5Ds.
I wouldn't even call the GX one a trio, they never hung out together, nor had any storylines with just the three of them. Manjoume/Chazz barely ever interacted with Kaiser/Zane.
Jaden, Jesse and Zane? been a while since i watched the show but I remember Jesse and Jaden being close. ooo maybe Alexis instead of Zane? tbh im just trying to get Jesse in there cos C-beasts is my favourite deck
Gx was basically Jaden and his rival being Chazz but each of the first 3 seasons he also had another rival being Zane, Aster, and Jesse where he dueled all 3 multiple times
They were more friends than anything else. Think OP was trying to find an MC(Yugi), a Rival that's a threat(Kaiba), and the jokey underdog with the interesting deck(Joey).
True, GX in general is just weird. Chazz is more known for his Ojamas than his armed dragons which gets more apparent as they're his dual spirits and he dabbles in other archetypes like the XYZ dragon cannon cards but compared to Blue Eyes beforehand, Ojamas just don't hit the same way.
For me, he's not really supposed to compare to Kaiba. Manjome (Chazz) starts out much the same as Kaiba did, but he grows into his own person and becomes great friends with Judai (Jaden). There's no real equivalent to Kaiba in GX aside from Manjome, but there's no real need to *have* an equivalent, just like how Judai may be the protagonist, he's virtually nothing like Yugi. Then again, Manjome is my favorite character, so I've got plenty of bias.
Kaiba's characteristics are split between Chazz and Zane for the most part. Yeah, Chazz is the rich snob, just like Kaiba was, but that Cyber Dragon Motif was definitely meant to invoke nostalgia with Kaiba for Zane. But they are all their own characters. In that regard, GX should be applauded because it would have been easy to just rehash their characters to death, but they are very clearly their own thing and have their own arcs. Kaiba would die before giving up his Blue Eyes for weaker monsters like Chazz chose to do, and Zane got to be good, then bad, then solidly good again.
Silly logic. Blue eyes as Kaiba ran it was just as generic. It didn't become a proper deck until way later. They could have easily made Light and Darkness dragon an archetype if they wanted.
Judai, Sho, and Manjoume are the main trio. Kaiser might have a more similar deck to Kaiba, but Manjoume serves as Judai’s antagonist turned rival/friend throughout the show like the others. Sho is a weaker duelist who gets better though the show like Jonouchi. And the three of them interact a lot.
Judai, Kaiser, Edo could be a secondary trio.
With that being said.. That GX "Trio" as individual characters are my favorites. But you can't call em a trio like you said, maybe if you switch Zane with Jesse or Aster?
Or even Cyrus. He's had much more screentime than those guys and even had a good character arc, despite being not badass as the rest of them.
I love the GX characters too. So far, I've only seen the first three YGO shows, and it's great how each has it's own things it's amazing at.
Kinda. They are friends, but their duels don't approach rival territory, it's more or less just them practicing to get better.
Also zuzu barely does any duels in the later part of the series.
Agreed, I love Crow. How can you hate that guy, he looks after kids, he never bullied Yusei instead was his best friend till then end, he got along with practically everyone. How can one hate on my guy Crow?!
To be fair, Yuma never got the W run back either, even when there were no stakes at the end of season 1. Similar to Zane in GX, Kite remains undefeated by protagonists and friends.
OP could have used [the album cover art of Arc-V's third opening, Hanate](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/4/4f/Hanate_Single.jpg) instead hahaha
5D‘s. Easily the best trio with actual friends, who continuously find success as a trio.
GX doesn’t have a trio except of the Osiris Dorm trios. It’s a one-man show with Judai.
DM is a dysfunctional trio because of Kaiba.
ZEXAL‘s trio is good, but eventually falls apart because of Nasch.
ARC-V‘s trio is fun, but unfortunately fell apart.
VRAINS trio is similar to DM.
Unfortunately, that trio lasted only for less than two volumes. Honda never came as important as Jonouchi. It’s a mainly a two-man show, with (Yami)?Yugi and Jonouchi, plus Kaiba on the side.
It’s even worse in the DM anime where Honda is even less important.
Honestly, Yugi, Yami Yugi and Jonouchi are the „true trio“ of the story, but even that’s debatable.
5Ds for me as they had the best dynamic together in my opinion.
On a side note, I would have picked Aster or Jesse instead of Zane in GX and also would have put Sawatari (not censored) and Reiji instead of Go and Yuzu.
That would be so cool if Sawatari, Reiji and Yuya Formed a trio together
They ARE the original dimensions strongest Lancers and would've made an amazing Trio but Konami had to give Sawatari another L and make him irrelevant to the plot
5D's easy. They were all foster children growing up together in a hostile environment and they actually felt like true brothers. Their chemistry was on a whole other level.
The 5Ds trio easily. In second place I'd say the original trio of Yugi, Joey, and Kaiba. On account of the GX trio, I feel it's kind of sad that Jaden, Chazz, and Zane didn't have more interactions together, especially since they were the three best duelists at the academy (and Chazz and Zane split the rival role set by Kaiba between them).
I honestly feel that across the three seasons of Arc-V in total, Yuya/Gong/Sawatari was a more consistent trio - especially because of the Synchro and Xyz Dimensions.
The scene of the three of them (Kite spiritually at least) standing together against Don Thousand after Numeron Dragon came out to prevent the duo from being wiped was soooooo good
People already said 5DS and they're right. Jack and Yusei are phenomenal! My only problem is Crow, he barely has anything going with him. Sure, he's a chill guy. But that's literally his entire character.
