I always enjoyed Bakura duels in the anime. It was always fun to see him usually trying some niche strategy instead of just "Big monster attacks for big damage"
This is True. In Duelist Kingdom, he played the ridiculously overpowered Just Deserts, as well as 2 Morphing Jars, which can eliminate multiple cards quickly. Then in their Battle City Duel, he played Destiny Board. Lastly in Season 5, Bakura played a Deck Out Strat... he's so unique and tactical. It's a shame we didn't see him actually Succeed with some Duel's, besides Bonz. It's pretty much the same curse as Mai.
I do wish though we got more duels with Bakura. As the only people we see him duel (that actually finish)are Yugi/Yami Yugi, Bones, and Yami Marik. He does duel Kaiba for a bit but they never finish the duel(which kinda sucks cause it’s one of 3 regular duels in the final arc of the anime). So part of me is wondering what a duel between Joey and Bakura would be.
@@michaelnally2841 It was more or less hinted in the manga that Bakura was superior to Joey because in the manga he destroyed Joey's Red-Eyes with no issue using cards and how close Bakura was to decking out Yugi if it wasn't for an extremely lucky last draw. The anime put extra emphasis on Joey being out of Bakura's league by more or less saying only Yugi was capable of beating Atem.
@@Ramona122003 fair enough I could see Joey being beaten by Bakura but I could still see it being a close match. I mean Joey got Kaiba to 700 life points in their second duel, and he almost beat Marik(although that maybe due to Mark being cocky and not taking Joey too seriously as an opponent)
This duel is one of the one of the ones where it was better explained in the manga. For reference the important aspects come from Yugioh duelist starting with ch 144 1.) Dark Necrofears summoning condition was absurd. Bakura's fiends were required to be destroyed while in Atk mode within 5 turns, its not that he didn't put them in defense he couldn't. 2.) Destiny Board needed Dark Necrofear in the grave in order to move the Ouja board pieces, at one point Yugi revives Dark Necrofear (similar to the anime) and doing so prevents Ouja board from working. 3.) Fiend Sanctuary was not a card, it was just an effect of Dark Necrofear. Sacrificing a monster per turn, using monster zones for spell trap cards, all of that was anime only. For that matter the spirit letters weren't separate cards they seemed to be attached to the original destiny board like counters. 4.) Yugi didn't have fiends exile in the manga, he used a different convoluted combo to break Bakura's strategy. Yugi and Bakura (mostly Yugi) did make misplays in the duel, but it was a more cohesive duel in the original. I believe the reason they changed it so much was because one of Bakura's cards "deja vu" was needlessly complex but then they turned around and made fiends sanctuary anyway. The other duel that the manga significantly changed was Yugi vs Seto round 3 (their third duel in the manga, 2nd in the anime). Seto had Negate attack during mostly the entire duel and could have negated Celtic Guardians attack at the end even if Yugi didn't stop. He was presumably testing Yugi's resolve as he by all means won that duel. I would love for you to go over that manga duel as it had "Expert rules" a deviation of the standard rules of duelist kingdom and made for an interesting game. It's duelist ch 41 if interested.
There's 1 thing I'm wondering about the manga duel (didn't read the manga, I just read the duel progress on the wiki): why did Yugi attack with Gamma when Bakura had a DEF Earthbound Spirit? I can see some justification in attacking with Dark Magician Girl prior even though the attack would just bounce off (to test if DMG is possessed or the possession stuck to Gamma only), but that Gamma attack the next turn just seems completely useless to me? Does the manga explain that? Because as far as I can see it, the manga version of Earthbound Spirit is still 2000 DEF.
Earthbound spirit didn't have any particular stats shown in the manga, they were presumably created later on. Given the context of the duel they would have had to be some number less than 750 for Atk and some number less than 1500 for def but this fact evidently wasn't followed when designing the card for the game. They usually don't show stats unless its relevant, one of the more notable duels where this was the case was Joey vs Bonz where we didn't see zombies had zero defense until Joey played Shield and Sword. Still that was a great catch, I didn't think anything of it until you said so. I'd recommend the yugioh manga, even though you probably know how the duels will end they were all rather thrilling in their own right and its considerably faster paced than the anime. You could probably go through all of duelist kingdom in less time than it would take the show to get there.
In the manga, Destiny Board and Dark Necrofear work quite differently, Dark Necrofear actually requires the monsters for its summon to be in Attack position and to be destroyed over the past 5 turns in order for them to be used for Dark Necrofear's summon. Dark Necrofear also was responsible for the Ghost of Dark Sanctuary effect as well, the field spell wasn't even played. Destiny Board also required Dark Necrofear to be destroyed in order to activate, however it didn't place the Spirit Message cards, it just worked kinda like how counters would, spelling out D-E-A-T-H. That's where the field spell came in. It was an addition into the anime that that gave room for the Spirit Messages to be placed on the field while also explaining Dark Necrofear's effect. That's a part of why Bakura seemed to make these weird plays in the anime, the writers essentially took the manga duel then just edited it a little, with some plot armor to cover it up. Several Battle City duels were changed as well, look at Marik vs. Bakura for another good example
For what it’s worth, the majority of misplaying in this Duel is a result of the anime playing fast and loose with card effects. In the manga, Dark Necrofear needed the Fiends to have been in Attack Mode when they were destroyed and Destiny Board couldn’t be activated until Necrofear was in the Graveyard so Bakura couldn’t have used it earlier. 🤔
I mean to be fair, the Yu-Gi-Oh anime has always come before the manga since duel monster got popular. So a lot of people don't realize that duels there are better explained
@@DarkSymphony777 that logic only makes sense for GX onward since DM is a loose adaptation of the manga. Probably has more to do with the physical card game and the need to adapt the cards there like changing how Destiny Board/ Dark Necrofear work.
@@ChouRaiyukilet me present to you MTG chose a names card in secret mechanic. You write it on a piece of paper, then when the opponent does something you reveal the paper
I love how Yami Bakura treats the Gods in this arc considering that's he's revealed to be the spirit of Zorc in the final season. Marik laughs that Yami Bakura would try to affect Slifer with a spell card here and sacrifices Ra in his duel with Yami Marik since it has no attack points, but since Zorc is stronger than the Gods as shown in the final season, it makes sense that Yami Bakura wouldn't think that the Gods were anything special.
That makes sense until you realize bakura lost all his duels for no reason. Had he won against marik and yugi then those are his biggest threats gone and the items come with it. Bakura was essentially trying to play 4d chess in the most stupid way.
@@dinolover That's because the duels he lost had no permanent consequences for him, even when facing Yami Marik in the Shadow Game. They didn't do jack shit to slow down his plans. The final season alone proves as much.
@@cameraredeye3115 i get that, but it seemed like a huge waste of time. Bakura could of easily won Ra and Slifer, and taken out Kaiba with ease and that's 4 items and all gods his possession with taking out Ishizu easily as well. I know its plot but damn lol
@@dinolover He didn't lose for no reason. Bakura tried winning. But Slifer was unaffected by his strategy while Ra had hidden abilities that neither he nor Marik knew about. Only Yami Marik because reasons. The main plan was for him and Marik to collect the God Cards and Millennium Items together in the tournament, then Marik would hand over his Millennium Rod. The second plan they made was defeating Yami Marik in a duel outside of the tournament. Its after these fail that he does his backup plan to lay low and have Yugi gather the items. Everyone thought Yami Bakura was out of the picture so he was free to set up the Shadow RPG unnoticed. Bakura needed the Millennium Items and the God Cards gathered together to open the World of Memories. It doesn't matter if him or Yugi collect them in the end. Bakura loses all of his duels yet his long term plan pays off. He gets everything he needs.
tbh most characters in DM except for maybe Joey or Mai are absolutely terrible at dealing with backrow. If it weren't for plot then a lot more should be running MST, Giant Trunade, Heavy Storm etc.
@@Mernom Battle City only banned burn cards like Hinotama and I think monster removal like Raigeki. Backrow removal was perfectly legal since Yugi used Dust Tornado occasionally.
Yeah for sure. I think since Yu-Gi-Oh was so Simplistic back then to much ant-ibackrow cards would have made the duels less interesting. Some of my favorite duels are heavy on spell and trap card strategies!
I feel for that you just have to look at what Yu-Gi-Oh was supposed to be at this point. While the card game was the main focus, the author was more interested in general puzzles and Pen and Paper style games (as seen in the original manga). So a lot of the duels reflect that. The author probably didn't analyse what every character SHOULD have at a certain point and what would make the technically best play. The author wants to tell a story with this game. And for this story, the challenge has to gradually increase. I mean, look at basically every game in Battle City. More or less every game during that tournament had some kind of boss monster, boss card or boss mechanic that the characters had to overcome during the duel by solving some kind of puzzle. Most of these card effects wouldn't even make much sense or be very powerful when you look at them in real life. But they make sense in a story where the challenge should gradually increase. That's also why it is never portrayed as the characters just drawing the correct card when they need it. They have to find the solution for the puzzle first and THEN they are actually able to draw that card. I mean, would have been way less epic if Yugi was just drawing Slifer and realising "Oh yeah, I do have that card and it's perfect for the situation".
@@LarkManEXE it doesn't matter. The dark door allows to take the damage with more control due to the lower amount of attacks. Worst case scenario, to fulfill the requirements he would have two more turns of "waiting" which, let's remember, is beneficial to his strategy
yami bakura duels have always been my favorite. Because his duels he throws out self preservation and goes straight into messing with you psychologically. You know he has powerplays and it frustrates the audience that he doesn't just commit but dragging it out and instilling fear and doubt into the goody deus ex machina Atem is delightful. And hes chaotic, helping, assisting, befriending, betraying, neglecting his host to protecting his host. Plot wise best antagonist. Despite his losing streak everyone was wary whenever the spikey cream puff stepped up to duel.
Actually, if I remember correctly,the anime/manga version of Destiny Board can't be activated unless Necrofear is in the GY. And Necrofear could only be summoned by banishing fiends that were destroyed in Attack Position in the last 5 turns from the GY. So ,Destiny Board here was a dead draw until he did all of that, got Necrofear on the field and then into the GY. With that context, for better and for worse, Bakura's plays here make sense.
@@darkknight5541 Yeah but the anime still tried to follow the manga's story beats while changing how the cards work and adding new ones, such a thing is bound to leave a lot of holes as seen in the video.
It's another case of the "plot" were the writers choose what and how cards effects go, like how the gods have 20+ effects and can't be touched but then in the final duel slifer was getting hit with the magnet trap by bouncing it's effect back.
I wonder if Bakura was trying to work around Yugi’s melenium item and it’s ability. Since Yugi is in a good position at the start of the duel he won’t be able to draw op cards at the start.
