Not a big fan of Chazz/Manjoume, but let's keep in mind he beat an entire school to become its representative, beat an entire dorm worth of high level duelist to release them from their mindcontrol, won the entire GX tournament (only for plot reasons) and beat a pro-level duelist while wearing a stupid costume... He Chazzed it up when he needed it the most

The fact that regular Edo has one more loss than his ARC-V counterpart who didn't win ONCE is a hilarious form of irony.

Chazz is what happens when you combine Kaibas Ego with Joey's Comic Relief. Hes a good duelist (my fav actually), but like Joey, he doesn't win plot duels, but it was always entertaining watching him duel. 1, 10, 100, 1000, MANJOUME THUNDER

CORRECTIONS!!!!! Hi all! So Yuga actually should be tied for 1st... He lost a total of 9 times. I missed his third loss to Luke. Completely forgot that duel happened and the Wiki that I was using for fact checking actually doesn't even have that duel listed. My apologies on that! Also, Joey lost to Seeker (Exodia Rare Hunter) so he should be at 8. I didn't even look that one up b/c I vivdly remember it being off screen... Memory can be a funny thing sometimes Also, Mai def could have been an honorable mention. She lost to Yugi, Joey, Tea, and Marik. Not counting her losses to Raphael, Valon, and Panik since they were ALL off screen, she def lost a lot too but saved by the criteria of what counts lol

Yuma lost to Bronk 20 times off screen and is still one of the best duelists in the show. Wins and losses aren’t everything

Pretty sure Chazz had an insane amount of wins tho. Beating North Academy and almost all of Duel Academy by himself. Chazz Princeton? More like CHAD Princeton.

I can't believe you missed my man Ushio, the all time character of Yugioh. He had 6 losses in 5D's (3 to Yusei, one to Aki, one to Ghost and one to Jack)

If we *were* to add in offscreen duels, I'm pulling for Sakaki Yuya. He lost 150+ times to Noboru Gongenzaka in a single night while figuring out WTF Pendulum even is. Makes Yuma losing to Bronk 27 times far less embarrassing, don't it?

I really liked Chazz I thought he had some solid development I do think that he became a great duelist towards the end of the show. Out of his nine losses I feel like one of them should have an asterisk beside it that being season 4 duel with judai where chazz could have won but lost on purpose.

I am not used to hearing the Japanese names of most of these characters, but what's insane is that you use the English version of Joeys name

Honestly this is why Yuma and Chazz are some of my favorite characters, its easy to make a character to start out good or average. But their character's (especially Yuma's and his department from astral at times) show true growth beyond where they started to where they ended.

I feel like Edo/Aster's first loss against Judai/Jaden shouldn't really count as he was acting like a newbie all throughout the duel to fool Jaden and scout him & his deck. Yes it's technically a loss but he used a weak deck that wasn't his and he misplayed on purpose, it was never a serious duel for him he was playing dumb & entered with the intent to lose. Imo only the loss when he was rematching Jaden after beating him once (their 3rd duel) should count. But I'm just nitpicking because I love him & how sassy he is in the dub (well, everyone is in the dub lol)

The fact that Joey loses so much is what makes him relateable character. I was always more interested in Joey's duel than Atem's, because Atem almost always wins (only two loses). While Atem is super cool and badass, Joey is the more interesting character.

I think the funniest thing about Sylvio (Shingo) was the fact that he was one of the closest duelists to defeat Zarc, the other one is Declan (Reiji)

Remember everyone, even losing some duels you’ll still get character development/dueling development

Peak rival character is when you're considered one of the strongest duelists of the show but you still can't beat that one guy.

Fun fact: Jounouchi only lost one onscreen duel in the entirety of Battle City, which was against Kaiba. Exodia rare hunter was offscreen and Malik was technically a no result.

Chazz is underrated I think. He feels almost Joey-like. Where we're introduced to Chazz as an implied experienced and top tier duelist, his growth came on the emotional/friendship side of his character. Joey (in the anime) is introduced as a great and loyal friend, while his growth is shown in his journey from being a 4th Rate duelist, to someone who actually garners even a pinch of respect from Kaiba. Their growth mirrors each others, just in different parts of their character. Maybe I'm off, but that perspective helped me appreciate Chazz a lot more in revisiting the series.

