If Yu-Gi-Oh has taught us anything is that dark doesn’t necessarily mean “evil.” Light, however, that’s something you’ve got to watch out for, especially if it has a notebook.
Everyone so far is wrong. It's Nizzahon Magic. Why? Nizzahon does Top 10 lists for Magic: The Gathering that are based primarily on the competitive performance of the cards on the "Best _____ Cards" lists and a mix of feels and how little they see play in the super casual Commander Format for the "Worst _____ Cards" lists. This is in stark comparison to Duel Logs who's "Best _______ Cards" lists seem to take flavour and feels into account half the time, and the "Worst ______ Cards" lists seem to be based primarily on how objectively terrible and unplayable a card is. Then again, saying a card in a TCG is objectively good or objectively bad is nigh on impossible, since there's sometimes gonna be this one weird meta that springs into existence where a card that, say, makes you discard your entire hand can be a good sideboard choice. (Yes, that really happened in MtG once. The card was called One with Nothing and no. It didn't do anything other than make you discard your hand, and yes, there was a deck that made it a viable sideboard tech choice.)
ACTUALLY Evilswam Exciton Knight was actually "evil in name only" and was actually an heroic version of Steelswarm Roach according to Duel Terminal Lore and the artwork of "Sacred Serpent's Wake". It even has an "even more heroic" counterpart in "Stellarknight Zefraxcition"
Roach obviously didn't share the ideals that Tierra and the Steelswarms had for some reason, which is why Zefrath chose him to have 1 of the Zefra Gems.
Lore-wise, Exciton Knight is actually a good guy that switched sides, as seen in Sacred Serpent's Wake. I think he's just an evilswarm bc the evilswarm monsters are the evolution of steelswarms. He ends up ascending later on and becomes Satellarknight Zefraxciton. It all goes a lot further than that, but if I start reading out all of the duel terminal lore, we'll be here all day Just know that steelswarms, evilswarms, cairngorgon, and shaddolls are all part of the same storyline and basically keep evoloving from each other in one way or another, hence why the good guy that betrayed the steelswarm is an "evilswarm"
Tbh exciton is the last evilswarm, the one who was before known as steelswarm roach, he and lapis became evilswarm exciton knight and constellar sombre, the 2 beings who had sofia's power, it's sombre that creates the yang zings
@@charziz6693 And for the love of *insert random diety* they would hopefully not make into ye olde stereotypical asian ccg game a la something like Shadowverse (like they are slowly doing with the card art :x)
12:00 If I remember the lore correctly, El Shaddoll Construct is actualy Gem Knight Lady Lapis Lazuli, who's design more closely matches both El Shaddoll Construct and Shaddoll Construct So technically Lapis but her upgraded version
As a fan of dual terminal, this is surprising me a lot. At what point would the corruption have happened? I dont think they were alive at the same time so that checks out. Didn't the infernoids only appear until after the shadolls appeared? Wasn't el shadoll construct made with shadoll core? EDIT apparently the lapis connection is made in master guide 5. And yugipedia doesn't actually say whats happening with Shadoll Construct in her artwork.
@@MaestroAlvis p sure Lapis became corrupted just because Master Diamond got corrupted (Cairngorgon is, indeed, Master Diamond) because Tierra was partially sealed within the Gem-Knights. Master Diamond even got a second corrupted form, El Shaddoll Grysta
For Evilswarm Ophion, I don't think it's iswarm, it's probly suppose to be -Lswarm to include Steelswarms, it just uses a font where capital i and lowercase L are the exact same.
@@HexagonalZebra well the TCG isn't case sensitive, with the exception of HERO. Apoqliphort towers is still a "Qli" monster, even though the Q is not capitalized
@@HexagonalZebra Not true, otherwise Infernoble Knights would not work as Noble Knight support, nor would a bunch of other archetypes function, like Ritual Beasts, with their Spiritual Beasts
@@tcoren1 yeah, they're kinda inconsistent, but it _is_ definitely written as "lswarm" (with a lowercase "L"), not "Iswarm" (with a capital "I"), at least according to the wikis.
5:53 this effect is actually there for lore reason crystal basiclly absorbed all the evil energy like if he changed its target to himself to save the world (not sure which one probably shaddoll) and now he is corrupted
Apparently the lore is he overused his core's fusion abilities, thus reversing the fusion and his corpse gained life and started absorbing everything. Eventually he absorbed ascended keykeion (who had sophia's abilities) and became the shaddoll core
yeah actually he's not corrupted at all, despite being called an Evilswarm first off, he's LIGHT, so that's already a sign also in the lore, Kerykeion and Sombre, which are the heroes who defeated Sophia, decided that, after the war, they'd choose people to look after the world for anymore anomalies they chose Steelswarm Roach and Naturia Leodrake, which respectively became Exciton Knight and Leo, Keeper of the Sacred Tree
@@JCDLGAMINGTV A shame since that's more or less the name fans have been using to refer to the theoretical Dark counterpart to Honest that we've expected in years. It's not like the TCG doesn't know the fan base. They reference memes and such rather often.
Mazera Deville came out even before Darklord Zerato, and represented the evil counterpart of Archlord Zerato. Both Zerato and Mazera required tributing "Warrior of Zera" as part of their summoning condition.
I think the ages old Ritual Monster Zera the Mant is part of it too. Basically Zera had a few paths laid before him, one where he succeeds in finding the heavens and becomes an angel, and another where he becomes corrupted in the underworld.
@@KinjiroTheThunder I've seen it described somewhere as alternate timelines instead of a continuous storyline. It'd sure suck for Zera if he fell after his rise.
