😂 that’s facts lmao Accesscode talker ability can’t be negated or responded to so it’s a wrap and also Playmaker had a hand to make Accesscode every duel
@@cameraredeye3115 That was probably his only real "out" to Accesscode Talker too, unless he had access to something like BLS - EotB and the requisite monsters to banish in his GY so that he could then use BLS - EotB's effect to banish Accesscode Talker straight from the field. The only other potential answer I can think of that Yami Yugi may have had would have been to draw Palladium Oracle Mahad (and thus Special Summon it immediately via it's effect) and have a way to buff it's ATK _just_ enough (Accesscode Talker is Dark Attribute, so Mahad's ATK would jump to 5,000 upon entering battle with Accesscode Talker) to beat over Accesscode Talker's 5,600 ATK in battle (and even then, Accesscode could probably just get rid of Mahad with it's effect before Mahad could actually destroy Accesscode Talker). Accesscode Talker is just plain OP compared to the other protagonist's decks, as it's nigh impossible for any of their decks to properly deal with it.
Yugi has the millenium puzzle Judai has Yubel Yusei has the crimson dragon Yuma has astral and the shining draw Yuya can invent new summoning methods Meanwhile, Yusaku is REALLY good at yu-gi-oh.
@@anotherjason Unlike the other cases of manipulating the draw or creating/pullling a card outside the deck/extra deck, it is a Skill that also has to follow rules (need to have Lp 1000 or below and can only use it once; or in the case of Neo Storm Access it is a extension of it to use immediatly under more specific circunsrances) and his opponents have Skills of their own, which balance this. Heck, it is not even exclusive to im since Revolver and Bohman also use it (the latter even using it even in Master Duels). The only case it where it usage don't follow the Speed Duel format is during the final duel vs Bohman, where the Ignises(?) create Firewall Darkfluid for him. I don't think this one is bad thugh since Bohman was abusing cheating his Skill multiple times and Yusaku still neede to do a complex play to summon darkfluid with number of counters needed to win. EDIT: While Storm Access, with Ai help, could give Playmaker a new card each duel, it could count as a downside when one consider Ai could just get him the new mosnter outside duels and leave Playmaker skill slot to something more useful. Besides that and being moral/emotional support, Ai had no futher uses in winning duels overall while being Yusaku partner. During Season 1 and 2 Yusaku is the smarter one of the duo and Ai advices either were redudant, pointing out the obvious, or, in at least one occasion, detrimental. Besides the above example in master duel, his only other helpful action for the duel was preventing Playmaker of falling in his 3rd duel vs Revolver.
@@heavydonkeykong5190 Meanwhile Atem just takes the loss in stride and compliments Yusaku's skills, maybe even remarking that the future is in good hands with someone like Yusaku around. :P
Seconds later, Kaiba is rushing out to his custom Blue-eyes Jet, rambling something at the staff about some 3rd rate duelist and then blasting off without any context.
And little Yugi would probably just be really happy to have had such a close duel with Yuma and tried to improve his own deck in the hopes of one day having a rematch. Yugi is so humble that taking a loss like that very likely wouldn't faze him at all. Would have been cool to see how Yugi's friends reacted to the duel and seeing Yugi actually get outplayed like that and losing by such a narrow margin. I could definitely see Joey being both shocked that Yugi lost and impressed by Yuma's deck and praising him for besting Yugi....and then Joey would probably challenge Yuma himself just for the thrill of facing someone who could legitimately compete with _Yugi_ of all people.
1. I can test my skills against the other true best duellist in history. 2. So I can see how far I came as a duellist. 3. It’s a honour to duellist against you all and I hope we can duellist again in the future. Don’t take it seriously it’s just a fun way of saying it
Don't forget the Villains! A Villains tournament could be a great "finale" Tournament too with how high the total number of Villains actually is. You could even throw in the movie villains like Anubis & Paradox.
Yusaku winning isn't a surprise, his deck is the most meta out of all the decks here. My biggest surprise was Yuma losing so quickly in the semi-finals. I thought he would have made it to the finals or even put up a fight against Yusaku. RIP Yuma :( Great video Dylan! Can't wait to see more!
I wonder how the AI would have handled “Link” monsters if Konami never caved into the demands of a bunch of whiny YuGiOh players and stuck to the Vrans rules they originally set for the game to use.
