Was Blue Angel About To Defeat Playmaker? [Fallen Angel]

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[@TGSAnime]

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[@eW91dHViZSBpcyBjZW5zb3JzaGlw]

can you do a video of playmaker vs. the guy with borrelload dragon? i really thought yusaku was going to lose that fight!

[@umergulmuhammad9756]

Now Please do these: 1) Was Varis about to beat Playmaker 2) Was Varis about to beat Lightning 3) Was Varis about to beat Soulburner 4) Was Ai about to beat Playmaker 5) Was Sheppard about to beat Soulburner 6) Was Bohman about to beat Playmaker

[@chase8044]

, she has a second win during her final turn. When she summons lily bell, playmaker should take 200 dmg from Holly angles effect and 200 from light stage. Holly gains the 200 from her effect making her stronger than driver. Holly angle attacks over drive, lily bell attacks for 1000 total bringing him down to 1400. Candina attacks for game, right? Let me know if I got anything wrong with effects but I'm pretty sure angle gains attacks off her own effect. She was cheated out if her win, assuming she runs 1 candina.

[@haydenthomas9841]

Hi just to let you know in Speed duel both players have 20 cards in the main deck and 5 in extra deck

[@caswellweird]

If Blue Angel had chained Reincarnation to Link Spider’s effect, she could have completely killed his turn because he would not have any normal monsters to play, and he would have taken more damage since 4 cards would have been banished.

[@Shugunou]

I thought that was what she was gonna do but she didn't.

[@AMW1able]

there's no guarantee that Playmaker wouldn't have drawn into another Level 4 or lower normal monster

[@Shugunou]

@@AMW1able Even so, it would've done more damage so it would've been the superior play.

[@Justicetom21]

@@AMW1able Even if he did, then it would have been more damage and equally as effective. Unless she expected him to search a card to his hand at some point during his opening, the moment she saw an effect that summons from hand being activated, Reincarnation should have been her immediate play in the hopes of causing Link Spider to resolve without effect.

[@AMW1able]

@@Justicetom21 yeah, and if this was a real duel I'd agree, but it's the anime. Even if she had done that play, the writers would've made sure that Playmaker drew into another monster he could summon from Link Spider's effect and the Duel continues as it did. They'd have just needed to give him a way to regain LP so he didn't burn himself to death. But real duel, absolutely chaining Reincarnation to Spider would've been the correct play.

[@Kuzma_86]

Never tought I would see a Vranis duel analysis (due to their complexity, even duel writer admited so), but here we are. You always manage to suprise me with your creativity and dedication, love you so much.

[@TGSAnime]

Honestly that was the case! I think some of the late game duels might be a bit too overly complex to "Analyse" but testing the waters with this one gave me a bit more hope. If the video does Ok I'll look into doing more in the future!!! Also, Glad you like the content 😃

[@SpecsTube]

@@TGSAnime I agree. I felt you weren’t going to do later series duels as effects get more complex along the road which might make them harder to analyse but I’m impressed. We support you through this and don’t be afraid to do polls and tabs to receive our thoughts on any future analysis

[@duncanw5644]

@@TGSAnime imagine if you have to do Playmaker vs AI. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that!

[@tommasopodini333]

@@TGSAnime i'm sad because the soulburner vs revolver duel is probably the best duel in all of yu gi oh in terms of complexity and skill, it would be awesome to see that duel analysed, but i don't know if that is possible

[@SpecsTube]

@@tommasopodini333 I’d love to see this duel done although looking back I think the duellists did play the best duel they could and soulburner definitely deserved that win

[@Jay_The_Sannin]

SHE COULD HAVE OTK’D AND THEY KEPT DOING THAT WITH HER MAKING HER MAKE STUPID MOVES FOR PLOT, She still my favorite

[@chrisdonovan9872]

Well anime is mostly decks of 1 off unless the card is for plot plus otks are not fun storytelling unless they want a overkill moment like most otks in the ygo anime

[@grammysworld5449]

I hate protagonist plot so much.. especially when the duelist just abandons their winning strategy for no reason at all.. They aren't even goaded into it half of the time

[@friendmaker9210]

This is actually realistic if they had written it a bit better, where she would lose because of her lack of technical skill despite having a powerful deck. It could explain away misplays. I wonder if there's any examples of that in the anime. I can think of maybe the netdeck guy from GX who used Yugi's deck, but that wasn't due to his lack of skill.

[@davigabriel783]

Playmaker Plot amor is insane or the writers are lazy to make him lose

[@rafaelbrites3607]

sometimes i think this was all konami´s fault,that the were forcying the ideia that cyberses are very cool and powerfull.

[@amateraceon5202]

"I haven't watched any of the anime past Zexal, I wonder how these duels go" _Immediately opens with one of the most batshit insane long combos I've ever seen_ "What did I just watch?" "Actually, there was a better combo that she could've done instead!" "Yup that's enough Yu-Gi-Oh for today"

[@heavydonkeykong5190]

Vrains duels were SOMETHING ELSE, let me tell you. Arc V duels weren't shabby either.

[@N12015]

That's early Link Yu-Gi-Oh for you. Trickstars were a tier 2 deck during the spyral era, so what she's using is what you would have seen in tournaments oftentimes 5-6 years ago or even now occasionally in MD, but not a lot because decks do even more stupid stuff nowadays.

[@randomsamurai3855]

I mean i have you seen yusei combo in the final duel against zone? Man special summons like 5 monsters and goes into blackwing dragon and red dragon archfiend

[@animedegenerate1437]

@@N12015 weren’t they T1?

[@k-fey6642]

I didnt get through and beyond GX...

[@nasirtaylor1668]

Trickstar burn is insane, it's upsetting that Aoi didn't get more wins in vrains

[@meko98743]

They did her dirty. Even by Yu-Gi-Oh!'s usual female character standards.

[@tarikkash4282]

Which yugioh girl do you think is the worst ever?

[@decepticonunknown236]

Agreed I lost to it several time.