As an aside: "For this list, one representative per archetype" >2 Evilswarm monsters "One representative per main deck and one per extra deck" >3 Evilswarm monsters, 2 extra deck "Exciton Knight is an exception as it is basically generic" See you in the future for a Top 10 made of nothing but generically splashable cards from the same archetype. xD
@@elijahpadilla5083 Yeah, I figured. Its just kind of... disappointing I guess? Compared to how on other lists he does seem to specifically limit representation of an Archetype to the best card it has to offer for that specific list.
@@BloodfelX There's only like four archetypes based on evil counterparts from other archetypes, five if you include the "Dark Counterpart" set that wants to be an archetype so damned badly (Dark Creator, DAD, Dark Freed, the new Dark Honest . . .). It's not like there's much in the way of options.
@@elijahpadilla5083 I disagree with the idea that there aren't many evil counterparts in YGO outside of archetypes, but if we're talking evil counterparts from different archetypes that saw competitive relevance I think I have to concede. I guess maybe some Evigishki monster and maybe someone somewhere saw competitive success with a Steelswarm deck (or I just completely missed the Steelswarm meta scene), which admittedly is part of the -lswarm archetype but I would be glad to see more than just Evilswarm and Evil HERO sub-archetype representation of their archetypes on the list. Eh, I'm asking too much. Its a fine list and a well produced video really. -Aside from the minor slip up of "Adjusted Gold's" effect of "search a Dark Fusion Monster"-
(11:45) Huh, makes me wonder if a "Top 10 Fusion Monsters that have been on the Banlist / Restricted" is possible. I think it would be, I mean off the top of my head: Thousand-Eyes Restrict Elder Entity Norden Blazing Fenix the Burning Bombardment Bird Supreme King Starving Venom Fusion Dragon Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon At least 1 "-ritual Beast" monster At least 1 "Gem Knight" monster El Shaddoll Construct Probably at least 1 "HERO" monster Probably at least 1 "Cyber Dragon" monster Actually, it would definitely be possible. Maybe an idea for the future?
Most of the cards on this list are just apart of the Duel Terminal Lore, which is pretty wild and something I'd love to see an anime or even a manga about. Also Evilswarm Exciton Knight is less of a dark version of roach and more of a powerboosted Roach.
Btw not to be that guy but it’s lswarm as elleswarm bc it included steel/evilswarm card too, which in of itself I think is an evil counterpart of itself in some sense too
El Shaddoll Construct is the corrupted version of Gem Knight Lady Lapis Lazuli, a fusion monster made from Gem Knight Lapis, which looks much more like Construct.
11:52 I’ve been playing Shaddoll for years and never knew what her counterpart was until today. @TheDuelLogs you should really make videos that explain in depth the lore of some card archetypes, we would surely enjoy watching them.
From what I learned about "evil" counterparts is that they do not hold back which is why their effects are typically better than the originals- just like with Evil HEROs.
Love the videos dude!! Ever thought of a top ten cards in a tcg set? That might be hard because it’s probably rare that a set has 10 cards that saw competitive success
14:37 small mistake. dark calling lets u fusion summon with material from the hand and gravenyard and not from the field. there is another dark fusion card which can fuse whats on the field and hand i think
@@PrimeGamator wouldn't the bigger oversight be that he said you can add "a dark fusion monster" from you deck to your hand via adusted gold's effect? edit: actually you're right saying you can fusion using all 3 areas is worse.
It's really impressive your narration. The change of pace, the pauses. It might go unnoticed by most people, but it's the most important skill a good narrator needs to have.
Two things: - I though that El Shadoll Construct was an evil counterpart of Gem Knight Lapislázuli (fusion Between Lapis and Lazuli). But also it makes sense. - From steelswarm Roach on Duel Terminal lore, is supposed to be a steelswarm that was converted and became "Good". Later Roach became corrupted by Evilswarm, but was still at a good side on comparison to other Lswarm monsters. Weird story.
I was about to say “YOU DID MAH BOI EXCITON KNIGHT DIRTY!!” when you mentioned Ophion for the extra deck Evilswarm Monster, that is until I got to number one. Very fitting placement.
I had a few funny Yugioh shower thoughts even though I haven't played since early GX era. I blame your videos, so I'm gonna share them here. Funny things to do at a Yugioh tournament: 1. Play vanilla monsters like their flavor text is actually an effect. For example, Flying Fish can instantly win the duel if you summon it because it grants three wishes and you can just wish to win the duel. 2. Dress up as Yugi, Kaiba, etc. and play an appropriate deck. 3. Use miniatures to represent your monsters and throw them at your opponent when you attack directly. 4. While looking for examples for 3, I discovered a rather sizable Exodia toy that has a spring loaded fireball launcher. So like, play an Exodia deck and shoot the fireball at your opponent when you get all five pieces. Also, you have to shout "EXODIA! OBLITERATE!" 5. When you sit down for your first match, just pull out a totally different card game. 6. Dye your hair green, carry a stack of $20s, and blatantly break rules. When called out, say "Screw the rules! I have money!" and show off your $20s or say "Screw the rules! I have green hair!"
One of my favourite evil variants of cards is Mazera DeVille. It’s effect is arguably evil to boot, discarding 3 cards at random from the opponent’s hand on summon. I honestly just like the Zera cards.
Decent video! Thanks for uploading! Personally, I wish they made more monsters intended as good counterparts to previous evil monsters that didn't have good counterparts before.
Exciton knight is actually a good guy in the duel terminal lore. It just happens to be in the "Evilswarm" archtype. another monster that also has the same traits is Evilswarm Kerykeion, though in the case of Kerykeion it became an Evilswarm because it absorbed the power of the corrupted Ice Barrier dragons while Exciton Knight started as Steelswarm Sentinel but is later "redeemed" or something. that's why Exciton Knight and Kerykeion don't have 50 in their atk points(though in Kerykeion's case it's to mirror Constellar Sombre).