Great idea Dylan I would love to see a tournament with the Rivals Seto Kaiba (DM) Zane Truesdale (GX) Chazz Princeton (GX) Jack Atlas (5Ds) Kite Tenjo (Zexal) Shark (Zexal) Declan (Arc-V) Revolver (VRAINS)
Minor issue I have with the editing: The Master Duel preview at 0:31 with the Phantom Knights visible spoiled/killed the anticipation of spinning the wheel
Not just the Rivals. The Best Friends, and Villains could be fun too. Villains in particular could be a *_BIG_* tournament with now many villains there actually are. Could probably even do a multi-part tournament for the villains, like a "Duel Monsters" Tournament with all of Yugi & Atem's villains, then a GX villain tournament, a 5Ds villain tournament, and so on, and then the winners of each of those tournaments (or the 8 Villains who performed the "best" overall) would go on to face the villains of the other seasons in an entirely separate tournament to determine which villain had the best deck of them all. I could even see an "Archetype" tournament working where you could take some of the most popular Archetypes (Despia, Bystial, Branded, Kashtira, Tearlaments, Diabellstar, Swordsoul, Blue-Eyes, Red-Eyes, Infernity, etc.) duking it out to see which came out on top....though this particular type of tournament could benefit from each archetype facing each other once each, and then which ever Archetype has the most total wins would be crowned "champion", and in the event of a tie, then there could be "tiebreaker" duels. This way Archetypes that happen to be unfairly one-sided won't result in an otherwise great Archetype just getting eliminated outright without getting to go up against the other archetypes.
Oh, that could be another good one! Main Heroine/Love Interest Tournament! Could include characters like Tea, Akiza, Blue Angel, Yuzu, etc. Would also force Tea to try and defend her canon undefeated record (which would likely be broken once she came up against someone like Akiza).
Omg the straightforward wins are hilarious to watch, Yusaku straight-up slaughtered everyone and rip Yusei for that play. Although, that play with Yugi was pretty crazy with gandorra I'd love to see more of this with rivals, girls, or best friends, great video man!! :)
This was such a fun video, and the idea behind it was great! That Yuma vs Yugi was crazy!! Yusaku just steamrolled the competition, there was no stopping the maker of plays 😂
That's such a fun concept. So many possibilties like Rivale battle, partner battle, antagonist battle or maybe female lead battle? Would be interesting for sure!
the idea is cool, but i think that limiting to only doing core cast within their main show, with the latest/best version of what their deck would be nowadays would be better. that would make the result less obvious
@@toxictoad6266 by limiting to main show i mean you make DM tournament, you take core cast, you give them the best nowadays versions of their decks, and you do the same for GX 5D's Zexal Arc-V and Vrains
@@LuisKiller73 True. Particularly since little Yugi technically has his own Archetype now via the "Gold Sarcophagus" archetype, it has most/all of little Yugi's signature cards (Silent Swordsman, Silent Magician, Gandora, etc.) as part of the same Archetype. ....Though that would admittedly require waiting for the Gold Sarcophagus archetype to come to Master Duel first. But that could be a good reason to revisit this particular Tournament at some point in the future and give the protagonists a chance to "redeem themselves", particularly if they performed poorly in this Tournament. Alternatively, if he could find someone else familiar with each of the Decks, he could instead run the duels with him playing one and another person playing the other so that the decks are played more "optimally" than the AI can play them, as I'd expect a human player to make smarter plays than an AI would. Another possibility could be a tournament to see if the main characters like Yugi, Atem, & Kaiba would be able to handle more modern Archetypes (like seeing if a "modern" Kaiba deck could handle a Fallen of Albaz focused deck, or if Albaz would just tear Kaiba apart).
The only reason I don't like that idea is because it just becomes, "modernized archetype vs modernized archetype" and it loses the feel of being a character duel. I've never been able to enjoy any of the "character but with updated deck" duel videos uploaded by others because of that.
This tournament did showcase that the decks in later animes got powercreeped by a lot. Could be fun to see one for rivals, best friends and female protagonists aswell. If you do a girl tournament you probably have to replace Téa with Mai and Tori with Rio.
Not really Atem didn’t seem to have any of his broken anime cards. On edo pro it’s easy to summon Beyond first turn or Atem to summon a god etc. The decks weren’t build correctly.
We need to see this for other tropes (Main Rival, Main Girl, Main Antagonist, Best Friend etc). Love seeing Dylan so hyped - also I can see Dylan being a good sport commentator lol. As if he didnt do this one of the other boys to play off each other. Also as much as I loved Yuto, I think Astral or Ai should’ve been the 8th duellist as they were partners with their series protagonist from the beginning.
This tournament pretty succinctly shows off the concept of power creep lol. Yusaku's accesscode otk vs Yami Yugi from an anime where summoning a 3k vanilla monster before turn 5 was the peak of skill
This would be better with modernized decks for the earlier protags. The new Stardust Support for Yusei, a straight Dark Magician deck for Yami, and an Omni-Masked Hero deck for Jaden.
