So, I decided to rework this list with the new rules from the Best Female Protagonist video (Duel Score is now -1 point for each loss, not 0). This update gives Yusei and Yuya both a boost in duel score rankings, whilst dropping Yuma down a bit. The new duel scores are as follows: 1st. Jaden Yuki: 236 (Down 7 points from 243) 2nd. Yusei Fudo: 149 (Down 1 point from 150) 3rd. Yuya Sakaki: 126 (Down 4 points from 130) 4th. Yuma Tsukumo: 124 (Down 33 points from 157) 5th. Yugi Moto: 108 (Down 7 points from 115) 6th. Yusaku Fujiki: 78 (Down 3 points from 81) This also changes the final rankings up. The new final scores are: 1st. Jaden Yuki: 28 (No Change at all) 2nd. Yusei Fudo: 24 (An increase of 2 points; no change in rank.) 3rd. Yuya Sakaki: 16 (An increase of 2 points; now 3rd place instead of 4th.) 4th. Yuma Tsukumo: 14 (A decrease of 4 points; now 4th place instead of 3rd.) 5th: Yugi Muto: 9 (No change at all) 6th: Yusaku Fujiki: 8 (No change at all) While the only real change was Yuma and Yuya swapping places in the final scores, it was still interesting (at least to me.) that the updated scoring system had an impact on the final scoring at all. I'll be doing the same thing with the rivals, next.
@@TGSAnime Thanks. I'm not gonna lie, I kinda expected a more drastic change than what I ended up with. I even thought Yusei might take first, but Jaden just had too few losses. The -1 for each loss system does seem more fair, though. I liked the video, by the way. You did a great job with how you did the rankings. P.S.- Jaden is my favorite Protagonist, so I'm mostly happy with how the scores ended up.
Well too fuckn bad because Jaden is 1/3 a protagonist. Because his hair color change is just shading, but Jaden is still a better- wait what if you don't say it's shading FUCK IT'S Jaden YUkI YOU BITCH
@@jazlegend2479 Only the last two seem weird or cringe to me. The first two are just basically "let's play" but with a little more energy and the third one is cool since they duel on motorbikes.
Hello everyone. Please excuse me for stating what is no doubt going to be an unpopular opinion here, but I saw this and felt I needed to say something. I note again that this is just how I personally feel. Now, I have to say that I disagree heavily here.i do not believe that a character losing makes them more interesting. in fact, I despise the word interesting when it is used in this way because it implies that watching a character be successful, win, or achieve their dreams is boring. Now I understand that there have to be obstacles to reaching goals, but the word interesting is used in such a way as to say that the character themselves sucks because they win all the time. I would rather argue that rather than making the character more interesting to see them lose, it comes more as a surprise than a character defining or life or death (In terms of whether or not we like the character) moment. This is evidenced by the fact that Yugi has tons of fans and he's almost never lost. We won't hate someone just because their good at something, will we? I will argue instead in the favor of loses making the show itself more interesting, rather than affecting the character at all, because then the question becomes, what will they do now, how will the show proceed (Because technically, if the main character were to lose, the show would be over) I will however, say that a character winning is less boring or "Quit the show" worthy, and more a way for us to see their skills and enjoy the show, as well as get excited watching them come up with ways to win. I propose, instead of wanting the character to lose for the sake of "character development" or "Interest", how about making the duels harder, like they do in Vrains. A character coming out if a hopeless situation, all while growing as a person in the process is much more fun than them losing their will to live because they lost, only to miraculously get pepper up and feel better. It's just watching them suffer at that point. (I apologize if I've gotten off topic, but my mind moves too fast for me to catch up sometimes and I don't know how to get out what I'm saying properly. Thank you for reading this and considering my position.)
That's why yuma is more interesting than the others winning every duel gets boring and the duels become predictable that the MC gonna pull out some plot plays and win.
@@paulvarus859 I look at it less as "I know they're gonna win so what's the point", and more, "How will he win this time? What's he gonna come up with next?" You have to admit Cyberse clock dragon was the most amazing thing you've seen.
I think the reason why Yugi had such little duels is because of the plots for the different arcs, like he wasn't the only guy that had to take on the majority of the baddies, it was split between him, joey and seto.
also back then yugioh DM is soo slow compared to the other series, one duel can take 3 to 4 episodes while in other series 3-4 episodes only happen when dueling against the final boss of the arc or some suoer important duels
I agree but i like the fact hes been beaten but honestly i want a new movie where its just the protags vs one another to find out whos the best decks revamped with the new support and demanded banlist hits...
Looking back at this, it would be interesting to weigh each Win/Loss based on the stakes involved. A match against the best duelists in a tournament isn't the same as losing against a childhood friend in a flashback.
Exactly! Just because a character has a higher win percentage doesn't mean that they are better characters than others... Granted, ranking the characters based on their characteristics is a bit more subjective...
This is why in analytics you'd apply a 'weighting' system to each duel dependant on circumstances. (Ranking of opposition, ranking of protagonist at the time of duel, length of duel, cards played, total LP taken and lost, extenuating circumstances i.e. Kaiba's castle stunt. etc) Then its a better measure to find the average value per X duels (probably per 10 duels is best) If you want to apply a duel volume point score for the "putting themselves out there" portion thats an option too. Would give a far more rational (in analytics speak) values, likely Yugi would be higher up the list for a start.
You're missing how often he got Bubbleman, drew 2 cards and one of them was Pot of Greed. Dude drew 5 cards in one turn because he was in a bad spot! No wonder he won so much!
@@CrystalGreymon or the Mirage of Nightmare Emergency Provisions combo. Say what you want about him but the dude understood the value of card advantage.
i agree at the beginng of gx he was all about having fun then dueling for the sake of life or death changed him and watching this progression was interesting
I was sad to lose the fun Jaden, but seeing him in episode 1 of season 4 of GX (before I watched season 3) was ridiculously cool. Everyone's being mind controlled by some menacing force and then when it goes after Jaden he's pulls a "I'm the Doctor. Basically... Run."
The same people that complain about Yusei falling off his bike to avoid a loss are the same people that complain that Joey Wheeler didn't actually lose against Marik
It really shouldn't be surprising. Comedy aids with memory, because people remember things that incite emotion in them. Plus, making the material fun for you is the only way to realistically maintain your motivation throughout an entire semester.
Not to mention his anime had multiple arcs where his actual dueling was kept to a minimum, if at all. And even more crucial, these statistics overlook a pretty big factor - the caliber of the opponents in these duels. Jaden and Yuma had more duels because they didn't last as many episodes, but that in and of itself can be attributed to a lot of their opponents (especially Jaden's) being chumps, whereas Yugi was almost always up against champion-level duelists during the later arcs.
Counting just statistics, Yugi didn't win this one. However, if we didn't just look at statistics, but the Caliber of duelists involved, Yugi would be the number one spot, most likely.
@@Ebon_Sean Yuma dueled a couple chumps at the start, but around the WDC arc, he only swung against heavyweights (minus those brothers that used Magnet cards). Judai dueled a bunch of losers and randos (like that freaking monkey)
@@Ebon_Sean There's also the fact, that Yugi lived in a world closer to our own. There was no duelist academy, nor was dueling something you could make a career out of. He was attending a normal school, and we see that he was also helping with the game shop, and I might be wrong, but it felt like we had spend more time with the other duelists than in GX.
Jaden is a very seasoned duelist. I also love that he is the most human and relatable character. He was super hyperactive and carefree, became serious and somewhat depressed do to unforeseen events, then grew up and started to find his balance of seriousness and love of the game. Just like an actual person irl.
This is not about the video but I feel like it's a major problem that the words on Yu-Gi-Oh cards hurt my head, at first I thought it was because I am so used to the first generation of the Yu-Gi-Oh series, and my brother was using a deck with a kind of summoning that origined in a future gen, I thought my head was hurting because I was confused, because of the fact that my first headache ended a few minutes after taking a break from the game by watching Spongebob, but than after my brother challenged me again, the headache came RIGHT back, so I started talking to my parents about it, and now I know it's because the words on the cards are so small, because it even hurts my head to build a deck, so I guess it's time to get an eye check???
As a Yuya stan, I'm offended that you didn't include the 291 offscreen duels with Gongenzaka, wherein he bricked and lost every single time. Truly, an authentic representation of what it's like to play Pendulums.
Yu’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Duel Part 2: GX Tendencies Part 3: 5D Crusaders Part 4: Zexal is Unbreakable Part 5: Arc wind Part 6: Vrain Ocean
Part 1: Goodbye Yugi! Part 2: Your next line is going to be "Chazz it up!" Part 3: Synchro Powah! Part 4: Are you okay reatard, I am Xyz. Stupid. Part 5: This is the power of Pendulum. Part 6: Do you believe in Link summoning?
What I liked most about Yuma, Yuya, and Jaden is that even though they’re not as serious as Yugi, Yusei or Yusaku, they have a lot of heart. And their series show how much they grow as duelists.
@@jamiepreston5084 yeah ik I'm just playing around. But he did become my favorite protag with Yuya being number 2 due to the fact that they can use Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz
since yuya series (YGO arc-V), YGO is combining some summoning methods in 1 series.... even in Vrains at the first season, there are just advance and link summon (normal and special summon also counts), but at the next season, the ritual, fusion, synchro and xyz come to the vrains..... so i think...... yugi is the best cuz he left the legecy of the duel. (duel monster) also ritual summon were in this series, but it were never used again until zexal (only kaito use ritual "once") jaden had been improving fusion summoning style. while yusei and yuma introducing the new methods of summoning, (synchro and xyz) yuya, triad to combine all the summoning methods with one new pendulum summon. and the playmaker (yusaku) bring a new era of summoning where ritual, fusion, syncrho, xyz, and link summon mastered by a protagonis character (and he might be the most skill full main character after yuya) but, pendulum summon were never exist in VrainS, because it is hard to do pendulum in new rule of YGO nowaday, also in Speed duel at Vrains.
@@theomnigamer9177 Both of them technically, since they tend to duel together unless they can't for some reason, or their souls are separated. Also the Frieza saga part is an exaggeration, I don't actually (well not totally) mean it.
Yusei feels like the best overall duelist to me. He (like Yugi) wins even with horrible decks and for a chunk of the first arc he didn't even have his ace.
And he doesn't have some ass-pull ability like Atem when it comes to drawing the right card. Granted you can say the same about Jaiden,but with him he kinda does his own version of believing in the Heart of the Cards".
@@vladimir-savage72 what? Lol yugi is the best dueler in yugioh thats y they call him the king of games he can read his cards we talking about actually dueling lol yugi would batter yusei then yusei will be like how is that possible he will literally get shocked by slifer the sky dragon l
@@vladimir-savage72 holy, what? What show have you been watching? At least atem admit he cheated to win. Jaden luck let him draw whatever he want. And Yusei, arguably the worst written protagonist, blatantly use the crimson dragon to top deck? How many time have he gathered all of the signer power to draw majestic tuner? It isn’t even subtle like Atem. Its so blatant that I am puzzled why people say Yusei don’t use any magic bs to win.
Heh, Jaden's decks are far worse than Yusei's. Stardust Dragon was a top tier card, the neospacians and elemental heroes without later support are basically unplayable. Neospacians is pretty much unplayable the whole way through. Just watching his 'comeback' duel against Aster makes it really, really clear how his already bad deck somehow got even worse despite the writers trying so hard to make the cards seem powerful.
Interesting to see Yugi doing consistent 5th places. He's beat mind readers, the actual creator of the game, and even the king of games himself. Despite that all, he's still second worst. Statistics really can be ironic.