One thing I didn't realise until recently is just how huge the cards are in the anime It is a good point though, Bakura never actually made this a Shadow Duel. The field spell made it seem that way but it was still just a normal duel
True, but the God cards are basically like having a shadow duel in play. Even ignoring that, we've seen that these holograms can physically knock someone to the ground. In Bakura's injured state, hitting him with 3000 points of damage could have done some real damage. Honestly, it's a bit of a stupid plot point to make Yugi decide whether to destroy his friend to win the duel. Just flipping ask Bakura to surrender. Problem solved with no drama.
@@kyuubinaruto17 The real impact of the holograms is why I will always love that scene where Zane eats 2800 damage from Thunder Giant without flinching.
Would like to see Yuma vs kite next considering he keeps losing to him. Or yuya or Yugo vs Yuri as those duals are pretty good. Or Jack and Declan considering they needed to give yuya a pep talk Or joke one. Duke vs Yami in dungeon dice to spice it up and see how you could play the dice differently
Agree with Yuma v. Kite as an Analysis idea. Particularly the rematch they had at the end of Season one. Because with their first duel, there’s no question that Kite was the superior duelist by a large margin. Since every single strategy Yuma and Astral tried to use was almost immediately countered. But at the end of Season 1, they were both on equal footing, so was it possible that Yuma could’ve won that duel if he had done even one thing differently.
Yugo definitely would win against Yuri, but Aster and Kaito decided that was "ok" to interrupt the duel (but, yes, if Yugo had won the duel, Yuri would be influencing Yugo's personality, so, in the end, Yuri would win anyway :v)
@@AliacadosDuelistas Yuri took down 3 duelist in one dual. It's clear Yugo was at the disadvantage but I'm sure some combos ealry on could have given him the win. Same wirh yuto vs Yugo. The first season had to nerf yuto so hard to make him lose so soon to make him a spirit and then when yuya uses his cards he basically beats everyone without trying.
5:04 what's even funnier is: 1. He didn't have to summon them in face down defense position. Normal Summoning monsters in face up defense position was a thing in the anime all the way through 5Ds. 2. Every single one of his monsters had enough defense points to either tie with or beat Yugi's monsters. The Portrait's Secret had 1500 defense, meaning essentially nothing would happen, while Headless Knight and Gross Ghost had 1700 defense and 1800 defense respectively, meaning Yugi would've taken damage if he had attacked with either Gazelle or Gamma. Also, here's a fun fact about Destiny Board: In the original manga, it didn't just win you the duel, it KILLED your opponent. Yeah, not because of a Shadow Game or anything. The literal effect reads: "When all five letters have been revealed, the opposing player dies."
@@kyuubinaruto17 Random duelist: "Ha ha, now I have completed the message! Now you die!" His opponent: "Um, dude, this is just a game. I don't think-" R.D.: "It says so on the card, so it must be true!" H.O: "Fuck this shit." (Gets up and leaves)
Here's the thing about playing defensively. He didn't do it precisely because of their high defense points. His entire strategy hinged on them getting destroyed.
@@TheKabuto90 That's a fair point but...he built his own deck. Couldn't he have just gotten some monsters that fulfilled the strategy but had low defense points?
Still one of my favourites from the original series. Alternative win conditions are so fun. On Bakura’s 3rd turn, he could have crashed in his 3rd fiend monster into Yugi’s, taken minimal damage, summoned dark necrofear AND set destiny board 1 turn early. So much wrong here, and yet, still enjoyable
Possibly one of my favourite duels ever, Bakura is my favourite character and when he used Dark Necrofear for the first time it became my all-time favourite card.
That moment in the anime at 17:10 when Yami Bakura just says "fuck this my plans are more important than your silly God Cards" was so awesome, really continued to hype him up as if he was only interested because it happened to line up with his other plans
I love these videos!! Its awesome taking a deeper look into some of these duels, I'd love to see more of Kaiba's duels since he has such complex cards (for anime). also would love to see their tag duel vs dartz broken down, always wished kaiba lasted longer.. And awesome Attack On Titan towel you have on your chair! I noticed it in other videos, truly a man of culture, great videos and keep it up!
As for Bakura's misplays: I feel he is someone that doesn't just want to win. He wants to defeat your spirit. Which is why he plays in a way that he nearly loses to then come back. Because bringing you down when you are at your highest is the most fun to him. Of course not necessarily the best strategy when you want to win, but Bakura rarely needs to win anyway.
Bakura's "misplays" are a direct result of the transition from manga to anime. In the manga Necrofear could ONLY be summoned if the destroyed monsters were in attack mode, and he couldn't activate Destiny Board sooner because Necrofear itself was the one who moved the marker to the letters from the graveyard. Some duels become more balanced and interesting when applying their real life effects, but some duels like this one become really wonky because of it.
Exactly it's clear from the moment he makes his move he already knows what his game gameplan is and this happens in all the duels he has. And until he executes his plan the rest of it is mind games and massive trolling so his opponent will slip up and do exactly what he wants.
I want to say thank you - these have got to be some of the most complicated videos to make but they are so of my absolute favorite on TH-cam. I am always so excited when I see a new one was posted. Please keep it up!!!
My general headcanon about the rules of explaining cards is that if you use a specific card's function that the anime rules you have to explain it, but you only need to explain the function you're using. So Bakura needed to explain that there is a ghost and what it does when it triggers for the first time, but only needed to explain that it can move to a different monster when he uses the ability to move the ghost. Also some later anime do show that as the tech advances there are ways for players to read cards, check GYs, etc. from their Duel Disks, but we all know about duelists and reading. In the first few series where this isn't a function added to duel disks, I would imagine that the headcanon rule of only needing to explain what's relevant at the exact moment is done for convenience so people don't have to be running across the field constantly to check each other's cards. Though they could always just use Solid Vision to simply display the card text across the field. It's also a dubism but even as a kid I figured "I guess there's like a database of card names and effects and they would need to just memorize all of their cards" because the dub doesn't have ANY card text.
Someone already pointed out that Bakura had flip effect cards like Man Eater Bug during his first duel with him but it's also possible that he made a new deck after Duelist Kingdom.
I would love to see a duel analysis of "If Shark could've defeated Yuma." So far, I think there were a total of 5 duels between Yuma and Shark. Duel 1 - Yuma vs Shark (Ep 1- 2) Winner: Yuma Duel 2 - Yuma vs Shark (Ep 10) Winner: Shark Duel 3 - Yuma vs Shark (Ep 61-62) Winner: Yuma Duel 4 - Yuma vs Shark (Ep 84) Winner: Yuma Duel 5 - Yuma vs Nash/Shark (Ep 141-143) Winner: Yuma
If I remember right, at the very end of the last duel you mentioned, both duelists tried to throw the game, or at the very least Shark did, so it would be interesting to at least see that one covered.
@@1111-e4p no Shark never tried to throw the last duel; that would go against the point of the duel Shark believed that when push came to shove Yuma would destroy the Barian World. That’s why they were dueling in the first place rather than just talking out their problems. He fully intended to kill Yuma if it meant saving his people and that’s why he ended up losing: he underestimated Yuma’s willpower
@@1111-e4p If i remember right yuma won because he didn't tried to Win Nash used a trap that negated the battle and then each of them would draw and could use the card Yuma drawed double ir nothing which would give him a Second attack with twice the atack Power While Nash drawed one that If yuma had atacked he would lose But because yuma didn't atacked Nash himself Lost as this was a condition of the card that he used to try to win
@@1111-e4p It would be Fun something like that hahaha A duel were both characters try to lose but cant admit It So It became i game of outsmarting each other
@@alexisreyes351 Kaiba beat Joey because he's a better duelist. Joey's over reliance on luck based cards is a huge weakness Kaiba and other duelist take advantage.
@@RenaldyCalixte NOPE everytime they dueled their was plot armor the writers made joey forget basic rules and ignore the obvious traps of kaiba even in their 2nd duel joey had more LP than kaiba did before losing kaiba was a overrated trash duelist
@@alexisreyes351 Joey won a duel by waking up from a coma against Odion. And multiple other duels by flipping a coin. You think that's good dueling? Kaiba knew Joey would use time wizard so he correctly utilized his trap in accordance with Battle City Rules. Rules that Joey agreed to duel under.
You should do a "Was Bakura about to defeat Marik". IMO I think Bakura could have easily won that fight, but lost it as soon as he played exchange and allowed Marik to get Monster Reborn. To this day I wonder why Bakura never set Monster Reborn.
Usually it would be something like "You can play/ set use one spell card per turn" but in that duel it seems different. I guess he and "normal" Marik were so sure about winning with Ra that they couldn't see a way that they lose it. And even after Ra becomes useless, Bakura quickly summons a trio of atleast somewhat powerful monsters (Dark Ruler, Necrofear, Earl of Denise) leaving no good reanimation targets in the grave. In the manga, Bakura opts to make Yami Marik draw Ra specifically, so he can force him to discard it via his "Multiple Destruction" trap card, thinking Ra would be useless in the grave. That's when Yami Marik first reveals the OTK and point-to-point transfer abilities of Ra. Even the "normal" Marik didn't know about them, which costs him and Bakura the match.
I completely disagree. That was Marik's one victory that was *not* achieved by plot armour. The whole duel was so one-sided that it's clear Marik would have won one way or another.
every loss that Yami Bakura experienced was intentional by himself to achieve his goals which we see by the Egypt arc, he doesnt actually lose any duel until that point.
A possible suggestion for you, Jaden vs. Jinzo. There's an early moment in the duel where Jaden could've easily won, but basically sabotaged himself, and when there's a duel where literal lives are on the line, that's not the kind of mistake you want to make.
If we do get an analysis on that duel I imagine Jinzo's two mysterious unused cards were Relinquished and Double Spell cos he added Thousand Eyes Idol to his hand with Emissary of the Afterlife.
For the bukura explaining his cards thing I like to think he does it as a "I'll be honest about the effects cuz I'm to cocky to think you can counter it" thus him not bluffing I wouldn't call a misplay, he's just arrogant in his strategy that he won't bother lying or not telling Yugi
About the whole "explaining rule" where Bakura could simply not explained how the possesion works to yugi I dont think it is a missplay because the general rule about effects in the anime It is that you need to explain then as they happen For example If i have Monster that cannot be Destroyed by battle and once per turn i can destroy one Monster of the opponent I can wait for him to try to destroy it with a high attack Monster The destruction fails I destroy his Monster with my effect Essentially making his guard down because he thought that my Monster only had one effect The exception to this is conditions For example every turn i need to sacrifice a Monster to keep my Monster in field Conditions are explained from the start This opens Room to my opponent try to break the condition
One episode I would love to see is a mega review, checking if any of the duelists could have beaten z-ARC in his duel royal during ARC-V. i saw some guy on reddit making a point that Gong Strong could have won, but i wouldn't know.
