Was Yusei About To Defeat Kalin? [Dark Signs]

[@TGSAnime]

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[@rainbowdragon168]

Was Jaden about to beat Zane in their first duel?

[@TGSAnime]

@@rainbowdragon168 There first duel is kinda short, I think its only like 4 or 5 turns total. However never say never, might give it a quick video.

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@TGSAnime Alright

[@insanemakaioshin]

3:00 - I don't think Dark Signers care about fair, only Victory & Sadism.

[@triforceofcourage100]

I think calling d-wheel crashes voiding the duel is because it’s a motorcycle crash and it’s far more important to get help rather than worry about the results of a card game and ensure whatever interference that the duel mode might bring isn’t brought

[@quochuyvo3774]

Not just this duel, a lot of other duel Yusei keep using Speed Warrior even though that always lead to nothing. Yusei just really like his speed warrior

[@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets]

It's kinda suspicious to me how often Yusei managed to start out with Speed Warrior.

[@TKHedgeHog]

@@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets it's the mark of the speed warrior.

[@varisrevolver4061]

It's more so that when he draws Junk Synchron he knows he'll be able to go straight into Junk Warrior

[@XTempestBuster]

Speed warrior is truly his acw

[@EddieB-ready]

@@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets he is speed, he ran to the top of the deck after shuffling

[@Panda-xx4hs]

So sad to see that Dark Synchros are not a thing IRL, it would be kinda cool to have another Extra Deck Monster Type

[@ZenoDLC]

We now get something similar with Bearcti

[@Amsel_616]

They could still make the Dark Tuners and just make the minus math for the summon a condition for the Synchro Summon.

[@EddieB-ready]

Hey, at least they're in tag force

[@rougesilver]

The ursarctic archetype uses that gimmick

[@deadersurvival4716]

Hey, OP. The community fought against Pendulum monsters cause they have two different boxes to read, you want them to have to _subtract_?

[@jamesturner6979]

A duel I was always curious about was Aster vs Adrian from GX. The thing I remember most about that duel was how Aster was rushing to make sure Adrian couldn’t complete Exodia and I would be interested in seeing your analysis of it. 🤔

[@aryanvenkata3047]

^^^

[@radiusx89]

bro same that duel was crazy

[@he--ru362]

Good call sir

[@FentonHardyFan]

I would definitely be down to watch a video like that!

[@TheReaperofHades]

I was always kinda annoyed how the plot stopped Yusei from losing Duels x3 the one with Kalin was fine because it established the Dark Signers as a threat without losing the main character, but I draw the line at Jean from Team Unicorn throwing a well laid out plan because he wanted to "beat Yusei with his own strength." I also think he should have lost to Vizor the first time they fought and even think Jack should have won the final Duel against Yusei. Not only would it have concluded a major character arc where Jack truly becomes the strongest, as Yusei wasn't interested in being King, but it would have been the first Ceremonial Duel where the main character actually loses. Addendum: just would have made more sense for Jack to defeat Yusei if only to make his title as World King make more sense, as Jack would never accept the title if only because Yusei didn't want it, as even if his loss to Yusei in Season 1 early on wasn't seen by the city, Jack still considered it a loss and wanted to win against Yusei fair and square.

[@andrewwestfall65]

The thing that really annoyed me with Jean throwing the duel, they could have just given Yusei a different hand effect, or a graveyard effect, to deal the finishing blow without Jean throwing.Then again, it wasn't single elimination, so they could have lost the tournament to learn about how to synergize their decks and up the stakes of the next duel I like that Vizor threw, but I think he should have turned the situation around first.

[@pn2294]

What are you talking? EVERYONE treated it as Yusei losing to Kiryu

[@isaiahclairbrun2628]

Okay there's something wrong with everything you just said

[@Zetact_]

@@andrewwestfall65 Just having Jean be afraid of a hand trap or GY effect would make sense since in that duel Yusei was using a lot of them. Yes you can check opponent's cards legally but characters in the anime don't do that very often. Honestly the whole Team Unicorn thing is also a negative side effect of pumping up Andore and making him easily defeat 2/3rds of Team 5D's complete with the 5D's team members making misplays and other contrivances. Going off the "Jean could have checked the GY" that still applies to Jack's misplays since he'd have been able to read Andore's cards. But we don't talk about how ridiculous the circumstances leading UP to Jean were for... Some reason.

[@heavydonkeykong5190]

I'm okay with Andore beating Jack because his deck was tailor made to, but I feel like Aki shouldn't have lost to him, given that it was her last turbo duel onscreen. And the whole "Yusei takes on all three of them at once" thing was a pretty cool concept, but Jean could've beaten him, so he didn't really beat all three of them legit anyway.

[@mozi6373]

A fascinating analysis and hypothetical! However, I offer this hypothetical in response: Kalin could have secured victory and possibly Yusei's demise had he just made a different opening play himself! Just play *his* clearly stronger monster! Use Infernity Archfiend instead of Infernity Beast! Seriously, there was no benefit to him in playing Beast over the Archfiends. Kalin starts by setting Depth Amulet as normal, and summons Infernity Archfiend, leaving Yusei needing to get over an 1800 ATK monster instead of a 1600 ATK monster. Which...his opening hand can't do. At best, he can play either Speed Warrior or Rockstone Warrior and ram it into Archfiend to remove them both, but Kalin would simply negate it with Depth Amulet, discarding Infernity Beast. Yusei sets Scrap-Iron Scarecrow and Shard of Hope and ends his turn with one warrior on the field. Let's assume Yusei doesn't have the benefit of foresight to know he'll draw into Junk Synchron next turn, so he makes the more stable play of Rockstone Warrior, planning to tune it with Hyper Synchron next turn and get out Stardust Dragon. Kalin's turn. He draws Damage Translation, and reveals he has a second Infernity Archfiend, which he summons to the field. But to Yusei's surprise, he doesn't attack. Why? Because Kalin *needs* two monsters on the field to summon his tuner. He can afford to let Yusei attack him thanks to his trap, but he can't afford to give up his archfiends. He sets Damage Translation and ends his turn. Yusei draws Junk Synchron, then summons Hyper Synchron to synchro summon Stardust Dragon, complete with Hyper's boost to 3300 ATK. He activates Shard of Hope, then attacks to force Kalin to discard, which Kalin gladly does by getting rid of Infernity Guardian. Kalin's turn again, and he draws Infernity Dwarf. He sacrifices his Archfiends to summon his tuner, which special summons Dwarf so he can dark synchro One Hundred-Eyed Dragon as normal. However, his dragon isn't strong enough to destroy Yusei's...yet. He ends his turn. Yusei draws Synchro Destructor, and attacks with Stardust Dragon. The attack succeeds since Kalin has no cards to fuel Depth Amulet, but Kalin reveals his dragon's ability as Stardust fails to destroy it. However, it still deals 300 damage to Kalin, reducing him to 3700 LP. This triggers Shard of Hope, causing Yusei to draw Level Warrior. As it isn't a trap, Level Warrior is discarded. Yusei sets Synchro Destructor, and ends his turn, causing Depth Amulet to leave the field. Back to Kalin, who draws Speed Spell - Power Baton. And this is where things go south for Yusei. Kalin activates the spell, sending Infernity Guardian to the graveyard to boost his dragon to 5300 ATK and attacks. Yusei tries to save Stardust with his Scarecrow, but One Hundred-Eyed Dragon's effect cancels that. And since it's Stardust being attacked instead of Rockstone Warrior, Yusei takes the full 2000 battle damage plus the 800 effect damage, bringing him down to 1200 LP. That ends his turn, but there's nothing Yusei can do from here. His next draw is Miracle Locus, while the only other cards available to him are Speed Warrior, Junk Synchron, and Shard of Hope. He can play a monster in defense mode, but Kalin will simply pierce it next turn and win the duel. And here's the kicker - Yusei only gets hit near the end of this version of the duel, and only once before the deciding blow (twice if the effect damage is treated as a second hit). Without the early damage to his Duel Runner, it likely wouldn't break down in time to disqualify him and that would end up costing him his life. Now, if he *had* played Speed Warrior instead of Rockstone as his first move, the duel actually would play out like it does in canon, except with Yusei having 200 less LP due to Speed Warrior being destroyed by an Archfiend instead of Infernity Beast. So funnily enough, in this version of the duel playing Speed Warrior first was the right call. But in the end, he'd still lose. All Kalin would have had to do different to ensure his victory...is play his Archfiends instead of his Beast.