I think thats a good point honestly. The quality of opponents/circumstances. Yugi is beating champions, the creator of the game who was also a massive cheater and could see yugi's hand and face downs (well, for some of it thanks to a combination of a clever plan and some BS power of friendship at the end) etc, and, with exceptions, mostly fought in tournaments as essentially a professional even if he always had ulterior mtoives for entering. Jaden is a student who fought very heavily against other students and school staff, and villains who are hard to rank given the situation (like geez, at least Marik entered the tournament and didn't just show up going 'ok, time to duel for the fate of the world'. I mean he did that too, but in a tournament setting! He had standards). I mean they are supposed to be intimidating, dangerous duelists with apparently powerful decks/cards...but its so hard to actually judge that since they have no in universe competition history/clout and, to be fair like everybody else in this universe, use shit cards/archetypes/deck lists
Well Jaden Lost like 3 times in the entire series. Yugi/Atem lost less but he has the millennium puzzle which seems to be able to alter luck. And the effects of the cards in the original yu-gi-oh series are often different then the real cards, while in gen-x they are closer to the originals. Jaden doesn’t even have a god card, while Yugi has 3 in the and of the series. So technically Jaden is better
But, because he is so kind hearted he is number one. Virtues are hard to master. This is why being bad irl and everywhere is the easiest thing to do... I'm talking about virtues in 2k20 pff.
Yusei technically lost to Kalen tho. Well in his defense his d wheel broke before the duel ended so it’s a draw so yh you are right he’d have a 100% win to loss ratio
I like this, regardless of Yusaku losing in flashbacks, it feels accurate in the way videogames count win/loss ratios. It doesn't care if you were 11 years old when you made your account, the losses are still on your record lmaoooo
I disagree, cause Yusaku pretty much wasn't an actual duelist on 11 years old and it feels unfair to count a lose from your dumb, child self and not counting those L's from other protaginist Dumb, chils selfs and we didn't know how Many duels their child selfs had, so treat the protagonists equally
@@rescuerabbit6711 The only time Yusei ever lost was in a flashback, not even a flashback, it was just stated "a few years ago Jack beat him", that's it. We don't actually see the duel. If we don't consider before the "series duels", Judai/Jaden only lose 4 times, and Yusei never lost. "how Many duels their child selfs had" We don't know.
@@edwardmyers9492 I know they all did it at some point, but that’s only when they’re about to lose or when they’re under pressure. It’s been said in the ZEXAL anime that Yuma can create the next card he’s going to draw whenever because 'he’s that good'
@@edwardmyers9492 Actually Jaden and I'm pretty sure Yusei never had that ability. Not entirely sure if I'm right about Yusei, but Jaden's only abilities were seeing duel spirits and being able to make them solid by the time of season 4
@I cry when People say they haven’t seen jojo Of the top of my head i can't but he definitely did somewhere along the line. Jaden made quite a few misplays too maybe not as badly as Yuma but all protagonists have made some misplays somewhere along the lines.
@@macenanoro826 It's been a long time since I've watched Yugioh of any variety, I still haven't watched Vrains and I'm not sure I ever finished Arc-V. I also didn't watch most of Zexal because boy Yuma's voice is hard to deal with. So it's been a minute since I've partook in the yugiohs but yeah, looking back on it Jaden's misplays probably were more him trying to do something he wanted to and it just didn't work out rather than him actually goofing on monster effects, but I definitely think there's a few genuine misplays in there I could be wrong though. That might have been what I was thinking about in Yugi's case as well.
@@WXRST99 Any misplays that Yugi or Jaden made were because their opponent hid a card effect from them, not because of noobishness. Yuma was a little too goofy for me, but I liked the scenes when he would be working on new combos to pull off. Most of the other main characters are just made of plot armor.
@reimu-ic6lz Right? For all the complaints about plot armor/shenanigans, realize that Astral was basically just a duel coach before Zexal morph and Shining draw. Yeah there were the traditional lucky protag draws, but really Astral just taught Yuma how to use his cards correctly at first
Jaden was proof that Duel Academy was pointless considering he was better at dueling without studying or paying attention in class than any of the students who applied themselves diligently.
Naruku2121 yeah but so did everyone else except yugi and yusei yuya went to the you show school Yuma went to his school(can’t remember name) Yusaku went to his school(barley finished the first five episodes)
one great thing to note about GX as anime, is that Jaiden never lost again after Phoenix duel. It was around that time, sometime before but especially there, when he couldnt lose, because there were always higher stakes on the table. It is discussed towards the end of the show (and also in Kaibaman ep, where he funny enough picks one of his Ls) how he started doing it for the fun (the feeling that Yugi manages to give him back) and lost it along the way, and I think it is a great nod to that, in a way it tells you how serious he took it because he never lost
Another thing to consider is the time there in, Yugi played in a time where the game was rather slow while yuya played in a time where things where rather fast paced
@@niladrighosh3269 "agh! The.. heart.. of the cards... Is... Forcing me to... Reach into my pocket and pull out exodia!" *Heart of the cards wins Everytime*
@@niladrighosh3269 I think those voice actor duels are scripted to purposefully have a winner that the fans would want more and any fan it seems always wants Yugi to win when lets actually answer from your previous comment "Yugi easily wins with the heart of the cards" aka Yugi/Atem only wins since that Mystical Magical Item around his neck uses ancient magic to Cheat and will the very cards they need to win at the very moment they need it (This is a real fact look it up All Millennium Items do this The Puzzle most of all). But lets strip all that away Just Normal Yugi vs. any of the protags, Yugi would lose due to the fact that other Main Protag's decks work faster and bring out big monsters quicker before Yugi can make a big play but that is simply by era of cards. But my main point here is that Without his "Cheating Millennium Puzzle" Yugi would actually lose to some of the other Protags.
@@kamenrider5ds60 u think? Ofcourse they are scripted.. and yugis deck in others hand could lose to other protagonists decks but yugi vs other protagonists?? Yugi always would win cause they don't want him to lose...
I didn't watch a show between 5Ds and Vrains, but I found it really funny how at one point in Vrains somebody called their opponent a moron for still trying to do that.
Of all the main characters Yuma is the only one who is introduced to us as a bonafide loser. Always trying to do things he could never accomplish so it makes sense for him to have the worst record. I however don’t believe he is the weakest out of them. Only him and Jayden seem to have that fun passion for duelling you see that especially shine through in Yuma (Jayden went full psychotic) the other protagonists seem super serious to me.
Once the stakes were raised to that, Yuma rarely lost. It was stated in the show that he lost what was most valuable to him. His love for dueling, that's what he lost by opening the door. He only dueled to survive and win. When he dueled for fun, he didn't really care much whether he lost or not. Which is why later on in the series when he does almost lose to someone like Kite who is a real threat, it breaks his spirit along wirh Astral's.
He didnt lost to dangerous people he did lose to shark in episode 10 but shark didin't had a number card so Astral did'nt disapper but he llost to that fat idot more than 20 times
I really like how Yuma is the worst statistically, because when he finally surpasses Astral at the end, it really shows how much grew at the end. They showed how terrible he was at dueling on-screen. Furthermore, I think it makes him a more well-rounded character with how flawed he is, and it really accentuates Yuma's motto and personality of how he'll never give up, and keep trying, despite the odds being against him.
I really appreciate how Jaden had a coherent deck and interactive cards with many chains, and its permanent joy. Otherwise Yusei is my favorite character I grow up with him and I really appreciate the fact that he had a really mature attitude. And I liked all the dragon cards that came with this story arc.
Some things to take into consideration : 1) yugi only had so few duels because back then you could have a duel last 4-5 episodes so while he had less duels, they had more twists and turns and added additional story while dueling. 2) Yusaku got screwed a bit since Vrains didn't have that many episodes in comparison and did have quite a few parts where he didn't duel for ages (build up to Yusaku vs Lightning). 3) I think Yuma is unfairly judged due to something that I don't belive is his fault. I think him being portrayed as bad was intended as it broke the streak of this super strong duelist that only loses due to technicality or on purpose. He was more to be seen as an average duelist we see grow and I think to be a more relatable character. 4) So many had bullshit plot armour that made them win such as yugi with heart of the cards, yusei and Yuma just creating synchro and xyz/zw cards from no where that never existed but just so happen to know what they are and what they do. Overall, they all have a reason to be considered as the best either through their pure skill of dueling, their determination to win despite maybe losing or their positive energy some gave off in every duel no matter the circumstances
Did they just make the cards from thin air, or were they in the deck? I don't remember much about those shows, but if they were in the deck you could argue that of course they would know what the card does, since they most likely study their decks and card combos pretty often if they don't have it memorized.
When Yuma would draw the zw cards he would say: “a truly powerful duelist can do incredible things, he can even generate the very care he needs to draw! Shining draw!” And that sorta implies that the cards just didn’t exist and yuma knew what they did either from a.) guesswork (thinking to himself, what do I really need rn) b.) just knowing from skill c.) the effects are on the cards like in pyramid of light or you can read the text like in VRAINS or d.) Astral already knew and telepathically told Yuma while they were in Zexal
@@ljporterjr Well Yuya definitely did. Changed half his deck to pendulums which pretty much are new cards. Yusei created Quasar as it just materialised into his hand. Yuma technically likely had the ZW cards in his deck but conveniently never drew any unless he used shinning draw. But likely Astral knew the cards and told Yuma what they did.
In my opinion, in terms of character rather than how good they are at deuling, it's always been Yuma. He's reckless, immature, he makes mistakes and when he loses or can't reach his goals, instead of crying about it for 20 minutes, he gets his ass back up and tries again until he succeeds. His personality is so fun to watch grow from a hot headed brat to a responsible and powerful duelist. He never fights for vengeance ot hate. He battles so he can help his foes understand that dueling is supposed to be a fun friendly sport and he helps alot of villans and antagonists in the show have a change of heart. He got his powers by pure chance and he's not a reincarnation of a universe destroying God or a King from 5000 years ago. He's just a regular kid that got caught up in a war between worlds. His ability to motivate and inspire others is unmatched in the franchise and not only does he have respect for his friends, but also his enemies and doesn't hate them because of who their family is, like Kite or Trey, but he judges people on THEIR actions rather than the people around them and what they do and say. This is why Yuma is fundamentally the best protagonist in the franchise.
Before starting this video I said it was Yusei. Guess I was right in terms of the win percentage! I’m fine with Jaden ranking highly as well. These statistics were very interesting, I’m glad you explained your process with it to see how you came about to your calculations. Nice work!
jovan loncar I came to say this. During the anime he needed a 60% winrate to enter the Junior Arc Tournament and only had 56%. This was after his duel with Yuzu in episode two which he had lost but I believe this was winrate was only counting official games (which this list is not) and his duel vs Yuzu would not count towards the 20 addition losses he had before (this is further backed up by his later duels where he won against Hokuto and Reiji’s surrender not increasing his winrate as they were not official duels.) But this would also mean Yuya had another 26 additional wins along with those 20 losses. Meaning his winrate would be 65.09%. A bit unfair to count considering 46 offscreen duels is a lot but that’s the rules we’re playing by here. Edit: This would also make Yuya have the most total duels, at 106.
@@rokocvjetanovic I don't think it's really a negative, it's just his preferred style of dueling, he does it for the theatrical flair and entertainment so he never tries to win one-sided except for whenever he is pissed off because he seems to stomp almost everybody when he is angry.
@@skyrider245 I don't think so. He is still weak im normal Duels without Action cards there is no way for him to win against Aster, Jack, Crow and the others. Yuya's dueling skills are bad, He is not good duelist.
@@slevinchannel7589 joey vs Marik leaves the worst taste possible in your mouth, Joey just won end of the story. Also the fact all the duels Yugi lost to help others when he had game is just bullshit, that just goes to show he's the best main character period
@@ganjalfilverde7064 What? He having lost without getting help Every time makes him the best, period? Ok, sure. But then my little Brother is also the best, cause he's so small Adults let him win. In Chess, in Soccer, everywhere.
@@slevinchannel7589 just saying the fact he's willing to lose games for the sake of others makes him a great character, who the hell would consider giving up to save kaiba a loss?
@@ivanbackfromthecardshop8093 he's a child playing a children's card game, Jaden also faced a 8is year old and almost lost. So ya it's a bs thing but it counts ig
Yuma's 33 losses... Goodness, I love him... I personally adore Yuma's story line of this kid that was absolutely abysmal at dueling learning how and eventually becoming one of the best duelists around.