I take a drink every time this guy says "Dark armed dragon was part of one of the only tier zero decks in the history of the game." I've been drunk since I discovered the channel.
If the lore doesn't lie, it's supposed that Roach and Exciton are both in the goodies side, being Exciton an evolution of Roach. I wonder, are there enough redeemed monsters (monsters that became good) for making a top list?
Roach is one of the evilswarm sentinels He is getting mad because hercules zap him for no reason. he is already in the alliance side before he turned into roach, his mats also an evidence that he is no longer part of the steelswarm as every deck can summon him. Technically he is already a good person even before he became roach, even in his sentinel forms he is not as evil as his friends in the steelswarm gang, so no he is not bad guy turned good.
Actually, in the art of Advance Zone he (still being Sentinel) is being purified by the Vylons, that ring surrounding him is from them, not from the Steelswarms; Roach in the background would be a future image of him.
Since you asked, how about top 10 generic lv 4 or lower monsters that can special summon itself from hand. Btw dark simorg deserved an honorable mention at least.
Cheating because of number 1. According to the card lore it is the ascended version of steelswarm roach just like gagagigo the risen. Still, good video.
Fun fact Log, Exicton Knight is the counterpart to that Steelswarm Knight because Exicton was a purified revival of the latter, along side others for the... Zefra archetype? I think? The Duel Terminal lore was that it was a combined effort of all in the Zefra to put a stop to the world from burning into nothing by another archetype that continued to use Lapis’ soul. I can’t remember that last archetype’s name, but after they were defeated, so finally ended the Duel Terminal’s history.
Yes to Zefra, but that happened later, Exciton Knight was already a thing for a while in-universe at that point. As for the Archetype you can't remember, that was the Infernoids, under order (essentially) of "Tierra, Source of Destruction" as part of its plan to revive itself.
@@KinjiroTheThunder Crystal Beasts?! HA! no, Number 1 would probably end up being an Artifact monster. Crystal Beasts would probably be either at the bottom of this list, or somewhere on the list of worst monsters that can go in the S/T zones
Could you change the title to “Top 10 Evil counterparts to existing monsters” then do a “Top 10 monsters with evil counter parts.” That way you could explore cards like Honest, or a lightsworn; you know good cards that have evil counterparts
About the lore behind why Lapis can become Construct, I’ll give a very brief summary of what happened, because this story is very long and involved many different archetypes. This is called Duel Terminal story. - Sophia and Tierra are 2 gods. Sophia beat Tiera and sealed it into the Tree of Life by using a “core”. This core was then broken into 10 pieces, which became the pyroxene of the Gem Knights. - During a war, many Gem Knights were slained, including Master Diamond and Lapis. Somehow, Master Diamond, with other Gem Knights, were reborned info Caingorgon the Antiluminescent Knight. It captured Evilswarm Kerykeion, use his power and became Shaddoll Core. Shaddoll Core then revive many species that were fallen in the previous war, and turned them into the Shaddoll. There isn’t a real reason why Lapis could become as massive as Construct, but it may due to the fact that Lapis is a Gem Knight that holds a core requires to release Tierra. So Tierra gave it a huge power to help with that goal.
To give the reason as to "why Lapis", because Constellar Sombre exists. Sombre not only holds a piece of Sophia's Energy of Rebirth, but is also, at its Core, just Gem-Knight Lazuli. Lapis, being Lazuli's "Mirror-Image" inherently kind of reflects (no pun intended) that Level of Power, so the Shaddolls just had quite a lot of Energy to work with from the get-go. It even comes into play again later in the Storyline as to how Tierra finally revives itself
@@agitpolat1061 it shown in the artwork of darktellarknight Batlamyus, it mimics the strongest of tellarknight Ptolemaeus, with construct fused with the body. It shown that Lapis and Lazuli is connected, so Tierra using Lapis for his plan.
@@mateusrp1994 for what I know all steelswarns are evil, they born from curroption, then once they die (I don't remember well their lore) the infection transforms all other into evilswarm
@@altarofshadows Steelswarm Roach was born when a Scout got in contact with a piece of a dead Vylon and evolved from the impossible mix of light and dark energy. That allowed him enough sapience/sentience to choose between being good and evil and he choose good.
You were mostly right on the priority thing during the dark armed dragon part. It's not that they could respond to a card like bottomless. It was that all ignition effects during open game state were allowed to be activated first via turn player priority.
Sooo fun fact, #7’s lore comes from not only the Gem Knights, "Gem-Knight Zirconia" (right arm and left leg), "Gem-Knight Master Diamond" (left arm and right leg), and "Gem-Knight Prismaura" (damaged head) grafted onto its body, but also is partially related to the Shaddolls, Specifically Core, Winda and Grysta. Core is obvious, Winda is the crystal this monster holds, appearing in the puppet form of Winda, priestess of Gusto’s staff, but also on Squamata’s back. As for Grysta, its because Core eventually becomes Grysta, possibly by using Carngorgon’s body
Actually, yes..Exciton Knight is actually a good guy. Hell, Roach was good guy too, it's just that Exciton Knight is Roach upgraded and later got upgraded as Stellarknight Zefraxciton.
Eh, Exciton Knight is actually the good version of Steelswarm Roach - he was evil but he switched the side during the world war. He's even a part of the Zefra gang which are the main heroes of the war against Tierra. About Evilswarm, there are 2 "good" characters so the archetype are not entirely evil. One is Exciton Knight, another one is Evilswarm Keyrkeion.
Hey man, I had a suggestion (don't know if someone suggested this before). But you could also make videos based on the different era of Yu Gi Oh, for example "Most broken cards/counter trap/ powerful/ spell etc during synchro era/xyz/ fusion/ first gen etc". You would be able to redo a lot of your old titles while covering more cards. I would be interested to see the best synchro cards during XYZ , pendulum and link era respectively.
