Yu-Gi-Oh! GX- Season 1 episode 22- The Duel Off - Part 2 

Bastion: uses strategy and planning and effectively neutralizes the main gimmick of Jaden's deck Jaden: *throws a boomerang*

“You can’t activate polymerization!” *laughs in Fusion Gate *chuckles in Miracle Fusion *snickers in Contact Fusion

I love when they turn the comments on. Wish they would do it for every video.

I’m glad he explained what pot of greed did

This is definitely one of my favorite duels in the first season. It reminds me of how competitive and fun duels can be. Before all of this Pendulum, Link, and C Number nonsense with absurd one-turn kill potential.

One of Dr. Crowler's plans of expelling Jaden Yuki has backfired again.

Crowler: does this slacker ever lose Zane, Atem, and kaiba: hold my beer

19:06-19:26, 20:33-20:42 ah I love that. Even though they dueled each other, they're friends first and remain being friends and now even Bastion is proud of Jaden

This episode was awesome, I love how Jaden had to find another way to win when his Fusion Monsters were shut down

Bastion: You can't use poly anymore! Jaden: Ok, so i won't draw another single poly or fusion related card for the rest of this duel.

The cards I like out of this duel is Elemental HERO Wildheart, Hyozanryu, Ring of Destruction, The Warrior Returning Alive, Pot of Greed, Double Spell, Spirit Barrier, Elemental HERO Bladedge, Emergency Provision

5:15 i always knew that math will killme someday

and that "old man" was never heard from again

19:09 auto generate subtitles thank me later

Finally ma boi Bladedge actually gets the respect he deserves. The dude's stronger than Dark Magician and has a useful effect to boot.

Jaden: saves the world on many different occasions through his good Dueling Also jaden: shows bastion his entire hand at 8:34

"Does this slacker ever lose" Just shows how great of a duelist Jaden is.

This was a really good duel.

I feel like this Ep really proved that bastion has the iq in general but battle iq goes to jayden he’s too unpredictable

I really wish this RU-vid channel also provided the sub version as well as season 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh GX

18:00-18:27 Hehehe wow that was such a cool move and a great way to end the duel, Jaden. You are the man and great job

Stopping jaden using polemirazation is like stopping chumly eating grill cheese

I like how blade edges premierer is getting slapped in the face by his own boomerang 😂

I just realized that the professor that is always with the Pharaoh sounds a lot like Darts from season 4 of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! Mind blowing

Aster must have been the one to beat that sketchy journalist. Aster is the only other person who uses heroes.

I would of loved for more bastion against the main cast

8:59 "n-not that I care! Baki!" That guy is such a Tsundere

I like how Duel Academy is covering up missing students. But because of the duel this MONSTER of a scandal suddenly doesn’t matter

crawler: does this slacker ever lose? me: nah crawler, haven't you heard of plot armor?

Jaden is one of the best duelist regardless being in the slifer dorm

I have no idea why I enjoy Chancellor Sheppard’s voice, but it fits him very well

They're all concerned about Jaden considering Bastion has thwarted Jaden's strategy to use fusion monsters since this is how Jaden wins all of his duels. But Jaden will turn the tide around and come back on top again, they'll see. Also, this will be the first time in his life that Jaden will win a duel without polymerization or fusion monsters

Bastion should’ve just ran Non-Fusion Area instead of that cursed counter trap. It’s literally designed to stop fusion monsters from being played.

5:12 Elemental HERO Avian: NO anything but math

The show tries hard to paint the reporter as a bad guy, but Duel Academy absolutely deserves some bad publicity. Kids disappearing, the school's bullying epidemic, teachers with personal agendas. School is kinda shit tbh.

9:28-9:55 I like that first monster basition summoned in duel that was destroyed by jaden came back to haunt jaden abd helped basition cause it's another example of being crazy prepared so cool it's SHAME that basition was NEVER allowed to beat jaden.