Though to be perfectly fair to his score, around 20 of those losses were off-screen and very early on, so I personally wouldn't really count them, since we not only don't see them, but they also were back when Yuma wasn't really known as a good duelist. I take those losses with the same seriousness as flashback duels. But even without those duels, he still would have ended up in the same ranking as shown in the video since even without the 19 off-screen duels, he would still have been second in duel number with 76 duels and the point score would have been the same since losses don't add or subtract points. But even so, I still adore Yuma.
My only issue with Yuma is that he starts off unbelievably bad. He's been playing for years but doesn't know some of his card effects? Come on. It would have been interesting to see a protagonist that wasn't a dueling prodigy from the start, but he should at least know his card effects after playing for so long.
@@scottbecker4367 Yeah, I agree that it was kinda lame that he didn't even know the basics. Zexal was the first Yugioh series that I ever watched, so as a person who knew nothing about how to play myself, it helped to have these really basic tutorials or else I would have been completely lost. That was why it didn't bother me so much when I first watched, but looking back on the series, I could tell why it would be so annoying for people who already knew the series.
Zexal was a lot like Duel Monsters and I feel like a lot of older fans cane back once it picked up at the World Dueling Carnival. I don't count Yuma's off screen duels since they were very early and it has been shown that Yuma's performance in duels largely depends on how seriously he takes them.
Kuro Kenshin I like yami Bakura by how evil and how his deck works with depending for cards to be in his graveyard in order for him to summon his dark necrofear , I also have his deck as long with dark sanctuary in real life No offence but I find yami bakura the best and I respect your opinion
@@kurokenshin2507 u can have your own option but if we go off performances Strings lost to yugi Controlled Joey would of lost to yugi Marik almost lost to mai Marik basically lost to Joey And obviously he lost to yugi
You should also have to take into account that the first series wasn't just Yugi's story, but Joey's and Kaiba's as well. The series effectively had three protagonists; and that's not taking into account all the supporting characters that had multiple spotlight duels as well.
Well more like 4 main characters: Atem, Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. And all 4 definitely get their time to shine in the spotlight. You see their progression as characters and as duelists.
I will say that while the math doesn't lie, it can be misleading. Not all wins are equal. Certainly Yugi beating Seto, Pegasus, himself, and Marak isn't equivalent to Jaden beating classmates. Beating international and domestic champions repeatedly is certainly a feat and when you exclude him losing on purpose (Rebekkah and Seto at DK), his record stands for itself. How many of the antagonists beat people using actual magic which was used to cheat? How many beat pretty much every champion they faced? There were also cases where the villain could have won but decided not too. One of Jaden's wins in Season 2 was like that so the "new kid" and champion could test to see how good he was. Now again, the math doesn't lie. That said, statistics are tricky and can be used to justify unfair rankings or can be misleading. Especially at the end of the show, Yugi showed that he could literally manipulate chance to get the card he wanted lol. That feat alone puts him at the top. Plus his deck in comparison to those in his show when comparing it to other decks compared to the people within their shows, shows that Yugi had the best deck amongst his contemporaries. Is it outdated in 2025? Absolutely. Does it stack up better than other decks from their eras given the dualists they faced? Yes.
I really love GX and Jaden as a character. He's design, he's personality (even though he is a little stupid/naive) and I love he's dueling monsters/heroes. Though I feel like the neo spaceians stool the spotlight from the elemental heroes because since they appeared Jaden's wins from season 2 and after were mostly with the neo spaceians and they had dialogues. The only scene that we've seen the elemental heroes talk is at ep.20 season 1 and that for fun. But besides all that I love he's monsters/heroes a lot, and Jaden as a character.
Did he? I honestly don't remember that. Edit: You are absolutely correct, The flashback is shown in Episode 2 and not only does Yusei say he lost before the flashback it outright shows him lose.
@@arrownoir Jack technically ended the duel without finishing it since he thought Yusei was wasting his time, but that probably would have been a loss for Yusei, had Jack finished it.
he is like the only dude who knows women have feelings.
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Yugi/Artem are my number 1 for nostalgia reasons. I do believe you stew right. No wonder I always felt the duels in GX felt rushed. They were 1 episode as for the original it would sometimes be four or five. Great video. Keep up the good work.
Back in the original Yugioh a duel would last 3 to 4 episodes, this was simplified in GX making all duels last at most 2 episodes. That's why Yugi had fewer wins then most of the other protags.
As many know, Yugi has only one legitimate loss on his record which was to Raphael in season 4. However, there was several times throughout the series where he logically should have lost the duel but because of the vagueness of the rules and sometimes just outright cheating, our protagonist won the match
I feel like the rematch against kaiba at duelist kingdom felt as legit despite the dramatics when the tide was going against kaiba. When he brought back the blue eyes…should’ve been game over from there…
@@Loldino897 Interestingly that should be possible now. Super Polymerization let's you use monsters on both sides of the field. Theoretically the right Fusion could be made with Ultimate Dragon and Mammoth Graveyard. Just a matter of finding the right Fusion monster. Something with vague summoning requirements..... Hmmm. Course it was complete cheating at that point in time XD
@@endytheenderman7905 Light force is a trap card.. Set it face down and you can play it whenever you want after your turn ends. So makes sense he played on either his opponents turn or his own. I sometimes play it on my own turn, completely allowed.
You forgot about Yusei's flashback to the loss he suffered to Jack Atlas.🤔. And I think it would be fair to count the duels Yugi and the Pharoh did separate as individuals. The same for Yuma and Astral.
jaden was always my favourite protagonist its just the way he duled just seemed alot of fun compared to the rest even though he changed in season 4 but hes character development was outstanding though
As a Yuma fan, what pisses me off is not the fact that people think he’s bad, it’s that people think he’s bad because he lost offscreen a lot in season one and Astral gave him advice. It completely negates the growth he had as a protagonist. I especially hate it when people who do that are also massive Yugi fans because Yugi and Yami were doing very similar things.
@@kaitosama8538 that's true, but it wasn't a duel, it was a shadow game/replay of the ancient past....I agree that yugi/Atem are the best, but they basically didn't duel for 3 series 😂
@@iainmeads7975 shadow game is not a replay of the ancient past . it is a duel but if you lose you die and your souls goes to the shadow realm where Zorc created
@@kaitosama8538 literally watched it 2 days ago.....yami Bakura and Atem sitting across from eachother watching the past replay itself with the Pharaoh unable to remember his name, hence why Bakura could freeze time and Atem could call Hasan/shadi to protect his friends/past self
Except that fight against Kalin And I guess I'm not even mad at Yusei for it, more so at the writers for making the other dark signer duels seem more serious, and a simple falling off and getting seriously hurt is the only thing that saved him from actually losing (and thus completely altering the course of the series)
@@parsath_2584 Well team Unicorn could've won john only had to end his turn and yusei would have lost because he had no cards in his deck but john didn't want to win because of a rule so he attacked yusei and fell in his trap and lost
@@parsath_2584 Team Unicorn's case is less about Jack and Aki's ability and more so about the insane experience of Team Unicorn: a) Team 5D's was made to believe their first D-Runner was a Power Duelist like Jack, so they sent Jack to match his strength, only to then be surprised by a completely different Strategy. b) Aki was a novice back then when it came to Turbo Dueling, the only reason she was there was to cover for Crow, who was at that point unable to ride a D-Wheel. On top of that, she was dueling against a Genius duelist who was also by far the most talented of the team and still managed to hold her own. Turbo Duels have you play with Speed Counters and Speed Spells, the transition is not as smooth as you'd think and she still did fine. c) Yusei managed to beat the first runner who was already weakened by Jack and Aki, the second runner wasn't fighting to win and opted for Destroying Yusei's deck instead, and the last runner was literally one "I end my turn" away from winning. Say what you want about Yusei, but he only survived by the skin of his teeth.
To the people commenting on one comment about protags with more than one Hair colour and saying Jaden only has one is forgetting something important, shades of one colour counts as different colours, you get different shades of brown and each of those shades count as a different colour so Jaden's two-tone kuriboh hairdo us two colours plus the Yu in every protag's name isn't just for a first name, it can be for the surname so Jaden will fall under that category because of his surname
It makes sense that Jaden had the most duels cause throughout the series he very openly and deliberately sook out strong opponents, dueled his friends to help them improve or just for fun, or the duelists just came to him for a challenge Not to mention he’s literally in a school where EVERYONE duels As for Yuma almost all the duelists came to him or he sook then out cause he was trying to find all the numbered cards for Astral so it also makes sense why he had almost just as many as Jaden
Yeah, how many duels our protagonist have is based on the situation and condition. It's not like any of the protagonist run away when challenged to a duel. I think the best Protagonist is the one who has amusing decks, which is Yuya for me.
In the original time line, we have; Yugi/Atem, Jaden, and Yusie. Observe that in the next yugioh series we have; yuma/astral, yuya, and Yusaku. From this we have a mirror characters from those six series, namely: Yugi/Atem - Yuma/astral Jaden - Yuya Yusei - Yusaki Yugi have Atem and grows together like the partnership of Yuma and Astral. They also have loses which it make sence since they are both adopting in the series with their respective partner and wins. Next, we have the energetic Jaden and Yuya whom also have a dark past. That thay are both a reincarnation of some person from the past. In the series, both of them also overcome that past and wins. Lastly, we have Yusie and Yusaku whom have almost the same. They are both mature like and have the a great win ratios accoring to your analysis. In conclusion, i can conclude that the next yugioh series may have a simillarity to Yugioh Duel Monster and Yugioh Xezal. Think about it.
Well if so that's fine I don't mind but I just gonna say this Yusaku who was so called Yusei 2.0 is Pretty boring compared to the original When I watch the show I thought Soulbuner was the MC.
Zexal is actually one of my favorite series cause Yuma really does grow during it. Alot of his losses were pretty stupid tbh but Zexal was about his growth as a duelist more than anything. By the end of the series I'd say he's in between yami and yugi level
I would agree 100%. And his legitimate on screen loses really helped him grow Imo, I felt the end was wrapped up far better with his best friends having died and realizing he'd lost the ability to have fun dueling when every time it was life or death, and no other series put that idea into perspective, except maybe Arc V but the writing was a bit more flimsy because he kind of would cry and start grinning one episode later. Zexal focussed on the long term effects.
@@MaTTer1235 he didn't become evil until season 3 for like 3 episodes, granted season 4 he was hyper serious but it took a long time to get there. Jaden was very much happy-go-lucky up until he lost Jessie.
I like Yugi's hairstyle, but that's mainly cause it's so damn ridiculously over the top and nostalgic. I think all the protagonists after Jayden had hairstyles as insane as they are because the animation teams want to outdo yugi. (Granted Yusei's hair looks fine.)
as a slyfer slacker with the academic system going against him, he still had almost twice as many as some of the contestants and still won more than 90% of his games. He worked hard, he played hard, he just loved to duel. he's a card junkie and it shows
I see all kinds of arguments down and as much as i would not count flashbacks i just wanna leave this here letting you know that you do a very nice job whether people agree or disagree with you not everyone would put the effort to even do this so i salute you great job :)
As season 0 Yugi wasn't listed, I'll do the calculations for him (Assuming he's the same Yugi as in Duel Monsters) Duels - 59 (+9 from 50) Wins - 42 (+4 from 38) Losses - 9 (+2 from 7) Draws - 2 (+1 from 1) DNFs - 6 (+2 from 4) Win Percentage - 82.35% Total Duels: Barely still in 5th. JUST ONE DUEL AWAY FROM BEING TIED AT 4TH! Points (Using rules from future videos) - 119 (Up 11 points from 108) Final score: 5th with 9 points (Same as before) Potential problems: Episode 1 of DM is effectively a polymerization of S0 Episode 3 and S0 Episode 20
@@PercyPanleo It was, but the characters are all the same people. Think of how Joseph Joestar appears in Parts 2, 3, and 4. They're different parts of the same manga, but he's still the same incarnation of the character. Duel Monsters/Magic and Wizards was going to be a one-off, but was so popular that Takahashi rebranded the entire manga to revolve around it.