If Yu-Gi-Oh has taught us anything is that dark doesn’t necessarily mean “evil.” Light, however, that’s something you’ve got to watch out for, especially if it has a notebook.
Or if they drop honest from hand.
Check out Dark World lore, there the definitive dark is not evil trope
Devilman(1972) was already teaching us about light and darkness. theres evil angels, and demons of justice as well.
@@gundamdetractor337 there's also the Light of Destruction.
@@varkolak7779 i know. photon energy, Mazinger Z, 1972.
5:54 "it requires 82 level 4 monsters to summon"
lol how the fuck am i supposed to summon that
i heard that as well lol
I dunno man, I’ve played level 4 spam before and that’s definitely feasible-
The Heart of the Cards (obviously)
Glad I'm not alone
Super xyzation against 8 other players?
Who’s the Duel Logs evil
Counterpart? Dzeeff??
no. duel logs IS the evil counterpart
No Davinator is probably the evil counterpart to DuelLogs. Both start with D and do top 10s alot
Farfa
Everyone so far is wrong. It's Nizzahon Magic. Why? Nizzahon does Top 10 lists for Magic: The Gathering that are based primarily on the competitive performance of the cards on the "Best _____ Cards" lists and a mix of feels and how little they see play in the super casual Commander Format for the "Worst _____ Cards" lists.
This is in stark comparison to Duel Logs who's "Best _______ Cards" lists seem to take flavour and feels into account half the time, and the "Worst ______ Cards" lists seem to be based primarily on how objectively terrible and unplayable a card is.
Then again, saying a card in a TCG is objectively good or objectively bad is nigh on impossible, since there's sometimes gonna be this one weird meta that springs into existence where a card that, say, makes you discard your entire hand can be a good sideboard choice. (Yes, that really happened in MtG once. The card was called One with Nothing and no. It didn't do anything other than make you discard your hand, and yes, there was a deck that made it a viable sideboard tech choice.)
@@thephilosophyminor Farfa is the evil version of good content
"Also, look at this graph"
Nice meme Mr Logs. 10/10
"Arche Lord Zeratos"
"I swarm"
"Adjusted Gold"
Duel Logs pronounce card names correctly challenge.
Pronounce all those cards like this lol
Excited Knight
Archafiend Is still the best
The review of the Madoka custom archtype still haunts my ears
As a GX fan neo spacians really hurts
ACTUALLY Evilswam Exciton Knight was actually "evil in name only" and was actually an heroic version of Steelswarm Roach according to Duel Terminal Lore and the artwork of "Sacred Serpent's Wake".
It even has an "even more heroic" counterpart in "Stellarknight Zefraxcition"
Roach obviously didn't share the ideals that Tierra and the Steelswarms had for some reason, which is why Zefrath chose him to have 1 of the Zefra Gems.
He also looks heavily influenced by Kamen Rider in with the rider's power always have ties to the enemy/evil forces
Probably the single most intetesting character in dual terminal
Duel Logs: "I swarm"
That's a freaking "L" and you know it!
Probably just read it quickly.
They use the same character. Blame the font.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Did he say "Ev-i-Swarm", or "Stee-i-Swarm"? It can be vague sometimes but it really isn't here.
@@hoodedman6579 He said "Eye-Swarms" for the material which I often say as well. It rolls off the tongue better than "Ull-swarms".
I also have an issue with anyone who refer to "Gem Knight Iolite" as "Gem Knight Lolite"
@@KinjiroTheThunder Gem Knight rofl-ite.
Lore-wise, Exciton Knight is actually a good guy that switched sides, as seen in Sacred Serpent's Wake. I think he's just an evilswarm bc the evilswarm monsters are the evolution of steelswarms. He ends up ascending later on and becomes Satellarknight Zefraxciton. It all goes a lot further than that, but if I start reading out all of the duel terminal lore, we'll be here all day
Just know that steelswarms, evilswarms, cairngorgon, and shaddolls are all part of the same storyline and basically keep evoloving from each other in one way or another, hence why the good guy that betrayed the steelswarm is an "evilswarm"
Tbh exciton is the last evilswarm, the one who was before known as steelswarm roach, he and lapis became evilswarm exciton knight and constellar sombre, the 2 beings who had sofia's power, it's sombre that creates the yang zings
@@nunocarvalho6671 Not quite. The being who held sophia's dark power was evilswarm kerykeion. Exciton knight was just one of the purified ones
I love that Yu-Gi-Oh cards have lore, they should make a game using the lore.
@@charziz6693 And for the love of *insert random diety* they would hopefully not make into ye olde stereotypical asian ccg game a la something like Shadowverse (like they are slowly doing with the card art :x)
If I remember right it was nobelswarm exciton knight in ocg
12:00
If I remember the lore correctly, El Shaddoll Construct is actualy Gem Knight Lady Lapis Lazuli, who's design more closely matches both El Shaddoll Construct and Shaddoll Construct
So technically Lapis but her upgraded version
As a fan of dual terminal, this is surprising me a lot. At what point would the corruption have happened? I dont think they were alive at the same time so that checks out. Didn't the infernoids only appear until after the shadolls appeared? Wasn't el shadoll construct made with shadoll core?
EDIT apparently the lapis connection is made in master guide 5. And yugipedia doesn't actually say whats happening with Shadoll Construct in her artwork.
@@MaestroAlvis p sure Lapis became corrupted just because Master Diamond got corrupted (Cairngorgon is, indeed, Master Diamond) because Tierra was partially sealed within the Gem-Knights. Master Diamond even got a second corrupted form, El Shaddoll Grysta
I believe the “l” in “lswarm” is a lowercase L, just because it’s the last letter of the words “steel” and “evil”.
Exactly
It is, but it's easy to mistake when reading a card quickly.
