for april fools, you should do like shima vs knight of hanoi and spend like 5 mins depicting the odds that they BOTH got Brick hands in an ANIMEEEE DUEL
The duel had a reference to GX catchphrase, because the duel is a reference to GX episode 24. During the "north academy" arc, Chaz had a duel where he goes through multiple opponents then decides to duel 3 people at once. Like in this duel, they all had the same deck. Though in their case it was a marauding captain deck. This is the western version of that.
We've had cardgames on motorcycles, get ready for cardgames on revolvers! But seriously I love the Crash Town Arc. Surprised that this got even past 4kids.
I'm surprised they even went through with this arc. So much of it sets off their alarms, it must've been busy for their editors. Kalin just grabbing Lotten and not finishing their duel because he doesn't deserve it is kind of cool at least.
This reminds me a lot of a duel from season 1 of GX where Chazz faced 4 North Academy Students at the same time who all used a Marauding Captain swarm/lock strategy. Chazz won on like his second turn by summoning a super powered Gyaku-Gire Panda and using Kaiba's ring of destruction + ring of defense combo. Always struck me how awesome that duel was, even as a kid
Based AF combo LMAO. That's why og Yu-Gi-Oh is the goat. I love seeing random niche cards just in case the mains run into some BS combo. We all main decked tech against macro at some point
Chazz constantly being an example of "Give me ANY deck and I'll still win" was so ACE! Chazz was always given some disadvantage and mocked for using weak "Ojamas" and such, and yet he not once complained, he often schooled them about overconfidence and played the Ojamas perfectly. Chazz it UP cause that's my GOAT from GX.
@@MarioMastar Between Chazz and Kaiba equal ego, I have to give it to Chazz because he's adaptability to use different decks, and to have the versatility of using Ojamas, Armed Dragon, & VWXYZ Dragon Monsters not only were a mis mash of monsters but synergize with Chazz like the Magnet Warriors, Silent Swordsman & Magician, & Gadgets w/ Gandora to work with Yugi so well.
I’ll say that the unknown Trap in their hands is “Blasting Fuse”. It’s more of a reactive trap that requires all cards in its column to be occupied. That’s why I presume they wouldn’t have set them, as not knowing where all the cards would be played. And since they believed they had game next turn, they probably didn’t set them because of that reason too, not needing the reactive traps for it.
@@KimFareseedMaxx "C" can cause them to happen. I've actually done a zero turn kill against Tearlaments with a Necroface FTK deck in Master Duel lol. Fire Cracker can also potentially zero turn kill any deck that reduces their LP low enough.
@@KimFareseed That would do it but as I said in the initial comment I was referring to the duel between Sartorius and Prince Oujin in Season 2 of GX. I don't remember if it was referred to as such in the dub but it was called a ZTK in the Japanese.
To be fair, this was meant to be a test for Yusei and presumably other recruits. It would make sense they would both stack the deck but also give Yusei a chance because, again, this is meant to be a test and they obviously want new members.
@@stephenford5661 I always think villains in general never shuffle their decks because their pure win condition is sitting on top. Especially since they're only using the game as a form of battle & to inflict harm. Although I remember in 5Ds, their runners would shuffle their decks before a Duel. But this was the perspective of the protagonists. I don't think the antagonist runners had that built in or disabled it to prevent their stacked Deck from getting shuffled.
@@thedarkspirit5084Marik had Yugi shuffle his deck before the Battle City Finals. He could have won if his "lighter" alter ego didn't forfeit. Yugi banished all his own monsters to banish Winged Dragon of Ra. All Marik had to do was draw a monster and yell attack and he wins. Which ironic considering that's what happened to Joey in the previous round. 😂
@@RenaldyCalixteactually no, Yugi still has Dark Magician Girl on the field and the whole thing went down on Marik's turn. Once Marik ends it's turn it's GG. Ragnarok only banishes from hand, field and grave so DM Girl will just swing for game
Lowkey love how convenient the Crash Town Duel Disk is and how awesome it looks. And at the same time, how off-the-wall it is haha. Never change Yugioh.
I'm still waiting on him to cover the duel between Aporia vs. Jack, Leo & Luna. I was curious if the Signers had a chance against Aporia's board if Leo hadn't helped them so haste fully. Most of Aporia's responses were from Leo's cards and caused Luna & Jack to get hurt in the process. So I was wondering if Leo held back, would Jack at least been able to do some damage to Aporia with Luna protecting him from card effects.
@@thedarkspirit5084I think Aporia would have lost sooner if Leo didn't misplaced. As Z One said Aporia fulfilled his purpose of pushing Yusei and the Signers to their limit but he is now obsolete. Just a cog in the machine. Meaning that once Yusei understood Aporia's combo monster strategy. Jack could probably win mostly on his own from seeing Yusei defeat Aporia the first time.