Also, what would've happened if Yuma used just his F0 Utopic Future monsters like he did in his ceremonial duel against Astral and not use Utopia monsters. Could that probably make a difference to move up and make it to the finals?
The moment I saw the bracket I immediately knew how the tourney was going to go, and I'm glad to see that my prediction was correct! Just goes to show that Speed Duels are fast paced and the current state of YuGiOh is too much for older decks to handle! 🤣🤣🤣I would love to see the same thing again but with modern support for all the decks not just cards they played in the anime, or maybe just some manga card additions.
The early anime decks are just bad, even for their time The newer the show, the more closely do the decks represent their current metas, for example yuma making a rank 4 and setting 2 is similar to dino rabbit making laggia/dolkka and setting 2, yusei summoning speed warrior isn't even close to being similar to teledad, jaden summoning clayman isn't similar to dad return, you get the point
Always wondered if they made this kind of tournament what would happen, not suprised that the best link 4 monster dominated the game, maybe in the future make the same thing but with updated cards for older protags, would be fun to see. Rivals tourney when?
How lucky Ai wasn’t in 1) an AI piloted by an AI 2) turn 1 arrival cyberse @ignister with 6K attack on pure @ignister and no Mathmechs is still WAY too easy
And before you say accesscode on arrival cyberse… every @ignister god buffed into TCG, and arrival cyberse would be an indestructible 6K beater with a destruction effect that kinda gives a +2
This is a great concept for a video, I’d love to see a version where the mc’s get a modernized version of theyre decks, mixing meta staples as well as their signature cards!
@dudono1744 like even Yugi who has the hack of drawing the card thta keeps him in duels drew trash at times yet playmaker gets game winning monsters every time
Now you should do a run back with all their newer support (prioritized around their Ace obviously because Yugi has like 4 separate archetypes that are now their own decks) and see who wins that when it's actually at least somewhat fair as the OG trilogy characters never stood a chance against the latter 3 characters with this rule set and have them then duel against the winner of this one Yugi- Probably Gadgets with Gandora thrown in Atem-Dark Magician Jaden-EHeroes NeoSpacians Yusei-Stardust/Synchro Warriors Yuma-Onomatopia with a heavy Utopia Extra Deck Yuya-Full power Odd-Eyes Yusaku-Code Talkers Other than that the obvious choices would be the standard from each series rival, main girl, final villain, ect.
It makes sense that the 2 masters of every summoning method would've faced each other in the finals, but Accesscode is impossible to handle for anyone else
Yuma's part in this tournament felt 100% like Zexal. They go up against Yugi, who holds the millenium puzzle. Astral senses an interesting type of danger while inside Yuma's key, appears, and helps Yuma pull off that protagonist win because he thought there might be a potential number or a potential danger if they lost to Yugi. Then he faces Playmaker who has absolutely no special power, just badass dueling skills, so Astral is like well if Yuma loses there's no harm, so I'll just let him duel by himself, and he just plays a single monster in defense mode and then gets destroyed on his opponent's first turn just as normal like so many times during the first season of Zexal against his classmates lol
I'd love to see a version of this with the rival characters, like Kaiba, Jack and Kaito. Or, additionally, the protagonist tournament again but with updated versions of each deck's archetype. We could see if Playmaker would still stand up against modern versions of each protagonist.
I think the DM/GX characters needed 3 Pot Of Greeds to have any chance of keeping up LOL I would love to se a rematch someday with everybody having their more modern support cards and Accesscode Talker banned.
Interesting fact, I once thought up a yugioh crossover tournament that had the same semi-finals, just had Yusei defeat Yuya. Still had Playmaker win though.
When did Yusei use assault mode in the anime? I feel like it would have came up during the second season when Meklords were a thing since a lot of the build up to the fight against Primo was Yusei finding a way to fight the Meklords without the use of synchro monsters.
Yuri: it wouldn’t be a Yuya show without Yuto dying first.
dang I felt that, maybe Yuri would said that
this really does sound like something he'd say
When yuto was unalived I was kinda shocked, I didn't think arc v would go that far fr
@@ARTIFIUSYT
His spirit did fuse back into Yuya
Yeah, Yuri would definitely said something like that 😅
(This Video in a nutshell)
Yusaku: In my era, you’re all history to me!
*Huge tournament of all the protagonists*
Playmaker: Nah, I'd win.
🤣
Accesscode for game on turn 1 is the most TCG move that could possibly happen. That AI knew what it was doing.