Marik absolutely could have beaten Yugi. I haven't watched that duel in a while, but I remember watching it air, and seeing a point (I think it's when Marik sacrifices Egyptian God Slime to bring back Ra for the millionth time) where if Marik wasn't so tunnel visioned on Ra, he would have won. Just going off of feelings and memories, I think Marik misplays the most out of any of the Duel Monster antagonists.
@@megame5573 This is exactly why I really don't like Marik as a villain. His deck isn't very interesting and he makes a lot of questionable moves - after all he ended up in a position to lose to both Mai and Joey. Pretty much the only thing carrying him is how OP Ra is and how he pulls a new effect out his ass every time he uses it.
@@limonbattery it's funny how broken the Egyptian god cards were in the anime and how absolutely garbage they are irl like a stray gust of wind can beat these cards irl
@@limonbattery Exactly, Marik only ever won because of the effects of Ra he pulls out of his ass every duel or the fact that his opponent is an idiot. Take Mai and Bakura, but less Bakura. Mai had game easily but she chose to tribute her monsters to summon Ra. Bakura did the same but because of Marik's combo Ra was essentially useless to him.
@@limonbattery Pretty much, like if the characters read the cards, or didn't play cards they didn't know. Marik wouldn't win. If he didn't use shadow games and played it "normal", he'd lose. His story arc is not great at all, and his deck has some great cards, but they're squandered by tunnel vision. It wasn't until just now that I thought about how perfectly Odion impersonates Marik by throwing away a game winning combo, to summon Ra.
Regarding the reveal of Dark Sanctuary's ghost powers: Generally in the anime, players are required to explain the cards once the relevant part of the effect has taken place, but aren't if it hasn't yet. Some stuff, like if the first part of the effect builds into a second effect later, isn't required, but sometimes is, which is where the most inconsistencies are.
man watching this duel I never saw Yugi losing I saw Bakura as the underdog who duels incredibley well against an opponent who has a card that is practically invincible and theres no way around it thats why it felt like an amazing duel to me
When you get to Arc V and Vrains, I’d like to see Was Yuri about to beat Yuya and Was Revolver about to beat Soulburner. Both are two of my favourite duels from each of those series and would be great tackle any of them.
Revolver vs. Soulburner would be interesting, because the latter had Violet Chimera that couldn't be destroyed due to a card it had equipped to it. All Soulburner needed to do was bait out Borreload Savage Dragon's negate and he could just push for game right then and there. I think Revolver knew as much, which is why he opted to use Zeroboros to clear the field after failing to finish off Soulburner with his 3 big dragons. He just didn't expect Soulburner to go +4 off a miraculous topdeck...
Bakura used flip effect monsters in their first duel so it makes sense that Yugi would fear his face down defense monsters being flip effect monsters. Unfortunately, in the anime it is possible to set monsters in face up defense position so the misplay is still valid.
Honestly, i'm not suprised by Bakura's "loss" here. My favorite DM Troll basically threw the game just so he could collect the other millinum(?) Items for his endgame(since he already had the eye & dreamcatcher). What's losing one battle compared to winning a war....
I hate that we never really get to see Bakura's potential. He has some really broken strategies, but he never gets a win because he only fights Yugi/Atem who has insane plot armor, and Dark Marik who has main villain status for the arc. It feels like he always get within 1 turn of winning, then a lucky draw completely turns the tides.
@@kyuubinaruto17 Wdym, he showed off his potential beautifully in the final season. Yami Bakura (AKA Zorc) was always stronger than even the 3 Egyptian Gods, and he had a goal in mind that basically incorporated losing duels on purpose. He's as sneaky and devious as Aleister Crowley from A Certain Magical Index...
@@kyuubinaruto17 We get some in the manga version of the Millennium World arc. Yami Bakura and Joey have a short duel that gets interrupted. But right before it does, Bakura was going to win using the effect of Zoma The Spirit.
@@cameraredeye3115 Wow, did not expect a To Aru reference. Nothing wrong about it lol. I've recently just started rewatching videos about Index and Yu Gi Oh, so your comment completely caught me off guard XD. Love the toaru series so much btw
This is one of my favorite duels in the series, and the best Bakura duel IMO The way Bakura makes a bunch of terrible moves only to turn the game completely around in his favor was something I always thought was cool
By far one of my favorite duels. The thing about Bakura is he's a sadist. He's clearly having fun toying with Yugi. He didn't even care about losing this duel, it never mattered to him. He only entered the tournament as part of his deal with Malik.
If Bakura had played his monsters face-down then he would've had the time to stall until he got F and his necroshade combo and would've won. This would've also turned Yami's turn 6 potential win into an impossibility as well. All Bakura had to do was play it safe and there was nothing Yami could've done.
Yami DID have experience with Bakura’s flip effect monsters back in duelist kingdom, so there’s a little precedence to be hesitant with attacking his face down monsters
9:50 I don't know if either version of the anime made it clear, but the Manga had it so that Destiny Board also needed Dark Necrofear in the graveyard to work. That's why it's Necrofear's hand working the board.
You could argue that Bakura didn't set Destiny Board just in case Yugi had back row removal since Dark Sanctuary also protects the Destiny Board cards from destruction, which if destroyed, kills his win condition.
@@Keyguin Correct, it was a *Trap Card* (forgot the name). When Jack Atlas played a *Speed Spell* to destroy *Stardust Dragon* (I think), Yusei activated the card that deals 1000 points of damage when a Monster is special summoned/summoned back from the *Graveyard* (what I believe it was the basic effect). *Stardust Dragon* had its special ability (Anime effect?) to sacrifice itself to negate a card destruction effect and would come back at the end of Yusei's turn, thus activating the trap. Jack only had 900 life points. Yusei would've won if *The Crimson Dragon* didn't interfere with its magic mumbo jumbo.
I actually love the attention to Detail on Destiny Board Letters. They made animations for all nine letters, or at the very least eight letters shown in this duel. Death and Final only share one letter, the “a”. So, showing the different letters takes more time as to animate the new letters being chosen. Props to the animators for doing this.
I would love to see Zarc vs Everyone be reviewed to see if Zarc could have won at any point or if anyone could have won against Zarc before the end of the duel.
Zarc could have easily won with the last card he had in his hand on Turn 18, right when Ray appeared. We likely won't ever know what it was, but if it was anything that gave Zarc even one extra attack, it would be game over right then. Ray didn't have the LP to tank any of Zarc's dragons.
@@cameraredeye3115 but because we never saw Zarc even set the card, it can be assumed to be something that wasn't going to help, maybe a Chronograph Sorcerer.
I just re watched this episode... In the dub... What's hilarious is that when they zoom in on dark necro... Even though they hide the baby they still leave when audio of a baby crying lol never noticed before
Bakura misplayed hard but it actually fits his character pretty well. He’s incredibly impulsive and he commits 100% to the first plan he comes up with. Zork literally tried to kill Yugi every conceivable chance he got, the man’s not a strategist and he has no patience. The second he saw Dark Necrophere he was sold on using her effect.
Its funny calling bakura an impatient person cause he was insanely committed to the long game since day 1, he never won the battle throughout the series but he was deadset in winning the war
Are we watching the same show??? If Bakura wasn’t evil he would be the greatest monk of all time.. this man is more patient than a Venus flytrap. This man is the opposite of impulsive. His Strategies may never worked on Atem and Yugi, but he is focused on a strategy ever game he plays and is very patient and not impulsive.
I wish you would have looked at, if both players did the perfect plays with their cards, who would have won. Because IMO if Bakura had indeed played all cards in defense, he would have wiped the floor with Yugi.
I wasn't subscribed to your channel although I watched all of your analysis and after this I'll definitely subscribe. An unimaginable quality in these videos!
I think when the effect activates they have to explain how it works correctly so, when the ghost was in Dark Magician Girl and the ghost's effect activates Bakura had to explain why it activated correctly.
tbf about the explaining cards thing, considering that Duel Monsters is computerized it probably works like Duel Links or Master Duel where it’s your opponent’s responsibility to read the card.
yugi soooo lost that duel, he threw everything into that duel and believed in his monsters and still got humiliated by Rafael he turned timous into his punching bag i imagine rafael would keep the pharoh's soul card as a trophy not even deliver it to dartz maybe summon his soul onto his duel disc turning yugi into an angry imprisoned spirit hologram just to laugh at him maybe kaiba saves the day in season 4 what a plot twist!
Actually, I think Kaiba had a point, considering the Pharaoh dueled him in duelist kingdom, and that exact scenario happened to him when he recklessly attacked a set monster, and ran into Man-Eater Bug, so in this case, knowing Bakura uses those monsters might make him hesitate. It was a massive risk on Bakura's end, but he got lucky and it paid off.
I'd love to see you analyze Supreme King Jaden vs Jim's or Axel's duel, i always wondered if a win was viable for the two of them as always love your content
4:30 - Weeeeeeelll, Kaiba technically is right. Kaiba wasn't around when it happened, but the last time Bakura set a monster against Yugi, it was Man Eater Bug trying to kill Joey as the Flame Swordsman... I think Yugi would've avoided attacking face downs knowing Bakura runs MEB, especially if he's setting up 3 monsters for Slifer. That, too, would still be a misplay as he could just attack directly with the remaining 1-2 monsters, but the bluff could've bought a turn of hesitation Yugi's part.
I don't think we actually have *any* duels from Arc-V yet? So I'm gonna be a little greedy and suggest we cover all 3 of Yuya's duels against Jack Atlas. They're quite possibly one of the strongest ways we can observe and gauge Yuya's growth as a duelist and person.
Their first duel was funny AF because it showed the world just how much of a scrub Yuya was. Second duel forced Yuya to still rely on cheap Action Cards until he could bring out Nirvana High Paladin, who basically pulled an Obi-Wan Kenobi that allowed Yuya to win against a 10,000 ATK Tyrant Red Dragon Archfiend. The third duel was literally Yuya being scared AF of potentially re-releasing Zarc until the last turn of the game...
Its a great video and I would have loved to see a simulation of the duel without misplays in Edo Pro or Dueling Book I believe Bakura won as Destiney Board would have killed before Slifer could with him being over 4000 form playing monster in defense mode
Really love these videos, it's really fun to nitpick and speculate this duels. Sure, we can all understand plot and dramatical effect is priority for the anime, but this is just fun to do!
This is another case of the Duel making much more sense in the manga, where Destiny Board cannot be activated unless Dark Necrofear is in the Graveyard, and Dark Necrofear cannot be Summoned unless the three Fiends were destroyed in Attack Position. The anime writers just didn’t care.