[@GoneRampant]

@@tarikkash4282 It's a tough call between Aoi and Yuzu.

[@meko98743]

@@tarikkash4282 Honestly? Probably Rebecca. She was supposed to be a genius duelist but never got any time to shine and was overshadowed in her own arc, while also being pretty annoying. But main girls? Probably Kotori. She didn't have anything to do in the story but play cheerleader. Even Tea/Anzu had romantic tension with the Pharoah.

[@samurexatlas7373]

Sadly Divaridis is only added in her Blue Girl phase.

[@g.n.a4871]

You look familiar

[@RashFaustinho]

A Vrains duel! That's so cool! Thanks for covering stuff from the more recent serieses!

[@drakeredgrave6747]

5:12 There are 3 (likely) reasons, in universe-wise, why she didn't perform that play: #1- she didn't have the 3 lycoris in her deck: Like go Onizuka, it's likely her deck wasn't truly complete since Go could have summoned jet ogre and then great ogre and then continue the turn Like he did in the anime and he would have, in way way or another, have enough atk to win in one attack, so it's very likely she just didn't have them in her deck yet. #2- entertainment: Blue angel is first and foremost, a charisma duelist so her main objective is to entertain, and winning in 1⅕ of a turn isn't entertainment, as they didn't even have a single chance #3 she was being cautious: at this point in the show playmaker and his deck are still pretty unknown (around 14 main deck and 4 Ex deck cards revealed) while her deck is pretty well known due to her reputation, this is basically the equivalent of playing with your several months old deck while you're opponent has a deck that was just revealed and you have no idea how they play(and is good), and since she had been challenged by "playmaker" she had every reason to believe he might've had a plan to counter as, again, his deck is still a mystery and his deck hasn't shown a main strategy besides swarm which most vrains deck do by default... She believes that if she over commits she could lose but if she doesn't play she can't win so she goes with a combo that gives efficient offense while giving her efficient defense. Also note that lycoris effect activates AFTER the cards are added so if he drew a "handtrap" card(if he has one or not doesn't matter since these are the thoughts that could have come across her mind) then he could have negated the damage of one lycoris while likely still having low enough LP to activate storm access, so she waited for him to reduce his hand to avoid the SLIM CHANCE of drawing a hand trap.

[@absi49]

someone that like blue angel that actually have a functional brain instead of going simp mode like all the others in this comment section??????? Such a rare find on vrains comunity lmao. Usually people spam "pLoT ArmOR hurr durrr" or "wRiTErs HaaTe FemAlE chAraCteRs hurrrrrrrrr" instead of actually thinking a little bit more on why things happen the way they do in the show.

[@kaigaikarano]

thats explain the playmaker duel, then explain why she doesnt win at other duel (just one or two iirc) then? I totally agree what you write about her in this. But the writer made her dirty, is also true. She deserve better writing as characters, and as duelist. And many female duelist in YGO deserved it also.

[@drakeredgrave6747]

​@@kaigaikarano100% agree that she, along with other female duelist, were done dirty. Unfortunately, that's what happens when they are competent and the antagonist(s) need someone competent to be a jobber since the main hero can't lose(because ygo) To answer your question, it's just plot(see the above), number 1 and 3. 2 doesn't apply since most duels after don't have an audience and are much more serious 1- No deck is ever really complete, just constantly getting upgrades because marketing...and one more detail which coincides with the next 3- like most duels ever that aren't rematches, they didn't know (or knew relatively little) about their opponents. The only people that Aoi had any info on was soulburner and to an extent bohman, both whom she and the rest had little knowledge about at the moment. In addition, something about the anime that many forget is that they tend to play pure archetypes and in a flexible manner since they can face any strategy at any moment, so (with the exception of judgment arrows) they couldn't just put certain "staples" and say that they are prepared... But again they were done dirty, the soulburner one is especially infuriating...

[@gldni17]

Storm Access is a bit more broken than how you described it. It doesn't just add a new random monster, but seems to create it from whole cloth. Which does explain why characters who use Storm Access don't typically lose their speed duels.

[@JGcd001]

What do you mean whole cloth

[@gldni17]

@@JGcd001 The game creates a card that never existed before for anybody.

[@luissaumeth8000]

That explains why firewall dragon was so convenient

[@Lulu-ew7oh]

I don’t think it creates them but adds a brand new cyberse card got to think about it anytime that skill was use it was always adding a cyberse monster and with the typings largely unexplored it makes sense why characters are surprised by them

[@drakeredgrave6747]

It doesn't really create. They just exist in the data storm, and they just get a random one, but they get a very convenient card(like most destiny draws) and one that is in archetype like code talkers or topologic...

[@JanizMakudomaru]

I played my Trickstar deck against the ai of Yusaku in Link Evolution with Divaridis out and he literally summoned his own defeat.

[@nintendolife25]

Oh, she’s a fallen angel alright because things mostly went downhill for her from here. Trickstar is one of the best burn decks in the Yugioh. How Aoi have such a mediocre dueling record with such a powerful archetype is beyond me. Btw, Happy Thanksgiving, TGS Anime!

[@woobgamer5210]

because protagonist plot armor. its not even like Yami Yugi where the millenium puzzle literally gives him increased draw luck, Playmaker just has the 'can never lose' plot device

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

@@woobgamer5210 Not even just protagonist plot armour, even antagonists beat her.

