Was Yuri About To Defeat Berserker Yuya? [Relentless]

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[@knockout8157]

The idea that yuri, one of the fusion dimension’s strongest soldiers only has two fusion monsters is absolutely hilarious

[@brianzz6443]

It gets funnier when that other monster is an upgrade to the other one.

[@knockout8157]

@@brianzz6443 he really did just put all of his craft points into starving venom turbo playstyle didn’t he XD

[@themantyf1116]

It kind of makes sense, though, since Leo knew that Yuri was a part of Zarc, so while he couldn't stop him from using Starving Venom he likely didn't want him to have additional fusion monsters that synergized with his deck.

[@HaruStyles]

Even Yuya has more fusion monster

[@dudono1744]

​@@knockout8157Yuri is a reincarnation of Zarc, and Zarc's version of Starving Venom is actually cracked.

[@bladersmosh]

Can appreciate just how great Kensho Ono was is this duel as Yuya and Yuri? He’s a terrific actor with great range of emotion. From happy to angry, from hopeful to despair. He’s truly gifted Japanese voice actor.

[@adraxer1365]

The VA 10/10, the writer... c'mon men why are Mimic and Rat so especific.

[@WeebGuru6]

Facts also fun fact home boy made fantastic tunes and zero from kuroko basketball have it on my playlist

[@christopherb501]

Reminder: when I heavily scorn the name of "Ono" with this franchise, I am scowling at the DIRECTOR of this show, not this actor who's *so much better* at his side of the craft, it's like comparing Citizen Kane to The Room.

[@CordyMcDonald]

@@christopherb501I loved when Giorno Giovanna summoned a big dragon and said “I’m gonna be a circus star”

[@AlexisStreams]

despair yea okay junko enoshima XD gotta crack a danganronpa reference

[@rainbowdragon168]

The way Yuri basically makes Yuya slowly lose his sanity through his mocking and teasing was probably the highlight of this duel. Also when Yuya says that Yuri will lose all his life points, Yuri’s smile drops which was hilarious

[@tarikkash4282]

It's been a while since he did ARC-V

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@tarikkash4282 Yeah

[@AliacadosDuelistas]

YES! This is so great in this duel. When I realised it, it was everything. Yuri thought that Zarc's powers would choose him all the way long as a Supreme King, but was Yuya the chosen one with the help of Yuto and Yugo

[@heavydonkeykong5190]

I love the duel so much for the atmosphere and emotions throughout.

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@heavydonkeykong5190 Same

[@BlackbirdRX]

if you ask me, Yuri won regardless of the results of the duel. Yuri's goal was to become Zarc and regardless of how the duel goes, that goal is achieved. so Yuri won in the end

[@ChillingWithChu]

Yuri lost the battle but won the war

[@albertonishiyama1980]

I would go as far as saying that Yuri / Joeri didnt really care about who would win, as long as thw only way to win for Yuya was embracing his darkness. All the mockery and counter plays being just a form to make Yuya acept Zarc

[@BlackbirdRX]

@@albertonishiyama1980 yep!

[@snowboundwhale6860]

Lost the duel but won the conflict

[@A_M_14]

In the end, he lost but won the war

[@thomassmith7020]

A big thing with early ARC-V was pointing out how xyz monsters not having a lvl doesn’t mean they are lvl 0; so Yuri’s trap stealing Yuya’s monster with the lowest level stealing Dark Rebellion instead of Odd-Eyes that actually has a level is shenanigans.

[@misterymisterio8778]

Yes, it should be an illegal move.

[@aaronbaigrie8038]

Thank god I’m not the only one who noticed this. The moment it happened I was like hey wait a minute he can’t do that

[@zexalbrony4799]

@@misterymisterio8778 And yet it still works on YGO and EDOPRO.

[@gldni17]

Yeah, not having a level means XYZ monsters don't interact with cards that specify monster levels, so it should have stolen Odd-Eyes.

[@caswellweird]

@@gldni17 yeah but if it stole Odd-Eyes then Yuya would have lost, so they couldnt do that lol

[@bonnieminter8897]

The thing is, no matter who wins this duel, Z-arc will still be made whole again. The only way this wouldn't have happened is if it ended in a draw, and I'm not even sure that would work.

[@MarioMastar]

That's likely why Yuri was smiling the whole time, all he wanted was to break Yuya and when he saw he did after making him discard Smile world, he knew he won even though he lost the duel. Plus there's something to Declan saying "WInning is all that matters" and that very line being what creates the ultimate villain.

[@bigfish5544]

Actually no, Yuya wasn't forced to absorb Yuri if he won. The stakes here were about him keeping his sanity, without which he would fall to his urge to become one once again

[@VixYW]

@@bigfish5544 Idk about that, since he absorbed Yuuto unintentionally way back. I think it happens automatically once the duel ends. Maybe he could've still try and fight back against Zarc taking over, but the merging was probably unavoidable.

[@Thelnquisitor]

That’s kind of the thing Yuri did win in either case, but only because Yuya gave into the desire to win. ZARC was reasserting himself in all four of them and the only way he wouldn’t manifest is if Yuya could have held to his principle. He was the only one of the four who had cultivated an alternative to “winning is everything”.

[@bigfish5544]

@@VixYW I'm not sure it happens no matter what, maybe he did unintentionally want to absorb Yuto. The point is, this duel makes it clear that had Yuya not given yo his madness, Zarc wouldn't have been resurrected

[@thehoennguardians4286]

I find it symbolic that Yuri's final card was 'Ridicule World'. In his last moments, Yuri would mock Yuya with his last breath as he knows he won; Yuya has embraced the darkness and a part of him knows he'll become one with him. While he didn't know that initially, it may be why Yuri said 'I'm glad that my first lost was to you.' because of the fact that Yuya has already lost his sanity and embraced the urge to become one with him, which is exactly what he wanted; To become 1.

[@Laki071]

In the dub he actually mocks yugo at the end which is funny.

