Reviewing Yu-Gi-Oh! Rival Ace Monsters

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[@Anim1013]

0/10 Kaiba's Ace is undoubtably Saggi the Dark Clown

[@ViperineHero]

well duh!!

[@SpeedMalid]

Lol

[@SpeedMalid]

I was the 111th like lol

[@Megamaratsu]

Ah yes my favorite deck

[@kaitoshion5236]

his ace card is his credit card

[@flamingwobbuffet5873]

Flame wingman, Junk Warrior, and Decode Talker were the cards the protagonist used until they got their aces

[@AnarchoBearBear]

flaming wobbuffet sorry but decode talker is the ace monster. Not firewall. Its been used 3 times. Compare that to stardust who was used in almost every duel.

[@robertbartley2409]

flaming wobbuffet jaden ace is wing kurboh

[@gamermore23]

The ace card of Jaden is polymerization

[@mezasepkmn]

Brother Bear In Season One, Yusei only summoned Stardust THREE maybe four times. Once against Jack- actually hell he didnt even summon it, he stole it from his side of the field. So three or two. He summoned it against Aki, idk if he summoned it against Bommber or not, and he summoned it against Jack in their final duel. Jaden's Neos literally did not exist until season two. Firewall Dragon is Yusaki's ace, lmao. It doesn't matter how many times you summon it.

[@GOLDHAJIKVONGOLA]

but yusaku wins more duels with the "codetalker" archetype

[@tonitaipalus8722]

Chazz even says In the anime that hes Ace Is Ojama Yellow

[@austincrawford8577]

Toni Taipalus Ojama attack. But Bro I can't. You can you are my ace. Really

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

Ojamas are one or two cards away from tier 1.

[@thangle6164]

Picky Psychology Student lol

[@shadowmetroid18]

Picky Psychology Student give Ojama a link monster that has a ton of arrows pointed at the opponent. It is able to block their main zones and extra monster zones.

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

2 things I want for Ojamas: An Ojama Lime Link monster which is can be to level 2s what Linkuriboh is to level 1s and an archetypal magical mallet "Ojamagical Ojamallet" which is has the anime effect of magical mallet but for Ojamas only.

[@MrZerphix]

Well ... The case of D/D/D Doom King is special The character use it only 1 or 2 time , he doesn't really have a signature monster BUT instead he have a signature move : Having on his board 1 Xyz 1 Synchro and 1 Fusion at the same time

[@jrheiselt]

And then playing Dark contract with the Monopoly.

[@KyunaCookies]

@@jrheiselt to become the banker and purchase Mayfair

[@granmastersword]

@@KyunaCookies while roasting an egomaniac who though he cornered him when it was the opposite

[@justanothercommenterwithan9089]

@@KyunaCookies but i have give me Trafalgar square and 500 and i'll trade

[@ether2275]

He has 3 aces, Alexander, Genghis and Ceasar.

[@Yumil_fab]

In case you wonder : the arc-v era rival didn't really used doom king armaggeddon a lot, he used it like twice in the entire show. He doesn't have an actual ace IIRC, he actually plays DDD the way people played it in real life : spamming extra decks monsters with much better effects than this. Arc-V had this thing at its debut (less so after a while) where some characters were using decks closer to reality than usual (I think a lot of people will remember a certain character playing XX saber exactly how it was played back when it was tier 1) Also for the flame wingman/neos thing, it's because neos wasn't introduced until season two of the show at a time where the trend of aces with 2500 atk wasn't entirely defined.

[@ShiaSpirit]

Fabien Bonnet The three Doom Armageddon Kings could maybe be considered his boss monsters though? Purple, Whitest, and Black or whatever? Though the only showed up once... But yeah, Reiji doesn't really have that "signature" single card.

[@Yumil_fab]

the three based respecitvely on Z-ONE, nightshroud and don thousand used in the final episode ? yeah, I could see it, but it's more their ultimate monster than their actual ace. The way Scar red nova dragon is Jack's ultimate compared to red archfiend.

[@jayd.doubledubs]

As a D/D/D player and Declan fanboy, I completely agree. It's fun to just spam extra deck monsters into a control/Beatdown strategy and I like the sheer number of options the deck provides. I am a mediocre player at best, but even I can see how much potential D/D/D's can do in the right hands. I don't think anyone in their right mind would ever use Doom King outside of it's purple, black, and (urgh) white forms. Thanks for bringing this up.

[@ShiaSpirit]

Fabien Bonnet That's true I suppose. But the point of Reiji is really to show how well rounded of a duelist he was because he could use all of the summoning mechanics where most other characters used only Pendulum, or their respective dimension's mechanic. Until Yuuya learned other stuff of course. Guess that's Reiji's "boss monsters" mastery of every summoning mechanic.

[@stevennguyen8935]

So true

[@spuuki7860]

B-B-Beht wheres Ojama King

[@mezasepkmn]

Reformed but Unreformed Not his ace, it's Armed Dragon Level 10.

[@romulusnuma116]

Super Saiyajin God King of Llamas doesn't he only use it like ones? I think he used ojama king more?

[@mezasepkmn]

Romulus Numa Yeah but it doesn't matter how many times you use a monster for it to be your ace.

[@johnsmovies287]

Super Saiyajin God King of Llamas Chazz used LVL10 lik3 once, but he used King 5 times

[@romulusnuma116]

An ace monster is the monster you think of first when think of the character the Ojamas are chazz then armed dragon

[@baval5]

Flame Wingman and Decode Talker (along with Summoned Skull and Junk Warrior) are what I call the protagonists sub-ace monster, the monster theyre most well known for before they get their actual ace monster.

[@rayhayes7701]

baval5 could you explain it to me a little more please because I want to know

[@baval5]

sure but its not that complicated. Each of the early protagonists and apparently the recent one started out using one signature monster. For Yugi it was Summoned Skull, for Jaden it was Flame Wingman, for Yusei it was Junk Warrior, etc. They would summon these monsters in every game and often they were the key to victory. At some point in their series they then got a different monster that from that point on they used instead. The old monster still sometimes showed up but much rarer and almost always just to be immediately destroyed. For Yugi Dark Magician, for Jaden it was Neos, for Yusei Stardust Dragon.

[@rayhayes7701]

baval5 now what about Yuma and Yuyu

[@baval5]

They used a different style where they only had 1 ace monster but it changed into FOTM forms on a regular basis

[@amethonys2798]

baval5 even playmaker does basically the same thing albeit with his link-3s. The thing is he only uses Firewall in master duels which DOES make sense, but that causes it to have much less screen time especially considering he doesn't really use firewall THAT well.