[@sorieketon4813]

because writters hated Aoi She has a 50% win/defeat record, but half of her defeats are unfair Playmaker had the main character armor and never lose in the anime Soul Burner was going to lose against Aoi, but he used a plot armor card to protect himself from very cheap burn damage in that duel and never used that card again

[@Diamondr11Blue]

@@sorieketon4813 if they hated her so much thry wouidve written her out

[@sorieketon4813]

@@Diamondr11Blue They kept her in the show to keep showing how she loses all important duels (and gets harmed in the process) and says at the end of the anime "I did nothing"

[@SpecsTube]

Didn’t expect to see a vrains duel! Also I feel this duel mirrors the first duel between Aster and Jaden. Aster was a pro duelist who longed his duel out as that is how he duels in the pro league to entertain the crowd. I feel Blue Angel was a more extreme versions of this. She is really into her pro duelist persona meaning she would never/hardly defeat her opponent as quickly as possible but long the due out to entertain her fans. Next needs to be ARC V. I recommend shay vs sora. My other recommendations: Yami vs Yugi (Season 4), Syrus vs Zane, Jack Leo and Luna vs Aporia or Kite vs Mizar.

[@rurounijay7100]

Id like to see the 2nd and 3rd suggedtions myself

[@NickWuebker]

Shay vs Sora would be an interesting one to breakdown from Arc-V. So many times it looked like Sora had Shay dead to rights but he kept finding a way to survive. I definitely think there were a couple of points where Sora could’ve won and it would be interesting to see if TGS thinks the same.

[@salebadalo1957]

I hope he does a breakdown video for Yuya's duels against Declan (1st time), Zuzu and Sergey and Shay's first duel against Sora (these are my personal suggestions on Arc V videos he could do).

[@salebadalo1957]

And Yuya's duel against Barrett too. Forgot about that one.

[@LanerGuy]

I'm a little "Fandom Backlash"-ed out of that particular Duel (Sora VS Shay, the Take I-only of it, at least). I'd much prefer one of the Battle Royals, particularly the end-of-Season-1 one, which I absolutely love. Analyzing the intervening parties protecting Celina to see if things could have gone smoother without potentially needing Reed and Trout to eat through the Obelisk Force's facedowns would be worthy pondering. As well as the fact that the Obelisk Force had one extra facedown than they should have, which gave them an edge they shouldn't have gotten. (I'd also be down for a Z-ARC VS Everyone Else, an all-time fave of mine, but that might be leaning on being too ambitious without continuing to test the waters first.)

[@firepuppies4086]

Playmaker: alright, my turn- BA: standby phase? PM: Uh, sure? BA: I activate Reincarnation. New chain.. Reincarnation.. cl 2 Droll PM:... you little-

[@JzanderN]

I'd love to see Leo vs. Devack, or as I like to call it: Joey vs. Marik without the frustrating ending. Was Devack underestimating Leo and holding back, or was Leo really standing up to a Dark Signer? Could he have won earlier before Luna returned?

[@LanerGuy]

Oohh! Good one! I'd love that, too! :D I also love the comparison. Joey vs Yami Marik kind of epitomizes my evolved frustrations with Battle City (not counting Noah's Arc, a reprieve I appreciated personally). Leo VS Devack being a "done with clarity of wisdom" version of that Duel is a take I'm now quite fond of.

[@JzanderN]

@@LanerGuy I never liked the fact that they teased a Joey victory and then blueballed us because Yugi had to be the one to beat Marik. Even as a kid I specifically remember being mad about it. For Leo vs Devack, while Luna does step in and finish the duel, she does so by taking over Leo's deck, so I always count it as Leo's victory because he could have made the exact same moves.

[@Akario3]

yes please, even though i still havent watched 5Ds i still think its close to peak yugioh

[@cagnacagnacagnacagna1127]

I agree with this one. Tbh, I feel Leo had more character than Luna and Luna was just a signer for the sake of having a younger one when Leo maybe could have pulled Life Stream Dragon or something instead of teasing Life Stream only to show it MUCH later for no real reason.

[@kitsunephantom6155]

@@cagnacagnacagnacagna1127 The running theory I've seen around that is that Leo was supposed to have gotten his Signer mark against Devack, which would have made a lot of sense. Instead, since Crow was changed from an enemy to an ally and made into a Signer, Leo got shafted until the very end of the series. In fairness, at least Leo had an actual cohesive deck with Morphtronics. Luna only had a loose collection of LIGHT monsters (even if Ancient Fairy wound up being the only Signer Dragon to get banned; she wasn't broken until Link monsters so it don't count).

[@SilverHyozanryu]

Still laugh when I think of her duel vs soulburner, dude just has a trap that stops low amounts of burn damage. Probably the most plot device card in the whole franchise lmao.

[@darknessknows1235]

True, but on the other hand when you regularly duel with 4000 lp you probably won't mind having cards to deny any amounts of effect damage

[@xfighters3913]

Didn't she just double the effect damage anyway which made the card completely useless in the end?

[@dudono1744]

Soulburner might just have sided this in. Trickstar is a good deck that is played by a celebrity, so it's not a stretch to imagine it is a meta deck in Vrains.

[@Thoast_]

0:59 a little disappointed you didn't end this with a "Basically, its duel links on hoverboards"

[@Mysario]

Just wanted to say thank you so much for the "Who Really Won?" series you do! Between the editing, the research, and the script, you do an amazing job with the work you put into it! It's always entertaining and I look forward to it every time you post a new one (along with most things on your channel)! You could post a 10 minute analysis of "Was Joey About To Win Against Yugi [Episode 1]?" and I'm sure you'd make it entertaining to watch so once again thank you!

[@Kongumon]

Here's my idea for a duel analysis: Was Joey about to TIE with Mai? (ep 151-154) Since Joey wanted to force a tie in that duel, it would be interesting to see if that would have been possible.

[@supersaiyandrgnslayr]

This problem of Blue Angel is the writers want her to lose so she does. She ALWAYS has a winning hand yet will always throw it away

[@ryanwiebe4096]

You Know What the Worst Thing About Yusaku Is;the Fact That the Plot Makes It So He HAS To Win Every Single Duel He's In. Now Sure,They Kind Of Did the Same Thing With Yusei,But It Was Fine That He Won Every Duel,Since He Was a Really Good Duelist and Played a Very Weak Deck In Hindsight,Making His Victories All the More Special.He Was Kind Of the Master Of Winning With Underdog Cards.But With Yusaku,They Didn't Do That.Yusaku Played the Most Broken-Ass Deck In the Real Life Format At the Time Of the Anime,Making His Wins Become Less and Less Interesting When His Deck Is Virtually Unstoppable and Practically Does the Work For Him.He Even SAYS That He CANNOT Afford To Lose Any Duels,Making Every Moment Where He Is On the Ropes Completely Pointless When You Know He's Just Going To Pull Through and Win Anyway. In My Opinion,Yusaku Might Just Be the Worst Yugioh Protagonist,and the Only Good Thing About Him Is His Backstory.

