I Made 16 Robots Play Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@Farfa]

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[@viktorpanko6803]

I can't really remember their names of the top of my head but I've seen several youtubers that do like ai learning videos. So I was thinking wouldn't it be cool if you can get in touch with like one of them and actually do a serious take on the idea of having a bot play yugioh.

[@viktorpanko6803]

Code bullet is a really popular one that dose ai learning. Primer is my favorite to watch tho he dose more real life stuf I dont think he would be intrested in a game. Anyways it be cool to see like an actual ai like grind db rated and stuf and what would his deck choise be and so on

[@riplilsneed]

No

[@Greg501-]

Farfa: Calls Floowandereeze easy in a joking insult The Invoked deck: You mean all I need to do is activate a floodgate?

[@kyonsenzu8799]

Hey when you fog blade your own monster it prevents your opponent from attacking for game lol

[@filthy_peasant_the_one2134]

unicorn spinning itself and passing with an empty board is pure chad bot energy

[@zorcnecrophades9395]

"I don't need any of this to beat your bot ass"

[@majordakka5743]

Pure flex

[@seanr.6498]

Infernity has empty hand combos. We have empty board combos.

[@hahalery]

" I'll play the game for you and beat your ass at the same time"

[@vanguardRailgun924]

> Unicorn summoned to field >Activates it’s effect >refuses to elaborate further > Bounces itself

[@TabithaBLEP]

Unicorn spinning itself has a terrifying aura to it. If someone did that to me in real life id treat it as a threat.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

I sometimes unironically do it on Six Samurai, solely to get the discard.

[@ericellerbrock9350]

Agreed. It radiates "see this? I could kill you but I don't. I own you" energy

[@newbaroque3193]

Yeah I would feel like being t-posed on

[@vanguardRailgun924]

I’d be VERY afraid

[@sushipbestdeck8995]

I did it once at locals to get an extra deck monster off the field so he couldn't use his shaddoll fusion he added back to hand(last card in hand) the fact that unicorn can spin itself and your own cards is randomly really relevant sometimes

[@MsMiDC]

Chess computer: No human could ever beat me! Yu-Gi-Oh computer: dump your whole hand to make Knightmare Unicorn to spin itself back.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Well, chess AI has a chronic weakness. It simply doesn't understand the concept of positional advantage and initiative. It brute-force calculates moves only taking into account moves that immediately offer material advantage, put the opponent's valuable pieces in a vulnerable position, or secure an existing advantage. The most glaring flaw in this mindset is that they hardly ever bother to protect their pawn structure, and they don't immediately answer pawns that advance into promotion. The AI also absolutely refuses to draw. Even if they are at a heavy disadvantage, they won't make use the ancient defensive tactic of the fortress, and they won't respect stalemate traps whatsoever.

[@skynchickens300]

@@joanaguayoplanell4912 you seem knowledgeable. I have some questions, 1st based on your explanation, why was the best human still defeated? And 2nd does leaning into the things ai lack raises the chance of beating them?

[@Alb410]

@@joanaguayoplanell4912 It may not understand those concepts, but if it can calculate all the possible games possible in advance, thats irrelevant.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

@@skynchickens300 1st, because playing against AI and playing against a real player are completely different experiences, and that goes for every game, it's difficult to adjust your mindset, and the current chess AI is good enough that humans rarely survive long enough with an equal board that positional advantage starts mattering. 2nd yes, it does. The most important thing to know is that you need to play more agressively than you would against a human opponent, and simplify the board as much as possible, all without making a single mistake.

[@BramLastname]

@@Alb410 It can't do that, It can only calculate a finite number of boards. So instead most algorithms work similar to the Yu-Gi-Oh ones, Except the chess AI is prohibited from making a -2 play, Because the game rules classify moves that directly minus yourself (aka taking your own pieces) as illegal moves. The Yu-Gi-Oh AI doesn't understand the cards it's playing, The chess AI doesn't work without understanding how to use every piece indiviually And, unlike the Yu-Gi-Oh AI, knows what pieces are most valuable in most situations.

[@TheDonJuan]

I’ve seen real people make some of these plays before. 10/10 video.

[@charlesfort6602]

It's not easy to end turn 1 with zero cards in hand and on the field tbh

[@dolukiri]

@@charlesfort6602 i feel like not playing at all is better than doing some of these plays. But the verte baits are big brain.