[@thejoycoffin5615]

Always had been one of my favorite duels I remember watching a few times on Saturday mornings I'm so very happy and satisfied you made this video. The end of the duel always made me sad..

[@HarunoSoul]

Yusei using Speed Warrior just calls back to the first season, in that his deck is a "Junk" deck. Not just Junk themed, but junk in general.

[@LucianDevine]

100% should be a loss, but the show can't do that to the main character, since he'd lose his soul. You'd either have to have it happen to one of the side characters and have Yusei come back and beat them, maybe bringing their soul back, I don't remember if it worked that way in 5D's. Similarly, you could have Yusei lose, have somebody else beat Kalin, and bring Yusei's soul back, having him around for the final duel. It wouldn't even be the first time they'd had the protagonist lose a duel and go sort of catatonic. Yugi sort of lost himself after the loss to Kaiba, because of his conflicted feelings about the pharoh's spirit and the lengths to which it was willing to go to win, and ultimately had to be brought out of it by...Téa of all people, dueling against Mai.

[@XxILikePie03]

16:34 the rockstone bird

[@3slicessenpai]

Dark Synchro Summoning is so cool, even if a bit impractical due to its little support. I loved doing it in Tag Force 4.

[@theglitch5386]

Funny thing, the Rockstone Warrior play would have given him an opportunity to win, but victory was not guaranteed. Kalin did not have to discard his hand if he thought there were better plays to be had. Summoning speed warrior actually baited the depth amulet, as Kalin wanted to destroy it and needed his dog on the field to do so. Had Yusei have led with rockstone, Kalin could have let the attack through and matched with his archfiend, extending the duel and giving him more plays before he dumped his hand to summon the 100-eyes dragon.

[@Alovon]

Seemingly the case on if a Duel-Runner crashing causes a loss or a DNF it depends on who is "Mediating" the Turbo-Duel. In the Case of the WRGP and Team Catastrophe, the tournament organizers dictated that having a crash with a team reaching 0 speed counters with the crashed duel-runner causes a loss on the crashed player's side. However, this duel technically was officiated by the King of the Underworld, so considering Yusei didn't have his soul stolen, the Ritual by the Earthbound Immortals/KoU, seemingly was unfinished so in the "Ref"'s eyes for this duel, Yusei DNF'd with the crashing of his duel-runner. I do say though based on Team Catastrophe's disqualification once they were outed, if Kalin were to somehow use Shadow Magic from the Earthbound Immortals in a WRGP Officated Setting, he would get disqualified like Team Catasrophe because his Magic was causing unnessecary damages against Yusei and his Duel-runner. Narratively, it is a extreme near-miss on Yusei's part, but Yusei does treat it as a loss with him being incredibly lucky his Duel-Runner burned out and fortunate that Kalin, likely out of pride, didn't decide to run him over on his way out to finish the job.

[@FruityGroovy]

In my opinion, crashing a Duel Runner/D-Wheel in a duel does cause the duel to be voided. The reasoning for this is because the duel would have to stop due to technical/mechanical issues. It would basically be the same as if in a video game tournament, a contestant's controller runs out of battery in the middle of a match. And the other part of this is not just that Yusei's Duel Runner crashes, but it literally can't function any more for the duel to continue. This difference is highlighted in the turbo duel between Jack and Carly several episodes later, where Jack's Duel Runner spins out and comes to a complete stop, but the duel is still going, because his Duel Runner can still function.

[@KuroAceVT]

ima just say it: Yusei lost this one. here, let's look at what happens if yusei's runner doesn't malfunction: Yusei takes 3k damage and loses the duel. now look at how it works WITH the runner breaking: DQ cus unable to continue the duel. so either way, KALIN WINS

[@galaxy-eyesmastercordero7860]

When Kalin called Yusei a traitor and said how could you in dub my heart sunk and got cold his voice actor is one of the best and it's so sad that he didn't know at the time

[@michaelaburns734]

I just saw that duel a few weeks ago. If you fell off your vehicle, you have a bit of time to recover. From WRGP if you don't pass on the baton to the next driver you are disqualified the team and lose. So Kalin/Kiriyu won by that way and spared Yusei with pain.

[@jackshizuho1491]

Yeah thanks to Team Catastrophe we know it is either null duel or Kalin loss. They not only got disqualified at the end but would have been before as Trudge the moment they tell him about the Hook he says "I need to inform the announcer so they get disqualified" but is stopped by the others since "team 5d's can handle it"

[@oman4229]

Your understanding of the game is incredible to analyze misplays like that

[@Lh0000]

Well apparently whatever cosmic forces determine the victor of a duel think it’s okay to declare “crashing mid-fight in a turbo duel” to be void, sooooo…

[@alexrazmus1798]

Was Dragan about to beat Jack Atlas In Yugioh 5Ds there was a character named Dragan who was forced to lose a duel against Jack Atlas to help his father in the hospital. Jack and Dragan would get a chance to settle who would have won when Team 5Ds and Team Ragnarock would face in the WGRP. The two duelist would go first for their teams and start the great battle between the Signers and the ones with the rune eyes and the Nordic God cards. Here are 3 questions that come with this duel. 1. Could of Dragan actually defeat Jack? 2. Did anyone make any misplays? 3. Did anything that Jack or Dragan did during their duel that affected the outcome of the battle between Team 5Ds and Team Ragnarock. I like to see that for a future video.