Didn’t he also have a sacred beast in his deck? I’m not sure I just remember someone in the game using one in that game I remember it was in crash town
@@ljnkrabby Them beast aren't so sacred if a random goon wields one in Crash Town. Not knowing he can do actual damage if he can summon him. Duel Academy security must be slacking if someone swiped one or perhaps all 3 Sacred Beasts. Cause idk if they were returned after Yubel's defeat.
Fun fact: The Crashtown arc was a protracted homage to Spaghetti Westerns with many, many, many callbacks and references. This 1v3 duel was one of them, as in A Fistful of Dollars, Clint Eastwood's character demonstrates his skill with a gun to two rival gangs fighting over a town by out-drawing four bandits that had previously been accosting him and killing all of them. It was this sequence that made me compelled to watch the Crashtown arc and I genuinely consider it one of the greatest filler arcs in anime as a result.
@@RenaldyCalixte I never said the Crashtown arc is the "best filler arc", just one of the best. And length is not an intrinsic measuring stick on quality either.
Man, I love the Crash Town episodes. They made card games with guns so cool. Plus, a redemption arc for Kalin. Thanks for covering this awesome moment!
@@greghanson2206 Yes. But I mean if the 2v1 continued. In the Japanese dub, it continued but as a 1v1 without Yusei. Also, if Lawton didn't try to blow up the mines to stop their first duel (which was a Turbo Duel), would Yusei have won?
Considering the gun theme of the crash town storyline and almost all the antagonists use gun themed decks, I'd say the trap card in-hand is probably "Barrel Behind The Door" and the spell card might be some effect that targets the graveyard like Soul Release.
It can't be Barrel Behind the Door, as that would have allowed the thugs to win by sending Armory Arm/Junk Barrage's effect damage back to Yusei, preventing his OTK and in fact, killing Yusei with his own effects.
I'd love to see one of these for Team 5Ds vs Team Taiyo. Even though it wasn't dubbed, it's still one of the best duels from the series, and I'd love to see if it could've turned out any differently, especially as I'm pretty sure Yusei only won by cheating (using a Blackwing card on a non-Blackwing monster), or if Team 5Ds would have had to know the Zushin strategy to have been able to disrupt it.
Yusei didn't cheat. He used main character powers. 😅. Also is their fan fiction or a Master Duel on what would of happened if Team Ragnorak faced Team Taiyo?
Did you know I met Yuseis english voice actor greg abbey? He was my personal favorite he gave me a free yusei duel runner poster for free and then he signed my stardust dragon from the 2010 promo tins, and because i said i waited 13 years at the time to meet him it was fun lol.
The trap could have been something like Backup Soldier. You can vaguely tell from the border it's a normal trap and not a continous or counter trap (same with the unknown spell btw) and the effect of Backup Soldier also restores lost cards in a similar vein to Avarice. Drawing only effect monsters also explains why no one bothered to set it.
The goons' trap could have been Blasting the Ruins. Would require way too many cards in the GY to make it matter, so no point in setting it early. Yet it is still a burn card which would work for them individually if they were playing 1v1 duels.
Crash Town Arc was awesome. Yusei and Kalin being taken to the mines for slave work. Then they had the big escape from the mines. Then Jack and Crow showing up at the end to help protect the town, it was awesome! I think it is awesome that Greg Abbey went from voicing Tristan, a side character who knows nothing about the game of Duel Monsters to voicing a rising All-Star. In conclusion I Love Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
I still remember Tristan confessing to Serenity that he trained Joey on how to play duel monsters and he lost the only duel he ever competed in. Then he became a robot monkey. 😂 Whereas Yusei only lost once to Jack in a flashback. (He technically lost to Kiryu/Kalin but officially that duel ended with no result because Yusei's duel runner was destroyed). And Aki/Akiza falls in love with Yusei and says he's a great duelist. I wish Yusei and Tristan met one another. Cause they are opposites. Though both of them are great at fighting.
This was one of my favorite duels. It just showed how powerful and willing yusei was to help his friend. This duel alone elevates yusei in my list a lot lol
This is one of my favorite duels in the series and crash town in my favorite filler arc. I hope you do a few more crash town duels in the future. Also the revolver duel disks are so cool looking. Also Leo vs dark signer
I definitely want some more 5Ds duel analysis videos. I binged through the show last month, and it definitely makes me curious on the outcome of some duels. I would especially love ones on the Aporia duels, since when we get to his non-Turbo duels, we actually know 39 of the cards he uses in his deck, which means we have a pretty good idea of all the strategies he could have gone with.