Also, Yugi could have used Monster Reborn on Dark Necrofear earlier, like, during the second turn Dark Sanctuary was on the field, and attacked for game then and there.
Indeed. If we assume he had most of the cards needed for his combo, why not summon the monsters into defence, would have done a little bit of damage, and even if yugi could run over his monsters, it would have slowed yugi down a bit. Because gazelle would have been likely the first summoned, which he would not have so easily overcome the defence, so would have needed to tribute it for dark magician girl, to run over it and the other monsters, maybe having gamma attacking for a little extra damage rather than repeatedly taking several big hits for no reason. Would still get all the monsters in the grave and then could have dark necrofear run over gamma, then yugi would have needed to run over necrofear with dark magician girl with magic formula then you can have the countdown to destiny board ticking. Summon monsters and then pick of the weaker monsters like kuriboh while leaving dark magician girl a liability on board. Not much yugi could do. If he burns the monster reborn earlier, bakura would have taken damage but not enough to lose like he had with all the attacks that had been made over his monsters in attack mode before, while also meaning yugi would have no way to stop the dark sanctuary, since with dark door in play, and trap cards in bakura’s arsenal, yugi would not be able to safely attack, and would just have lost to destiny board. Maybe that’s my reading of it, but it feels like the reason why they had yugi beat bakura in this misplay riddled duel is because they need yugi to win, but want to show off bakura’s deck a bit as well. Had bakura not needed to lose because of plot, yugi might have lost. But then again, some duels in the battle city tournament are like that. For example, odeon could have beaten Joey without needing to use the fake god card, but was pushed into it by marik
I think Bakura might have made one more misplay during those first few turns. Bakura’s opening hand included The Dark Door, its effect is that only 1 monster can attack during each battle phase. Why didn’t he activate it on the first turn? If he did, as long as he summoned a monster each turn he wouldn’t have to worry about Yugi attacking him directly. Yugi comes very close to wiping out Bakura’s LP before he brings out Dark Necrofear, and if Yugi had used Monster Reborn, Exile of the Wicked, or a monster with 450+ attack points he would have won. However, if Bakura used The Dark Door on his first turn, Yugi wouldn’t have been able to attack directly twice with Gazelle. Bakura still could have summoned all of his monsters in attack mode, but instead of only having 450 LP by the time he summons Dark Necrofear, he would have had 3450 LP. This also would have prevented Yugi’s two misplays for not activating Monster Reborn or Exile of the Wicked. If Yugi played Exile of the Wicked, he would still only get one attack. He’d attack directly once and Bakura would still have 1950 LP by the time he played Dark Necrofear, so Yugi not playing it wouldn’t have cost him the win. If Yugi had activated Monster Reborn he could summon a monster from Bakura’s graveyard, but since he can only attack with 1 monster per turn and all the monsters in Bakura’s graveyard are weaker than the monsters on Yugi’s field, that would’ve been a bad move. So yeah, I could be wrong (let me know if I am. Also, thanks for making it this far), but if Bakura had just played Dark Door from the start, he could have saved a lot of LP, and Yugi technically wouldn’t have misplayed with Monster Reborn or Exile of the Wicked. Edit: Bakura WOULD HAVE WON if he had just played The Dark Door on his first turn! As long as Yugi didn’t use Exile of the Wicked before Dark Sanctuary was activated, then by the time Slifer was summoned Bakura would have had 4200 LP. Yugi has 3 card in his hand. Bakura would have survived the attack, Yugi would have to end his turn, and the final destiny board letter would have been played. Bakura wins the duel.
As a request: Could Bruno have defeated Yusei? Or, to do a ZeXal duel, Could Kite have defeated Vetrix? I feel like both of these duels could have given way for some different results.
A lot of those misplays at the start are taken away in the Manga version of the Fight.... where destiny Board required Dark Necrofear to be in your GY for it to work, and Necrofear itself having much more specific summoning requirements. Guess that shows more instances of problems coming in from changing some things in an adaptation and not other things to compensate for plot holes.
So, in your analysis, you mention that Yugi had Monster Reborn in hand before Dark Spirit of the Silent was on the field. Couldn't he have used Monster Reborn earlier, thereby preventing Bakura from winning anyway, or at the very least sparing him a turn or two? Or did the spooky ghost have to be *off* the field for that to occur? Just finding it interesting that you never at least addressed this point.
8:24 I might be a bit late on this since again, Captain Hindsight, But Yugi could have used monster reborn to snag one of the fiends from the graveyard since he'd knows for sure it wouldn’t be possesed. I assume it wasnt brought up cause monster reborn could be used to win the battle sooner, but M A N. Battle city? More like misplay city.
I totally agree that it was plot that made them play like that but i just want to throw in my thoughts. first off yami bakura is kind of a person that likes to mess with his opponents. and make them think they are going to win before ripping the rug out from underneath them look at his duel aganst bones earlier for another example of that. that and he likes to watch his opponents suffer so to speak so i guess you could argue his personality or his style of dueling made him play like that. the second thing is that 2 of the 3 fiend monsters he had sent to the grave ( that being headless knight and gross ghost) had stronger DEF then yugi's monsters had ATK at that time so he would not destroyed them on the first attack so playing them in attack position would accomplish his goal the fastest. just wanted to throw those ideas out there but like i said plot differently was a key factor but I just wanted to put these ideas out there and see if it could explain some reasons for those misplays. anyways loved the vid.
Remember that back in Duelist Kingdom Dark Bakura's deck relied strongly on Flip monsters with powerful negative effects, so the idea that Yami Yugi would have still been hesitant into attacking his set monsters actually makes sense. Also Dark Necrofear originally required the 3 tributed Fiend monsters to have been destroyed in Attack Position anyways, so they couldn't have been in Defense Mode. Finally, Dark Necrofear also needed to be in the Graveyard to activate Ouija/Destiny Board. Arguably, the only misplay of Dark Bakura was that he could have activated The Dark Door much sooner than he did.
@@jacobwilliams1223 Again, to originally summon Necrofear three Fiend type monsters need to have been destroyed by battle *specifically* while in Attack Mode within 5 total turns. If Dark Bakura put them in Defense Mode then even if they all were destroyed, he couldn't have summoned Necrofear. This is just the anime's fault for not mentioning this.
Or you know, making the manga Necrofear's conditions so asinine that anyone who tries it would lose if not for PIS. It's literally unplayable. The anime didn't mention it being required, so it is still a misplay in the anime.
I love this series! Keep up the great work! Would love to see more duels from 5ds (Yusei vs Jack final duel), arc-v (Yuya vs Yuri) and vrains! (Playmaker vs. Revolver)
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I always enjoyed Bakura duels in the anime. It was always fun to see him usually trying some niche strategy instead of just "Big monster attacks for big damage"
True! He's like the Shikamaru of duel monsters. I also like any duel where Slyfer is summoned he was always my favorite god card!
This is True. In Duelist Kingdom, he played the ridiculously overpowered Just Deserts, as well as 2 Morphing Jars, which can eliminate multiple cards quickly. Then in their Battle City Duel, he played Destiny Board. Lastly in Season 5, Bakura played a Deck Out Strat... he's so unique and tactical. It's a shame we didn't see him actually Succeed with some Duel's, besides Bonz. It's pretty much the same curse as Mai.
I do wish though we got more duels with Bakura. As the only people we see him duel (that actually finish)are Yugi/Yami Yugi, Bones, and Yami Marik. He does duel Kaiba for a bit but they never finish the duel(which kinda sucks cause it’s one of 3 regular duels in the final arc of the anime). So part of me is wondering what a duel between Joey and Bakura would be.
@@michaelnally2841 It was more or less hinted in the manga that Bakura was superior to Joey because in the manga he destroyed Joey's Red-Eyes with no issue using cards and how close Bakura was to decking out Yugi if it wasn't for an extremely lucky last draw. The anime put extra emphasis on Joey being out of Bakura's league by more or less saying only Yugi was capable of beating Atem.
@@Ramona122003 fair enough I could see Joey being beaten by Bakura but I could still see it being a close match. I mean Joey got Kaiba to 700 life points in their second duel, and he almost beat Marik(although that maybe due to Mark being cocky and not taking Joey too seriously as an opponent)
14:05 Kuriboh nervously holding the book like he has a report due in the morning is precious.
I like to think it's because he can't read it due to not being DM or DMG
Lol Kuriboh is more street smarts than book smarts ☺️ there should be a Kuriboh emoji btw
I like to thinks he is thinking “what do you expect from me” towards Yami but still trying
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And then Atem kills him………..😧
This duel is one of the one of the ones where it was better explained in the manga. For reference the important aspects come from Yugioh duelist starting with ch 144
1.) Dark Necrofears summoning condition was absurd. Bakura's fiends were required to be destroyed while in Atk mode within 5 turns, its not that he didn't put them in defense he couldn't.
2.) Destiny Board needed Dark Necrofear in the grave in order to move the Ouja board pieces, at one point Yugi revives Dark Necrofear (similar to the anime) and doing so prevents Ouja board from working.
3.) Fiend Sanctuary was not a card, it was just an effect of Dark Necrofear. Sacrificing a monster per turn, using monster zones for spell trap cards, all of that was anime only. For that matter the spirit letters weren't separate cards they seemed to be attached to the original destiny board like counters.
4.) Yugi didn't have fiends exile in the manga, he used a different convoluted combo to break Bakura's strategy.
Yugi and Bakura (mostly Yugi) did make misplays in the duel, but it was a more cohesive duel in the original. I believe the reason they changed it so much was because one of Bakura's cards "deja vu" was needlessly complex but then they turned around and made fiends sanctuary anyway.
The other duel that the manga significantly changed was Yugi vs Seto round 3 (their third duel in the manga, 2nd in the anime). Seto had Negate attack during mostly the entire duel and could have negated Celtic Guardians attack at the end even if Yugi didn't stop. He was presumably testing Yugi's resolve as he by all means won that duel. I would love for you to go over that manga duel as it had "Expert rules" a deviation of the standard rules of duelist kingdom and made for an interesting game. It's duelist ch 41 if interested.
Fuck yeah. Would love to see some analysis of Manga duels as well.
There's 1 thing I'm wondering about the manga duel (didn't read the manga, I just read the duel progress on the wiki): why did Yugi attack with Gamma when Bakura had a DEF Earthbound Spirit? I can see some justification in attacking with Dark Magician Girl prior even though the attack would just bounce off (to test if DMG is possessed or the possession stuck to Gamma only), but that Gamma attack the next turn just seems completely useless to me? Does the manga explain that? Because as far as I can see it, the manga version of Earthbound Spirit is still 2000 DEF.