Idk I think a problem is distinguishing Muto from Yami. Kaiba would've lost if Atem/Yami wasn't stopped by Yugi Muto, I think it'd be interesting to see Yami's/atem stats alone.
Your 'Duel Score' system needs to use a -1 for losses, since this currently means somebody with 50 wins and 500 losses will have a higher score than somebody with 49 wins and 1 draw. It'd be cool if some absolute madman could work out Elo scores for all the anime characters and work it out that way (Jaden would probably still end up on top)
So, I decided to rework this list with the new rules from the Best Female Protagonist video (Duel Score is now -1 point for each loss, not 0). This update gives Yusei and Yuya both a boost in duel score rankings, whilst dropping Yuma down a bit. The new duel scores are as follows:
1st. Jaden Yuki: 236 (Down 7 points from 243)
2nd. Yusei Fudo: 149 (Down 1 point from 150)
3rd. Yuya Sakaki: 126 (Down 4 points from 130)
4th. Yuma Tsukumo: 124 (Down 33 points from 157)
5th. Yugi Moto: 108 (Down 7 points from 115)
6th. Yusaku Fujiki: 78 (Down 3 points from 81)
This also changes the final rankings up.
The new final scores are:
1st. Jaden Yuki: 28 (No Change at all)
2nd. Yusei Fudo: 24 (An increase of 2 points; no change in rank.)
3rd. Yuya Sakaki: 16 (An increase of 2 points; now 3rd place instead of 4th.)
4th. Yuma Tsukumo: 14 (A decrease of 4 points; now 4th place instead of 3rd.)
5th: Yugi Muto: 9 (No change at all)
6th: Yusaku Fujiki: 8 (No change at all)
While the only real change was Yuma and Yuya swapping places in the final scores, it was still interesting (at least to me.) that the updated scoring system had an impact on the final scoring at all. I'll be doing the same thing with the rivals, next.
Awesome work, I like these positions a little bit more if im honest
@@TGSAnime Thanks. I'm not gonna lie, I kinda expected a more drastic change than what I ended up with. I even thought Yusei might take first, but Jaden just had too few losses. The -1 for each loss system does seem more fair, though. I liked the video, by the way. You did a great job with how you did the rankings.
P.S.- Jaden is my favorite Protagonist, so I'm mostly happy with how the scores ended up.
@MEGA Broderick Cool. Thanks for doing that and letting me know.
@@TGSAnime What is DNF?
@@Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF Did not finish I think
To be a Yugioh protag you need.
- Name that has Yu in it
- Hair that is more than 1 colour
- Monster with 2500 atk
Well too fuckn bad because Jaden is 1/3 a protagonist. Because his hair color change is just shading, but Jaden is still a better- wait what if you don't say it's shading FUCK IT'S Jaden YUkI YOU BITCH
nooffense
And a weird set of phrases ie: it’s time to duel, get your game on, let’s rev it up, time to high five the sky, my cards are ready to swim into action
@@jazlegend2479 Only the last two seem weird or cringe to me. The first two are just basically "let's play" but with a little more energy and the third one is cool since they duel on motorbikes.
Kursor fair enough but that’s fucking dangerous who’s idea in kaiba Corp was to make a children’s card game a race too?
I guess that chilling out with the crew in the schoolyard pays off
And finding trouble while not ever looking too hard.
Good job, you legit just made my day better because Jaden was my first intro to yugioh way back when.
But back at class they never taught us this somethings you gotta learn through hit and miss
@@georgeperoni888 Tough times and hard climbs
@@Realblack_m0nster will take them on together
Yugi beat a guy who could read his mind, see his cards, and created the game
Yugi and Atem two against one
Liam Robinson yusei beat a guy who has 3 gods on his field at the start of the match and can see your hand and traps sooo
@@MasQuerenaOwO bootleg gods*
@@MasQuerenaOwO technically yugi beat the guy who could influence fate and also had 3 gods on the field : Atem.
Yeah, because Yugi has the power of both plot armour and shitty writing lol. His plot armour far outweighs that of any other protagonist
"A duel isn't over until the last card is played."
~Jaden Yuki
🐐🐐🐐
There is a reason they need a school for card games
@@allenmaldonado6314 Nah, a single card effect can really do the difference sometimes
As a yu gi oh player, I have never heard a less true statement in my life.
@Online Reign Then again, your last card is played usually just before your life points are gone, if not a turn earlier.
I like when main characters lose a duel not gonna lie. For me it just makes them more interesting
No wonder why the Judai vs Ryo duel is one of my favorites
Yeah also the losses built Yumas character and also made his never give up attitude make more sense
Hello everyone. Please excuse me for stating what is no doubt going to be an unpopular opinion here, but I saw this and felt I needed to say something. I note again that this is just how I personally feel. Now, I have to say that I disagree heavily here.i do not believe that a character losing makes them more interesting. in fact, I despise the word interesting when it is used in this way because it implies that watching a character be successful, win, or achieve their dreams is boring. Now I understand that there have to be obstacles to reaching goals, but the word interesting is used in such a way as to say that the character themselves sucks because they win all the time. I would rather argue that rather than making the character more interesting to see them lose, it comes more as a surprise than a character defining or life or death (In terms of whether or not we like the character) moment. This is evidenced by the fact that Yugi has tons of fans and he's almost never lost. We won't hate someone just because their good at something, will we? I will argue instead in the favor of loses making the show itself more interesting, rather than affecting the character at all, because then the question becomes, what will they do now, how will the show proceed (Because technically, if the main character were to lose, the show would be over) I will however, say that a character winning is less boring or "Quit the show" worthy, and more a way for us to see their skills and enjoy the show, as well as get excited watching them come up with ways to win. I propose, instead of wanting the character to lose for the sake of "character development" or "Interest", how about making the duels harder, like they do in Vrains. A character coming out if a hopeless situation, all while growing as a person in the process is much more fun than them losing their will to live because they lost, only to miraculously get pepper up and feel better. It's just watching them suffer at that point. (I apologize if I've gotten off topic, but my mind moves too fast for me to catch up sometimes and I don't know how to get out what I'm saying properly. Thank you for reading this and considering my position.)
That's why yuma is more interesting than the others winning every duel gets boring and the duels become predictable that the MC gonna pull out some plot plays and win.
@@paulvarus859 I look at it less as "I know they're gonna win so what's the point", and more, "How will he win this time? What's he gonna come up with next?" You have to admit Cyberse clock dragon was the most amazing thing you've seen.
Yugi didn’t have many duels because every duel was 10 episodes
Last time I checked, the longest duel in the original series lasted 6 episodes
@@zaneheaston8254 with one of the episodes basically being just the hocus pocus mind tricks of the Rod
@@zaneheaston8254 which one is? The one vs dartz? Vs Yugi?
@@federicomacias1946 The one between Kaiba & Yugi in the Battle City finals
Correction, they were 4
I think the reason why Yugi had such little duels is because of the plots for the different arcs, like he wasn't the only guy that had to take on the majority of the baddies, it was split between him, joey and seto.
also back then yugioh DM is soo slow compared to the other series, one duel can take 3 to 4 episodes while in other series 3-4 episodes only happen when dueling against the final boss of the arc or some suoer important duels
@@pashazahran282 very true both is true
@@pashazahran282 yess very true....Yugi vs Marik was like 6 episodes no? Madness lol
Which is the same thing for Yusaku, aside from the fact that VRAINS is the shortest series.
I agree but i like the fact hes been beaten but honestly i want a new movie where its just the protags vs one another to find out whos the best decks revamped with the new support and demanded banlist hits...
Looking back at this, it would be interesting to weigh each Win/Loss based on the stakes involved. A match against the best duelists in a tournament isn't the same as losing against a childhood friend in a flashback.
Exactly! Just because a character has a higher win percentage doesn't mean that they are better characters than others...
Granted, ranking the characters based on their characteristics is a bit more subjective...
This is why in analytics you'd apply a 'weighting' system to each duel dependant on circumstances. (Ranking of opposition, ranking of protagonist at the time of duel, length of duel, cards played, total LP taken and lost, extenuating circumstances i.e. Kaiba's castle stunt. etc)
Then its a better measure to find the average value per X duels (probably per 10 duels is best)
If you want to apply a duel volume point score for the "putting themselves out there" portion thats an option too.
Would give a far more rational (in analytics speak) values, likely Yugi would be higher up the list for a start.
That's what I expected him to base it off
@@kahlanwilliams267 Someone should take this to its natural conclusion and determine their ELO scores.
Something to also consider is if the person there playing is the season villian or a recurring character they could be worth more
to be fair, Yugi/Atem's lower duel count is cause his duels were longer than average
Probably because at the time the game was slow as all hell and archetypes were rare.
@@Xo-3130 I miss the old pacing tbh
Slower format. Rip Yugi.
@@Xo-3130 no it’s just because they spend more time talking
His duels were actually shorter than the duels were in VRAINS
Bro he uses a normal monster with spells. He is trash
Jaden 100% everytime that kid gets in any kind of trouble:
"PoT oF GrEeD"
bUbBlE mAn
Or E hero Bubbleman
Polymerization!!!!!
You're missing how often he got Bubbleman, drew 2 cards and one of them was Pot of Greed. Dude drew 5 cards in one turn because he was in a bad spot! No wonder he won so much!
@@CrystalGreymon or the Mirage of Nightmare Emergency Provisions combo. Say what you want about him but the dude understood the value of card advantage.
Jaden's number one? Well good thing he played all of that assassins creed.
Lol🤣
That was Absolutely Flawless!!!
How bout some help, neos?
Yet he still looses to kiabaman
Nice spoiler😂
Jaden has the best character progression. Season 4 of gx made him ruthless
The goat 🐐
i agree at the beginng of gx he was all about having fun then dueling for the sake of life or death changed him and watching this progression was interesting
I was sad to lose the fun Jaden, but seeing him in episode 1 of season 4 of GX (before I watched season 3) was ridiculously cool. Everyone's being mind controlled by some menacing force and then when it goes after Jaden he's pulls a "I'm the Doctor. Basically... Run."
Nah it's Atem, he went from Jigsaw Killer to kind-hearted hero
Season 4 made him depressed not ruthless. There's a significant difference.
So can we get a statistically best Yu-Gi-Oh anti-hero (i.e Kaiba, Zane, Jack, etc)
It would be between Kaiba and Revolver i think
Kaiba or Zane
Zane lost s lot more then you can imagine ^^
Zane lost s lot more then you can imagine ^^
Zane lost s lot more then you can imagine ^^
Jaden be like:
"Thats why i have a PHD in dueling"
*Crowler cries in the corner as he sleeps inside his classroom*
@@kana22693 could go to tournaments and win money.
@@Ahloveyafuhso pfft like that'll last forever plus it doesn't come with a 401k or insurances
@@wolftitanreading5308 hahaah tell that to Edo Phoenix.
@@wolftitanreading5308 Ah yes because this entire world's economy isn't so dependant on a card game that there are schools for playing it.
“It’s not whether you win or lose it’s how you play the game” -Yugi Muto
Idk, I kinda like not being sent to the shadow realm.
It doesn’t have to be a Shadow Game or a Chaos Duel? Orichalcos Duel? IDK
@@hightidekraken isn't that the 2003 game. I loved that one. "now you can't attack for 3 whole turns, SWORD OF REVEALING LIGHTS!"
Hyto Guitar_style Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Yugi the Destiny?
@@hightidekraken yes this one, I still have the 3 of them
Jhoey the passion and Kaiba something XD.
8:09 Yusei "Oh god, I'm going to lose. Time to yeet my own ass off my bike to protect my W/L!!"
Yusei is the kind of guy that disconnects the wifi rather than losing
Lmao
The same people that complain about Yusei falling off his bike to avoid a loss are the same people that complain that Joey Wheeler didn't actually lose against Marik
@@tristenhowe2886 Hypocrisy. Am I right? And it ain't like Yusei *Planned* for his bike to break down.
to be fair if ccapac apu landed that hit, kalin wouldve won and yusei would've died as punishment for losing
When you realize that the class clown got the highest grades...