[@P4r4lyz3r]

They should make those spell speed spells in real world to be activated as chain links

[@alakazamlover4908]

they're saving speed spells for when turbo dueling becomes real in 2045

[@bladersmosh]

May I recommend Kaiba vs Noah and Yugi vs Noah back to back? They’re both the same duel and carry on from each other to some degree. Kaiba obviously would have won if not for Noah using Mokuba as a human shield but could either of them won sooner. Similar could be said for Yugi. It’ll be an interesting one to cover for the virtual world arc and nice to cover the deck master rules which admittedly was a pretty cool concept.

[@Cloud-dt6xb]

You know it’s ironic people get mad that Yugi takes over tge duel, but he pretty much agreed with those fans in an epic speech at that. He knew Kaiba had Noah until he used mokuba against Kaiba.

[@bladersmosh]

Correct. If Kaiba activated Last Turn while Different Dimension Dragon was still on the field, he would’ve prevailed in the duel since it cannot be destroyed in battle and Last Turn ignores life points. However, Kaiba through that way of victory aside to summon Blue Eyes and save Mokuba from Noah’s control. That moment was awesome where Yugi mock Noah. I still think Kaiba should’ve won as it was essentially his story arc. The virtual world arc was basically Yugioh Orgins: Kaiba so it makes sense for him to beat the hyped up big villain outside of Gozaburo. Both Yugi and Joey already got their big wins against the Big Five so him stealing what would’ve been Kaiba shining moment feels a bit underwhelming from a story perspective. I’m prepared to go easy as I actually really liked both duels despite Noah’s underhanded tactics.

[@Cloud-dt6xb]

@@bladersmosh I don't think so I think it really speaks to how much respect Yugi has for Kaiba that he'd be absoutely furious at what Noah did and would stand up for Kaiba. As far as Yugi was concerned Kaiba WAS the winner and that's what he was aiming to prove by saying to Noah not only will I prove how spinless you are, I'm going to beat you with only a few hundred life points left ontop of that

[@HurinThalion12]

11:23 yusei gives him the finger

[@ethandavies9228]

Crashing a d - wheel is a dnf because you can do it on purpose so it's like surrendering

[@WolfPhoenix0]

Great analysis! I'm personally still hoping for a "Was Adrian About to Defeat Yubel?" video.

[@RedTheWeeb]

What is that effect... Do half the attack of the destroyed synchro monster as effect damage twice... Just make it normal attack as effect damage...

[@alwinhuynh]

awesome video as always, keep it up! I was wondering if you could analyze the duel between aster vs. zane?

[@marioperez9252]

I been watching all of these vides you think you could do the team dules? like team 5Ds vs any of the other team dules

[@game84cube]

Wax poetic about the rules of Turbo Duels all you want. We all know what we're gonna call it from now on: CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES

[@lokid.r-k-9608]

Can you please do Jaden vs Axel first duel and the Supreme king duel. It would be really interesting

[@Sketchisawesome]

Yuma vs shark after shark lost number 17:leviathan dragon

[@freshhdv8593]

Did the thumbnail somehow changed? Or am I just crazy? :O

[@ethribin4188]

Thing though is, Kalyn could decide to NOT discard 2 cards on turn 3, and still go into 100 eyes dragon. And from there on, the duel eould have played out like before. The question is if Yusei could have dealt 900 dmg before 100-eyes dragon was summoned. Which, remember, was what was left after the effect dmg reduction of synchro distructor. And well, does he? Sadly no. Infernity Beast's atk is 1600. Even if one of Yusei's two 1800 atk monsters attacks it, which he has to, as attacking Infernity Archfiend would be crushing into it, hed at most do 200 dmg, or none. And all Kalyn has to do is not discard his datk tuner, negating only one of the attaks. And considering he wants infernity beast in his grave to benefti 100-eyes dragon anyway, And its the more likely target to be attaked, Kalyn will get what he needs. This of course assumes hed keep hid dark tuner in hand. Which, considering hed still have infernity archfiend or infernity beast on the field, would definitely be something hed choose to do. So even this way around, Kalyn would end up winning. And worse, Yusei's bike wouldnt have been damaged nearly as bad. So the duel would have ended without his bike breaking just in time. All in all, Yusei did the right move. Even if it was a plot armour move.

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

The tunner is level 10, OHED in the anime is a level -8 synchro, Kallin uses Hand (lv -10) and Dwarf (lv 2) to summon the synchro. Being a level 10 the tunner needs 2 tributes to be summoned so letting beast being destroyed puts him at disadvantage

[@Scumlord]

6:59 "And now, with a level 3 🐟 and a level 2 non-🐟"

[@ihatemegatron216]

I personally equate a turbo duel to an actual motorcycle race. Winning would be p1 and losing would be p2. When Yusei's runner crashed it would be recorded as a dnf. If it were a 3 way/ tag turbo duel, it would be able to continue, however since 50% of the participants crashed out and all remaining contestants are on the same side, the duel should be red flagged with no points awarded. Ie the duel doesn't count.

[@Dar2Jee]

Wow that one would be a ruling nightmare ... like ... every dark monster in the gy ...

[@sasir2013]

-Wait, you crashed! Why is the duel invalid!? I was about to win! -Well, you see... you attacked me. Like, really hard. In fact, you should be disqualified. -... HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WIN WITHOUT ATTACKING YOU!? -That's the neat part, you don't *few days later* -Okay, I haven't attacked you! Now I win with exodia! -Oh nooo, the shockwaves have made me crash. Sorry, the duel is invalid. -... That's why no one wants to play with you

[@Arcaea_]

Feature Yusei and Kiryu vs Lawton in Crash Town arc please! I’d love to see what would’ve happened had Lawton gunned Yusei down instead of Kiryu if he was aware.

[@Closer2Zero]

If you have no cards in hand at the time, the summit of hundred eyes dragon could have let him activate archfiends effect.

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

Not sure, when Hundred Eyes hit the field the first effect to take action is its own effect so maybe there is a miss timing with Archfiend

[@Shantae1188]

This definitely was a duel that fit for this sort of thing.

[@vanguardplays3418]

I'd like to see Yuma's duel against Kite at the end of Yugioh Zexal

[@massivenut3282]

Kalin wins regardless. Depth amulet is optional, Kalin can let an attack go through and only discard archfiend then go off how he normally would have. Yusei on the other hand would be in a worse position as he can no longer get to stardust as quickly.

