Unleashed Power !! - The Story of the only Yu-Gi-Oh! Shonen Jump Championship where Stratos was at 3

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

I swear Jeff Jones, he is single handedly responsible for getting more of my favourite cards on the Forbidden and Limited list than any other player. Stratos, Spore, Dandylion, Glow-Up Bulb and so many others.

[@frenchiee_96]

Actor Adam Anouer lol tengu plant is fun as hell

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Oh damn straight man. Also canny forget the other parts of the hero engine being Malicious and Diamond Dude, the cards that jacked up the prices of a Top Meta deck in a way the rest of the game would emulate forever onward.

[@disonsprodigy5909]

Actor Adam Anouer i have to disagree with you sir. its not jeffs fault rather its the bandwagoners and backpackers who see a noted players tech cards and use them.

[@getyourgameon1990]

Dison's Prodigy Why wouldn't they? Why not play what works?

[@codyallen43]

Jeff Jones is a god

[@kevinalbarn120]

#FreeMyNiggaStratos

[@gao4605]

He free now

[@masoudshairzadeh6820]

He free now

[@FGj-xj7rd]

The story of Cap G that edits. *FeelsGoodMan*

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

And there is a reason why we call a lot of similar cards a "Stratos". Satellarknight Deneb, Trickstar Candina, Windwitch - Glass Bell, etc. Stratos was just THAT influencial even in such a simple way!

[@supercanadian0640]

Now we know why Stratos is still banned Kappa

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Yeah! i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶h̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶b̶l̶a̶c̶k̶.̶

[@klondikelegitski675]

Why was he so good in non hero decks?

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Sebastian that my friend is very simple. It's simply because Elemental Hero was the best and only +1 recruiter at that point in the game (besides the Gadgets) and he could also recruit himself. Not only that his second effect (S/T destruction) gave him a lot more flexibility to use more than one copy if you wanted to.

[@goyuujin]

Not in the OCG. lol

[@samueljackson3512]

NOT ANY MORE NIGGAAAA

[@CaliburXL99]

Damn stratus has been with a lot of different decks hope he was wearing protection.

[@icantth1nkofab3tt3rname6]

Stratos’s manga effect was by halving it’s attack it could attack directly

[@KingofBeasts444]

I can't th1nk of A b3tt3r name they should reprint him with that ability again to legally play him.

[@Doctor3vil]

Yosenju Kama 2 literally ripped it

[@starrysunsetgaming]

If Stratos wanted he could self unban, but he know he is too stronk for his time.

[@ufukcangencoglu2279]

Even sarcasm triggers me.

[@dragonknight1560]

His legend... F**K YOU TCG KONAMI! BRING BACK STRATOS! #FREESTRATOS! We need Heroes again, bring them back!

[@denglong7180]

Heroes, even with stratos at 3 won't do shit

[@thenightstalker6165]

I don't understand why he's banned his backrow removal effect is shit he's overall a Deneb his effect to be used multiple times only works if you open revival cards which is not the most consistent and honestly he's good at 1 since we have e hero calling searching can't be that game breaking when we just got Gateway backfor sams that is problematic searching Stratos is just good but not broke some crappy decks from 2007 can't still be the reason he's banned

[@Gogetossj50]

And now he'll be back in 5 days. Along with D-Hero Malicious.

[@danieldragotti2608]

I want him back so bad.

[@deanthelemur1716]

daniel dragotti that's what she said

[@kwayke9]

Maybe with a HOPT errata on the second effect, otherwise, I don't think this is realistic EDIT: HE'S BACK. No BS either

[@NelsonMusic]

Hes back now

[@TheChazz9677]

Don't know what you're talking about

[@NelsonMusic]

Stratos is limited to one now, he's unbanned

[@No2hISwear]

Press F to pay respects

[@goldensimp7729]

F

[@astrobonk]

Fffffffffffffffffffffff

[@dwemjutsu]

X

[@lauriemobley9833]

No2h Returns FFFFFFFF

[@DjesertGaming]

He's back boiz

[@dreadknight2439]

9 months later, we have a single stratos, the world has gotten a fresher air, the future seems brighter, and life seems worth living again.

[@gabudaichamuda2545]

5:15 Maaaan... I look at that Deck and it gives me shivers. I miss good old generic Warrior Decks so much.

[@jorgenieto1343]

These kind of videos are way better and much more entertaining, informative, etc. than the replays

[@beatleplayer1011]

Another story about how Cap was wrong PogChamp

[@MirageUchiha]

Holy shit. I searched sooooooo much with Stratos that I honestly forgot that he could pop back rows. Haha

[@andyS13]

Stratos Unchained

[@rasmusstenhjkoustrup5345]

5th time i listen to to this, and still aren't tired of it

[@DarkChocolateGamer]

Stratos He wasn't the Hero we needed but the Hero we deserved

[@Thestar17x]

if he did what he was supposed to do like in the manga he wouldn't be banned "you can halve this card's ATK until the End Phase to allow this card to attack your opponent directly this turn."