Instead of "Ull-swarms" even I'll sometimes say "Iss-warms".
thank you
THANK YOU
@@havaiana_de_pastel l'm pIaylng devlI's advocate onIy for the reason that so many peopIe won't resist mentlonlng lt.
DuelLogs: *set rule for himself*
also DuelLogs: "anyway.."
Kaiba: Screw the rules, I have money!
For Evilswarm Ophion, I don't think it's iswarm, it's probly suppose to be -Lswarm to include Steelswarms, it just uses a font where capital i and lowercase L are the exact same.
Yeah, this is exactly the case. Since the quotes have to have what's exactly written in a name, they have to use the same capitalization.
@@HexagonalZebra well the TCG isn't case sensitive, with the exception of HERO. Apoqliphort towers is still a "Qli" monster, even though the Q is not capitalized
@@HexagonalZebra Not true, otherwise Infernoble Knights would not work as Noble Knight support, nor would a bunch of other archetypes function, like Ritual Beasts, with their Spiritual Beasts
Or look too similar.
The capital i might be a bit shorter in that font.
@@tcoren1 yeah, they're kinda inconsistent, but it _is_ definitely written as "lswarm" (with a lowercase "L"), not "Iswarm" (with a capital "I"), at least according to the wikis.
Top 10 monster effects that activate when they are NORMAL summoned
A continuation of the top 10 lore...
Gemini
@@Prince_Eva_Huepow Gemini is good although, he's already done a top 10 Gemini list...
Dark dust Spirit
Marauding Captain
5:53 this effect is actually there for lore reason crystal basiclly absorbed all the evil energy like if he changed its target to himself to save the world (not sure which one probably shaddoll) and now he is corrupted
Apparently the lore is he overused his core's fusion abilities, thus reversing the fusion and his corpse gained life and started absorbing everything. Eventually he absorbed ascended keykeion (who had sophia's abilities) and became the shaddoll core
Alt title : top 10 monsters with an edgy counterpart
I think that would imply that the non evil monsters are being talked about
Alt Alt Title: top 10 monsters going through an emo phase
Top 10 Monsters after listening to MCR
Cyberdark EDGE!
Ow the EDGE!
*Gx era intensifies*
Dark Horus and the dark creator will always be my favorites
End: "Also, look at this graph..."
Me: *IMMEDIATELY hears Nickleback*
I heard the same thing and made me laugh.
look at this graAAPh
Can you put the timestamp?
@@nabeelnitro6447 20:32
The "original" name of evilswarm exciton knight was noblelswarm, so he is a light counterpart
yeah actually he's not corrupted at all, despite being called an Evilswarm
first off, he's LIGHT, so that's already a sign
also in the lore, Kerykeion and Sombre, which are the heroes who defeated Sophia, decided that, after the war, they'd choose people to look after the world for anymore anomalies
they chose Steelswarm Roach and Naturia Leodrake, which respectively became Exciton Knight and Leo, Keeper of the Sacred Tree
When you were talking about Cairngorgon, it sounded for a moment like you said "it requires 82 level 4 monsters"
I heard that too, made me do a double take.
Lol caught me off guard
I wonder if this video was inspired by the release of "Dark honest".
My thoughts exactly
They better call that "Dishonest" in the TCG or I'll...complain for about an hour before moving on with my life.
@@MasterArchfiend would be cool but very likely to be dark honest.
DuelLogs performs his video based on the present state of the TCG/OCG, either due to new cards or new banlists, etc.
@@JCDLGAMINGTV A shame since that's more or less the name fans have been using to refer to the theoretical Dark counterpart to Honest that we've expected in years. It's not like the TCG doesn't know the fan base. They reference memes and such rather often.
Mazera Deville came out even before Darklord Zerato, and represented the evil counterpart of Archlord Zerato. Both Zerato and Mazera required tributing "Warrior of Zera" as part of their summoning condition.
Mazera Deville, lol get card names right
I think the ages old Ritual Monster Zera the Mant is part of it too.
Basically Zera had a few paths laid before him, one where he succeeds in finding the heavens and becomes an angel, and another where he becomes corrupted in the underworld.
@@runningoncylinders3829 correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't something happen in the Angel route that corrupts Zerato and turns him into Darklord?
@@runningoncylinders3829 No idea if "The Mant" was intended as part of the archetype. Just had the name "Zera".
@@KinjiroTheThunder I've seen it described somewhere as alternate timelines instead of a continuous storyline. It'd sure suck for Zera if he fell after his rise.
As an aside: "For this list, one representative per archetype"
>2 Evilswarm monsters
"One representative per main deck and one per extra deck"
>3 Evilswarm monsters, 2 extra deck
"Exciton Knight is an exception as it is basically generic"
See you in the future for a Top 10 made of nothing but generically splashable cards from the same archetype. xD
I think it referred to the originals all being from different archetypes.
@@elijahpadilla5083 Yeah, I figured. Its just kind of... disappointing I guess? Compared to how on other lists he does seem to specifically limit representation of an Archetype to the best card it has to offer for that specific list.
@@BloodfelX There's only like four archetypes based on evil counterparts from other archetypes, five if you include the "Dark Counterpart" set that wants to be an archetype so damned badly (Dark Creator, DAD, Dark Freed, the new Dark Honest . . .). It's not like there's much in the way of options.
@@elijahpadilla5083 I disagree with the idea that there aren't many evil counterparts in YGO outside of archetypes, but if we're talking evil counterparts from different archetypes that saw competitive relevance I think I have to concede.
I guess maybe some Evigishki monster and maybe someone somewhere saw competitive success with a Steelswarm deck (or I just completely missed the Steelswarm meta scene), which admittedly is part of the -lswarm archetype but I would be glad to see more than just Evilswarm and Evil HERO sub-archetype representation of their archetypes on the list.