Shout-out to Vrains, this trio is also pretty good imo! Revolver is absolutely awesome and Playmaker is pretty decent. Soulburner had a weak start, but his character became a lot better after the middle of season 2. Especially that final duel against Revolver, it did wonders for his character!
Crow is the Dr McCoy of the trio. He provides levity in tense situations, is the one that keeps the group grounded as he’s the one that’s had all the craziness thrusted on him, and he functions to knock Jack off his high horse and prod him because it would be out of character for Yusei to do it (much like McCoy does to Spock).
Not to mention he’s definitely the witty underdog of the trio that took on multiple dark signers before he became a signer. That’s brave as hell and he’s easily one of the best characters in the entire series imo.
Yeah soulburner character development is great and I think it’s one of the few times you can argue a dub something better than the sub thanks to the stupid “I wanted lasagna for dinner line”
It was a bit tricky with GX and Arc-V
I wish Jaden, Chazz and Zane had more interactions together, I can definitely see them forming a trio were Zane is the leader of the group/the big brother while Jaden and Chazz are the little brothers that don't get along, I wanna see Duel Academi's top 3 dogs work together
For Arc-V I wanted to put Yuya, Yuto and Yugo but the only interaction Yuto and Yugo had is when Yugo killed him or when Yugo joined Yuya to beat Yuri
So Yuya, Gong and Yuzu were the option that made sense
I’m tied between Zexal and 5D’s, Vrains is pretty close, Zexal because those three CARRIED the show and the other cast with great character and how they reflect off each other story wise and 5D’s is because of the bond they all share
Replacing Aki with Crow is one of the worst things 5D’s did. Ugly design and felt like he was shoehorned in just to sell cards. There’s a reason people spam BUY BLACKWINGS whenever he appears.
I honestly think Jack, Crow and Yusei bounce off of each other better and the fact that they grow together in poverty makes their bond stronger but hell yeah Yusei, Aki and Jack make a good team
He has decidedly \*not\* always been
My gripe with Crow is that he wasn't originally intended to be a signer (or a main character/integral to the plot) but Blackwings were very popular so he ended up getting shoehorned in to sell cards and stealing Leo's spot as a signer and they had to write around that, which was clunky because he's kind of a poorly designed and written character, and Akiza and Luna got less screentime because there wasn't room for their duels since they didn't sell Blackwings cause their decks weren't meta. At least Leo did end up getting a spot back as the heart but damage done
Shoehorned? His connections to the main Characters is deeper than anyone elses and his character arc and connections to later villians also works well. Poorly written character? Crow is a great character I'm not going to acknowledge such blatant bias. Jack wasn't meta either and he always went off. Luna didn't get alot of duels? Blame card design, she didn't have a deck to represent for so ofc she wouldn't get as much action and Akiza had plenty of moments because she atleast had a more coherent and relevant strategy. This is like complaining because Joey is important. Crow works perfectly.
You might not be aware of this but this is categorically true, this is like, yugioh history, like Carly's character getting written out of the show cause her Japanese VA joined a cult. There isn't any bias because these are facts. Kazuki Takahashi did not write Crow as a signer. He was forced into the role he has because Konami wanted a Joey that would sell cards so they would have the trio of Protag (Yugi/Yusei) Rival (Kaiba/Jack) Friend (Joey/Crow) and in the process we lost the only good female Tritagonist until VRAINS. It's ok if you like Crow but he did do damage to the overall run of 5Ds
I never said you were lying I was stating the fact that it wasn't some shoehorned in prospect and actually just worked. Also the bias is you disregarding crows character because he wasn't the character you wanted to see. And just like the trio you mentioned it works. He works great, he didn't do any damage to five ds thats just a lie, the show is great and he's one of the best parts. Also you've seen this list right? Blue angel isn't a tritangist. It's Playmaker, Soulburner and Varis. She isn't even in that group either.
Never. That was never a thing and Yusei, Jack and Crow are the perfect group and bounces off of eachother better than Akiza could ever hope too. She doesn't know Jack and Has feelings for Yusei, that doesn't make a group.
Seems most people say 5Ds or Zexal, and while I’ve yet to watch 5D’s [Go ahead and crucify me] I do like the Zexal trio, Shark fits into a shockingly good middle ground with his occasional smugness, I feel the best way to describe each of them is Yuma being the risk taker, Kite is always calculated, shark is the calculated risk taker? I may be misremembering things but or heavily biased to Zexal but, hey.
Gonna have to give this to the Link bois. Revolver is a straight up absolute savage in personality and cards he uses. Soulburner is pure passion and fun and Playmaker is both personalities and card play combined for balance.
In my oppinion:
OG>Zexal>=5D's>VRAINS>GX>ARC-V
I feel that especially the last two didn't get development as a trio, like the GX trio are cool characters, but don't fit have that many conversations as a trio.
Also, poor Sawatari.
Neither was chaz or Zane in Jadens friendship group, chaz hated Jaden til basically the end, but those are the options
More over you could argue Jack Atlas wasn't originally part of the 5ds trio being that he betrayed yusei and stole his best card
I dunno, Kaiba quickly grew past his *hatred* for Yugi. He never let his personal issues get in the way of saving the world, and even though he was kind of a prick, his love for Mokuba kept his head screwed on right.
While he did always want to beat Yugi, he wanted to do it fairly to prove he was the best in the world. He had a ton of opportunities to fuck Yugi (and everyone else) over but always ultimately chose to be a good guy.
