Yugi's Best (and WORST) Monster Cards 

If you hadn't made that comment, I would have

Funny enough, when I used to play the game, I used to make him work and make him work well.

I get, and appreciate that reference.

@@RezeedTheDataspirit it only worked cause all your opponents were using watapon turbo

@@bancon666or it was Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, or Celtic Guard of Noble Arms, Celtic Guardian is actually pretty good

Well, Joey's deck is still quite garbage He only win by Pure luck Kaiba however, his deck just got better and better yet still lose to Yugi

Sean McGee yes please

Joey's most consistently useful card is easily Time Wizard. I'm pretty sure it only ever fails its spin what, twice in the entire series?

@@cherrychocolate1434 It only happened once in episode 18 during his duel against Bonz.

@THE DRAGON KNIGHT SLAYER64 Aah, my bad. I was giving Joey's insane luck too little credit lol

I was happy when Celtic Guardian appeared in the Dark Side of the Dimensions!

After yugi cheated with the stupidi fuse my monster with youra

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 whats new? He always cheats

What's new? EVERYONE always cheats.

Thankyou

Dark Magician mostly suffered from a large sample size with a good chunk of failures weighing down its successes. Most of the top 5 were cards that only showed up a few times and were good every time. The only card that did better with a good number of duels was Dark Magician Girl.

@@expertoflizardcorrugation3967 Guess it beats being the Yamcha'd Celtic Guardian.

The Worf Effect. They destroy him to show the bad guy means business.

Sir Will Ah, a fellow Troper. How are you sir?

Wher eis des volstgalph

"I summon the conflicted celtic guardian" "I'm so conflicted"

supergeno128ds sexually frustrated as well

Reminds me. I STILL don't understand why the version from Dark Side of Dimensions is called "Celtic Guard of Noble Arms" When the monster has NOTHING TO DO WITH NOBLE KNIGHTS!

@@GatorRay You're... uh... kinda talking to the wrong person to vent to. I'm just happy there's a new Celtic Guardian card- regardless of its origin.

@@supergeno128ds Sorry

Cannon Soldier and Catapult Turtle are bro..

Even in real duel if a catapult turtle is being summoned after a chain of combo is an red flag.

Agreed. He should get his own archtype other than Obnoxious Celtic Guard and Celctic Guard of Noble Arms

@@TheRoseReaper i mean he is a noble knight

State. Not estate, but state

Rules: exist Catapult Turtle: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that

okay loli

Judge? The game estate?

*CLAP* You made a diddily darn typo there, freind.

It seems like it's becoming the JWittz's version of GameXplain's captain falcon shilouette

I low key try and predict how he's going to work it into every vid now lol

I hope he never stops

It's the new hoppip.

Can someone explain the origin of it? I assume it was on a stream or something, cause it just kind of showed up in a video and he's been doing a callback to it ever since, seems so random though.

tbf, he could litterally draw every card he wanted with his millenium puzzle

His real secret is that his spell/trap cards carry him. His mirror force does damage 💀

@@TheJWittz now you've got to come back and make BEST Yugi's spell/trap cards lol

Caveman yugioh summon monster with big numbers and hope that your opponent can´t destroy it card effects.

he also brakes the rules alot

and Mega Ultra Chicken

TOOORMEEENT!!

@@TheMasterVictory *INFIDELS! THOU HAST ANGERED THE GOD OF TRADING CARDS!*

69th like wheres my prize

Your executive producer is no match for my chicken and trisen’s voice

U deserve an award good one XDD

If it was kuriboh *F E E T U S D E L E T U S*

Lol😂

Yeetus skeetus eat the feetus.

This is now my catchphrase

Yeah Slyfer always felt like a terrible card honestly, its 2000 point nuke seems good but yeah its also been the downfall of that card many times and honestly it has a very large cap on its attack power and thats only if your not playng any cards or have infinite cards in your deck. Ra and Obelesk are far better as Obelesk's two abilities are absurd and its got a base 4000 attack and Ra you can just keep sacrficing monsters and life points to make it unstopable or just have it phoenix mode the field

Maybe that's why he's so obnoxious.

where is des volstgalph

Catapult turtle was CANNON fodder 🥁

Me too absolutely

Well pokemon is having it's "downtime" at the moment with main games so can't really blame him.

@@V-Jes what happened? Or rather what's happening to Pokeman?

@@dennisdustin6895 Removal of pokemon from main games and Let's go games.

@@V-Jes .... What, so you're telling me that they removed the Pokemons from a game called Pokemon?