It really shouldn't be surprising. Comedy aids with memory, because people remember things that incite emotion in them. Plus, making the material fun for you is the only way to realistically maintain your motivation throughout an entire semester.
And also realize the slacker has the most skill
Yugi had fewer duels because even his short duels took multiple episodes.
Plus, half his time is spent mentoring Joey
Not to mention his anime had multiple arcs where his actual dueling was kept to a minimum, if at all. And even more crucial, these statistics overlook a pretty big factor - the caliber of the opponents in these duels. Jaden and Yuma had more duels because they didn't last as many episodes, but that in and of itself can be attributed to a lot of their opponents (especially Jaden's) being chumps, whereas Yugi was almost always up against champion-level duelists during the later arcs.
Counting just statistics, Yugi didn't win this one. However, if we didn't just look at statistics, but the Caliber of duelists involved, Yugi would be the number one spot, most likely.
@@Ebon_Sean Yuma dueled a couple chumps at the start, but around the WDC arc, he only swung against heavyweights (minus those brothers that used Magnet cards). Judai dueled a bunch of losers and randos (like that freaking monkey)
@@Ebon_Sean There's also the fact, that Yugi lived in a world closer to our own. There was no duelist academy, nor was dueling something you could make a career out of.
He was attending a normal school, and we see that he was also helping with the game shop, and I might be wrong, but it felt like we had spend more time with the other duelists than in GX.
It’s because all yugi’s duels were like life and death stakes duels haha
Jaden is a very seasoned duelist. I also love that he is the most human and relatable character.
He was super hyperactive and carefree, became serious and somewhat depressed do to unforeseen events, then grew up and started to find his balance of seriousness and love of the game. Just like an actual person irl.
This is not about the video but I feel like it's a major problem that the words on Yu-Gi-Oh cards hurt my head, at first I thought it was because I am so used to the first generation of the Yu-Gi-Oh series, and my brother was using a deck with a kind of summoning that origined in a future gen, I thought my head was hurting because I was confused, because of the fact that my first headache ended a few minutes after taking a break from the game by watching Spongebob, but than after my brother challenged me again, the headache came RIGHT back, so I started talking to my parents about it, and now I know it's because the words on the cards are so small, because it even hurts my head to build a deck, so I guess it's time to get an eye check???
@@ishy7207 u good bruh
@@chuksthekid591 lmao
@@ishy7207 Yes get your eyes examined, because that is severely abnormal. If an eye doctor can't help you, then see your Primary Care Doctor.
It also helps that his hair isn't as ridiculous as the others. But that's honestly why I like Jaden.
As a Yuya stan, I'm offended that you didn't include the 291 offscreen duels with Gongenzaka, wherein he bricked and lost every single time. Truly, an authentic representation of what it's like to play Pendulums.
Wouldn't all those 291 duels against Gongenzaka like pre Pendulum Yuya
@@aozorahaou2643 it was in the first few episodes, after he unlocked pendulum summoning but before he really figured it out.
He also didn't count yuya's 56% initial winrate with 26 wins/20 losses which should count if yusaku's flashbacks and yuma's offscreen losses count.
@@notsoretrogameguy9949 oh man, I forgot about that too! the disrespect!!!
@bruhmanofyear2 you mean Yusaku?
Yu’s Bizarre Adventure
Part 1: Phantom Duel
Part 2: GX Tendencies
Part 3: 5D Crusaders
Part 4: Zexal is Unbreakable
Part 5: Arc wind
Part 6: Vrain Ocean
Didn’t 5D’s come before Zexal??
Bakura is basically dio
@@hewwartt yes
Sooo....the upcoming Yugioh Sevens is Steel Ball Run
Part 1: Goodbye Yugi!
Part 2: Your next line is going to be "Chazz it up!"
Part 3: Synchro Powah!
Part 4: Are you okay reatard, I am Xyz. Stupid.
Part 5: This is the power of Pendulum.
Part 6: Do you believe in Link summoning?
What I liked most about Yuma, Yuya, and Jaden is that even though they’re not as serious as Yugi, Yusei or Yusaku, they have a lot of heart. And their series show how much they grow as duelists.
Grow as duelists indeed.
Yuya has the problem of being too serious
But wait Jaden gets super Serious in season 3 and 4 mainly 4.
Also consider Jaden is only one serious enough to card him self into a yubel Polly to avoid a L
Same
The one who’s name doesn’t start with Y wins
Playmaker
R.H Zeno nawww cause that’s not his real name that his dueling name. But I guess it could work
@@jamiepreston5084 yeah ik I'm just playing around. But he did become my favorite protag with Yuya being number 2 due to the fact that they can use Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz
since yuya series (YGO arc-V), YGO is combining some summoning methods in 1 series.... even in Vrains at the first season, there are just advance and link summon (normal and special summon also counts), but at the next season, the ritual, fusion, synchro and xyz come to the vrains.....
so i think......
yugi is the best cuz he left the legecy of the duel. (duel monster) also ritual summon were in this series, but it were never used again until zexal (only kaito use ritual "once")
jaden had been improving fusion summoning style.
while yusei and yuma introducing the new methods of summoning, (synchro and xyz)
yuya, triad to combine all the summoning methods with one new pendulum summon.
and the playmaker (yusaku) bring a new era of summoning where ritual, fusion, syncrho, xyz, and link summon mastered by a protagonis character (and he might be the most skill full main character after yuya) but, pendulum summon were never exist in VrainS, because it is hard to do pendulum in new rule of YGO nowaday, also in Speed duel at Vrains.
Khairuddin Yudin Rituals were used again in GX by Asuka(Alexis in the dub), rather than taking until Zexal like you said.
Yugi's duels lasted so long they make the Frieza saga look like a shortfilm.
Just image how long the duels would have gone if they talked more.
Woah let’s not say something we can’t take back. Also are we talking Atem or Yugi?
@@theomnigamer9177 Both of them technically, since they tend to duel together unless they can't for some reason, or their souls are separated.
Also the Frieza saga part is an exaggeration, I don't actually (well not totally) mean it.
Or added flashbacks, like many Naruto fights. 😂
@@coin4898 Don't forget to throw a swing in there for good measure.
That moment you realize the overall best duelists are Seto Kaiba's Duel Academy students. Just saying...
How do you feel about that akaba? Kaiba's Academia crushes you, You idiot!
But Kaiba didn't teach the students, it was Chronos, Napoleon, Ayukawa, and Daitokuji
@@Medbread and the traumas
@@70Lu07 Fr
KaibaCorp Kabia only excepts the best , and Jaden
The people who disliked aren’t
Getting their game on
Rev it up
Feeling the flow
Swinging into action
But they are believing in the heart of the cards
I guess they didnt really think about"the 3 things" they dislike about this video😂👌
Gotta Get That Yoga
Because they are real ones and stay with “let’s duel”
😭😂😭😂
Look, Jaden is actually my favorite, but Yugi is Yugi.
:O how did I notice
Yugi is overrated
A) Is Yubel Female or Male?
B) Are you ok with the idea of Jaden fusing with Yubel?
@@umergulmuhammad9756 A) female
B) yes
Same!!!!!!!!
Yusei feels like the best overall duelist to me. He (like Yugi) wins even with horrible decks and for a chunk of the first arc he didn't even have his ace.
And he doesn't have some ass-pull ability like Atem when it comes to drawing the right card.
Granted you can say the same about Jaiden,but with him he kinda does his own version of believing in the Heart of the Cards".
@@vladimir-savage72 what? Lol yugi is the best dueler in yugioh thats y they call him the king of games he can read his cards we talking about actually dueling lol yugi would batter yusei then yusei will be like how is that possible he will literally get shocked by slifer the sky dragon l
To be fair, Yusei does just create new synchro cards out of thin air like Yuya does with extra deck pendulum monsters.
@@vladimir-savage72 holy, what? What show have you been watching?
At least atem admit he cheated to win.
Jaden luck let him draw whatever he want.
And Yusei, arguably the worst written protagonist, blatantly use the crimson dragon to top deck? How many time have he gathered all of the signer power to draw majestic tuner? It isn’t even subtle like Atem. Its so blatant that I am puzzled why people say Yusei don’t use any magic bs to win.
Heh, Jaden's decks are far worse than Yusei's. Stardust Dragon was a top tier card, the neospacians and elemental heroes without later support are basically unplayable. Neospacians is pretty much unplayable the whole way through. Just watching his 'comeback' duel against Aster makes it really, really clear how his already bad deck somehow got even worse despite the writers trying so hard to make the cards seem powerful.
Jaden’s literally the Joseph Joestar of YGO protagonists
Thats actual facts
If Joseph was trash 🤔
trash
Sorensage lmao don’t go acting like jadens trash bro😂
@@sameershafaat1817 But... He is 🤔
The one with the flamboyant hair and Yu in his name is the best one.
Evomre so anyone besides Jaden ? 😂
By the Zexal era EVERYONE had flamboyant hair so...
@@adrian_rv1193 Judai YUki. He still has Yu
Kilios yes but not “flamboyant hair” lol
@@kiliosai but not a flamboyant hair. Not compared to the other MC
"The Hero always wins in the end!"
Beserk: hold my dead comrades
jaden
I was looking for this comment hahaha
Tell that to the Jedi-Oh wait...
Interesting to see Yugi doing consistent 5th places. He's beat mind readers, the actual creator of the game, and even the king of games himself. Despite that all, he's still second worst. Statistics really can be ironic.
yugi will always be my favorite odd enough
doesnt matter tbh
I think thats a good point honestly. The quality of opponents/circumstances. Yugi is beating champions, the creator of the game who was also a massive cheater and could see yugi's hand and face downs (well, for some of it thanks to a combination of a clever plan and some BS power of friendship at the end) etc, and, with exceptions, mostly fought in tournaments as essentially a professional even if he always had ulterior mtoives for entering.
Jaden is a student who fought very heavily against other students and school staff, and villains who are hard to rank given the situation (like geez, at least Marik entered the tournament and didn't just show up going 'ok, time to duel for the fate of the world'. I mean he did that too, but in a tournament setting! He had standards). I mean they are supposed to be intimidating, dangerous duelists with apparently powerful decks/cards...but its so hard to actually judge that since they have no in universe competition history/clout and, to be fair like everybody else in this universe, use shit cards/archetypes/deck lists
Well Jaden Lost like 3 times in the entire series. Yugi/Atem lost less but he has the millennium puzzle which seems to be able to alter luck. And the effects of the cards in the original yu-gi-oh series are often different then the real cards, while in gen-x they are closer to the originals. Jaden doesn’t even have a god card, while Yugi has 3 in the and of the series.
So technically Jaden is better
To be fair 3 of Yugi's losses came from outside circumstance or literally to himself. it nearly doubled his w-l ratio
Tbh, if Yugi wasn’t so kind hearted he would be up in the top three.
Yugi's not even the 1 who duels but Atem -_-'
Messages In a bottle it’s just factual though, yeah he’s supposed to be the best duellist in canon but that doesn’t change facts
But, because he is so kind hearted he is number one. Virtues are hard to master. This is why being bad irl and everywhere is the easiest thing to do... I'm talking about virtues in 2k20 pff.
Yugis only dueled three times
@@V-Jes but did yugi ever lose I cant remember
Fun fact, if you don’t count flashback duels like he talked about in this video, then Yusei would have a 100% W/L ratio.
Yusaku will be too
Yusei technically lost to Kalen tho. Well in his defense his d wheel broke before the duel ended so it’s a draw so yh you are right he’d have a 100% win to loss ratio
He counted it because he wanted to fudge the numbers, as he stated. Thus if he's fudging the numbers, it means this whole thing is invalid.
@@IamDoomCrow but in basketball if someone team's ace was injured during the game and the team loss, will it be not be counted? Seriously?
true his only lost was vs jack atlas in a flash back
Slifer slackers rise up
Chazz it up!