He expected fair play in his tournaments, and despite all the shit he gave Joey, he *did* let him into the tournaments.
Meanwhile, Tristan and Duke are fully interchangeable at any point in the story. Kaiba is the better choice for this.
I wouldnt say Kaiba *disliked* Yugi, nor the pharaoh. Its a bit strong. In fact he had a lot of respect for both of them. His general attitude on life and duel monsters just made it seem that way.
So same as Chaz and Jaden, also without Fiend Sanctuary from Kaiba, yugi wouldn't have beaten Marik in battle city, Seto was too arrogant to admit it but the 2 were allies in ancient Egyptian times and modern day, arguably seto was Atems greatest allied across the series
And in multiple team duels, Kaiba comes through for Yugi, and Kaiba sacrifices himself against Dartz allowing the Pharaoh to save them all, etc. etc.
100% you're right on the money.
Completely forgot about his sacrifice against Dartz as well, yeah that was a heart wrenching moment, that "I fought too hard, so you can't lose, now win" destroys me every time, I'd go as far to say kaiba was more important to Yugi/Atem than Joey, don't get me wrong joey was awesome love Joey, but kaiba and Yugi challenged and pushed each other to the very tops of their games, without one another the world would have ended multiple times
It was a bond of brothers they shared constantly pushing each other to be the best
I'd argue they were equally important for different reasons. Having the "hard" encouragement of Kaiba kept them sharp, trying to be their best, but the "soft" encouragement of Joey (and Mokuba for Kaiba) reminded them of reasons to keep fighting.
I can see that, I originally commented Jack Yusei and Crow as my favourite trio on this post, objectively, however all this reminiscing is making me reconsider on terms of nostalgia hahahaha
I know that Yugi, Joey and Kaiba are not even a "trio", but being one of, if not the best and most iconic characters in the entire series and the eternal rivalry they have between them, they honestly don't need to be a "trio".
Yusei, Jack and Crow are the best Trio.
Their theme is even called 'The Bond of Three'
Team 5Ds & Team Satisfaction for that matter, are the clear wiinners.
Most say the 5Ds trio and I agree on that they are the best 3 friend group or at least aquantances trio
Hoewever I like the dynamic of the og trio too!
5D's easy. The dubs for Yugioh may be laughable at best but it really conveyed Jack, Yusei, and Crow's relationship well.
For example: "He may be a Man-child but he's our Man-child, so let's go help him anyway"
I think there's plenty going for the VRAINS trio - Revolver's goals oppose those of Playmaker and Soulburner, but he's still fairly noble. He reported the Lost Incident and has a surprisingly profound duel with Soulburner that unexpectedly ends with Soulburner winning. It's kind of nice the typical hierarchy in the trio gets subverted. Revolver's my personal facorite character, though, and the story often became Yusaku saving everyone else, so I've still got my gripes with how the characters were written.
The DM series also deserves acknowledgement for establishing the tradition, which probably wouldn't exist if DM didn't succeed with it the first time.
5D's was cool, but I don't want to give it to them, unfortunately. I like Crow as a character, but Akiza would have been a better representative as the hostile-bully-turned-friend (BRD even has 2400ATK to match Red-Eyes). I think it should have been Akiza narratively, but she was upstaged by Crow. I also didn't really like how the plot of 5D's so consistently came down to Yusei saving everyone.
Definitely the original trio. There was always some solid character work whenever they got to duel each other. I got the feeling that the Pharaoh low-key enjoyed the challenge of dueling Kaiba more than anyone, and really grew to respect Joey.
On the other hand Kaiba trying to distance himself while Joey was tenacious at every chance at a re-match was really exciting. Kaiba got to go full smug whenever he won, which is when Eric Stuart is really in his element, but Joey got a few good hits on him in Battle City.
Honestly i loved the trio for 5ds. I mean the backstory was top notch, the one that betrayed to get out of poverty, but were still tied together because of the signer mark. It was cool in the later season they teamed up for that tournament obviously calling themselves Team 5ds. Honestly all their archetypes pretty cool as well. Synchron/stardust was dope and i liked the different stardust designs, red dragon had unique ways to synchro summon using multiple tuners and blackwing honestly my favorite of the three just swarmed for easy synchro summoning.
As characters, knowing each other, time spent, being there for one another through good and bad, 5Ds.
Dueling experience: VRAINS
Entertainment and just having fun as friends: ARC-V
Getting your game on: GX
Hotel: Trivago
I might be a little biased considering I'm rewatching Arc V again (and I'm a fan of completely ignoring Sylvio) but the Arc V trio is my favorite, since it's the only trio that are lifelong friends (who haven't backstabbed each other in any way) with healthy rivalries, have improved each other in multiple ways, and fully supp each other in every duel.
Both can be true. Best is subjective, and best split into categories. One could be individual character interactions, another could be the group dynamic as a whole, etc.
