Yes, it sets up Accel Synchro as a necessary goal for Yusei to overcome anti-synchro duelists.

Agreed. It still annoys me that Yusei won a duel that was meant to show him he still had to improve.

@@CyberKingSAL yeah I get what you're coming from but it's one of those kind of things as you say has barely lost his entire series so we just make him lose out right because you know plot then it kind of doesn't have a good taste in people's mouths most people would get upset and stopped watching it and then you have a lot of people who was still watching you feel like you care to gross it would divide people

Debatable

Tbf it was greatly implied that Antinomy was going easy on Yusei to begin with

Lol what if kaiba either a) said that Joey wasn’t worthy of entering the finals and entered himself to disqualify him personally, or b) said that Joey had improved sufficiently and that kaiba wanted to show that he was still the superior duelist

It would have been Leon vs Zigfriend before Leon faced Atem. However, Kaiba disqualified Zigfried which lead to that duel. Kaiba wasnt even taking part in the tournament itself. So if Joey won (which he should have) would have just resulted in Joey vs Leon. Which wouldnt have lead to a rematch between Joey vs Kaiba.

@@debreas6207 I know, that's what I was pointing out in regards to that section of the video.

@@mikeike9742 sorry I misread. think I was reading another comment from others. My apologies

@@sungod9797 Thats pretty unlikely since by the time season 5 comes around. Kaiba isn't really concerned with the gang as much as he was during battle city since he had to interact with them 24/7. Kaiba's main concern was fixing his companies' reputation. Even in the beginning of the arc Kaiba messes with Joey and is like "Mokuba make sure Wheeler's late" I personally think that by season 5 Kaiba sees them a little more as friends. Plus at the end of the season Kaiba hooks them up with a first class jet back home

I wonder where is Jesse at that time

@@serpihanrengginang199 it was a miss translation at the time it wasn't actually north academy it was duel academy's sister school

@@jaceprince5385 ahh i see

Chazz vs Jaden during Season 4

@@dancostello4872 Yeah this one

He could've won, but still have realized that Yusei was real close to actually beating him with that facedown card he didn't get to use.

Wow ! That's exactly what I was about to comment

@@TheGloryXros Or Jack would realize that a major reason he won was because he had Stardust Dragon while Yusei did not.

i 100% agree

Now I can't get the image of Jack's head as a carving in Mt. Everest out of my head... I agree with you, though.

It also leads into Yusei's 2nd win. Jack was trying to prove himself as a king, so he set everything up to be the same as their first duel. Yusei knew that and used it against Jack.

100% agree with you. You put EXACTLY what I was thinking into words.

Yeah they did the right choice to make it technically a draw

if you think that's bad, just look at the WRGP in World championship 2011 at one point your told your the 2nd person in the dueling line, but if you lose, your team loses

Nah why are you guys trying to hurt his portrayal? Yusei already lost a duel it was against Kiryu...

@@KurokamiNajimihe didn‘t officially lose it was a no contest.

@@Hoffanheim Only western fans think like that the story says he lost he had no counter to Kiryu’s attack and he had a whole character arc revolving around finding his resolve again. The reason they didn’t let his life points hit 0 is because he would have died. If we’re counting only “canon” duels then he’s tied with Atem having only 1 lose. Yugi has never legitimately been defeated but that’s only because he didn’t duel that much. Yusaku imo having 3 draws is worse than 1 loss, 2 draws I say is equal to 1 loss

that or at least establish duels that "doens't matter who wins, the story can continue", like the final yuri versus yuya duel. at the end, it really doesn't matter who wins because zarc gets completed. you cna even have that yuri winds, but yuya is the main body of zarc

Ian R. Nava Huber Right. It’s all about managing the circumstances so that you haven’t written yourself into the corner.

Yeah. To me there were always 2 types of duels: Serious duels and casual duels. Serious duels are the ones where the stakes are so high you already know the outcome. Casual duels are the ones where there can be stakes but where losing is actually a possibility.

@@MrMarinus18 honestly yugioh probably should not be as dark of a show considering how things went with arc v and vrains. arc v ...had the worst story of the bunch and had stuff like yuri vs yuya have the hero win only for the hero to become the main final villain. like yuri may as well have won there. as for vrains...when you make a character that has never losted not even in the way yusei almost lost to dark signer kalin round one....yeah it got to the point where it just became predictable. as dillian mentions with the bohman thing. yusaku drawed or won against him in a span of 3 rounds. and bohman was the final boss of season 2 and yusaku was the only one left standing. we all knew he was gonna win. also yusaku should have had more duels in season 3. instead he had....one duel and it was the final duel of the series. with revolver and soulburner still alive. they could have dueled ai first but no. heck ai even spares blue maiden so she could have teamed up with the others.

It is not about a Yugioh show being primarily dark or light, it is about making convincing stakes. If you make them too high constantly like Vrains, everything just becomes predictable. Like duels being to the death or losing their Ignis. Since Playmaker and Soulburner need to drive their plot, they have practically perfect records while their side characters are just bullied on (Go, Aoi, Ghost Girl, Blood Shepherd) to make the villain look tough. I am glad stuff like Yugi vs Raphael, Jaden vs Aster or most of Yuma's duels happen. Catch us off guard every now and then. I know of a cooking anime which tends to suffer from "He has to win or he is expelled from the school" which makes the enjoyment rather limited as you know how it ends. Or side characters only ever losing to make things tense.

Yugioh tends to treat their girls alot worse than the guys, which is why there are petitions for a female yugioh protag

You've earned my like. Wish I could like this 10 times. There was no reason to give Yusei 3 wins back to back like that to make him that overpowered compared to the others. Jack should have loss, Aki should have won, tied with Breo and Yusei finishes off the last guy Jean.

