Why Nobody Remembers Bounzers | Yu-Gi-Oh! 

Zexal era has tons of pack filler Dzeff: It's free real estate

Gauche: "I'm gonna play Bounzers." Gauche: 'I've made a horrible mistake." [switches to Heroic]

Outside of their terrible effects and lack of synergy, I think people forget Bounzers because what the heck is a Bounzer? I’m being serious, what does it mean to be a Bounzer? Because to me, these are pack filler Beast-Warriors that for some reason are Warriors. The name sounds like they’re bouncers, so they must protect you from attacks and restrict your opponent like bouncers? Maybe they send cards back to the hand, you know, bouncing? No, there is no synergy, no common themes, and nothing to attach to. You know, unless you like hyena Edward Hammerhands.

imagine being a mecha phantom beast player and hearing dzeeff correct himself from saying the deck was a rogue contender to saying it was 'okay-ish'

I heard about them because I was rewatching Zexal lmao

And I tought GX had forgoten archetypes. But zexal

I remember them. What I find so funny is the fact they struggled to summon their actual boss XYZ (Photon Strike Bounzer). It’s like Konami were scared to make a level 6 Cyber Dragon clone

I remember them as the "archetype" that one guy from zexal had before heroic champions.

Gotta love that "Ripped Straight From the Stil of the Anime" art. Tresh.

When I saw the title I was like: I don’t remember Bounzers.

I think it was because Nistro, their user, Switched over to Heriocs to cop that Rongo Bongo before it was banned.

I remember them. I'm one of the few big fans of bounzers.

Yeah, I remember. I found Blade Bounzer and Bounzer Guard on the ground in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

Not only they're bad as an archetype, their design is so unappealing

I only remember them because I have a couple in my "shiny, but not worth anything" binder.

I feel like this series is just going to be archetypes that show up in the zexal anime once and never show up again lol

I kinda remembered Bounzers from when Nistro fought Yuma with them in their first match. However, I had absolutely no idea that these cards had ever been printed.

When Nistro was introduced, he used this deck in 1 duel that lasted barely 2 episodes. Then when he quit the Heartland committee, he immediately switched to the Heroic Challenger deck After getting into the game after only just watching the shows, I realize now that some anime decks will always seem incomplete since said decks aren’t used a lot in the shows except for reusing the same cards

I remember Bounzers...I wish I could forget them.

Same thing as Crashbugs. I knew about Bounzers from ZeXal, and haven't thought about them outside of that context. Although, unlike the character that used Crasgbugs, the guy that used Bounzers was actually a relevant character that got more than one duel. It's just that he switched to using Heroic Challengers .

I remember bounzer because rata mentioned it for one second

1:32 “[...] is a rank *eight* “ Me: **visible confusion**

Zexal was just full of anime decks that barely synergize with each other... Until the Barians entered the battle Butterspy Bounzer Zexal's Ninjas The Sparrow Family Stray Cats (Kathy's deck) And that's just to name a few

I remember Bounzers from duel links. I tried playing the one that can normal summon for free in the early synchro era. I arrived when stardust dragon came out. I looked at all the boxes and learned about this card. I stopped playing tcg a long time ago so I actually never heard of the aha monster. I guess that makes me the reverse of your prediction.

hammer bouncer being WARRIOR, despite clearly being beast-warrior......

I thought Photon Strike Bounzer was a Photon/Galaxy card. Never realized Bounzers were a thing.

Hammer Bounzer: "Stop, Hammer Time!"

Bruh the last couple episodes of his "Why nobody remembers" I've instantly recognized and remembered.

Kinda funny how im going back to these older videos and are reminded of decks that i got to play against at my locals, it really was a fun time since there was indeed 2-3 tri-hards that won every week, the rest just kind of played random things to try and find the next rogue deck. I was heavily into morphtronics > scraps > wind-ups, but i also ran into bounzers, toons, magical wonder fea. dark magician girl, heroes, harold's balls (thats what he called it), crystal beast turbo, etc

Why nobody remembers well that's because a lot of zexal decks are forgettable.

Of course I remember them... I've actually watched the shows DOUG.

I remember them, packed them as a kid and stuck with me. It took me a while to learn Photon Strike Bounzer is a thing and I was suprised. I do love Photon Strike Bounzer.

I honestly thought photon strike was like it’s own thing, I never even thought it was part of an archetype

They were used once by a character in ZEXAL, so that's how I remember the Bounzers

Day 1 of waiting for Why Nobody Remembers Moja

Ah, yes, one of the archetypes that only counts as an archetype because of 2 card

Already becoming my favourite series, I love the obscure archetypes. More please :)

Rata: Bounzers. Making a deck out of these boils down to "How often can I churn out Beatrice and make it count?" And most of the time, you don't even draw into any of them.

7:56 that feel when you want to be kind to mecha phantom beasts, but then remember they were only okay-ish so you have to make another take to not spread misinformation.

