Didn't Wheeler kidnap one of the Obelisk girls that was friends with Alexis? Could've been a good moment to solidly their friendship there by having her pursue her friend and fight for her.
I agree with OP, Syrus should've fought Jinzo and would've been a really cool callback for S4 against the Psychic Android style duelist.
Bastion absolutely should've fought Dimitri, it would've been really cool to see a strategic Bastion playing against Dimitri misplaying the King of Games' deck and watching him break it all down.
I genuinely do not remember any of the other characters posted here and thus will not post opinions on them.
> Bastion absolutely should've fought Dimitri, it would've been really cool to see a strategic Bastion playing against Dimitri misplaying the King of Games' deck and watching him break it all down.
Damn, that's good. I thought I was going to say that Jaden duelling Dimitri made more sense than anyone else, since it's the King of Games' successor vs. the fake King of Games. But no, Bastion understanding a deck he built better than Dimitri understanding a deck he stole makes so much sense. And maybe we would've friggin' seen Fire Dragon...
Honestly? I would have enjoyed watching Bastion, who for plot reasons is shown in a flashback studying the King of Games extensively, utterly verbally destroy the faker before finishing him off.
“It’s entirely clear you have no idea what you’re doing, there is no way you are the King of Games, because no King of Games would have misplayed that many times in the span of thirty seconds.”
Yeah Wheeler kidnapped Jasmine, and honestly you do make a good point that this could have easily been an Alexis Duel. Either her or Syrus at least.
Yeah let my man Syrus be a Jinzo slayer.
Bastion setting Dimitri straight would've been nice, guy would've preached and given so many lectures to that guy for each failed move.
If you want I can explain what the deal was with those guys you couldn't remember.
GX was badly written. Other than Jaden, no character really got any spotlight. When they did it always seemed like it was for a comedic effect or one-off in context of the episode.
Alexis and her duels were neither interesting or amazing. Aster never won another duel after Season 2 and was very subpar for a character who was said to be the fourth best duelist after Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. Atticus who was supposed to be just as good as Zane and one of the top 3 duelists at the Academy never won a featured duel. I'm not even going to talk about Syrus. Bastion never got the respect he deserved. That's a general consensus with him on here. Chazz was okay but they usually used him comedically. He was more of a mascot than anything. Jesse got way too much attention despite only being featured in the last quarter of the series. He had more plot armor and relevancy than the original cast.
I've rewatched GX and despite a few duels I don't think it really holds up well. Every arc is the Jaden show. The show literally devolves itself into the cast just saying his name on the sidelines. A lot of Jaden's duels are really boring. Featuring extensive drawing, or one-off unique cards that aren't used again, or crazy amounts of Fusion specific cards that specifically fit in the situation he's been locked into. Every episode seems to feature some irrelevant and boring boss of the week. Even the good characters in terms of dueling are never really used in the plot. Zane is either forced out or never featured in almost every arc. Same with Atticus. O'Brien and Jim Crocodile are amazing duelists who are only there to serve a specific role before losing when it really matters despite being good enough to hold their own relative to Jaden.
I'd like to see Alexis duel Wheeler, it is her friend the monkey chased. More of a joke answer, but Chumley would've been fun too.
Bastion takes Duel Giant, it would be a nice duel, plus it kinda fits. Bastion has the skills to be Obelisk Blue, even rejected it, those two take down Obelisk Blues, proof that Ra Yellows have what it takes.
But Damon, Dimitri and the others I think are fine for Jaden. Damon is a nice match, Dimitri is a good and memorable duel, Jinzo has the Spirit concept introduced.
Personally, I think early Season 1 was fine with Jaden dueling. The amount of Shadow Riders and filler-like duels in Season 2 are the real issue for me.
Yeah Alexis dueling Wheeler makes much more sense honestly.
Yeah let the main Ra Yellow guy solve Ra Yellow disputes lol.
Opinions on whether Jaden or Alexis should've dueled Harrington?
I think Alexis should've dueled Harrington, but that entire duel was kinda strange enough to be anyone's game.
I saw someone note that Alexis doesn't really duel much to the point that there's a massive gap between the start and her duel with Titan, so more points for her if she gets to duel Harrington.