[@Throrma]

Yesterday I played against a swordsoul player on edopro and impermed my first monster what does nothing at al I felt the same lol 😆

[@identitytheft7305]

I’m sorry buddy but the people you saw weren’t real

[@EmCeee411]

I played against a friend of mine, he was playing Galaxy-Eyes. He tribute summoned Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon no less than 5 times in that match. And the moves he made leading up to it every time looked exactly like one of these bots playing.

[@snazzy3743]

Every time I thought "There's no way the bot could lose this game" the bots always mamage to one up eachother in sheer stupidity

[@DuncanHarbison]

I remember seeing the AI back in 2014 summon judgment dragon, pay 1000, fiendish chain its own judgment dragon, then pay cost 6 more times. I thought "it's fine, technology moves so fast that in a few years this AI will be extremely competitive and difficult to beat" and I've never been so wrong.

[@michael_betts]

You probably could make a good Yu-Gi-Oh ai. No-one has really bothered.

[@martinnielsen2470]

The Third Build made a Pokemon Showdown Ai, so it could probably be done for Yugioh.

[@wolfboy414_lac]

@@michael_betts it's possible to hard code every single interaction ever, it would just take forever

[@michael_betts]

@@wolfboy414_lac there's other ways to build AIs than a simple expert system. Even a simple thing like counting card advantage before and after possible plays and looking a ton of plays into the future using that hueristic like a chess AI (with important advantageous negs added as exceptions) would be a better AI, let alone a full machine learning type solution.

[@anotherjason]

i feel like humans have somehow made dumber plays than this, which scares me.

[@isabellesmith7578]

the 'I'm feeling lucky' AI is kinda supposed to be a bit of a joke, but the dedicated salamangreat AI is also a big fan of using rage to pop my normal spells.

[@YohananYGO]

Why bots use that for spells

[@Buster_Blader322]

How did you acquire 16 MBT's to play a tournament together?

[@jasminvehab5048]

He asked 16 subscribers to play each other

[@biovorebarrage6860]

Time machine, junior journey confirmed this.

[@sekaihunter9378]

They are 16 MBTs from all of the timelines that MBT's great great great great great grandson didn't time travel to save him and the humanity, so they were all forced to become Cyborgs, just like in 5D'S lore!

[@fukou_da]

@@jasminvehab5048 Farfa subs aren't this smart

[@paprika3997]

I was expecting this joke with gage

[@alkamstardust]

I do like how the AI removed the "Unicorn spinning itselft" like it evolved mid tournament enough to know thats a terrible play but not enough to avoid suffocating by forgetting how to breathe

[@Sad-Lesbian]

Seeing a bot open full Drytron combo, and ending on empty field, with one card in hand sure is something...

[@johnnyjohnson4265]

Invoked winning makes sense considering their main gameplan has been normal summoning the same monster for the past 4 years

[@RayquaSr.]

5

[@Slothptimal]

Normal Summon Ash Blossom?

[@mohamedkhaine715]

@@Slothptimal they always have invocation *always*

[@TrevorAllenMD]

There are actually no bots. It’s just gage clones playing like he did with Megalith

[@banditkeef3864]

The mystic mine bot accidentally using field barrier first is akin to what I’ve seen actual mm players do

[@gravekeepersven82]

Big poo 😂💩

[@eavyeavy2864]

@@gravekeepersven82 Mystic mine is the only way you rogue scrubs can fight evenly with meta decks. Without floodgates do you think you can outgrind Swordsoul or Eldlich? maybe once every 20 games and that in unlikely chance they brick

[@gravekeepersven82]

@@eavyeavy2864 speaking facts hell I've even dealt with mine and I play Guru control and I really hate mine personally it feels like cheating

[@bldrun1504]

Robots gaining intelligence and advancing only to be stopped by normal summon aleister pass

[@MekkaYGO]

Hmmmm... Yes Normal Summon Aleister. The bots know too much.

[@TheDortmunderJungs]

this was legit so fucking funny. we need more of this

[@deezn.649]

This is the closest we are going to get to a Table 500 in his old format

[@Shiny_Plume]

“DPE, you literally can’t mess this up” Famous last words.

[@pureishatsu]

We should have a tournament where each participant builds a deck, but it's designed to be played decently by a bot. Would be interesting to see which deck ends up performing better, given how the bots behave.

[@hirukashiro5995]

The bot seems to always click on anything that he can activate, giving it a goat format kinda deck seems decent since most cards in goat format are just direct advantages on activation without the need of combo

[@DrDrao]

Gren maju with no link monsters. That makes me think... What about a progression series type deal where each participant builds a deck, and a bot, then the two bots face off each week.