😂 that’s facts lmao Accesscode talker ability can’t be negated or responded to so it’s a wrap and also Playmaker had a hand to make Accesscode every duel
@@raphaelwilkes97Yeaaah...in a 4000 LP format as well, letting Yusaku just have Accesscode feels like a massive oversight.
@@Mrryn 💀 AI was definitely with playmaker in this video it’s no way he demolished his side of the bracket
Tbf Playmaker got lucky that Atem didn't have Magic Cylinder set....
@@cameraredeye3115 That was probably his only real "out" to Accesscode Talker too, unless he had access to something like BLS - EotB and the requisite monsters to banish in his GY so that he could then use BLS - EotB's effect to banish Accesscode Talker straight from the field. The only other potential answer I can think of that Yami Yugi may have had would have been to draw Palladium Oracle Mahad (and thus Special Summon it immediately via it's effect) and have a way to buff it's ATK _just_ enough (Accesscode Talker is Dark Attribute, so Mahad's ATK would jump to 5,000 upon entering battle with Accesscode Talker) to beat over Accesscode Talker's 5,600 ATK in battle (and even then, Accesscode could probably just get rid of Mahad with it's effect before Mahad could actually destroy Accesscode Talker). Accesscode Talker is just plain OP compared to the other protagonist's decks, as it's nigh impossible for any of their decks to properly deal with it.
Yugi has the millenium puzzle
Judai has Yubel
Yusei has the crimson dragon
Yuma has astral and the shining draw
Yuya can invent new summoning methods
Meanwhile, Yusaku is REALLY good at yu-gi-oh.
He has Storm Access so he can just invent the exact Extra Deck Monster he needs
This is a great comment
@@LichLordFortissimo so can yusei. also yuma can create the card he draws and change his hand.
@@LichLordFortissimo only in speed duels though
@@anotherjason Unlike the other cases of manipulating the draw or creating/pullling a card outside the deck/extra deck, it is a Skill that also has to follow rules (need to have Lp 1000 or below and can only use it once; or in the case of Neo Storm Access it is a extension of it to use immediatly under more specific circunsrances) and his opponents have Skills of their own, which balance this. Heck, it is not even exclusive to im since Revolver and Bohman also use it (the latter even using it even in Master Duels).
The only case it where it usage don't follow the Speed Duel format is during the final duel vs Bohman, where the Ignises(?) create Firewall Darkfluid for him. I don't think this one is bad thugh since Bohman was abusing cheating his Skill multiple times and Yusaku still neede to do a complex play to summon darkfluid with number of counters needed to win.
EDIT: While Storm Access, with Ai help, could give Playmaker a new card each duel, it could count as a downside when one consider Ai could just get him the new mosnter outside duels and leave Playmaker skill slot to something more useful.
Besides that and being moral/emotional support, Ai had no futher uses in winning duels overall while being Yusaku partner. During Season 1 and 2 Yusaku is the smarter one of the duo and Ai advices either were redudant, pointing out the obvious, or, in at least one occasion, detrimental. Besides the above example in master duel, his only other helpful action for the duel was preventing Playmaker of falling in his 3rd duel vs Revolver.
Kaiba: *watching this* YUGI LOOOOOOOOOST!?
Existential crisis watching Yami Yugi get obliterated immediately.
@@heavydonkeykong5190 Meanwhile Atem just takes the loss in stride and compliments Yusaku's skills, maybe even remarking that the future is in good hands with someone like Yusaku around. :P
Yugi lost to a childrens card game
Seconds later, Kaiba is rushing out to his custom Blue-eyes Jet, rambling something at the staff about some 3rd rate duelist and then blasting off without any context.
"How do you stop this guy?!"
That's the neat part, you don't.
I have beat Playmaker and Blur Angel with Atem before. The character decks were awful, none of them drew a good hand against him.
Bro Playmaker is so fuckin good . How do other protagonists even beat him without plot armor 😭😭
@@clubin_to5789 I otkd him with Anime Ra before and I witnessed Utopia Beyond wreck him before.
I can count the amount of times I won against Accesscode Talker on one Finger.
@@paultetzi5443 You need to try and survive the round, if your Atem only Kuriboh in hand or magnetic turtle in the grave can stop him.
Yugi and Yuma both having plot armor and then Yuma just having a better deck was wild
And little Yugi would probably just be really happy to have had such a close duel with Yuma and tried to improve his own deck in the hopes of one day having a rematch. Yugi is so humble that taking a loss like that very likely wouldn't faze him at all. Would have been cool to see how Yugi's friends reacted to the duel and seeing Yugi actually get outplayed like that and losing by such a narrow margin. I could definitely see Joey being both shocked that Yugi lost and impressed by Yuma's deck and praising him for besting Yugi....and then Joey would probably challenge Yuma himself just for the thrill of facing someone who could legitimately compete with _Yugi_ of all people.