[@sammydray5919]

Chrono Shindou Ewww.......

[@Thestar17x]

Sammy Dray yea but not ban worthy

[@killu2later]

And people say that they dont buff cards from the original design

[@Thestar17x]

killu2later happens from the manga alot

[@CharlemagneYGO]

Considering the TCG is not afraid to have slightly different boundaries on cards as far as an errata will go, also considering the TCG still does not have an errata’d Chaos Emperor Dragon, it would not surprise me if the TCG made the errata first and then later having that move onto the OCG or just have it completely separate like the case with Chaos Emperor Dragon. Possibly an Errata along the lines of restricting Stratos to activating either effect only once per turn and restricting the adding effect to either only Elemental Hero monsters or a searching effect similar to Isolde where the added card can not be normal summoned or activate its effects this turn. Of course that will make Stratos infinitely worse but that’s the trend as far as errata’s have gone. And also it will more or less fix any of those absurd over the top combos. Hell add the clause that Stratos only gets his effect when he’s normal summoned I don’t care just give him back. #FreeMyNinjaStratos

[@humbletreestump8134]

Out one day and wins a huge championship then almost immediately ban listed. What a meteoric rise and fall.

[@DanielLarsonofficia]

#freemyniggahstratos

[@isaacmahoney5947]

He got freed how you doin now

[@DanielLarsonofficia]

@@isaacmahoney5947 I'm doin good batman

[@blanks7151]

I was using a gadget control deck around that time and got 3 place in a toysrus tournament (went undefeated in the preliminaries but lose to a stealth bird deck (beat him in preliminaries) and won against jinzo). The deck ran a cyber dragon (think he was limited at the time) and 2 frost Monarchs)

[@christopherbouska6779]

There was also basically no net decking.

[@kennethramirez7697]

Good morning CapG

[@animeknight99]

Its the Stratos video CapG was talking about on Twitch *PogChamp*

[@Nershedify]

I was the only kid of my friends that got the shonen jump that stratos first came out in. I threw him into an OG heroes deck, I'm talking Rampart Blaster, Wingman, etc, and never lost against any of my friends with the deck solely because of him.

[@slackerZ1]

I remeber when prisma was big in GB'S and main decking stratos just to get it lol love all these stories the story of tele-dad or full power OG lightsworns

[@patreilly3184]

i love this series, espcially as a new player

[@Rene-ij1ut]

Stratos will be free again... as Limited

[@Syrxen]

I wish

[@Megawott104]

Same

[@simas4609]

He's free now

[@rendevoir4736]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Story 101 with megaCapG

[@ares6037]

I had gotten my first copy of Stratos out of a pack, just before he got banned.

[@DuxDamnatio]

Hybrid heroes are actually pretty good now if you run some kinda bad cards you can open plasma dark law with your emz open

[@trainfan4449]

i always wondered about this.

[@Forbidden_0ne]

The Golden Age of yugioh.

[@theguyyoucantstand6222]

Well, damn, I didn't realize just how powerful Stratos was back in the day. It would still be cool to see what would happen if he was brought up to 1 for the next banlist at the very least.

[@tzouv2694]

Your best vid are the story ones

[@TCGrodney89]

Best time of deckbuilding era

[@heroduelist9242]

The real problem back then was dimension fusion

[@justagreatguygaming]

GOD! I miss him...

[@LukesYuGiOhChannel]

Which version had more success in the OCG before this SJC?

[@MegaCapitalG]

AirBlade Turbo the same deck that won this SJC. The Ocg had it a lot longer than we did and it was basically unstoppable .

[@davidhagensten4264]

I was at the shonen. Good times I played Machines with triple Stratos that I borrowed.

[@skytheprimaldragon7689]

Wait...There was a time that Elemental Hero Stratos wasn't on the Ban List? What insanity is this?!

[@DragonAlchemist0]

Here is the thing. Stratos did 3 things. 1 Was a steady attacker, 2 added hero monster including himself (could of been errata only other hero monsters excluding himself) 3 destroy spell and traps up to the number of hero monsters. (i believe he was errata to other her monsters for the destruction effect.) the rest of the cards in the did all the work. Stratos was a option play at any point when needed when you needed to thin the deck if he is the only target by 1 card, or pop 1 card. Once again i believe​ they changed that. When he went 1 it was all the revival cards that made him the problem. Also bad format design is also konami fault.