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

But the strongest play for Kallin was to have 2 monster for the tunner/synchro play, letting Yusei attack one time means only one monster on field

[@TSDamiano]

I alwasy wonder if Adrian could win aganist Yubel in Bonaparte body since she have exodia in is Hand It would be a good video IF come out

[@ReederMG]

I'd love to see a video like this for Jaden vs Dmitri

[@dievahdown]

I think because of the bike itself being damaged and causing the crash, the duel was cancelled. If the bike was fully operational and he had crashed, then he would be deemed the loser. IDK I have only watched the first season of 5DS

[@Cloud-dt6xb]

I personally count it as a loss and Yusei treats it as one. The only thing crashing did was saving him from having his soul absorbed.

[@jachase92]

I'm curious how you'd examine Yusei versus Halldor, as well as Yusei versus Jean, since both players could have ended their turns without a battle phase and would have won, via Ragnarok or deckout respectively. May be tough to analyze since it was a 3 man duel

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

I think in the anime Shooting Star Dragon can banish itself at any moment in the opponent turn so if Halldor just ended the turn, Yusei could banish it at the end of the MP and use the trap to win

[@partyrock4144]

It’s un unsanctioned duel involving shadow magic. As long as yusei isn’t crushed by the earthbound immortal than it can really count as anything. In an official duel it should probably be called on a few things. A. Would they have a response B. Why did the duel runner crash C. Can the damage be repaired with a quick pit stop

[@shadowgames6164]

Suggestion. Would ishizu have defeated Kaiba in the BC Tournament.

[@jackmcdonnell8505]

Do Jayden vs Aster Rematch Jack vs Carly Kaiba vs Pegasus Duelist Kingdom Joey Bs Weevil Joey vs Mako Tsunami

[@TrafalgarDCarlo]

Great analysis. I really thought Yusei has no chance on that duel. For the next duel suggestion, I would like it to be on the ZEXAL era, being the final duel of Yuma and Nasch.

[@michaelquintana692]

An 1800 attack beat stick that could have change the whole duel lol

[@mr.epandemic13]

Fun fact: Kalin's duel runner is named Giganto L

[@morningstarTFT]

Gameplay-wise you're correct but Yusei love Stardust Dragon waaaaay too much, he would never get him banished just for the win.

[@takashimurakami6738]

I always wonder while they ride and fuel how in the world do they not run into anything?!?

[@meganmartin3373]

Okay, so, if Yusei summoned Rockstone Warrior instead on the first turn, he would have won the duel. But what if Kalin had just... _not_ set Damage Translation? That way, even with Yusei having an additional attack, Kalin is still able to negate it and wind up with enough materials to bring out One-Hundred Eye Dragon on turn 5, still with no hand and still able to use all Infernity effects in his graveyard... But this time, instead of Junk Warrior, he can attack the much weaker Speed Warrior, dealing 2100 damage and making Yusei lose two Speed Counters. Of course, as long as the duel continues to follow the same course as in canon, Yusei will definitely win, since Kalin won't have Damage Translation around to save himself from Synchro Destructor. However, neither of them know this, and this brings us to the other major difference from canon: Yusei already has a level 4 non-Tuner on the field. There would be a strong temptation to bring out Stardust Dragon on the next turn, since it can attack over One-Hundred Eye Dragon, Kalin can't stop it with Depth Amulet, and Yusei doesn't know that Infernity Guardian makes Kalin's monster indestructible. The battle damage would even let him use Shard of Hope here! But of course, actually going through with that would just give Kalin the win, since One-Hundred Eye Dragon wouldn't be destroyed, Shard of Hope would draw and destroy Level Warrior instead of doing anything of value, and Kalin would subsequently use Power Baton to give his monster enough ATK to hit over Stardust for game.

[@abrahamwijaya6631]

Yusei vs kalin 2nd turn. Yusei: you think that's all i got little b*tch, i summon the speed lord OH YEAH! next turn, got destroyed. Yusei: 😑 I'm glad as season goes yusei less and less using speed warrior in the second turn of the duel... Just send that card to grave already yusei!

[@craigpatton8579]

Can you do a was Mai about to defeat Mario video?

[@michaelcole9816]

I would also like to point out another way Yusei could have won although in the anime Earthbound Immortal Cuco Paca Apu is unaffected by spell and trap cards Scrap-Iron Scarecrow can still negate it’s attack seeing that it doesn’t target it simply protects the player using it from receiving battle damage from that battle I’m backing this up with experience from legacy of the duelist where the powerful synchro monster Geomathmech Final Sigma who is also unaffected by card effects while in the extra deck monster zone can also be stopped by traps or magic cards that prevent battle damage without targeting so if that rule was truly applied in Yusei’s situation he honestly would have won next turn seeing that Stardust Dragon can’t attack the Earthbound Immortal leaving Kalin wide open for a direct attack and speaking of his duel runner crashing and if it should be considered a loss for Yusei?! I want to discuss that a rule like that should only apply if either duelist sabotaged one another’s duel runner which was not the case and Yusei has demonstrated time after time he is an honorable duelist and even beaten duelist who tried to cheat to win so what I’m trying to say is if you want to count that as a loss against Yusei that’s like saying he tried to cheat in some sort of way which we all know is not like Yusei and Kalin was even kind and honorable enough to call off the duel once he got hurt because he knows that deep down he can beat Yusei without resorting to cheating either (yeah him causing real damage to Yusei can be looked at as cheating but those were the rules in that turbo duel and the players also knew what they were getting theirselves into as well once they dueled a dark signer)

[@BurstFlare]

Actually, in the anime, normal spells can technically be used, it just comes at a cost of 2000 LP. Nobody in the anime wants to work around that, so they only include Speed Spell cards in their Turbo Duel decks.

[@appleducky5234]

How do we know this, did somebody accidentally use a normal spell?

[@BurstFlare]

@@appleducky5234 Card text in the Japanese dub. Look it up on Yugipedia.

[@erikklouda570]

Something you mentioned about hyper synchron banishing the dragon synchros its used for, does that actually apply in the anime? Didn't yusei and Jack both use hyper synchron to summon their signer dragons in either their first or 2nd duel against each other and they stayed on the field multiple turns at a time or was something else involved in that?

[@zambo6485]

Favorite KZbinr

[@WarmLillie]

*Lillie wear Carly Dark signer outfit duel Yuesi she then play the monster Dark Elf he then soon lose and she claim his soul and stardust*

[@dragoscristea7827]

Well what about the rematch? (Episodes 54-55)

[@dudedu9960]

Do you guys think "Was Vector about to defeat Yuma" would be a good one?