Yusaku’s speech would sound like “I can give you 3 reasons why it’s an honor to win this tournament…”
1. I can test my skills against the other true best duellist in history. 2. So I can see how far I came as a duellist. 3. It’s a honour to duellist against you all and I hope we can duellist again in the future. Don’t take it seriously it’s just a fun way of saying it
Yeah, with Access code Talker, no one can beat Yusaku
Jp Dub
遊作（「Playmaker」）『このトーナメントで優勝できたことを光栄に思う理由は３つある、1. 歴史上最高のデュエリストと対戦して自分の実力を試すことができること、2. デュエリストとして自分がどれだけ成長したかを知ることができること、3. 皆さんとデュエルできたことは光栄です、そして将来に、私達がまたデュエルできることを願っていますように。』
A few of these felt like legit anime duels. We need a rival tournament and best friend tournament.
Don't forget the Villains! A Villains tournament could be a great "finale" Tournament too with how high the total number of Villains actually is. You could even throw in the movie villains like Anubis & Paradox.
The amount of missplays by these AIs is hilarious
They are ais after all
Man no wonder Yusuaku won AI was tanking everyone else to make his partner win
@@marcluu2433 😂 merch
Yeah, like not setting last-minute cancel which would’ve let yuya survive another turn
@@YuyaSakaki385 lmao he would of lost anyway
Yusaku winning isn't a surprise, his deck is the most meta out of all the decks here. My biggest surprise was Yuma losing so quickly in the semi-finals. I thought he would have made it to the finals or even put up a fight against Yusaku. RIP Yuma :(
Great video Dylan! Can't wait to see more!
Playmaker is very wrong but no one drew a good hand against him. Atem and Yuma are OP and can make way better plays than that.
@@alanchamberlain9902they can't 😂
@@alanchamberlain9902The only reason Playmaker was this strong was because the AI wasn’t using Vrans rules.
@@Knight41bwhat rules
Yusaku summoning access code in 2 out of 3 of his duel is like that player who always spams the unfair good move lol
I wonder how the AI would have handled “Link” monsters if Konami never caved into the demands of a bunch of whiny YuGiOh players and stuck to the Vrans rules they originally set for the game to use.
@@Knight41blmao, you're the only one I've ever heard talk about the old Link rules in a positive light. They are universally hated for a reason.
@@Knight41b do you actually play yugioh or are you trolling for dislikes?
@@krekkaking Yes I do play Yu-Gi-Oh!
@@Knight41b then do you know that you could link summon and lock out the monster card zones of your opponent under the old rules?
Great idea Dylan
I would love to see a tournament with the Rivals
Seto Kaiba (DM)
Zane Truesdale (GX)
Chazz Princeton (GX)
Jack Atlas (5Ds)
Kite Tenjo (Zexal)
Shark (Zexal)
Declan (Arc-V)
Revolver (VRAINS)
if kite has all his galaxy eyes mons AND his arc v cards i'm telling u he deominates
I need to see this now!
Assuming Anime Accurate decks, it would be Reiji vs Revolver
Reiji VS Revolver is my dream matchup next to Yusei VS Yusaku.
There's also Best Friends & Villains. Main Heroines/Love Interests could also be a good one with the likes of Tea, Akiza, Blue Angel, etc.
Now we need a collab with TGS anime to cover the duels and if certain characters could've won
YES.
Minor issue I have with the editing: The Master Duel preview at 0:31 with the Phantom Knights visible spoiled/killed the anticipation of spinning the wheel
And the thumbnail didnt?
@@dspace4514That’s also true lol
This concept is very fun! Definitely wanna see more. Lets do Rivals:
Kaiba
Chazz
Zane
Aster
Jack
Kite
Declan
Revolver
Same result. Revolver low diff
There's also Best Friends & Villains.
@@peterzelaya9948Kite, Declan and Zane
Imagine doing this with the rival characters. It would be interesting to watch. Jaden Vs Yusei could’ve gone better but it was funny
Not just the Rivals. The Best Friends, and Villains could be fun too. Villains in particular could be a *_BIG_* tournament with now many villains there actually are. Could probably even do a multi-part tournament for the villains, like a "Duel Monsters" Tournament with all of Yugi & Atem's villains, then a GX villain tournament, a 5Ds villain tournament, and so on, and then the winners of each of those tournaments (or the 8 Villains who performed the "best" overall) would go on to face the villains of the other seasons in an entirely separate tournament to determine which villain had the best deck of them all.