[@kitsu1379]

Yea, I feel like when they put protagonists in spots where they can NEVER lose or something bad happens, it kinda ruins the fun back and forth of the game. They need to show the protagnists playing when it isn't a "fate of the entire world" or "life or death" scenario and have them lose to show them improving. Like Jaiden in GX, he lost a few times, but the main one was to Zane really early in season 1, then they show him actually making a tie with Zane, that was amaing. Because they established early on that Jaiden could potentially lose this since the world itself wasn't at stake and this was a guy he has lost to before, it made that entire duel, espeically the end AMAZING the first time I watched it as a kid coz I legit had no idea if Jaiden was going to win or not. Pretty sure they even had Yusei lose a few outside of the big bads, heck they had him lose to one of the Dark Signers and it was a bike failure that stopped him dying. Modern Yugioh protags who can't ever lose or something bad will happen are honestly a bit boring. I liked Zexal but as soon as it became Numbers vs Numbers, well I knew Yuma was gunna win because they established early on that if you lose Numbers vs Numbers, you lose all your Numbers but we knew those were Yuma's main strat so it meant those duels lost all tension. And I feel like Zexal was where they started the whole, "we can't ever have out main protag lose" bull.

[@aBagofFrags]

This video series is easily one of my favorites on YT, and your channel has completely renewed my love for YGO. Thank you so much for your content!!!

[@lukepritchard582]

I love how these have become more and more complex, great series!!

[@mattvillegas6355]

Damn. The plot was really working overtime to make sure Playmaker won

[@senseiinred577]

"... well Blue Angel got screwed over a lot." This kinda hits hard since I really liked the mechanics of her decks from trickstars to marincess. I still feel salty since she didnt even get a single win in vrains.

[@nguyenthanhlong5536]

She actually won 3 duels(5 if you count the duel at the beginning of ep 6 and the duel before Haru at ep 85) though she didn't struggle much in these duels. On the other hand, all of her lost are against important/strong duelists which include 2 protags(Yusaku - she could have won, Takeru - this duel just awful since the writers gave Takeru a trap that can negate low burn damage and a spell that acts like super poly), a mini boss(Spectre) and 2 final boss(Bohman and Ai). Her boss duels are good though.

[@juliuswatcher1157]

@@nguyenthanhlong5536 Yes,. And unlike mots of the other female duelist the show didn't throw enough filler duels her way to improve her numbers of wins (granted she must gotten several wins as Blue Angel buliding her carrer before S1 plot, but she should gotten wins in meaningful duels against strong opponents that could even out: a rematch agaisnt Spectre in S2, or/and her dueling Roboppi instead of Soulburner). Just to point out, I don't follow the whole Win-Loss ratio as a definitive scale of duel skill, since it ignores context of the opponent type lots of time (something a lot of the fandom disregards often). The only other character with the closest thing to fighting the same type of opponents was Mai Valentine (and the Vrains roster in comparision were just as strong or even stronger than possible than possible DM counterparts). To make it even clearer, If Akiza (the more well treated FL, and that is saying something) dueled opponents in her series mirroring the same types as Aoi, in order, it would be like her dueling S1 Kiryu- she loses hard; Crow -loses, but almost wins; Aporia - she loses; finally Z-One- she loses, possibly stomped. But since these duels never occurred it doesn't feel like she was treated as bad Aoi was.

[@violethevile1256]

@@nguyenthanhlong5536 fusion of fire is somewhat ok, the real bullshit is the battle handtrap and the fact they made her throw right at the end by wasting her in archetype honest/cydra only to lose because of an effect she suddenly couldn't read, even though - her monster would still be destroyed - she would take only about half her current LP (still at 4000)

[@invu4834]

Thank you doing this. Yeah with the addition of link monsters and the extra zones, I could see why it could get complicated. I feel like you analyzed this duel really well. I wouldn't mind seeing one on Playmaker Vs. AI, but if you don't considering how complex the game is now I understand. Love your vids!

[@AGuyCalledHarry]

Was Allister about to defeat Kaiba? Was Bakura about to defeat Kaiba? Was Zigfried about to defeat Kaiba? Was Syrus about to defeat Zane? Was Mai about to defeat Joey? (S4)

[@TheGreatSalsaMan]

In order: Yes No Hell no No Oh my god absolutely not

[@AGuyCalledHarry]

@@TheGreatSalsaMan I'm interested in your thoughts on Mai vs Joey in season 4, as Mai was about to attack directly for game before Joey collapsed.

[@RodimusMinor1987]

@@TheGreatSalsaMan Regarding the Bakura vs Kaiba he was abouts to win, he said that when his monster destroyed Blue Eyes it absorbed its attack points so Bakura had a 6300 attack Monster on the field. all he had to do was draw and enter his Battle Phase and attack, Kaiba had no traps he could use to save him, Victory wasn't Bakura's Goal

[@Odd-Eyes_Dragon]

I hope I am wrong, but technically almost every duel of Blue Angel/Girl/Maiden can be analyzed in this series? She always seems to arrive very cloese to victory, but always defeated by her adversaries. Were these the only way that would end?

[@DarkSymphony777]

blue angel seems to be the single most screwed over character in yugioh history

[@duncanw5644]

@@DarkSymphony777 Agreed, and that’s counting Sylvio!

[@tried6times]

@@DarkSymphony777 mai is, but barely. Blue angel easily second

[@goroadachi9489]

@@tried6times Nah Bastion is, did you guys see how he got written off? At least they kept those characters around.