Regarding the mysterious trap fun silly guess would be Reckless Greed. Since a draw card would be pretty useful to help them grab their win condition, it pairs reasonably well with something like Pot of Avarice, and since they all have their copies of their monster already there's no immediate need to set Reckless face-down.
Not sure if youve thought about this but I think it would be cool to analyze the Yugi vs Kaiba duel on Pegasus Castle balcony where they had the weird mechanics with the Duel disks and could activate traps from their hand iirc
I forget if you Covered the ZTK i believe it called done by Sartorius, i know its a super short thing but as you brought up the FTK done in this Yu-Gi-Oh series and the episode is covering a OTK, i figured it was worth bringing up because ima be honest when i first saw it i was shocked at wth i just watched lol
Wow I never expected to hear a timesplitters 2 soundtrack in one of your videos! I love it when CCs hit my nostalgic bgm button. "Mexican Mission" is a classic.
Lifeforce Harmonizer was also a hand trap that existed at this time period that shuts down Lotten's strategy. Ono and Yoshida really liked the idea of having a bunch of dudes whose only strategy is "normal summon a monster that burns the opponent in a battle royale, pass turn."
Heard a certain musical piece playing during this. I said, "Wait, I recognize this... Timesplitters." Checked description and smiled widely at nostalgia in my head playing that game a LOT.
Probably the greatest feat is from Sartorius in GX where he dueled the prince to get the satellite. Sartorius was able to do the impossible ZTK, zero turn kill.
You know, the 3-on-1 one duel is since the it only happens twice in 5ds with the Aporial, and Paradox duel, with the Aporial duel having him state that it’s due to the disadvantageous position that he gets to go first.
I wonder what other OTK duels there are to analyze. Kaiba vs that guy from Battle City he tried Obelisk against? Rex & Weevil vs Ziegfried? Rebecca & Duke vs Valon? Orichalcos Mai vs Pegasus, lol? Anyway, fun analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
This channel should make a video about the evolution of archetypes in the anime. In the classic series most characters didn’t have a pure archetype deck and Vrains almost everyone's deck is based on a archetype.
I think Archetype began in GX & Early 5Ds. Before then, most label their decks as a Power Deck like Kaiba, Strategy Deck like Yugi, or a Gamble Deck like Joey. Or Lockdown Deck, it basically has a gist of what the Deck was aiming for before giving them a name for their Decks. Because it's not right to call Yugi's Deck a Dark Magician Deck if the only cards he has for Dark Magician is like 1 monster & like 2-3 spells/traps and the rest are Celtic Guardian, Magnet Warriors and Buster Blader with a mix of Chimera.
I feel partially for the decks being so stacked... I mean at some point it feels more like duelists end up willing cards to appear, and in GX you had a guy training to "draw better" with results. Considering the gimmick of the 3 of them I imagine despite being grunts they eat, breathe, and sleep Fuse Ray Blaster and put their all into being the Fuse Ray Blaster guys.
Considering their entire game plan was simply to summon Fuse Ray Blaster over and over until they won, my guess is the trap card would have been something like Call of the Haunted. It's a relatively generic trap card that the animators would probably think about for adding but also, lore wise, it's probably something that they'd need if they were playing a one on one instead of a three on one duel. Because of the turn order, and that they all had the other Fuse Ray Blasters in hand, they likely felt it was pointless to put it on the field as they likely were too cocky thinking they were guaranteed to win.
So I’ve been dying to rewatch this duel so I’m glad you did this one Also thing about the goons having the same hands also takes place in Arc V with the Obelisk force soldiers p much always opening with the same cards as well
Alexis did a similar thing in her debut duel in arc v lol. Alexis was basically like "oops, you each have a monster special summoned from the extra deck and i opened cyber angel vrash tee hee"
I’ve been rewatching 5Ds yesterday and today on Prime, and I never noticed how many shenanigans yusei does and how many animation errors there are from the attack number aesthetic being replaced with the life points, or the life points visual not changing even as the number decreases. Still love it though
As someone else said this could’ve been a test which is why all 3 goons had the exact same hands and that second spell card could’ve been like monster reborn, like just in case the recruits they were going against somehow gained some life points or maybe destroyed one of the monsters they could bring one of them back Also IIRC judging by how 5D’s was the show for “activating random negate/counter card for any situation possible” the trap card could’ve been some sort of negate or counter, possibly a trap that could activate in the grave in case they lost they’re hands and it was still an on par card for monster reborn
You mentioned the OTK(one turn kill) and FTK (first turn kill) but you forgot the one above that. 0TK (zero turn kill) where the duel is over before the first turn such as the astronomical drawing of exodia as your opening hand.
@@Zelnyair Maybe discuss other cards he could have used to get out of that pinch? Honestly, since it was so one sided, I wouldn't mind a more speculative video.