I really think the WRGP was the perfect structure to give Yusei some losses. If he was in the first or second spot on his team, he could have taken a couple losses and passed the baton to Jack, Aki, or Crow, who can show their skills in a higher-stakes environment than supporting characters usually get.

Team Pegasus was my favourite duel in 5ds just because of this. They had a legitimate strategy, cased their opponents before the duel and fought as a complete unit. I think it's a mark of how good the writing of a duel is if the writers can't think of an ending which isn't at least a little disappointing. At least it wasn't a fabled "Destiny draw" where Yusei's final draw wins the game. I was actually worried when I heard Team Catastrophe say that Pegasus weren't anything special because I thought that if 5ds struggled this much against Pegasus, how were they going to win against them? With regards to Crow and Aki, wasn't that due to an executive decision because of how popular Blackwings were at the time? I remember seeing Dylan's video on how Crow was meant to be the Dark Signer boss initially, but it was changed because Blackwings were so popular and were deemed to need more screentime. Sucks but money talks.

@@noahduffin5492 Honestly I think the way it ended is worse than a "Destiny Draw." Because they were such a complete unit, the fact that Jean literally decided to throw the duel because Yusei essentially baited him into attacking cheapens the entire match. Yes the match was about helping Jean reclaim his love of dueling or whatever, but this is a tournament. You can reclaim your love of dueling/beating your opponent and still win by not attacking like any sane duelist does. I'd also argue that having Yusei solo the entire team reduced the stakes and made Team Catastrophe less threatening. Even if Jack/Crow/Aki are next to useless, why does it matter when Yusei can just break his back carrying everyone? Narratively speaking, it would have been so much better to have Aki win one before Yusei taking over or even Yusei trying to solo everyone but coming up short to drive home the lesson of being able to rely/trust others. The latter could've set up an awesome rematch later in the tournament before Team 5Ds moved on to face Ragnarok.

Yuya is a clown

Not a very good reason

Sora Bell I mean he shouldn’t have to have the whole “egao” down his throat. And let him decide what to do with his life...

Take this from someone who actually loves Yuya as a character, but hated the way he was executed.

I'd be okay with Shun winning, but not with him disappearing completely afterwards. I don't know, maybe as he's about to leave Heartland he catches Yuya's duel with Reiji and can feel Yuto's energy coming Yuya (Don't ask how, he just can) and decides to watch, therefore seeing Yuzu's revival and giving him hope that Ruri is still alive in some way. I don't know, I feel like it'd give him better closure somehow and leave his story on a bittersweet but hopeful note.

This... I literally came into the comments to write this and I couldn't have said it better myself. It would reiterate Crow's point when he was telling Aki that none of them could possibly be ready for this kind of tournament.

The thing was she couldn't be in the series cause her actress went on maternity leave

I wonder if Aki losing was the excuse they gave so that Crow could be brought to the forefornt

Yusei losing to Jean also makes him look a little less invincible and that he needs his team. With that duel Yusei won the entire thing pretty much on his own which makes his team look a little redundant, especially Aki. It also would have really upped the stakes with team Catastrophe since they would have robbed team 5DS of the rematch they wanted.

100% agree.

I agree with you, you are soo right

Totally agree with you. They could make the Light of Destruction leaves Saiou's body after that and duels Judai afterwards. It wouldn't change the story that much and Edo's character would be completed nicely there.

Azfar Abdullah they could have also made a cool op anime deck for the light of destruction Maybe a parallel to darknesses deck

@@Gamerhobo420 Yeah that would be nice to see. Instead we get the Light of Destruction being beaten off screen.

But that contradicts the light of destruction's goal he was trying to destroy the universe and make it "white" and the only thing stopping him from it is the gentle darkness which judai had

It’s called the manga and it was surprisingly glorious.

if you wanna see chazz winning just see the manga it compensate a bit for chazz

He technically does in season 4 but they force him to throw

Chazz was straight up a better duelist than Jaden in the manga, he only lost once because he didn't use his ace card (which is like Yugi not using DM)

@@haxmode6935 yeah a better duelist and a less douche or something on that line.

Yeah. I like the shadow riders were a serious threat that could defeat our favs, but Judai didn't need to be the team solo winner:either have other people fix the other messes or keep some of their losses but let them have some wins

Honestly, some of if really is just a pacingissue. A great example is that in my eyes, Syrus and Chazz should have dueled at least once each in the other world-arc. One to give him material as the good duelist he is and the other one, so that he actually does something besides randomly playing the wandering sage-archtype for no reason. However, they literally couldn't, even if they wanted to. Because they already wasted half the season on some other storyarcs that didn't need to be as long as they were and thus the plot had to rush itself to the finishline.

@@lpfan4491 This is why I don't get the people who love GX's third and fourth season so much. At that point they'd introduced so many side characters that old ones got shafted and basically just became cheerleaders. We're also supposed to still believe Chazz, Alexis, and Syrus are all strong and relevant duelists by season 4 after they all barely got any good duels anymore?

@@perrytran9504 It's a big blow to S3 for sure, but I still love it because I think the plot is good, the new characters are well done and even tho they got shafted, I think Chazz and Syrus still look decent on the character-side of things. Besides that it actually makes me care for Zane after he pulled a lot of edgy nonsense in S1 and especially 2. If I had the choice, I'd personally just extend the season to get in everything it misses out on, but if I had to cut down on something, I would really be the existing first half because it barely even play to the season's strenghs the way it is.

The worst part is the e heroes get thrown into the side for the neo spacians

It would have been hilarious. I want to live in a world where screwball stuff like that becomes an actual end result.

I think if we say he should have gotten a draw instead of straight up winning, it would have been something that could have actually happened and it would reflect positively on his character.