[@GorgeousGirlGenius]

Its not up for debate, its kind of a trend Jaden had Wingman, then became Neos Yusei had Junk Warrior, then became Stardust Yusaku had Decode Talker, then became Firewall You can even say that Yuya had Odd-eyes, then became Odd-eyes Pendulum Yugi had Dark Magician, then came other Dark Magicians Yuma had Utopia, then came other Utopias Yuya had Odd-eyes, then came other Odd-eyes There's a trend from the first three protagonists above that they start with what's called a pseudo-ace, then will eventually be replace by their true aces, all that starts a trend of 2500 atk and that they all need "two cards" to summon (for firewall, this breaks the trend, because it can be summoned by two or more monsters) Edit: Stardust also breaks the trend, as it can be summond with 1 to 4 non-tuner monsters, along with the sole tuner monster of course.

[@exequielbreton4393]

Yugi had Summoned Skull, he used it before he got Dark Magician, in the Manga, and in Season 0

[@PhotonWarlord]

I really love Galaxy/Photon. It was actually the first deck I played when I started doing more competitive locals

[@siriuslyorion2975]

I think Shining Flare Wingman should've been Jaden/Judai's ace monster. Not only are its stats identical to Dark Magician's (2500/2100), it is a fusion monster, which was the summoning mechanic that flourished in GX and was used by pretty much everybody in that anime, and it would've fit better with every protagonist having their ace be the primary monster type of that era. Not only that, it was introduced much earlier (During the Camula duel) and it was an actual part of the E-Hero archetype, rather than neos, who was integral to a completely different (and shittier) archetype.

[@blazinbraixen9067]

Siriusly Orion if you ask me I feel like Jaden's Ace monster changes throughout the series but most of them stem from the base elemental heroes so honestly I'd call them his Ace monsters especially since he's won his fair share of duels with just his base elemental heroes, also in season 4 his Ace monster is arguably yubel.

[@cis22]

Chazz/Manjoume is also a very weird case in GX. He doesn't really feel much of a rival to Jaden/Judai. If anything, his rival should have been Aster/Edo (but like Neos, Aster/Edo was introduced in season 2). And Aster/Edo has Destiny End Dragoon as his Fusion monster with 3000 ATK. And going with the ARC-V alternate counterparts, there's Kite/Kaito (Yuma's rival), Jack (Yusei's rival), but the Fusion Dimension has Aster/Edo instead of Chazz/Manjoume.

[@mezasepkmn]

YES. SOMEONE GETS ME. SOMEOME UNDERSTANDS ME. Like, which do you think woulda made more money? Shitty New Ace, shitty new archetype along with it, or a couple of support cards for a really decent card?

[@Kefkaownsall]

Blazin Braixen depends on season like 4 wouldn't it be Yubel

[@kristofgriffin384]

What about Elemental Hero: Terra Firma? It was Jaden's Ace Monster in the manga. Much as I love Neo's design and aesthetic, Shinning Flare Wingman or Terra Firma would'vemade more sense.

[@Gay_Priest]

I’ll be honest, Reiji was as “all over the place” as arc-v. Doom king technically fits the criteria but he only ever really brought it out two or three times, and the rest of his duels was spent mostly getting out fusion, synchro and xyz all at the same time

[@matty9460]

When jaden duels yugi, yugi remarks "elemental hero neos is to you as dark magician is to me" so yeah I'd say neos is jadens ace

[@bocodamondo]

starving venom fusion dragon can somewhat count as a "rival" card for arc-v

[@RuneRelations]

bocodamondo More a villain than rival.

[@thegreatcheesedemon]

Yeah Starve Venom, Clear Wing Synchro, and Dark Rebellion Xyz are all good examples of 2500 cards that weren’t covered.

[@GorgeousGirlGenius]

bocodamondo I think it can't, as all the rival ace monsters are on trend with 3k atk Starve Venom serves as a "version" of the ace monster, Odd-eyes

[@AtrumErebus]

thegreatcheesedemon Starving venom had 2800

[@colinduchilio4052]

Tis simply the lore of Arc-V. It quite literally is a Version of odd-eyes. Since Yuya, Yugo, Yuri and Yuto are all the same person. Their monsters are also the same monster.

[@utopia19876]

I was always more of the believe that D/D/D Oblivion King Abyss Ragnarok was a better ace card or even the XYZ

[@RexForger]

memo davila if I had to pick an ace monster for Declan it would be d/d/d duo-dawn king Kali Yuga, he used it in most of his serious duels and it was seemed to be his most powerful

[@noahmartinez38]

Andrew Gauntner I think Kali Yuga is his super ace Like blue eyes ultimate dragon, dark paladin, shooting quasar, etc

[@kristofgriffin384]

I personally prefer the Rival Ace Monsters over the Protagonist Ace Monsters. They look much more badass and are a lot more fun to use: Blue-Eyes; Red Dragon Archfiend; Galaxy-Eyes; D/D/D and Rokkets are decks that I used a lot of times and they were great. The only exception is Armed Dragons because they were kind of lame. I used to think that Zane with his Cyber Dragons was Jaden's rival in GX.

[@bobsmith6919]

Don’t you mean ojamas

[@ericbayer123]

kristof gergely i believe Zane to still be Jadens rival. While the other (forget his name) is more of an enemy. Zane also meets the requirements that all other rivals etc meet. As in his ace and his other both use the "newest" (in this case it is fusion as it is the idea that was pushed the most unlike in the original) summoning technique

[@MobiusLeader007]

I think that is what they were originally going for with Zane in GX, as Chazz wasn't too much of a problem for Jaden (Chazz couldn't even beat Bastion). But I guess they didn't know what to do with Zane after Season 1 (GX barely had a plot), so he just...got tossed aside.

[@MegaMachiOnline]

Sospicion Chazz beat Aster and- was stopped by show biz when he was going to beat Jaden.

[@HequinoX]

Rokket and good does not fit together :thinking:

[@kingmuizz708]

Imo crowler is jadens true rival😂 His ace has 3000ATK His ace fuses to make a monster with 4400(near enough to 4500) And he verses Jaden a fair few times

[@kavinh10]

i think aster phoenix seems more appropriate for that, and even though he never used it vs Jaden his final ace monster destiny end dragon has 3000atk as well.