When I first saw this video dropped, I thought it was going to be a gag episode. However, since you explained why you were making this video, I knew that it had a purpose since OTKs are pretty common in modern-day Yu-Gi-Oh vs. FTKs. I never see them when I play the game. Thanks for another amazing video, Sam, and arguably one of my favorite adventures with Yusei.
Could you cover the two duel of Brave max vs Knight of Hanoi (Vrains ep27) and Ghost Girl(ep60) Since both duel are really short It could make for a good April fool episode.
In a battle royal duel, the one who is at a disadvantage can come up with a handicap to balance it out with. Yusei went with a mandatory 1st turn. Usually, the choices are life points x number of opponents, or starting hand of 5 cards x number of opponents. Or, with Paradox from the "Across Time" movie, the solo person goes every other turn.
You know you probably could have done this Duel for April Fools Day. Oh well, it was still fun even now. And since you've shown a willingness to do a Battle Royal Duel, maybe you'll take a crack at the ones from Arc V such as: Moon Shadow, Celina(Serena), Reed, Trout, Sylvio(Shingo), Ggong, and Shay(Shun) vs 3 Obelisk Force. Yuya vs 3 Obelisk Force. Riley(Reira) vs 3 Security Officers Moon Shadow and Sora vs 3 Obelisk Force Yuya, Shay(Shun), and Kite(Kaito) vs 3 Obelisk Force.
This duel at the end of "Duelist For Hire" was manic for a short duel, but was awesome as to how Yusei took down the 3 stooges. To be fair though, if Yusei didn't have the cards to pull off that combination he needed, he would have lost because of Fuse-Ray Blaster's effect. But regardless, Nitro Warrior equipped with Armory Arm AND Junk Barrage was wickedly sweet! Don't forget the initial attack is also calculated alongside the effects as well.
A simple, but fun duel, with a set of rules not usually seen. We found some simple examples of OTK that makes us wonder if they could be made in real life. As for next time, I've been thinking about this duel: Maximillian Pegasus vs. Dr. Crowler vs. Prof. Bonaparte - A Triangle Duel between Toons, Gears and Toys. We all know that very few can defeat Pegasus, and during a part of the duel, Crowler and Bonaparte were fighting against each other. So here's my question: if they worked together since the very first draw, were they able to defeat Pegasus? What would have been their final Life Points before being defeated? This duel requires some calculations and especulations and I would love to see your analysis on this.
I would love to see you cover team 5ds vs. Team unicorn or aster vs jaden the rematch. Because your videos have gotten me back into the game and I'm loving it! Keep up the good work!
This duel was always in my opinion one of the best showcases of how skilled of a duelist Yusei was. The common of Nitro Warrior, Armoury Arm and Junk Barrage has always been one of my favourite combo’s
I wish there more cards in yugioh that allowed you to play even if you have 0 life points is such an amazing idea. I'm surprised a zombie deck hasn't done that, it's a metaphor that writes itself.
Yeah, only Soul Relay really lets you and it's a shame there aren't more cards that allow you to kind of "Risk it all or go home". Those are the plays I really love to see in Yugioh. Like maybe a card that says "Pay at least 4000 lifepoints to activate this card to set your lifepoints to 1. You can no longer lose lifepoints to battle or effect and your life points are forced to stay at 1. If 5 turns pass (including your opponent's turns) and your opponent hasn't lost yet, you lose the duel." 4000 because you can't just use the card if you're on a few LP left, and you spend all your lifepoints. I'm sure it wouldn't be a very good card, but it reminds me of the point of Relay Soul and has similar vibes to Final Countdown, only you're putting yourself on a timelimit to block your opponent from KOing you for 5 turns. I think there's a Utopia card that did something involving having 10 LP left, but I forgot what it was.
Leo had a tuner in his deck that had an effect where: If your Life Points drop to 0 you can activate this effect: *In the anime it was on a wheel like Time Wizard and having the arrow drop on red or green.* Flip a coin, and if it lands on Heads, you gain 100 Life Points. Tails, nothing occurs. Then his tuner shined a light over his lifeless body and resurrect him.
I OTKed countless people in the 2004 event with Cyber-Stein and Gyaku-Gire Panda lol. OTKs have existed in Yu-Gi-Oh since Monster Reborn was legal at 3.
I nearly forgot about this duel, until I watched the Crash Town arc a few days ago. Such an interesting arc. Would love to see a video on Jaden vs Dark Magician Girl.
If we're talking about three dudes getting otk'd on the same turn, I'd like to see Reira's duel against three Security goons during the Synchro Dimension arc from Arc-V get covered. If I remember correctly, she winds up summoning a Fusion, a Synchro, and an Xyx monster who each take a guy out. Slightly related, but I wonder if they're ever going to make Reira's C/C/C cards a real thing.