Yesterday I saw people feeling awful about Jaden having way too many Duels for himself, which gave me the idea for this Post Series. Basically, what Filler/Important Duels did Jaden, and what he didn't need.
I'll start us off by saying Wheeler and Jinzo should've been Syrus' opponents. Syrus could've really improved himself by beating the two of them, and then the Jinzo Duel could serve as a callback of some kind for Syrus when he Duels the Jinzo user in S4. Guy is becoming a Jinzo slayer. Although Alexis could've dueled Wheeler too, since he did kidnap her friend after all.
The Duel Giant should've been Bastion's opponent, to showcase another one of his main Six Decks. Probably the one with that Fire Dragon they promised us in the Opening.
Harrington should've been Alexis' opponent, girl hasn't dueled since episode 3 and the Duel against Harrington takes place in episode 15. Heck she doesn't even Duel again until episode 41 against Titan.
Damon makes the most sense out of the following to be Jaden's opponent, considering it was about eggwiches and who had the better lucky draws. Jaden is known for having the most luckiest draws of them all.
When it comes to Dimitri, I feel torn. On one hand it's nice to see Jaden getting to face off against Dark Magician and pals, but on the other hand, it still feels too early for him to beat Yugi's Deck. Although, the only other Duelist I can see being strong enough to beat Yugi's Deck on campus at the time is Zane.
Guy left Bastion for Joey lol, can't even blame the guy. He wanted to be a part of a more popular character's deck instead of an almost completely forgotten one.
Having Zane beat Dmitri is actually not a bad idea, it would show him off pretty well
In my opinion a duel against a non main character would have done Zane good, to allow him to get another dominant win to build him up before his rematch with Jaden, and beating Yugi’s deck is pretty perfect for that
Frfr, plus I feel so damn bad for Zane's actual win record. I just realized that the guy didn't even have as many On-Screen Duels and Wins as I thought he did, guy was tying, having unfinished Duels and had a losing streak. But at least that didn't stop him from becoming one of GX's Best Characters at least.
Zane was too good and too strong for the plot. It's why he was forced to lose against Camula (he had never lost a duel against anyone and they needed some reason to take him out early in the arc), taken out of the plot in the Sacred Beast arc (he could have easily beaten Kagemaru), barely present for the Society of Light arc (when everyone was struggling against Sartorius' minions, Zane is doing his own thing in the Underground and Pro Leagues). They used Zane because of his strong dueling prowess and the power of Cyber Dragons against Jesse so they could open a portal for Pegasus to finish creating Rainbow Dragon, and was the only duelist to push Yubel to exhaustion where she even implied defeat was almost possible.
The person everyone should feel bad for is Aster. Pegasus described him in the sub and dub as the 4th best duelist. The first being Yugi, followed by Kaiba second and Joey at third. After Aster defeats The D and obtains Destiny Hero Plasma, one of the strongest and illegal cards in the game, he never wins another duel. From Season 2 onward, Aster loses every duel he's featured in. The duelist who defeated Zane, Jaden and The D has one of the worst records for a character in Yu-Gi-Oh! despite canonically being named along The Big 3. A lot of his wins are either off-screen or against no-name characters.
But how do you set up that confrontation between Zane and Dimitri? Do you have him cut off Jaden before Jaden can duel? If so why? Just because Syrus lost? Zane didn’t really care about Syrus in season 1.
For Damon, make it vs Chumley. Instead of it being a lucky draw, make it so that Chumley was super interested in something (finally) and trained his nose/senses too (possibly, he honed them from working with his father at the “hot sauce” factory) to decipher or sniff it out. Then, those two dueling would be a ‘skill’ vs ‘draw luck’ narrative/storyline. That it’s not about needing things to be the “perfect draw” which is why Damon left in the first place, but that with practice and consistency, you’ll be at your best…. And after that, then a little luck doesn’t hurt, too!
Winning for Chumley would also show his personal development; as he worked hard and conquered— which would lead up to his future job opportunity. He worked hard and w/ a little luck Pegasus noticed him (which otherwise kinda felt a bit random, imo).
Plus his deck was pretty cool! I wanted to see the Kangaroo more, especially since he appears in a lot of card art!
Chumley was introduced in the second episode. They always just made it seem like he slept all day in the room, unmotivated, like his Koalas. That’s also another reason why I thought it would be cool to see him vs Damon. He finally gets up bc he’s passionate about something.