Let’s get our Game on!!!🤗
We've got Flame Wingman covering our backs!
Sky dive scorcher!
I'll throw down a face down!
I like this, regardless of Yusaku losing in flashbacks, it feels accurate in the way videogames count win/loss ratios. It doesn't care if you were 11 years old when you made your account, the losses are still on your record lmaoooo
Yeah, if the first Yusei/ Jack duel counted, that one should too!
I disagree, cause Yusaku pretty much wasn't an actual duelist on 11 years old and it feels unfair to count a lose from your dumb, child self and not counting those L's from other protaginist Dumb, chils selfs and we didn't know how Many duels their child selfs had, so treat the protagonists equally
@@rescuerabbit6711 The only time Yusei ever lost was in a flashback, not even a flashback, it was just stated "a few years ago Jack beat him", that's it. We don't actually see the duel.
If we don't consider before the "series duels", Judai/Jaden only lose 4 times, and Yusei never lost.
"how Many duels their child selfs had"
We don't know.
No one talking about Yuma being able to make a new card whenever he needs it
Dude, literally everyone can do that. Hell, Jaden quite LITERALLY made his own deck.
@@MrBee8000 yeah but for Yuma it’s canon and on command
@@frogdog8124 it is canon for all of them
They all at some point magically created cards that they never had in their decks to begin with
@@edwardmyers9492 I know they all did it at some point, but that’s only when they’re about to lose or when they’re under pressure. It’s been said in the ZEXAL anime that Yuma can create the next card he’s going to draw whenever because 'he’s that good'
@@edwardmyers9492 Actually Jaden and I'm pretty sure Yusei never had that ability. Not entirely sure if I'm right about Yusei, but Jaden's only abilities were seeing duel spirits and being able to make them solid by the time of season 4
Yuma is the most realistic duelist since he actually makes misplays and plays like a new up and coming duelist.
Richiedoesmc yugi use to misplay too?
@I cry when People say they haven’t seen jojo Of the top of my head i can't but he definitely did somewhere along the line. Jaden made quite a few misplays too maybe not as badly as Yuma but all protagonists have made some misplays somewhere along the lines.
Momentai Jaden's misplays seemed more like gambles that didn't work out. Yuma's were just... Impulsive shots in the dark
@@macenanoro826 It's been a long time since I've watched Yugioh of any variety, I still haven't watched Vrains and I'm not sure I ever finished Arc-V. I also didn't watch most of Zexal because boy Yuma's voice is hard to deal with. So it's been a minute since I've partook in the yugiohs but yeah, looking back on it Jaden's misplays probably were more him trying to do something he wanted to and it just didn't work out rather than him actually goofing on monster effects, but I definitely think there's a few genuine misplays in there I could be wrong though. That might have been what I was thinking about in Yugi's case as well.
@@WXRST99 Any misplays that Yugi or Jaden made were because their opponent hid a card effect from them, not because of noobishness. Yuma was a little too goofy for me, but I liked the scenes when he would be working on new combos to pull off. Most of the other main characters are just made of plot armor.
Honestly I like the fact Yuma got the third place, being the underdog and yet managing to get so high is basically his entire life story lmao
Yuma does alot more than people realise, he does literally duel a guy who can rewrite the past
and to top it all off Yuma was legit GARBAGE at the start of season 1, but he then became better than a guy who rewrites the future
@reimu-ic6lz Right?
For all the complaints about plot armor/shenanigans, realize that Astral was basically just a duel coach before Zexal morph and Shining draw. Yeah there were the traditional lucky protag draws, but really Astral just taught Yuma how to use his cards correctly at first
Yeah while other manipulate faith Yuma straight up create a new fate with shining draw and even without zexal at the end
I guess Jaden really was “The Next King Of Games”
Factual
Nah
STFU 😂 I hate his personality so childish and jolly. 😑
@@nelosparda4798 true he is mature in those seasons
@@ketsup8804 well i guess you havent seen every season from 1 to 4
I was rooting for Jaden on sheer raw talent, but didn't think he'd actually pull it off. Yugi is a surprise.
Huh, Jaiden also went to a dueling school. In hindsight that apparently is more useful than that actually sounds.
Didn’t he skip most of his classes though? lol
Archer143 ehh.. he did some homework and exams from time to time I guess, probably 60% of the time Jaden went to school was just slacking off
Bruffle Yeah, most of his teachers were upset cause he was very good but slacked off all the time
Jaden was proof that Duel Academy was pointless considering he was better at dueling without studying or paying attention in class than any of the students who applied themselves diligently.
Naruku2121 yeah but so did everyone else except yugi and yusei
yuya went to the you show school
Yuma went to his school(can’t remember name)
Yusaku went to his school(barley finished the first five episodes)
one great thing to note about GX as anime, is that Jaiden never lost again after Phoenix duel. It was around that time, sometime before but especially there, when he couldnt lose, because there were always higher stakes on the table. It is discussed towards the end of the show (and also in Kaibaman ep, where he funny enough picks one of his Ls) how he started doing it for the fun (the feeling that Yugi manages to give him back) and lost it along the way, and I think it is a great nod to that, in a way it tells you how serious he took it because he never lost
Another thing to consider is the time there in, Yugi played in a time where the game was rather slow while yuya played in a time where things where rather fast paced
@Studio Spider yugi easily wins with heart of the Cards
@@niladrighosh3269 "agh! The.. heart.. of the cards... Is... Forcing me to... Reach into my pocket and pull out exodia!"
*Heart of the cards wins Everytime*
@@qweppy7040 watch voice actor duels yugi Beats yusei
@@niladrighosh3269 I think those voice actor duels are scripted to purposefully have a winner that the fans would want more and any fan it seems always wants Yugi to win when lets actually answer from your previous comment "Yugi easily wins with the heart of the cards" aka Yugi/Atem only wins since that Mystical Magical Item around his neck uses ancient magic to Cheat and will the very cards they need to win at the very moment they need it (This is a real fact look it up All Millennium Items do this The Puzzle most of all). But lets strip all that away Just Normal Yugi vs. any of the protags, Yugi would lose due to the fact that other Main Protag's decks work faster and bring out big monsters quicker before Yugi can make a big play but that is simply by era of cards. But my main point here is that Without his "Cheating Millennium Puzzle" Yugi would actually lose to some of the other Protags.
@@kamenrider5ds60 u think? Ofcourse they are scripted.. and yugis deck in others hand could lose to other protagonists decks but yugi vs other protagonists?? Yugi always would win cause they don't want him to lose...
Yusei cause he’s the only one that didn’t have some other consciousness talking to him during duels
Yea but he has a mystical red dragon that gives him the ability to get cards out of nowhere
@@edwardmyers9492 I mean, which mc doesn't have plot power?
At least this power wasn't just for him.
Yusei simply the coolest and the best
Austin yami yugi over all of them
The real winner is T Gardner because Friendship
Jaden is my favorite. His character and deck is SO fun.
Fun until season 2
Neo spacian?
cant argue with that
Nah im more of a yusei fan
Agreed!
Jaden was my favorite all around as well
Only rule they constantly didn’t care about was normal summon in face up defense
Jadden did'nt have his ace in season 1 his neos was appered in episode 16 or 17 rematch to Aster
I didn't watch a show between 5Ds and Vrains, but I found it really funny how at one point in Vrains somebody called their opponent a moron for still trying to do that.
@@vfezer7293 his ace in season one was flame wing man wdym?
@@HotFootBunny it's not an ace mon unless their atk 2500
@@typerez8132 and 2000 defence, *Glares at Dark Magician*
Poor Yugi boy, even attacking the moon doesn’t make you the best.
Roswell BlackRose You think every time a main character cheats too win he should get a Loss? Cause Yugi would drop even lower
😢
@@roswellblackrose just like media you can mess up with numbers until they show what you want
Thats Atem not yugi. Please get it right.
@David Smith That was Atem, not Yugi
For Yuma to always have the stakes of “if you lose then Astral will disappear”, he sure lost a lot
Most of those losses were pre-Astral though so...
Of all the main characters Yuma is the only one who is introduced to us as a bonafide loser. Always trying to do things he could never accomplish so it makes sense for him to have the worst record. I however don’t believe he is the weakest out of them. Only him and Jayden seem to have that fun passion for duelling you see that especially shine through in Yuma (Jayden went full psychotic) the other protagonists seem super serious to me.
Once the stakes were raised to that, Yuma rarely lost. It was stated in the show that he lost what was most valuable to him. His love for dueling, that's what he lost by opening the door. He only dueled to survive and win.
When he dueled for fun, he didn't really care much whether he lost or not. Which is why later on in the series when he does almost lose to someone like Kite who is a real threat, it breaks his spirit along wirh Astral's.
@@monkeyd6716 I mean jaiden did lose that spirit but got it back from yugi
He didnt lost to dangerous people he did lose to shark in episode 10 but shark didin't had a number card so Astral did'nt disapper but he llost to that fat idot more than 20 times
I really like how Yuma is the worst statistically, because when he finally surpasses Astral at the end, it really shows how much grew at the end. They showed how terrible he was at dueling on-screen.
Furthermore, I think it makes him a more well-rounded character with how flawed he is, and it really accentuates Yuma's motto and personality of how he'll never give up, and keep trying, despite the odds being against him.
Here's how I put it. Yugi (Sasuke Uchiha), Atem (Madara Uchiha), Jaden (Obito Uchiha), Yusei (Itachi Uchiha), Yuma (Naruto Uzumaki).
Makes sense🤣🤣?
@@ayandamafuyeka1952 Lmao none of these are accurate except the Yuma/Naruto comparison (and *maybe* Yusei/Itachi) imo
@@tobi-xo3if I'm talking intellect and potential wise, not character wise.
I really appreciate how Jaden had a coherent deck and interactive cards with many chains, and its permanent joy. Otherwise Yusei is my favorite character I grow up with him and I really appreciate the fact that he had a really mature attitude. And I liked all the dragon cards that came with this story arc.
Yusaku has a similarly coherent deck with his cyberse cards, I just watched the series and I kinda want to try a similar deck on Master Duel.
Yeah, I always felt like Yusaku and Yusei were rather similar @@roberthansen5727
Me: Clicks video
Also me: I hope it's Jaden
Jaden: Absolutely flawless!
same here
Same here bud, im glad Jaden came out on top (GX is honestly the best YGO series imo)
@@JustDion16 I totally agree dude, GX is the best yugioh so far
@@JustDion16 Definitely. I wish they finished dubbing the anime cause I loved the english dub.
Same
when jaden beats a professor in his first duel you know that he will become the best
I mean the title of that episode is “The Next King of Games” so lol😹. Jaden is my favorite protagonist
Jaden was the coolest protagonist
@@lovelyfrancesquita6603 Probably has the coolest monsters, but you can't deny Yusei has the drip
A) Is Yubel Female or Male?
B) Are you ok with the idea of Jaden fusing with Yubel?
@@umergulmuhammad9756 I think yubel is female and I don't like it
If yubel give jaden her powers only it will be awsome
Some things to take into consideration :
1) yugi only had so few duels because back then you could have a duel last 4-5 episodes so while he had less duels, they had more twists and turns and added additional story while dueling.
2) Yusaku got screwed a bit since Vrains didn't have that many episodes in comparison and did have quite a few parts where he didn't duel for ages (build up to Yusaku vs Lightning).
3) I think Yuma is unfairly judged due to something that I don't belive is his fault. I think him being portrayed as bad was intended as it broke the streak of this super strong duelist that only loses due to technicality or on purpose. He was more to be seen as an average duelist we see grow and I think to be a more relatable character.
4) So many had bullshit plot armour that made them win such as yugi with heart of the cards, yusei and Yuma just creating synchro and xyz/zw cards from no where that never existed but just so happen to know what they are and what they do.