Yes I completely agree!

Agree 100%

But no, Zarc HAD to pull a card out of his ass to beat everyone

Yugo was at least kinda funny. XYZ users in Arc-V were always trash. I liked Shun's conviction, and the theme was cool, but he gets flexed on so much it's hilarious. And to think that his archetype has its own Towers! XD

@@milesstorzillo1039 certainly

Agreed. A shame to really, because when he summons Revolution Falcon it is one of the best things ever

He had the worst ending and was pretty interesting up until Synchro.

I think the only reason the writers made it that way was too make the Light Brigade seem like an actual threat. Because for the most part the only one of them who was actually pretty strong was T-Bone. And sadly we don't see Blaze duel

Especially since Frost and Thunder don't duel again after that. Why build them up if Sarina is just gonna card them the next episode?

@@Sniffyy They had a name!? (Ligjt Brigade)

@@promisnwekenta9703 Yeah Frost says that they're the light brigade in their duel against hassleberry and cyrus

Monarchs are bs though

Exactly! I mean! Look at Joey's Duels from Battle City, Virtual World, and FInal Duels in Marik Arc, and the Orichalcos Arc! He had Gotten Significantly Better as a Duelist! Sure, Joey had some moments of silly in the duels, but no matter how much his opponents cheated (or how much they rigged the game) he always came out on top! Joey's duels always fascinated me due to the fact that he had to outsmart his enemies and even use "Luck" Cards (Coin flips, Dice, Roulette wheels) to really screw over his opponents since they can't Just cancel the Card Effects of activations since their Effectiveness had to be gambled! It pissed me off the Zeigfried had access to SUPER Messed up cards that Locked Out the Game, or were completely illegal to use. Golden Castle was made by Zeigfried to Screw the Kaiba Corp System! Kaiba should've allowed Joey to Re-duel Zeigfried! Just so we can See Joey pull off a Win, as I would've loved to see how Joey could actually win. Hell, I would vouched for Kaiba to out and out cancel the Duel Between the two during their first match since he KNOWS Zeigfried was cheating!

A DRAW would have been fine enough. Also, giving Haru extra moments , like say, haru challening soulrbuern to a duel offscreen while bowman and yusaku have their second duel, only for it turn out that haru was beating soulburner offscreen and only reason soulburner didn't lose was because bowman was defeated before haru's and soulburner's duel ended. that way you give soulburner some defeat, and establish haru as someone competent

@@ianr.navahuber2195 That's a good one. Haru leaving, looking for Bohman like Kaito did for Haruto, for example.

If Aoi had beaten Soulburner, he would have lost Flame. Just FYI.

@@CaptainRed1000 i pointed out in other comment how they can work around that one

@@CaptainRed1000 Draw, then. It's a valid result. Or have circumstances conspire to prevent Flame's retrieval. Revolver was supposed to be "allowed" to destroy Windy, but he escaped.

Imagine being the 5th dragon of legend and then screwing around for half the series in a weaker form because you are lazy and some other dragon appeared to fill in for you.

Then again it did give Leo more relevance while crow just became a side character

It would have made sense, but Life Stream wouldn't have been very useful there. That, however, would show that the Signers shouldn't rely too much on their dragons.

technically unrelated but the Japanese VA for Luca (Luna) did a PHENOMENAL job along with the rest of the cast that whole episode but especially after Lua (Leo) collapses, those screams straight up haunt me.

What I would've done is write in a duel where he fights Yuri on his own (maybe someone else tag-duels and loses) and he pulls out a miraculous win. It gives him at least one amazing win, has him have dueled all the Yu- boys, unsettles Yuri to the point where he's more willing to assimilate with his counterparts into being Z-ARC again for the sake of being unbeatable and all-consuming, as opposed to just "grr! destroy! tee hee!"...seems like a nifty fit to me.

Sawatari is such a tragidy. He's a good character and a good duelist, but he always loses in the end because the writers thought that was an amazing idea.(It's really not)

I love how popular freakin *Sawatari* has become in ARC-V. It's almost unreal! XD

@@Archon3960 @T. Shingo got done so dirty. Dude really tried his best in his duels and he didn't even get a major win. It sucks he definitely should have shined more. His second duel against Yuya I feel would have been a good win for him. Not only that, he became such a nice character afterwards and a total bro through everything that happened. He absolutely deserved more. Seeing him have a crush on Serena in one of the endings was cute and with some development I think would have worked. It's too bad because I really liked his personality but he didn't even win one single duel.

Yeah and the duel with his brother could still work, the brothers were going to destroy the school (pretty sure it has been some time since I last saw GX), just make chazz chazz it up for the school and defend it. Also I wish that we had two more duels in GX one last Zane vs Jaden duel and one more bastion duel( even if he loses) Edit two more duel from Gx that maybe changing the result would've been better, is Satorius vs Aster (it would've been coll to make it two v 1 and make aster fo the last blow) and syrus vs Zane (make it a draw, I fell that would've been great for Zane, because for me he helping in season 3 felt forced considering how the character was, with this I fell that it would show some light to Zane, and make syrus better

@@ravinercf the yuri vs yuya one im surprised wasnt mention. cause zarc was made regardless. yuris plan was to become one to become zarc. to which he did despite losing.

@@saiyanscaris6530 true, just haven't mentioned because I disliked arc V

I loved Yuya vs Yuri as it is because even though Yuya won, he “lost” by giving in to Zarc (& that Reiji told him to focus on winning). It’s kinda like a Batman vs Joker fight where Joker gets the last laugh.