[@zacharyportnoy7618]

he faced him 2 times

[@MrJoobafob]

Idk, I'd still say Chazz is his rival, due to how he mirrors Kaiba. Checklist: - Rich kid ✔ - Only cares about power and winning (to begin with at least) ✔ - Kinda sucks as a player (again, at least to begin with) ✔ - Snobby and arrogant ✔ - Hot-headed ✔ Aster is more like Jaden's equal. Same goes for someone like Zane.

[@Pkgymmtr]

Jaden unlike most other protagonists changed his main rival throughout the series. It started with chazz, but he wasn't really a rival after the first half of season 1. Jaden should be listed as either having multiple rivals or none, because none of them were a main rival.

[@tylernewton7358]

Also, in one of the final GX episodes (the one before the duel with yugi I think) Jaden duels Crowler and (like in the first episode of the original with yugi dueling kaiba) Jaden duels Crowler in the first episode.

[@ShiaSpirit]

You could do a series about the friend character's boss monsters... RedEyes, the 3 Dragons in Arc V, Salamangreat, Blackwings, etc etc. Or that female friend archetype... Cyber Angels, Melodious, Trickstar, etc....

[@stevennguyen8935]

ShiaSpirit That is good idea.

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

So what would that be? Joey: Red Eyes Black Dragon Cyrus: Super Vehicroid Mobile base? Or would it be Jesse from GX since he and Jayden got VERY close very fast?: Rainbow Dragon Crow: Armor Master/Black-Winged Dragon (armor master is the better ace monster which he used more) Arc V: No idea never watched Vrains: Slamangreat Heatleo? Vrains is confusing since the main character never really had a friend until this most recent season. Unless you count Go/Blue Angel who are more rival's than friends.

[@benlucas3151]

Mobile Base isn't anime card; it'd be Jumbo Drill or Stealth Union.

[@justinjones7411]

You left out zexal with shark using number 32 shark Drake also I think a good way to tell which protagonist friends ace monster is, is to to see if they have 2800 attack points

[@e-tan3911]

So the characters that are usually better because they lose more often, and the waifus, gotcha

[@Xenolis]

So in Arc-V, Reiji didn't really have one boss monster. His strategy involved summoning the equivalent of 3 boss monsters in one turn. In addition, Borreload isn't really Revolver's ace, as he also has several boss monsters. The entire Topologic archetype and the Borrel archetype are all his "ace" monsters.

[@amethonys2798]

Sonicx5757 ace card is still mirror force. Fite me.

[@cyberdark1671]

@@amethonys2798 true

[@coyraig8332]

Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon is a perfect example of a card played for what it is instead of what it does. Neos Alius welcomes it's (relatively) new brother

[@mezasepkmn]

Flame Wingman is NOT Jaden's ace Card. Kazuki Takashi drew all the Protaginist with their cards in hand, and all the rivals with theirs in their hand. Elemental Hero Neos was in Judai's hand. This was before Vrains existed though, so his ace is still "up for debate."

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

In the japanese manga Judai said that flame wingman was his ace/favourite if I remember correctly. But in the anime Neos was definitely shown and suggested to be his ace monster.

[@ShuraEssays]

Haruhiro Grimgar in the first episode of GX and towards the end of season 3, Jaden/Judai refers to Flame Wingman as "My favorite card!" So that kind of speaks for itself.

[@baval5]

Flame Wingman was his sub-ace, which people forget most of the early characters had. Their ace before their real ace. These were Summoned Skull for Yugi, Flame Wingman for Jaden, and Junk Warrior for Yusei

[@eelehtrikidd1002]

Yuya Takahashi is an animator, known mostly for his work on dragon ball z...Kazuki Takahashi is the creator of Yugioh.

[@mezasepkmn]

Lee Ruhlman oof, thank you for noticing my mistake

[@shadytchrome2972]

Dzeef if Konami made a level 3 walrus monster but it was a Gemini would you play it

[@casinoroyal93]

No shit gemini is fantastic :U

[@Dzeeff]

Hell yeah

[@xxderpydougexx5113]

Cataclyt field and supervise.

[@xxderpydougexx5113]

Konami dos it

[@Danxv33]

7:29 Konami 2018: Hold my beer

[@theangelofdeath6138]

Owen Lloyd and that’s all that happened cause it still isn’t that good

[@wren5413]

Yusei Fudo While the strategy is no where near tier 1 the deck can still pump out some really good boards with 2-3 negates or just flat out Otk using Prime and another Xyz (Usually Cipher into Armor into Cipher Blade). It can play though boards decently well too and once Gouki gets hit it will actually be a decent contender on a local and regional level. The MAJOR thing holding it back is Pendulum Magicians. Pendulum Magicians basically do everything Galaxy does except more consistently.

[@papersonic9941]

I thought Kali Yuga was Reiji's ace? Then again, he's kind of unique in that he didn't really spam an ace monster.

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

I remember my dumb ass tried using "Level Up!" on Armed Dragon Lv7 in the WCS 2006 game. Since "Level Up!" summons the monster mentioned by the Lv monster in its effect, it summoned Armed Dragon Lv5 instead.

[@sethrenegade3533]

In the manga, chazz's ace monster is light and darkness dragon.......

[@caswellweird]

The DDD Kings are more of Reiji's aces than Doom King. He only used the Doom King as the base forms for his pendulum fusion, xyz, and synchos mons at the finale of the show.

[@aikamartinez013]

To me, the rival in Arc V doesn't have an ace at all. He only summoned that D/D/D monster twice and he only dueled at least 5 times unlike other rivals who at least did something.

[@PhobicGamingNerd]

Do the manga version of the protagonists and rivals ace monsters.

[@Mudkip971]

Could you review the protagonist's friend's ace monsters? Like Joey and Akisa

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

Joey and Crow* I would count Akiza more like Blue Angel as a sort of rival-turned ally. Crow was best buds from the moment he appeared.

[@drearydoll9430]

Joey - Red-Eyes Black Dragon Syrus - Super Vehicroid Jumbo Drill OR Super Vehicroid Stealth Union Crow - Blackwing Armor Master OR Black-winged Dragon Shark - Number 32: Shark Drake OR Black Ray Lancer Gong - Superheavy Samurai Big Benkei OR Superheavy Samurai Susanowo I Don’t know who the “best friend” character is for vrains. Also maybe he should review two aces for each best friend since each of them seem to have two aces

[@SShaBazzz]

@@drearydoll9430 Joey could also be Jinzo or Flake swordsman.

[@jocoolshow]

Mr. X Shark us 3 aces. Black Ray Lancer, then Shark Drake, then Silent Honor Ark

[@guythat779]

Crow bitch CROW

[@Gtaninja]

He is going to talk about Red-Eyes from a competitive point of view? Oh god.