[@MajicLaMa]

my hypothesis is the simpler the better. Just a basic beatdown like a blue eyes beatdown, cyber dragon beatdown. no fancy stuff because these bots are dumb as fuck lol

[@somedude8728]

I'd just give it traptrix with a bit of mirror force

[@tatsuyakaiyo416]

@@somedude8728 I'm pretty sure it would fire off trap holes at it's own summons

[@kyleyuen245]

That Subterror bot wasn't stupid, he saw the stupid shit he would've dealt with and decided he wasn't gonna participate. He went out in style

[@Rizwaan122]

12:05 the deck is so easy to play I threw a flunder deck together and accidentally went into a match with it (I was meant to switch decks) and I 2-0'd the guy without knowing what most of the cards do. Basically all I knew is Robina is the starter

[@syrelian]

Flunder is what, Floowhateverthefullnameis+Plunder Patroll?

[@Rizwaan122]

@@syrelian no flunder is just the original fan translated name I believe. The archetype was known as flundereeze until it was officially released as floowandereeze. Something like that I think. Basically I play edopro which adds cards before they're released in the Tcg so it called them flundereeze initially

[@lotgc]

"No! We must be careful with AI! It could destroy us all!" Actual AI:

[@trevizee806]

The decks with dogmatika had the inherent advantage of being locked from the extra deck and couldn't do unicorn spin unicorn. 5Head

[@EltonLeonidas]

What we learned from this? -Even a bot don’t want to play Mystic mine burn. -Even a bot don’t want to Normal summon Aleister. -Dasher>DPE -Unicorn spin is the new meta -Even a bot can forget declaring DPE effect If someone afraid from skynet, just show him this video

[@yubelious5584]

It's because they aren't pulling experience from millions of live competitive duels every day, understanding the interactions the players are making, and keeping track of what plays earn wins and losses with the highest success rates. You want a solved metagame? This is how to do it.

[@gaaraofthefunk265]

How to stop a Terminator apocalypse: A children's card game

[@septo3466]

Back in orcust format, a guy spinned back his own unicorn to have an empty field and stopping me (on crusadia) from OTKing him. He surely was a bot.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

I do it on Six Samurai sometimes, unironically.

[@jofx4051]

Kekw

[@akiradkcn]

@@joanaguayoplanell4912 bazed

[@wyattdupre2721]

Its like watching gage combo off in progression series. Making plays because they can with no end board in mind

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Man why are your ad inserts so good! They always catch me off guard and get me to laugh just as much as the main video topics.

[@jonikeri4982]

I used to watch your pkmn videos

[@DuxDamnatio]

Normal summon aleister

[@skyslasher6267]

if every play is a misplay, none of them are misplays

[@feangren]

"Linking away the Dragoon for Knightmare Phoenix" Yeah that sums it up quite well :D

[@gemknightseraphinite9088]

The first drytron duel is the perfect example of “full combo” doing you instead

[@nikoa5795]

"Gage megalith combo" (lost media)

[@levigilbert5552]

I think taking unicorn out of the deck is essential in the future 😂

[@RayneBeauxSawks]

I learned so much about Drytron AND Dragon Link today. Great duelists!

[@yanncueva6977]

I think it would be a great idea to make other yugi tubers make decks for this “format” so they get represented by bots and see who’s deck idea was the greatest

[@samarlow3497]

Bots jumping through 7 burning hoops in order to make unicorn, spin itself, is killing me.

[@Komupon835]

This is probably one of my most favorite videos of you, it was so funny watching this live on stream and it made my day. Thank you very much!

[@floriandreux2578]

Farfa is completely right when he says "it's the definition of "yep button"", the "IA" just says yes and perform any action it can. so fog blade ur link spider in the dp because u can, go unicorn spin itself back because u can ect...

[@TheTrueThomaster]

I love that even the AI is based enough to know not to play Mystic Mine.

[@gravekeepersven82]

Even SKYNET hates Mystic Mine

[@cobblestonetree2093]

i would like to see some of the progression decks as bots but i think it would be funny to have the looser of each game proceed to the next round rather than the winner

[@anotherjason]

so like hunter x hunter tourney

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

Legitimately a great idea

[@AntiVectorTV]

"Look at him go, spins better than Knightmare Unicorn" -Rata, in his Kaiju vid

[@tuvillo]

My fsvorite activity in Duel Links is deciphering the AI and knowing when to pass to Auto-Duel for optimal timesaving. This video just makes me more impressed with DL AI. It finds lethal out of nowhere.