Overall, they all have a reason to be considered as the best either through their pure skill of dueling, their determination to win despite maybe losing or their positive energy some gave off in every duel no matter the circumstances
I would also like to add that Yusaku didn’t duel as often because they actually gave the side characters time to develop as characters in VRAINS
Did they just make the cards from thin air, or were they in the deck? I don't remember much about those shows, but if they were in the deck you could argue that of course they would know what the card does, since they most likely study their decks and card combos pretty often if they don't have it memorized.
When Yuma would draw the zw cards he would say: “a truly powerful duelist can do incredible things, he can even generate the very care he needs to draw! Shining draw!” And that sorta implies that the cards just didn’t exist and yuma knew what they did either from a.) guesswork (thinking to himself, what do I really need rn) b.) just knowing from skill c.) the effects are on the cards like in pyramid of light or you can read the text like in VRAINS or d.) Astral already knew and telepathically told Yuma while they were in Zexal
@@ljporterjr Well Yuya definitely did. Changed half his deck to pendulums which pretty much are new cards.
Yusei created Quasar as it just materialised into his hand.
Yuma technically likely had the ZW cards in his deck but conveniently never drew any unless he used shinning draw. But likely Astral knew the cards and told Yuma what they did.
So are we gonna ignore Jaden's magic space cards that he somehow got from space. Like that is some wild shit
In my opinion, in terms of character rather than how good they are at deuling, it's always been Yuma. He's reckless, immature, he makes mistakes and when he loses or can't reach his goals, instead of crying about it for 20 minutes, he gets his ass back up and tries again until he succeeds. His personality is so fun to watch grow from a hot headed brat to a responsible and powerful duelist. He never fights for vengeance ot hate. He battles so he can help his foes understand that dueling is supposed to be a fun friendly sport and he helps alot of villans and antagonists in the show have a change of heart. He got his powers by pure chance and he's not a reincarnation of a universe destroying God or a King from 5000 years ago. He's just a regular kid that got caught up in a war between worlds. His ability to motivate and inspire others is unmatched in the franchise and not only does he have respect for his friends, but also his enemies and doesn't hate them because of who their family is, like Kite or Trey, but he judges people on THEIR actions rather than the people around them and what they do and say. This is why Yuma is fundamentally the best protagonist in the franchise.
Before starting this video I said it was Yusei. Guess I was right in terms of the win percentage! I’m fine with Jaden ranking highly as well.
These statistics were very interesting, I’m glad you explained your process with it to see how you came about to your calculations. Nice work!
They sure were , how fun !!
Oh MAN!!! I thought I was gonna top first
Not if you take DNFs into account. Do that, and Playmaker becomes #1.
Yuya had 20 loses on his record before he entered the tournament.
jovan loncar I came to say this.
During the anime he needed a 60% winrate to enter the Junior Arc Tournament and only had 56%. This was after his duel with Yuzu in episode two which he had lost but I believe this was winrate was only counting official games (which this list is not) and his duel vs Yuzu would not count towards the 20 addition losses he had before (this is further backed up by his later duels where he won against Hokuto and Reiji’s surrender not increasing his winrate as they were not official duels.)
But this would also mean Yuya had another 26 additional wins along with those 20 losses.
Meaning his winrate would be 65.09%.
A bit unfair to count considering 46 offscreen duels is a lot but that’s the rules we’re playing by here.
Edit: This would also make Yuya have the most total duels, at 106.
Yuya is one of the weakest Duelist ever in Yugioh. Without Action cards He would lose almost all of his Duels...
Ohhh true
@@rokocvjetanovic I don't think it's really a negative, it's just his preferred style of dueling, he does it for the theatrical flair and entertainment so he never tries to win one-sided except for whenever he is pissed off because he seems to stomp almost everybody when he is angry.
@@skyrider245 I don't think so. He is still weak im normal Duels without Action cards there is no way for him to win against Aster, Jack, Crow and the others. Yuya's dueling skills are bad, He is not good duelist.
We all know why Yugi came in low. He let them win, just like a majority of his losses.
Yeah, i count it all like it should: Yugi beats Kaiba, Joey beats Marik. Especially the last one. I see it as a Fact.
Yeah, i count it all like it should: Yugi beats Kaiba, Joey beats Marik. Especially the last one. I see it as a Fact.
@@slevinchannel7589 joey vs Marik leaves the worst taste possible in your mouth, Joey just won end of the story. Also the fact all the duels Yugi lost to help others when he had game is just bullshit, that just goes to show he's the best main character period
@@ganjalfilverde7064 What? He having lost without getting help Every time makes him the best, period? Ok, sure. But then my little Brother is also the best, cause he's so small Adults let him win. In Chess, in Soccer, everywhere.
@@slevinchannel7589 just saying the fact he's willing to lose games for the sake of others makes him a great character, who the hell would consider giving up to save kaiba a loss?
Honestly Yusei was my favorite, and he pulled off some good ass wins. Plus his bike and hair were cool af
Imagine a proffesional sports player had an undefeated record and then someone went no you lost to your dad when you were like 8 so no record for you.
It pissed me off that he did that
It's a children's card game
Also for sidekicks I guarantee Syrus will have his childhood against a bully will cound as a dnf
@@dimitrijames00001 i dont see how its being a childrens card game is relevant
@@ivanbackfromthecardshop8093 he's a child playing a children's card game, Jaden also faced a 8is year old and almost lost. So ya it's a bs thing but it counts ig
Yuma's 33 losses...
Goodness, I love him...
I personally adore Yuma's story line of this kid that was absolutely abysmal at dueling learning how and eventually becoming one of the best duelists around.
Though to be perfectly fair to his score, around 20 of those losses were off-screen and very early on, so I personally wouldn't really count them, since we not only don't see them, but they also were back when Yuma wasn't really known as a good duelist. I take those losses with the same seriousness as flashback duels.
But even without those duels, he still would have ended up in the same ranking as shown in the video since even without the 19 off-screen duels, he would still have been second in duel number with 76 duels and the point score would have been the same since losses don't add or subtract points.
But even so, I still adore Yuma.
My only issue with Yuma is that he starts off unbelievably bad. He's been playing for years but doesn't know some of his card effects? Come on. It would have been interesting to see a protagonist that wasn't a dueling prodigy from the start, but he should at least know his card effects after playing for so long.
@@scottbecker4367 Yeah, I agree that it was kinda lame that he didn't even know the basics.
Zexal was the first Yugioh series that I ever watched, so as a person who knew nothing about how to play myself, it helped to have these really basic tutorials or else I would have been completely lost. That was why it didn't bother me so much when I first watched, but looking back on the series, I could tell why it would be so annoying for people who already knew the series.
@@susiesusie1354 that's true. I think a lot of new people came in on zexal while a lot of older fans kind of left at that point.
Zexal was a lot like Duel Monsters and I feel like a lot of older fans cane back once it picked up at the World Dueling Carnival. I don't count Yuma's off screen duels since they were very early and it has been shown that Yuma's performance in duels largely depends on how seriously he takes them.
TGS anime please do Antagonists next with maths, it will be fun and quite interesting and BTW my fav antagonist is Yami bakura
I think zarc would win based off stats but if they can't it as only one duel I think Ai would win or shark if u count when he was good
Kuro Kenshin I like yami Bakura by how evil and how his deck works with depending for cards to be in his graveyard in order for him to summon his dark necrofear , I also have his deck as long with dark sanctuary in real life No offence but I find yami bakura the best and I respect your opinion
@@kurokenshin2507 u can have your own option but if we go off performances
Strings lost to yugi
Controlled Joey would of lost to yugi
Marik almost lost to mai
Marik basically lost to Joey
And obviously he lost to yugi
@@jaceprince5385 who cares bout win? im just care bout how crazy & evil he is 🤣
@@leegarlick6032 yeah me too, i respect your opinion as well
You should also have to take into account that the first series wasn't just Yugi's story, but Joey's and Kaiba's as well. The series effectively had three protagonists; and that's not taking into account all the supporting characters that had multiple spotlight duels as well.
Well more like 4 main characters: Atem, Yugi, Kaiba and Joey.
And all 4 definitely get their time to shine in the spotlight. You see their progression as characters and as duelists.
Yugi, Jaden and Yusei are the only ones who matter. They're all the best.
I did stop following the anime as intensely after 5Ds but I enjoy learning about the other series since
You forgot yuma
I like Yuya too
Lol
@@Peashooter521 who
I can't exactly agree that the statistic of win/loss ratio is enough to compare and fully reflect each of the MC duelist skills.
Especially in Yuma's case. He was a beast at the end of zexal.
True because winning against noobs isnt the same as winning against pros. It should be judged based on their feats instead.
As usual, Jaiden is *ABSOLUTELY FLAWLESS*
Burgersaurus yup. The show made him out to be that way.
ha! That tasted like Kuriboh...okay maybe a just a little Kuriboh. Wait-!
Burgersaurus Amen. Jaden has always been my favorite
Mary sue
Messages In a bottle yugi had to remind him of that and teach him that lesson again
I will say that while the math doesn't lie, it can be misleading.
Not all wins are equal. Certainly Yugi beating Seto, Pegasus, himself, and Marak isn't equivalent to Jaden beating classmates. Beating international and domestic champions repeatedly is certainly a feat and when you exclude him losing on purpose (Rebekkah and Seto at DK), his record stands for itself. How many of the antagonists beat people using actual magic which was used to cheat? How many beat pretty much every champion they faced? There were also cases where the villain could have won but decided not too. One of Jaden's wins in Season 2 was like that so the "new kid" and champion could test to see how good he was.
Now again, the math doesn't lie. That said, statistics are tricky and can be used to justify unfair rankings or can be misleading. Especially at the end of the show, Yugi showed that he could literally manipulate chance to get the card he wanted lol. That feat alone puts him at the top. Plus his deck in comparison to those in his show when comparing it to other decks compared to the people within their shows, shows that Yugi had the best deck amongst his contemporaries. Is it outdated in 2025? Absolutely. Does it stack up better than other decks from their eras given the dualists they faced? Yes.
I really love GX and Jaden as a character. He's design, he's personality (even though he is a little stupid/naive) and I love he's dueling monsters/heroes. Though I feel like the neo spaceians stool the spotlight from the elemental heroes because since they appeared Jaden's wins from season 2 and after were mostly with the neo spaceians and they had dialogues. The only scene that we've seen the elemental heroes talk is at ep.20 season 1 and that for fun. But besides all that I love he's monsters/heroes a lot, and Jaden as a character.
Yussei lost to Jack in a flashback.
He lost again when he tried to duel without the use of synchros, to combat the Meklords.
Did he? I honestly don't remember that.
Edit: You are absolutely correct, The flashback is shown in Episode 2 and not only does Yusei say he lost before the flashback it outright shows him lose.
@@arrownoir when?
@@arrownoir Jack technically ended the duel without finishing it since he thought Yusei was wasting his time, but that probably would have been a loss for Yusei, had Jack finished it.
@@AVG15 Ah, thanks
Honestly, yusei fudo is my fav main guy and I’m glad he ranked so high.
Yes
Apsolutly
This
Pretty sure he is everyone’s Fav
he is like the only dude who knows women have feelings.
Yugi/Artem are my number 1 for nostalgia reasons. I do believe you stew right. No wonder I always felt the duels in GX felt rushed. They were 1 episode as for the original it would sometimes be four or five. Great video. Keep up the good work.
I mean he is the Pharaoh, forget the stats. He would slay them altogether 😂
At the end of the day, it’s about how much YOU enjoyed each anime not how good they were.
I've honestly never cared if the main character always wins. It's more about who they themselves are and what the story itself is like
Thats why jaden will always be my favourite character of yugioh
Οreatis Lika yeah and doesnt have a YU first name
@@Spellmeister2027 actually in Japanese his name is yuya i think
@@restionsomething3038 Its yudai)
Its Judai
More of a Kaiba man myself but Jaden rocks too
I really like all the protagonist but Jaden is my Favorite of all the protagonist,the hero theme deck is a breath of fresh air at that time...
Back in the original Yugioh a duel would last 3 to 4 episodes, this was simplified in GX making all duels last at most 2 episodes. That's why Yugi had fewer wins then most of the other protags.