[@sthenelos1]

Armed Dragon lv 10 is way more viable in duel links because the decks are half the size... just wanted to say that

[@babysinclairfan]

The antagonist ace monster video sounds cool, so here are some ideas: Duel monsters: Relinquished, The Winged Dragon of Ra, Divine Serpent Ge, Dark necrofear GX: The Sacred Beasts, Yubel, Arcana Force EX: the Light Ruler, Darkness Neosphere 5D': The Earthbound immortals, the Meklords, and the Timelords Zexal: Heraldry Crest, Heart Earth Dragon, Dark Mist, Chaos Chimera Dragon, CXYZ Barian Hope Arc V: Ancient Gear Howitzer, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon, Supreme King Z-Arc

[@phimandcharman7245]

Wouldn’t aster phoenix at one point be jaden’s rival?

[@mezasepkmn]

Phim And Charman Yeah, at one point. Then they barley interact again. Then the creator confirms that Chazz is his rival instead of Edo, Zane, or Johan

[@ShuraEssays]

Super Saiyajin God King of Llamas First I like how you say Edo and Johan but instead of Ryo you say Zane, and second, I really feel like Zane/Ryo was the rival. He was way stronger than Judai initially, then Judai strived to catch up to him, and they tied, and Ryo was much more of a serious opponent than Manjome or Chazz in the dub. I mean, the guy is more like a secondary protagonist after he comes back to Duel Academia. He was threatening, like, twice, unlike Kaiba who remained a force to be reckoned with for the whole series, or Jack, who was a serious match for Yusei, Kaito, who I don't actually think ever lost to Yuma, maybe once, or Reiji, who is probably the strongest main character of Arc-V. Like, if Chazz is a rival then, like, Crow was Yusei's rival. It's like suggesting that Joey was Yugi's rival.

[@MrGshinobi]

yes, but only briefly during season 2, after their second duel they become good friends and remain that way till the end of the series, there's no rivalry between them

[@D-Havoc]

@The Four Star Gamer Zane is definitely not Jaden's rival. Jaden never beats him and he is far outside of Jaden's league to begin with. And like others have pointed out, Jaden barely interacts with Zane. They only dueled twice and Zane is largely removed from most of the series.

[@MrGshinobi]

@deeperhavoc Why does it matter if Jaden has beaten him to count as his rival? they're definitely pretty close in skill level judging from their duels, that's the exact reason why Zane even choose Jaden as the duelist he needed to beat to graduate, and saying they barely interacted it's a flat out lie, they have a pretty good relationship since the beginning, they both seem to respect each other and regard the other quite highly, so much so that Zane was the one who gave Jaden his confidence back when he hit his lowest point in season 3.

[@obi-wankenobi8237]

I wish you replaced Armed Dragon Lvl 10 with Cyber Dragon X)

[@Lionkncplays]

I'll clarify real fast: Ace monsters: Dark Magician - Elemental HERO Neos - Stardust Dragon - N39: Utopia - Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon - Firewall Dragon There is a 2nd category if you will, that includes secondary main monsters or favorites that goes: Dark Magician Girl - Elemntal HERO Flame Wingman - Junk Warrior - Number F0: Utopic Future - The other 3 dimension dragons (Dark Xyz, Clear Wing, Starving Venom) - Decode Talker For rivals: Blue-Eyes - either or (Armed Dragon LV10 or Cyber Dragon) - Red Dragon Archfiend - Galaxy-Eyes - D/D/D Doom King Armageddon - Borreload Dragon Rivals always also have a better version of their main card. That list goes: Neo Ultimate Blue Eyes - Cyber End Dragon - Red Nova Dragon - Neo Galaxy Eyes - 3 here again (D/D/D Super Doom King Dark Armageddon, D/D/D Super Doom King Bright Armageddon and D/D/D Super Doom King Purple Armageddon) I don't know if Vrains has the upgraded version yet, not caught up. Hopefully the list helps, also if you want to review the secondary main monsters or the ultimate rival monsters you already have them listed here.

[@valkirus4542]

I started in 5D era and jesus it's mindblowing to see how much the game has gone faster. I remember when Red Dragon Archfiend was one of the most used and sought after synchros.

[@praggodey]

It got replaced by its hotter version

[@Sorvent_]

Do the Female Protagonist Ace Monsters next: Tea - Magician of Faith Alexis - Cyber Angel Dakini/Cyber Blader Akiza - Black Rose Dragon Yuzu - Bloom Diva And I forget what Aoi’s is. Maybe Holly Angel?

[@Asukafan11]

I think Mai deserves more the female protagonist title of the DM era.

[@DaakkuuYRS]

Yeah. Because Tea barely played. (By the way, all Tea's duels on the anime weren't show in the manga. In the manga she didn't even dueled officialy once.)

[@Sorvent_]

Daakkuu Sama Tea is the most op Duelist ever. She’s got the best record. She’s the real Main Character

[@drearydoll9430]

Tea - Dark Magician Girl Alexis - Cyber Blader Akiza - Black Rose Dragon Tori - Fairy Cheer Girl Yuzu - Bloom Diva the Melodious Choir Aoi - Trickstar Holly Angel

[@drearydoll9430]

Sorvent yeah but EVERY win she got is questionable

[@MiyaoMeow588]

Hmmmmm, yeah, it's a bit debatable whether Doom King Armageddon is a proper ace monster for the character it belongs to, because he hardly uses it. In fact, it's slightly debatable whether that character is *the* rival character at all, considering there does seem to be a much better choice in the anime as far as rivals go, and that character's ace is Starving Venom Fusion Dragon.

[@maarufkhan3129]

FUN FACT=the reason red dragon archfiend got 2 retrains is because the anime character Jack(in 5ds) uses the original Red Dragon Archfiend and the manga version of Jack use Hot Red Dragon Archfiend and for Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend Jack use him when he comes back in Arc-V.(The manga characters uses different cards then there anime version)

[@KhristianBolano]

D/D/D Doom King Armageddon isn't the true ace monster of Reiji Akaba. He has an ace strategy though: swarming the field with different kinds of monsters. He uses D/D/D Doom King Armageddon multiple times in the anime, in like 3-4 duels, but it always was part of other strategies. In the first duel, Reiji summons 3 copies of it by Pendulum summoning. In a later duel, he uses it for Xyz summoning Kali Yuga with Abyss Ragnarok. Later in the anime, he tribute summons it to trigger D/D/D Wave King Caesar's effect and search another card. In the last duel, he summons 3 copies of it again just to upgrade it into the Extra Deck versions of it. A better "ace card" for him would be the elemental trio. Genghis, Alexander and Caesar. He summoned those 3 monsters at the same time a lot of times, including against the final boss of the anime, in which he summoned the stronger versions instead. And that was to show how masterful the dude is, because with the multiple dimensions thing, if a dude was capable of summoning multiple monsters of multiple mechanics, then it was either a betrayer or a really masterful duelist. In fact, the only moment the main protagonist actually beated Reiji in a duel was after he mastered every type of summon mechanic, from Pendulum to Tribute, Xyz, Fusion and Synchro.

