I'm pretty sure the reason why GX had so many one-off duels in its earlier seasons is because the writers probably said, "There's gonna be someone out there in the future that'll rank these shows based on the amount duels shown and we want GX to be on the top of that list damnit! Create as much filler characters as you can!" For real though, I'm always happy and surprised that GX is mostly on the top half of these lists/rankings, especially since it didn't really get much love when it first came around.

How about Top 10 duels where the duelists do nothing but roasting each other, for example: joey vs kaiba (probably every joey battle) or lazar vs crow

Here’s a fun one; top 10 times characters brick. The ones I can think on the top of my head are… 1. Joey vs Zeigfried (Joey bricked) 2. Battle City 4 way battle royale where Joey bricked 3. Yuya bricked against Meiru (couldn’t even normal or pendulum summon) 4. Nioki vs Knight of Hanoi (probably the favourite brick) I’m pretty sure Yuga bricked on some occasions but those are the ones I can think of now.

ranking ideas: -Top 10 best turns -Top 10 OSTs and themes -Top 10 summons -Top 7 best endings of the show -Top 10 favorite cards for you

Even for me that didn't watch all of GX knew it had to be that series. They're literally in a place called Duel Academy, made up of a majority of duels from within and outside the main event. Don't know if you also counted S3 of GX with the multiple duels going on with the Duel Ghouls, Dylan. Overall, great video.

I'm not that surprised GX is 1, but I'm surprised with how many duels it actually had

Not a surprise that GX has the most duels, I only didn't expect it to be that big of a landslide. I do agree that a lot of these duels are rather meaningless. I also expected DM to be much higher but they have less one episode duels than I remember. I'd also love to see all OTK's ranked :P

I find it hilarious that everyone harps on Yugioh GX so much yet it is constantly in the top 3 of all these stat based videos. I love GX so I'm happy it gets so many great stat wins :3 Judai is my favorite protagonist and is a really awsome duelist but the english dub made him so much more goofy than his character actually was. Loving these stat videos for giving my boy his well deserved praise.

The Duel Monsters segment surprised me!

Besides Vrains being last & GX being first, I genuinely don't know how this will go. DM will probably be 4th or 3rd because it had longer duels but the longest series by far to balance it out. 5Ds had the WRGP & quite a lot of Team Riding Duels which moves it down, maybe 5th or 6th, assuming each only counts as 1. Zexal had a lot of filler/plot episodes that didn't involve dueling, but it also had several episodes where multiple duels took place at once to make up for it, so again I'd put it somewhere near DM. Arc-V I'd put low (again, maybe 5th or 6th) because the pacing was such a mess. Sevens is gonna be top 3 surely, maybe even 2nd because it had so many duels even if the series was short. Final predictions: 7th: Vrains 6th: 5Ds 5th: Arc-V 4th: Zexal 3rd: DM 2nd: Sevens 1st: GX Edit: A couple of surprises in there tbf; if I'd swapped Arc-V & DM during predictions I wouldn't have done too bad at all. Also makes sense why I couldn't confidently place any series outside of Vrains & GX considering 4 of them had a collective range of 2 duels.

With GX you have to remember it was also about character build... so literally almost every character had their own story and personality to which gave us a chance to see them thus there were multiple dudes coming from alot of side characters as well even if they weren't as much in the show, they gave them time to develop.

GX has been untouchable for these lists.

I love seeing these stat-based videos at how the different series compare to each other. I really thought that Duel Monsters would take second place, I got to say I was surprised after watching this video and seeing the results. Awesome video~!!!

Yeah, GX have a lot of meaningless early on, but i like it. Imo that shows one of the main focus of the serie. A duel school. Obviously with so many students you will duel a lot of random people only because you want a sandwich or Kaiba want to make fun of Joey with a Duel Monkey or whatever.