[@SuperSayianWarrior]

I mean yes, literally Yuma was left with 100 lp by the time Dark Zexal was broken and he called off the attack. Over Hundred made c104 always 100 stronger then Dark Zexal's C39 Ray V

[@jackdragneel6777]

i kinda want you review the duel where jaden gave up on dueling for fun could he have won without giving up fun duels?

[@HeartYgo]

Turbo duel is dueling while driving if you cannot drive your cannot Duel, it will be same as fainting AND when Joey fainted Marik won. So Yusei takes the L and the big stab wound to the gut here

[@arklethesparkle7819]

do one on yugi and atem, purely just cuz you can just confuse everyone by calling them both yugi 🐬

[@michaelkarimian7538]

Personally while an argument could be made on both sides I believe Yusei lost the duel due to his runner crashing. The main reason I’ve never liked Yusei is because he never lost. In my opinion every Yugioh protagonist should face defeat at least once as it makes the character more relatable. I know Yusei lost to Jack in a flashback, however we never actually see how it happened so that doesn’t count. At best the duel is inconclusive at worst it’s a loss for Yusei. Again arguments can be made from both sides so it’s ultimately up to the viewer.

[@Finnjah]

could you do character profiles for vrains character please and thank you :D

[@OkMakuTree]

King of the Netherworld - “Ha! Yusei lost, his soul is mine!” Crimson Dragon - “Nah lol his bike broke so it doesn’t count.” King of the Netherworld - “God damn it Konami.”

[@robertbartley2409]

Doesn’t count anyway as we see he threw for content

[@CDodger24]

@@robertbartley2409 some duels he just have to get speed warrior out of the field no matter what and that's a bad habit.

[@variouspeople6196]

@@CDodger24 it’s like me risking literally everything to get Divine Neos out and losing for it.

[@nekoluxuria7721]

@@variouspeople6196 I mean if they somehow got divine neos out to begin with, they were likely already winning the duel.

[@accuratememin]

The Crimson Dragon watching from the sidelines like "Well you see _technically_ he didn't lose to Kalin, he lost to his bike and the bike isn't part of the Duel so he didn't lose the Duel due to interference beyond his control, therefore it's void." KoTH: "I really hate you."

[@redwardranger7034]

Yes, I agree that Yusei could have won. That being said, his reliance to his basic combo is what almost ended him. It could also have been addresses more, like the time he refused to use Synchro Monsters against Meklords.

[@pn2294]

Synchro Monsters are 5D’s core identity. If they don’t use it, then it’s not 5D’s

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Meklords are still garbage. Cause Yusei doesnt know what negation or Mirror Force is. Also anime Meklords are worse then Tag Force Meklords and Tag Force version sucks too

[@mystery8820]

@@soukenmarufwt5224 Umm, Solidarity turns Meklords in Tag Force into monstrosities.

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

@@mystery8820 Lol, Meklords in Tag Force are still garbage. Mirror Force Skill Drain Solemn Judgement/Warning System Down Lightning Vortex Torrentrial Tribute Bottomlless Trap Hole freaking Smashing Ground Hammer Shot, and my Personal Favorite Judgement Dragon destroys these pitiful machines. Meklords have never been good. Tag Force giving Yliaster Solidarity and Targeting protection to the Meklord parts, they are still bad

[@markgilherrera]

I'm on that arc now specifically the little boy with the blue meklord battling the twins on their duel boards.

[@thegene7295]

It's kind of funny that Kalin admonished Yusei for using the same moves as always, and if Yusei hadn't summoned speed warrior on his first turn like always, he could've won.

[@aceclover758]

This also leads back to what Jack said about Yusei being predictable and using a lot of the same combos over and over. He adapts in his duels instead of building a consistent deck. Yusei is like a person using a 60 card deck.

[@TheFatalcrest]

​@@aceclover758😂 listen as a 60 card player....sometimes you just need alot of avenues and ways of getting around in battle...and you reeeeaaally want to make sure you get all of the contingency plans in there too. XD and so what if they are all themed

[@michaelgillespie9112]

​@@aceclover758I mean he doesn't have/hasn't had access to many good cards before, so making the best of what you have makes sense.

[@puffs6186]

This duel was an absolutely prime example of how infernities can either pop off super hard or just eat shit lmao

[@samueldubois6484]

I mean you don't expect the opponent to fill your hand

[@cipherreese8877]

Personally, I think the ending of the duel and it being declared void is pretty fitting in a way. The damage to Yusei’s runner was inflicted by Kalin’s monsters, and their attacks were incredibly aggressive with the added power of the Dark Signers. At this point, Kalin is shown to be pretty violent and lacking in restraint, so him losing out on a legitimate win because of that lack of restraint feels in line with the story surrounding his character.

[@Deathmare235]

Joey lost because he couldn’t duel but then with Yusei it’s a draw

[@MrBusrunner]

@@Deathmare235 is it more a fault of his "duel disk" though? If joey couldn't duel because his duel disk got fried by Ra then the duel would probably be void.

[@Deathmare235]

@@MrBusrunner if his duel disk got fried it would still be a loss or he gets a new one though it’s probably the former

[@AkagamiTcg]

Or the writers just wanted a reason to not make Yusei officially lose so they said, "Uhhhh duel runner go brrr" and everyone on the boardroom clapped in agreement lol

[@somethingwitty3300]

@@Deathmare235 not the same thing, regular duels and turbo duels havs different rules

[@Dominik-ds3wh]

I love these kinds of videos, i think a Yugi vs Athem one would be fun to see.

[@JaimeD.]

The duel of legends. I certainly was so into it. 😅

[@hamza361]

Jaden vs zane graduation duel

[@randomprofile5853]

Specter vs Lightning or Soulburner vs Blood Shepard would be another interesting one.

[@aakarshasoka6335]

Or Yugi vs Kaiba Battle City.

[@revolver1382]

@@randomprofile5853 revolver vs soulburner aswell

[@snowboundwhale6860]