The fact that the lists factors in damage and times when they leave the field for a summon or effect actually removes that bias. See, defense-focused monsters in YGO just ... aren't actually really good. All they really do is deal some minor damage when your opponent attacks into them with a weaker monster ( unlikely in this context, what with the anime regularly summoning monsters in _face-up_ defense position until ZEXAL, which ... yeah, you're not gonna trick your opponent into doing that like that ) or provide very slow fuel for other cards that usually won't lead you to lose LP if they get beaten in battle. That's literally all they do, and they're not really even good at the latter unless you've genuinely got nothing better because their slowness means your opponent can accumulate field presence without difficulty, too. Basically, any defensive monster doing well on this sort of list means that it actually _served its purpose_ as a defensive monster, because it wasn't destroyed ( preventing it from going -1 in score ) and allowed the user to Tribute Summon something bigger ( increasing its score ). 'Course, since that's _all_ the monster really does, it's still not going to get high up on a list. But that's just how it goes when an 1800 ATK monster is _so_ much better than a 1800 DEF monster, because the 1800 ATK monster will survive most everything that the 1800 DEF one will, but can _also_ use its higher stat to actively impact the board state and your opponent's LP through attacks, whereas all the higher DEF one has going for it is ... surviving battle with a monster that has exactly the same ATK as its DEF. Yeah, uh, even outdated battle Traps like Mirror Force, Threatening Roar, and Waboku are all gonna do the job _far_ better than any single monster will, barring any _really_ potent defensive effects that you're not likely to find on any monster worth the effort to summon because as it happens, powerful stalling without much counterplay does not make for a very fun game.

@@hi-i-am-atan While I do understand the point you're making, I have to disagree with your statement that DEF monsters in YGO aren't good. If your statement was mainly referring to that era of YGO, where we mainly had normal monsters and not that many effect monsters, then definitely, the majority of Defence Monsters in that era weren't that viable for the reasons you mentioned. But pretty much since the GX era TBH we've gotten a lot more powerful DEF focused monsters with terrifying effects. Especially when you look at Flip Effects cards which were pretty much caused the rise of Burn Decks.

@@sammykent5752 I can promise you that any sort defensive stall and burn decks, even if they were far more viable than they were back in DM era, were still far under the cut of powerful offensive decks like Gladiator Beasts, Lightsworns, Dark Armed Return, Monarchs, and Cyber Dragons. The only really powerful burn decks we've seen are Chain Burn ( which is the exact _opposite_ of defensive and instead just burns you incredibly quickly ) and Mystic Mine Burn ( which, strictly speaking, is a defensive deck ... but is functions by _practically turning off your opponent's ability to use monsters,_ so, uh, yeah not only is it based around an _absurdly_ powerful card beyond the level of most defensive ones, but it's one the most hated decks while also being the most vulnerable to just running backrow removal that itself is backrow ).

The only defensive card I ever considered good and not a filler or part of an archetype has been Millennium Shield 3000 Def, no effect and one tribute has been nice. But that's it.

but even if a defense card is destroyed, it might be worth a point. like, if kaiba has blue eyes and vorse raider on the field, and yugi has 2000 Lp, kaiba plans on using vorse to destroy yugis next defense and use bewd to go for game, but then yugi topdecks soldier of stone, so yugi survives with 100 Lp, cause kaiba has to use his dragon for it instead. might not come up that often in DM, but for example winged kuribohs whole existence is being a blocker, not just because of his ability to nullify all battle damage for a turn, but also when using "super junior confrontation" or whatever it was called, sacrificing it, protects all other monsters from being attacked that turn, and in zexal gogogo golem is often used to waste two of the opponents attacks, which shouldnt cost him points. there are also situations where yuma forgets his defense position effect and plays him in atk mode. misplays like that arent really the cards fault.

What's that, the participation trophy? :D Any monster can protect life points, it's main purpose is to stay alive.

@@Gloriankithsanus You know that piling up the Graveyard is part of the game's tactic, don't you?

@@roberthasudungan1546 Not in Yugi's Goodstuff deck, though. His only GY interaction is "Reborn The Monster." Good decks totally use the graveyard. Yugi's... Is not a good deck, for the most part.

the only Life Point that matters is your last

Rylan Gray That sounds like some sort of motto for people who abuse the EndRev Salac strategy in Pokémon

Dzeef:WRONG

@@sebman6031 But I'm not though

@@thekungachunga4578 I'm talking about the game being about life points

Yugioh DM in a nutshell, but I can say it's no longer like that since Arc-V.

@@anangunggulbimantara742 Yeah. Now they summon *4* new cards and attack to win the duel.

Zexal too

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Niwatori

It's kuriboh

You lost to someone who chose to add Mushroom Man to his deck!

Who?