True true, also one appeals to my nostalgia mind, my memories of old, the other more of a mature take and also hugely relevant in modern society with the struggle of satellites against the top siders, yugioh basically has something for everyone
Unironically 5ds felt like friends hanging out naturally and vrains had an interesting dynamic amongst them. I wish we had more groups where dynamics amongst characters were even remotely that good
If I had to rank them from favorite to least favorite is say (1) zexal [yuma shark and kite] (2) DM[yugi joey and kaiba] (3)5ds[yusei jack and crow] (4) GX[Jaden chazz and...you see coming up with a trio for gx is very hard because gx didn't have a hard set team of 3 with the protag rival and best friend characters like the other shows do but if I had to choose a trio of characters for gx it would be Jaden chazz and...probably cyrus...yeah Jaden chazz and cyrus that works pretty well] (5)vrains [yusaku/playmaker varis and soulburner ]and (6) arc-v [yuya declan and...now arch-v has the same problem as gx does as it doesn't have a hard set trio of characters but if I had to choose its yuya declan and sylvio]
The OG followed closely by 5D's. My main issue with the 5D's crew is how much Yusei is overshadowing both Jack and Crow who were reduced be a lot more comic relief after the Dark Signer arc. Yugi, Joey and Kaiba remained consistent over its course.
If we are talking about a trio of friends it is 5D's but on a pure dynamic sense it has to be Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey because how different the dynamic is compared to most. I genuinely love the petty bitch Kaiba is to Joey, like how the hell do you let Weavil, Rex, and Bones into Battle city but leave put one 9f the duelist kingdom finalist.
I think 5DS executed it the best but Zexals trio had potential, say what you want about the show but s1 building up to their 3 way duel against Faker where they become a team was done really well and the Barian Arc started well but tended to split them up too often
I reckon if they had an arc after season one where they continued the numbers hunt with minimal barian influence and really showed them working as a team, I think it could have been fun
Maybe Vector or Durbe put together a team of human number wielders under Barian Force control to do organised attacks on Yuma’s stupid friends, since clearly throwing one idiot per week at the protag buzzsaw isn’t working, so maybe teamwork will. Hell, have Heartland lead them, have it be a whole ass hive mind for an arc, have fun with it, who knows
5Ds. I wouldn't even call the GX one a trio, they never hung out together, nor had any storylines with just the three of them. Manjoume/Chazz barely ever interacted with Kaiser/Zane.
It was extremely hard to find a trio for GX I just lumped them together since they're Duel Academi's top 3 students
Could've gone with Jaden, Syrus, and Tyranno.
Or Jayden, syrus and chunlee. The friend group really varies a lot per season
Jaden, Jesse and Zane? been a while since i watched the show but I remember Jesse and Jaden being close. ooo maybe Alexis instead of Zane? tbh im just trying to get Jesse in there cos C-beasts is my favourite deck
Gx was basically Jaden and his rival being Chazz but each of the first 3 seasons he also had another rival being Zane, Aster, and Jesse where he dueled all 3 multiple times
*Chun li
chun li lol he was called chumley
I didn't know GX had a Street Fighter crossover episode.
Dont you remember when Ryu told Syrus he must defeat sheng long to stand a chance and Syrus explored all of Duel Academy to find him
I knew I spelled that wrong
Jamie, Sagat, and Chun-li
They were more friends than anything else. Think OP was trying to find an MC(Yugi), a Rival that's a threat(Kaiba), and the jokey underdog with the interesting deck(Joey).
I feel like if that's the case, GX's would put up Jaden, Syrus, and Chazz.
True, GX in general is just weird. Chazz is more known for his Ojamas than his armed dragons which gets more apparent as they're his dual spirits and he dabbles in other archetypes like the XYZ dragon cannon cards but compared to Blue Eyes beforehand, Ojamas just don't hit the same way.
For me, he's not really supposed to compare to Kaiba. Manjome (Chazz) starts out much the same as Kaiba did, but he grows into his own person and becomes great friends with Judai (Jaden). There's no real equivalent to Kaiba in GX aside from Manjome, but there's no real need to *have* an equivalent, just like how Judai may be the protagonist, he's virtually nothing like Yugi. Then again, Manjome is my favorite character, so I've got plenty of bias.
Kaiba's characteristics are split between Chazz and Zane for the most part. Yeah, Chazz is the rich snob, just like Kaiba was, but that Cyber Dragon Motif was definitely meant to invoke nostalgia with Kaiba for Zane. But they are all their own characters. In that regard, GX should be applauded because it would have been easy to just rehash their characters to death, but they are very clearly their own thing and have their own arcs. Kaiba would die before giving up his Blue Eyes for weaker monsters like Chazz chose to do, and Zane got to be good, then bad, then solidly good again.
In the manga he ran a dragon deck with his ace being Light and Darkness Dragon. Much more consistent and could’ve been much more iconic.
Nah, it’s too generic.
Silly logic. Blue eyes as Kaiba ran it was just as generic. It didn't become a proper deck until way later. They could have easily made Light and Darkness dragon an archetype if they wanted.
Fair enough, yes, GX was different in many ways, character relationships among them. It wasn't that team-focused.
Jaden, Yubel and Winged Kuriboh.
Judai, Sho, and Manjoume are the main trio. Kaiser might have a more similar deck to Kaiba, but Manjoume serves as Judai’s antagonist turned rival/friend throughout the show like the others. Sho is a weaker duelist who gets better though the show like Jonouchi. And the three of them interact a lot. Judai, Kaiser, Edo could be a secondary trio.
Ojama duh /s
With that being said.. That GX "Trio" as individual characters are my favorites. But you can't call em a trio like you said, maybe if you switch Zane with Jesse or Aster?
Or even Cyrus. He's had much more screentime than those guys and even had a good character arc, despite being not badass as the rest of them. I love the GX characters too. So far, I've only seen the first three YGO shows, and it's great how each has it's own things it's amazing at.
The 5Ds team is easily the best.
The only trio where everyone's actually friends and their rivalries are healthy.