I feel like everyone (in the show) kinda gets that Yusei did take the L in that duel, but as to why he doesn't die to the shadow game here, I have some headcanon about this. The duel being declared void is a weird signer formality, but it is a loss, just that it's not a loss for the purposes of the shadow duel. The Signers & Dark Signers have "a thing", and the Earthbound Immortals are considered another type of God Card which we know from Ra alone how temperamental they can be. At the end of the day, Shadow Duels are a type of duelling ritual, and rituals have strict rules & procedures. It makes sense in that regard that Yusei can lose the duel here, but because of this technicality in HOW he lost the duel (even if he'd have lost by valdi means 2 seconds later) it's not a valid or proper loss as far as the shadows/ EI's are concerned. It's not entirely unlike how Joey autolost for passing out despite being in the middle of declaring the winning attack. You even mentioned about how in riding duels the duellists can take deliberate evasive manoeuvres to avoid attacks from enemy monster to buy themselves time to think and respond; 5ds doesn't have action cards or the like how Arc-V does, and normal duels aren't supposed to cause real damage, so there'd be no function to being allowed to do this otherwise, it really is just to snag a few extra seconds. Which is relevant because it establishes that moving out of the way of an attack means the attack hasn't completed yet including as far as the rules are concerned; Driving skill literally has an impact on the game's mechanics and can extend individual parts of the damage steps without directly changing what happens in them. Which means EI Apu pushing Yusei away was effectively delaying it's own attack landing even from a rules standpoint, and when that resulted in Yusei being incapable of continuing the duel, he's lost sure but it's by default. He lost because he was rendered unable to continue. lost Kalin won the duel, but EI Apu technically didn't connect it's killing blow because the force of it's attack pushed Yusei and his runner out of the way and rendered them unable to continue the fight. Now would I be arguing this is how it should work if the loss had counted and Yusei actually died here? No probably not. This is mostly just my attempt to rationalise the version of events we did get from an in-lore standpoint. Of course the simplest answer, that they couldn't just kill off a main character and THE MAIN main character at that, so they had to write around it, but wanted to show that Kalin & presumably the true Dark Signers as a whole are a formidable threat. So narratively, Kalin had to get the win or at least as close to a concrete one as they could provide, but being a Dark Signer there's no way he wouldn't be running a Shadow Game going off've what's already established about the Dark Signers by this point; Kalin needs to win the duel for threat establishment to pair with the stakes that people are disappearing as they're sacrificed to the EI's, but because *it will be a shadow duel* Yusei cannot afford to lose here, and this is what we got. It's funny though how Yusei could've made Kalin look pretty weak by leading with Rockstone Warrior. Kinda weird choice when considering we know how good he's supposed to be that he'd lead with a temporary 1800 attacker instead of the full time one, but who knows maybe he thought that'd be "overextending" or "pushing too hard to early, especially with that face-down; I can possibly recover Speed Warrior if I lose them with things like Junk Syncron at least" or something,

[@asmylia9880]

As to why yusei went with the temp version probably is the talk-no-jutsu problem. He was too hesitant to go full out because all he remembered about Kalin was being friends with him and thought, he'd be able to convince him to turn to the good side again (which arguably only happened with Jack and Carly and they where the only ones with whom that worked well with). Yusei simply lacked the intent to get "serious", which sadly is a continues problem throughout the entire show.

[@TheGuyCalledNotorious]

The force of Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu's attack isn't what destroyed Yusei's runner, it was Yusei's front half giving out

[@snowboundwhale6860]

@@TheGuyCalledNotorious True, I'd gotten caught up in the shadow duel effects I forgot about the duel runner being damaged & failing being a part of this.

[@overfailed3639]

Let's assume he thought Kalin was using his old Deck, as he think he is calling a bluff with the amulet. He would know what his decks strenght is and probably tried to play around that. I don't know what exactly Kalins old strategy was, therefore I can't be sure, but if we assume he had a lot of spot removal or stealing opposing creatures it might have been a decsnt thought? Of course that's just a lot of if and so on. He definitely should have played Rockstone Warrior.

[@TheGuyCalledNotorious]

@@overfailed3639 His enforcer deck was a archfiend/level 4 beatdown deck that featured Archfiend General and Vorse Raider. Yusei knew immediately that Kalin was playing a new deck due to the fact that Kalin summoned an Infernity monster (that he never owned), and the fact that because he was sent to prison, his enforcer deck was confiscated (which Yusei would've known). The thing that caught Yusei off guard was that Kalin was frequently discarding, as Yusei quotes: "The only thing Kalin hates more than a losing hand is an empty hand". Yusei was most likely saving Rockstone warrior for more defensive plays once his Speed Warrior got rolled.

[@appleducky5234]

I don't think Kalin wanted to take Yusei's soul. There was a scene where Roman Goodwin yelled at Kalin for not finishing Yusei off and Kalin said something along the lines of completely crushing Yusei's spirit, a more unpleasant outcome for Yusei.

[@mavalagma29]

He definitely wanted to kill him.

[@fabienchamberland4791]

@@mavalagma29 Isnt stealing his soul already killing him?

[@mavalagma29]

@@fabienchamberland4791 yes

[@hassandahab3050]

It is true that Kalin wanted to finish Yusei off but consider which fate is worse: terminating your opponent instantly or forcing them to live with the perpetuated haunting memory of their stinging defeat?

[@accuratememin]

@@hassandahab3050 Especially because it works. For a while, Yusei is completely traumatized by facing a corrupted friend and nearly dying to the Earthbound Immortal, to the point where he's afraid of Dueling for a good long while.

[@4137Swords]

I'm guessing Yusei started with Speed Warrior because he always liked to revive it via Junk Synchron when he eventually loses it so he can make Junk Warrior. He uses this combo so many times

[@theauberman]

There's a difference between what happened with Yusei vs. Kalin and what Team Catastrophe were doing. The difference is, in Yusei vs. Kalin, it's not only not a duel in a tournament with regulations, it's a ritual, with the loser having their soul sacrificed to the Earthbound Immortals. The duel never finished properly, so the ritual wasn't completed. Yusei effectively "lost," yes, but not in the terms the ritual needed in order to be completed. It saw the start, the middle, but it did not see the end, thus cancelling the shadow duel.

[@roncerjani9063]

Sorry for the late response, but wouldn't that case also cause a precedent where, everyone fighting against Dark Signers could just crash on purpose in a way that doesn't hurt them much but damages it just enough to make the result void? I mean, having a few scratches and bruises is way better than having your soul eaten

[@supremeking6694]

@@roncerjani9063Yusei (or any other character for that matter) never figured this out. They thought Yusei survived because the duel became a void, not that the “ritual” was incomplete.

[@FruityGroovy]

​@@roncerjani9063I mean, technically yes, but there are two factors that prevent this; the first is that quite a few of the duels with the Dark Signers are not Turbo Duels, so they don't have that option. And the second is that strategy requires crashing a moving racing vehicle going 100 mph. Yusei's lucky he only got shrapnel in his gut from that.

[@Eric6761]

Plus every other fight against the Dark signers were an time trial​@@FruityGroovy

[@absollum]

To be fair, everyone in the anime counts it as a loss, so it should be a loss. More than likely that in order for the Dark Signers to steal your soul, the final attack has to physically land. Kalin's EI didn't hit Yusei before his duel runner broke down, so while Yusei lost, he couldn't get his soul stolen. I could be wrong, but that's what I've assumed for years at this point.

[@deadersurvival4716]

I don't think literally anyone says it's a loss. I'm pretty sure the phrasing is always some variation of "should have lost" or "would have lost".

[@urahara64360]

The soul taking in the anime is not effective if the game ends with a disqualification. It will count as a loss but you won't loss your soul.