Imagine if Jaden already had his Elemental Hero Neos/Neo Spacian deck at this point - he’d have had an easier chance to win since he’d be able to fusion summon with the Neos Contact Fusion since they don’t require you to use Polymerisation. And interestingly enough, Jaden’s new support is about to be released in the Power of The Elements collection releasing very soon 😂🤣

I just don't get why Jaden didn't use the spark blaster thing to change waterdragon to defense mode

Yeah Jaden had Fusion gate but this duel was to show that Jaden doesnt always need to rely on fusions to win

Love that they have enabled comments. Hi fellow GX lovers, How ya doing?

Jaden: I'm not just a one trick pony. Me: let me just ask Neos, hey Neos is he full of crap? Neos: is that a question?

8:34 Damn Jaden has Cursed Twin Dolls, Necro Jar AND Spiritualistic Medium. Jaden I thought your idol was Yugi not Bakura

Jaden could have used fusion gate and he would have fused

If I remember correctly, Jaden uses Fusion Gate

Wildheart: Is summoned Me: Wow he looks quite cool Also Wildheart: Boomerangs self in face Me: Nevermind

man I love these shows when they put science and other stuff into the rules to make it more fun XD

If only that reporter knew the dark truth buried underneath duel academy

I love this episode!

0:52-0:56 That's right Syrus. For the rest of the duel no more polymerization

"But he can handle the pressure, in fact, he thrives on it" i dunno why but that sounded bad@$$

This is a amazing duel.Friends against each other is a killer blast.The slifer is great and the ra is good to.

If Bastion played ‘A wing beat of giant dragon’ before attacking, he would have destroyed skyscraper, and therefore removed the attack point bonus it gives (which in the anime, is a constant effect) he would have won. He could have attacked clayman with litmus swordsman and that would have reduced Jaden’s life points to 0. But hey, the main character can’t lose, right 😂

4:10 and 7:57-Fusion or no Fusion, Jaden still manages to pull through! If I was his teacher, I'd definitely give him an A+. 19:24-What good sportsmanship.

In the GX I really love how everyone is sided with always Jaden like Bastion is from another academy or their one of the worst enemy or something... chill lol he is also your friend...

18:02 comeback of the century

Dub:You take away my Fusion monsters, and I'll come at ya with something else Sub:You're making a huge mistake if you think all my HEROES can do is fuse, it's true power lies within combining Monsters, Magic, and Traps

17:53-18:37 Haha!! BOOYA BROTHER MAN!! Way to go Jaden

Way better than Crunchyroll

I Was Hoping To See TMNT (2003) Have A Crossover With Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

15:25 if he just attacked Clayman during this turn, Jaden would lose right there.

00:24 I activate the all-powerful Water Dragon you done f*cked up, Bastian

No Polymerization? Again: Fusion. Gate.

9:53 when you step on a lego

Honestly, creating a counter strategy to your opponents deck is the way to go.

Best show ever

Remember when the stakes are high the main character always wins no matter how good is his opponent bastion litteraly studied his deck and made the perfect strategy to disable jaden's deck but the plot armor was like jaden is the mc jaden must win

18:48 "ugh does this Slacker ever lose" lol you can't stop a legend from being a legend #TeamSlifer #TeamJaden

This episode got on my nerves because he LITERALLY HAS FUSION GATE. HE HAS FUSION GATE! That is not polymerization, he can still fuse cards. Jaden held on by plot armor and no one can tell me otherwise.

Even without his fusion monsters, Jaden Yuki managed to beat Bastion Misawa.

If bastion attacked cayman with water dragon he would of won but plot armour

that combo is the reason why mirage of nightmare banned lol

Always hated how blade edge wasnt used more frequently. He was my fav from jadens deck

Jaden used the strategy that Bastion used in his first match we saw in the first episode!!!

Despite the scripting, Jaden could've used FUSION GATE

I remember watching this back in the day when id watch anime being going to school. When the previous episode aired and saw Jaiden lose his Polymerization card to his trap, I was so blown away because id have to wait till the next day to find out what happened. This series seriously got dark from season three onwards.