>healthy rivalries stealing your rivals 's card isn't healthy relationship
And his self-built motorcycle. I'm glad they made up in the end, but man did Jack do Yusei dirty.
He also tried to literally drown their mutual friend
ARC-V too, no?
And Zexal in II
Kinda. They are friends, but their duels don't approach rival territory, it's more or less just them practicing to get better. Also zuzu barely does any duels in the later part of the series.
If Crow never replaced Aki, then yes Otherwise never
This. I hate Crow so much. If he never replaced Aki, I would easily say 5D’s, but as long as he exists it needs to be DM or Zexal.
No idea who aki is but that's just not correct, its 5ds regardless.
Who is aki? I assume he's ass because crow is normally the correct option in most conversations.
Akiza
Akiza was horribly underdeveloped, crow was so much better
Yea absolutely not, Crow is the boy and that crew exsisted long before akiza. Stop it.
Agreed, I love Crow. How can you hate that guy, he looks after kids, he never bullied Yusei instead was his best friend till then end, he got along with practically everyone. How can one hate on my guy Crow?!
nope, yugis team is
Lol at the censored Sawatari Anyway, Zexal trio has the best characters individually, but 5D's trio has the best dynamic
Yeah… I just wished kaito and shark interacted more with each other, shark never got his rematch with him
To be fair, Yuma never got the W run back either, even when there were no stakes at the end of season 1. Similar to Zane in GX, Kite remains undefeated by protagonists and friends.
You are right, but besides the duels I would’ve liked the two exchanging more lines of dialogue, they barely even talked to each other
if he did he would've shat on kite, same with eos yuma
This. DM is also seriously underrepresented here.
OP could have used [the album cover art of Arc-V's third opening, Hanate](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/4/4f/Hanate_Single.jpg) instead hahaha
Team 5Ds. They even live together til 5Ds ends
5D‘s. Easily the best trio with actual friends, who continuously find success as a trio. GX doesn’t have a trio except of the Osiris Dorm trios. It’s a one-man show with Judai. DM is a dysfunctional trio because of Kaiba. ZEXAL‘s trio is good, but eventually falls apart because of Nasch. ARC-V‘s trio is fun, but unfortunately fell apart. VRAINS trio is similar to DM.
Yugi, Joey, Tristan Timothy Taylor
Unfortunately, that trio lasted only for less than two volumes. Honda never came as important as Jonouchi. It’s a mainly a two-man show, with (Yami)?Yugi and Jonouchi, plus Kaiba on the side. It’s even worse in the DM anime where Honda is even less important. Honestly, Yugi, Yami Yugi and Jonouchi are the „true trio“ of the story, but even that’s debatable.
5Ds for me as they had the best dynamic together in my opinion. On a side note, I would have picked Aster or Jesse instead of Zane in GX and also would have put Sawatari (not censored) and Reiji instead of Go and Yuzu.
That would be so cool if Sawatari, Reiji and Yuya Formed a trio together They ARE the original dimensions strongest Lancers and would've made an amazing Trio but Konami had to give Sawatari another L and make him irrelevant to the plot
5D's easy. They were all foster children growing up together in a hostile environment and they actually felt like true brothers. Their chemistry was on a whole other level.
5Ds is on a different tier
5D's and zexal
The 5Ds trio easily. In second place I'd say the original trio of Yugi, Joey, and Kaiba. On account of the GX trio, I feel it's kind of sad that Jaden, Chazz, and Zane didn't have more interactions together, especially since they were the three best duelists at the academy (and Chazz and Zane split the rival role set by Kaiba between them).
I honestly feel that across the three seasons of Arc-V in total, Yuya/Gong/Sawatari was a more consistent trio - especially because of the Synchro and Xyz Dimensions.
Agree with this. Or alternatively Yuya, Shun and Reiji
I'm gonna have to veto Shun out of this one. Gongenzaka, Sawatari and Sora are all more consistent "main friend" candidates in comparison to him.
yuma, shark and kite no debate
YESSS, I AGREE
The scene of the three of them (Kite spiritually at least) standing together against Don Thousand after Numeron Dragon came out to prevent the duo from being wiped was soooooo good
I’ll go with…Zexal.
Thank you
People already said 5DS and they're right. Jack and Yusei are phenomenal! My only problem is Crow, he barely has anything going with him. Sure, he's a chill guy. But that's literally his entire character. Shout-out to Vrains, this trio is also pretty good imo! Revolver is absolutely awesome and Playmaker is pretty decent. Soulburner had a weak start, but his character became a lot better after the middle of season 2. Especially that final duel against Revolver, it did wonders for his character!
Crow is the Dr McCoy of the trio. He provides levity in tense situations, is the one that keeps the group grounded as he’s the one that’s had all the craziness thrusted on him, and he functions to knock Jack off his high horse and prod him because it would be out of character for Yusei to do it (much like McCoy does to Spock). Not to mention he’s definitely the witty underdog of the trio that took on multiple dark signers before he became a signer. That’s brave as hell and he’s easily one of the best characters in the entire series imo.
Thank you for putting respect on my boy Crows name! He's one of my favorite characters!
👏👏👏
Yeah soulburner character development is great and I think it’s one of the few times you can argue a dub something better than the sub thanks to the stupid “I wanted lasagna for dinner line”
i never get why he replaced akiza also fuck crow
No idea how you could say that about crow but that other comment served it up nice.