You should do the most played spell cards. I think pot and reborn would be the top, but I’d be interested to see what the rest are

Great video. I don’t think it was a surprise that gx has the most by a long shot. I thought arc v would be 2nd with a few more duels. Yea DM had some long duels 😂

Shout out to my favorite one-off duel from GX, the one in season 2 where Judai faced off against the guy with the gameshow deck. I think in the dub they called him Bob Banter which is an obvious Price is Right reference.

Hey that monkey told Jaden he was top banana at Duel Academy, at least that is Jaden thought he said because he was hallucinating finding his way back to the Academy in Season 2. That scene was one of the best. Hallucination Zane telling Jaden that he is top banana now and Jaden holding the stack of bananas on his head “It’s an honour, thank you”, before getting splashed by water by the monkey. GX was a trip and it was beautiful.

GX has even joked about one of their one off duels during s3 syrus makes a comment about the duel with the monkey and say "Man that was a werid episode."

I always thought arc v had the most but now thanks to the rules I know that Gx has the most maybe because to me it had the most short duels that lasted like one episodes or less Surprised that zexal and dm have the same duels but that happened because dm had very long duels and Vrains filler episodes etc

I'm not surprised GX was so high. Most of the story took place at a dueling school lol

I prefer the old duels with many episodes that build tension and hype. The fast/one episode duels always seemed irrelevant to me

What an amazing video on my birthday! 😊

very comprehensive document, love it. Small remark though, I think you've left out Chazz's 4v1 duel at North Academy, the one where all opponents use the same Marauding Captain strategy

I have a suggestion the top 10 worst duels in all of yugioh, top 10 season/arc in yugioh gx

As for future topic, rank or most duels, I got a few: 1. Which series has the Most amount of tag duels. 2. Ranking the 7 YuGiOh Girl Lead Characters from best to worst. 3: Which series has the most amount of dragon aces? 4: How many episodes had no dueling in them whatsoever? 5: Which openings showcased the most amount of duels that happened (aka What Openings Had the Most Amount of Truths to them?) 6: Ranking the Best Friends or How Much Duels They won.

I know you did videos on the main protagonists in the yugioh series like wins or how many times they used their ace but I think it would be cool if you did similar videos for the rivals and/or main supporting protagonist characters like kaiba or joey throughout the series 😊

Hey Dylan, excellent video. Now can you do a Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal top 10 video please? Thank you.

Great video

133 Duels! 😱

As a video idea, maybe you could do something on duels that don't involve the main 2-3 characters (the protagonist, the rival, or Jounouchi/Crow/Shark/Soulburner). Something like what percentage of duels in each series didn't involve them or top ten duels of that style.

Idk if any of these done but Top 10 longest duels Top 10 card draws (drawing the most cards via card effect) Top 10 LP difference Top 10 weakest cards on anime Top 10 characters with most cards (how many different cards they used during entire season) Top 10 worst/best animated episodes Top 10 side character duels Top 10 brothers Top 10 characters with longest/most crazy hair Top 10 weird faces/frames Top 10 ygo tracks Top 10 duel runner Top 10 anime cards that needs to be real

I have a video idea? Which extra deck summoning mechanic was used the most throughout all the shows? Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Link. People might think Link's will have a huge disadvantage for only being in one show, but you gotta remember, they used Link climbing to get to their boss monsters, so their are actually way more Link monsters summoned than people think.

Ok i figured it was going to be GX at one. Like you said some eps were definitely a drag, especially when you know most of the time the main character is going to win. Good video!!

i was watching yugioh 5ds (again) and I see the Mad Archfiend attack was a very weird/bizarre attack, so I think could be a good idea doing a top with the most weird bizarre attacks of monsters

Tossing out a couple random thoughts. Longest anime combo/turn by number of cards used by a single duelist. Longest anime turn by number of cards used by all involved duelists.