[@trentgawd4292]

I love this duel. It’s Yuya’s voice actor vs yuya’s voice actor while yuya’s voice actor and yuya’s voice actor are also there, and at the end of the duel, a character with the same voice actor as Yuya appears

[@deathwisher3924]

😂

[@undeadinside3571]

They REALLY didnt wanna pay more voice actors for this duel 😂. Good use of budget

[@thattruegamernerd]

Yuya was actually trying to discard Miracle in order to activate Break Away, we see him putting it towards his graveyard instead of his S/T Zone, so yeah he knew that he could use an Action Spell for its activation, it is just unfortunate that Yuri got Action Spell Advantage with Break Action, in fact if he got them reversed and Broke Evasion instead then yeah Yuya would have been able to do this. But definitely attempting to activate Evasion in that scenario absolutely was a misplay since it just negates one attack while his Trap would end the Battle immediately and then negate the opponents effects for the rest of the turn and all

[@Zetact_]

But that's not how chains work, he could have used his Trap in response to Break Action and sent Miracle as the cost before the effect of Break Action resolves. It's just an instance of the duel writing being forced by Yuya forgetting that Traps are the same spell speed as Quick-Plays.

[@Beetletop]

​@@Zetact_ There was cheating with starlight force as well. It's activated later than it should. But those aren't illegal plays and are only done for the suspense. Action Break destroys all action cards for the rest of the turn so it was activated later just for the suspense.

[@omermohammad1336]

​@@Zetact_ That how it works in the anime (not sure about Vrains tho), they do the cost first then activate the card or the effect If you need proof watch/rewatch anything yugioh from preVrains (DSOD and anything before it)

[@Zetact_]

@@omermohammad1336 The OG anime has a lot of unique rules due to being an adaptation of the manga which didn't take irl rules into account (not even in Battle City, though it emulated the irl rules significantly more) but ever since GX the rules have more or less used the real world rules. There are generally three specific ways that they do sometimes diverge: 1. What specific cards do (as in, "Bubbleman doesn't need an empty hand to draw 2 cards, only an empty field. That's just how it works in the anime." type of change). 2. Having the phrasing/animations not reflect the exact mechanic (like sometimes they'll say a continuous effect "activates" or show a card hit with the "destroyed" animation instead of a "sent to GY" animation but those are just for dramatic effect and not mechanical representation). 3. Rare interactions like monsters always being counted as being properly summoned regardless of if they were or not, or allowing activations of cards such that they resolve without effect even if they couldn't legally be activated. They've never had a rule divergence so large that it would change "A character can chain a trap card to a quick-play spell." Regardless on if the rules of costs are different or not, chaining Break Away to Action Crush would mean that all of Break Away's effects would take place prior to Action Crush. He can discard Miracle and then Action Crush resolves without effect. Instead Yuya allowed Action Crush to fully resolve, re-enter what could be described as a "pseudo open game state" (it was during an attack declaration, prior to the damage step) and then use his trap. It's simultaneously a misplay and a case of plot-induced stupidity.

[@omermohammad1336]

@@Zetact_ Your first 3 point doesn't change anything, because Number 1 is simply anime effect, its when konami thinks the anime effect is too great to be released (like there is way too many cards like that), No clue what Number 2 meant, And for Number 3, I don't think "the properly summoned from the extra deck" ruel exist in the anime, since the whole point of it in rl to make the game balanced, which isn't really what the anime care about Also in the anime (arcV specifically) the chain is all about speed, you can't stop the monster effect or attack to read it's effect which is part of why the opponent just announce the effect instead. The cost before activating the card is true and happened in many duels Tho you might not be wrong for saying how it happened was a plot armor, since the only way that could happen is if Action cards have the fastest activation speed in the game (which is also isn't far from true since you can see characters activating Action cards a less than a second from an attack connection or taking damage)

[@Insert_Bland_Name_Here]

Yuuya actually didn't make a misplay by discarding "Smile World" instead of an Action Card. He was about to discard an Action Card, but Yuri used his own card to destroy all Action Cards in both players' hands, so Yuuya was left with no other option than to discard "Smile World".

[@isaiahnaegiVODs]

He could of still discarded "Evasion" since Yuri only negated that effect after Yuya played it, which is the smarter choice anyway as not only does he keep smile world, he ends the battle phase instead of just dodging one attack

[@caiusdrakegaming8087]

@@isaiahnaegiVODs We don't really know when Yuri got those two actions cards, far as we know he was able to grab both when Yuya was getting Evasion since it didn't look like Yuri was moving when he used Action Break. So regardless Yuri probably still would have had the same counter to force Smile World to be discarded

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah good eye, the way Yuya was holding the second action card looked more like he was trying to move it to the graveyard so he could activate his trap instead of just slapping it down to use it. Hehe Misread on TGS's side then! XD Though fortunately for him it wouldn't have made a difference after all.

[@RFDN0]

The big question is if an action card would count for the discard activation cost. The likely answer is yes, so it would have been a miss-play. The second attempt to survive with an action card seems to imply it could be used as such because I do not believe Miracle would have actually helped Yuya with an empty field. If Miracle could have, though, then he might not have been able to use action cards as the cost activation, which means he was trying to maintain resources which honestly isn't a bad idea in his situation.

[@isaiahnaegiVODs]

@@caiusdrakegaming8087 Far as we know as well he ran to get them when Yuya did as any time we see Yuri on screen he doesn't move, I'm assuming Yuri had gotten the cards in that time because also you can only hold one action card at a time, so the card he used on miracle he *HAD* to of run to grab it since he used one on Evasion, meaning that was the one in his hand and he didn't have the one he used on Miracle yet Evidence of the one action card at a time thing: Yuya himself is forced to activate an action card he doesn't want to multipe times so he can get one that saves him, it's also mentioned multiple times that you can only carry one at a time and are not allowed to have multiple in hand Added on, let's say Yuri happened to have Action Break the whole time Yuya loses Evasion, but now has time to get another action card, Miracle, and discard that instead

[@OrpheusSpyros5]

Arch-V is the odd duck within the Yugioh series we got. The Series was a great concept with a ton of good Characters and ideas(Pendulum Summoning ain't a bad idea for a mechanic and this is a Yugiboomer talking here!), it just got lost somewhere along the way.

[@jakethereaper2060]

well it was either what it was or we followed the time travel BS that was the manga version

[@MarioMastar]

I really loved the concept, but I think people dislike the execution. THe idea of the different dimensions was really cool, but the "Bias" element felt really forced and apparently the neutering of some beloved characters sat wrong with people (hello Alexis, top duelist in GX to damsel in distress). I think if the plot was more neutral with the dimensions all fighting each other and Yuya kind of focusing on uniting them all to show how versatile Yugioh can be with all these mechanics, it'd have resonated a lot more positively. It seems Duel LInks is fixing that element though by having the Yuboys come back to life and kind of see the results of everything first hand. Also interesting making Yuya the villain just like Jaden in GX as the plots mirror each other, It had good ideas...just needed better execution and control.