[@Sillimant_]

just yesterday it normal summoned anchor drill with no effect, then used invocation with the aleister in hand the deck I specifically made for the AI to click buttons and not fuck it up, and it found the one thing I missed

[@michael_betts]

Yu-Gi-Oh games always had simple ais that activated basically anything they could. It would shotgun negates and everything. This wasn't as ridiculous with Yu-Gi-Oh in 2006 on the GBA, but always activating is so bad in 2022.

[@hazzardalsohazzard2624]

There's good bots built into EdoPro, but they need a specific AI set up for each deck. It can consistently pull off Orcust and Salad combos using decks from TOSS format. If it's playing a meta deck, it's going to require you to play well. The only mistakes I've been able to exploit is using interaction to remove targets forcing them to pop their own cards, or know that they will use handtraps on the first card they get.

[@michael_betts]

@@hazzardalsohazzard2624 that's more of an expert system than a true AI. A deck-specific AI can have every card in the deck pre-programmed with how and when to use the 14-40 cards in it relatively easily. Interacting with unknown opponents cards is where a simple expert system breaks down (using all it's interaction immediately, etc.) Trying to apply that style of extremely simple AI without programming every card (or possible grouping of cards) is what causes the ridiculousness in this video. Using something much more complicated like a traditional chess engine, or building and training a machine learning system for Yu-Gi-Oh would be a much more complex task.

[@jofx4051]

I consider DS WCS bots is decent especially maybe 2010 one

[@FakeHeroFang]

The AI in LOTD isn't perfect, but it at least seems to be able to grasp playing their cards somewhat competently. You won't be seeing normal summon Ash turn one unless they brick lol

[@magicmanscott40k]

I remember the gba ai rageki break and mst anything and it was always funny

[@duncanhendricks7090]

I could not stop laughing. Best yugioh content in years!

[@orchidquack]

I love how the bot plays around gorz, but doesn’t know not to normal summon zero attack ash

[@lucimaru2123]

I didn´t played meta for a while, but it seems that there are some very interesting techs right now. And we learn from this, that invoked is the easiest deck to play, while mystic mine is extremly skillbased.

[@zorcnecrophades9395]

I would love to see THIS becoming a concrete format

[@maxh7085]

I can't believe the ai made beatrice with a driver

[@jizzinmypants1031]

No pendulum decks? I'd love to see bots scale lock themselves every turn lol

[@vanesslifeygo]

the game has gone well beyond the hope of any computer being able to grasp what Pot of Greed does.

[@aaronkorol965]

Now we should have people build decks that they think would make for the best not performance instead of current decks. Like try to optimize they’re “yep click button” style in another tourney.

[@syrelian]

I feel like Aromas might do okay, keep the deck layout simple, avoid giving too many copies of Jasmine, and just pray they can comprehend mashing Heals every turn, the removal would be terribly handled, and Blessed Winds would be unfunctional since it seems the AI almost always picks Opt1 on multi choice, but you could make something where "Hahah I press buttons" is only a mild issue Or you could try Sacred Beasts, they're fun but uncomplicated, worst is the number of Armityles or Trilojigs you go into if you let it have any

[@anotherguy1324]

This was amazing XD. The constant set passing and nightmare unicorn spin nightmare unicorn XD

[@TheIbney00]

Funny thing is yugioh games from 12 years ago have better AI that doesn’t just tribute it’s win con. In one of the GX games they even had a AI that plays a stall burn deck with messenger of peace lmao

[@warcriminalyes]

Because they were programmed to play it . These bots aren't, they are just Yes Man machines, doing whatever option is avaible, bad or good.

[@LazyVanny]

I'd love to see these bots using old school cards, watch them use painful and send off all their combo pieces.

[@yazanabbadi4247]

I really wanna see more. I laughed so haaaard but it's still amazing especially with funny streamer man commenting. Never forget the best play Unicorn spin itself.

[@flylikeadodo6320]

AI1 : unicorn eff target itself ? AI2 : ah shit ... I guess you got this one

[@juliamedina3322]

I haven't had this much fun in a really long time. Thank you for this. Please more bot duels!

[@jebedia7]

When the bot made herald and then linked it into knightmare unicorn to pop itself i nearly died laughing. Knightmare unicorn best card

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

On the topic of bots just mindlessly clicking buttons I would be genuinely amused to see one try to pilot Madolche

[@mrdactyl2303]

Please do more of this, it's genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[@orianoss4601]

PLEASE do more of these, this was amazingly fun !