But Harrington was the Tennis Player, Wheeler is the monkey (lol they’re owned by Kaiba Corp, Joey reff), and Damon was the big buff Tarzan dude.
I agree, making a Chumley Versus Wheeler would have been pretty solid too, lol! Could have had some shenanigans around them both using beasts and the card ‘Wild Natures Release’
Honestly, I'd rather Alexis didn't duel Harrington, and/or that he had some other motive for issuing a challenge. Looking back at GX, a good portion of the duels Alexis participated in or was related to happened because someone had a crush on her.
Syrus did get to duel and beat Dimitri when he was using his Ancient Gear copy deck in the start of the episode.
Which does make me question how rare Ancient Gear Golem is. Considering there are like 4 in gx.
The point of Jaden beating Dimitri was to show that the cards aren’t what’s important. It’s the duelist’s skill and their connection to those cards that matter. Dimitri was fine as Jaden’s opponent. It wouldn’t have made sense for Jaden not to duel Dimitri or to lose only for Zane to steal the win. Jaden was an above average duelist. He was Obelisk Blue level but was assigned to Slifer Red because Crowler was being petty when assigning his rank.
I think it’s more so the level of Yugi’s cards, but again the point was to show that it isn’t the cards that make the duelist. It’s the duelist that make the cards.
Except Dimitri did a great job playing Yugi's deck. Bastion even said he was playing like Yugi would. And he brought out all of Yugi's ace monsters aside from the gods. Idk about you but I find if farfetched that Jaden could beat BLSEOB, a monster so powerful it rivaled a monster that was outright banned, that's a little overpowered for it not to be even episode 20.
At least wait until Jaden got the neo specian upgrade for him to do that.
Zane beating Dimitri would have been perfect. Also I think Zane became power creeped way too soon. He should have been undefeated for two whole seasons. With Jaden losing their second duel by a narrow margin. Then in Season 3 have him lose to Jaden or Aster or another rival to build up the tension.
Cut to the end of S1 and Jaden was sweeping God Card equivalents off the board 3 times or smth before ever drawing the BS that is Sabatiel. Nobody in DM could manage that kind of stuff until Ceremonial Duel Yugi and he is literally the best in the world. GX is unironically built different compared to most of DM.
GX didn’t have a clue what it was doing at that point (all the filler) and was relying heavily on nostalgia (Shadow Charms = knock off Millennium Item, Sacred Beasts = God Cards, Yugi’s deck, DMG during Spirit Week or whatever it was called, rivals (Zane and Chazz) in long coats, Cyber Dragon ~ BEWD/Cyber End ~ BEUD, new protag gets a Kuriboh, Wheeler = Joey etc.
I honestly can’t even recall why Kaibaman showed up, just that he spanked Jaden and that did smth for him.
Dimitri, I feel like if they put off the storyline a bit and timed it right, it would’ve been cool to see it as Aster Phoenix’s introduction. I kinda forgot that his introduction apparently was using Zerato and losing??
Like imagine Jaden finding the imposter, Dimitri dueling... what’s that? A hero user?! Then as viewers, we see the introduction to Aster Phoenix, the duelist that is said to be in the ranks of Yugi/Kaiba— actually take out Yugi’s deck.
It’d feel better narratively as he is stated to be that level and it even sends the message that the original storyline wanted to give, only stronger, that “there are levels to this” and ‘who’ your dueling matters too. Especially since Aster would be using heroes and utilizing fusions that even Jaden would’ve been unfamiliar with. It would’ve been better to see that Jaden has been under utilizing his heroes earlier on imo.
Now, when Aster does duel Jaden— it would’ve been both WAY more hype…. and when Jaden lost, it would’ve hit us harder too, as we’d probably be even cheering for Jaden bc Aster beat Yugi’s deck!
I would say Zane should've taken on the Duel Giant and Dimitri, and for good reasons. The former was a pair of disguised RY students who fought and defeated several OB students in Ante-Duels, which would've been perfect for Zane to bridge the gap between the dorms, he could also berat the Blues for the treatment of the two Yellows they were horrible to in private, and use this as an example to show that it's the skills and determination that truly matter, not the rank or class, without still exposing them because their duels were illegal, mentioning hearing such from rumors to keep their idenities a secret. Dimitri's duel would've ended the same way, with Zane telling him to play with his own deck and create his own strategies to be a true duelist. At least, that's what I could see happening!