[@wintrygnu1078]

Regarding the D/D/D ace monster, the rival can hardly be considered a rival, as they only dueled a couple of times on incomplete duels

[@mezasepkmn]

WintryGnu doesn't matter how many times the rivals battled. Kaito and Yuma have only dueled twice, and Yuma didnt win either times. But, Kaito is still Yuma's rival.

[@D-Havoc]

What makes Yuma and Kaito rivals is that they have a similar goal of collecting Number cards. They may not duel a lot, but Kaito has helped Yuma and vice versa. That too, is also a part of being a rival.

[@wintrygnu1078]

Yet, I dont really see that type of chemistry between Yuya and Decan (whatever the hell it’s his name). After their first duel, Decan felt like “foc off m8 u skrub” and they were just there. No actual reason to be rivals unlike Kaito and Yuma, who had a common goal but weren’t allied

[@D-Havoc]

I haven't watched Arc-V, so I can't comment on any of that chemistry between the proganoist and allegend rival, but I all know form that's eires is that there's a cluster fuck of "Yu-" characters that don't go anywhere along with dropped plotpoints.

[@kaiwaters4530]

Firewall dragon is playmakers ace monster but like yuusei he's using another monster more often atm

[@ripteargaming600]

Galaxy photon decks are fun to play though and the cards are really cool

[@ch3stnutfh416]

The rokket strategy is simply make a link monster that can target your monsters with effects, i.e Borrel monsters. Rokkets are the bullets while Borrels are the guns. When a rokket monster is targeted with an effect, they get destroyed and apply an effect such as destroy a spell or trap, monster, cards on this column, etc. afterwords, they replace themselves at the end of the turn. This is where Borreload's out of place attack reduction targeting effect comes from.

[@Kefkaownsall]

Judai's rival is weird it like shifts each season

[@AzureKite]

he doesn't have a true rival, Manjoume is pretty much the closest thing though.

[@Kefkaownsall]

Azure Kite don't they need to give them a run for their money Manjome has never even come. Close

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

Eh in the final season Manjome could have won against Jayden had he activated Chthonian Polymer. Then of course it wasn't True King Jayden but still. Chazz had the opportunity to win but he tanked it so he could be famous. Also the only one who has come "close" then would be Aster Phoenix who beat Jayden once then never was able to win again. Kaiba and Jack Atlas never really came close to beating the main protag on screen but they are still considered rivals.

[@D-Havoc]

@Haruhiro Grimgar In Jack's case, a lot of what makes him Yusei's rival dates back to their past before the start of 5D's. But in the case with Kaiba, he has came close to beating Yugi nearly every time with him actually beating Yugi at Duelist Kingdom when it was to gain entry into Pegasus's Castle.

[@Medbread]

DeeperHavoc But only because he threatened to kill himself

[@hadoukenfighter]

here's another comment complaining that you got GX's rival's monster wrong and its actually ojama's and here's another comment saying that that rival wasn't the actual rival.

[@yusufbukhari6962]

my favourite deck is Blue-eyes white dragon with a mix of galaxy eyes monsters in the extra deck because they are similar level and are ridiculously good

[@BramLastname]

For those who haven't watched Arc-V Arc-V has 3 rivals And thus 3 rival ace cards Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon Clear Wing Synchro Dragon Starving Venom Fusion Dragon. The monster in the video is a monster used by the Kaiba-esque character alongside other boss monsters.

[@TheLordGojira]

>Borreload Dragon >Good card design Yeah okay.

[@e-tan3911]

It is a 3k monster with okay protection, a card removal effect, a free negate, and is a dragon, making it better b/c of cards like darkness metal for a free revive. Its not the best, but it still is good

[@Ghorda9]

@@e-tan3911 any card doing too much is not good design.

[@e-tan3911]

@@Ghorda9 then the meta cards of almost every card game are not good card design at all

[@Ghorda9]

@@e-tan3911 just because it's meta doesn't mean it's doing too much, yugioh is just notorious for power creep.

[@bluefable3416]

@@Ghorda9 Just because it doing too much doesn't mean it bad card design look at Monarchs they have one of if not the best card designed in 2016.Borreload is definitely good but not broken by any means plus it doesn't even do that much! It basically just a board breaker for games.

[@theangelofdeath6138]

Don’t listen to those people who said decode talker and flame wing man were ace monsters they clearly don’t know that the ace monster always has 2500 atk

[@casinoroyal93]

Yusei Fudo decode talker is the ace card. If you looked at the anime he ends revolver with Decode Talker not Firewall. He tributes firewall to summon it.

[@theangelofdeath6138]

CasinoR just read any wiki and it will say firewall is the ace card one moment from the anime doesn’t prove anything

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

The manga and sub version of Jayden (Judai) all suggest or say that Flame Wingman is considered their ace. It is the dub that changes it to Neos. Even the DL app can't make up it's mind with giving you Neos at the start and pointing you towards building a deck around flame wingman while leveling up. Also the Code Talker's are the equivilent of the Junk monsters. Decode Talker = Junk Warrior ShootingCode Talker = Junk Archer etc = etc. Firewall is the ace because Playmaker only brings it out when his back is against the wall and he needs to rely on his strongest monster. The Code Talker's are just the archetype his deck focuses on.