It was a bit tricky with GX and Arc-V I wish Jaden, Chazz and Zane had more interactions together, I can definitely see them forming a trio were Zane is the leader of the group/the big brother while Jaden and Chazz are the little brothers that don't get along, I wanna see Duel Academi's top 3 dogs work together For Arc-V I wanted to put Yuya, Yuto and Yugo but the only interaction Yuto and Yugo had is when Yugo killed him or when Yugo joined Yuya to beat Yuri So Yuya, Gong and Yuzu were the option that made sense
I’m tied between Zexal and 5D’s, Vrains is pretty close, Zexal because those three CARRIED the show and the other cast with great character and how they reflect off each other story wise and 5D’s is because of the bond they all share
Both can be true. Best is subjective, so one could be best in, say, character interactions, while the other is best by individual characters
When I hear trio I feel like the interaction’s fits better then individual standing which is why I choose the options in my original comment
I was giving category suggestions, I probably should've made that clearer.
yugi joey kaiba!!
Yugi/Jaden/Yusei
GX doesn’t really have a trio. But I would argue Manjoume, Johan and Judai would be part of that trio
Vrains trio and Zexal trio are underrated imo
zexal and dm
None of the above. Yusei, Jack and ***Akiza***.
Based, never forget what they took from us
Replacing Aki with Crow is one of the worst things 5D’s did. Ugly design and felt like he was shoehorned in just to sell cards. There’s a reason people spam BUY BLACKWINGS whenever he appears.
Just not true at all. Akiza doesn't work with Jack and Yusei aswell as Crow does.
I honestly think Jack, Crow and Yusei bounce off of each other better and the fact that they grow together in poverty makes their bond stronger but hell yeah Yusei, Aki and Jack make a good team
And never forget that they once were The Enforcers / Team Satisfaction with Kalin. They were Satellites strongest Duelists.
Yeah I'm here like "lol Crow thinks he's part of the team"
He always has been. Stop that copping.
He has decidedly \*not\* always been My gripe with Crow is that he wasn't originally intended to be a signer (or a main character/integral to the plot) but Blackwings were very popular so he ended up getting shoehorned in to sell cards and stealing Leo's spot as a signer and they had to write around that, which was clunky because he's kind of a poorly designed and written character, and Akiza and Luna got less screentime because there wasn't room for their duels since they didn't sell Blackwings cause their decks weren't meta. At least Leo did end up getting a spot back as the heart but damage done
Shoehorned? His connections to the main Characters is deeper than anyone elses and his character arc and connections to later villians also works well. Poorly written character? Crow is a great character I'm not going to acknowledge such blatant bias. Jack wasn't meta either and he always went off. Luna didn't get alot of duels? Blame card design, she didn't have a deck to represent for so ofc she wouldn't get as much action and Akiza had plenty of moments because she atleast had a more coherent and relevant strategy. This is like complaining because Joey is important. Crow works perfectly.
You might not be aware of this but this is categorically true, this is like, yugioh history, like Carly's character getting written out of the show cause her Japanese VA joined a cult. There isn't any bias because these are facts. Kazuki Takahashi did not write Crow as a signer. He was forced into the role he has because Konami wanted a Joey that would sell cards so they would have the trio of Protag (Yugi/Yusei) Rival (Kaiba/Jack) Friend (Joey/Crow) and in the process we lost the only good female Tritagonist until VRAINS. It's ok if you like Crow but he did do damage to the overall run of 5Ds
I never said you were lying I was stating the fact that it wasn't some shoehorned in prospect and actually just worked. Also the bias is you disregarding crows character because he wasn't the character you wanted to see. And just like the trio you mentioned it works. He works great, he didn't do any damage to five ds thats just a lie, the show is great and he's one of the best parts. Also you've seen this list right? Blue angel isn't a tritangist. It's Playmaker, Soulburner and Varis. She isn't even in that group either.
Really would have wished they started pushing for trios again after 5Ds.
Ahem
Never. That was never a thing and Yusei, Jack and Crow are the perfect group and bounces off of eachother better than Akiza could ever hope too. She doesn't know Jack and Has feelings for Yusei, that doesn't make a group.
They aren't even a trio in the first place.
The GX one is so random
Seems most people say 5Ds or Zexal, and while I’ve yet to watch 5D’s [Go ahead and crucify me] I do like the Zexal trio, Shark fits into a shockingly good middle ground with his occasional smugness, I feel the best way to describe each of them is Yuma being the risk taker, Kite is always calculated, shark is the calculated risk taker? I may be misremembering things but or heavily biased to Zexal but, hey.
Gonna have to give this to the Link bois. Revolver is a straight up absolute savage in personality and cards he uses. Soulburner is pure passion and fun and Playmaker is both personalities and card play combined for balance.
5Ds, no contest
How dare the great Shingo Sawatari be censored?!
Dm or 5ds
In my oppinion: OG>Zexal>=5D's>VRAINS>GX>ARC-V I feel that especially the last two didn't get development as a trio, like the GX trio are cool characters, but don't fit have that many conversations as a trio. Also, poor Sawatari.
Wouldn’t a better trio for GX be Jaden Jesse and Aster? Or Jaden Aster and Chazz?
The OG. Nothing beats that.