As many know, Yugi has only one legitimate loss on his record which was to Raphael in season 4. However, there was several times throughout the series where he logically should have lost the duel but because of the vagueness of the rules and sometimes just outright cheating, our protagonist won the match
I fuse mammoth graveyard with blue eyes ultimate dragon
I feel like the rematch against kaiba at duelist kingdom felt as legit despite the dramatics when the tide was going against kaiba. When he brought back the blue eyes…should’ve been game over from there…
@@Loldino897 Interestingly that should be possible now. Super Polymerization let's you use monsters on both sides of the field. Theoretically the right Fusion could be made with Ultimate Dragon and Mammoth Graveyard. Just a matter of finding the right Fusion monster. Something with vague summoning requirements..... Hmmm. Course it was complete cheating at that point in time XD
Yeah, remember when he played light force sword on his turn
@@endytheenderman7905 Light force is a trap card.. Set it face down and you can play it whenever you want after your turn ends. So makes sense he played on either his opponents turn or his own. I sometimes play it on my own turn, completely allowed.
Wow, looks like the king of games needs to get his game on!
Clever
Wow
I’ve never laughed harder🤣 funniest UA-cam comment I’ve ever read I’m being so serious rn😂 made my day
Who said he is the king of games yugi/atem only lost once and its against raphael
You forgot about Yusei's flashback to the loss he suffered to Jack Atlas.🤔. And I think it would be fair to count the duels Yugi and the Pharoh did separate as individuals. The same for Yuma and Astral.
Most likely due to Nostalgia and him being on during my childhood but Yusei will always be the best to me
Fair enough he was very strong actually
SGT Carreras86
Same here man.
He was mature, determined, selfless, and just overall a chill dude in general. Totally my favorite protag
@@redviper57 Couldn't agree more
Due to nostalgia, and just how badass he is I have to go with yami
jaden was always my favourite protagonist its just the way he duled just seemed alot of fun compared to the rest even though he changed in season 4 but hes character development was outstanding though
TGS Anime: "If I say Yuma is the worst, people will argue"
Me: Nah don't bother go ahead
People will argue, I like Yuma
NAAAAAAAANIIIIIIIII
As a Yuma fan, I would freely admit that he's pretty bad duelist. Because that's not why he's one of my favorite protags.
As a Yuma fan, what pisses me off is not the fact that people think he’s bad, it’s that people think he’s bad because he lost offscreen a lot in season one and Astral gave him advice. It completely negates the growth he had as a protagonist.
I especially hate it when people who do that are also massive Yugi fans because Yugi and Yami were doing very similar things.
@@theannilators7479 i dont like yuma cuz hes a kid, hes ugly, and xexal was shit
Yusei literally beat three gods form the future I think he's one of the best
Yugi also defeats three gods. When atem summons the three Egyptian gods
Not really gods, just time travelers.
I'd argue the earthbound were more of a threat
@@animeworld5847 the Egyptian god cards literally were stated to be a threat of humanity if they got in the wrong hands.
@@user-oj6re6ju9t yes?
@@animeworld5847 Nordic gods
the problem with Yugi is that he ALMOST loses every single duel before pulling it out in the end....regardless of who he's dueling
Same my pull out game usually sucks until at the very end then I'm like no I cant
@@rushpatriot2866 LMAO
@ULGROTHA he means destiny draw heart of the cards
Don't you mean plot amour
Kevin Robinson All the protagonist are guilty of this.
Yuma legit defeated a monster with 100,000 atk with a lose-lose card effect
He deserves mad respect
And yugi/atem deffeted the God of Darkness Zorc
@@kaitosama8538 that's true, but it wasn't a duel, it was a shadow game/replay of the ancient past....I agree that yugi/Atem are the best, but they basically didn't duel for 3 series 😂
@@iainmeads7975 shadow game is not a replay of the ancient past . it is a duel but if you lose you die and your souls goes to the shadow realm where Zorc created
@@kaitosama8538 literally watched it 2 days ago.....yami Bakura and Atem sitting across from eachother watching the past replay itself with the Pharaoh unable to remember his name, hence why Bakura could freeze time and Atem could call Hasan/shadi to protect his friends/past self
Iain Meads this person is correct
Yusei is the best for me. There's no single moment where I hate/dislike him.
Except that fight against Kalin
And I guess I'm not even mad at Yusei for it, more so at the writers for making the other dark signer duels seem more serious, and a simple falling off and getting seriously hurt is the only thing that saved him from actually losing (and thus completely altering the course of the series)
I hated him when he single handedly beat team unicorn.
It made Jack and Aki look awful.
@@parsath_2584 Well team Unicorn could've won john only had to end his turn and yusei would have lost because he had no cards in his deck but john didn't want to win because of a rule so he attacked yusei and fell in his trap and lost
@@parsath_2584 Team Unicorn's case is less about Jack and Aki's ability and more so about the insane experience of Team Unicorn:
a) Team 5D's was made to believe their first D-Runner was a Power Duelist like Jack, so they sent Jack to match his strength, only to then be surprised by a completely different Strategy.
b) Aki was a novice back then when it came to Turbo Dueling, the only reason she was there was to cover for Crow, who was at that point unable to ride a D-Wheel. On top of that, she was dueling against a Genius duelist who was also by far the most talented of the team and still managed to hold her own. Turbo Duels have you play with Speed Counters and Speed Spells, the transition is not as smooth as you'd think and she still did fine.
c) Yusei managed to beat the first runner who was already weakened by Jack and Aki, the second runner wasn't fighting to win and opted for Destroying Yusei's deck instead, and the last runner was literally one "I end my turn" away from winning. Say what you want about Yusei, but he only survived by the skin of his teeth.
k1r4exe he is the best for me too in my opinion better than Yugi and jaden
To the people commenting on one comment about protags with more than one Hair colour and saying Jaden only has one is forgetting something important, shades of one colour counts as different colours, you get different shades of brown and each of those shades count as a different colour so Jaden's two-tone kuriboh hairdo us two colours plus the Yu in every protag's name isn't just for a first name, it can be for the surname so Jaden will fall under that category because of his surname
It makes sense that Jaden had the most duels cause throughout the series he very openly and deliberately sook out strong opponents,
dueled his friends to help them improve or just for fun, or the duelists just came to him for a challenge
Not to mention he’s literally in a school where EVERYONE duels
As for Yuma almost all the duelists came to him or he sook then out cause he was trying to find all the numbered cards for Astral so it also makes sense why he had almost just as many as Jaden
Sought*
Yeah, how many duels our protagonist have is based on the situation and condition. It's not like any of the protagonist run away when challenged to a duel. I think the best Protagonist is the one who has amusing decks, which is Yuya for me.
I’ve Always Believed Yugi/Atem Only True Loss Has Been Against Rafael. Personally.
they cheat half of their duels tho
Agreed. And that single loss took place in a non-canon filler arc.
@@tra-guyd5209 the rule in anime is kinda different in tcg ok
@@Ebon_Sean non canon? My heart breaks
to be fair Yami Yugi only lost twice (one vs pegasus with time thingy and the second is vs kaiba blackmail), while canonly Base Yugi never lost.
In the original time line, we have; Yugi/Atem, Jaden, and Yusie. Observe that in the next yugioh series we have; yuma/astral, yuya, and Yusaku. From this we have a mirror characters from those six series, namely:
Yugi/Atem - Yuma/astral
Jaden - Yuya
Yusei - Yusaki
Yugi have Atem and grows together like the partnership of Yuma and Astral. They also have loses which it make sence since they are both adopting in the series with their respective partner and wins.
Next, we have the energetic Jaden and Yuya whom also have a dark past. That thay are both a reincarnation of some person from the past. In the series, both of them also overcome that past and wins.
Lastly, we have Yusie and Yusaku whom have almost the same. They are both mature like and have the a great win ratios accoring to your analysis.
In conclusion, i can conclude that the next yugioh series may have a simillarity to Yugioh Duel Monster and Yugioh Xezal.
Think about it.
Well if so that's fine I don't mind but I just gonna say this Yusaku who was so called Yusei 2.0 is Pretty boring compared to the original When I watch the show I thought Soulbuner was the MC.
@@antoniobolden8992 I lost brain cells by reading this
@@popcorn-vn1ug well sorry to hear
Brilliant analysis. Can't believe I didn't catch that.
@@popcorn-vn1ug lol
I stink can’t believe Yusaku didn’t lose any duels during the anime as playmaker 😂 that’s some crazy yugioh plot armor
Zexal is actually one of my favorite series cause Yuma really does grow during it. Alot of his losses were pretty stupid tbh but Zexal was about his growth as a duelist more than anything. By the end of the series I'd say he's in between yami and yugi level
I would agree 100%. And his legitimate on screen loses really helped him grow Imo, I felt the end was wrapped up far better with his best friends having died and realizing he'd lost the ability to have fun dueling when every time it was life or death, and no other series put that idea into perspective, except maybe Arc V but the writing was a bit more flimsy because he kind of would cry and start grinning one episode later. Zexal focussed on the long term effects.
@@MaTTer1235 he didn't become evil until season 3 for like 3 episodes, granted season 4 he was hyper serious but it took a long time to get there. Jaden was very much happy-go-lucky up until he lost Jessie.
@Maple Leaf you know I forgot what it was.
I like the results, Jayden was always my favorite. He's also the Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist with the least ridiculous hair.
I like Yugi's hairstyle, but that's mainly cause it's so damn ridiculously over the top and nostalgic. I think all the protagonists after Jayden had hairstyles as insane as they are because the animation teams want to outdo yugi. (Granted Yusei's hair looks fine.)
I just realized that all of the main protagonists have “yu” in their name 😅
Not Jaiden
Benjamin Griffith his last name has it
@@killcount4750 Jaden YUki
Not 1st
Indeed
as a slyfer slacker with the academic system going against him, he still had almost twice as many as some of the contestants and still won more than 90% of his games. He worked hard, he played hard, he just loved to duel. he's a card junkie and it shows
I see all kinds of arguments down and as much as i would not count flashbacks i just wanna leave this here letting you know that you do a very nice job whether people agree or disagree with you not everyone would put the effort to even do this so i salute you great job :)
As season 0 Yugi wasn't listed, I'll do the calculations for him (Assuming he's the same Yugi as in Duel Monsters)
Duels - 59 (+9 from 50)
Wins - 42 (+4 from 38)
Losses - 9 (+2 from 7)
Draws - 2 (+1 from 1)
DNFs - 6 (+2 from 4)
Win Percentage - 82.35%
Total Duels: Barely still in 5th. JUST ONE DUEL AWAY FROM BEING TIED AT 4TH!
Points (Using rules from future videos) - 119 (Up 11 points from 108)
Final score: 5th with 9 points (Same as before)
Potential problems: Episode 1 of DM is effectively a polymerization of S0 Episode 3 and S0 Episode 20
They're the exact same person. The Yugioh manga is split into 3 parts: Yu-Gi-Oh, Yu-Gi-Oh: Duelist, and Yu-Gi-Oh: Millennium World.
@@_Koyomi_ Ah. I thought Duelist was a soft reboot.
@@PercyPanleo It was, but the characters are all the same people. Think of how Joseph Joestar appears in Parts 2, 3, and 4. They're different parts of the same manga, but he's still the same incarnation of the character. Duel Monsters/Magic and Wizards was going to be a one-off, but was so popular that Takahashi rebranded the entire manga to revolve around it.
Idk I think a problem is distinguishing Muto from Yami. Kaiba would've lost if Atem/Yami wasn't stopped by Yugi Muto, I think it'd be interesting to see Yami's/atem stats alone.
Your 'Duel Score' system needs to use a -1 for losses, since this currently means somebody with 50 wins and 500 losses will have a higher score than somebody with 49 wins and 1 draw.
It'd be cool if some absolute madman could work out Elo scores for all the anime characters and work it out that way (Jaden would probably still end up on top)
My boy Jaden on top hero deck was my first and favorite tho it is crazy how yugi was so low lol