Top Ten Weirdest Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Counterparts 

Black☆Kaiser that’s actually pretty awesome never knew that 👍🏽

It's also a reference to the fact that in Japanese, seahorse “tatsuno-otoshigo” literally means “baby dragon”

So Kaiba is Seahorse

@@MarvelousMeister wait! Is this why kingdra in Pokemon is a dragon type? 🤯

@@yorib.4014 yes and why in Fruits Basket the Dragon zodiac turns into a seahorse

theres a missed opportunity there for sue...

Or Haniwa and ........I forget the name Or Disk magician and Holograh Or Silver Fang and Wolf

@@TheKpa11 Haniwa's counterpart is Rock Spirit (which for some reason is a spellcaster type)

Or Dark Gray and Ancient One of the Forest

honestly, if these clones were to actually fight, especially the invader vs. protector of the throne, how do you think it would go down(no help, no assists, free for all).

The copycat became an archtype while the original faded away and classified itself as obsolete.

@@WeaponXSigma at least it's not classified as obese

That’s assuming Kuriboh didn’t appear in the manga before Wretched Ghost became a card.

@@GurrenPrime I'm pretty sure Kuriboh appeared in the manga first, before the OCG even existed.

Atromin that’s what I figured. But I didn’t feel like looking it up to double check.

They seemed to just recycle card artworks in the past

@@brianaguilar8283 yes, and they are doing it now for Rush duel but with some improvements, just search for the "Gust" trap card and compare the original with the Rush Duel version, is the same artwork with some makeover, the girl in the pole now looks 10 years younger.

Last card to do this was Alien Mother/Zeta Reticulant. The kings of Lazy are Hieratic Dragon of Hieratic Dragon of Nebthet. There both the same monster art just flipped with a new Background and both from same set and Pseudo Space field spell card that is just a colour inverted Skyscraper field spell card

I, too, want that backstory

I'd love a defensive slash direct attack burn damage mystic elf deck I'd play that all day.

Wait what is he referring to? I thought he meant red like Native American skin lol

What about Sagan? Is he related to Kuriboh?

Wretched ghost of the attic: La the do

@@LegitMan335 He's the deformed cousin

@@voltagestorm1787 deformed cousin good enough 030

@@LegitMan335 It took a whole year to respond? Lol

And and if you use wow logic he's using a 2 handed spear hense why he's got more attack than the 1 handed and shield holding version

Turtle should be a true archetype.

there was a character in Tag Force 2 that used a Turtle Themed deck, honestly now that Penguins will become a deck I wonder how would be a Turtle Deck

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

@@Slayerthecrow Maybe Turtles could become the first true "reverse-OTK" archetype? With letting the opponent attack your high DEF monster, and then raising your DEF while putting their ATK to 0 so they end themselves.

@@DerVasto sounds like reptilliane, personally I think that the superheavy samurai style fits the monsters better.

That's what I like It's like "huh don't I know you"

Yh or more like Who da Jurassic World are you

who would win in a fight Akane or Shampoo?

If it helps, may I remind you what happened to Inuyasha when he couldn't decide between 2 identically lovely ladies... he too had an unexpected fall! ✌😂

you talked about nipplez z0mg hawt. now do top 60 YuGiOh boobs plz

Love Mystical Elf, She was one of my favorite monsters. I got the Yu-Gi-Oh/Kaiba starter decks combo pack for her, Celtic Elf and Dark Magician. As well as Blue Eyes White Dragon. I also had the Joey Starter deck for Red Eyes Black Dragon.

@@yu-gh-oi4677 Hard to say. Shampoo has colorful battle-maracas and Akane has fire-fists.

Glad you enjoyed our antics!