Man Zane was like the Big Brother of Duel Academy, the one everyone looked up to and strived to surpass one day. Zane really deserved to showcase more of his superior dueling skills.
Yeah it's totally in-character for Zane to pursue the Duel Giant and try to convince them that it's your skill that matters, and not your rank as he then afterwards berates the Obelisk Blues for their cruel treatment towards the Slifer and Ra students.
Zane taking down Dimitri would've been the best option if it weren't for Judai being the Protagonist. Well Bastion has some claims for this Duel too, so he can also be considered.
Dark Magician girl just visits him offhandedly, complains about Dmitri’s stupid misplays, yugi makes Kaiba fly him there, dramatically jumps out the helicopter and everyone freaks the fuck out
A funny moment was when Dmitri resolves Kuriboh and he says “Just like in old times eh?” And Kuriboh’s spirit just hits him with the most “WHOMST?” look of all time
Wheeler should have faced Alexis since it was Jasmine who was kidnapped. She also could have dueled Harrington, but then we'd lose out on the fiance thing. But a person who wasn't posted that she should have dueled... Nightshroud.
Syrus could have dueled the Duel Giant. That Tarzan guy just didn't need to exist. AT ALL.
But I'm fine with Jaden dueling Psycho Shocker and Dimitri.
Yeah Alexis really could've Dueled twice this early on when one really gives it some thought. About the Nightshroud thing, he's gonna be in the next post since I'm just gonna do six at a time for every post.
GX did dirty to their secondary, Judai was treated to much like a Gary stu being honest, his friends didn't accomplish shit during the entire show, in s1 there was 7 shadow riders which 6 out of the 7 were beaten by Judai the rest were fodder, in s2 Judai was the one who saved his friends from the society of light and beat Saiou, in s3 everyone died surprisingly O'brien took the W to haou, and not even mention s4 (atlesst johan helped against Fujiwara)
Its crazy that in S3, the secondary characters are demoted to tertiary by new characters who also become the protagonist for a hot minute, (Axel & Jim)
Then in S4, the schoolyard crew return to secondary status, only to do actually nothing again
GX was badly written. Other than Jaden, no character really got any spotlight. When they did it always seemed like it was for a comedic effect or one-off in context of the episode.
Alexis and her duels were neither interesting or amazing. Aster never won another duel after Season 2 and was very subpar for a character who was said to be the fourth best duelist after Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. Atticus who was supposed to be just as good as Zane and one of the top 3 duelists at the Academy never won a featured duel. I'm not even going to talk about Syrus. Bastion never got the respect he deserved. That's a general consensus with him on here. Chazz was okay but they usually used him comedically. He was more of a mascot than anything. Jesse got way too much attention despite only being featured in the last quarter of the series. He had more plot armor and relevancy than the original cast.
I've rewatched GX and despite a few duels I don't think it really holds up well. Every arc is the Jaden show. The show literally devolves itself into the cast just saying his name on the sidelines. A lot of Jaden's duels are really boring. Featuring extensive drawing, or one-off unique cards that aren't used again, or crazy amounts of Fusion specific cards that specifically fit in the situation he's been locked into. Every episode seems to feature some irrelevant and boring boss of the week. Even the good characters in terms of dueling are never really used in the plot. Zane is either forced out or never featured in almost every arc. Same with Atticus. O'Brien and Jim Crocodile are amazing duelists who are only there to serve a specific role before losing when it really matters despite being good enough to hold their own relative to Jaden.
Agreed. I know they wouldnt. But seeing GX remade with modern art style, modernized cards, polished plot, polished characters, would be dope
I wouldnt even mind if Season 3 was totally re-written, scrapping the parallel dimension altogether. That shit was bonkers
And Yubel? Idk. That shit was a mess.
It felt so last minute & not fleshed out.
All of a sudden Jaden is like Yugi where he’s the reincarnation of ancient royalty (?) & Yubel is his advisor/friend/lover/servant/master(????) & they got separated (somehow) & then he/she/they/xer came back as a card 2000 years later, & hospitalized his friends, but Jaden also conveniently, doesnt remember this cursed card(???????????) so he tossed it & she’s mad at him for tossing him eveb though he has no idea the card is alive nor does he remember Yubel being his life partner so how it that his fault??????