@@thatman666 This sounds uncharacteristically simplified from Reiji's perspective when he's normally quite good at reading a situation. The action would be more fitting if he were to say, betray the lancers and try to conquer all dimensions alongside his father. Ridicule World was a last laugh and it doesn't dispell Yuri as an antag or destroy Yuya's credibility as a protag. The fact that this duel ended this way because they couldn't give the "protag" a late game loss is to me a sorry excuse for writing.

Goodwin mirror match that's kinda what he did, he had Solemn Judgement, Mirror Force, and something else I don't remember set, Rudger says himself on seeing them Rex could've won had he used them, but Rex "needed to die to get the dark signer's power".

@@snowboundwhale6860 he chose to use cards that wouldn't give him a good deck so even if he did try his best he would brick Also thinking about kiryu vs yusie. Aki vs misty is basically the same thing as both Aki and yusie go into comas after the duel

The Shark duel wasn’t supposed send that message. That would only beat Yuma down more when he was already depressed.

Shun vs Crow was a duel that made Shun go down a lesser road for me. After this duel, Shun does not win a major duel on his own fairly. The duel also did Ultimate Falcon dirty as the first time the raidraptor boss monster is summoned, it gets beaten quickly.

Interesting that Jack vs carly one Like if Jack lost he would turn evil, I fell that would change things a lot

Ye Kaiba only got involved because of Siegfried

@@swordkingx4874 doesn't stem cheat tho

No, unless you count his goddess combo cheating. Aside from messing with the rides and stuff he did nothing illegal in the duel. Joey lost fair and square.

I just wish they would've gave Joey more Red-Eyes support like Red eyes fusion/Red eyes wyvern/darkness metal dragon/darkness dragon etc.. He would actually be considered a tier 1 duelist but instead they keep his deck super luck reliant.

@@swordkingx4874 doesn't his millennium item give him luck haxs

Ye.

True, however - he should have lost to Odion.

CynicalApex True.

Or at least make it so it doesn't fell like Bullshit that Joe lost

@@ravinercf yes, you're right! I think they should have made like they did with May. You know, buffing Marik so we could actually believe Joey was the real loser

Yeah, but to be honest I would have liked to have seen crash town be a longer arc in general, maybe between an arc or something. Yusei vs Kalon to draw would have been way better. I know they were trying to make Lawton seem more intimidating, but you can achieve the same th8ng with just him beating Radley.

ULGROTHA In all fairness to the writers, after the amount of negatively received risks and backlash Arc V had, can you really blame them with being safe with Vrains? Although I agree I would’ve loved more shock results/risks, I don’t think they thought they could afford one in this Duel at the time of scripting the episode.

@@coop0812 im just not a big fan of yuya cause his dueltainment his pretty weak compare to others. Everytime i see his entertainment duel, his opponents seems more fun.

@@angusbeefyeung funny cause Yusaku duels put me to sleep it was so predictable I was getting irritated with him plus his character was just bland and boring Don't like him at all

@@antoniobolden8992 i would accept him if he didnt have such a brick wall personality and if characters didnt die every season. Everytime i watch a new vrain season, they keep dieing and coming back like nothing happened. Arc v did have that depth with the carding but how it was resolved was so lazy and it made me hate it even more. Hell the last duel of vrains felt like diet zexal.

Well a lot of Jaden's duels aren't even of any story relevance and are mostly duel of the week. Those could just be cut out entirely and nothing would be lost from the narrative.

@@numberhunter62 This is true. A common theme with GX is that they have one duel per episode rather than one duel split into 3 or 4 parts. This why Jaden's record is so crazy because he has way too many duels/wins against random one off side characters that just pop up for the sake of the episode and half of his wins are during filler episodes.

@@Sniffyy in my eyes they should've giving some of those duels to other characters, mostly bastion, alexis and Syrus

@@ravinercf I agree. Most filler was just "Win or the dorm gets destroyed". It didn't have to be just Jaden defending it. Take Crowler vs Bonaparte for instance so rotating between the characters for fun. Alexis got most of her victories from filler so a few more would been fine. Bastion, Hasselberry and Syrus just deserved to duel more in general.

@@sirkillalot9892 one good example for Alexis would be the dual against that tênis guy

I feel like it would have been nice if she had gotten to participate for just at least one more round before Crow took over again. I'm not bothered by it too much because she already has plenty of great moments but it would have added more impact to her role in the tournament and Crow could still participate for the later rounds.

@@heavydonkeykong5190 But the tournament was a pretty long arc already having spanned 30 episodes so adding extra rounds may have bored people. Crow had the right to be involved with Team Catastrophe because they injured him. Maybe Aki could have been the first/second duelist in Team Taiyo or taking Jack's spot in the Catastrophe duel

@@sirkillalot9892 Either could have worked imo and I get your point. I think the tournament itself is controversial among the fandom so even if I loved it other people might not have wanted it to be even longer.

@@heavydonkeykong5190 Coupled with how the tournament despite being brought up since Season 2 began only actually started 35 episodes later. I would have just cut the filler stuff in 5Ds too. Even if Crashtown was entertaining.

@@sirkillalot9892 Personally i would have wanted to replace the filler with an arc about the Arcadia. And maybe fit Crashtown somewhere in between. I didn't mind the filler, as I did enjoy a decent amount of it, but I still think most of it was the weaker part of 5DS, even the filler stuff that I enjoyed.

2. I'm not angry at all. I agree with you. A loss would have been better to show that there should be no easy road to the pro league.

And I'm Stiller bitter about shun Vs yuya

Revolver straight won that duel twice. Lightning was just a cheating scumbag.

I think the writers did everything they could to show Revolver is far more superior than Lightning, but they couldn't have him straight up win because of their plans for the final duel of the season. Still the duel ended in a draw and Lightning perished so it didn't hurt Revolver's character.