[@xerael4659]

I feel like Arc-V is an amazing "Yu-Gi-Oh! anime", but a bad "anime". The amount and variety of duels is probably the biggest across all series, since we get regular duels, tag duels, battle royales, speed duels etc., many decks that we know from the TCG were showcased in some shape or form, which is always cool (Konami, why didn't we get a Lightsworn user in 5Ds???) and bosses were most of the time well protected and showcased as well. Reiji being an actual Lancer's top guy, not protag, like it always happened, Jack was presented really strong and had a huge influence on Yuya and both Zarc and Yuri were foreshadowed and presented well for what they were. The problem was, it all felt super rushed and most episodes was just duels (sometimes not even the whole duel, just the finishing sequence). It was pushed from one tournament arc to another, also feeding Takahashi's (RIP) mind control fetish instead of just giving Rei girls some actual reason to duel. I would definitely recommend it if someone asked if it's worth to watch this after they finished the previous 4 series, but I would never recommend it "in bubble", even if prior knowledge of some characters wasn't needed (and tbh isn't pretty much all backstories are so different). Also Alexis has been nerfed immediately after Jaden defeated her in, like, episode 2 or 3, lol. Tough luck being a female character in Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@wrought-ironheroEMIYA]

​@@MarioMastarAlexis was already shafted in GX.Not sure about this one

[@themantyf1116]

I mean, that's not that odd, 5Ds went down the same route, although Arc V has both highest highs and lowest lows (but a more satisfactory final villain than plastic surgery). It got too lost in the characters during the synchro arc (though I still like it overall), and then the xyz and fusion arcs were compressed as a result (they have combined the same amount of legacy characters, and only Alexis mantains the characterization while Edo and Kaito just use a similar deck), making a lot of rushed and questionable decisions. Honestly, getting older I'm learning to appreciate more the other series, GX is actually far better than I used to give it credit for.

[@jamieholmes4751]

I think Yuri accepted his loss really well “So then …. I lose “ [unhinged laughter] At least he enjoyed himself lol 😂😂

[@e-duh3529]

Well he lost... but he won.

[@BlackbirdRX]

mostly cus for him it wasnt a loss at all. Yuri's goal was still achieved in the end

[@Dabrick47]

I particularly love the English dub. “So this is what it feels like to be a loser! This must be what Yugo feels every day!”

[@ivanbluecool]

Yuri was a show stopper with how many duels he was in and won. Made the last half of the show barable to just see him destroy everything that stood in his way. Wish we got more villains like that actually allowed to win duels and not just show up at the end to lose

[@e-duh3529]

Never thought I'd find you on a ygo video. Hello there pal And yeah Yuri's pretty much the best we got out of arc-V (and Jack the GOAT but he's not a newcomer)

[@ivanbluecool]

@@e-duh3529 oh yeah been getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh recently. Finished sevens. Play master duel a lot(even upload duels too) and I watch his channel just never early enough to comment

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah, Zexal had a lot of that too with how extremely ruthless the villains were..and even Kite himself. Literally destroying people's souls and going absolutely insane. Plus the over the top animations and expressions. People can say what they will about the stories, the animations were a massive spectacle.

[@uteriel282]

the one time he fought a main character he lost. which is pretty much what happens with all villains in yugioh. first they easily beat every side character they go up against only to lose against people that actualy matter. same thing happened in gx, 5d´s and vrains.

[@e-duh3529]

@@MarioMastar zexal got a lot better overtime, while Arc-V got really bad

[@slightlycynical4308]

I always though that yuri was the most similar to yuya just through his performative dueling, rather than yuya entertaining others yuri seemed like he was conversly entertaining himself

[@alcatrazvongola]

Never noticed that! That's a very interesting way to look at their dueling styles. Nice thing to point out.

[@hal1385]

One thing to mention is this duel began after another really emotional duel: Yusho vs Yuri. After Leo Akaba noped out of his duel with Yuya and Reiji, literally locked them behind a steel wall and started throwing the bracelet girls into the Arc-V reactor, effectively killing them in front of Yuya, Yuya was about to lose his mind in rage before Yusho pinned him to a wall and tried to calm him down. Yuri then busted into the room after his own rampage and Yusho challenged Yuri to a duel to remind Yuya of the importance of entertainment dueling. Yusho had just been made aware by Leo that the reality they were living in was fabricated and Yuya wasn't his real son and Yusho struggled with those feelings during the duel, but ultimately Yusho fought his hardest to help Yuya, even breaking through Yuri's OP Ivy Bind Castle. However, Yuri managed to create a sadistic effect loop using his two aces where he'd repeatedly destroy them to knock down Yusho's LP over and over while Yuya and his friends were forced to watch until he finally blasted Yusho across the room with Starve Venom and carded him just to enrage Yuya. Yuri could have won the duel earlier, but he made Yusho's loss as painful and humiliating as possible and then laughed in Yuya's face. That's also why it was incredibly painful to Yuya to have to sacrifice Yusho's Smile World to protect himself.

[@godsman00]

I think another reason Yuri went Starving Venom right off the bat was because to facilitate the awakening of Z-ARC. The presence of the D-dragons throw Yuya berserk, and the more that are on the field the more he loses control. Yuri wants the merge to happen so he's using SV's presence to wane on Yuya's psyche right off the bat.

[@bladersmosh]

Next to Yuya and Yuto vs Ruri and Serena, this is my favourite Arc V duel. I know everyone likes to bash on the series but even when it’s at a low point in an arc, there is always a diamond to be found.

[@ahmadomran3345]

He already did

[@ahmadomran3345]

After Noah vs kaiba and yugi he did that duel 😊 hope that helped

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@ahmadomran3345They said next to not do Yuya and Yuto vs Ruri and Serena next

[@bladersmosh]

@@ahmadomran3345 I know. What I meant was that alongside Yuya and Yuto vs Ruri and Serena, this is my favourite Arc V duel.