[@fork-man]

​​@@goroadachi9489 I honestly don't think he was ment to be taken seriously even with the fact he was written as a good duelist who made it into ra yellow (bassicly the above mediocre duelist) he had barely any arcs and did nothing everything was a joke with him Miss blue was taken seriously and had a decent role being the host of one of the A.I

[@theruoc147]

Appreciate this man. I can only imagine how much harder reverse engineering a Vrains duel was. At least this duel was short

[@qorv4973]

So happy! I asked about this match a while ago. What is tricky about Aoi is that her deck changes a lot so she defo could have won some matches if she simply had a different extra deck atm in time.

[@fernandomosquera3100]

Finallyyyyy,a vrains duel 😭😭😭😭 *Also,go vs revolver would be awesome*

[@crocworks]

I'd love to see a video on how the Machine Emperor cards from Yugioh 5Ds worked. In the anime, they are "combo monsters" where there are multiple pieces that can fit together. But in the TCG, they're all singular cards under the name of "Meklord Emperor" instead.

[@dudono1744]

Basically in the anime meklords are union monsters with extra steps. You can see it as union monsters that stay in the monster zone.

[@heisara]

Finally some Vrains duels! Can't wait for you to analyze Revolver Vs Playmaker duels because almost everyone is saying that Revolver could've won every single one

[@Kurinth]

She is a perfect encapsulation of female characters in the Yugioh anime, they have some of the strongest decks and get absolutely curbstomped by the writers despite the fact that they should win a lot more of their duels. Aki and Asuka are great examples of this

[@MegaZombie08]

Awesome duel, and awesome analysis, congrats for making such amazing videos

[@joshfarmer8408]

You can tell that so many duels were cattered so playmaker could win. There is no reason why trickstar or alterguist can loss to playmaker

[@Ahloveyafuhso]

One issue I would say is because it was early on and they didn't have all their support cards yet.. I can beat trickstars.. after a hard fight.. but alterguist.. .heck no!!..

[@coryphilipsen6599]

Sadly, it's one of the reasons I found rewatching Vrains to be a little painful.

[@victorparedes2319]

That's how anime duels work you know... You remember when crow with a blackwing deck lost a fair amount of times against "low tier" decks ? Or shun in arcV, shun with a raid raptor defeating 3v1 against x saber, new gem knights , and another one... The anime is not real life

[@sbevenine2055]

Anime is not real life and also just because a deck is better doesn't mean it can't lose to a weaker deck

[@dudono1744]

@@victorparedes2319 the fact shun didn't get FTK'd by gem knights is already insane. Also blaze falcon is just busted in the anime.

[@trevorrose3769]

I’m not sure if you take requests at all, but I would love to see an analysis on if Mai could have beaten Marik in the Battle City Quarter Finals?

[@RodimusMinor1987]

I don't think so, Marik was toying with her and the moment she tried to summon Ra she lost, quite full of herself thinking that she could have used a god card

[@cameraredeye3115]

​@@RodimusMinor1987She absolutely could have won. Marik played like trash the whole game; he only won because Mai got greedy and tried to summon Ra. She should have attacked with her Cyber Harpie instead.

[@cliffwarden5934]

Huh, I watched an archetype breakdown of her deck two days ago. At least I know what it's capable of

[@danielgardiner8340]

I’m so glad to finally see ya do VRAINS! Hopefully later you do Revolver vs Playmaker Round 4 because that duel is intense!!

[@TheAshofdarkness]

I’m not sure if you do request or suggestions but I think something that really deserves to be looked at is the Arc-V duel between Yuri and Yugo. Specifically, if Yugo could’ve won without Kaito and Edo interfering with the match

[@UnNamedNecessarry]

From what i know, blue angel is a duel idol/entertainer much like go inosuka. They deliberately nerfed themselves for the sake of "entertainment" multiple times (and let's face it FTK is not fun to watch) . I guess this duel is one of those.

[@adamm751]

There was a very simple way for this to be explained without this being a massive misplay… a canon banlist. We know Firewall Dragon disappeared from the anime after it was banned, and that VRAINS’ Yugioh game is similarly structured to ours, so theoretically there should be a banlist here. If Lycoris was limited to one copy due to an anime banlist, and the show states that clearly, it doesn’t feel like Blue Angel was cheated out of a win against Playmaker.

[@juliuswatcher1157]

Thank You Very Much! You are the first person I see pointing this out, and I agree 100% (I ALWAYS forget to bring this point when I comment). And this is would not be unusual for YGO anime: In GX they commented how Chaos Emperor Dragon was forbidden during that duel between Judai and the Yugi's copycat, and also during S1 most of the chaarcters used to play Pot of Greed, but when the card got banned in real life, they all stop playing it S2 onwards (if memory serves me). In Vrains they could have mentioned that in Speed Duels Lycoris is at 1. Also, that could justify why we never see her use something like Dark Room of Nightmares in her deck (with only 4000, I'll reckon people would at least limit it in the Vrains world. At least in Duel Links trickstar only do 100 points of damage).

[@giovanniorellana2200]

FINALLY! About time you cover Yu-Gi-Oh Vrains, now you just have to do a Duel Analysis for Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V.

[@Someone-lg6di]

The problem with arc 5 was the action cards basically being cheats

[@KumoriBlackPhoenix]

there is another reason why she didnt just go for game with the double Lycoris, she's a performance duelist. she prefers duels to last longer just to make herself look cooler.

[@snowboundwhale6860]

Perhaps the real handicap was the fans we tried to entertain along the way

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Relatable lol. Though I wish this was done on a better character and not one so boring and bland.

[@guillermocalle2184]

Then trickstars is not the deck for her. They're really not known for much other than burning and disruption of added cards with trickstar reincarnation. they don't have a performer theme, but Floowandereeze would be better. Being able to play yugioh on your opponent's turn by normal summoning and tributing their monsters with adorable birds and their sort of angry friends? She can summon a bunch of things and then set the opponent off their game by trying to outshine them on their own turn.