@@coolplanet1 Yeah plus the writers showed how desperate Lighting was and I liked that Bohman comment that Lighting might be the most human because of the cheating.

@@matts5164 the problem though is...again the stakes. bohman was going to absorb lightning and be the final boss anyway, and yusaku would have won since yusaku beat or tied bohman 3 times

"Duel Monsters"?

@@christopherb501 When Duel Monsters was created, there were no plans for sequels, also the original manga is just called YuGiOh, but the Duel Monsters anime is called that to diferrenciate it from YuGiOh Season 0, which is called just YuGiOh originally.

Pretty sure Jaden would’ve died had Zane beaten him. And yes Chazz should’ve won and have that lead into his duel with his brother.

Wait if I remember correctly the Lazar vs crow duel was kinda funny because Lazar wanted to throw away but crow didn't let him because he wanted to throw away but again lazar didn't wanted crow to throw away because he wanted to throw away 😂

A few things: Chaz’s winning wouldn’t have done anything because a couple episodes later Chazz’s brothers came back and Chazz was able to beat them and he beat them with weak cards while his brothers were using the cards they wanted him to use against Jaden this proving already that he is better than his brothers No, there is no closure from beating someone who wasn’t involved That duel was to show Jaden’s weakness and how unprepared he was to duel after losing himself into the darkness; there wasn’t supposed to be a winner Crow should have won if anything; Lazar was mostly toying with him; underestimating him...Crow winning would have showed he had the skills...and lazar would have gotten humbled

You say Shay, which is a Dub name and then you say Ruri, which is not, make up your mind. English or not? Ruri is Lulu in the English dub

Dinosaur Time and Funny videos I didn’t know Ruri’s dub name

That I would love to see. It would be even more shocking if Yuri had some cards to rips card from Yuzu's hand!

Pretty good. All the same, *would HAVE!!!

Yes facts facts

also yuya vs yuzu when she was controled by parasite fusioner. like she was the only one of the 4 in that phase to not duel at all

Having her beat Andre and potentially the second member would have been so cathartic after the way they baited Jack.

@@heavydonkeykong5190 To be fair. Despite the fact they had a massive advantage with speed counters, akiza almost had a easy win on Andre. As great as it made Yusei look, we already knew he was great and akiza needed another win more after crow joined the team

@@thomasreid5837 Personally, the idea of Yusei beating all three of them at once sounds epic on paper, but the fact that Andre used a sacrificial tactic against Yusei iirc, and that Jean could have theoretically beat Yusei kind of takes away from that feeling in retrospect. I feel like simply having Jack lose would have been enough to establish Andre as a threat because it shows just how crazy prepared that his team was. Having him beat both of them feels like overkill to me, and they can always have the potential explanation of her summoning Stardust Dragon throwing him off, which would have been ironic given how Andre had literally just got done beating Jack by throwing him off as well. It basically would have been a contest of mind games.

Can you tell me the reason why you want to change the result of Adrian vs Aster? I personally would swap Misawa in place of Aster in that duel though.

First one agree. Second one disagree. Third one agree. Fourth one, Fifth one disagree. Unsure Sixth one. 5ds one k. Arc-V first one disagree. No idea on the second one. Agree on third. Disagree on fourth and fifth. Agree on last. Overall you have very biased emotional picks instead of logical for character's sake.

@@promisnwekenta9703 _I think that Chazz deserved to beat Jaden the third time(when he dueled for the North Academy) because of his brothers and Chazz in general deserved to beat Jaden at least once._ _Also, why do you disagree with Sawatari vs Yuya(second duel) and with Yugo vs Rin?_

@@azfarabdullah9638 _Adrian's victory was useless, he won but he lost to Yubel a few episodes later getting nothing._ _Aster's loss in that duel is the beginning of the end of his character._

@@geg708 Yeah, but its not all about beating people. Chazz character arc is to become a better human. More respectful, better duelist, more confidence in yourself, etc. And through many defeats that should happen, since chazz is really flawed in s1. He aint that good, selfish, arrogant, bunch of negative traits. And about the other 2 duels i disagreed with. Although sawatari quite shows the progression in s1, he still isnt strong enough to defeat yuya, but pretty close. Yugo was manipulated emotionally, thus he lost. He is kinda impulsive, so fits. Also lets dont strip wins off bracelet girls, they are already pretty worthless as it is. Thanks writers.

Kaiba technically should've won. He had Blue-Eyes Ultimate with 4500 and nothing in Yugi's deck came close to that at the time. So of course the writers had to create some bullshit like it being split between 3 different heads and Yugi somehow fuses a spell card with a monster and destroys it? I think Kaiba winning here would've made their rivalry that much better.

tbf I think it's said Yugi's anguish wasn't so much the loss but that the loss meant losing the ability to save his grandpa, paired with the very abrupt revelation that his "other self" was ruthless enough that he's willing to knowingly kill Kaiba. Being a kind teen and suddenly finding out you share your body with a man who *will kill* with only about as much hesitation as a "Is he serious? *weighs options*" thought process would quite reasonably throw a guy for a loop.

Could've had Bohman draw Round 1 (or lose since he was kinda... imperfect), lose in Round 2, then BEAT Yusaku. However, instead of some 'magic get out of free log out' nonsense, just have Bohman- who is a super honorable duelist- simply say that they are 'even' now, setting the stakes for the final match

BlazingUtopia yeah nur in Their 2nd duel he was full of rage and thought playmaker was a copy , so That useless Point needs to be erased as well

Agreed except for the fact that the moon duel was NOT epic or at least there was a lot of room for improvement. We suddenly go from Galaxy-Eyes prime photon dragon being awesome to Orbital Seven talking about his love life which completely ruins the mood. (That episode should have been replaced with something else, maybe the Kaito and Haruto backstory that was hinted at during Yuma's and Katio's tag duel together. I'd take less ridiculous filler then Orbital 7 falling in love also) Everyone forgot about overlay booster's effect, also Kaito winning but still dying was lame.