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

I think we need to move past bashing it. If DM, GX, 5D’s second season, and those recap episodes of Vrains all get a pass, then Arc-V should too. There’s more than enough good in it to still be considered a great series, lots of fun characters, and the best actually dueling of any series.

[@sonicchaos-ir9kw]

A thing I like about this duel is that the dimension dragons truly feel like their win conditions. Yuri has the dragons that utilize strategy like setting up for starving venoms effect and shielding it with clear wing. Yuya in contrast has the more linear of the dragons being that dark rebellion and odd-eyes grant an extremely high damage output but leaves little room for combos.

[@roninwarriorsfan]

Just gonna remind everyone here that Dark Rebellion's effect in the anime only requires 1 overlay unit, only the irl version requires 2 for it to work

[@slevinchannel7589]

ANYONE knows some good Generic Cards i can put into my Predaplant dekk??

[@truekeyblade5563]

Also it only works on lv5 or higher monsters

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah it was nerfed as it'd have been too rediculous otherwise. it's already an incredibly powerful card. All the Yu boys aces are really powerful in Duel Links and given they're all mostly generic, it's not hard to splash them in and do wild things.

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

@@MarioMastar nerfed irl? depends, in the anime only works with LV 5 or higher monsters, not sure how Yuto was suppose to be a powerful duelist in the XYZ dimension when his ace don't work on XYZs, and most of the good grave effects of Phantom Knights don't exist in the anime

[@S0njc]

@@MarioMastarthe irl dark rebellion is better and way more generic to use, the anime version only works against lv5 or higher monsters makes it completely useless against half of modern extra deck monsters(xyz and link). It just ridiculous how Yuto considerate a strong duelist in his dimension when most of his deck are lv3 monsters and his ace monster is rank 4 and doesnt work against xyz monsters

[@agentpg372]

correction yuya did want to use miracle as cost to activate his trap after all miracle effect is : traget one monster on the field it cannot be destroyed by battle once and the battle damages are halfed.

[@mazthebear]

One thing I love about yuri is how his brain works. He breaks his opponents down one bit by bit. True to his sadistic and sociopathic nature

[@shadowbladezorru2748]

So pretty much the spiritual heir of Yami Marik

[@mazthebear]

@@shadowbladezorru2748 yes

[@XXMatt0040XX]

​@@shadowbladezorru2748 Having literally never watched the anime, only via these videos... There's a lot of "merging." Kinda like Cell in DBZ or Moro. (No pun intended- but I'm not removing it.) Zarc's name is a fusion of previous bad guy names. It's no secret. Point being; I think that Yami Bakura may fit the bill as well. Maybe even more. With a little bit of Yubel mixed in maybe? Just spitting that out as I think- that *just* came into my mind.

[@tatsukinomiya]

I really love it when you review duels that are 5Ds & higher due to how the later series tend to mirror the real TCG a little more. Sure, there's still anime magic attached to these things but yeah haha keep up the great work man

[@Championoko]

13:43 so in terms of your sanity yuya I'm going to have to give you a mispaly yuya...emotional damage!!

[@Championoko]

Sorry that I had yo edit the comment hence your heart was erased

[@brynjolfsigrunson5220]

Can’t wait for the eventual 2 hour long video analysis of Zarc’s steam roll of all of the Lancers and Allies

[@muratkulci9437]

Yuri could have won this duel, if he had activated dark rebellions effect on odd-eyes yuya wouldn’t have materials left for when it was his turn. Of course yuri was in such a positions that it wouldn’t be smart to activated it and just save it. Because 1. He already has enough attack to win the game and 2. He has ridicule world, predaplant reborn, 3600 Lp and 3 dragons on the field. Yuya needed a perfect storm of specific cards to go through 2 traps and steal 2 dragons AND deal 3600 lp in a single blow.

[@Eric6761]

In this scenario Yuya would have to play defensively and basically won't have any attackers and then depending on what Yuri draws next he can make a win, this play makes sure he has it's dragon

[@Amitlu]

The writers either forgot to add a downside to Dragonvine, or they somehow assumed that Starlight Force's effect lingered? I dont know why Yuri wouldnt just use the Rebellion ORU otherwise either.

[@muratkulci9437]

@@Amitlu we can read the whole card effect in the original Japanese version, it doens’t have a downside (its downside is that it requires 2 dragon type monsters to be on the field which is a very specific effect). The reason yuri didn’t use the ORUis because he didn’t need to, he would win without even having to use it by just attacking directly, yuya just happened to have a trap card that ended the battle face. Also yuri could have just saved it’s ORU for a different turn when he would have actually needed to use it.

[@brokendoll3368]

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Yuri/Joeri (his name is spelled like that at some point) could have activated some of his dragons effects during his last turn. Starving Venom or Dark Rebellion could have decreased Odd-Eyes ATK. If Yuya had continued to be slow on the trigger with Break Away, he would have lost. Also, funnily, if Dark Rebellion had only one Xyz-Material left, Yuya could not have won on his turn. Decreasing the Xyz Material for that would definitely been a hindsight-play, especially considering that activating Starving Venom is basically the same just better. One actual thing he could have done though is setting Predaplant Reborn turn one. That way, he could have used it during one of his turns to special Darlingtonia Cobra whose effect does not seem to have an "once per duel" restriction in the anime. That way, he would get an additional Poli (or maybe Super Poli) so he could get his other Fusion monster out.

[@AJ_Steele]

I’d love to see one of these three duels discussed if it’s not too much to ask.- 1. Sora vs Shun in their first duel : I think this is arguably the best duel in yugioh aside from the battle city duel between yugi and kaiba. Everything from the twists to the dueling, from the acrobatics to the expressions, it’s a near perfect duel. 2. Dennis vs Shun in their speed duel/action duel : I loved this duel because it peeled back the layers of Dennis’ character in a way that made me love him even more than I already did. I think he’s a super underrated duelist and had an amazing arc throughout the series and would love to see if he could have won at any point in their duel if he had revealed himself earlier by choice. 3. Specter vs lightning where specter almost completed the perfect link : I thought this duel was super cool to watch for the first time because it really made me believe that Specter was gonna win through lockout. Sunavalons are my favorite deck to use in my spare time all because of the board building you can do with them. As said I’d love to see any of these made, so no real order on any of them.👌

[@neojay7522]

Yuya was actually planning to discard Miracle as the cost for Break Away, but Yuri cut that down before he could, so... Blame Yuri for that, not Yuya.