[@theangelofdeath6138]

Haruhiro Grimgar at the start but his ace eventually becomes neos

[@fubukichiba]

Haruhiro Grimgar watch Yugi vs Judai when they bring out DM and Neos Judai doesn't deny it's his ace

[@granmastersword]

You forgot to mention Galaxy Eyes Cypher Dragon, the retrain of Photon Dragon, which seems to be a favourite XYZ choice for decks like Blue Eyes. Also, it's hard to determine Reiji's ace monster since in all of Arc-V his strategy always relied more on summoning his extra deck monster trio than summoning Doom Knight Armageddon. Heck, as far as I'm aware the only time he summoned it was in his first or second duel with Yuya to show that he isn't the only one capable of pendulum summoning

[@kingjesterxii3963]

Chazz has 4 aces-VWXYZ, Armed Dragon LV10, Ojama King, Light and Darkness Dragon(Manga only). When a character has multiple aces you have to review the most relevent one to that charater, which would have been Either Ojama King or LaDD(Maybe even did both), but when most people think of chazzs' monsters, armed dragon is probably the last one thought of. It usually goes like this: Ojamas-VWXYZ-Chthonian-and if you even remeber he had these cards, then armed dragons(not counting LaDD because most people prob never read yugioh mangas). P.s.-Declan isnt really the rival of arc-v, its more so Sylvio or even Shay

[@sebassolano4038]

Review the Rokket archetype please

[@adolphineatingchildren2641]

Sebas Solano ask rank10ygo

[@Darkrai110]

So he can crap on it the whole video? Nah

[@luca65182]

Yeah, cool and all, Blue-Eyes is nice but... Why does literally everyone have to play nothing but Blue-Eyes?

[@mezasepkmn]

Commander Shephard I play everything- BUT Blue Eyes. But I don't go to tournaments- :3. On Nexus I use shit like Blackwings, Lunalights, Red Dragon Archefiend Deck, ect. I actually hate Blue Eyes and DM players especially on Nexus. Blue Eyes players always lose to me, and DM always beat me cause of Dark Magic Circle.

[@RallenRiko]

It's a decent and fun deck to play. It's one of the few anime decks that can actually be good if you play it with the right cards. Though it's nowhere near meta, a lot of meta decks at the moment have trouble getting over a 3k body.

[@mezasepkmn]

Orga777 Ew...Human interaction and paying money? Nahh I'd rather keep otking with Lunalights :3

[@luca65182]

Orga777 I boot up YGOPro - 15 Blue-Eyes in a row. I go to my locals - 5 out of the 10 duels I play are Blue-Eyes. I play casual with my friends - 6 out the 15 are all Blue-Fucking-Eyes.

[@Effrenatus]

Commander Shephard Nobody is playing blue eyes irl in 2018 lmao

[@lonereaper4287]

On the note of galaxy eyes, I'd agree that it is technically an ace but I'd say neo photon of no 62 are more of the aces, neo form my experience is a lovely way to shut down a play due to its summon effect that just says to anything with an effect on the field to go fuck itself and be nagated which is fun

[@sergiusprintar5491]

highly appreciated that this is a "Rival card reviews" and not an "antagonist card review" as you called them previously

[@kingmuizz708]

Borreload isn't Revolvers ace, Topologic bomber is.

[@zacharyportnoy7618]

no its borraload

[@ShiaSpirit]

king muizz He's used both pretty equally I think.

[@zacharyportnoy7618]

it doesnt matter how much it was played look at armed dragon level 10

[@theangelofdeath6138]

king muizz no it’s definitely borreload

[@theangelofdeath6138]

Zachary Portnoy the ace monster always has 3000 atk

[@MrGshinobi]

before watching this i'm expecting you to mention the following GX characters as rivals, since GX doesn't have a single rival: Zane, Aster and Chazz after watching: noooo, Zane is definitely not the main rival, he's more of a comedic relief and his ace monster is Ojama King, not armed dragon level 10... I'd argue that Zane is the real rival, as he has an actual rivalry with Jaden since their iconic duel in season 1, all the way to season 3, in which Zane plays a big role in the story to bring back Jaden from his lowest point in life.

[@juanreynaldo1041]

Chazz *is* the main (and only) true rival, and it's more than confirmed. And he has three ace cards : Ojama King, VWXYZ Dragon Catapult Cannon and Armed Dragon LV 7. Zane never cared about Jaden, he always minded his own business and they barely interact with each other after season 1. Yeah his ace cards are based in Kaiba's but he was never Jaden's actual rival.

[@SomniaCE]

This would have been a much more interesting series if you reviewed the archetype and not just the single monster

[@maarufkhan3129]

oh yeah and Declean doesn't even use his ace monster that much,the 5th ace monster in the video, he's deck is just about bringing out monsters quickly (at least in the anime)

[@carstan62]

I ran Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon in Hieratics for a long time and it was surprisingly strong. In Hieratics you usually have more important targets for targeted destruction on the field at the same time, so my opponents often ended up stopped by his inability to be run over by ANYTHING, the ability to strip XYZ monsters of their effects (and get stronger for it), and ability to dodge the ever-so-prominent Mirror Force. Also, his summoning requirement paired perfectly with them.

[@firelifeblizzard8782]

I remember when I was a kid playing online yugioh and my whole deck was just about Galaxy Eyes and XYZ monsters. Hearing that the photon deck is actually trash is like, a shock, but honestly not surprising lmao

[@garygao6072]

Galaxy Eyes is just Blue Eyes Extra Deck fodder

[@primepikachu5]

Its all about cipher blade sorry. They just don't give enough galaxy eyes support

[@LeMisterRai]

The only reason I think D/D/D Doom King Armageddon is the ace of Reiji is because it connects to his stronger monsters. The idea behind Yuya and Reiji's decks are that they make use of all extra deck summoning methods prior to links. Whenever he summons armageddon, he barely makes use of its on field effect (except for that one time) and simply just uses it for fusion, xyz amd synchro, like for Kali Yuga and the Superdoom kings.

[@AlghoulMazera]

The rival monster for Arc V shouldn't have been D/D/D Doom King Armageddon but instead D/D/D Dragonbane King Beowulf, it fits the criteria since it has 3000 ATK and 2500 DEF and its effects are viable since it makes it so every monster of the archetype does piercing damage as well as let you destroy every card in the backrow in your standby phase. Also I just now noticed this is a video from 2018 but oh well... Anyway good job Dzeeff, keep it up man ur videos are firee

[@The_Juggla]

I know this is an old video, but the idea behind Armed Dragon LV 10 was to use the spell card "Level Up" to ignore the summoning conditions, making it a lot more accessible. Back in the day you'd run Masked Dragon or less often Flying Kamakiri #1 to bait their monster to attack and destroy it so you could search out Armed Dragon LV 3 which would get the immediate level up on your standby phase, turning into a 2400 monster that easily killed something and when it did, you could level it up during the end phase. Back then it was a lot more viable than it is now, but it was a cool niche strategy.

[@DerekEidahl]

I believe the ace monster for Declan (Arc-V Rival) would either be D/D/D Gust High King Alexander or D/D/D Dragonbane King Beowulf. Both have that 3000/2500 ATK/DEF spread with Alexander at LVL 10 and Beowulf at LVL8. During the beginning of the anime though, I believe he had 3 ace monsters: Flame King Genghis, Gust King Alexander, and Wave King Caesar. There'd be many times where he had all three on the field at once. Now I've only seen Arc-V up until the Synchro World where Yuya is chained and unable to do anything (Ep 91) so I may be missing out on something.