Eh, I'm asking too much. Its a fine list and a well produced video really. -Aside from the minor slip up of "Adjusted Gold's" effect of "search a Dark Fusion Monster"-
Cairngorgon is infected with the lswarm virus too iirc so would that make it 4?
I love how you rank cards in your Top 10's. I would do it the same way. Please keep making more videos for me to watch.
"ITS NOT A PHASE MOM!"
Its just CALLED a _battle_ phase. I didn't say I would fight you, mom.
(11:45) Huh, makes me wonder if a "Top 10 Fusion Monsters that have been on the Banlist / Restricted" is possible. I think it would be, I mean off the top of my head:
Thousand-Eyes Restrict
Elder Entity Norden
Blazing Fenix the Burning Bombardment Bird
Supreme King Starving Venom Fusion Dragon
Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
At least 1 "-ritual Beast" monster
At least 1 "Gem Knight" monster
El Shaddoll Construct
Probably at least 1 "HERO" monster
Probably at least 1 "Cyber Dragon" monster
Actually, it would definitely be possible. Maybe an idea for the future?
Absolutely love how nearly half of this list is Evilswarms. My favorite archetype of all time ever.
Monster: exists
Evilswarm: **infestation time**
*Duel Terminal exist
@@dracometeors3010 i was foolish enough to think people wouldn't know about duel terminal lore
@@rovad55 well, that was a good thought.
Seeing Ophion again reminds me of my time playing dueling network back in the day
I love these kinds of vids. Learning about the lore of the cards with their art is so entertaining and interesting.
just go read the master guide stories they are so worth reading if you got spare time.
Most of the cards on this list are just apart of the Duel Terminal Lore, which is pretty wild and something I'd love to see an anime or even a manga about. Also Evilswarm Exciton Knight is less of a dark version of roach and more of a powerboosted Roach.
Actually, instead of the same boring kid's anime, they should make a fun one with the monsters' worlds; And even Duel Terminal;
Yup.
...
Pokemon anime might be ending. Maybe this is a sign to make a high budget dual terminal OVA.
Wonderful, I've been waiting for this for so long. And right when my pizza arrived, too.
This list broke its own rules 3 times. I frickin love it.
Btw not to be that guy but it’s lswarm as elleswarm bc it included steel/evilswarm card too, which in of itself I think is an evil counterpart of itself in some sense too
Top Ten “Number” Xyz Monsters!
And after that Top Ten Monsters with a number in their name, which are not number monsters.
@@twitertaker I bet we'll see something with Thousand-Eye in its name on the list.
Numbers 10-6 are Number 27 Dreadnought Dreadnoid and numbers 5-1 are Number 81 Superdreadnought Railcannon Super Dora
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Done.
@@toropazzoide It is difficult to argue with your assessment.
"We were good, but now we bad."
─ Any Evil counterpart
El Shaddoll Construct is the corrupted version of Gem Knight Lady Lapis Lazuli, a fusion monster made from Gem Knight Lapis, which looks much more like Construct.
11:52 I’ve been playing Shaddoll for years and never knew what her counterpart was until today. @TheDuelLogs you should really make videos that explain in depth the lore of some card archetypes, we would surely enjoy watching them.
I think its the evil counterpart of Lapis Lazuli, the fusion, and not the base Lapis.
@@ajbXYZcool It is Lapis, but the pose is that that definitely resembles Lapis Lazuli.
I've been playing Shaddolls for several months now, it has become my new favorite deck, the former being D/D/D
14:28 Dark Fusion Card*
Love your work!
From what I learned about "evil" counterparts is that they do not hold back which is why their effects are typically better than the originals- just like with Evil HEROs.
Love the videos dude!! Ever thought of a top ten cards in a tcg set? That might be hard because it’s probably rare that a set has 10 cards that saw competitive success
14:08 he probably saw Dzeff's video
Come ooon is ADUSTED not
ADJUSTED
He doesn't repair anything
14:37 small mistake. dark calling lets u fusion summon with material from the hand and gravenyard and not from the field. there is another dark fusion card which can fuse whats on the field and hand i think
You mean Dark Fusion, literally Evil Hero Poly
I'm gonna comment just to bump this up since it's a pretty big oversight
@@PrimeGamator wouldn't the bigger oversight be that he said you can add "a dark fusion monster" from you deck to your hand via adusted gold's effect?
edit: actually you're right saying you can fusion using all 3 areas is worse.
Top 10 decks that became engines, like how Scrap became the "Send machines from the deck to the graveyard like a boss"
Trickster gotta be there somewhere, invoked and kaiju too if can count (technically a package, not engine)
It's really impressive your narration. The change of pace, the pauses. It might go unnoticed by most people, but it's the most important skill a good narrator needs to have.
Evilswarm Exciton Knight is actually a good guy in lore lol
This but unironically.
Lswarm: Assimilation
Shaddoll: Control against will
Malefic: Cybernetic corruption
Dark: Unknown corruption method, maybe magic
Evil Hero: Classical fallen hero
*"It's not a phase,dad!"*
" *Yes it is, son, it's literally called the MAIN PHASE* "
@@KinjiroTheThunder you don't understand me! *THIS IS WHO I AM!*
Two things:
- I though that El Shadoll Construct was an evil counterpart of Gem Knight Lapislázuli (fusion Between Lapis and Lazuli). But also it makes sense.
- From steelswarm Roach on Duel Terminal lore, is supposed to be a steelswarm that was converted and became "Good". Later Roach became corrupted by Evilswarm, but was still at a good side on comparison to other Lswarm monsters. Weird story.
Every time I fell like this has to be the last top 10 anyone can make abt yugioh, every time I'm wrong. Salute my guy
I was about to say “YOU DID MAH BOI EXCITON KNIGHT DIRTY!!” when you mentioned Ophion for the extra deck Evilswarm Monster, that is until I got to number one. Very fitting placement.