[@ked49]

@@urahara64360like with that seal.

[@CD-Gaming]

To be fair to Yusei, he was playing his way, he likes to open with Speed Warrior, feel out his Opponent and besides, he was playing on the assumption that Kallin was still playing his same game of "the only Hand worse than a bad one was an empty one"! And, as you rightly point out, Hand Advantage has always been a thing in Yu-Gi-Oh!, both Animé/Manga and real life, so you can't really blame him for not expecting Kallin's, as you said, "1% Play"! We all get surprised now and again! Last Tournament I entered I didn't expect to be matched up against Buster Blader, but I was! And after Neos at that, I might add!

[@megame5573]

What makes the crash argument tricky, in my opinion, is that we have 2 different set of rules. Team Catastrophe was dueling under the WRGP, with official declared rules as laid out by tournament organizers. Normally duel runners aren't equipped to take the kind of punishment that shadow-turbo duels inflict since they aren't supposed to be used in that way. In DM we see Joey both win and lose in Battle City finals because the official declared the duelist unable to continue the duel. This duel operated under the rules of The King of the Netherworld (I guess?) which clearly state that the loser gives up their soul. I guess the king declared it a draw since no one's soul is addressed, but apparently Kalin could have taken his soul because Roman scolds him for not doing it? (Unless in the Japanese he's talking about killing Yusei outright, I legitimately don't know). It may be just plot armor, but the duel is officially a draw as declared by the rules laid out by the "tournament organizer".

[@pn2294]

I find it funny just how many people seem to care about it Everyone in universe treats that duel as a loss for Yusei

[@ToniBingi]

@@pn2294 some of us just happen to care about the plot and want it to make sense. And yes, maybe we go a little overboard sometimes. 😉

[@ToniBingi]

Also, pre-WRGP, duel runners were on auto-pilot during duels. Since normal (non-shadow) duels just use advanced holograms and not real monsters, the only way the riders would crash is if: a) the duelist crashed on purpose b) the auto-pilot fails, or c) the runner was sabotaged before or during the duel. In a legitimate duel, these are all unlikely, so it's possible they simply hadn't considered it. Also, since WRGP rules forbid use of the auto-pilot, it makes sense they would update the rules to accommodate for human error. It should be noted that even in WRGP, crashing does NOT immediately count as a loss. Jack's runner DID crash at one point, and all that happened was that each time the opponent lapped him, they gained 1 free speed counter, and if they maxed out, his team would start to lose counters. And if those ran out, THEN you lose. Team 5D's was allowed to continue because Jack was able to get up and push his damaged runner into the pit before that happened.

[@heavydonkeykong5190]

I consider it a DQ. Jack and Crow got knocked off their runners against Godwin and were disqualified, but didn't die. The same thing probably happened to Yusei, but since it was 1v1 and Kiryu had nobody else in the duel to face him, it ended prematurely.

[@jamaalbarnett9186]

The way I see it the match would be a dq since yusei did crash and was unable to continue. The reason he didn't lose his soul is because technically his life points weren't reduced to zero before the crash as it would be the only logical reason.

[@silencehate1342]

The victory in this duel is Kalin, no question. Mostly because of that Immortal’s anime ability that stopped Scrap-Iron Scarecrow from blocking that attack, there way no way Yusei would make a comeback from that one attack.

[@moselzag5451]

Deus Ex Machina card

[@EnclosedPoolArea]

@@moselzag5451 True normally but Yusei has no cards left.

[@moselzag5451]

@@EnclosedPoolArea if he needed to win for the plot, he’d draw anime card of sanctity which would screw over Kalin by giving him 6 cards and also give him the perfect 6 to destroy the board. Because plot armour. Thankfully, he lost instead

[@crimsonflareumbreon1290]

I kinda disagree because of how hard kalin tryed to make yusei crash

[@vm141789]

Kiryu: the character who absolutely refused to stay dead.

[@esdeathsenpai5128]

So hard to kill that he inadvertently sentenced tons of other people to death by not dying

[@john1691]

Kiryu: that one doomer guy

[@pantelisgiovanakis2453]

"A Shinigami can't die!"~ Kiryu Kyosuke

[@MrDarksol]

I love hearing you talk about Yugioh. It is very fun and personally, I think Yusei lost because not only did he have a shrapnel in his stomach and nearly died but the fact that he lost to an old friend who still blames him for what happened and Yusei is now scared of that, it gave him just a bit more character in my eyes.

[@Ninja_Geek]

Yusei: * tells Leo he needs to be adaptable when dueling* Also Yusei's 1st 3 plays in 99% of duels: 1) summon Speed Warrior or other lv 2 monster. 2) set Scrap Iron Scarecrow. 3) summon junk synchron next turn, revive lv 2 if necessary, and then synchro summon junk warrior.

[@accuratememin]

Yusei reading this comment probably: "Adaptable doesn't mean unpredictable."

[@supervegito8340]

Honestly I always liked yusei for how dedicated he was to his patterns. He almost always summons speed warrior turn one. It’s a flaw that, as this video has shown, bites him in the ass at times but one I find helps to add to the idea hes “loyal to his cards”. It’s a huge point in his character he learned after jack stole his stardust dragon. And to answer the question: it depends who crashed it. If the driver crashes on his/her own then they should lose. If the opponent caused it they should be DQ’d or the loss should be null.

[@ryuuronin9852]

Actually just watched this duel and was wondering if it would ever get covered here. What timing! Also, I hate to be that guy, but in the hypothetical section, Kallen could have chosen to not discard his dark tuner, when they attacked, as he would probably figure that's a card he does need to get on the field at some point. From there it's a matter of what was used to attack what and so on, so tracking gets complicated. That is just more pathways I could see it going.

[@LamunesADV]

I was thinking the same. Kalin had enough lp to take that damage. He didn't need to block there.

[@sebastianpijov8708]

​@@LamunesADVhe still needed to get the Dark Tuner on the field somehow.

[@jamieholmes4751]

Personally , I see this as a loss because in a Speed Duel, both are on D-Wheels or some vehicle in some shape or form and if that vehicle is disabled , technically the duellist can’t carry on . Of course this was thrown away in Yugo/Rin in Arc-V when Yugo’s D-Wheel broke and the duel was continued with both on their feet

[@zachthebossstreams3829]

Agree this is a loss even though yusi passed out if we look at the duel with Maric vs Joey then when Joey passed out he lost hence yusi passed out so it's a loss

[@pn2294]

The characters in-universe treat the duel as a loss in spite of the d-wheel for obvious reasons

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

Tbf to Arc-V, the Synchro Dimension's Turbo Duel rules and the 5Ds Turbo Duel rules could be slightly different.