[@Ziv_Gaming]

As a fellow brick world player, I found that match ti be quite insightful to new lines that this deck can do. Thank you Mr. Farfa! :) pollo

[@Masterslam999]

Unicorn spinning itself has the same vibe as nekroz of valkyrus tributing itself with unicorn to empty the field and play around the opponent's Trish.

[@danielwynn9736]

Big brain plays! So HUGE, none of us understand one intricacies of playing with personality and heart, with an opponent of the same skill level

[@andresarancio6696]

Finally, players who don't forget to read their cards

[@blackblood1085]

Im actually interested how the work behind is done, because that might explain the plays. Still an interesting tournament 8/10 my fav bot deck didnt win :(

[@mohammadsaddam4560]

The bots basically goes "hmm i can activate this effect? Why not"

[@balistikscaarz1959]

Jesus Christ I'm crying, I actually couldn't breathe seeing the unicorn bouncing itself I thought I was going to die laughing

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

DPE popping his own Imperm instead of the 3x TCBOO in his backrow was the highlight of this video.

[@alfian4653]

This is your best video in a while. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Would love to see more of these, maybe ban floodgates and unicorn to make it more interesting

[@OkamiBGT]

I really wanna see what kind of battle phase nonsense happens with Dragonmaids

[@CailleWho]

Great video, but there is a problem… Why the only deck played by a non-bot player is invoked, he played the deck perfectly

[@motionstahp]

Watching this live was one of the funniest yugioh things I've ever seen before.

[@Aleuxcard]

To be fair, Fog blading the Link spider was big brain because whatever they summoned couldnt attack it.

[@DuelingDexperts]

Just finished the first duel and 8bhad to come say this is hilariously amazing and the content we need. Whole thing has big old school Azneyes "low rated duelists" energy lol

[@Goku17yen]

This is the funniest video I’ve seen in a good while. Please make a part2!!!! ☺️

[@VinceOfAllTrades]

Ah, my favorite playstyle "Say Yes Turbo"

[@emred4653]

unicorn spin is beautiful to watch.

[@asiangamer0413]

49:44 saving this moment because I fucking died laughing at the bot breaking its own board

[@matthewshine8277]

Today I learned the true power of clearing your own board with Unicorn/DPE. These bots showing us these new meta plays.

[@Leumas8308]

you should do a tournament with the actual ai decks. they're programmed to know how to do combos.

[@imthebestgamerever903]

These plays rival the almighty Gage's Redox pass.

[@Dw7freak]

That last Top 16 match showed that even fish are smarter than a bot. MBT taught them to Synchro Summon yet that bot couldn't.

[@iceinblack7603]

This is literally a gold mine of content lol. Who would have thought watching bots play yugioh would be this entertaining 🤣

[@afrodarkwaver]

It’s like watching COVID from the perception of a civilian unversed in the medical field

[@LReezy1992]

Lol the complete disinterest in Farfa's voice while reading the advert kills me 🤣

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

Yes I would definitely love to see more bot tournaments, this was so hilarious

[@Goldskull_96]

As someone that has not played YGO for years, this tells me my pea brain should play Flounder or invoked

[@timaeusdelpueblosecretodel6801]

Best play ever: knoghtmare unicorn spins himself.

[@Terrantular]

Chess bots: By playing pawn to e5, white has lost 15% win likelihood due to opening the lane for black's queen to pressure the left side of the board. Yugioh bots: haha, Unicorn go spin brrrrrrrrr

[@arthurvirginio3157]

Thank you as always farfa, i had a terrible week and this video alone, hands down almost killed me of happiness

[@Jakc_Tk]

Would love this in dragon ruler format. See how many spellbook the bot can use and what it would ss with judgment

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

Knightmare Unicorn: _I am inevitable_

[@ApollousasBear]

This comment makes the algorithm go zoom zoom to the moon. Also this is definite proof that a) Dasher > DPE and b) Even a bot can win by flipping floodgates and normal summoning Aleister.

[@mathiasdruica7281]

The bot is the smartest invoked player I’ve ever seen

[@NPCPlayerOne]

If someone summoned their boss monster on me just to link it off for uni, I'd consider myself styled on. This should be a yearly thing. Everyone votes on their favorite decks and bots pilot them.

[@michaelfletcher684]

yugioh players: meta decks are so simple a bot could play them! the bots:

[@cranberryjam9160]

This duel links players playing real yugioh tournament is freaking hilarious lmao

[@luminous3558]

You should do this again but this time people get to submit decklists that the bots will then play. Sort of like a Yugioh version of Hearthstone battlegrounds or TFT.

[@fallencloser5028]

Imagine the wining competitors at YCS spinning their own unicorn for Bm