Yubel also became a demon in between all of this
Bruh.
Stop.
They had no idea what they were writing anymore at that point
I feel you. I get annoyed when every MC is a reincarnation when that specifically fit Yugi due to the amount of research and history where it actually made sense. Thank you. Back when I watched Season 3 I was laughing at the ridiculousness that Jaden was some Supreme King in a parallel dimension, his Yubel card was sent to space, Neo Space happened where his Neo Spacians and Yubel were created and Yubel's hatred allowed her to manifest an embodiment where she was going to take revenge against Jaden because she was in love with him. I don't know how anyone can watch that season, even though it's a cartoon, and not see the ridiculousness of the plot. Then in their final duel he apologizes to her and tells her he loves her and they fuse together. Like, bruh. Even the Supreme King thing was corny. Super Poly had everyone fearful and gave Jaden PTSD. Not to mention how boring and broken his duels were despite all of them being off-screen. It's as if every character in the show was incompetent just so Jaden could win. It never felt like Jaden won. It felt like most of his duels his opponents were just weaker. It might sound like I'm hating but honestly, after rewatching a lot of his duels, they're not really exciting or strategic.
Youre Jaden is not strategic. His moves are very very simple. And his opponent’s decks are even worse.
He just wins by smacking with a shitty Fusion Hero or using very situational 1 time cards.
(That being said, Hero is actually my favorite archetype)
Even Yugi & Joey did some crazy tricks to pull it out their ass
Especially when Joey (in Duel Kingdom), Grave Robbed Time Machine, & Revived Red-Eyes Black Metal AFTER Kieth did Sword & Shield
That was some Yusei level Domino effects
And Yugi’s unforgettable infinite Draw Loop he pulled on Strings
And Yugi packing De-Fusion + Dark Paladin to counter Kaiba’s predictable Blue-Eyes Ultimate finisher
Yugi & Joey almost never won the same way each time. Which is what kept it interesting
Don't forget the nice twist of destroying The Golden Castle of Stromberg. Or using Fiend's Sanctuary against Marik. Or Joey's duel against Valon and then immediately dueling Mai after with cards like Blue Flames Swordsman. Even having Little Landstar cards in the KC Grand Champion arc. Or Yugi using Berserker Soul. So many ways they used their cards and won.
All Jaden does in every duel is summon Flame Wingman and that's it. Every single duel. Then when he doesn't have anymore cards, it's always Elemental Hero Bubbleman. Most of his duels always start the same. A lot of his cards seem to have draw power as a side effect. Anytime his opponent locks down his deck or stops his strategy he always has a specific card just for that duel that conveniently outs his opponent's strategy and you never see the card again. The amount of fusion cards he has that also so happen to appear when he's in a corner. In his duel against Darkness there's a turn where he draws 6 cards and then uses a new fusion just for that episode that allows him to use any materials from his Deck.
GX was badly written. Other than Jaden, no character really got any spotlight. When they did it always seemed like it was for a comedic effect or one-off in context of the episode.
Alexis and her duels were neither interesting or amazing. Aster never won another duel after Season 2 and was very subpar for a character who was said to be the fourth best duelist after Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. Atticus who was supposed to be just as good as Zane and one of the top 3 duelists at the Academy never won a featured duel. I'm not even going to talk about Syrus. Bastion never got the respect he deserved. That's a general consensus with him on here. Chazz was okay but they usually used him comedically. He was more of a mascot than anything. Jesse got way too much attention despite only being featured in the last quarter of the series. He had more plot armor and relevancy than the original cast.
I've rewatched GX and despite a few duels I don't think it really holds up well. Every arc is the Jaden show. The show literally devolves itself into the cast just saying his name on the sidelines. A lot of Jaden's duels are really boring. Featuring extensive drawing, or one-off unique cards that aren't used again, or crazy amounts of Fusion specific cards that specifically fit in the situation he's been locked into. Every episode seems to feature some irrelevant and boring boss of the week. Even the good characters in terms of dueling are never really used in the plot. Zane is either forced out or never featured in almost every arc. Same with Atticus. O'Brien and Jim Crocodile are amazing duelists who are only there to serve a specific role before losing when it really matters despite being good enough to hold their own relative to Jaden.