@@_Vengeance_ I think that was a genuine mistake, there really is no explanation.
@@_Vengeance_ No reason really. It's just for the "plot".
Earthbound spirit didn't have any particular stats shown in the manga, they were presumably created later on. Given the context of the duel they would have had to be some number less than 750 for Atk and some number less than 1500 for def but this fact evidently wasn't followed when designing the card for the game. They usually don't show stats unless its relevant, one of the more notable duels where this was the case was Joey vs Bonz where we didn't see zombies had zero defense until Joey played Shield and Sword. Still that was a great catch, I didn't think anything of it until you said so.
I'd recommend the yugioh manga, even though you probably know how the duels will end they were all rather thrilling in their own right and its considerably faster paced than the anime. You could probably go through all of duelist kingdom in less time than it would take the show to get there.
In the manga, Destiny Board and Dark Necrofear work quite differently, Dark Necrofear actually requires the monsters for its summon to be in Attack position and to be destroyed over the past 5 turns in order for them to be used for Dark Necrofear's summon. Dark Necrofear also was responsible for the Ghost of Dark Sanctuary effect as well, the field spell wasn't even played.
Destiny Board also required Dark Necrofear to be destroyed in order to activate, however it didn't place the Spirit Message cards, it just worked kinda like how counters would, spelling out D-E-A-T-H. That's where the field spell came in. It was an addition into the anime that that gave room for the Spirit Messages to be placed on the field while also explaining Dark Necrofear's effect.
That's a part of why Bakura seemed to make these weird plays in the anime, the writers essentially took the manga duel then just edited it a little, with some plot armor to cover it up. Several Battle City duels were changed as well, look at Marik vs. Bakura for another good example
i was going to pint this out but you did a better job
If he had attacked over yugi's monsters when he had the opportunity he would've won in lifepoint damage and stopped all of yugi's plays.
ah ok Thank You! knowing this, the entire Duel makes a lotttttt more sense. That's a pretty specific summoning condition.
This comment deserves to be pinned.
Not sure how but the manga somehow made Bakura's cards even more convoluted
For what it’s worth, the majority of misplaying in this Duel is a result of the anime playing fast and loose with card effects. In the manga, Dark Necrofear needed the Fiends to have been in Attack Mode when they were destroyed and Destiny Board couldn’t be activated until Necrofear was in the Graveyard so Bakura couldn’t have used it earlier. 🤔
I mean to be fair, the Yu-Gi-Oh anime has always come before the manga since duel monster got popular. So a lot of people don't realize that duels there are better explained
@@DarkSymphony777 that logic only makes sense for GX onward since DM is a loose adaptation of the manga.
Probably has more to do with the physical card game and the need to adapt the cards there like changing how Destiny Board/ Dark Necrofear work.
@@absollum The one caveat to this is that the evil spirit Dark Sanctuary or Dark Necrofear brings with it would never work in an actual card game.
@@DarkSymphony777 u dont get it, this anime came after the manga, its not gx/5ds
@@ChouRaiyukilet me present to you MTG chose a names card in secret mechanic. You write it on a piece of paper, then when the opponent does something you reveal the paper
I'd like to see a Duel Analysis of whether Jesse would've beaten Jaden in the Season 3 premiere.
Yes, had he not used amithis cats effect in the penultimate turn he would of won
The turn where he attacked with all his monsters, if he attacked with Amethyst Cat normally instead of using its effect he'd have won
Jaiden literally points it out after the duel too, but Jesse says he didnt do it cuz itd be less fun that way, but he defly couldve won
Ah yes their first date I mean duel
Who the fuck is Jesse?
I love how Yami Bakura treats the Gods in this arc considering that's he's revealed to be the spirit of Zorc in the final season. Marik laughs that Yami Bakura would try to affect Slifer with a spell card here and sacrifices Ra in his duel with Yami Marik since it has no attack points, but since Zorc is stronger than the Gods as shown in the final season, it makes sense that Yami Bakura wouldn't think that the Gods were anything special.
IIRC Yami Bakura himself also didn't have all of his memories at that point.
That makes sense until you realize bakura lost all his duels for no reason. Had he won against marik and yugi then those are his biggest threats gone and the items come with it. Bakura was essentially trying to play 4d chess in the most stupid way.
@@dinolover That's because the duels he lost had no permanent consequences for him, even when facing Yami Marik in the Shadow Game. They didn't do jack shit to slow down his plans. The final season alone proves as much.
@@cameraredeye3115 i get that, but it seemed like a huge waste of time. Bakura could of easily won Ra and Slifer, and taken out Kaiba with ease and that's 4 items and all gods his possession with taking out Ishizu easily as well. I know its plot but damn lol
@@dinolover He didn't lose for no reason. Bakura tried winning. But Slifer was unaffected by his strategy while Ra had hidden abilities that neither he nor Marik knew about. Only Yami Marik because reasons.
The main plan was for him and Marik to collect the God Cards and Millennium Items together in the tournament, then Marik would hand over his Millennium Rod. The second plan they made was defeating Yami Marik in a duel outside of the tournament. Its after these fail that he does his backup plan to lay low and have Yugi gather the items. Everyone thought Yami Bakura was out of the picture so he was free to set up the Shadow RPG unnoticed.
Bakura needed the Millennium Items and the God Cards gathered together to open the World of Memories. It doesn't matter if him or Yugi collect them in the end. Bakura loses all of his duels yet his long term plan pays off. He gets everything he needs.
This was actually a very hard duel in Legacy of The Duelist because Yugi's deck is not designed to deal with backrow.
tbh most characters in DM except for maybe Joey or Mai are absolutely terrible at dealing with backrow. If it weren't for plot then a lot more should be running MST, Giant Trunade, Heavy Storm etc.
@@limonbattery I think many of those are not legal in Battle City rules.
@@Mernom Battle City only banned burn cards like Hinotama and I think monster removal like Raigeki. Backrow removal was perfectly legal since Yugi used Dust Tornado occasionally.
Yeah for sure. I think since Yu-Gi-Oh was so Simplistic back then to much ant-ibackrow cards would have made the duels less interesting. Some of my favorite duels are heavy on spell and trap card strategies!
Yah kaiba hates backrow after what happened with dragon captor jar and toon world
The worst misplay was not activating the dark door in the first or second turn. It would've greatly reduced the damage taken by bakura
Agreed, I always wondered why he didn't do that either.
I feel for that you just have to look at what Yu-Gi-Oh was supposed to be at this point. While the card game was the main focus, the author was more interested in general puzzles and Pen and Paper style games (as seen in the original manga). So a lot of the duels reflect that. The author probably didn't analyse what every character SHOULD have at a certain point and what would make the technically best play. The author wants to tell a story with this game. And for this story, the challenge has to gradually increase. I mean, look at basically every game in Battle City. More or less every game during that tournament had some kind of boss monster, boss card or boss mechanic that the characters had to overcome during the duel by solving some kind of puzzle. Most of these card effects wouldn't even make much sense or be very powerful when you look at them in real life. But they make sense in a story where the challenge should gradually increase. That's also why it is never portrayed as the characters just drawing the correct card when they need it. They have to find the solution for the puzzle first and THEN they are actually able to draw that card. I mean, would have been way less epic if Yugi was just drawing Slifer and realising "Oh yeah, I do have that card and it's perfect for the situation".
In the anime, Bakura needed to take a certain amount of damage to summon Necrofear
@@LarkManEXE it doesn't matter. The dark door allows to take the damage with more control due to the lower amount of attacks. Worst case scenario, to fulfill the requirements he would have two more turns of "waiting" which, let's remember, is beneficial to his strategy
simply set that 1800 def monster. that's it.
yami bakura duels have always been my favorite. Because his duels he throws out self preservation and goes straight into messing with you psychologically. You know he has powerplays and it frustrates the audience that he doesn't just commit but dragging it out and instilling fear and doubt into the goody deus ex machina Atem is delightful. And hes chaotic, helping, assisting, befriending, betraying, neglecting his host to protecting his host. Plot wise best antagonist. Despite his losing streak everyone was wary whenever the spikey cream puff stepped up to duel.
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It happened in one of their other duels, Morphing Jar was played by Bakura.
Actually, if I remember correctly,the anime/manga version of Destiny Board can't be activated unless Necrofear is in the GY.
And Necrofear could only be summoned by banishing fiends that were destroyed in Attack Position in the last 5 turns from the GY.
So ,Destiny Board here was a dead draw until he did all of that, got Necrofear on the field and then into the GY.
With that context, for better and for worse, Bakura's plays here make sense.
Yep. Necrofear was even moving the boards planchette
In addition, apparently the monsters need to be in attack to register as a cost of banishment for Dark Necrofear
Only in the manga was that the case. In the anime, its Dark Sanctuary that needs Dark Necrofear to be in the grave to be on the field.
@@darkknight5541 Yeah but the anime still tried to follow the manga's story beats while changing how the cards work and adding new ones, such a thing is bound to leave a lot of holes as seen in the video.
It's another case of the "plot" were the writers choose what and how cards effects go, like how the gods have 20+ effects and can't be touched but then in the final duel slifer was getting hit with the magnet trap by bouncing it's effect back.
5:05 I think it is important to note that last time Yugi played Bakura, he was rocking a Man Eater Bug. Decent reason to be wary of a facedown monster
I wonder if Bakura was trying to work around Yugi’s melenium item and it’s ability. Since Yugi is in a good position at the start of the duel he won’t be able to draw op cards at the start.
Well actually that is a possibility he's the expert on the milenum items after all.
One thing I didn't realise until recently is just how huge the cards are in the anime
It is a good point though, Bakura never actually made this a Shadow Duel. The field spell made it seem that way but it was still just a normal duel
True, but the God cards are basically like having a shadow duel in play. Even ignoring that, we've seen that these holograms can physically knock someone to the ground. In Bakura's injured state, hitting him with 3000 points of damage could have done some real damage.
Honestly, it's a bit of a stupid plot point to make Yugi decide whether to destroy his friend to win the duel. Just flipping ask Bakura to surrender. Problem solved with no drama.
@@kyuubinaruto17 The real impact of the holograms is why I will always love that scene where Zane eats 2800 damage from Thunder Giant without flinching.
Would like to see Yuma vs kite next considering he keeps losing to him.
Or yuya or Yugo vs Yuri as those duals are pretty good. Or Jack and Declan considering they needed to give yuya a pep talk
Or joke one. Duke vs Yami in dungeon dice to spice it up and see how you could play the dice differently
Agree with Yuma v. Kite as an Analysis idea. Particularly the rematch they had at the end of Season one.