This is one of the more unique duels in the series. It's a shame what comes in the next seasons for Bastion

I feel like there's some irony in the difference between Jaden and Bastion's duel in the anime vs. their duel in the manga spin-off that came years later. In both Bastion came up with a strategy to keep Jaden from using fusions, but in the anime Bastion only keeps Jaden from using specifically Polymerization. Jaden could still have used Fusion Gate or other fusion cards. In the manga, Bastion used cards that prevented Jaden from sending cards from the hand and/or field to the graveyard by methods other than battle, effectively locking down the majority of ways to fuse monsters. So, in the anime, Jaden has many ways he can still fusion summon but wins without it, while in the manga Jaden has almost no ways of fusion summoning but still wins by fusion summoning, just not with monsters in his hand or field.

Bastion focused so much on neutralising and countering Jaden's strategy that he didn't quite develop a formidable and solid strategy himself.

I've been playing a lot of GX academy lately on rom, and I never really got into yugioh when I was younger, but it's crazy how closely this anime follows the game, or vice versa. The game centers around these characters and the duel academy, their actual decks are used in the game, and for me, the most annoying duelist has to be the headmaster. He uses flip effect cards like maneater bug, penguin soldier, and hane hane. Which for my ritual deck is annoying. There's nothing worst than tributing 8 level monsters to summon one 8 star that then gets returned to my hand, or ob!iterated, after an monsters flip effect. I guess it's good I use several rituals and ritual monsters, but none of these guys are that hard to fight. Jaden for example, just use a decent amount of spell destroying spells and traps and he's a piece of cake. Zane is pretty tough but it's essentially the same strategy as jaden, only, zane his powerbond limiter removal combo is deadly if he uses it on cyberend dragon. However, only one trap, like an sakuretsu armor, can change that too.

the ultimate aphrodisiac Jaden's dueling skills

15:57 How is that physical possible, when it's not a shadow game? 😅

This makes me wanna play the Beginning of Destiny for the PS2 now

Wow. Spoilers, Description.

A dragunity Deck can easily take out Bastion. True, it has its weaknesses, but Dragunity has ways of dealing with cards that weaken it, like Debunk and Mind Drain.

8:26 Wtf some people were wearing green jackets... What does that stand for? xD

Bastion is calculated

If only Bastion had Lava Golem or Volcanic Queen in his Deck. Combine those with his Water Dragon and he'd be unstoppable.

So Bastion eliminates the main bolsters of Jaden's deck...fusion monsters. And still Jaden finds a way around it. Tough luck, Bastion. 😂😂

Imagine creating a deck specifically to counter someone, and you still lose

15:49 looks like charizard from pokemon on that card

Judai vs Misawa, Fusion Sealed!

Skyscraper increases Jaden’s hero’s attack points when they attack not the other way around, if this were the case bastion would’ve won, but of course plot armor

So did we just forget that FUSION GATE EXIST!??!?!?!?! I swear I'm gonna be hospitalized from over dizziness cause the absolute sheer stupidity is firing on all cylinders!!!!!!

Hold on, Carboneddon's effect doesn't say anything about there needing to be a certain number of cards above it in the graveyard in order to use it. He should have been able to summon Hyozanryu at any point after Carboneddon had been destroyed. Granted, if we were going by actual card text, then Hyozanryu should have also been summoned in Defense position, but there were multiple points in the duel where Jaden would have been unable to take out a 2800 DEF monster, so that wouldn't have been too much of an issue. In other words, Bastion could have very easily beaten Jaden, and yet he threw the entire duel away by imposing a rather bizarre restriction on himself.

Lets be honest. The only reason Jaden wins is cause those elemental heroes are overpowered.

9:56 Hyozanryu, one of Seto Kaiba’s cards that he played in the Battle City tournament

20:03-Just keep practicing, Gerard. 20:28-Again, Atticus is revealed to be alive further on.

Huh ? What about fusion gate that he used in episode 3 🙄?

anyone else come here before LittleKuribo reviews this episode?

Wow