[@xfighters3913]

@@guillermocalle2184 except that deck wasn't even out when this duel was released, it also doesn't fit Aoi's aesthetic at all.

[@kitsu1379]

The she shouldn't be speed duelling, the whole point of speed duels was they were super fast, like this one, it wasn't even 5 turns I don't think. If you're all about long preformances, a) don't join a format that's all about playing fast and b) don't run a deck that's all about winning fast by putting out insane OTK combos and disrupting and punishing opponents combos

[@archnexus3936]

now i cant wait for "could everyone beat Z-Arc"

[@cbbblue8348]

The entire duel are just people running into card they don't know the effect and zarc just keep pulling effect out of his ass

[@drakeredgrave6747]

They COULD have won if they restarted the duel instead of halving their LP and leaving him with his OP Board which made harder the more people dueled

[@BobLogical]

Just throw Neo New Sawatari-sama at him from the start. Crisis averted.

[@cameraredeye3115]

Could anyone with a Ritual deck beat Z-arc? Yes, because Ritual is not an Extra Deck mechanic and thus gets around all of Z-arc's monster effect immunities. Arc-V Asuka could have beaten Z-arc.

[@StardustGrace]

always love these from you , thank you 🎉🎉🎉

[@grammysworld5449]

One of those duels where the person in control IMMEDIATELY abandons their strategy that could win because: Protagonist plot

[@victorparedes2319]

Or maybe in that duel she didn't have another lycoris ... Easy

[@jacobwilliams1223]

@@victorparedes2319 Except we clearly see she has multiple copies of Lycoris against Spectre. Try harder.

[@MrDarksol]

Oh yeah rewatching this made me realize two things: Blue Angel DEFINITELY should have won this duel and oh yeah Yusaku's ace.......that later on gets replaced by a dragon. It gives me way too many flashbacks to when Jaden replaced Elemental Hero Flame Wingman for Neos. Also, I knew that she was going to lose since she is not the main character but in Arc V, Yuzu was able to beat Yuya in their first duel which was a nice change up in yugioh. Granted she did start to suck after a bunch or episodes later but still. I had some hope that Blue Angel would maybe just maybe win some duels and lose some duels, but no as her duels only got worse after getting beat in this duel. Other then that, soild analysis TGS and nice shirt!

[@emilstoqanov3270]

Doesn't Decode Talker become Playmaker's ace since Firewall dragon was banned?(I haven't watched VRAINS)

[@MrDarksol]

@@emilstoqanov3270 I barely pay attention to most future banlists in the real TCG so I only know that once Firewall Dragon dropped, poof Decode was no longer the ace monster.

[@emilstoqanov3270]

@@MrDarksol from what I heard he aperently only summoned Firewall in 5 duels,on of which was aperently link fodder soo 🤷‍♂️ Cross Duel has Firewall as the ace(tho that game makes Shark's ace monster number 17: Leviathan Dragon...) Duel Links gave Decode Talker the summoning animation but not Firewall which is notable since Flame Wingman and Junk Warrior were skipped in order to give Neos and Stardust animations

[@MrDarksol]

@@emilstoqanov3270 Huh odd.

[@Playmaker.]

@@MrDarksol correct but once firewall was banned decode was used as the ace again. But playmaker uses multiple "code talker" monsters throughout the series. Similar to Jaden using multiple "neos" fusion monsters.

[@therayen11]

Realistically speaking, she would have also even had a chance of defeating him in turn 3. (She wouldn't even have needed her skill.) Clarification: turn 3 blueangel drawphase. draw dark angel. main phase1: link summon trickstar „Black Catbat“** with lycoris and holly angel. now banish trap special summon trickstar lilybell. battle phase: lilenglocke direct attack. playmaker lp 2200 - 800 = 1400 - 200 (fieldspell) = lp 1200 lilybell effect: put lycoris back into the hand. lycoris hand effect: choose lilybell, special summon lycoris, lilybell back to hand. lilybell effect: special summon in attack. lilybell direct attack. playmaker lp 1200 - 800 = 600 - 200 (fieldspell) = lp 200 lilybell effect: put candina back into the hand. blueangel endphase. playmaker turn 4 drawphase: effect lycoris/fieldspell - 200 = 0 lp ** I propagandize and claim that she definitely had Blackcat in her extra deck. Bella Madonna and Divaridis I don't think so, but Blackcat definitely does, as she was shown in their next fight in episode 17.

[@AymanNabeel21]

Fantastic video, i have waited for a vrains duel for a very long time!!

[@leonmarcote8340]

At least Yusei invented convenient effects but this guy doesn't lose because script

[@vanesslifeygo]

The TCG is getting her card with the Blue Angel book on it as an import in Maze of Memories, I think.

[@bladersmosh]

When thinking of Vrains duels that will be the first to cover, I wasn’t expecting this one. Then again, after the Trickstar vid, there would be some theory of an Aoi duel being talked about. I was thinking Playmaker vs Revolver, Revolver vs Soulburner, Blue Angel vs Spectre, Playmaker vs Ai but this is still good.

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@flashtheshapeshafter]

*Before watching* I always wondered this because she drew that Mind Control Card that Specter gave her so I can't help but Wonder was there something in her deck that could have gotten her the win *After* oh Sky, I think there were two more link tricksters in the first season that she summons I don't remember their effects or if they can even help but...

[@NickWuebker]

TGS, if you’re doing VRains duels now, and if you feel up to it, you could maybe look at Blue Angel’s duel with Specter. Or any of the duels with Ghost Girl. I’ve seen a lot of people say she drew God hands for her Altergeist deck and played them in the worst way possible. It would be interesting to see if you think this is the case as well.

[@moizekhan4643]

Finally you made a video about Yugioh vrains duel. I’ve been waiting for this.