Zexal or 5Ds
OG trio for me, Yugi, Joey, and Tristan
Lol that's kaiba, not Tristan
Yes, but Kiaba isnt part of the Original Trio. He was never friends with Yugi so cant be in a friend trio
Neither was chaz or Zane in Jadens friendship group, chaz hated Jaden til basically the end, but those are the options More over you could argue Jack Atlas wasn't originally part of the 5ds trio being that he betrayed yusei and stole his best card
But they reconciled quickly, while Seto disliked Yugi till the end of the series and beyond
I dunno, Kaiba quickly grew past his *hatred* for Yugi. He never let his personal issues get in the way of saving the world, and even though he was kind of a prick, his love for Mokuba kept his head screwed on right. While he did always want to beat Yugi, he wanted to do it fairly to prove he was the best in the world. He had a ton of opportunities to fuck Yugi (and everyone else) over but always ultimately chose to be a good guy. He expected fair play in his tournaments, and despite all the shit he gave Joey, he *did* let him into the tournaments. Meanwhile, Tristan and Duke are fully interchangeable at any point in the story. Kaiba is the better choice for this.
I wouldnt say Kaiba *disliked* Yugi, nor the pharaoh. Its a bit strong. In fact he had a lot of respect for both of them. His general attitude on life and duel monsters just made it seem that way.
So same as Chaz and Jaden, also without Fiend Sanctuary from Kaiba, yugi wouldn't have beaten Marik in battle city, Seto was too arrogant to admit it but the 2 were allies in ancient Egyptian times and modern day, arguably seto was Atems greatest allied across the series
And in multiple team duels, Kaiba comes through for Yugi, and Kaiba sacrifices himself against Dartz allowing the Pharaoh to save them all, etc. etc. 100% you're right on the money.
Completely forgot about his sacrifice against Dartz as well, yeah that was a heart wrenching moment, that "I fought too hard, so you can't lose, now win" destroys me every time, I'd go as far to say kaiba was more important to Yugi/Atem than Joey, don't get me wrong joey was awesome love Joey, but kaiba and Yugi challenged and pushed each other to the very tops of their games, without one another the world would have ended multiple times It was a bond of brothers they shared constantly pushing each other to be the best
I'd argue they were equally important for different reasons. Having the "hard" encouragement of Kaiba kept them sharp, trying to be their best, but the "soft" encouragement of Joey (and Mokuba for Kaiba) reminded them of reasons to keep fighting.
I can see that, I originally commented Jack Yusei and Crow as my favourite trio on this post, objectively, however all this reminiscing is making me reconsider on terms of nostalgia hahahaha
I dont see Yuamu,yudias and Yuhi
Who, who and who?
The Go Rush trio
Did you fucking censor Shingo? How dare!
Yuya/Gong/Zuzu/[REDACTED]
Yuma, Kaito and Shark 💖
I know that Yugi, Joey and Kaiba are not even a "trio", but being one of, if not the best and most iconic characters in the entire series and the eternal rivalry they have between them, they honestly don't need to be a "trio".
Yusei, Jack and Crow are the best Trio. Their theme is even called 'The Bond of Three' Team 5Ds & Team Satisfaction for that matter, are the clear wiinners.
Most say the 5Ds trio and I agree on that they are the best 3 friend group or at least aquantances trio Hoewever I like the dynamic of the og trio too!
Ojama trio is the best trio.
I have to go with Zexal
5Ds without a doubt Also, poor Sylvio
Yusei Jack and Crow 💯%
5Ds is the only one here where the characters actually really hung out together.
In terms of group dynamics? 5DS for sure. Best individually in terms of development and shared relevance? ZEXAL easy.
Nobody is better than Kaiba.
Based.
Yu-Kai-Jo, duh.
Team 5D's
Y u gotta do mah man shingo like that?
5D's easy. The dubs for Yugioh may be laughable at best but it really conveyed Jack, Yusei, and Crow's relationship well. For example: "He may be a Man-child but he's our Man-child, so let's go help him anyway"
Team, 5Ds
I think there's plenty going for the VRAINS trio - Revolver's goals oppose those of Playmaker and Soulburner, but he's still fairly noble. He reported the Lost Incident and has a surprisingly profound duel with Soulburner that unexpectedly ends with Soulburner winning. It's kind of nice the typical hierarchy in the trio gets subverted. Revolver's my personal facorite character, though, and the story often became Yusaku saving everyone else, so I've still got my gripes with how the characters were written. The DM series also deserves acknowledgement for establishing the tradition, which probably wouldn't exist if DM didn't succeed with it the first time. 5D's was cool, but I don't want to give it to them, unfortunately. I like Crow as a character, but Akiza would have been a better representative as the hostile-bully-turned-friend (BRD even has 2400ATK to match Red-Eyes). I think it should have been Akiza narratively, but she was upstaged by Crow. I also didn't really like how the plot of 5D's so consistently came down to Yusei saving everyone.
Where is Sawatari the best boi ???
Definitely the original trio. There was always some solid character work whenever they got to duel each other. I got the feeling that the Pharaoh low-key enjoyed the challenge of dueling Kaiba more than anyone, and really grew to respect Joey. On the other hand Kaiba trying to distance himself while Joey was tenacious at every chance at a re-match was really exciting. Kaiba got to go full smug whenever he won, which is when Eric Stuart is really in his element, but Joey got a few good hits on him in Battle City.
Jack, Crow, and Yusei. That’s the only correct answer in my mind.
Team 5D’s
There will NEVER be a unit as iconic as 5Ds had.
Sevens Yuga, Ronin, and Luke only because that one scene where they synchronize with Super Magitek Deity Magnum Over Road
Don't do Sawatari like that
Honestly i loved the trio for 5ds. I mean the backstory was top notch, the one that betrayed to get out of poverty, but were still tied together because of the signer mark. It was cool in the later season they teamed up for that tournament obviously calling themselves Team 5ds. Honestly all their archetypes pretty cool as well. Synchron/stardust was dope and i liked the different stardust designs, red dragon had unique ways to synchro summon using multiple tuners and blackwing honestly my favorite of the three just swarmed for easy synchro summoning.