[@PlatinumButthurt]

Rokket deck is a giant gun dragon shooting smaller bullet dragons at you. You gotta make the Rokket deck now.

[@RedBoy747]

The original yugioh series made it very clear on what was the ace monster of each character but from GX to Vrains it debatable especially when it comes to the rival in Zexal

[@Heckibrd]

Armed dragon lv 10 is a little more playable now because the fusion armed dragon catapult cannon allows you to use elemental hero prisma's effect to copy lv 7's name so you can summon lv 10. So at least if you were to play lv 10 you wouldn't actually have to play armed dragons.

[@thegreatcheesedemon]

With regards to Doom King Armageddon, the character who uses it is a Kaiba expy, but doesn’t duel very often and uses a lot of extra deck monsters as finishers. I wish you’d covered VWXYZ here. The character who used Armed Dragon Lv10 only used it once in season 2, but his dragon cannons saw a little more play.

[@wren5413]

The Photon Galaxy Deck is actually pretty decent with the new support it’s been getting. While the strategy is no where near tier 1 the deck can still pump out some really good boards with 2-3 negates or just flat out Otk using Prime and another Xyz (Usually Cipher into Armor into Cipher Blade). It can play though boards decently well too and once Gouki gets hit it will actually be a decent contender on a local and regional level. The MAJOR thing holding it back is Pendulum Magicians. Pendulum Magicians basically do everything Galaxy does except more consistently.

[@lordvaust5830]

To be fair, Flame wingman WAS Jaden’s ace until it was replaced by Neos. Chaz’s ace monster (according to duel links at least) is Ojama King. As I was writing this comment, my autocorrect turned “Ojama” into “Obama” make of that what you will...

[@miltonarijr]

Well, D/D/D Doom King Armaggedon technically Reiji Akaba's "ace" monster but its actually used for the actual ace monsters for syncro/xyz/fusion that he "mastered"

[@joshuasmith4643]

I wonder why people could never come to the fact that Flame Wingman was Jadens ace before Neos came into the picture. Like it's the typical anime story where the protagonist is all powerful and then one fight/duel throws them off and boom comes in a new power that is used for the rest of the time.

[@JustSomeDinosaurPerson]

Correction: Armed Dragon Lv10 turns every card in your hand into a lightning vortex, not a Raigeki, it doesn't destroy face down monsters like Raigeki does.

[@alvarooverlay5405]

Even considering what you said at the start i think Manjoume's Ace woud be between Armed Dragon Lvl 7, V to Z Dragon Catapult Cannon or Ojama King, he literally used lvl 9 like once or twice on the whole series, but used those monsters i named a lot more.

[@S.Drift.1]

Imagine if they made a Rivals duel power Ace cards

[@venga0712]

It's safe to say that zexal's actual rival ace monster would actually be Number C101: Silent Honor Dark, or just the regular Number 101: Silent Honor Ark Ark saw a bunch of competitibe play until it sadly got powercrept by castel the assblaster musketeer And the real boss of arc v would be D/D/D Duo-Dawn King Kali Yuga. If you manage to drop it against paleo and they can't stop the summon...you might as well say you've won that game However, if you want to stick to that 3k stereotype zexal didnt have much of it apart from galaxy eyes, acid golem, no 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings and gustav max Arc v would fall in the same category having doom king armageddon (which is horrid), D/D/D Gust High King Alexander (being summoned once in the entire anime) and D/D/D Oblivion King Abyss Ragnarok (having 3k def this time and beimg summoned twice in a single episode and rest of anime)

[@jorhatify]

Could easily just say Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend was the rival's ace monster as Jack Atlas was in the series and he provided a lot of growth for the character. Also features more as a rival than the actual rival

[@jorhatify]

I am aware. You know he asked if there was a better monster than D/D/D Doom King Armageddon right? Jack fits better as a rival than Declan did

[@carlosmorera0924cm]

Armed dragon lvl 10 has a lighting vortex effect, not a raigeki one just to nitpick a bit, also could you go into more detail on this protagonist/ rival/ antagonist decks, on the viable strategist and maybe some trivia on final boss monsters

[@MrMarinus18]

5:30 Red archfiend was more useful for it's attack for the casauls. It was the highest attack synchro monsters that was easy to come by and also summon. Even you could take care of your opponent's backrow it could easily beat most high level synchro monsters like Scrap dragon, thought ruler or stardust as well as most things they would normal summon. You could use black rose but that wiped out your own board and pretty much ended your turn as monster reborn was banned. Often though when the opponent has multiple defense position monsters it's more efficient to use black rose as they often also had backrow. Red archfiend was used during the late game when the opponent had used up most of his/her resources for one final strong monster to get victory and then run it over. Since it was used in those situations when both you and your opponent were low on resources the effect of blowing up your own monsters wasn't a big deal. Archfiend is either your only monster or you're using the few additional ones to finish the opponent off. When your opponent had a lot of backrow it was usually a better idea to summon stardust which was resistant against bottomless trap hole and mirror force.

[@AlistairZands]

If you were to do antagonist, you might have to break into 2 parts. But it might also be easier to tell their ace because it's just whatever best monster they summon in their big duel in their arc. But if you want a quick list instead of the wiki... Pegasus: Thousand Eyes Restrict Marik: Winged Dragon of Ra Noah: Shinato, King of a Higher Plane Dartz: Divine Serpent Geh Ziegfried: Golden Castle of Stromborg (although he had his brother duel in his stead to use it) Kagemaru: Sacred Beasts Sartorius: Arcana Force Ex - The Light Ruler Supreme King: Evil HERO Malicious Fiend Yubel: Yubel - The Ultimate Nightmare Darkness: Darkness Neosphere Rex Goodwin: Earthboun Immortal Wiraqocha Rasqa Aporia: Meklord Astro Mekanikle Z-ONE: Sephlyon, the Ultimate Timelord Vetrix: Number 69: Heraldry Crest Dr. Faker: Number 92: Heart-eartH Dragon Dark Mist: Number 96: Dark Mist or Number C96: Dark Storm Don Thousand: Number C1000: Numeronius Numeronia Nash: CXyz Barian Hope (in his biggest duel, but he also used Number 101 and C101 in duels before that) Roget: Ancient Gear Howitzer (Academia members as a whole also tend to have Ancient Gear Chaos Giant) Leo Akaba: Master Spirit Tech Force - Pendulum Ruler Yuri: Starving Venom Fusion Dragon Zarc: Supreme King Z-ARC Spector: Sunavalon Dryatrentiay Varris (Revolver): Borreload, but you could do Topologic Gumblar Dragon due to it's use in his biggest duel

[@platypusfox73]

I actually played the lv 10 armed dragon back in the day and I only managed to summon the thing once. Mainly because I was fortunate to have two level up cards in my hand but most of the time when I played the armed dragon strategy I was always relying on the 5 and 7 versions to win. So I say you analysis is definitely spot on considering that card.