[@SuperSayianWarrior]

Blame Yuya since he could've done that with evasion instead, keeping his monster and everything else since Yuri had No Action in hand instead

[@brocautry5063]

@@SuperSayianWarrior Except Yuya didn't get evasion until after odd-eyes was already destroyed. And while he could have used it to activate break away, that's not necessarily the best choice. Yuya had more than enough life points to survive the turn if clear wings attack was negated. He would have taken 2500 damage from a direct attack, but he would have survived. Yes activating break away would have prevented the direct attack as well, but Yuya wasn't forced to use it yet. He could have saved it for a more dire situation which is what we see him do. He tried to just take the damage and save break away for later. Ultimately the decision was between taking the damage and saving his trap, or using his trap in order to keep his life points higher in order to maybe use them as a cost later. Both are reasonable plays, but which one can be considered better is up to your interpretation.

[@StareachValcin]

For the longest time, Yuri could have been considered the strongest of the Yu boys, especially after defeating Yugo who technically defeated Yuto, but this duel with Yuya settled who was the strongest Yu boy, despite the negative outcome of Zarc being revived. I do agree that Yuya did manage to legitimately defeat Yuri and surpass him. Also for the record, in both the Japanese and English dub, Yuya did try to discard an action spell to activate his trap, after Yuri used an action spell to negate Yuya's first attempt to use an action card to stop Yuri's direct attack with Clear Wing Synchro Dragon. When Yuya tried to discard an action spell to activate his trap, Yuri used an action spell to destroy it, so Yuya had no choice but to discard smile world. I don't think that was a misplay on Yuya's part. It was just Yuri forcing his hand. Regardless, Yuya did manage to legitimately defeat Yuri, and became the strongest of the Yu boys.

[@murderofcrows5089]

It’s a shame that Yuri didn’t have more duels in the series he’s my favorite character in that series and I’d have loved to see more

[@Nymphonomicon]

"And Yuri goes first" *screen literally shows his name written "Joeri"*

[@romanfrancis1232]

It’s pronounced Yuri in both the sub and dub

[@kshitizplays5305]

Flat Rat:I am between 4 Dimesion Dragons and I am still MVP

[@Warthog2554]

I really do enjoy these videos. Furthermore TGS, please do note that I personally(and probably many others) also enjoy these small "DId you know" or "I just realized" segments between the duel explanations. They are very entertaining. Please do keep making it up making content!

[@anthonythomas305]

Please do Jaden and Syrus vs Paradox Brothers in tribute to Dark Guardian finally being printed in TCG/OCG

[@nebbynetwork2089]

yuri so this is what being a laser feels like ? I bet this is how yugo must feel every single day Even when he's dying he still has to get in one more jab at yugo

[@captianblitz]

Fun Fact, this is the first time Sam has covered a duel where a Pendulum Summon has occurred Also about the “hyper specific” effects on the last turn. Ridicule World is a bit wierd, but is just an attack blocker Flat Rat by contrast is very useful if you expect debuffs a lot (which on Odd-Eyes any damage compounds) is very useful in a verity of situations

[@MarioMastar]

I find that the "Specific conditions" thing happened a lot more in earlier series. Performapals as an archetype are known for thier versatility so them having a ton of varied "specific" effects is par for that archetypes course, since Odd eyes is really just a beatstick in the end of the day. Zexal's Yuma had a similar case with the Gagaga cards being all about level modulation so he could get out various XYZ monsters, but they too are pretty versatile. Yuma's just not that good of a deck builder, but managed to use the cards effects to gain advantage (like half unbreak to reduce his lifepoints just enough to get C39 Utopia Ray on the field, since you need less than 1000 life points left). The futher back you go though ironically...the more you see cases of "The ONLY reason you played that card in your deck is because you must've forseen this duel" as they kind of abuse Emergency rations and pot of Greed and other lifepoint recovery cards to make up for maining NORMAL MONSTERS and not really having a strategy. OR to get around the Seal of Orichalcos shenanigans.... (in the anime, it literally makes it impossible for your opponent to play the game but in real life, it's a 500 attack boost to all monsters but literally prevents YOU from playing the game....) Personally I'm glad they stopped letting outside forces and rule changes dictate the duels... and people thought Yugi was a cheater... XD

[@reddragon9064]

they still have hyper specific cards like in Yumas last dual with Astral so many hyper specific cards one of the most egregious if you only comparing cards but i get what you mean it defiantly was more frequent earlier you go back@@MarioMastar

[@AliacadosDuelistas]

Also, Flat Rat is very useful to stop earlier mechanics such as Synchro and XYZ, since most decks of this mechanics don't deal well if you desregulate their levels on their combos. Flat Rat is actually a smart card to use, in my opinion.

[@Dgamer-kq5kt]

My next duel recommendation is Zarc vs multiple duelists. I know it’s a really long duel but I enjoy it. Another idea would be the rematch between Jaden & Aster in GX when Jaden has his Neo-Spacian monsters. My last option is Crow vs Shay.

[@KaoruMzk]

Seeing Yuri open with the Orphiscorpio combo and go into Starving Venom Dragon instead of comboing off with Brilliant Fusion feels so wrong for some reason.

[@felixdeplanques3614]

Arc V had so many great ideas and interesting duels ! Too bad the overall execution left to be desired most of the time... Doesn't matter, you're videos are always amazing !

[@aragaminightmare9527]

I agree Arc V had too many ideas and did not have enough time to properly execute everything some ideas I feel could have been dropped as I felt some were not leading anywhere.

[@RFDN0]

Agreed, at it's core Arc 5 was a war story. Yuya was a kid who got pulled into the war and became a soldier to save his friend. The XYZ arc is where things began to speed along too quickly and the fusion arc was just plain rushed. Honestly, though, one of the better stories in the franchise in general.