[@DragonAlchemist0]

Did quick check. Stratos original text did require another hero monster on the field for his destruction effect. So it is possible people not reading cards was also at fault for stratos hype. The second effect to add was always search for a ehero or dhero until they errata to say hero monster. Errata 1 changed to allow ehero dhero and or evil hero to a requirement for his destruction effect. His third errata messed up and removed the requirement of other hero need to trigger. I remember during that era even in shop tourneys people were only counting stratos himself to use the destruction ability and there was only 1 of him on the board.

[@DrewNoted]

STRATOS IS FREE!! THE BOY IS BACK!

[@Jimpipecigarbear]

Thinking of targeting. I don't know how many times I had to tell players that mole does not target. Lol.

[@antiheartless45]

I still don't understand why non Hero deck ran him?

[@Thestar17x]

antiheartless45 they had targets for airman

[@KaoruMzk]

1800 beat stick that searched another copy of itself on summon, plus you could pop back row if you summoned a second one.

[@adamwinrow4926]

it was at a time where deck thinning was prime and plus one made a huge difference only people who played in slower yugo can understand that this was also at a time where backrow actually existed so the mst effect was relevant

[@arjunant9930]

im confused. in the first two top eight decks, was he just used to search himself out?

[@MegaCapitalG]

Yep

[@michaelperezii]

The World Needs A Hero... an Elemental Hero!

[@zenorose8569]

So that's what Stratos I never seen it before

[@chrishuber1460]

And after Diamond dude turbo, we got DAD Return format

[@savagecookie2540]

I still fail to see the deadly combos can someone explain

[@ufukcangencoglu2279]

They were/are gimmicky combos that exist with pretty much every card + Infernity.

[@honniegraham4736]

#freeStratos

[@theermac6024]

Stratos was kinda released about 4 to 6 years too early.

[@sammydray5919]

TheErmac Is it too strong for meta now? Sorry I'm not too experienced with the game...

[@ufukcangencoglu2279]

nope. He wouldn't do anything in the meta.

[@theermac6024]

I'm not saying he is still too stong, just that the support nowadays do just what stratos do now.

[@stoneyneff8555]

you should make a video about the rise and fall of the PSP tag force games .

[@HorizonsEndUS]

@megacapitalg could you do vid for Cybernetic Revolution and it’s Impact as well could you do a vid on Diamond Dude Turbo

[@russianbot2179]

I mean it searches itself. There is a reason 90% of search cards now days do not allow you to search for itself.

[@slowduck1204]

Wait a second! Why does this Jeff Jones have not one, but two Don Zaloogs in his deck?

[@belialderai4801]

SuperMewdude64 cause he's ripping hands apart like a real man

[@alexandrubragari1537]

@@belialderai4801 lmao and that is true too. Basically zaloog is really a win condition in that deck with all that control support (also these days the meta was slow) so at 2 its good because you can se him more often in your hand (at 3 its too much, you dont wanna see 2-3 Dons in your first hand too often)

[@voidxd007]

Bring back Ma old boi stratos :D

[@guacamolegeneral1060]

5:29 there is no target for stratos to search

[@harleygallagher4934]

Alexander Ledl searches itself

[@davidmedina9704]

Whoah whoah whoah there's a number past turn 1 or 3?

[@starbomber]

So if Stratos is All Might, does that make Shadow Mist Midoriya? (spoiler warning?)

[@gudakoalter]

Stranos is BACK!!!

[@jamesvanhelsing6331]

You forgot to mention it was used in tele dad

[@coldwintersknight9793]

Konami of America keeps Stratos banned solely because it's a meme and they don't want it to die

[@martinreid7958]

Hero's are love

[@williamhowe1]

All hail lord Stratos!

[@mikebottomlesspitdunham2954]

So that's why, though I still want him to be Limited

[@scary-sounds]

I think some people have to face the facts in order to get stratos out of yugiohs version of jail he's gonna have to get an errata which will eventually happen in the end to all cards

[@scary-sounds]

Milan S. Its sad to say its inevitable thats the reason the banlist exists to keep the catds there only too get the errata thats the inly reason it was even green lit

[@scary-sounds]

Milan S. But i dont mind erratas personally but we all have are own opinions and likes same if you like a certain archetyoe but hate others and vice versa for your friends

[@scary-sounds]

Milan S. Well we may never kbow but maybe one day will get him back i mean hey i heard that the icg may get some banlist cards off the list and eventually will get the list so i heard

[@TheMegaultrachicken]

horror radio dream radio I'd like an errata of metamorphosis and butterfly dagger elma so i can actually summon elemental hero neo bubbleman and guardian elma.