Nice

Yoooooo Cyberknight wasup

Where is Des Volstgalph on this list

Mindblown

Waiting for the Funky Cops video!

One piece dub

Sonic X

@@plosflow7556 oh yeah, I forgot that was 4Kids

@@plosflow7556 I'm ready for it. Also, let's not forget . . . Dragon Ball Z Kai, 4 kids edition

Yes it's such a good game

Harpie King was that? Duel links is better

@@xyoungdipsetx As an avid Duel Links player, no, it's not better at all.

@@xyoungdipsetx duel links is trash

livestream duels with subs, master rule 1 lets go

Yes

Still not anywhere near as complicated as Link Format.

Correct. I still play Dark Magician despite its difficulties because it's my favorite.

*Dark Magic Curtain* + *Megamorph* is your friend, mate

Robert HS he said WITHOUT support cards

I personally think it was stupid of Judai to use Impact Flip, letting Yugi mill Beast of Gilfer to take down his Bladedge, and then getting him to draw Card of Sanctity to draw 6 more cards. If he didn't activate Impact Flip, Yugi would have topdecked Beast of Gilfer with no monsters on field, and a 2600 beatstick on his opponent's field

Kinda sad that once Yusei got Stardust, he rarely used Junk Warrior. Then the final duel happened, and it was beautiful.

@@ShallBePurified Scrap Fistooo!!

Yusaku has the almighty power of FIREWALL PASS!

Well Yusaku's deck is all over the place because they can't use the other summoning mechanics as easily like Yuya could in Arc-V That's why I hate Link Summoning. It was created to prevent Extra Deck abuse but it only made it worse since Links can do it much easier than the previous mechanics

pikagammerplus pizza I think that was the 2015 ycs tourney finale, the original voice dub of Kaiba and yugi had a voiceover of the duel (pre recorded- and scripted) ofc

@@ki7966 no actually the video was yugi jaden yusei and yuma vs zarc. But the video got copyright striked so the guy who made it had all the songs taken out. Still a cool duel though.

Alas, Gamma didn't appear in enough duels that Jwitzz looked at (only two: The tag-team with Kaiba against Lumis and Umbra and the Battle City Quarter Final against Bakura). It appeared in others in Waking the Dragons as well as the final duel against Atem in Dawn of the Duel. That's why I find Jwitzz's decision to ignore everything past Battle City and filler arcs, while understandable, somewhat cheating the system on some cards. Berfomet is another example that was only used once in Battle City but used many times afterwards, but alas, those appearances weren't factored in here.

William worrall but only if you combine it with the best card in the game: Asspull.

Not entirely. It's a Duel Monsters channel as I don't remember him mentioning anything from 2004 and onwards.

@@pablomadrid6962 So does that make him a yugioh "genwunner" or something?

@@manekimoney kind of? I don't know his opinions on GX and beyond

Not a pack opening channel.

Acsilverfish360 also not a banlist channel.

Not to mention the defensiest of defense bois, Big Shield Gardna.

chumps sitting in defense don't win the games, not even superheavies, samurais or total defensed shoguns are gonna save you here

@@mageside It should be worth a few points if their defense is what keeps you in a game instead of instantly losing on any particular round

Seriously. I actually have run one or two Giant Soldiers of Stone because they have a high defense for no tributes. It was a good way to stall so I could get good cards dueling friends in high school.

To be fair, Defense position monsters in the anime are normally just fodder for the opponent to have a reason to break out their big gun and erase it. How often did Giant Soldier of Stone or Big Shield Gardna actually block an attack and cost the opponent Life Points?

2 on her chest

Lost to Joey lost to Tea lost marik

I recommend starting off by buying three copies of the Order Of The Spellcasters Structure deck. It revolves around Pendulum monsters and spell counters and there's deck profile that only use cards from three copies of said structure deck. And if you want to upgrade it with other cards I recommend checking out the deck profile on TeamSamuraiX1's channel.

If pathetic cards don’t exist, a deck can’t contain them C: Zone Eater:exists

You could also make the case for Cyber-Tech Alligator, seeing it has the same ATK as Summoned Skull, but with 400 more DEF and only level 5 instead of 6. Only problem back then was a lack of availability. Seriously, we had this one in the video games for decades, yet it took until _2007_ for a worldwide physical release!?

@@SuperGoker64 It's defense being higher makes it worse, since it wasn't searchable with Witch of the black forest

Well some of those reasons are purely for the story. I’m not saying your wrong but if card effects are for story reasons, then I can let that slide. I’ve also noticed a lot that characters play cards when it’s not their turn

I believe he would call it, "heart of the cards" lol

It’s anime, don’t think too hard about it lol