[@pn2294]

@@jaernihiltheus7817 not could; are

[@sasir2013]

to be fair, that wasn't really a turbo duel,the opponent didn't even had a bike

[@CharmCityGamer]

Good idea for sure, as I patiently wait for a video regarding Alexis VS Jaden in Episode 94 of GX. All she had to do was play a facedown and Flare Neos loses strength, and because Neo Space isn't out, would return to the Extra Deck. Jaden would've been left wide open!

[@acemaison2834]

That’s the irony of the crash argument is in the next season a team literally wins their matches based on making enemy team crash . Personally I’d either set up a rematch if it was a accident or sabotage. But if they just fell off for no reason then no run back and I’m glad they explored this topic in next season with that other team

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

Well the thing is that in that season they said the broken D-Wheel rule was something from the WRGP, we don't know if that applies to all Riding/Turbo Duels

[@acemaison2834]

@@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu fair enough and still be cool if this was real

[@cameraredeye3115]

And then Team Catastrophe crashes by their own bullshit tactics and unable to "pass the baton" as a result, so they got served sweet karma courtesy of Jack Atlas 😎

[@mystery8820]

@@cameraredeye3115 Team Catastrophe got bad karma in the end. Even I couldn’t help but smile.

[@SuperSayianWarrior]

@@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu in the Manga which while after GX comes out after the Anime series, it is an established rule that you you STOP your Duel runner in a turbo duel you lose. Crashing is stopping if you lose all your momentum. Considering how the YuGiOh franchise started though, I do consider the series to be like most Anime and the Manga being what determines Canon. Yes the Manga's tell a Vastly Different story GX onwards, but they have a set established rules for duels

[@ededdneddy4ever34]

Every time I see one of these videos I eternally celebrate just a bit. They’re such a high quality and really entertaining watch. Also this is definitely a loss for yusei because if he didn’t crash he would’ve definitively lost.

[@SasukeTurkey]

Was waiting for you to get to a yusei duel in this series. He is my favorite yugioh character ever and his duels tend to be some of my favorites. Both story wise, and the card game aspect wise.

[@heavydonkeykong5190]

Agreed!!

[@phtuber5469]

He is my favorite too, and I think 5ds was awesome in general.

[@UglyDucklingExperience]

These vids are great, keep up the phenomenal work. I personally would love to see Quatro vs Shark / Nasch. Could Quatro have pulled through and beat the Barian Emperor himself, or was he doomed to fail?

[@cameraredeye3115]

That's a hard one, because Nasch came prepped for even C88, though there is one scenario in which Quatro could have flipped the script. Turn 3 (Quatro, 1900 LP): Quatro uses that same spell as in the anime (don't remember the name) to get back No. 15 which had been eaten by No. 101 on the previous turn. He then plays RUM Argent Chaos Force to summon No. C15 (2500 ATK). Now, instead of using its effect right away, Quatro should have attacked normally, dealing 400 damage to Nasch (4000 -> 3600) and forcing No. 101 to ditch its last material to survive as per its anime effect. And THEN Quatro could safely use C15's effect to blow up 101 and deal the latter's 2100 ATK to Nasch as damage (3600 -> 1500) which had the potential to change the outcome. Especially since C88 does a whopping 4000 burn per proc in the anime...

[@SpecsTube]

@@cameraredeye3115I thinks this hypothetical is based on hindsight because I’m sure most people would attempt to destroy Number 101 with an effect first then attempt to attack directly.

[@KaitoTenjou]

Great video as always! Keep it up! As a hardcore 5DS fan I just wanted to point out a few things: Hyper Synchrons Anime effect doesnt banish the synchro monster after the next standby phase. It doesn’t banish it at all. Just gives a 800 atk boost and grants battle destruction immunity (the 800 boost is same as in the tcg/ocg but no battle destruction immunity, thats just an anime thing). Second thing is in 5DS most of the turbo duels, the d-wheels go into stand-by Auto Pilot mode during duels, only later on with the release of speed world 2 auto pilot wasn’t available. One of the reason, Yusei ultimately crashed was because the Dark Signers could make the damage taken in duels real which lead to Yusei getting off track due to the shock from the attacks etc. In tournaments crashing in a turbo duel means that you automatically get disqualified and losing the duel. It was a legit win condition but it got a lot more relevant later on in the series with speed world 2 since auto pilot wasnt applied anymore. So yeah u also needed to have a solid motor cycle and a deck lol. Have a good one!

[@SWad250]

I have to laugh at Synchro Destructor's effect, because it literally just written as it is so that Damage Translation can make two tokens to be tributed to summon the Earthbound Immortal after. It is such a clear moment of making cards with effects for the sake of the end result the writers wanted, which is nothing new but is one of the most clear examples of it.

[@roncerjani9063]

They could've just as well make it so that the user would get 2 tokens for each 1000 damage negated. The damage would have been 2500, so 2 tokens. It blends in like a charm. But no, we need to have the same damage inflicted in the same turn but in 2 rates for some bullshit reason.

[@blak238]

I love this series you make about if A could have won against B. Please keep it up

[@rainbowdragon168]

If Yusei didn’t crash during this duel then Kalin would’ve won and Yusei would’ve been killed off earlier in the Dark Signers Arc but what would’ve happened then? What would the Signers have done to defeat the Dark Signers? Anyways there are many questions of what would happen if Kalin won

[@lilsunny7399]

Leo and Luna would have still beaten Devack, Jack would still beat Carly, Crow would still beat Greiger and Akiza would still beat Misty. However instead of misty saying "Lol 2 late loser." There was never a chance in the first place to seal the towers since Kalin wasn't yet beaten. Then Jack (and maybe crow) wouldve had to face Goodwin alone and even if jack pulled out Majestic Red Dragon to defeat Wiracoqa Rasca, Kalin would still be there as would the king of the netherworld so everyone dies, again unless Red Dragon can borrow the crimson dragon's power to drive back the king. Even then Jack wouldve had to beat Kalin himself. TL:DR Dark Signers win unless Jack becomes yusei for 3 straight duels.

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@lilsunny7399 Okay okay

[@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uu]

@@lilsunny7399 you are not counting the moral of the group after Yusei's death, that could lead them into making misplays during the duels

[@igorlopes8463]

@@lilsunny7399 Well, they would have to pick someone to beat Kalin after Yusei lost, like the game YGO! 5DS Reverse of Arcadia does with the player.

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

@@igorlopes8463 Tetsu Ushio/Trudge would probably have to do it, considering he's the only duelist there that doesn't do any dueling during the Signers vs Dark Signers climax. One could argue that it'd be a bit cheap that a non-Signer beat the Dark Signer that beat Yusei, but Crow wasn't a Signer when he beat Bommer/Greiger - so there's precedent that it can be done. Albeit it'd still feel cheap if Ushio beat Kalin by himself.