I could even see an "Archetype" tournament working where you could take some of the most popular Archetypes (Despia, Bystial, Branded, Kashtira, Tearlaments, Diabellstar, Swordsoul, Blue-Eyes, Red-Eyes, Infernity, etc.) duking it out to see which came out on top....though this particular type of tournament could benefit from each archetype facing each other once each, and then which ever Archetype has the most total wins would be crowned "champion", and in the event of a tie, then there could be "tiebreaker" duels. This way Archetypes that happen to be unfairly one-sided won't result in an otherwise great Archetype just getting eliminated outright without getting to go up against the other archetypes.
@@gamester512 Okay, okay. I got it
Usually I find these AI videos boring but your commentary really helped I enjoyed this
8:00 most anime moment ever
Yuma in the show can just create cards to win but AI is different, Also Blue Maiden is wrecking easy
Also number cards are extra OP in anime.
Oh, that could be another good one! Main Heroine/Love Interest Tournament! Could include characters like Tea, Akiza, Blue Angel, Yuzu, etc. Would also force Tea to try and defend her canon undefeated record (which would likely be broken once she came up against someone like Akiza).
Omg the straightforward wins are hilarious to watch, Yusaku straight-up slaughtered everyone and rip Yusei for that play. Although, that play with Yugi was pretty crazy with gandorra
I'd love to see more of this with rivals, girls, or best friends, great video man!! :)
Villains is another option, as is a "Main Heroine" (Tea, Akiza, Blue Angel, etc.) tournament.
This was such a fun video, and the idea behind it was great! That Yuma vs Yugi was crazy!! Yusaku just steamrolled the competition, there was no stopping the maker of plays 😂
That's such a fun concept.
So many possibilties like Rivale battle, partner battle, antagonist battle or maybe female lead battle? Would be interesting for sure!
the idea is cool, but i think that limiting to only doing core cast within their main show, with the latest/best version of what their deck would be nowadays would be better. that would make the result less obvious
yeah the matches would be closer but I think yusaku would still win with jaden in 2nd and yusei in 3rd
@@toxictoad6266 by limiting to main show i mean you make DM tournament, you take core cast, you give them the best nowadays versions of their decks, and you do the same for GX 5D's Zexal Arc-V and Vrains
oh my bad that would be awesome and really interesting
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@@LuisKiller73 True. Particularly since little Yugi technically has his own Archetype now via the "Gold Sarcophagus" archetype, it has most/all of little Yugi's signature cards (Silent Swordsman, Silent Magician, Gandora, etc.) as part of the same Archetype. ....Though that would admittedly require waiting for the Gold Sarcophagus archetype to come to Master Duel first. But that could be a good reason to revisit this particular Tournament at some point in the future and give the protagonists a chance to "redeem themselves", particularly if they performed poorly in this Tournament.
Alternatively, if he could find someone else familiar with each of the Decks, he could instead run the duels with him playing one and another person playing the other so that the decks are played more "optimally" than the AI can play them, as I'd expect a human player to make smarter plays than an AI would.
Another possibility could be a tournament to see if the main characters like Yugi, Atem, & Kaiba would be able to handle more modern Archetypes (like seeing if a "modern" Kaiba deck could handle a Fallen of Albaz focused deck, or if Albaz would just tear Kaiba apart).
The only reason I don't like that idea is because it just becomes, "modernized archetype vs modernized archetype" and it loses the feel of being a character duel. I've never been able to enjoy any of the "character but with updated deck" duel videos uploaded by others because of that.
I love this idea!
That Yuma vs Yugi duel was STRAIGHT outta Zexal. They both had some great setup turns and then it went absolutely wild at the end.
This tournament did showcase that the decks in later animes got powercreeped by a lot. Could be fun to see one for rivals, best friends and female protagonists aswell. If you do a girl tournament you probably have to replace Téa with Mai and Tori with Rio.
Not really Atem didn’t seem to have any of his broken anime cards. On edo pro it’s easy to summon Beyond first turn or Atem to summon a god etc. The decks weren’t build correctly.
We need to see this for other tropes (Main Rival, Main Girl, Main Antagonist, Best Friend etc).
Love seeing Dylan so hyped - also I can see Dylan being a good sport commentator lol. As if he didnt do this one of the other boys to play off each other.
Also as much as I loved Yuto, I think Astral or Ai should’ve been the 8th duellist as they were partners with their series protagonist from the beginning.