[@coletrain583]

Honestly Aoi is a better duelist than she gives her credit for. Yes she had among the most loses in any Yu-Gi-Oh! series, but her cards are ironically among the strongest archetypes in the game. I faced both the Trickstars and the Marincess cards, both tough decks. Got beat by both of them. While I found a way to get around Trickstars, I wasn't able to practice trying figure the weakness of Marincess due to fighting them in an online duel. In a more realistic scenario, Aoi would've been among the strongest duelists in the series.

[@nick8402]

As much as I’d like to see you cover a rush duel in this series, I don’t think a single one has had a misplay over the 2 rush-focused series we’ve had so far

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Rush Duels are bottom of the barrel ygo for kids. Its not worth analyzing

[@nick8402]

@@soukenmarufwt5224 not sure if you’ve realized this yet but ygo is a series made for kids. Every ygo anime has been lol

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

@@nick8402 lol. I'm well aware. It's more blatant with sevens and go Rush lol

[@ventus3610]

@@nick8402 yeah but VRains duels are something else that a kid may just not understand xd

[@randomsamurai3855]

@@nick8402 thats absolute bs

[@sanda5226]

honestly I would love to see more duel analysis videos from vrains; love that content man!

[@cristobalgarrido4842]

I was only aware of the Link summoning mechanic, not a big fan of it during Master Rule 4, glad that's been sorted out. But now, seeing a duel analysis of Vrains? And this is one of the earlier duels? Holy shit... Great video man!

[@Zer0_._]

So speed duel is basically just the Duel Links format?

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

How about a video of Yami Marik vs. Yami Bakura fight? The duel where Bakura gets utterly wrecked by Marik.

[@K1dClutch2429]

Lets goo ive been wanting to see some vrains duels because they were some of my favorites and the complexity of them were entertaining. It would be cool if you made some more vrains duels to see if there were some shenanigans or misplays!

[@3slicessenpai]

Vrains is a doozy. It's the most technical Yu-Gi-Oh series, with characters using complex combos and even placing cards outside their archetype into their decks, for utility purposes. But it can get super frustrating because the amount of selling of the minor characters vs the plot armor of the main characters is much more apparent when better combo avenues are presented to sharp eyed viewers.

[@Reymdusk]

Glad to start seeing Vrains duels. Links really made the game have such long turns so it must be exhausting analyzing this.

[@megaspacewaffles]

I don’t really think they got that much longer. 🤔 I mean infernity turns we’re kinda crazy

[@dudono1744]

@@megaspacewaffles Infernity was an anomaly (it's still funny that this deck has some hot garbage (dwarf and randomizer) along some of the most broken cards of the time)

[@megaspacewaffles]

@@dudono1744 infernity, frog Ftk, magical scientist… long turns have always kinda existed. I mean ZEXAL era was when things got crazy

[@EthanKironus8067]

We KNOW she has 2+ copies of Lycoris, she uses them against Spectre!

[@sonicchamploo]

I hope we get more Vrains-based content going forward, so many archetypes, duelist profiles and more to look into!

[@Dominik-K]

This was a fun duell, thanks for the analysis

[@CronoTime]

you should make a list of duels someone obviously lost because they were facing the main character..this and Joey vs Yami MArik come to mind

[@bluelanternguardianangel8038]

Dam they really did blue angel dirty in the series. She should've been an unstoppable force of nature. Instead she's just a joke and that's really sad. She's second best girl of the entire yugioh series (akiza will forever be number one but Aoi is a close second lol)

[@user-mq1ng6sj7b]

Tbf, having your opponent at around 600 LP remaining and then they just otk you is an average trickstar players day. So really this is a lore accurate game

[@Blackopsspartn]

I was hoping to eventually see a Vrains duel! I have personally never watched the series but seen a few clips and thought it’d be cool just to see one done. Really enjoyed it

[@kemix1006]

Blue Angel is literally the Hanz Moleman of anime. She is constantly used, abused and she never wins a single duel in her series (iirc) and is never given a single chance to shine. I don't know who on the writing staff hated her, but god damn, even her event in Duel Links and the box her trickstars came out in were GARBAGE as hell. Someone at Konami has a REALLY big hate boner for her and it ain't even subtle

[@toystoryfan55]

I always felt that the Vrains Duels would be the most difficult to analyze due to the various mechanics and set up that happens!

[@Dragonmatic]

Finally a Vrains analysis , love to see it

[@bastardrian]

Anyone facing Playmaker: You will lose! Playmaker: No, I dont think I will.

[@StripesChaosGremlin]

Been kinda curious about Revolver vs Soulburner and if Revolver could have won that battle.

[@revolverkyosuke7049]

Yeah, he could have if he Summoned any other Topologic that wasn't Zeroboros before attacking.

[@Sour_AppIe]

Don't know if I'm just noticing but I like how your explaining stuff about the dual as well as mechanics for the newer series for people who haven't played or seen the modern yugioh series

[@chasefox6200]

Idk if anyone mentioned it yet but there is yet another way she threw. On the penultimate turn, she could have summoned lilybell with reincarnation like normal then link off lycoris and holly into literally anything (IDK what all she had access to in her extra deck but i'm assuming at least it has another link 2 or link 3) then attack with lilybell and add back lycoris. After that use lycoris effect to summon itself by bouncing lilybell and then lilybell's effect would trigger allowing it to summon itself and attack again. That would leave play maker with 200 LP but when he draws for turn, lycoris would burn him for drawing and he would lose.

[@alancobain9508]

VRAINS??!! Hell yes.!! Nice video as always

[@icefiredragon94]

It is kinda a shame since Aoi's whole character is "idol who has her head up her ass and having a brother complex" the show pretty much had every excuse to kick her down, despite having a good deck. Shame too since Trickstars were fun in making "death by a thousand cuts" viable.