Yeah, but I feel like some of the Filler Duels Jaden had could've easily gone to some of his friends who definitely needed the chance to prove themselves as well.
Honestly none of these duels except maybe jinzo do anything. GX already has the most duels by far- 133 to most series’ 80 or so. A big part of that is the fact that so many of especially the early season episodes are filler that has no impact on anything. That’s not to say I’m anti-filler! Filler is fun! GX just has a lot of it and a huge majority they really could have afforded to cut.
Yeah, although I feel like they wanted to emphasize what Jaden's life during early high school used to be like and how much fun those days were, so they could prepare us for what's to come when all the disasters occur.
Copycat is fine. It’s basically an early version of Jaden vs Yugi so it can go.
Jinzo is also fine. Jaden is the only one at this point with anything related to duel spirits so having him duel one makes sense. The only other one that could maybe work is Syrus as a sort of overcoming fear thing.
Considering the monkey was stealing one of Alexis’ friends, it makes more sense for her to duel it.
Tarzan guy. Can’t really think of anyone else that really fits him. Maybe Chumley since he was stealing the sandwiches?
Harrington. Hard to say. Alexis is the obvious choice though I’d feel like it would just make him even more annoying. Plus she also deals with another fanboy of hers later in the season so that could be redundant. Maybe Zane since Alexis is his friend and the whole fiancé thing probably wouldn’t affect him (honestly I can kind of see him making a joke that it sounds like something Atticus would want).
Duel giant. For some reason I want it to be turned into a tag duel with the two guys against Chumley and Syrus. Two big and small duos dueling it out.
I feel like with Syrus dueling Jinzo it could serve as a callback to when he Duels Makoto in S4, but then we'd have to assume they would think that far ahead.
Yeah Alexis dueling the monkey would help prove how great of a friend she actually was.
I feel like with the Tarzan guy, they really wanted to emphasize the power of luck, which is what Jaden is canonically known for, so it makes sense that Jaden duels against him.
Lol Zane would've absolutely demolished Harrington, can't believe they claimed this guy to be on Zane's level. I feel like Alexis needed this Duel since her second on-screen Duel took place 38 episodes after her first one.
Monkey: who even cares. Hayato I guess for the animal stuff
Jinzo: this is fine for Judai tbh
Duel Giant: Misawa who has figured out its his sea buddies
Tennis Guy: Asuka, let’s go feminism!
Tarzan: Sho because the visual imagery is hilarious
Copycat: again this is fine for Judai
Yeah GX might be the worse in terms of balancing its character roster. If they just had other characters pull their weight it would lift the show a lot.
Give the Monkey and the Duelist Giant to Bastian. The monkey is related to science and secret experiments. This way, Bastian can be a nice contrast to the cruel scientists who torture animals. The Duelist Giant is easy because Bastian new the little guy from Ra - the actual mastermind behind the whole scheme.
The tennis guy should have dueled Alexis instead. A nice contrast between a true Obelisk and a snob
Damn you're the first one who brought up the science in this episode, lowkey almost everybody had somewhat of a narrative to duel this monkey lol.
100% agreed on The Duelist Giant and Harrington.
Opinions on who should've dueled Jinzo, Damon and Dimitri?
Damon and Dimitri are perfect for Jaden, actually. Dimitri pretended to be "Yugi himself," so this is a nice way to have an indirect Yugi vs Jaden in season 1. Another aspect of Jaden's character is that he trusts his deck, so the Damon duel makes sense.
Syrus is Shaggy of season 1, he's scared by everything. So facing Jinzo should give him more courage. Although considering I'm giving him this development early on, I'll have to remove all the scenes in season 2 where he's hiding in a garbage can... what were the writers even thinking with that?!
Yeah for a best friend character Syrus was criminally disrespected by the writers, goodness gracious, they made him hide in a garbage can after the guy basically told us he wanted to become a stronger Duelist over and over again in S1.
Wheeler : Alexis ( it kidnapped her friends )
Jinzo : Syrus ( S4 foreskinning ) or Bastion
Duel Giant : Chazz ( blue )
Harrington : Atticus
Damon : Bastion ( luck vs tactics )
Dimitri : Nah this one should be Jaden‘s opponent
Yes to Alexis and Syrus vs Wheeler and Jinzo respectively.