Because with their first duel, there’s no question that Kite was the superior duelist by a large margin. Since every single strategy Yuma and Astral tried to use was almost immediately countered. But at the end of Season 1, they were both on equal footing, so was it possible that Yuma could’ve won that duel if he had done even one thing differently.
Yugo definitely would win against Yuri, but Aster and Kaito decided that was "ok" to interrupt the duel (but, yes, if Yugo had won the duel, Yuri would be influencing Yugo's personality, so, in the end, Yuri would win anyway :v)
@@AliacadosDuelistas Yuri took down 3 duelist in one dual. It's clear Yugo was at the disadvantage but I'm sure some combos ealry on could have given him the win.
Same wirh yuto vs Yugo. The first season had to nerf yuto so hard to make him lose so soon to make him a spirit and then when yuya uses his cards he basically beats everyone without trying.
5:04 what's even funnier is:
1. He didn't have to summon them in face down defense position. Normal Summoning monsters in face up defense position was a thing in the anime all the way through 5Ds.
2. Every single one of his monsters had enough defense points to either tie with or beat Yugi's monsters. The Portrait's Secret had 1500 defense, meaning essentially nothing would happen, while Headless Knight and Gross Ghost had 1700 defense and 1800 defense respectively, meaning Yugi would've taken damage if he had attacked with either Gazelle or Gamma.
Also, here's a fun fact about Destiny Board: In the original manga, it didn't just win you the duel, it KILLED your opponent. Yeah, not because of a Shadow Game or anything. The literal effect reads: "When all five letters have been revealed, the opposing player dies."
I highly doubt the non-shadow game version of Destiny Board could kill. It's just a fancy way of saying your opponent loses the duel.
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Random duelist: "Ha ha, now I have completed the message! Now you die!"
His opponent: "Um, dude, this is just a game. I don't think-"
R.D.: "It says so on the card, so it must be true!"
H.O: "Fuck this shit." (Gets up and leaves)
Here's the thing about playing defensively. He didn't do it precisely because of their high defense points. His entire strategy hinged on them getting destroyed.
@@TheKabuto90 And in the manga he specifically says the destroyed monsters have to have been in attack position to bring out Dark Necrofear.
@@TheKabuto90 That's a fair point but...he built his own deck. Couldn't he have just gotten some monsters that fulfilled the strategy but had low defense points?
Still one of my favourites from the original series. Alternative win conditions are so fun.
On Bakura’s 3rd turn, he could have crashed in his 3rd fiend monster into Yugi’s, taken minimal damage, summoned dark necrofear AND set destiny board 1 turn early.
So much wrong here, and yet, still enjoyable
Possibly one of my favourite duels ever, Bakura is my favourite character and when he used Dark Necrofear for the first time it became my all-time favourite card.
hes a better duelist than dartz
That moment in the anime at 17:10 when Yami Bakura just says "fuck this my plans are more important than your silly God Cards" was so awesome, really continued to hype him up as if he was only interested because it happened to line up with his other plans
I love these videos!! Its awesome taking a deeper look into some of these duels, I'd love to see more of Kaiba's duels since he has such complex cards (for anime). also would love to see their tag duel vs dartz broken down, always wished kaiba lasted longer..
And awesome Attack On Titan towel you have on your chair! I noticed it in other videos, truly a man of culture, great videos and keep it up!
As for Bakura's misplays: I feel he is someone that doesn't just want to win. He wants to defeat your spirit. Which is why he plays in a way that he nearly loses to then come back. Because bringing you down when you are at your highest is the most fun to him. Of course not necessarily the best strategy when you want to win, but Bakura rarely needs to win anyway.
He right out states that he enjoys murdering people
Bakura's "misplays" are a direct result of the transition from manga to anime. In the manga Necrofear could ONLY be summoned if the destroyed monsters were in attack mode, and he couldn't activate Destiny Board sooner because Necrofear itself was the one who moved the marker to the letters from the graveyard.
Some duels become more balanced and interesting when applying their real life effects, but some duels like this one become really wonky because of it.
Exactly it's clear from the moment he makes his move he already knows what his game gameplan is and this happens in all the duels he has. And until he executes his plan the rest of it is mind games and massive trolling so his opponent will slip up and do exactly what he wants.
This has to be one of the more back and forth plot armor duels of the franchise.
I want to say thank you - these have got to be some of the most complicated videos to make but they are so of my absolute favorite on TH-cam. I am always so excited when I see a new one was posted. Please keep it up!!!
My general headcanon about the rules of explaining cards is that if you use a specific card's function that the anime rules you have to explain it, but you only need to explain the function you're using. So Bakura needed to explain that there is a ghost and what it does when it triggers for the first time, but only needed to explain that it can move to a different monster when he uses the ability to move the ghost.
Also some later anime do show that as the tech advances there are ways for players to read cards, check GYs, etc. from their Duel Disks, but we all know about duelists and reading. In the first few series where this isn't a function added to duel disks, I would imagine that the headcanon rule of only needing to explain what's relevant at the exact moment is done for convenience so people don't have to be running across the field constantly to check each other's cards. Though they could always just use Solid Vision to simply display the card text across the field.
It's also a dubism but even as a kid I figured "I guess there's like a database of card names and effects and they would need to just memorize all of their cards" because the dub doesn't have ANY card text.
Someone already pointed out that Bakura had flip effect cards like Man Eater Bug during his first duel with him but it's also possible that he made a new deck after Duelist Kingdom.
Oh yeah he pretty much has a new deck every time he duels Yugi with a new game plan in mind for each one.
I thought it was Morphing Jar. And even than, it was Joey that attack without given any orders.
I would love to see a duel analysis of "If Shark could've defeated Yuma." So far, I think there were a total of 5 duels between Yuma and Shark.
Duel 1 - Yuma vs Shark (Ep 1- 2) Winner: Yuma
Duel 2 - Yuma vs Shark (Ep 10)
Winner: Shark
Duel 3 - Yuma vs Shark (Ep 61-62)
Winner: Yuma
Duel 4 - Yuma vs Shark (Ep 84)
Winner: Yuma
Duel 5 - Yuma vs Nash/Shark (Ep 141-143)
Winner: Yuma
If I remember right, at the very end of the last duel you mentioned, both duelists tried to throw the game, or at the very least Shark did, so it would be interesting to at least see that one covered.
@@1111-e4p no Shark never tried to throw the last duel; that would go against the point of the duel
Shark believed that when push came to shove Yuma would destroy the Barian World. That’s why they were dueling in the first place rather than just talking out their problems.
He fully intended to kill Yuma if it meant saving his people and that’s why he ended up losing: he underestimated Yuma’s willpower
@@1111-e4p If i remember right yuma won because he didn't tried to Win
Nash used a trap that negated the battle and then each of them would draw and could use the card
Yuma drawed double ir nothing which would give him a Second attack with twice the atack Power
While Nash drawed one that If yuma had atacked he would lose
But because yuma didn't atacked Nash himself Lost as this was a condition of the card that he used to try to win
@@joaoarap4573 Ah I see, I think I misremembered it as both of them trying to lose and Shark outsmarting Yuma.
@@1111-e4p It would be Fun something like that hahaha
A duel were both characters try to lose but cant admit It
So It became i game of outsmarting each other
If we can be sure of anything, it's that we can always count on Bakura to play some kind of alternate win condition.
We can also count on Bakura not caring about his life points. That's something he is always careless with.
@@RenaldyCalixte bakura defeated joey in 1 turn the same guy who kaiba never beat without plot armors help
@@alexisreyes351 Kaiba beat Joey because he's a better duelist. Joey's over reliance on luck based cards is a huge weakness Kaiba and other duelist take advantage.
@@RenaldyCalixte NOPE
everytime they dueled their was plot armor
the writers made joey forget basic rules and ignore the obvious traps of kaiba
even in their 2nd duel joey had more LP than kaiba did before losing
kaiba was a overrated trash duelist
@@alexisreyes351 Joey won a duel by waking up from a coma against Odion. And multiple other duels by flipping a coin. You think that's good dueling?
Kaiba knew Joey would use time wizard so he correctly utilized his trap in accordance with Battle City Rules. Rules that Joey agreed to duel under.
You should do a "Was Bakura about to defeat Marik". IMO I think Bakura could have easily won that fight, but lost it as soon as he played exchange and allowed Marik to get Monster Reborn. To this day I wonder why Bakura never set Monster Reborn.
Lost due to plot🤦🏾♂️ he should’ve got his lick back
Usually it would be something like "You can play/ set use one spell card per turn" but in that duel it seems different.
I guess he and "normal" Marik were so sure about winning with Ra that they couldn't see a way that they lose it. And even after Ra becomes useless, Bakura quickly summons a trio of atleast somewhat powerful monsters (Dark Ruler, Necrofear, Earl of Denise) leaving no good reanimation targets in the grave.
In the manga, Bakura opts to make Yami Marik draw Ra specifically, so he can force him to discard it via his "Multiple Destruction" trap card, thinking Ra would be useless in the grave.
That's when Yami Marik first reveals the OTK and point-to-point transfer abilities of Ra. Even the "normal" Marik didn't know about them, which costs him and Bakura the match.
I completely disagree. That was Marik's one victory that was *not* achieved by plot armour. The whole duel was so one-sided that it's clear Marik would have won one way or another.
bakura es muy mnal duelista y encima es el villano final...
every loss that Yami Bakura experienced was intentional by himself to achieve his goals which we see by the Egypt arc, he doesnt actually lose any duel until that point.
A possible suggestion for you, Jaden vs. Jinzo. There's an early moment in the duel where Jaden could've easily won, but basically sabotaged himself, and when there's a duel where literal lives are on the line, that's not the kind of mistake you want to make.
Truuee, that duel is great tho
@@kazonikz No argument here, was just saying.
@@RuinQueenofOblivion no problem, I don’t wanna argue too, I just hope he sees these comments 🙏
If we do get an analysis on that duel I imagine Jinzo's two mysterious unused cards were Relinquished and Double Spell cos he added Thousand Eyes Idol to his hand with Emissary of the Afterlife.
Well, Jaden's main problem is that he's too easygoing i.e. he just goes with the flow all the time.
For the bukura explaining his cards thing I like to think he does it as a "I'll be honest about the effects cuz I'm to cocky to think you can counter it" thus him not bluffing I wouldn't call a misplay, he's just arrogant in his strategy that he won't bother lying or not telling Yugi
About the whole "explaining rule" where Bakura could simply not explained how the possesion works to yugi
I dont think it is a missplay because the general rule about effects in the anime It is that you need to explain then as they happen
For example If i have Monster that cannot be Destroyed by battle and once per turn i can destroy one Monster of the opponent
I can wait for him to try to destroy it with a high attack Monster
The destruction fails
I destroy his Monster with my effect
Essentially making his guard down because he thought that my Monster only had one effect
The exception to this is conditions
For example every turn i need to sacrifice a Monster to keep my Monster in field
Conditions are explained from the start
This opens Room to my opponent try to break the condition
One episode I would love to see is a mega review, checking if any of the duelists could have beaten z-ARC in his duel royal during ARC-V.
i saw some guy on reddit making a point that Gong Strong could have won, but i wouldn't know.