[@zacharygossman5203]

We know that Blue Angel had two lycoris's by the end of season 1 considering that during her duel with Spectre she tried to go for the exact combo you mentioned she could have used against playmaker in this duel. Spectre just had a counter trap ready to gain enough life points so the Lycoris's effects misfired horribly

[@kitsu1379]

They do that a lot with Blue Angel/Girl/Maiden whatever you call her. They either have her misplay the deck to high heaven because the plot demands she lose against someone playing a deck she has no right to lost against or they put her against people who are specifically playing the perfect counter to her deck's playstyle so even if she is playing competently, she still looks like an idiot.

[@anthonythomas305]

First time we're seeing a Duel Analysis on VRAINS. Nice job Please do another one for Joey vs Valon (Waking the Dragons)

[@scodeknight3178]

Not to beat a dead horse but when is Yugioh character profiles returning

[@Donnie-Edits9]

I'm starting to think your going to do Vrains character profiles!Right?

[@shadexvii3975]

I think another reason for the constant losses with her is because it’s a pretty boring way to win, from a narrative standpoint. All her opponents losing for basically doing anything is not fun

[@TheJaredPunch]

This may also be the reason why the writers exchanged Trickstars for Marincesses. Konami was really having balancing problems during the VRAINS era. Just look at Firewall Dragon.

[@shadexvii3975]

@@TheJaredPunch aren’t Marincess pretty dang cracked too? Jeez…

[@TheJaredPunch]

@@shadexvii3975 I wasn’t so sure considering how often the user of the deck loses.

[@shadexvii3975]

@@TheJaredPunch lol. Fair, but at least from what I’ve seen, they seem strong

[@jacobwilliams1223]

But having Playmaker never lose a duel just makes for exciting television right? Give me a break.

[@thetruedaoster8863]

Here's a thought. If Aoi/Skye were to duel Vs Alexis Rhodes/Asuka Tenjouin in a cross-universe duel (a la Arc-V plot-line), at their respective peaks, who would win? If I recall from your 'Statistically the Best' series, Alexis/Asuka came out on top of the female lead category - though based on the decks they use, it wouldn't be entirely indicative of how duels would play out. Could be an interesting analysis, seeing that a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh would know all manners of methods for crushing the competition with the archetypes in question, but what playstyle would those anime characters most likely use?

[@conchurfitzsimons570]

Playmaker vs Revolver (Round 2) would be a good one. Not too complex

[@Trixbeat]

My theory is that every duelist has anti burn cards that they can side into before they choose to duel against aoi. Since she's famous they know exactly what they are up against.

[@cameraredeye3115]

Imagine Aoi facing off against Prime Material Dragon....

[@nebbynetwork2089]

Ohhh shoot a duel analysis for vrains I'm so hyped You gotta feel bad for blue angel she got disrespected all though out vrains

[@sbevenine2055]

I honestly really believe she should have won against Soulburner Yeah he is a new and cool af guy but c'mon, that was like one of the least impactful duels for Soulburner

[@nebbynetwork2089]

@@sbevenine2055 ye she got thrown into a cliff side when she lost I'm surprised she was still alive in the real world

[@mariobros68]

@@nebbynetwork2089 well... Does the Shadow Realm and/or the Netherworld even existed in Vrains?

[@nebbynetwork2089]

@@mariobros68 apparently not which is weird

[@Scariel]

Finally Vrains! Thank You!

[@srlopez875]

0:48 So they're playing Duel Links, essentially.

[@johnezekielfrancisco4417]

He is really focused in the trickstar archetype

[@quietchicken6022]

I can't complain, I like Trickstars

[@xfighters3913]

I know people shit on Vrains because it trashed a lot of the side characters but in defense of the writing team lets say that they wrote in a Trickstar OTK and playmaker lost. Would that have been fun though? Remember, the primary purpose of the anime is to entertain and the character taking 4000 burn damage before they get to play would have been simply boring! I know you guys like Aoi but nobody would have preferred that turn. Another reason they didn't go for the OTK when writing this duel was because Link Summoning was very new at the time and they wanted to show off a new link monster to hype the audience up and get them more invested in link monsters. I get why people wanted Aoi to win here but I also 100% understand the decisions the writers made for this duel. If there is a duel they should have had Blue Angel win though it's her duel vs soul burner. Soul Burner didn't even need another win since he already wins 99% of his duels in the series, one lost really wouldn't have hurt him and would have made Blue Girls turn into blue Maiden feel more earned and legitimate. Also everyone keeps talking about Trickstar Diviridis, GUYS! That card didn't even exist when the duel came out!? How the fuck can you expect Blue Angel to summon a card that doesn't exist yet? That would be like critising Jaden for not fusion Summoning Elemental Hero Sunriser in his duel or some bonkers shit.

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

1- Vrains duels are basically OCG duels, is difficult to make them look fun, and we have the least charismatic protagonist in this show (and that doesn'tlike duels), if there is a mood they don't expect you to have, is fun. I think the OTK could work depending on how they write what comes after PM defeat, but they went the unbeatable route with him. 2- About Link summon and hyping the audience... probably link summoning is the extra deck summon that looked the less special in the show since characters were summoning multiple links per turn getting rid of the weaker ones. In S2 all the characters had a bigger reaction to Fusión-Synchro-XYZ than to the main summon of the era.

[@absi49]

dont try to use logic with fanatics

[@zachkrampien8699]

Love these duel analysis videos. Still waiting for Yami Yugi vs Merik

[@go2it566]

I love vrains I hope to see more of the vrains duels in this series.

[@michaeldavid1566]

I mean if Playmaker is allowed to run 2 of the same monster I don't see why Blue Angel doesn't run 2 Lycoris

[@cameraredeye3115]

She did against Specter and look where that got her....

[@idkwhoblueis]

Thanks for the video honestly i was starting to get bored and your video helped me get from that also HAPPY THANKSGIVING

[@TGSAnime]

Glad I could help!

[@idkwhoblueis]

@@TGSAnime happy Thanksgiving

[@cherrylk4188]

YES A VRAINS DUEL I WAS DREAMING OF ONE!!! THANK YOU