Yuma is my favorite protagonists of all time, but the fact that he’s lost many duels is why I like him the best. After all the previous protagonists with Win Streaks it’s nice to see a change of pace. He never lets his losses get the best of him. Yuma gets back up, goes with flow and tries until he can Hi-5 the sky. If you don’t like him that’s fine, but that’s my reason my I love Yuma the most. He a real duelist who fails and keeps going.

If we’re counting offscreen duels, than we have to count the 20 times Tetsuo beat Yuma lmao

I think chazz losses to Jaden where more because of the plot, i mean chazz always proved he was the better duelist than most of the other characters.

Just a reminder that even if a character has many loses, it still doesn't neccessarily mean they are bad duelists, just that most of their defeat were against really strong opponents or for contextual reasons; and as long they show progress throught out the series and perform really well even in the duels that they lost ( as long it was not a stomp or really quick). That said, Yuga kinda fall really hard in this regards. It is not that he lost a lot, it is because he started losing more often after getting the maximum and fusion upgrades, even against people that he had already beaten (like Roa and Tiger). Say what you will about Yuma or Chazz, at least they seemed to get stronger with series progression, while Yuga seemed to have gotten weaker. No hate for the character, just pointing out that it seems the writers really wanted to screw him over any given opportunity (instead of dedicating some of this losing force against someone that could afford some *cough* Luke *cough*).

“Rex lost to Mai in the bedroom going to Duelist Kingdom” 😹 🦖

Honestly, I'm not surprised by this ranking, though to be fair with some of these characters on the list, I tend to remember more of the character development and some of their amazing duels then their loses (More so Shark/Nash, Joey, and Yuma). Also fun fact: I feel if we merged GX and Arc V's Aster Phoenix's losses together, he'd probably be higher on the list with 7 one-on-one loses.

I'm really curious about this ! :) Thanks for the video !

God I love these types of vids I also really enjoy analyzing and taking notes numbers of yugioh, although some of the characters I like do be on the losing side sadly…

I wish manjoume won against judai in episode 25 he returned from a whole arc of growth going from trash to a beloved leader, the story about his brother's and how he wanted wanted to prove his skills to them. The other 3 losses made some sense especially the first and third losses, one for the start of his character growth arc in the north academy and because he was a duel ghoul

If I hear "losingest" one more time I'll commit a war crime.

A little Addendum: You could give Jean-Michel Roger an honoral mention, because (just in theory) he has an infinite-lose-record against Reiji. Because of Reiji's Loop-Combo he has two loses, but the fact, that he ran away instead of retry the duel for so long that he coul draw a card like MST or something to break Reiji's combo, shows, that he couldn't beat Reiji even if he would have tried for eternity. P.S.: Sorry for my (written) english. I am a native german guy, whose english is more worse than everything else. But i just wanted to leave at least one comment to one of your videos. I am watching your videos since the 5. Season of Arc-V and i liked every one of it. So thanks for your work and your great entertainment. ^^

Otes' duels against Luke, Gakuto and Romin specifically do count as 3 duels based on what we see in the series. After he loses, their Penalty Count increments by 3 as per the arrangement of Nail's competition. His losses are largely because most of his duels he is sandbagging since he's not trying to win, he's trying to push the cast forward as a sort of mentor character. Also a big reason why I say Sevens has more reps on a list like this isn't specifically because Rush Duels almost always get finished in a single episode but also because having more of a cast of recurring characters who aren't dueling in life-or-death scenarios means that they don't NEED to win constantly. For example, Atachi with her 5 duels is the same amount as Emma and Atachi is a side character who isn't even focused on dueling. And Sevens having main characters duel each other more frequently means that at least one of them was going to end up getting a loss added. Rush Duel letting them get duels through more quickly is certainly a part of it, but really most of the series tend to wrap up most of their duels in a single episode, maybe 2.

Great vdeo; really interesting and fun topic! Are you planning to make a Most Wins list in the future? I would love to see it!