[@anthonythomas305]

​@@aragaminightmare9527Same here

[@MarioMastar]

Fortunately, albeit very slowly, Duel LInks is picking up where Arc-V left off. Kind of acting as a "What happened after the end" so we do get some new story (VRAINS is doing the same, canonically taking place after the anime ended as Playmaker straight up says that "Duel Links exists in the VRAINS world and he also finally found AI, who mostly lost his memory and claims as a computer program he technically isn't the same AI who nearly destroyed the real world, but Playmaker is ... in his own way...happy AI is alive again.). I'm curious what Yuri will say when he appears though. but it was sweet to see Sora and Yuto able to settle their differences as Sora gave a heartfelt apology to Yuto and Yuto admitted he saw everything through Yuya's eyes and knows Sora's a good kid. It's...actually quite fascinating and worth keeping up with.

[@The_GhostWind]

If only I had a Time Machine, I would go back to the past during when they started the synchro dimension and to say to the animation staff “wait, keep that on the oven! You need to keep cooking on the Synchro, XYZ and Fusion arcs, Give the series a small hiatus when the team is working in the next yugioh movie, bring Duel Monster characters in the story, and lastly don’t shaft the Bracelet girls. Ok gonna go, oh and tell Konami to balance Firewall Dragon so you can use him more in VRAINS! Byeeeeee~”

[@mamounyounes5512]

I would love to see more arc v and vrains duels, I especially want to see lightning vs specter analysis.

[@blackwinggaming15]

I know it would be a lot of work and probably won’t happen but if you ever wanted to break down the big Z-ark wave duel that would be incredible. Or if it’s split into parts that works too. I loved this duel and thank you for bringing us such amazing content

[@Shantae1188]

I mean, if it’s anything like Dartz and Noah, it can be possible

[@No2hISwear]

Even if Yuri did have other fusions, I feel like he still would have summoned starving venom as he was trying to goad yuya into berserking more than anything.

[@kingcrowbro2486]

Actually! Yuya attempted to discard the second action card he grabbed, specifically so he *could* activate Break Away without discarding Smile World. Tragically, Yuri's effect destroyed the Action Card before Yuya could even declare card activation.

[@mystery8820]

And if we were to follow traditional rules, that Action Card prevents some csrds from being played in response?

[@alexanderthunder7623]

I haven't seen these episodes but Action cards look like plot armour with extra steps

[@mesiagamer5217]

I'm honestly surprised that Yuri never fused Starving venom and Crystal wing in the duel as it would thematically fit him taking over. Crystal venom Fusion dragon anyone?

[@AliacadosDuelistas]

The Dimensional Dragons cannot be merge by themselfs. Odd-Eyes is the only one with this ability because of the Pendulum power mechanic. Odd-Eyes is like a huge armor to the other Heavenly Dragons (like when a Pokémon/Digimon evolves with some part of an armor or something). Supreme King Zarc exists because of a forced fusion by Astrograph and the new Odd-Eyes Arcray exists by the power of the 4 nature cards combined with the powers of a new form of Astrograph (Supreme King Gate Magician) -which is not a forced fusion like Zarc. That's why the Dimensionl Dragons can only be combined with Odd-Eyes in their own formula using the Pendulum power (Odd-Eyes Wing, Odd-Eyes Rebellion...), or evolving by the Pendulum power on themselfs (Dark Anthelion, Starving Venemy...) or merging together as one by Astropraph's power (Supreme King Zarc and Odd-Eyes Arcray). Odd-Eyes Revolution tried be the same but is more a Odd-Eyes final form using the other 3 Dimensional Dragons' powers than a real combined form with the 4 of them

[@chaos_magician6689]

So since we have Yuri in one of these, I honestly do wonder if Yugo could have actually beated Yuri in his final duel in the series. Edit: Yuya was trying to do that play you described at 13:28 with the Miracle he found, but yeah, not doing that with the Evasion was indeed a misplay.

[@gotzmoneywayne8216]

Well the problem is that you'd have to do it as if Kite and Aster meter intervened. And then you'd have to speculate based on Yugo's cards thay were used against Kite and Aster, and see if he could have won with those cards

[@BurstFlare]

12:00~12:26 Yuya was actually trying to activate Breakaway by discarding Miracle when Yuri activated Action Crush. Also, Miracle itself couldn't have saved Yuya because you need to target a Monster for it to work, which would have prevented its destruction and halved the battle damage, but Yuya had no Monsters left on the Field. 12:42~12:49 He could've discarded Evasion as well. But he stupidly tried to play Evasion instead, and that's why he was forced to discard Smile World.

[@13KuriMaster]

Ehh, got a detail wrong when describing Dragon Vine..... it doesn't snag the lowest leveled dragon, just a dragon that's NOT the highest level. Remember, not having a level dose not mean it counts as level 0.... there was even a couple moments in Arc-V where that was important to 2 characters winning their duels.

[@christopherbouska6779]

I am so glad you are doing this one. Your channel brings so much joy. Thank you so very much. I love all the videos you do.

[@Earthgrand234]

I'm starting to realize the simularities between the first 3 Yu-Gi-Oh series and the later 3. DM and Zexal, GX and ARCV, lastly 5Ds and VRAINS.

[@sundengames7253]

Finally a video to my favorite duel in the entire Yu-Gi-Oh series thank you!

[@Turbo77100]

The scene where Yuya has Action: Miracle was him trying to pitch it to activate Break Away since Miracle's effect at that point wouidn't save him from losing (halves battle damage for 1 attack). Yuri had beaten him to the punch with Action Crush. That said, it's still a misplay on Yuya's part as he could've chained Break Away to Action Crush, allowing him to pitch Miracle to pay the cost and still keep Smile World.

[@maxusheracross9928]

Here’s hoping for the marathon video “Could anyone have done anything against Zarc?”

[@bloodwolf2002]

Without the -2000 penalty probably a lot more

[@krfan5459]

Great video, as always with the Duel Analysis series. What I would really like to see next in this series is Jaden vs Aster rematch in Homecoming Duel.

[@michaelolynyk4319]

7:00 That is pretty clever. Have to give it to Konami for that one. It is pretty crazy what can be done with grafting. One extreme example is grafting a tomato plant to potato roots. Ketchup and French fries for one plant!

[@XXMatt0040XX]

Ik I'm late, but I love the background music Sam puts in during the Arc-V episodes. On a surround sound setup, you can literally *feel* the sound of a heart pumping in the right ear. And the fact the music is synced to the video is easy to miss. But that takes some *skill.*

[@gokenboar8876]

I can't wait to see you cover the Big Z-Arc Duel

[@jjhl]

17:34 That's a mistranslation on Crunchyroll's part. Yuya actually says "That's only if you have Life Point remaining". The implication being that Yuri's manic boast about winning through Staving Venom's effect will only work if he survives Yuya's last attack, which we all know wont happen because of Odd-eye's damage doubling effect.