That Adrian win was necessary for the season.

@@seth9655 but if Adrian had died there what would've changed?

@@jaceprince5385 Echo would be alive. As well as Aster. Yubel would have been in a weaker state in her duel against Jaden.

@@seth9655 echo doesn't matter. Yubel beats aster after Zane to add more build up. Yubel lost to Jaden anyway so it doesn't matter

@@seth9655 Not really. I personally think the Arc would've been even better if Aster joined the fight against Yubel towards the end of season 3. Adrian and Echo didnt really add much to the arc and was just there. Even though I did enjoy the Yubel vs Adrian duel I don't think it should've happened. There could of been a cool tag team duel with Aster and Jaden vs Yubel just like how it was earlier with him and Jesse.

But no rainbow neos then but yeah I prefer this too.

@ULGROTHA i agree 100%

I always wish that the Bastion vs Chazz duel in season 2 would've ended with Bastion winning since he pretty much did. I wish the writers would of made it so Bastion would've felt like he's saving Chazz rather than seeking Validation from the society of light. And it would've made Bastion seem like a way stronger character. But he gets swept under the rug for some reason

@@Sniffyy I always felt so bad for Bastion... he was an interesting and fun to watch. That's for sure he was so much better duelist than Chazz and many others... Also he was a major character in the Manga. Wonder why they decided to treat him like this... in duel links he doesn't even have his own theme... I guess they enjoy trolling him

Zane vs camula is perfect for this list I’m so mad he “lost” that to lmao

1) Agree wholeheartedly. 2) I’m okay with the result, but if it would have saved Bastion’s character to win then yes. 3) Not sure about that one, but yeah Chazz needed to beat Jaden at least once. And yes, when a stupid thing interrupts a duel it is frustrating (not all the time, sometimes there is no way to avoid it) but things like Joey loosing to Marik are not ok, and if I recall this was one of those kinda things.

Spectre is a Lost child and he needs to confront Yusaku, Aoi losing to Spectre back then is fine but I do wish the show give her a rematch with him.

@@matts5164 I alternatively wish Aoi have had the final duel versus robopy. I mena, soulburner was gonna eventually have his duel with revolver anyways, so why not just let aoi, who has the biggest reasons and parallels to roboppy, be the one to fight roboppy instead.

Eh. I agree more with Dylan's choice here. For Spectre, his whole gimmick is that he gets into his opponents head, he's not a strong duelist, even according to Lightning. He even confused Playmaker for a while and fucked with Lightning. It was good to show that. But no matter what, she certainly would've needed another win in some way.

But the idea of Spectre beating Aoi was to help make the villains more threatening. Otherwise it would be just Revolver doing stuff.

Jaiden doesn't take losses well remember when he lost to edo phoenix he did not take it very well only when he dueld kaibaman and lost and learn that losing is not the end of the world.

Yeah. People say that while claiming that Malik beat Jounouchi. That duel was also technically a no result. No one lost, but everyone sais Malik beat Jounouchi anyways.

Yusei was about to and couldn't have done a damn thing about it, but unfortunately the writers would rather he crash and therefore get the duel officially considered a dnf (did not finish) then just let him lose and THEN crash. So realistically he did lose and anyone who tries to pretend he wouldn't have is dumb, but alas, he didn't "technically" lose.

@@jaernihiltheus7817 Pretty much. Although, an unofficial duel can't have an official result. And I disagree that Yusei losing and then crashing would be better than him crashing instead of losing. If Apu's attack had connected, it would have consumed Yusei's soul. So the writers had him crash just before the attack hit, and Kiryu left him there with a pipe in his gut to suffer instead of finishing him off. The amount of plot armor nonsense they would have to make up to keep Apu from consuming Yusei even though he lost would be ridiculous, and this was a realistic result that is in character for Kiryu. Yusei 100% lost, and Kiryu styled on him at the end of it to add insult to literal injury. It's a much more interesting result than a normal loss, but they probably didn't anticipate Yugioh fans to pull so much bull just to say their best boi was undefeated, so now we have to deal with them constantly claiming Yusei is an undefeated Mary Sue.

@@machina5 what's Eye Say Yuh? Also, he I do agree that Yusei's loss to Kalin should have been a loss.

@@dinosaurtimeandfunnyvideos A tropical storm that hit the East Coast

@@dinosaurtimeandfunnyvideos Dylan asked how to pronounce "Isaiah" in the video, so I was spelling it out phonetically.

If he was less of a douche I'd think he should have gotten more wins overall.

i would have joey have lost legimately though passing out from an attack from ra after he got marik to show the abilites of ra and lasting far longer than marik could have expected. the set up is not the best for a loss that they chose

Flynn McDonnell Or have Malik actually beat him without using BS

Marik was a horrible duelist who's deck wouldn't have beaten anyone if not for Ra's hacks. He should have lost to Joey and hell, even Mai but plot armor protects all villains until the final round with the protagonist.

@@Netherwolf6100 I don't really see Marik's 'plot armor' any different than Joey's luck and Yugi's heart of the cards nonsense. They gave Ra abilities that made it the most powerful God card and it works, because it sure as hell isn't in real duel monsters. Also Marik was never really in any real danger of losing against Mai like he was against Joey, he played her nearly the whole match.