If I'm being honest, I thought going into this that Shingo would be number 1 or 2. I swear, he was my favorite character and throughout the show I was rooting for him to get literally ANY wins. And while seeing him seemingly outwit Z-ARC was awesome, I knew throughout the scene that they would not let a character as minor as him actually win. It's as sad as seeing Joey technically lose to Marik cause he passed out and I still get sad thinking about the scene where the writers truly did him dirty just cause Z-ARC did the equivalent of picking up his card for a second and writing new text on it with a marker.

Okay analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Manioume has great character development...in season 1. He like most GX characters got shafted from season 2 on and arguably since the latter half of season 1.

Wait a minute... Go Onizuka lost 5 times... "Go" is 5 in Japanese. FORESHADOWING.

The list really shows that even if you lost much does not mean you can't developed. Yuma is the best example. Even thought he is high on this list, he is the only Protag with an ongoing win streak and and is high on the win streak list.

The Chazz got smashed so hard. Give the guy an ice pack.

It'd be awesome to see a win percentage list of characters. Like the best and worst win/loss ratios of characters that dueled at least 3 times or something. That being said it would take literally forever to count the wins and losses

So how come Ushio didn’t make the list he lost 6 times; 3 times to Yusei,once to both Jack and Aki,and to Ghost so that would be six loses, I’m just going to guess you didn’t count the lost to Ghost cause it was mostly offscreen or the duel with Jack cause he was possessed

I still get bummed every time I re-watch the Battle City duel between Marik and Joey. Because if Marik wasn't a prick zapping Joey every time he took life point damage, which left him completely exhausted as the aftermath, Joey actually could have defeated Marik. That would take away some of the spotlight from Yugi/Yami, but I don't give a shit. lol. He really did have some promise in his dueling ability, especially even during Kaiba during Battle City.

It is kind of ironic that Chazz lost the most onscreen duels while also winning the most offscreen duels (North Academy Initiation)

I'd be interested to see a video about Yugioh characters with the best and worst win/loss ratios

Great on the Video! I think you miss officer trudge/ tetsu from yu-gi-oh 5ds.

Thank you so much for counting on screen duels only Dylan!

Not sure if this could be a video topic, but after seeing which characters were on here, I had thought of: How many times that a character has changed their decks.

Next video's idea: How many duelists of each type of Monster are there in total considering all the Yu-Gi-Oh series?

How about a list of my favorite badass moments in yugioh, like Manjoume taking out 4 opponent's at once, Zigfried's intro duel and Godwin catching that spike with one hand?

The crazy thing about this list is that even if a character racks up a lot of losses, they STILL might have a good dueling record overall. Using the rules from the video, I’ve got Joey having ~12 wins in the anime, and a 12-7 record is pretty good.

Finally I was waiting for this.

I believe you missed dennis from arc v he list to Selena in the battle royal, gongezeka when they had just arrived in the synchro dimension, he lost to shun in the tournament, he lost to kite on the boat in the fushion dimension, and last he lost to yuya at the end of the series

Good list. I also only count on screenduels for a win to lose to count. But for me it's we need to see the duel from start to finish without skipping turns like Chazz's duel against Blair. First Chazz is winning, later we see he's losing and has the Ojama's out instead of him union monsters

Nevwr forget that Shingo was the only character to make Zarc flinch and he nearly bear him but plot BS prevented him from winning. He deserved it the most to be the one to bear Zarc.

I love these fun top ten list the next one you should do is what character has the most dnfs

Shocked Bakura didn't make the list since he lost every duel he had except to Bones

Definitely Yuma as that boy had lost every single duel in life up the moment he meet up with Astral. That is a life time of loses right there

I laughed so hard when they started the Manjoume chant that was great.

Yuga comes to mind but so does Sawatari. I should have seen Chazz coming.