Oh yeah the good old days where Evil Swarm execiton was a god like card
I had a few funny Yugioh shower thoughts even though I haven't played since early GX era. I blame your videos, so I'm gonna share them here.
Funny things to do at a Yugioh tournament:
1. Play vanilla monsters like their flavor text is actually an effect. For example, Flying Fish can instantly win the duel if you summon it because it grants three wishes and you can just wish to win the duel.
2. Dress up as Yugi, Kaiba, etc. and play an appropriate deck.
3. Use miniatures to represent your monsters and throw them at your opponent when you attack directly.
4. While looking for examples for 3, I discovered a rather sizable Exodia toy that has a spring loaded fireball launcher. So like, play an Exodia deck and shoot the fireball at your opponent when you get all five pieces. Also, you have to shout "EXODIA! OBLITERATE!"
5. When you sit down for your first match, just pull out a totally different card game.
6. Dye your hair green, carry a stack of $20s, and blatantly break rules. When called out, say "Screw the rules! I have money!" and show off your $20s or say "Screw the rules! I have green hair!"
Big badder better counterparts.
One of my favourite evil variants of cards is Mazera DeVille. It’s effect is arguably evil to boot, discarding 3 cards at random from the opponent’s hand on summon. I honestly just like the Zera cards.
You can add a dark fusion monster from your deck to your hand. “Dark Calling.”
Decent video! Thanks for uploading!
Personally, I wish they made more monsters intended as good counterparts to previous evil monsters that didn't have good counterparts before.
I guess construct being based on Lapis makes sense, as Construct looks very similar to Gem-Knight Lapis Lazuli
Man, i love you. You revived my interest in ygo even if i don't play anymore.
Evilswarm Excited Knight: "WOHOOO, I AM SO PUMPED! I am going to blow 'em all up, let me at them, LET ME AT 'EM!"
Exciton knight is actually a good guy in the duel terminal lore. It just happens to be in the "Evilswarm" archtype. another monster that also has the same traits is Evilswarm Kerykeion, though in the case of Kerykeion it became an Evilswarm because it absorbed the power of the corrupted Ice Barrier dragons while Exciton Knight started as Steelswarm Sentinel but is later "redeemed" or something. that's why Exciton Knight and Kerykeion don't have 50 in their atk points(though in Kerykeion's case it's to mirror Constellar Sombre).
20:33 I almost felt Nickelback here.
I take a drink every time this guy says "Dark armed dragon was part of one of the only tier zero decks in the history of the game." I've been drunk since I discovered the channel.
Top 10 best monsters who have less attack than defense. Like for example Destrudo (1000 ATK | 3000 DEF)
My favorite is El Shaddoll Shekhinaga(no, it's not because I own the card)
I've been asking for that. AFD is a top contender
Nice video, didn't knew Evilswarms were a thing on the competitive.
Also, Construct is the counterpart of Lapis Lazuli.
For a second I thought he said Cairngorgon required 82 level 4 monsters, instead of Any 2
Cairngorgon requires 82 lvl 4 monsters? Must be really good then.
If the lore doesn't lie, it's supposed that Roach and Exciton are both in the goodies side, being Exciton an evolution of Roach.
I wonder, are there enough redeemed monsters (monsters that became good) for making a top list?
Roach is one of the evilswarm sentinels
He is getting mad because hercules zap him for no reason. he is already in the alliance side before he turned into roach, his mats also an evidence that he is no longer part of the steelswarm as every deck can summon him.
Technically he is already a good person even before he became roach, even in his sentinel forms he is not as evil as his friends in the steelswarm gang, so no he is not bad guy turned good.
Actually, in the art of Advance Zone he (still being Sentinel) is being purified by the Vylons, that ring surrounding him is from them, not from the Steelswarms; Roach in the background would be a future image of him.
Lightrays. Metaphys. Gagagigo the Arisen. There's a few.
Evilswarm Thunderbird is an evil form of Mist Valley Thunderbird
Do a Top 10 that force mechanics onto players!
"Also, look at this graph:"
Alright that was the best one of these you've done, nice
Since you asked, how about top 10 generic lv 4 or lower monsters that can special summon itself from hand. Btw dark simorg deserved an honorable mention at least.
Darklord Zerato is also the second evil counterpart to Archlord Zerato, the first being Mazera Deville who debuted in the same set, Ancient Sanctuary.
Cheating because of number 1. According to the card lore it is the ascended version of steelswarm roach just like gagagigo the risen. Still, good video.
Another good video from theduellogs
keep up the good work
I physically cringed at "eye-swarms"
I swarm
You swarm
We all swarm.
Fun fact Log, Exicton Knight is the counterpart to that Steelswarm Knight because Exicton was a purified revival of the latter, along side others for the... Zefra archetype? I think?
The Duel Terminal lore was that it was a combined effort of all in the Zefra to put a stop to the world from burning into nothing by another archetype that continued to use Lapis’ soul. I can’t remember that last archetype’s name, but after they were defeated, so finally ended the Duel Terminal’s history.
Yes to Zefra, but that happened later, Exciton Knight was already a thing for a while in-universe at that point.
As for the Archetype you can't remember, that was the Infernoids, under order (essentially) of "Tierra, Source of Destruction" as part of its plan to revive itself.