[@kirinthewanderer5896]

even after watching this I still think that stratos should come back to at least 2...

[@ABSallah1]

I would love to know if Stratos was at 1 again, how would that affect the meta?

[@Thestar17x]

ExpertGains no just no

[@YgoFissureNation]

It wouldn’t lol

[@killu2later]

HEROS get stronger, but not strong enough to effect the meta. You know unless Jeff Jones come in with some weird variant, and completely wins a event. But what are the odds?

[@ABSallah1]

I honestly think they may not even need it...so many ways to search heroes already...

[@jebus159753]

HEY HEY KONAMI. U WANNA BREAK THE META? FREE STRATOS

[@dangeryu-gi-ohchannel5513]

i remember this. played my first regonal terniment in columbus that year.

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

How'd you fare buddy?

[@trainfan4449]

Actor Adam Anouer Trash. I was young (mb 15) and ran an ultimate insect LV deck. Got 1 game win and 0 match wins. Game win was against my dad. It was also his only match win. Back then we played to have fun not to win.

[@Not_cee]

Hes names airman

[@gudakoalter]

#respectStratos # freeStratos

[@undeadinside3571]

Airblade turbo

[@mike_deity]

Am i the only one that notices that he pronounces months as munths .... .... I look forward to his videos just so i can here him say "munths"

[@roguedexx938]

#FreeStratosNow

[@ThePoisonedPotion]

i would love to see some duels with these old decks

[@osblarg]

All past time was better

[@christophermcrae3052]

I like the story but you never stated why or how stratos was good. You never even mentioned what his effect is.

[@MegaCapitalG]

Well Stratos effect is on the card at the beginning of the video. As for why he was so strong/good its because he could search the entire Elemental and Destiny Hero archetypes on Summon (in this event many just searched more copies of himself essentially turning him into a giant Gadget). Also he had spell and trap removal built into the package. In an advantage based era of Yugioh Stratos was the perfect mix of great stats, raw potential (s/t removal effect) and simple advantage (summon him and instantly get a free monster).

[@christophermcrae3052]

@@MegaCapitalG oh I'm watching on mobile I couldn't read the effect. I didn't know he could search himself I thought he had the same restriction most cards do now. Thanks for the reply

[@xxstylinonyaxx2622]

#freemyniggastratos 😢

[@deetay59]

Why would someone use stratos in a deck that's not heroes stratos doesn't work in non hero deck because he can't use his effect to search hero monsters so

[@MegaCapitalG]

Stratos *CAN* Search himself. That's part of what made him the best monster in game.

[@ZinedinePrime]

Ok unban him now, he's not OP anymore

[@abaddon7971]

All hail Stratos! He would make omni heroes great again (as great as outdated fusions can be) #DarkLawIsNotMyBoy(Girl?)

[@jameszetterman4487]

Sssargon Pretty positive Dank Law is a dude.

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Dark Law and Shadow Mist are female, as shown in the GX Manga.

[@gabudaichamuda2545]

Wait a damned minute. I'm reading the F/L list... Stratos ain't at 3. No way.

[@bdown_hbunz]

Wait what? EDIT: lmao I thought u were talking about the current list so I got sooooo confused

[@gabudaichamuda2545]

@@bdown_hbunz No, I AM. I was reading the current F/L list, and I haven't played in years. Had no idea they moved Stratos to 3.

[@Locke5413]

#FREEMAHSTRONGAFRICANAMERICANBRUTHASTRATOS

[@TheCrunchG]

I wonder how they came up with Stratos real life effect, especially considering that terrible Manga effect he had.

[@Satoshi20001]

Anime and TCG Stratos came first the manga one came a few years after

[@Shadowx157]

freee him

[@literallyh3093]

Solemn strike. gg

[@BlazingSerenade]

Your videos are absolutely better now that you’ve gotten rid of that cringe intro - also, FREE STRATOS

[@levij323]

Liked for 666 likes.

[@dragonic1153]

23rd

[@denglong7180]

Just stop... Stratos is at 2 in the OCG and he still doesn't do shit. People need to stop overhyping bad cards.

[@killu2later]

I wouldnt call Stratos a bad card though. His history disqualified his as being called bad period. You should blame the Archetype not the card. And isnt the OCG still in a tier 0 Spyral format? So can you really use that as an example currently

[@HorizonsEndUS]

Can we just Banned Synchro and forward from yugioh and go back to the golden age of yugioh

[@happygenerously6008]

#FreeMyNiggaStratos

[@NBAPwns13]

#FreeMyNiggaStratos

[@GBTMinecraft]

#FreeMyNiggaStratos