I second this 🎉
Love the thought of Yugi being absolutely flabbergasted by every duelist showing him a new summoning method
“By the gods! what is that card?
Yusaku got torture as a kid he has truma about losing so him winning seem realistic
Nice! I hope we see more tournaments like this.
Hey as a Arc V fan, I'm glad Yuya made it to the finals
Yeah, but I’m mad that the AI did not set the one trap that would’ve let him survive one more turn
That without his post zarc cards and with season 1 cards still in his deck but he will never defeat yusaku
@@YuyaSakaki385fact and how annoying ai is 😡
Guy just doesn’t wanna lose
You should have given the older gens updated decks. Dark Magician has received a lot of new support, for example.
It's named Yugioh because all the protagonist names starts with Yu
kazuki takahashi would like this if only an anime version of this could happen
At least Playmaker would be using the Vrans rules then.
this was epic!
This tournament pretty succinctly shows off the concept of power creep lol. Yusaku's accesscode otk vs Yami Yugi from an anime where summoning a 3k vanilla monster before turn 5 was the peak of skill
Yusaku is one of my favorite protagonists so happy he won
kinda fitting the tourney came down to the last gallop protags. really shows how the game has advanced each arc
No one drew good against Playmaker that’s why he won so easily
The best friends in a tournament would be fun as well.
Crow vs Jonouchi - epic battle to see
This would be better with modernized decks for the earlier protags.
The new Stardust Support for Yusei, a straight Dark Magician deck for Yami, and an Omni-Masked Hero deck for Jaden.
Love the idea of this, really fun.
Every single duel won by the newer deck, powercreep is real 😂
You should do a version of them with more updated versions of there decks since all of them got support last year
We definitely need a rival and best friend version of this. Revolver vs Reiji Akaba would be awesome and I want to see Soulburner in action.
Yuma surviving with 100 life points left and grabbing monster reborn is such an anime moment.
I’m telling ya Yuga would have won it all here….as long as he doesn’t play dark liberation.
Yuya and dark Rebellion?
Would love to see this again with modern support. Ie: Yugi gets to use pure Dark Magician, Atem pure Gods, Jaden Heroes etc.
Nah we don’t need that otherwise it’s not an anime duel
Love this! Hope to see the Rivals next!
Also, what would've happened if Yuma used just his F0 Utopic Future monsters like he did in his ceremonial duel against Astral and not use Utopia monsters. Could that probably make a difference to move up and make it to the finals?
That was so cool! I didn't you can just do CPU vs CPU only. How can you do that?
Jaden got screwed over. Of course he had to play against the best deck in round one. I'd like to see this format again but best 2 out of 3
The moment I saw the bracket I immediately knew how the tourney was going to go, and I'm glad to see that my prediction was correct! Just goes to show that Speed Duels are fast paced and the current state of YuGiOh is too much for older decks to handle! 🤣🤣🤣I would love to see the same thing again but with modern support for all the decks not just cards they played in the anime, or maybe just some manga card additions.
The early anime decks are just bad, even for their time
The newer the show, the more closely do the decks represent their current metas, for example yuma making a rank 4 and setting 2 is similar to dino rabbit making laggia/dolkka and setting 2, yusei summoning speed warrior isn't even close to being similar to teledad, jaden summoning clayman isn't similar to dad return, you get the point
Always wondered if they made this kind of tournament what would happen, not suprised that the best link 4 monster dominated the game, maybe in the future make the same thing but with updated cards for older protags, would be fun to see.
Rivals tourney when?
Yuma with Zexal Morph V3 literally beats anyone
Next should be every Yu-Gi-Oh's protagonist Side kicks tournament
5:25 why didn't Grand Mole effect acrivate?
My boy Yuma got done so dirty in that semifinal nooooo 😭
Bro how is Jaden using his anime deck (pure) and Yusei gets Assault mode cards and lightning warrior from the manga?
Exactly the decks weren’t accurate at all
Yeah blade edge in the deck was crazy can’t believe he actually put that in there.
How lucky Ai wasn’t in
1) an AI piloted by an AI
2) turn 1 arrival cyberse @ignister with 6K attack on pure @ignister and no Mathmechs is still WAY too easy
And before you say accesscode on arrival cyberse… every @ignister god buffed into TCG, and arrival cyberse would be an indestructible 6K beater with a destruction effect that kinda gives a +2
This is a great concept for a video, I’d love to see a version where the mc’s get a modernized version of theyre decks, mixing meta staples as well as their signature cards!
Kudos to Yuma for winning at 100 lp left against smol yugi. Very Anime accurate.
Id like ai trained to play the way the characters do
Yuya: ... and you still take the damage!