Back at my first job, there was a coworker who was also into Yugioh. The first Xyz packs dropped and we pooled to buy 2 boxes and 2 tins each. He was excited for Bounzers based off card art alone

Lets face it, Bounzers are mainly bad cause they're BARELY a archetype since they have only 5 cards. They're incomplete as heck. In the case of Mecha Phantom Beasts, yeah I agree that Dracosack was used more than the actual archetype, but at least you can make the archetype work since it was a complete deck (even now you can make it work fine with Auroradon), unlike Bounzers.

There was actually one interesting casual build I've seen around them with Metalfoes because Phantom Bounzer searches after getting destroyed and it can search itself. So that left a lasting impression on me. XD But, that is about it.

I actually had Blade Bouncer in my deck as a young teen

I remember these cards because they showed up in Duel Links a while ago and I considered using them. Pretty much came to the same conclusion you did even in that format.

I think Bounzers need something like this to get them started or something similar to this. Also, ps, if they make a new Bounzer Xyz that copies bounzer monster effects, at that point I can see blade bounzer seem more useful. Screw Bounzer Level 4/EARTH/Warrior/Effect 1700ATK/1300DEF Once per turn: You can Tribute 1 Level 4 monster you control; Special Summon 2 Level 4 or higher "Bounzer" monsters from your hand or GY, except "Screw Bounzer" and if you Tributed a "Bounzer" monster, you can draw 1 card.

I played Yugioh Generations App so I remember this card. PS Also Konami thank you for developing Duel Links and giving me NOTHING for money poured into Generations. I thought a little nod would have been great in the form of in game content.

My boy Nistro's first deck working for the corrupted mayor of Heartland City !

I was a super Zexal fan, so naturally I knew about Nistro and his initial appearance using Bounzers. Haven't thought about them in at least a year, back when I went through lists of archetypes.

This series has a big future.

Back when I was really young, I had a complete mish-mash of random Yu-Gi-Oh cards that I shambled together into a deck. I knew there were a series of Bounzer cards, but I didn't know what an Archetype was. I had Phantom Bounzer and Blade Bounzer. Phantom Bounzer was the strongest card I had in terms of attack points. I think I still have him in my collection somewhere.

In preparation for Zexal world being added to DL, I started watching the Zexal anime where they’re featured a bit. The archetype itself is pretty forgettable, and the duelist who plays them, Nistro (significantly more interesting than his initial archetype) even drops them in favor of his Heroic Challengers.

When building a VW list online, I searched bounzer to find this card and the other bounzers came up. However since this one was part of photon I thought it was just a recurring theme and not an archetype, that somehow didn't occur to me lol

Photon strike and having watched season Zexal are the only reason I haven't (completely) forgotten this archetype.

I liked those cards a lot. Same as in old duel generations game they were such great cards to summon.

Both crash bugs and bounzers were filler commons in packs I opened TONS of back when I was transitioning from casually getting back into yugioh to playing competitively but still buying excessive packs instead of singles because I had a shiny cardboard addiction 🤷‍♂️ Loving this series, super hitting my nostalgia.

I remember them before this video, i have an entire deck around them

I remember having Hammer Bounzer, years ago, and I still have photon strike bounzer to this day

I remember trying to make a desk with these guys, but was never anything worth trying for too long.

This is the first video where I actually noticed the voice edits... Great video non the less

I roughly knew of its existence because Nistro from the anime played them at some point, but I never actually thought about them ever

I knew only Phantom Bounzer from an eternal singles folder at my LGS, but sinve I never read the effect, I never knew they were an archetype. I just now found out about their Xyz boss monster.

Bounzers were the first deck I faced in my first competitive duel Links duel. I was playing Ojamas, so that went about as well as I expected.

To me it felt like the bounzer deck restrained nistro's true strength and when he switched to his true deck (his heroic deck) he broke the restraints that bound him so he can finally bring out his full power

I actually do remember Bounzers because I was looking through my cards and found that I had Phantom Bounzer, which is the one that makes it an archetype

Yep, this is yet another Zexal Archetype. One interesting thing is the character that used them later switched to a Heroic challenger/champion deck for the remainder of the series after his one duel using the bounzer deck.

Blade bounzer was one of my first monsters. I didn't learn that it was an archetype for 3 years.

Dzeeff: 'Do you remember the Bounzer archetype?' Me: 'Yes.' 'When did you last think about them?' 'When they came out.'

Who could forget Bounzer? He's always kidnapping Princess Peack and the plumbers Maro and Loogie have to save her

back when the cards first released, I built a "Bounzer/Butterspy" deck because they were both Warrior-Type archetypes used by partner Jobber characters in the anime. I took it into a locals and had a good laugh when I got 2nd, my final game being against a Chaos-style deck and I ended up winning (even I couldn't tell you how, lol)

Yes i knew about two of them because i have randomly drawn them

I knew these from the Duel Generation game. And with the limited card pool in that game early on I actually used Hammer Bounzer.