For Yugioh GX there was also many episodes with multiple duels happening at the same time

I feel like the 5Ds team duels should still be counted with their individual duels only because these were more like consecutive duels. In these duels each player had to lose all their life points for the next player to come into play with their own decks. It’s like counting an in-game Pokemon gym or league as just one battle because you have to consecutively battle multiple people in a row.

can you do top 10 duelists excluding main characters, their rivals and main villains? so no yugi, kaiba or dartz but you could include rafael or for 5ds no yusei, jack or z-one but you could include antinomy. you can base off how strong their decks are, their wins and/or skills and how tough they were to defeat

Man my brain is playing tricks on me, I had a notion that multiple duels were being done at the same time in Gx. But yeah I am not surprised that it has the most duels. We did not get any of Yubel episodes of later here in Denmark.

yugioh gx showing us once again why its the BEST yugioh anime ever

Can you do a ranking vid for a every tag duel/Battle Royale? That’ll be an interesting to cover.

Hey I was wondering where it is I can watch every yugioh episode? Including the never dubbed episodes, seasons, etc. I've tried crunchyroll but even that doesn't Include the last season of gx, 5ds, etc.

Nice vid and i guessed gx right 😊

Pre-video: VRAINS will be at the low (too many 2 episode duels and pacing issues combined with recaps), DM will be in the bottom half because most of those duels lasted multiple episodes, Zexal will be in the middle because they had a good balance of 1, 2, and 3 episode duels, 5Ds might be in the middle depending on the riding duels. GX is gonna be in the top 3. Sevens might be in the top 3 because they had about 10 through 13 duels in seven arcs, so it's gotta be between 70 and 91. Arc V had a crap ton of duels and characters so I can see them making the top 3 too. Post-video: Vrains no surprise, 5Ds is that low...huh, fair. Lol DM and Zexal are tied for fourth/third....that's hilarious and fitting given Zexal's like the modern DM...that surprisingly works. CALLED IT WITH SEVENS LETS GO! Arc-V was pretty good at that. Wait what the heck, I had a feeling GX would win, but holy crap. Analysis: I feel like this goes to show you need to have good balance when it comes to duel episode. Make the one episode duels for character focus while building up the story, then make the bigger climatic duels 2 to 3 parters. For example: Zexal definitely had a great balance between 1 ep (Yuma vs future members of the Numbers Club), 2 eps (Yuma vs Kite or a strong rival/villain ala the tag duel with Kite against 3+4), and the climax duels of the arcs ala (Yuma vs Tron, III, and or Vector.) Sevens made Rush Duels faster but also took the time that wasn't on the dueling to focus on the characters. GX was basically Sevens but without the key characterization and plot to tied it together, which is why Sevens has a more memorable first arc. VRAINS focused too much on the plot that Go and Aoi's duels need 1 episode for set up and two episodes to have the duels, which kinda hurt the show at times. DM was the first so they're exempt from this. 5Ds Riding Duels for the tournament did take a bit too much time cuz you had a solid balance in seasons 1 and 2. Remember, the Fortune Cup took about 13 episodes while most Tournament arcs go around a whole two seasons. That's wild. And Arc-V's plot was crazy. I know I still enjoy it for the most part inspite of it's flaws but every episode went out of it's way to make its memorable, so the two or more episode duels really stood out a lot more.

I wonder what the stats look like if you value each duel per participant, i.e. a 1v1 counts for 2, a 2v2 counts for 4 and an arc V interrupt duel counts for the total participants. I think arc V would actually take it due to having a huge amount of multi person duels and some with massive amount of people for example: edo, sora, shun, kaito, gong, jack, sawatari, crow, leo, reiji and reira vs zarc or gong, tsukikage, reed, trout, shun, serena, sawatari vs 3 obelisk force members. At the same time i think this would really hurt sevens and vrains even more with how 1v1 focused those series were. I also think 5ds would benefit more from this than average.

I Think the main reason GX had so many one-off duels is because they really wanted/had to show off a switch of paradigm to archetype dueling.