@@MrAsthmatic 1: Yugi/Atem's Heart of the Cards nonsense was Atem’s ability to quite literally use his Godly powers to alter his deck and reshape the course of the duel. Atem is based on the Egyptian God Atum, a being who would reincarnate himself within the Pharaoh’s royal blood line in order to lead its people through crisis beyond human control and comprehension. Atem and even Yugi to a lesser extent is quite literally a God reincarnated into human form and without his memories, could only tap into his divine power in times of great stress and desperation. Its not some luck based ability but it’s really God Power. He’s hacking the world in his favor. Once he gets his memories back, he does just as much within his duel with Yugi, knowing the entire course of the duel and even calling cards before drawing them. That’s his power. 2: When it comes to Joey’s luck based dueling, won’t go into how unlike Yugi and Seto who had access to the best cards they could get their hands on while Joey was practically borrowing money from his friends just to make a deck out of random packs. However I’ve noticed a trend when it comes to Joey’s dueling; outside of Mako, Joey more often times than not loses to duelist who battle him honorably without tricks or lies but always wins against those who rely on such underhanded tactics, almost as if the world is trying to balance itself out. He typically wins against those who cheat while losing to those who are naturally good. He lost to Kaiba twice, lost to Yugi at least 2 times on screen, would have lost to Odion if Marik didn’t force the guy to play Ra against his will, and lost to Zigfried, all of whom didn’t cheat in any way. That seems to be Joey’s theme. He loses to those with skill and talent but falls to those who are weak-minded and liars. Marik falls under the second category because he lacked the skill to beat someone like Ishizu who relied on her Millennium Necklace after Marik went nuts, barely strung Mai along because she was off her game thanks to her emotions, and would have outright lost to Joey if not for the fact that he relies heavily on Shadow Games and his higher tolerance for pain thanks to his Bloodline and the fact that he was born from the Darkness itself like Zorc. Not to mention the fact that he based his entire deck around the most OP card to date. Marik honestly is a pretty crappy duelist who based his deck around torturing people and wearing them down with his powers instead of any skill or actual ability. At least with his insane luck, Joey still has actual ability to hold his own against forces beyond his understanding and yes, I will remain salty about that loss until the day I die.

They did my boy Revolver dirty.

You think Yuma should have beat Kite?

@@trueblue6201 I ment vetrix

Id change Joey vs Marik so Joey wins. It fits the story for Joey to win. The guy had spent the last two and a half seasons on the back burner while Yugi and Kaiba have had direct interaction with all the main villains. Joey also had the whole promise to Mai to help save her while Yugi didnt really have much of a promise to beat Marik. Also it would have allowed Joey to completely shut up Kaiba that hes not a terrible duelist as he just did the impossible and it sets up Joey as believable that he could defeat Atem in their later duel. Which I believe he did win. Despite the three of them being the core trio of duelist Joey is always overshadowed by the other two and a win here would be perfect

Can you tell me the reason why you want to change the result of Adrian vs Aster? It would change a lot in the story it that happens.

Hmmmm I'm not so sure if the result would've been okay with the kids winning tho.

I mean maybe they wanted to have Lucciano look threatening. How about them being two single duels back to back? Rua loses but Ruka wins.

@@sirkillalot9892 That's why I don't think the result with Rua & Ruka winning is that good. Since the duel with Luccianno is meant to set him up as a threat, making him lose would've had the opposite effect, unless they made the duel like Yusei vs Antinomy R1, where Antinomy basically loses on purpose and states that Accel Synchro has much more to reveal (and by extension, he himself has more stuff to show off). Something like that would've actually worked for Luccianno vs the kids.

Ruka should have attained her Majestic Fairy Dragon in this duel. A missed opportunity right here!

@@tayirnull1567 Nah it really isn't, unless Aki, Crow and Rua eventually got their own versions to round out the whole team.

That's really the ultimate insult of Arc-V(a): not the misogynistic underpinnings with the constant mistreatment of the female cast, not the obnoxious favoritism, not the lack of explanation or even implication for the show connecting to the rest of the franchise, not the egao spam, not the Action spam; it's the inability of the show to acknowledge its ending as bittersweet at best.

the problem i noticed seem be very noticeable from arc v on

Rather since the later part of 5Ds, Akiza and Carly had so much more to offer

To be fair, those two got screwed not by the writers but by circumstances Crow and his deck's popularity combined with the situation with Carly's original VA screwed Akiza and her development and said situation with Carly's original VA screwed her and Jack's relationship over and her as a result

That would mean Sho got a draw with Kenzan of all people but beat the guy who almost beat Yubel in the later eps. I don't think it makes sense.

@@laranjamecanica9588 yeah it does, he draws with Kenzan at the start of the season and beats Kaiser a little more than half way through the season. Plenty of time to showcase his growth as a duelist and character.

I hated that DRAW of Jaden vs Zane 2. Wished Jaden lost and try again next season.

@@thatman666 It would have completely nulled the moment we got from it tho.

The thing is: even though Joey losing was 100% because the plot demanded it and he did theoretically beat Marik, he shouldn't have got that far in the finals tournament to begin with given that he realistically lost handily to Odion, only being spared defeat by aforementioned plot demands (Marik ordered Odion to stop his attack for game in favour of using Ra, in order to try and keep his true identity secret).

Dan Costello that and if I’m honest, that Joey v Marik duel would be completely different if Marik didn’t have egyptian magic on his side. That’s the most common thing I hear though. That if Marik didn’t have access to the Millennium Rod, he’d lose to Joey.

@@agoodname6997 legit though Marik was actually a trash duelist throughout the series (except for the final where he had a semi-competent strategy); Mai literally had game with her 3 Harpies but she tried to flex and attempted to summon Ra, and Joey only lost his match due to the Shadow Game induced by the Rod. Even Odion was a more formidable an opponent, as shown when he backed Joey into a corner, and won 12 locator cards (or 10, assuming he and Marik started with 1 each) on the last day of Battle City.