Suggestion: Could Marik have beaten Yugi. Yugi vs Kaiba and Joey vs Marik already happened so it might make sense to make that video.
Marik absolutely could have beaten Yugi. I haven't watched that duel in a while, but I remember watching it air, and seeing a point (I think it's when Marik sacrifices Egyptian God Slime to bring back Ra for the millionth time) where if Marik wasn't so tunnel visioned on Ra, he would have won. Just going off of feelings and memories, I think Marik misplays the most out of any of the Duel Monster antagonists.
@@megame5573 This is exactly why I really don't like Marik as a villain. His deck isn't very interesting and he makes a lot of questionable moves - after all he ended up in a position to lose to both Mai and Joey. Pretty much the only thing carrying him is how OP Ra is and how he pulls a new effect out his ass every time he uses it.
@@limonbattery it's funny how broken the Egyptian god cards were in the anime and how absolutely garbage they are irl like a stray gust of wind can beat these cards irl
@@limonbattery Exactly, Marik only ever won because of the effects of Ra he pulls out of his ass every duel or the fact that his opponent is an idiot. Take Mai and Bakura, but less Bakura. Mai had game easily but she chose to tribute her monsters to summon Ra. Bakura did the same but because of Marik's combo Ra was essentially useless to him.
@@limonbattery Pretty much, like if the characters read the cards, or didn't play cards they didn't know. Marik wouldn't win. If he didn't use shadow games and played it "normal", he'd lose. His story arc is not great at all, and his deck has some great cards, but they're squandered by tunnel vision. It wasn't until just now that I thought about how perfectly Odion impersonates Marik by throwing away a game winning combo, to summon Ra.
Regarding the reveal of Dark Sanctuary's ghost powers: Generally in the anime, players are required to explain the cards once the relevant part of the effect has taken place, but aren't if it hasn't yet. Some stuff, like if the first part of the effect builds into a second effect later, isn't required, but sometimes is, which is where the most inconsistencies are.
FINALLY! I’ve been waiting for this one for awhile my Sammy man, I really appreciate this episode because there was never enough evil bakura
man watching this duel I never saw Yugi losing I saw Bakura as the underdog who duels incredibley well against an opponent who has a card that is practically invincible and theres no way around it thats why it felt like an amazing duel to me
This is definitely my favorite series on this channel.
When you get to Arc V and Vrains, I’d like to see Was Yuri about to beat Yuya and Was Revolver about to beat Soulburner. Both are two of my favourite duels from each of those series and would be great tackle any of them.
Revolver vs. Soulburner would be interesting, because the latter had Violet Chimera that couldn't be destroyed due to a card it had equipped to it. All Soulburner needed to do was bait out Borreload Savage Dragon's negate and he could just push for game right then and there. I think Revolver knew as much, which is why he opted to use Zeroboros to clear the field after failing to finish off Soulburner with his 3 big dragons. He just didn't expect Soulburner to go +4 off a miraculous topdeck...
Bakura used flip effect monsters in their first duel so it makes sense that Yugi would fear his face down defense monsters being flip effect monsters. Unfortunately, in the anime it is possible to set monsters in face up defense position so the misplay is still valid.
Honestly, i'm not suprised by Bakura's "loss" here. My favorite DM Troll basically threw the game just so he could collect the other millinum(?) Items for his endgame(since he already had the eye & dreamcatcher). What's losing one battle compared to winning a war....
I hate that we never really get to see Bakura's potential. He has some really broken strategies, but he never gets a win because he only fights Yugi/Atem who has insane plot armor, and Dark Marik who has main villain status for the arc. It feels like he always get within 1 turn of winning, then a lucky draw completely turns the tides.
@@kyuubinaruto17 Would've won against Marik if he hadn't actively helped him draw Ra.
@@kyuubinaruto17 Wdym, he showed off his potential beautifully in the final season. Yami Bakura (AKA Zorc) was always stronger than even the 3 Egyptian Gods, and he had a goal in mind that basically incorporated losing duels on purpose. He's as sneaky and devious as Aleister Crowley from A Certain Magical Index...
@@kyuubinaruto17 We get some in the manga version of the Millennium World arc. Yami Bakura and Joey have a short duel that gets interrupted. But right before it does, Bakura was going to win using the effect of Zoma The Spirit.
@@cameraredeye3115 Wow, did not expect a To Aru reference. Nothing wrong about it lol. I've recently just started rewatching videos about Index and Yu Gi Oh, so your comment completely caught me off guard XD. Love the toaru series so much btw
Great analysis! My recommendation for the next one: All 3 main duels of Chazz vs. Jaden!
14:05
bro's studying to become Magikuriboh
This is one of my favorite duels in the series, and the best Bakura duel IMO
The way Bakura makes a bunch of terrible moves only to turn the game completely around in his favor was something I always thought was cool
Kuribo reading a spellbook that he can't even use is the cutest thing I have ever seen.
By far one of my favorite duels. The thing about Bakura is he's a sadist. He's clearly having fun toying with Yugi. He didn't even care about losing this duel, it never mattered to him. He only entered the tournament as part of his deal with Malik.
If Bakura had played his monsters face-down then he would've had the time to stall until he got F and his necroshade combo and would've won. This would've also turned Yami's turn 6 potential win into an impossibility as well.
All Bakura had to do was play it safe and there was nothing Yami could've done.
The animation in this duel is so damn clean
You bring me back to those quiet nights of YuGiOh on TV.
Thanks for the memories.
Yami DID have experience with Bakura’s flip effect monsters back in duelist kingdom, so there’s a little precedence to be hesitant with attacking his face down monsters
9:50 I don't know if either version of the anime made it clear, but the Manga had it so that Destiny Board also needed Dark Necrofear in the graveyard to work. That's why it's Necrofear's hand working the board.
You could argue that Bakura didn't set Destiny Board just in case Yugi had back row removal since Dark Sanctuary also protects the Destiny Board cards from destruction, which if destroyed, kills his win condition.
I honestly want to see a Jack vs Yusei duel analysis, for all three duels.
Yeah this would be amazing my dude
I know after the first one (the DNF) it was revealed Yusei would have won with his facedown card. Something about effect damage I think.
And the last one was absolutely epic
@@Keyguin Correct, it was a *Trap Card* (forgot the name). When Jack Atlas played a *Speed Spell* to destroy *Stardust Dragon* (I think), Yusei activated the card that deals 1000 points of damage when a Monster is special summoned/summoned back from the *Graveyard* (what I believe it was the basic effect). *Stardust Dragon* had its special ability (Anime effect?) to sacrifice itself to negate a card destruction effect and would come back at the end of Yusei's turn, thus activating the trap. Jack only had 900 life points. Yusei would've won if *The Crimson Dragon* didn't interfere with its magic mumbo jumbo.
@@JaimeD. that’s not an anime exclusive effect, stardust dragon does that irl too
I actually love the attention to Detail on Destiny Board Letters. They made animations for all nine letters, or at the very least eight letters shown in this duel. Death and Final only share one letter, the “a”. So, showing the different letters takes more time as to animate the new letters being chosen. Props to the animators for doing this.
16:19 timeout, we saw Obelisk get tributed for Blue-Eyes
I would love to see Zarc vs Everyone be reviewed to see if Zarc could have won at any point or if anyone could have won against Zarc before the end of the duel.
@Whyyoumadatfacts? 🤷♂️ why should I get out?
Zarc could have easily won with the last card he had in his hand on Turn 18, right when Ray appeared. We likely won't ever know what it was, but if it was anything that gave Zarc even one extra attack, it would be game over right then. Ray didn't have the LP to tank any of Zarc's dragons.
@@cameraredeye3115 but because we never saw Zarc even set the card, it can be assumed to be something that wasn't going to help, maybe a Chronograph Sorcerer.
I just have to say I’m in love with this content I grew up on the show and to see these analytical breakdowns are so interesting
Despite how flawed and plot-contrived the duel is, I still love how ominous was on first watch.
I love your videos! They're so entertaining and they keep my attention throughout the entire time
This duel analysis was great, but I really think you should analyze yugi vs dartz from the waking the dragons arc!
I just re watched this episode... In the dub... What's hilarious is that when they zoom in on dark necro... Even though they hide the baby they still leave when audio of a baby crying lol never noticed before
Bakura misplayed hard but it actually fits his character pretty well. He’s incredibly impulsive and he commits 100% to the first plan he comes up with. Zork literally tried to kill Yugi every conceivable chance he got, the man’s not a strategist and he has no patience. The second he saw Dark Necrophere he was sold on using her effect.
The only time he played more strategically would be his last duel against yugi yeah.
Its funny calling bakura an impatient person cause he was insanely committed to the long game since day 1, he never won the battle throughout the series but he was deadset in winning the war
@@jensennguyen02 He slept and wait patiently for like the entire Waking of dragon and Kaiba tournament arc so he definitely patient asf
Are we watching the same show??? If Bakura wasn’t evil he would be the greatest monk of all time.. this man is more patient than a Venus flytrap. This man is the opposite of impulsive. His Strategies may never worked on Atem and Yugi, but he is focused on a strategy ever game he plays and is very patient and not impulsive.
You might be thinking of Joey in the statement
2:23 The way Gamma destroys Headless Knight with magnetic force is so metal
I wish you would have looked at, if both players did the perfect plays with their cards, who would have won. Because IMO if Bakura had indeed played all cards in defense, he would have wiped the floor with Yugi.
I loved these analysis videos! Would love to see a breakdown of the other quarter final duels as well!
We all know the original destiny board spelt : DISNEY
No wonder Bakura played it. So sinister...
Dear Lord
You mean disnuts right ?
I wasn't subscribed to your channel although I watched all of your analysis and after this I'll definitely subscribe. An unimaginable quality in these videos!
I think when the effect activates they have to explain how it works correctly so, when the ghost was in Dark Magician Girl and the ghost's effect activates Bakura had to explain why it activated correctly.
tbf about the explaining cards thing, considering that Duel Monsters is computerized it probably works like Duel Links or Master Duel where it’s your opponent’s responsibility to read the card.
The next DM duel should be the Yugi vs Rafael rematch. It’s just as good as the first one with some great plays and character moments.