Yup, Eternal Duelist Soul and Worldwide Edition. Back then, I had no idea how to get more than 1 of the good cards because the sets almost always gave me trash, just like I had no idea which deck to choose. It turns out it's been updated on the wiki: yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_The_Eternal_Duelist_Soul Spoilers: All 3 starter decks are basically the same (either swapping Mirror Force for Bell of Destruction, or alternating between Raigeki/Snatch Steal/Premature Burial), but the red comes with an 1800 beater, and all 3 come with most other Staples (a 1700 beater, Summoned Skull, and 90% of the good limited S/T staples). The tiny differences don't really matter since all are limited cards that you could enter 8 digit card numbers to get cards you don't own anyways, and all are limited cards relatively easy to get from multiple packs if you feel that is somehow cheating. That being said, limited cards in boosters weren't really valuable as semi or unlimited cards, so you're better off trying to get Trap Holes and Fissures from the Dark Magician Pack (default), CyberStein/Morphing Jar/Penguin Soldier from Garoozies (Tier 3 default-beat each Tier 2 each 3x), Axe of Despair/MST from Relinquished (win 10 Tier 3's), most decent staples from Blue-Millenium Puzzle (win 10 Tier 4's) and secretly grinding against Mako 20 duels to unlock Gemini Elf pack that came with Gemini Elf, Giant Red Seasnake and Graceful Charity (semi), that is until you get the Vorse Raider/Widespread Ruin from the gold Millenium Puzzle pack (beat the November annual tournament, unlock/beat Simon+you get 1 card of each+unlock Truesdale/Solomon, which is the final character in the game!); [Also worth noting, Battle Ox pack that comes with La Jinn, Launcher Spider that comes with 7 Colored Fish, Buster Blader pack that comes with Harpie's Brother/Extermination/Crossout, and Millenium Eye that comes with other staples, but the problem is you'd need to beat Mai, Umbra, Yugi, and Kaiba all 20x Each, so it's not as rewarding, and outside of those Tier 2 1800's OFFER NOTHING BUT TRASH.] Similarly and most frustrating of all, 80% of the other packs are filled with TRASH, even when you'd think they would be good, like the harder to unlock and intentionally confusingly similar in appearance and unlocking method Green Millenium Puzzle pack (beat each Tier 4 each 10x) comes with absolute trash (except unplayable Obelisk), Cyber Harpie doesn't even have Cyber Harpie (beat Tier 1 each 10x), Blue-Eyes Ultimate is has nothing but 10 fusions but no Cyber Stein (Tier 4 default, beat each Tier 3 each 4x), BLS similarly is 16 useless Rituals (beat each Tier 3 each 10x), Blue-Eyes/Exodia (beat Yugi/Joey each 20x) are literally dilluted OCG versions to the default Dark Magician/Red-Eyes packs, Gate Guardian (win 10 Tier 2 Duels) is just as bad as the first packs you unlock, Tiger Axe and Judge Man, which are secretly worse than the default packs Dark Magician/Red-Eyes/Mystical Elf, in fact all of these are essentially worse!!

She really needs a retrain like many of Yugi's other original monsters got (beyond Bubbly Elf). Even Giant Soldier of Stone got a retrain!

In Dark Duel Stories Mystical Elf has the same effect as in the anime. If you have Blue-Eyes out you can increase its attack by 800.

@@MrTopTenList I feel like they kinda did but really changed with Maiden with Eyes of Blue

You think +800 atk is op?

@@muji8872 in the early days 800+ attack on something could be crippling for an opponent especially on something with 2500 or more attack.

Green Heirophant!

Green Phantom King is one of my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! artworks and I somehow never knew about Queen of Autumn Leaves. Thanks for bringing her to my attention!

I did not know that. I didn't know the dragon heads came from other dragons in the game. What are the other 4 heads from?

@@rishnix the only one that bears any resemblance to another card is the fire head, so I'd argue they are just random heads and one coincidentally looks like ol flamey boi

That's Mystical Elf's Japanese name.

@@admcgregor2006 Japanese is my first language, thats the name I am familiar with.

Top 10 barney

50 more attack than Zera oddly though. Slightly stronger

Emperor DarK Tri horned dragon oddly enough was a ritual kind of monster too for some reason

Where does the Warrior of Zera lore fit into this?

Brian Aguilar Like I said, Tri Horn’s body might have been inhabited by the warrior of Zera and Ryu-Kishin powered, who most people also believe is involved in the lore. I admittedly can’t prove this by any stretch, but similar to how the attic ghost on this list looks very similar to Kuriboh but doesn’t have any lore relation, it’s just something that’s always been in my mind.

@@brianaguilar8283 There are a few videos of his lore. Basically he has the potential to become Zera the Mant, Mazera Deville, Darklord Zerato, or Angel of Zera.

2 of my favorite monsters

Lmao!!

Or basic insect got chuunibyou

Wow, even Mystical Elf?

This is really creative! I've noticed some reoccurring locations when I've covered monster backstories, like the Soul Absorbing Bone Tower in Red Eyes' backstory

An anime chick getting plowed.

also it's 7:44 Kaiser Sea Horse was the first double tributer. also it's effect is based on a Japanese myth about how if a seahorse lives for 1,000 years, it will become a dragon.

@@thebookbandit5830 Good point! That's even better evidence of Kaiser Sea Horse being basically intended as Blue-Eyes support.

@@thebookbandit5830 Neat!

Lol all of this is so fitting. Interesting trivia!

@@thebookbandit5830 I guess that's the came case in Pokemon where Horsea can eventually become the dragon-type Kingdra. I never knew that.

A new Gate Guardian would be awesome! With all the retrains of early boss monsters, a new special summon style Gate Guardian with an actual effect would we welcome. Maybe even have an effect like in the anime where each piece was a different unit that had to be destroyed.