Yusaku was like I'm known as Playmaker for a reason cause I'm making godly plays 😂
I predicted the final perfectly. Playmaker wins because he is the only one who was 100% skill and no plot armor.
Saying no plot armor is a stretch when he's allowed to pull the most clutch card from his ability 😮💨
Access code really carried Playmaker.
@@dimitrijames00001His ability is just getting good cards that he reuses later, but I agree it should have been trash at least once.
@dudono1744 like even Yugi who has the hack of drawing the card thta keeps him in duels drew trash at times yet playmaker gets game winning monsters every time
Astral would just play the same Utopia deck as Yuma with a few more numbers so thankfully the wheel didn't land on him.
We need justice for yuma😢
Now you should do a run back with all their newer support (prioritized around their Ace obviously because Yugi has like 4 separate archetypes that are now their own decks) and see who wins that when it's actually at least somewhat fair as the OG trilogy characters never stood a chance against the latter 3 characters with this rule set
and have them then duel against the winner of this one
Yugi- Probably Gadgets with Gandora thrown in
Atem-Dark Magician
Jaden-EHeroes NeoSpacians
Yusei-Stardust/Synchro Warriors
Yuma-Onomatopia with a heavy Utopia Extra Deck
Yuya-Full power Odd-Eyes
Yusaku-Code Talkers
Other than that the obvious choices would be the standard from each series rival, main girl, final villain, ect.
It makes sense that the 2 masters of every summoning method would've faced each other in the finals, but Accesscode is impossible to handle for anyone else
Imagine if the actual VAs provided voice-overs for this tournament.
I guess this tournament answers this question. Maybe a villains tournament should be next
Even playmaker doing the yoinky sploinky XD
Man I love the cyberse archetype 😆
Bro did Yami dirty with giving him Monster Recovery ☠️
This went EXACTLY as i assume most of us predicted
astral deserve to be considered protagonist aside yuma , just like yugi / yami yugi
My reaction to yuto in thumbnail
"Who invited bro, blud thinks he part of the team"
Given there was no tournament in VRAINS, Playmaker was overdue for this win
Yuma's part in this tournament felt 100% like Zexal. They go up against Yugi, who holds the millenium puzzle. Astral senses an interesting type of danger while inside Yuma's key, appears, and helps Yuma pull off that protagonist win because he thought there might be a potential number or a potential danger if they lost to Yugi.
Then he faces Playmaker who has absolutely no special power, just badass dueling skills, so Astral is like well if Yuma loses there's no harm, so I'll just let him duel by himself, and he just plays a single monster in defense mode and then gets destroyed on his opponent's first turn just as normal like so many times during the first season of Zexal against his classmates lol
One for each era would be cool 👀
I'd love to see a version of this with the rival characters, like Kaiba, Jack and Kaito. Or, additionally, the protagonist tournament again but with updated versions of each deck's archetype. We could see if Playmaker would still stand up against modern versions of each protagonist.
Thank you for this video illustrating that power creep is real lmaooo
A new anime promo been released it called yugioh card game chronicle
Definitely a rival tournament. I can see revolver winning after this.
Personally, id use the more modern decks. Because link summoning is fundamentally broken
Talk about Powercreep.
Now we need the antagonists to duel each other
I think the DM/GX characters needed 3 Pot Of Greeds to have any chance of keeping up LOL I would love to se a rematch someday with everybody having their more modern support cards and Accesscode Talker banned.
i'd love to see this series as matches instead of single games, to give each deck a fair chance to showcase their actual power
Yugi didnt brick?
Now that is wild
Of course it's gonna be the VRAINS guy.
I love Cyberse.
I'd like to see the different eras with the finalists of each era competing in a final tournament
Interesting fact, I once thought up a yugioh crossover tournament that had the same semi-finals, just had Yusei defeat Yuya. Still had Playmaker win though.
Ah yes, Yugioh Characters biggest weakness: Realistic starting hands😂
It would definitely be better to keep it within the eras. All this video proved is the Power Creep of Yu-gi-oh. XD
The semi-finals were basically between the ones people hate the most and the ones peopld say its where the show peaked.
female protagonist, protagonist's best friend, rival, villain and era tournaments does sound fun
Ngl can you do more of these. This is high key entertaining af plus with your play by plays. I wanna see the girls go ate it
When did Yusei use assault mode in the anime? I feel like it would have came up during the second season when Meklords were a thing since a lot of the build up to the fight against Primo was Yusei finding a way to fight the Meklords without the use of synchro monsters.
You should try again with the most modern deck. It would be cool to see like dark magician