I want mai vs melvin :(
yugi soooo lost that duel, he threw everything into that duel and believed in his monsters and still got humiliated by Rafael
he turned timous into his punching bag
i imagine rafael would keep the pharoh's soul card as a trophy not even deliver it to dartz maybe summon his soul onto his duel disc turning yugi into an angry imprisoned spirit hologram just to laugh at him
maybe kaiba saves the day in season 4 what a plot twist!
Actually, I think Kaiba had a point, considering the Pharaoh dueled him in duelist kingdom, and that exact scenario happened to him when he recklessly attacked a set monster, and ran into Man-Eater Bug, so in this case, knowing Bakura uses those monsters might make him hesitate. It was a massive risk on Bakura's end, but he got lucky and it paid off.
I'd love to see you analyze Supreme King Jaden vs Jim's or Axel's duel, i always wondered if a win was viable for the two of them
as always love your content
4:30 - Weeeeeeelll, Kaiba technically is right. Kaiba wasn't around when it happened, but the last time Bakura set a monster against Yugi, it was Man Eater Bug trying to kill Joey as the Flame Swordsman... I think Yugi would've avoided attacking face downs knowing Bakura runs MEB, especially if he's setting up 3 monsters for Slifer. That, too, would still be a misplay as he could just attack directly with the remaining 1-2 monsters, but the bluff could've bought a turn of hesitation Yugi's part.
I don't think we actually have *any* duels from Arc-V yet? So I'm gonna be a little greedy and suggest we cover all 3 of Yuya's duels against Jack Atlas. They're quite possibly one of the strongest ways we can observe and gauge Yuya's growth as a duelist and person.
Their first duel was funny AF because it showed the world just how much of a scrub Yuya was. Second duel forced Yuya to still rely on cheap Action Cards until he could bring out Nirvana High Paladin, who basically pulled an Obi-Wan Kenobi that allowed Yuya to win against a 10,000 ATK Tyrant Red Dragon Archfiend.
The third duel was literally Yuya being scared AF of potentially re-releasing Zarc until the last turn of the game...
One of my favorite duels, found my love for dark sanctuary after that, and Bakura's maniacal laugh in the sub is 10/10
Bakura could've won this duel in so many different ways. Crazy
I love that these are still coming out, I thoroughly enjoy them!
Its a great video and I would have loved to see a simulation of the duel without misplays in Edo Pro or Dueling Book
I believe Bakura won as Destiney Board would have killed before Slifer could with him being over 4000 form playing monster in defense mode
Really love these videos, it's really fun to nitpick and speculate this duels. Sure, we can all understand plot and dramatical effect is priority for the anime, but this is just fun to do!
This is another case of the Duel making much more sense in the manga, where Destiny Board cannot be activated unless Dark Necrofear is in the Graveyard, and Dark Necrofear cannot be Summoned unless the three Fiends were destroyed in Attack Position. The anime writers just didn’t care.
14:04 So adorable to see kurioboh reads. "The first computer was created in 1957 by the famous inventor...."
Also, Yugi could have used Monster Reborn on Dark Necrofear earlier, like, during the second turn Dark Sanctuary was on the field, and attacked for game then and there.
Indeed. If we assume he had most of the cards needed for his combo, why not summon the monsters into defence, would have done a little bit of damage, and even if yugi could run over his monsters, it would have slowed yugi down a bit. Because gazelle would have been likely the first summoned, which he would not have so easily overcome the defence, so would have needed to tribute it for dark magician girl, to run over it and the other monsters, maybe having gamma attacking for a little extra damage rather than repeatedly taking several big hits for no reason. Would still get all the monsters in the grave and then could have dark necrofear run over gamma, then yugi would have needed to run over necrofear with dark magician girl with magic formula then you can have the countdown to destiny board ticking. Summon monsters and then pick of the weaker monsters like kuriboh while leaving dark magician girl a liability on board. Not much yugi could do. If he burns the monster reborn earlier, bakura would have taken damage but not enough to lose like he had with all the attacks that had been made over his monsters in attack mode before, while also meaning yugi would have no way to stop the dark sanctuary, since with dark door in play, and trap cards in bakura’s arsenal, yugi would not be able to safely attack, and would just have lost to destiny board. Maybe that’s my reading of it, but it feels like the reason why they had yugi beat bakura in this misplay riddled duel is because they need yugi to win, but want to show off bakura’s deck a bit as well. Had bakura not needed to lose because of plot, yugi might have lost. But then again, some duels in the battle city tournament are like that. For example, odeon could have beaten Joey without needing to use the fake god card, but was pushed into it by marik
You are making me going through memory lane with this one!
Also Bakura couldve activated the dark door turn one, that way summoning his monsters in attack wouldnt have cost him that much lp in the first place
I think Bakura might have made one more misplay during those first few turns. Bakura’s opening hand included The Dark Door, its effect is that only 1 monster can attack during each battle phase. Why didn’t he activate it on the first turn? If he did, as long as he summoned a monster each turn he wouldn’t have to worry about Yugi attacking him directly. Yugi comes very close to wiping out Bakura’s LP before he brings out Dark Necrofear, and if Yugi had used Monster Reborn, Exile of the Wicked, or a monster with 450+ attack points he would have won. However, if Bakura used The Dark Door on his first turn, Yugi wouldn’t have been able to attack directly twice with Gazelle. Bakura still could have summoned all of his monsters in attack mode, but instead of only having 450 LP by the time he summons Dark Necrofear, he would have had 3450 LP.
This also would have prevented Yugi’s two misplays for not activating Monster Reborn or Exile of the Wicked. If Yugi played Exile of the Wicked, he would still only get one attack. He’d attack directly once and Bakura would still have 1950 LP by the time he played Dark Necrofear, so Yugi not playing it wouldn’t have cost him the win. If Yugi had activated Monster Reborn he could summon a monster from Bakura’s graveyard, but since he can only attack with 1 monster per turn and all the monsters in Bakura’s graveyard are weaker than the monsters on Yugi’s field, that would’ve been a bad move.
So yeah, I could be wrong (let me know if I am. Also, thanks for making it this far), but if Bakura had just played Dark Door from the start, he could have saved a lot of LP, and Yugi technically wouldn’t have misplayed with Monster Reborn or Exile of the Wicked.
Edit: Bakura WOULD HAVE WON if he had just played The Dark Door on his first turn! As long as Yugi didn’t use Exile of the Wicked before Dark Sanctuary was activated, then by the time Slifer was summoned Bakura would have had 4200 LP. Yugi has 3 card in his hand. Bakura would have survived the attack, Yugi would have to end his turn, and the final destiny board letter would have been played. Bakura wins the duel.
As a request: Could Bruno have defeated Yusei? Or, to do a ZeXal duel, Could Kite have defeated Vetrix? I feel like both of these duels could have given way for some different results.
We don't talk about Bruno.
Welcome back man, I haven't seen you on TH-cam since long ago... Good think you and your great video are back😁😁😁
A lot of those misplays at the start are taken away in the Manga version of the Fight.... where destiny Board required Dark Necrofear to be in your GY for it to work, and Necrofear itself having much more specific summoning requirements.
Guess that shows more instances of problems coming in from changing some things in an adaptation and not other things to compensate for plot holes.
Now we need a "Was Bakura going to beat Yugi" Final Battle/ Millennium World
So, in your analysis, you mention that Yugi had Monster Reborn in hand before Dark Spirit of the Silent was on the field. Couldn't he have used Monster Reborn earlier, thereby preventing Bakura from winning anyway, or at the very least sparing him a turn or two? Or did the spooky ghost have to be *off* the field for that to occur? Just finding it interesting that you never at least addressed this point.
8:24 I might be a bit late on this since again, Captain Hindsight, But Yugi could have used monster reborn to snag one of the fiends from the graveyard since he'd knows for sure it wouldn’t be possesed. I assume it wasnt brought up cause monster reborn could be used to win the battle sooner, but M A N. Battle city? More like misplay city.
I totally agree that it was plot that made them play like that but i just want to throw in my thoughts. first off yami bakura is kind of a person that likes to mess with his opponents. and make them think they are going to win before ripping the rug out from underneath them look at his duel aganst bones earlier for another example of that. that and he likes to watch his opponents suffer so to speak so i guess you could argue his personality or his style of dueling made him play like that. the second thing is that 2 of the 3 fiend monsters he had sent to the grave ( that being headless knight and gross ghost) had stronger DEF then yugi's monsters had ATK at that time so he would not destroyed them on the first attack so playing them in attack position would accomplish his goal the fastest. just wanted to throw those ideas out there but like i said plot differently was a key factor but I just wanted to put these ideas out there and see if it could explain some reasons for those misplays. anyways loved the vid.
Can't wait for "Was the duel computer about to defeat Kaiba?"
When I was a kid, I always wanted to have Yami Bakuras Deck. The destiny board and the letters were the most sought after cards in my neighbourhood
15:35 I love that he had Card Destruction, meaning he can just dig for Slifer if he doesn't draw it haha
Remember that back in Duelist Kingdom Dark Bakura's deck relied strongly on Flip monsters with powerful negative effects, so the idea that Yami Yugi would have still been hesitant into attacking his set monsters actually makes sense. Also Dark Necrofear originally required the 3 tributed Fiend monsters to have been destroyed in Attack Position anyways, so they couldn't have been in Defense Mode. Finally, Dark Necrofear also needed to be in the Graveyard to activate Ouija/Destiny Board.
Arguably, the only misplay of Dark Bakura was that he could have activated The Dark Door much sooner than he did.
You do know face up defense position is an option right?
@@jacobwilliams1223 Again, to originally summon Necrofear three Fiend type monsters need to have been destroyed by battle *specifically* while in Attack Mode within 5 total turns. If Dark Bakura put them in Defense Mode then even if they all were destroyed, he couldn't have summoned Necrofear.
This is just the anime's fault for not mentioning this.
Or you know, making the manga Necrofear's conditions so asinine that anyone who tries it would lose if not for PIS. It's literally unplayable.
The anime didn't mention it being required, so it is still a misplay in the anime.
I love this series! Keep up the great work! Would love to see more duels from 5ds (Yusei vs Jack final duel), arc-v (Yuya vs Yuri) and vrains! (Playmaker vs. Revolver)
Couldn’t Atem have just used monster reborn on Dark Necrofear at any point and fizzled his whole plan?
The artwork was so dope for slifer! Great video
If yugi played an MST he could have defeated Bakura’s entire strategy.
He did have dust tornado
@@ugochukwunyere3196 yea and never used it on destiny board…
@@Ally.Cat.252 What's MST?
@@clarkkent8286 mystical space typhoon
I love your videos dude recently found your channel and have been watching more of them thought you stopped uploading glad you didn’t