I got an idea for a list for ya’. How about the series with most alternate duels w/ regular master dueling. Like for 5D’s for example had master dueling, turbo duels, that single episode of conscription dueling that was a SUB only episode, the duel puzzle’s, and anything else I can’t think of. The point of this list is to not count all the Turbo duels just all the different types of alternate duels each series had a piece. Tag Team duels and battle royal don’t count, Unless there is a change in the rules such as the labyrinth duel in the duelist kingdom arc of the original Yu-Gi-Oh. On top of that the original Yu-Gi-Oh had deck master dueling, Dungeon dice monsters, the dimension dueling in the Darkside of dimensions movie. And a few others that I can’t think of off the top of my head. What do you think of that idea for a list? I don’t know if you should count turbo dueling in arc-5 because it was just action dueling on motorcycles with no changing of the rules like speed spells.

I'm glad 5Ds toned down the character of the day stock plot. Obviously there's gonna be a handful of characters that just aren't gonna be plot-relevant ever again, but the first 1/3 of GX and ZeXel rly took the piss in that regard.

does that include duels like the concentration duel in 5d's or whatever a mix of duel with something else?

Nice video, Dylan. Can you please make a video talking about the death duel between Yugi and Jonouchi in Battle City and your thoughts on it? It's my favorite Duel Monsters duel so I want to know your deep thoughts about it.

Which yugioh protagonists used the most cards that only appeared once?

I like how Kaiba is in the thumbnail with all the other protagonists because he’s just that awesome. Plus he was practically the main character of DSOD.

I think that arc v has so many duels because you have some duels happening at the same time

U should do which show has the longest duels or most amount of long duels

An impressive list and video, but I checked the spreadsheet and I noticed some inconsistencies when it comes to how you count Duels that were either partially or mostly off-screen. For example, in Zexal you counted the Yuma vs Shark Round 3 Duel that takes place right before Yuma duels Trey to get his last Heart Piece to enter the finals of the World Duel Carnival. I can understand counting this Duel we see at least three turns of it, but then in the Original series, you don't count Yugi vs Vivian despite us seeing four turns of that Duel. Than you for some reason count Silvio(Shingo) and Celina(Serena)'s Duels with the Security Officers in Arc V, even though Silvio's is completely off-screen and from what Yuya said he lost on turn 1 because the Security Officer somehow First Turn Killed him. It's just a little confusing is all.

Is that art of Judai from the thumbnail a fan-edit? That Star looks like the one in Serena's jacket

Are you ever going to make something like a top 10 duel from a manga?

You should do a Top 10 list of the craziest hair styles in Yugioh. Lol.

Havent watched yet but fsr im expecting GX, DM and ZeXal Edit: close enough, didnt factor in sevens rush duels and forgot the final arc of DM

How about which elemental attribute being summoned the most (and with that, the least as well)?

Is there a phone around here, because I fucking CALLED IT!!!

Gx is the best show by far and not least due to its epic duels. Yes maybe a few could have been cut, but only a few, and the only show where 99 percent of duels are pure fun and completely watchable is gx. Gx is the greatest because ultimately there is no such thing as a meaningless pointless duel, because Duels are the and the ultimate point and meaning of yu gi oh.

A lot of GX Diels were also only 1 episode. Besides the important ones like Saio, Daitojuki, etc.

I had such a strong feeling that gx was going to be #1 on the list. I don't why, but my reason was the amount of times jaden/chazz clashed rather than the flavour of the week match-ups (Though that would make more sense honestly)

I would include the virtual duels in season 3 DM. The deck master was a new way of dueling and that it had a total of 8 duels in the series.

I had three predictions 1. Sevens would rank a lot higher than most would expect because of the rush duels 2. That the frequent amount of multi-episode length duels would kill yugioh duel monsters bid for a high ranking 3. That GX would win (just a random guess) I succeeded at all three

Here's a video idea. Top ten duels where a character came back from almost losing or almost came back via skill. By this I mean something like they didn't top deck the best card that woulda won them the game like pot of greed or something like that

Next Idea: which character used the most different variety of cards in their main / extra deck deck. (Taking over someone else’s duel or using a trial deck (or anything similar) doesn’t count for this list ) Also they must have used it at least once in any duel to count.. so as an example yuma / astral having all 100 number wont count as 100 different cards unless they used it once in a duel.