TOP 10 MONSTERS THAT CAN GO INTO THE SPELL/TRAP ZONES
TOP 10 TRAP MONSTERS/PSEUDO-TRAP MONSTERS
Number 1: The Crystal Beasts
And for that second one, my personal favorite is Shaddoll Core
@@KinjiroTheThunder Crystal Beasts?! HA! no, Number 1 would probably end up being an Artifact monster. Crystal Beasts would probably be either at the bottom of this list, or somewhere on the list of worst monsters that can go in the S/T zones
@@KinjiroTheThunder yeah crystal beasts are ass, paleos and artifacts are everything that crystal beasts wanted to be
@@jacobluneberg597 that's just because Crystal Beasts are old news, I just mentioned them because they popped into my mind first
For Construct, I always thought it was the evil counterpart of Lapis Lazuli because they share the same color and same pose on the artwork
Kaiba: "F*** the rules! I have money!"
The DuelLogs: "F*** the rules! I need subscribers!"
😝
I respect the hustle
Nice video mate. If you would do a part 2 that would be insanely good !
"i"-swarm monsters???? Really? Are they part of the Evii-swarm and Steei-swarm archetypes lol?
Unrelated but I always wondered the music used for TheDuelLogs videos. It's always so calming and catchy lol
Could you change the title to “Top 10 Evil counterparts to existing monsters” then do a “Top 10 monsters with evil counter parts.” That way you could explore cards like Honest, or a lightsworn; you know good cards that have evil counterparts
About the lore behind why Lapis can become Construct, I’ll give a very brief summary of what happened, because this story is very long and involved many different archetypes. This is called Duel Terminal story.
- Sophia and Tierra are 2 gods. Sophia beat Tiera and sealed it into the Tree of Life by using a “core”. This core was then broken into 10 pieces, which became the pyroxene of the Gem Knights.
- During a war, many Gem Knights were slained, including Master Diamond and Lapis. Somehow, Master Diamond, with other Gem Knights, were reborned info Caingorgon the Antiluminescent Knight. It captured Evilswarm Kerykeion, use his power and became Shaddoll Core. Shaddoll Core then revive many species that were fallen in the previous war, and turned them into the Shaddoll.
There isn’t a real reason why Lapis could become as massive as Construct, but it may due to the fact that Lapis is a Gem Knight that holds a core requires to release Tierra. So Tierra gave it a huge power to help with that goal.
To give the reason as to "why Lapis", because Constellar Sombre exists. Sombre not only holds a piece of Sophia's Energy of Rebirth, but is also, at its Core, just Gem-Knight Lazuli. Lapis, being Lazuli's "Mirror-Image" inherently kind of reflects (no pun intended) that Level of Power, so the Shaddolls just had quite a lot of Energy to work with from the get-go. It even comes into play again later in the Storyline as to how Tierra finally revives itself
@@agitpolat1061 it shown in the artwork of darktellarknight Batlamyus, it mimics the strongest of tellarknight Ptolemaeus, with construct fused with the body. It shown that Lapis and Lazuli is connected, so Tierra using Lapis for his plan.
Researching a bit exciton knight is a good counterpart of the steel swarm one
Even the Steelswarm one wasn't evil to begin with. And Exciton Knight is still not evil.
@@mateusrp1994 for what I know all steelswarns are evil, they born from curroption, then once they die (I don't remember well their lore) the infection transforms all other into evilswarm
@@altarofshadows Steelswarm Roach was born when a Scout got in contact with a piece of a dead Vylon and evolved from the impossible mix of light and dark energy. That allowed him enough sapience/sentience to choose between being good and evil and he choose good.
For what I read a vylon purified roach
10/10 nothing to say
i watch 4-5 times every days
The newest one: Dis Honest(Dark Honest)
Here too? Insert obligatory "Disarmed Dragon" reply here.
You were mostly right on the priority thing during the dark armed dragon part. It's not that they could respond to a card like bottomless. It was that all ignition effects during open game state were allowed to be activated first via turn player priority.
20:33 Every time I do it makes me laugh...
Sooo fun fact, #7’s lore comes from not only the Gem Knights, "Gem-Knight Zirconia" (right arm and left leg), "Gem-Knight Master Diamond" (left arm and right leg), and "Gem-Knight Prismaura" (damaged head) grafted onto its body, but also is partially related to the Shaddolls, Specifically Core, Winda and Grysta. Core is obvious, Winda is the crystal this monster holds, appearing in the puppet form of Winda, priestess of Gusto’s staff, but also on Squamata’s back. As for Grysta, its because Core eventually becomes Grysta, possibly by using Carngorgon’s body
DuelLogs: Adjusted Gold, Excited Knight
Everyone else: Adusted Gold, Exciton Knight
I'm convinced he does it on porpoise
Actually people who play back then: Extinction knight
Because it made your field go extinct.
@@leroythedragon Foolish memelover. Only your desire suggest that.
Actually, yes..Exciton Knight is actually a good guy. Hell, Roach was good guy too, it's just that Exciton Knight is Roach upgraded and later got upgraded as Stellarknight Zefraxciton.
5:44 being an algamation of these monster...
THESE Monsters are all Crystal.
Quick correction it isn't "iswarm" it's "Lswarm" it just uses a lower case l.
Alternative title: Top 10 cards in their edgy phase
Definitely need a part 2!
I got so bored of seeing everyone play construct from 2015-17😭
This guy is literally the best Yu-Gi-Oh! youtuber.
Eh, Exciton Knight is actually the good version of Steelswarm Roach - he was evil but he switched the side during the world war. He's even a part of the Zefra gang which are the main heroes of the war against Tierra.
About Evilswarm, there are 2 "good" characters so the archetype are not entirely evil. One is Exciton Knight, another one is Evilswarm Keyrkeion.
Hey man, I had a suggestion (don't know if someone suggested this before). But you could also make videos based on the different era of Yu Gi Oh, for example "Most broken cards/counter trap/ powerful/ spell etc during synchro era/xyz/ fusion/ first gen etc". You would be able to redo a lot of your old titles while covering more cards. I would be interested to see the best synchro cards during XYZ , pendulum and link era respectively.