Unlike with the protagonist winstreak video, I don't think I can confidently nor accurately predict this before watching, but nonetheless I'll give it a go. My immediate guess would be Yuma, not because he's on the thumbnail but because he had 20-something losses total (20 were in a row) to Bronk off-screen throughout Zexal (before even looking at his other losses), but I'm assuming that like the protag winstreak video, off-screen duels that were merely mentioned won't be counted; if they are then surely Yuma does take it, as much as I love him as a character. I was going to say Yuga's a solid shout for most losses because he seemed to have a proclivity for it but because I can't remember just how many he had, I'm going to say Joey; I can think of at least 9 losses (though I may be forgetting one or two) he had off the top of my head, and despite the remark I just made, I don't think Yuga ended up amassing more than that. Joey on the other hand lost to Tea (including 4 times off-screen but they presumably wouldn't be included), Kaiba, Yugi, Duke, Seeker, Marik, Kaiba again, Mai & Zigfried - again I feel like I'm missing one but can't remember off the top of my head.

Kinda thought trudge from sector security lost like 5 times, dont even recall him ever winning

A character which I don’t think anyone would even think about being a huge loser would be Dennis Macfield from Arc-V. Out of the 7 complete duels he had, he only won his introduction duel and his duel with yuzu immediately after that. From then on it’s a long series of L’s and no results, a total of 5 definitive loses! Once vs Celina, Gong, Kurosaki, Kite, and of course Yuya. I was really surprised by this as he’s always been portrayed as a powerful character both in his characterization and within the worlds logic as he has mastered Fusion, Xyz, and Pendulum, but ultimately he has one of the worst win loss ratios!

Honestly if you look at Joey’s deck it’s a shocker he hasn’t lost more and most of duels towards the end show how talented he is lol.

Would definitely be interesting to see the longest loosing streak in yugioh, maybe out of just the main characters like you did with the winning streaks

As a teacher in training, i see it more from a test scoring perspective, if they win they get a point, if they lose they don't get a point but doesn't lose a point, so for me if a character wins more that's good for them, if they loose a lot that doesn't effect the way I see the character. Plus the way I see it, if you only care about a character from their win-loss record, why watch the anime at all, just stare at the wiki page and cry about it. While I'm here to see the characters, their growth, their interaction with other character, the dueling is just a fun bonus and to see the monsters in the card come to life and be in motion

Yusaku is my favorite protagonist, but I'm on the fence about his win record in his series. PLAYMAKER doesn't lose a single duel in the entire show. That is impressive and it was nice to know the outcome of the duel beforehand because that shit gives me anxiety. However, is that boring? It feels boring to never lose. I think it worked out all right for him because of what the story had going on, but realistically I don't think WINNING all the time is very interesting for a character.

Oh man... You just KNOW this is going to be painful. XD Your favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! Character might be here and it's gonna sting. EDIT: Number 1 has got to be the SADDEST entry on this list. He fits the fan favorite moniker too! XD

It may not have been shown, but Joey did lose to Yami yugi 2. Once in Duelist Kingdom and once at the end of battle city, as a duel to get red-eyes. He lost since yugi still held king of games status but Joey was given his red-eyes back because friendship

you should do one about the top10 won won the most

I REALLY DID NOT KNOW THAT I HAD AN IDEA BUT I HAD FORGOT.

Yuya would be pretty high up if off screen duels count. Because he had a little less than 50 duels before the start of the series and around 50-60% wr

Chazz IMO shouldn't defeat Edo,when I saw their match I was very sad for the ending.Also I have to say that even Kazuki tried to give us the next Kaiba (where were 3 between him,Edo and Zane) didn't worked well in GX

Next time I want a video about the win lose rate of charachters how many times they duel and how many they win or lose, because the list will be entirely different

I cracked up at the Manjoume Thunder ⚡🤣

I like how when they were chanting if u listen in you hear the discord notification noise

6:59 ok you can't count the one with Mai cause joey was already finish with a duel and was barley damage and mai challenged an injured joey to a duel and joey should have won with marik

Neat thing I noticed: There is no 5Ds character mentioned at all in this video. As that is the show that contains most of my favorite characters, I am quite happy about that.

Super interesting video. It certainly does go to show a character’s win/loss rate doesn’t make them a good or bad character you can lose all the time and still be great like Manjoume or you can lose all the time and still be a bad character like ones I won’t list you not cause an argument

Talking about Otis: "I don't want to get too into spoilers" *shows clips from the final duel *

I think it's hilarious that Manjome tops the list and still has a massive ego. I mean, props for that confidence even with three annoying duel spirits.