Can you do the most appearances of the rival ace monsters. I am calling it right now, the top 3 will be red dragon archfiend, galaxy eyes, and blue eyes. Also I think gx is number 1

I’d like to see Which Yugioh show had the most summons of there featured arc type so for gx fusion 5ds synchro zexal xyz arc v pendulum etc and if zexal has more xyz’s then fusions it would be higher than gx but say if a fusion appears in 5ds it doesn’t count just synchros in 5ds makes sense right

A statistical suggestion from me which I would like is this. Which of the 7 series has the most rage Moments in duels?

now, to see which series has the most duels that don't involve the protagonist

I hope you make your top 10 least favorite duels

Remember when Judai dueled the Eggwich guy? Yeah me too

Hey Dylan, do you know where I can watch GX Season 4 and 5Ds Season 5? I have only watched DM so far and was going to get started on the other shows but can’t find those seasons anywhere

Seeing Arc-V in second was a little surprising; especially considering how many episodes DM has. GX has a bigger landslide than i pictured also

How about which character used the most amount of different cards ? I really wanna know that

Jaden's body must ache from carrying the entire show on his back

Not surprised that DM is low because the duels were longer so it wouldn’t outpaced the manga and the last arc barely had any duels, at least with cards. That and DM had several epsoides were no duels happened, the cool off between Duelist Kingdom and Battle City.

I knew gx was going to have the most because Jaden/Judai alone has 78 wins. Guy has almost as many wins as most series have duels.

Which main character has the best deck using the real rules and effects? Example could Yusei's deck beat Yuma's?

I knew yugioh seven was in the top 3 because of 2 things Rush duels and one episode duels.

Wasn't really surprised by two of the placements, but I was not expecting 6th-3rd places. Jesus.

That's a lot of duels shown in this anime I did like this list a bit and I do agree with GX being first

How about which best friend has the most victories although in Zexal I don’t know if we said it was bronk or shark I think Zexal is the only one to not promote the best friend in a big way like Joey/syrus crow

And the funniest part of arc-v having more duels than average is that the non-dueling episodes were the better ones.

I play utopia and in my opinion utopia is the best deck out of all the other decks in the anime they can set up 5 negates which is pretty insane

Two questions. First: Did you count the movies in the assessment? Second: Which fan series could actually occur in the anime?

I did not know that yugioh gx had the most duels.

Next video top ten characters that used monster reborn

I’m not shocked Duel Monsters fell short of most duels. So many duels were 3-5 parts

I might go with GX or Zexal.

LETS GOOOOOOO. GX GANG

I swear I looked at the title and immediately thought. I'm pretty sure it's GX.

GX definitely had the most duels. After all there were barely any filler episodes except for one, and in almost every episode there was a duel or it was divided in half. Rarely did we ever get a three parter.

I wonder how many of the 133 duels were Jaden/Judai in. He was literally in almost every duel that happened. I'd probably say around 90-100 were his alone

That's a LOT of duels.

Duel Monsters got held by a lot of stuff. Multiple episode duels. Pharoah vs Weevile was like a 3 episode duel, You also have Pharoah vs Panic. Pharoah vs Kaiba part 2 and 3. the Duel with Pegasus was like 5 episodes. I am pretty sure most of Season 1 is multiple episode duels. There is a lot of Duels in battle city, but the virtual world stuff IMO kind of counter balances it all. You also have Dungeon Dice Monsters which takes up like 3 episodes. Every duel with a main villain, every duel with the rival. Almost all of the important duels took several episodes. It turns a 200+ Episode story in a hyper condensed story. Where as in GX, most of the duels were single episode duels. there was not a lot of BS like Virtual world arch, or Dungeon dice monsters, DnD arcs. I wonder what series has the Highest Quality dies. I.E. Which series were most entertaining to watch.

I speculated that either DM or Vrains would be at last place, while either Seven or GX would be at 1st place