@@dancostello4872 Mai giving Marik a good duel is an adaptational upgrade for the anime. In the manga, Marik stomped Mai and her one chance for victory was to use Ra.

not to mention the yuri vs yuya duel. the end result with zarc being made ANYWAY basicly ment that yuya would have lost to yuri and it would change nothing. just have yuya has the physical body still despite the loss and boom

@@saiyanscaris6530 honestly it should have been the boys being hunted all along, not the girls. The whole of the plot would have made way more sense if they just swapped that.

I don't think chazz and aster phoenix should've drawed it's good that chazz won that duel as after season 2 he was pretty useless and was more of a joke character so atleast he got a big win in the end.

@@theweirdo3129 True, I did like that. But then towards the end of season 2, so did Aster lol. Loss after loss despite beating both Jaden and Zane. So, I thought maybe a DRAW would be a way of benefiting both of them.

Didn't Shun and Crow duel in the middle of a tournament? I don't think a draw is actually possible

@@PhoenixLance13 OH YEAH. If it was up to me, that whole tournament would be scraped lol

@@Stratuji Yeah the tournament serves no purpose to the plot and they could have spared Jack's loss against Yuya. It takes a pretty large chunks of episodes too. Also I agree with Manjoume gets a draw with Edo would already show he's a great duelist.

How would he make it to Team Ragnarok then? Would you allow another member of Team 5Ds to deliver the final blow? That'd be cool. I like Yusei defeating Jack in S1. If Jack was to get his revenge at some point it should come later on.

@@runningoncylinders3829 unicorn Vs 5ds was in the group stage to get through to the knockout

@George Madathany The same way he did get it back in the show - have Jack show up and give it to him for the Fortune Cup

Did you watch 5D's?

@@drearydoll9430 Why would he give it back if he had won? He reviewed the duel with Goodwin and co. and since he felt defeated it affected his pride. Only way Yusei is getting it back in this situation is if Jack considers it trash, which would be unlikely.

Joey can't used Ra. It is a big plot point that only certain can use the gods and you need a chant to even use Ra. And we know Joey has no ties to Egypt.

I'd rewrite S3 completely with more time, keeping the rest is ok.

@ULGROTHA Oh ha ha

Technically speaking he did, that’s why everyone is pissed.

I think Kite vs Mizar solidifies how strong Kite is as a character. He went down as easily the strongest duelist in Zexal. If we aren't counting main villains. Or at least he has the best record

Kite is definitely the strongest, the only person who beat him was Vetrix and that was only because if Kite damaged Vetrix he would’ve hurt his brother so when he had the chance to attack with Dyson sphere he didnt do it

Honestly I think Yuya’s arc should have been him becoming more disenfranchised with his own philosophy, ironically becoming like those he dueled and preached at. Would have been much better to see him have to deal with high stakes where no one wins (killing someone else because you win can’t feel good) and then have to rediscover his own love of the game and his entertaining style would have been much better. Also have more berserk moments leading up to the conclusion of the arc with Zarc.

@@pattonkesselring4247 In other words, Judai's arc.

@@lordabizi5807 oh, yeah, I guess so. Wondered why that seemed familiar. I do wish we could have seen something more from Yuya though, he seemed a little flat.

You're not the only one, especialy now when they brought back Firewall

And 8000 atk Shinny Cyber End Dragon? Count me in :) Also, keep Kaiser Dead. His Death scene was beautiful, and I don't know why freaking GX in both Sub and Dub decided to say he was alive. (Well, the dub sucks since its 4Kids, and of course he has to be alive. BullS**t!)

Jack and Aki did all the work vs Andre, basically all Yusei had to do was attack. I don't see how Yusei sweeping the last two members of Team Unicorn is different from Andre sweeping the first two members of Team 5D's. Especially since Jean threw the game just to try to look cool and have a good time. The only member Yusei actually beat was Breo.

Absolutely! Jean vs. Yusei ended in pure plot armor bullshit, no questions asked. Yusei was fucked the moment he ran out of cards and ended his last turn, and everyone knew it. Team Unicorn had this match in the bag from the get-go.

It would give team 5D's some time to refocus as a team, and learn lessons from their first match against Team Unicorn. They were outplayed in many ways.

I would absolutely change the outcome of that duel. 5D's were outplayed even before the duel started when they prepared for the Beast-heavy deck Andore showed in the mock duel. I love Team 5D's a lot but Yusei should've lost vs Jean 100%.

@@tayirnull1567 Yes, exactly. Team 5DS faced with Team Catastrophe anyway. It doesn't change that plot that much.

The point was that Aster and Zane thought that Axel was the only one that could beat Supreme King Jaden. They literally stepped to the side and cleared a path for Axel so that he could face Jaden. They might be more popular than him and have more screen time, but at that time for whatever reason, Axel was built up as the strongest 'good guy' besides maybe Jesse

@@jocoolshow Possibly because Axel nearly (and realistically did, until he changed his mind & gameplan last second) beat Jaden in his debut duel during S3. Obviously Zane & Aster weren't privy to that duel - and both previously beat Jaden's old deck in their own rights but maybe they were betting on Axel because he had a burn/stun deck, which they may have reasoned to have a better chance against The King than trying to go head to head offensively with him. Screentime-wise I assume it started from the whole 'could've beaten Jaden but chose not to' thing, because it showed he was skilled enough to theoretically beat Jaden going all out with his Neo-Spacian/Elemental HERO deck. That, and the fact Axel was literally a soldier with a gun which could shoot flaming cards - kinda hard to avoid making someone that badass a strong and competent duelist lmao.