[@yaakovsteinberg4128]

to answer the question I would say it's very complicated (both sides could have won earlier on). this is because this duel was littered with mistakes by both players. In the first turn, yuya completely forgot about his timegazer's ability to seal Yuri's face down. this would have destroyed starving venom outright. in addition, coin dragon would have prevented both it and odd eyes's destruction due to its own effect. furthermore, there would be no tokens, and so yuri would have taken an additional 2200 damage as well. (yuri never set his predaplant reborn that turn, perhaps another mistake, though to be honest, the summon would have only prevented him from taking more damage). that said, during yuya's next turn, yuya activates drop gallop's effect. drog gallop is a level 5, and it lets yuya draw two cards. that effect could have essentually been negated by clear wing. this would have left yuya with no other option but to use coin dragon eff, but even before its activation, yuri could have activated his dragon creeping trap, and could have taken control of it. this would have forced yuya to end his turn, since the only other card in his hand would have been smile word. (from there yuri would have beaten him on the next turn). the factual conclusion: each side had an opportunity to severely cripple and potentially win the duel on an earlier turn. some interesting notes for yuri: 1, he did not choose to activate dark rebellion's effect, though this hardly mattered due to the breakaway trap, which by the way, yuya activated way too late. 2, yuri never did draw another predaplant for the rest of the duel, and that was a game changer. with predaplant reborn he could have brought back rising scorpio, discarded (his newly drawn predaplant monster), and summoned darling cobra. from there he would be able to bring out greedy venom fusion dragon. (this of course after yuya star trap was played) then, he could have used its effect to negate coin dragon, reduce its attack to zero, and dealt 3300 dam in one go).

[@thehoennguardians4286]

Time Gazer's effect differs in the anime; It sadly only negates traps that target his Pendulum Monsters if they attack. So yeah, this duel's pendulum swung in Yuya's favor.

[@splashrandom2918]

i think the battle royal against zarc could be a fun follow up to this duel

[@OwerfordAmazington]

13:28 he tried to, though. You can see in the clip at 12:06 that Yuya intended to discard for Breakaway’s effect, but the action card Yuri got destroyed the Action Card in Yuya’s hand

[@Yojimbo16]

Talking about hyper-specific cards for hyper-specific situations reminds me of cards like "Come Back" and "Overlay Award" both from Zexal. Come Back is just a nerfed Change of Heart and you would never actually use Overlay Award outside of how it was used in the anime. TLDR: Number C88: Gimmick Puppet Disaster Leo is about to use its Automatic Victory effect after using up its last material once the turn ends but then Overlay Award takes an XYZ material from Number C101: Silent Honor DARK and gives it to C88 to prevent it from meeting the conditions for the Automatic Victory effect

[@MrDarksol]

While I do have my complaints about this duel being that Yuya REALLY should've remembered those action cards that he still had in his hand would have been great trade offs for activating his trap card instead of tossing away Smile World, the whole Smile World breakdown was way too much and Reiji REALLY should have choosen his words carefully to Yuya because then the end result is oh Yuya won.......FUCK WE ARE DOOMED!, I will always give the VA credit for voicing two characters and having them both duel with each feeling so different from each other. All of that aside, this was a fine duel and was nowhere near a mess as the big duel against Zarc was so great job TGS on this duel analysis!

[@craigyeah1052]

I do love this duel, narratively. Largely because the narrative legwork it was one of the more structured duels for sure, which of course makes me wonder if the more cheerful Yuya could have won, or if he instead would have lost but done so in such a fun way even Yuri would want to not absorb him so they could duel again. I certainly could have accepted that ending too with no boss battle against Zarc. That said, the pressure to continue winning being what made Zarc into a monster and then made Yuya into Zarc was a fun narrative through line where the second Yuya said he'd focus on winning the viewer could realize it was over.

[@SuperSayianWarrior]

So the thing about 1 of his other irl fusions is that it only existed in the Manga being Chinera Rafeslia. Also another video of asking. Z-ARC VS EVERYONE if Anyone couldve beaten Z-Arc, especially if they did not lose the 2k Life for the intrusion Penalty. At the time of this vids release and comment, Age of Overlord is set to release soon and contains Zarc and Supreme King support. Please MAKE IT HAPPEN

[@shadexvii3975]

11:07 Wouldn’t Yuya have been better off just..not xyz summoning and instead attacking over clear wing with his 3k odd eyes? If he’d done that, Yuri would still have starving Venom, but Yuya could play defense until next turn and destroy it

[@lancekidder9011]

God I want you to cover the entire zarc tag dual so much

[@AlejandroRodriguez-mr9ox]

Never thought that starving venom effect was a reference to plants, quite a detail indeed

[@juantheblade]

thank you for making this video i been waiting for this for a long time

[@WeasleyDodds]

I loved the botany lesson. It would be so cool if you do a video about the preda plant archetype.

[@AloneTheorist]

That dragon vine thing is a shenanigans moment. XYZ monsters are immune to level based effects as they do not meet the criteria to be calculated. This was proven against Iggy Arlo, in which the final quote of the duel was 'Xyz monsters have ranks not levels.' which prompts the response from Iggy as his monster effect fails to both target and affect dark rebellion XYZ dragon; 'Oh no I can't stop it, there's nothing I can do.' meaning XYZ monsters are totally immune to level based targeting effects. So Yuri made an illegal move by snatching dark rebellion as dark rebellion does not fulfill the targeting criteria of his card.

[@DashTheKid02]

6:50 my favorite moment with garden theory

[@BurstFlare]

0:11~0:13 I didn't catch this first watch, but Yuya is from the *Standard* dimension. It only became the Pendulum dimension after the reborn Z-arc was defeated by Riley and the Lancers.

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

After a long week of work, I've been so eager to see this one getting done. Thank you so much Sam

[@TGSAnime]

My pleasure!

[@tarikkash4282]

@@TGSAnime Like i said before, your duel videos are cool!