[@John_1-1_in_Japanese]

I never watched Arc-V beyond the first few episodes, but I think the thing about Doom King Armageddon was that it was meant for play with the spell cards D/D/D Synchro, Fusion, or Xyz. Either one turned Doom King into a one card Rank 8, Synchro Lvl 10, or Fusion pretty much. But those cards never got released.

[@maverickso8397]

imo, when Galaxy/photon first came out, i really liked it alot but wasnt ever able to make it work in a consistent enough way but after ciphers came out it was so much easier to play galaxy because ciphers were able to open more options

[@Dragon13527980]

hey dzeeff D/D/D doom king armageddon gets upgrades through the series like the 3 super dooms and chaos king apocalypse

[@MineNAdventurer]

Boreload was a Synchro Monster with a Link Monster ability, but this just makes him even better (except you need atleast 4 monsters compared to 1 monstef and 1 tuner)

[@Chronoflation]

I'd call the Ojamas Chazz's aces since they become his signature archetype, or even the VWXYZ as it's another one of his main archetypes, just cause I don't even the Armed Dragons really stayed around for very long. But that aside, GX really would be better suited with multiple rivals represented, cause they kinds didn't have just 1. Zane and Aster were both rivals to Jaden just as much as Chazz, maybe even more, as Chazz rarely even put up a challenge to Jaden. But that's just my opinion on the matter. Heck, saw someone mention Crowler and that kinda makes a ton of sense too. Recurring antagonist/anti-hero who he fought in the first episode who has the 3000 base attack ace monster that can still be boosted through fusion or other effects. GX was really full of characters who could fill that ace rival role kinda naturally just based off of the setting and character interactions. Pretty crazy really

[@Sorapie]

Just so you know, Flame wingman was the initial ace monster for Jaden Yuki in season 1 until Konami decided he needed an equivalent to dark magician, so they created neos and made Jaden play the NeoSpacian archetype. Decode is not exactly playmaker’s ace monster, but is mostly his trump card. Firewall is like a quasar for him but is debatable about being the ace since he’s an ace who is also his boss monster.

[@leafbladie]

5:08 it might've been nice to make mention of how Elemental Hero Prisma makes the card stupidly easy to summon.

[@xhale671]

I know this comment has nothing to do with thr rivals cards but.. I wish the elemental heroes would get a buff. They should •Give some of the fusion monsters higher att points •better support •change their abilities or at least make em useful •make neos wiseman and god/divine neos stronger (*especially* God neos I mean he has God in his name so he does deserve some kind of a better treatment) and easier to summon •and make elemental heroes an effect monster, his contact fusion should become a real thing And no, I'm not a real ygo player I read some of their effects

[@JonBc14]

The Doom King was summoned twice in the ARC-V anime. & every single time, It was always pendulum summoned, but the rival of that season summoned MANY D/D/D monsters throughout the season.

[@damiannova5207]

An interesting idea would be a video that reviews the “sub-ace” protagonist monsters; monsters that are used frequently by the protagonist, but not as frequently as their ace monster, and all have ATK around 2000. Yugi, DM: Dark Magician Girl Jaden/Judai, GX: Flame Wingman Yusei, 5Ds: Junk Warrior Yuma, Zexal: Heroic Challenger Excalibur Yuya, Arc-V: admittedly idk if he has one, Yusaku, VRAINS: Decode Talker (or some of the other Code Talkers, like Encode or Excode). Another cool idea could be reviewing the upgraded forms of ace monsters: Magician of Black Chaos, Dark Magician of Chaos Divine Neos, Neos Wiseman Shooting Star Dragon, Shooting Quasar Dragon Utopia Ray, Utopia Ray V, Utopia Ray Victory, Utopia Beyond Odd-Eyes Saber Dragon, Odd-Eyes Lancer Dragon, Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon, Beast-Eyes, Rune-Eyes and Brave-Eyes

[@shadowlucario9718]

I can safely say that among level monsters, armed dragon level 10 is the odd man out, as after a lot of reaserch on level decks, it is the only one i found that the previous form doesn't rank-up into it. Before you ask, I like to write books, and considered a level deck for one of my characters.

[@liampual9463]

Dzeff you were wrong about the arc-v rival card he only used doom king armaggeddon like once, his signature cards are actually the D/D/D Extra deck monsters. He just plays D/D/D like we do in real life where he spams his monsters to bring out very powerful extra deck monsters.

[@vparsa87]

For flamewingman, it was used a lot in season 1 but in season 2, Jaden can't see his cards anymore and is forced to essentially get a new deck. This is where we get the "new" summoning method which was contact fusion which neos was the center of it all. I say "new" because we still saw contact fusion in the original yugioh with xyz dragon cannon, but gx obviously focused a greater deal on it. Personally I think it would have been better if the "new" form of summoning was transformation fusion where Jaden plays his masked heroes from the manga, but oh well.

[@ethancampbell8377]

DDD decks are amazing. Even post link. And I would say doom king armageddon is the boss, but shining and dark armageddon are close seconds

[@babysinclairfan]

Armed dragon lv10's strange restriction is due to the fact that he was created well after armed dragon lv 7. As a result, armed dragon lv 10 needed an inherent summoning condition. I thought that it would be interesting if lv 10 could summon itself from the deck, but if Konami had release cards that activate from the deck back then, it would have snowballed into utter degeneracy by now.

[@MetaSkipper]

A lot of protagonists have a mini-ace that gets used first (Shining Flare Wingman, Junk Warrior for example) before they get the "true" ace (Elemental HERO Neos, Stardust Dragon).

[@1001011011010]

Shining Flare Wingman is cool but I think Flame Wingman is more like the mini ace.

[@ciphymasterofmedia9104]

as someone who plays a D/D deck, armegaddon's strategy is pretty much raming small monsters into your opponents monsters and having them be destroyed by battle and then giving armegaddon the attack points so it can either run over and opponents big monster or otk your opponent.