@@MrTopTenList you replied to my retro deck idea, I've said for years since I first got the first printing of gate guardian that this is the hill I'll die on and you sir have made my year

I'm thinking gate guardian could either be retrained as a fusion or xyz monster since xyz summoning is very reminiscent of the way you stack the three pieces to make one body. Either way, good news here is that other people want gate guardian arcgetype too, I'd say it's on the higher end of duel monsters era cards that could get modern support, along side valon's armor cards.

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! I make fighting game videos pretty regularly, so there's plenty more MK discussion planned for the future!

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Glad you enjoyed it! There's so much I love about early Yu-Gi-Oh that I feel could work in today's game if they weren't afraid of making things too OP back in the day.

Dark Magician's always gotten a lot of support, so who knows? Maybe one day

That’s pretty insane. I actually originally thought the mouth on the neck was a coy way of getting a “Twin head”

@@TheKpa11 like most of these counterparts, I think it's just lazy card design on the developer's parts, regardless of name context or logical stats.

Since they're not in the weird category, I didn't consider them, but Magician's Valkyria seems like an older or upgraded form of Dark Magician Girl, so perhaps it's what happens to her after the backstory I discussed in my 3rd Yugioh Backstory video.

Class change.

@@MrTopTenList Magician's Valkyria is weaker that DMG so she would have to be either younger or a completely different monster. As a DM player whos seens these cards alot over the last 15 years, i strongly believe Valkyria is unofficially the first "Magician Girl" monster years before the Fruit gang showed up. But a part of me still believes Valkyria is the younger version of DMG after she's been reincarnated from her past life as Apprentice Illusion Magician. Its just that DM has no such counterpart so still gotta lean towards not being the same

I always assumed it was something along the lines that Magicians Valkyrie was a younger version of DMG, she upgraded to DMG as an apprentice to Dark Magician before finally graduating into Magi Magi Magician Gal. There may be others in between but that's how I look at it from the basics. Then after Dark Magician Girl, I assume Apprentice Illusion Magician becomes the second apprentice.

Which is funny cause Pikachu has many counterparts in Pokémon cause they made that a thing

Unless they give you 1000 volts in return...

It's "Petit Dragon", a level 2 normal monster with 700 ATK. So it fits in the thematic. Edit: Also, the first Eria doesn't already have Gagagigo, it's his first child-form, Gigobyte.

Bob is back, now with more saltwater it's still gagagigo the 1850 BEATSTICK. The 1850 BEATSTICK eria has gagagigo

Meda-Bat for Dharc the Dark Charmer

MTTL is very creative

They have the same third eye and feathers

Me neither! All these counterparts were just weird in general. I

I remember noticing that the two of them were pretty similar once I paid attention to the design. But was never certain since I never bothered to look at the two cards together.

Someone cares!!!

@@JudgmentMeter Would be weird if noone would tho

His uncle whose only trait was having bad breath was pretty wretched

Thank you!

This is a wholesome channel

SIMP!

That chick was annoying and trying too hard

In germany it was 'Kaminarikozu the Thunder Kid'...

I kind of wish they kept the original name, kaminarikozu sounds cooler than thunder kid.

@@matthewkuscienko4616 me too, konami did something similar with occillio hero #2 changing it to "Wattkid" to make it part of the "watt" archetype for some strange reason. A vanilla in an effect only archetype is a bit of a non starter. Even of you go to the effort of using your spells and traps on it to make it stronger, it's still pretty misplaced as the only vanilla. Why it looks like oscillio hero #1 is now a weird one, its weaker too.

@@dracometeors3010 so wait...it was called "Thunder Kid the Thunder Kid"?

Thanks! We plan on doing more in the future like we did with the fusion video and this one!

You're welcome

Go big or go home

but thats just a dark counterpart

@@formyulself6638 a counterpart is a counterpart nonetheless in my book

Wow... that's grizzly!! -- AT

@@SoftwareAgentsTV yea it looks exactly like him

I might be wrong about this, but I think Skull Archfiend of Lightning just *is* Summoned Skull. More of a retrain than a counterpart or color-swap.

Thanks! I collected starting at the beginning of the TCG releases, but whenever they sold the OCG set or I picked up one of those player guides that had pictures of the OCG-only monsters, I was really intrigued in their origins. I love how experimental the old artwork got.

Thank you!

Glad you liked it! That was one of my favorite bits to do!

Thanks!

There's more to it than that: in duelists of the roses, you can actually fuse Mystical Elf (or any other elf monster in the game, like dancing elf or ancient elf, for that matter) with a dark attribute spellcaster to make Dark Elf. And in that game, Cosmo Queen is a ritual monster, and one of the 3 monsters you need to sacrifice for her is Dark Elf, alongside Queen of Autumn Leaves (who also has a counterpart in green phantom king) and Princess of Tsurugi (who as it so happens was also mentioned in this video, funnily enough).

At least I got points with the Kuriboh King!