[@XXMatt0040XX]

​@@TGSAnime The level of effort for the audio must be *massive.* When Odd Eyes Raging Dragon came out in your last Arc-V video, your commentary and the music are in sync. That is easy to miss, but it made for probably my single favorite duel analysis. It shows you love the duels, because audio design is one of the least appreciated, but also most impactful aspects of content creation

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

I love that laugh at the beginning 😂 5:45

[@andrewmoore2611]

For his next dual analysis he should do Yugi and Joey versus the big 5.

[@ryandevine8603]

During Yuya’s first turn when he attacks why didn’t the pendulum effect of his magicians in his pendulum zones stop Yuri from activating Traps while odd eyes was attacking??

[@revolverkyosuke7049]

No, they have different Pendulum effects in the Anime. They only stop Spells and Traps that specifically targets 1 Pendulum monster once per turn.

[@ryandevine8603]

@@revolverkyosuke7049thank you

[@kitsu1379]

I have to say, I like the was blank about to beat blank reviews a lot more when there are outside factors at play along with the character's actual in game moves. Like the Yugi vs Raphael and this one. There's more then just what cards they draw and what moves they have available to them at play which can influence how the duel turns out. It makes these reviews more interesting because you have to think, well what if this factor wasn't there or how did this factor actually play into them making said good / bad play.

[@samurexatlas7373]

13:40 That's what he was going for with Miracle, but he should've done it with Evasion instead. But I'll chalk it up to bro is having his mind and heart ripped in half. It's not pleasant.

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@gast321]

Finally, another arc V duel. I really like the analysis videos of the more modern yugioh animes

[@FinalCometVA]

Didn’t expect this to be the next Arc-V analysis but I’m all here for it

[@caleb2925]

I do like how in the dub. Before assimilation, yuri dissed on Yugo one last time

[@Albortomagico]

When Ridiculing World came up it just made me laugh out loud lol Like, what a scumbag do you have to be to not only make a card like that after printing Smiling World, but also going "yeah i'mma play it"

[@alcatrazvongola]

Hope you cover Zarc vs. Everyone next. That was a crazy duel.

[@sebastianfranz7189]

Now behold! I overlay my two Level 8 monsters! I use these two monsters to build the Overlay Network! Xyz Summon! Show yourself! Number 46! Your roar becomes thunder! You glisten like lightning! Manifist before us, my golden dragon! Dragluon! Go Dragluon! Blazing Divine Attack! Kite: Go, Dragluon! Divine Blazing Wrath!

[@ashleylightheart126]

"So in terms of your sanity Yuya I'm gonna count that as a misplay" should not be that raw of a line.

[@Revanxbone]

The grafting tangent was really nice!

[@KGKSkull]

I got one, how about examining and analyzing the starter deck from stardust accelerator. The deck includes some great starting cards, calculator and the creator make for a great combo, and three copies of mecha bunny give some good defense for battle and a bit of burn. Plus magical android is a good start. By using a bunny or the calculator and tune warrior, you can go into magical android, if you already have the creator out, then you can discard a card to bring back the calculator, in total that grants the calculator 4500 atk. In total with the other total, that is 9100 atk. A pretty good beat up team

[@Eliras24]

5:44 good, we shall never forget about the meme

[@NLookabill94]

This was an awesome video!! I do have a request if you take those but i was wondering if you would analyze team 5D's vs team ragnarok. Such an awesome duel and i was thinking the outcome may have been different but i dont know for sure

[@WelshGiraffa]

Oh I remember watching this duel subbed and it was intense

[@MontyJojo]

The one big misplay that I could see is Yuri not using Dark Rebellion's effect when he had it on his side, though I cant remember if there was something that prevented him from doing so.

[@NoirEmperor18]

There wasn't any restiction. He could also use Starving Venom's effect to be able to deal double damage and thus deal massive damage all at once.

[@VanishEclipse4867]

Probably because Yuri activated Dragon Vein as soon as Yuya summoned Dark Rebellion onto the field so there was no chance for Yuya to even use it.

[@NoirEmperor18]

@@VanishEclipse4867 nonono. I am talking about Yuri here. He could use both Dark Rebellion's and Starving Venom's effects to deal massive damage.

[@MontyJojo]

@VanishEclipse4867 in Yuri's last turn, he could have used any of his dragon's effects to do serious damage to Yuya (could have chained Clear wing to Starving Venom to force the field wipe and burn Yuya in the process). The big issue is that had Yuri used Dark Rebellion's effect even once, Yuya wouldn't have won on the following turn.

[@MarioMastar]

I think Yuri's goal wasn't to win the duel, but break Yuya's spirit. One of those cases where he didn't care about the outcome of the duel, but the longer it lasted, the more chances he had of breaking Yuya to submission. After all, He didn't want Yuya to fuse and then end up resisting and causing trouble for Z-ARC, he wanted Yuya to be all in on it and lose his soul.

[@onyxcosmium6586]

13:30 Actually, that's what he tried to do with the second action card he picked up! At 12:03, we can see him about to say that he's going to not activate 'Miracle', the action card he picked up, but send it somewhere, which we can assume was to the graveyard to activate Breakaway. Since Yuri activated Action Crush, though, he had to discard the card due to the effect of it instead of Breakaway, leaving him with nothing but Smile World to activate his trap with! (Which by the way was useless. Since 'Miracle' allows a monster to be unable to be destroyed in battle & halves all battle damage taken during the damage step and Yuya had an empty field, the card wouldn't have done anything.)

[@TheKpa11]

That set trap, “Break away” Featuring the Gemini elf was neat. Is there any card lore with Gemini elf I don’t know about?

[@LongNguyen-cz5ty]

I love this duel not just because of how sinister yuri was, but how our tomato head didn’t use “Action card go bruh”.

[@wxterfc3045]

bro that hoodie looks so nice where did you get it from that was one of my fav yugioh arc-v duels you should do soulburner vs varis next

[@DRAGON-rf1jp]

Not sure if you did that already or not, but if not, could you make a video to look at if anyone of the duelists would have been able to defeat ZARC?

[@AuraMasterKareem]

Arc v is my favourite yugioh series and one of the reasons for this is yuya. Seeing the journey he's gone through. All the shit he's had to endure was so investing as a kid it's what got me into yugioh and this duel is one of my favourite yugioh duels

[@satellarknightaltair4o90]

Awesome video. Can you analyse the first duel between Yuya and Silvio? I really liked this one