I know about them, and of Photon Bounzer specifically because I played Hazy Flame, so I went from playing a good card in 1 unplayable archetype to a barely playable one, not much changed.

I've known the bounzer architype before knowing the rank 6 and that from duel links, the last time I heard of this architype was when I re-watched zexal

I remember them because i was an hieratic player, so i bought a lot of galatic overlord's packs. Photon strike bouncer was one of the Main plays of the deck back when one negation was a Big deal.

I hadn’t even heard about Photon Strike Bounzer. I got back into the game around Vrains though so I’m not surprised.

I remember playing Bounzer Hound in Duel Generations it was like the best card I had in Main deck in my customised starter deck.

I remember I used Blade Bounzer in some meme warrior deck on duel links, just because of the second attack ability and decent attack

I remember that deck when zexal first launched... We played that card a lot...

Photon Strike Bounzer is essentially like Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack or Ally of Justice Catastor. These guys had archetypes, but a generically good boss card may cause the archetype to get overlooked.

Ok so what Doug is doing here is basically... Legacy of the Worthless 2: Legacy of the Forgotten

I knew Hammer Bounzer from Duel Links, where I included it in some early versions of an autoduel Deck. Since most of the NPCs Decks include cards, that can result in pretty random wins and because the AI in Duel Links is (/was) incredibly stupid and can not play complicated Decks, it would help designing a Deck to specifically battle those NPCs. Nowadays the Decks are stronger and maybe the AI got smarter, so winning these Duels fast with a regular Deck is completely normal. (Examples of AI dumbness: There were situations where the AI left a White Stone of Ancients on the field in Attack position, held a powercard, until it could not turn the duel around anymore, etc. There are also events, where you have only 5 turns to beat the opponent, who has increased lifepoints (damage accumulates inbetween duels). The AI didn't know that the duel ends and chose to simply not activate ATK modifier cards on the last turn.)

I didn't know about any of these cards, but of course I didn't play in that era. I played GOAT and came back at the tail-end of pendulums.

I knew about Blade Bounzer because I played it in a warrior beatdown deck in the Duelist Generation mobile game. Granted, the free card pool in that game was garbage, so I used any warrior monster with decent stats.

i remember getting the main deck monsters in a pack years ago alongside N°11 Big Eye ("not sure if it was the same pack") i only remember cuz its when i started playing YGH again with friends

I remember Bounzers. They were released in the first sneek peak I ever went to.

TIL Photon strike bounzer has a whole archetype

I remember them because some of my first cards were these because i got the Heroic Champion: Excalibur tin. I last though about them every now and then because i rewatched zexal and think about my first deck.

Honestly hammer bounzer’s effect sounds like something that would fit nicely in a superheavy samurai deck but really only the special summon effect seems to have value. Even without the awkward level and trigger of phantom bounzers effect, there’s barely much it could search to begin with so its still screwed regardless Blade bounzer is depressing as all it needed for it to be at least okey is make it into a level 6 like the others with a more respectable attack point and simply alter the effect to something like “you can destroy one bounzer card in your hand and this card can attack twice this turn” which would of at least synergied with phantom bounzer even if the search pool is super shallow. Bounzer guard might of been okey (not fantastic but at least have a niche) if there was a bounzer with a similar effect to el shaddoll construct of destroying special summon monsters but alas there is non so its use is beyond limited.

I remember them, i had the bounzer card you used for the intro.

I heard of them because back when actually collected the physical cards I got a few of the other members in packs. I have phantom and blade bounzer.

Dzeef be doing a mini Legacy of the Worthless here.

I remember these guys (and a lot of the bad anime villain archetypes) due to our locals having this one scrub who insisted that “I can make it work” when the rest of us were crapping on the deck while cracking packs. He did not and lost often.

I was in high school when all of these era archetypes were coming out, and since I couldn’t afford any actually good decks, whenever I got packs or tins I’d slowly start building decks out of most of the pack filler trash I had gotten, and bounzers and crashbugs were on the higher end of possibly playable, but never actually made

I remember them as pack filler in duel links. Vaguely remember reading them and thinking “is that it” (They only have the main deck monsters)

My friend used Hammer Bounzer back in Junior High for the same reason we played Cyber Dragon. I mean it worked seeing as how it was slow Yu-Gi-Oh and beat over Cyber Dragon.

Yes I remember them I remember being reminded of their existence anytime I would open a pack and find one apart from that no I don't remember them

i think the new Dzeeff trend is to leave in an outtake in each video? xD , that mecha phantom beast introduction...

Ahh Zexal anime, the beginning and end of so many one off archetypes that while maybe were interesting, ultimately ended up being forgettable

Phantom bounzer is actually insane if you could search anything good off it. I'd play diagram or even fire King island for that effect.