + afterglow dragon to create prime photon Dragon Prime photon dragon discarding afterglow dragon gives it 11k damage Utopia is able to negate 1 attack but he wouldn't be able to touch prime dragon unless he had some sort of effect (if Kite had the photon lance equip spell he could use it to protect from 1 effect) After glows effect from being discarded would also summon another photon dragon from deck allowing Kite to still deal damage There's also a card called dimension wanderer which when photon dragons effect is activated it can be used to deal 3000 damage to the opponent TL;DR: I highly doubt Yuma could ever beat Kite if he has a decent photon deck
@@sahanboydl To be fair, Shark will actually fit well as the leader of the Resistance. Now that I think about it, Arc-V honestly didn't handle the resistance well overall.
@@matts5164 yeah I guess shark would, but being leader of the resistance is nothing compared to being leader of the barians, so I feel like if shark was in arc v, it would throw some fans off.