Edo and Shark both being on this list is initially surprising. However, both have been kinda been foder for some characters, and just fighting strong dualists each time. Also, it is still funny to me seeing Yuma losing to Caswel and Bronk, lmao; just goes to show how far he came. Also, I suppose you can say Sevens gave more duels for different characters (total parallel to GX), so they had more diversity.

I did find this one a bit interesting seeing a few duelists get their loses even when watching some of the anime franchise growing up

The "Manjome Thunder" chant really adds insult to injury here haha

Crazy how few times any Yu-Gi-Oh! character loses, if only 5 is enough to make the list

The most losingest characters? Grammar dies here

Out all the protagonists. Yuma as a main character if you were a novice you learned with yuma throughout the series. Like jaden he likes dueling for fun but lost what was most important to him. His final duel was the closest to the original ending of the yugioh series he had to beat. His mentor with his own strength during that entire duel showed his strength and growth throughout the series. And it ended with a full circle moment the double of nothing effect, brought the entire duel to a close.

I guess that line in Yugioh abridged was before some of these other protags came out.

I’m here today because we lost the creator himself Kazuki Takahashi. It doesn’t matter who loses the most in Yu-Gi-Oh we all lost the one person who brought us into this world and to me that’s the greatest loss any duelist could ever face.

I’m surprised Joey’s loss to the Exodia Rare Hunter didn’t get mentioned if his losses in the first episode were

Keep the good work

Hey Dylan can we get a timeline revamp video??? It's been sooo long since you've made one.

Playmaker and Yusei they both had plot armour, so they never lost a single duel, except Yusei who lost to Kiryu. But Playmaker had a lot of time to lose a duel, Bohman, Ai, Revolver, Kusanagi but he always kept coming back even when he don't had cards in his hand or on the field.

I think it’s fair to mention that when shark dueled kaito shark only had 2 xyz cards being aero shark and black ray lancer and Mr heartland I believe stated kaito to already have over a handful of numbers from his hunts and more xyz so deck wise at the time especially considering the rule in the anime that only numbers can destroy numbers shark was done dirty and I could honestly say he did good in that duel to hold his own with those circumstances

You should do a "Which Yugioh character has died the most?" video. I bet Blue Angel/Girl/Maiden/Jobber has that one locked up.

Dennis, Kenzan and Fubuki should both be tied for 7th as well with 5 losses each. Fubuki lost to Judai twice, Asuka, Hell Kaiser and Fujiwara. Kenzan lost to Judai, Sho, Saio, Jim and Trueman. Dennis lost to Serena, Gongenzaka, Shun, Kaito and Yuya. All these duels were fully on screen (with Kenzan vs Trueman being partly off-screen but still qualifies for the list). Great list nonetheless 😄

(See chazz in the thumbnail without seeing him) Please don’t be #1 please don’t be #1 oh please don’t be #1

I honestly still think to this day that Joey should have beaten Kaiba. It would have been even better if Joey beat him with his own blue eyes. And yeah Kaiba doesn't see Joey as as much of an opponent at all, but he legit almost beat him.

And keep up the great work

I’m a little surprised Kaiba isn’t on here as an HM, since he lost to Yugi with Exodia, Pegasus, Yugi with Slifer in Battle City, and Yugi with Dark Magician in DSoD, plus the duel that he should have lost to Yugi in DK. I feel like I remember him dueling Yugi more than four times but I guess not.

Can you do yugioh video about it top Yugioh rival ace monsters and top main protagonists ace monsters and also video about yugioh protagonists dark side

Joey won against Yugi once btw. There was a duel between Yugi and Joey at the very end of some story arc in Duel Monsters series, but all we the viewers saw of that duel, was them about to duel each other, and the arc just ends like that. Why I say Joey beat Yugi there? Because, the duel had a wager who gets Joey's Red-eyes Black Dragon card, that was in Yugi's possession in that arc or season, and since in one of the episodes after that duel we were denied from watching, shows that card is back in Joey's possession, implies Joey beat Yugi off-camera. Since your rules for this list denies that duel from being eligible, I figured I at least would mention this detail that goes over many viewers perception I imagine

Jack Atlas should get an honourable mention as well he had 8 losses on-screen.