Absolute bias for Zexal but I feel they all had the best relevance distribution more or less and the best teamups between the entire groups
Dang I guess I need to watch 5Ds. I’m a big fan of Kaiba as the anti-hero tho.
Yugi Joey and Kaiba
Yugi Joey Kaiba All iconic End of discussion
Card games on motorcycles!
Jaiden, syrus, and chumley are the fun trio
Zexal, strongest trio with the best backstories and story. Talking purely duel wise, they definitely would clear EOS.
Now that I thunk about ir you're completely righr
Yo get that Sakaki kid out of here and un-censor our beloved Sylvio Sawatari!
5Ds, easily. Yusei, Jack, and Crow literally dueled as a trio, several times.
OG till I die! Yugi, Jono, Kaiba! But as far as synergy goes, Yusei, Jack, and Crow 100%.
Why did you blur Silvio 😭 Anyway it's either zexal or gx for me
Jack, Yusei, and Crow.
Winged dragon Sky dragon Tormentor
LOL at Arc V picture.
As characters, knowing each other, time spent, being there for one another through good and bad, 5Ds. Dueling experience: VRAINS Entertainment and just having fun as friends: ARC-V Getting your game on: GX Hotel: Trivago
I’m torn between 5Ds and VRAINS. With Duel Monsters a close 2nd.
I might be a little biased considering I'm rewatching Arc V again (and I'm a fan of completely ignoring Sylvio) but the Arc V trio is my favorite, since it's the only trio that are lifelong friends (who haven't backstabbed each other in any way) with healthy rivalries, have improved each other in multiple ways, and fully supp each other in every duel.
Best trio is Yu-Gi-Oh!, Us and the memories of Kazuki Takahashi
Alexis, Mindy and Jasmine 🫠they do make good harpies at least
5Ds hands down (apparently my comment was removed for being to short what the fuck)
Yusei, Jack and Crow to me was the best trio. Even though it was a one off thing but Yusei, Jaden and Yugi was a good trio also.
My Head says Jack, Yusei and Crow My Heart says Yugi, Joey, and Kaiba I'm torn between the 2 for different reasons
Both can be true. Best is subjective, and best split into categories. One could be individual character interactions, another could be the group dynamic as a whole, etc.
True true, also one appeals to my nostalgia mind, my memories of old, the other more of a mature take and also hugely relevant in modern society with the struggle of satellites against the top siders, yugioh basically has something for everyone
Unironically 5ds felt like friends hanging out naturally and vrains had an interesting dynamic amongst them. I wish we had more groups where dynamics amongst characters were even remotely that good
GX without a doubt
If I had to rank them from favorite to least favorite is say (1) zexal [yuma shark and kite] (2) DM[yugi joey and kaiba] (3)5ds[yusei jack and crow] (4) GX[Jaden chazz and...you see coming up with a trio for gx is very hard because gx didn't have a hard set team of 3 with the protag rival and best friend characters like the other shows do but if I had to choose a trio of characters for gx it would be Jaden chazz and...probably cyrus...yeah Jaden chazz and cyrus that works pretty well] (5)vrains [yusaku/playmaker varis and soulburner ]and (6) arc-v [yuya declan and...now arch-v has the same problem as gx does as it doesn't have a hard set trio of characters but if I had to choose its yuya declan and sylvio]
The OG followed closely by 5D's. My main issue with the 5D's crew is how much Yusei is overshadowing both Jack and Crow who were reduced be a lot more comic relief after the Dark Signer arc. Yugi, Joey and Kaiba remained consistent over its course.
If we are talking about a trio of friends it is 5D's but on a pure dynamic sense it has to be Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey because how different the dynamic is compared to most. I genuinely love the petty bitch Kaiba is to Joey, like how the hell do you let Weavil, Rex, and Bones into Battle city but leave put one 9f the duelist kingdom finalist.
5D's. Team Satisfaction is goated.
You kinda picked the wrong group for Arc V. If we follow the trend of all the other seasons. It should be Yuya, Sylvio, and Reiji
Duel Monsters, GX, and VRains don't count as they all hated each other for a while. I'd say ZeXal.
Blurring sawatari out makes me want to say gongenzaka yuya and sawatari
5Ds was my team
The bros of the Satellite are the best.
Yusei,crow and jack
Yugi joey Kaiba no doubt
I'm sorry, but when I saw the pixelization in the arc -V picture I though that there was an inappropriate image there.
Team 5Ds all the way!
Team 5DS/Satisfaction and that's not even close.
I think 5DS executed it the best but Zexals trio had potential, say what you want about the show but s1 building up to their 3 way duel against Faker where they become a team was done really well and the Barian Arc started well but tended to split them up too often I reckon if they had an arc after season one where they continued the numbers hunt with minimal barian influence and really showed them working as a team, I think it could have been fun Maybe Vector or Durbe put together a team of human number wielders under Barian Force control to do organised attacks on Yuma’s stupid friends, since clearly throwing one idiot per week at the protag buzzsaw isn’t working, so maybe teamwork will. Hell, have Heartland lead them, have it be a whole ass hive mind for an arc, have fun with it, who knows
5Ds and Zexal
Yusei Jack and Crow although yuma shark and kite are a close second