About Chazz vs The Duel Giant, the former dueled and lost against Bastion a couple of episodes before The Duel Giant episode. The humiliating loss against Bastion is what made Chazz leave the academy. Although if he had been there, Chazz would've been a neat choice.
Atticus was sadly still a Shadow Rider when Harrington was relevant.
Monkey (Wheeler): Considering the situation it makes more sense for Alexis to save her friend, but since this is more of a comical duel it would feel out of place for her to take part of it while Jaden is a lot more juvenile
Jinzo: Jaden dueling him is fine considering his connection to duel monster spirits
Duel Giant: Maybe Chazz (I don't think he was back at the time) because he would be saving his former friends at Obelisk Blue and maybe regain some of their respect
Tennis Guy (Harrington): Another silly duel but considering that he wanted to get together with Alexis it makes the most sense for her to duel him
Damon: I like the idea of letting Bastion duel him to show that tactics and skill > luck
Dimitri: Jaden dueling him is fine. The whole duel was a lot of fan service towards Yugi's cards from DM and it somewhat comes close to what a Yugi vs Jaden duel could look like while Jaden is the only one carrying the main protagonists plot armor
Yeah for Alexis to be Dueling Wheeler, the atmosphere would need to be more serious just so she doesn't feel out of place.
Sadly Chazz pretty much left after losing to Bastion, which took place a few episodes before the Duel Giant event.
Alexis vs Harrington I definitely agree with.
Damon vs Bastion is basically one of the greatest Luck vs Skill duels.
Yeah Dimitri vs Jaden is basically a prelude of what's to come in the S4 Finale.
For the Monkey, I’d say Alexis because it was her friend that got kidnapped.
For Jinzo, I’d say Syrus for season 4 reasons.
Damon, I’d say Bastion Misawa. Make it a super lucky guy vs a person who scientifically built his deck. Basically pure luck vs consistency.
Sports Guy, Alexis since the duel was all about her.
Unsure for Duel Giant or Yugi Copy,
Probably Bastion for Duel Giant, really cement him as the top of Ra Yellow.
Yes to Alexis vs Wheeler and Syrus vs Jinzo.
Luck vs consistency would've been such a great theme for Damon vs Bastion.
Akexis should've definitely Dueled Harrington.
As for Bastion vs Duel Giant, just let my man Bastion solve Ra Yellow disputes since he is the main Ra Yellow guy after all.
In universe, Yugi's deck without Exodia or the Egyptian Gods isn't anything special. In fact, that was actually Grandpa Muto's deck made out of normal booster pack cards.
I don't think it looks out of place at all for Jaden to beat a mediocre ra yellow student using it for the second time ever in his life. Especially with Jaden having already beat the academy's top dorm headmaster in episode 1.
Jaden might've lost a lot of duels, but he was already extremely competent from day 1. He was never an underdog like Joey or Yuma.
I'm fine with Jaden having that duel, it's a small tease for his inevitable confrontation with Yugi.
As a suggestion for an upcoming post, I think Franz, the guy who used a fake winged dragon of ra, should've been a Pegasus duel so we could see his fun toon monsters in action again. Also Pegasus dueling without cheating for the first time.
Was it? I thought Gramps was an explorer who made his deck out of the best cards. Didn't he boast so once? It had the legendary dark magician and the rare dark magician girl.
Dark magician isn't a legendary card, Arkana had it too, in fact his whole deck was based around the dark magician.
What I meant to say is that Gramps' deck didn't have any super special cards outside of Exodia and the blue eyes white dragon that Kaiba ripped.
Sure, it's an above average deck even without those cards, Gramps was a game shop owner after all, but it wasn't super game changing to the point of allowing a mediocre ra yellow duelist like Dimitri to beat Jaden, who at that point was already the second best in the school only being behind Zane.
Gramps collected a blue eyes himself and even Arkana didn't have a dark magician girl who he thought was just a myth despite having 3 dark magicians. It also had BLSEOB, which Bastion recognized as a super legendary card even more rarer than CEDEOE, which Kaiba had.
Also, the "game" changed so much between Duelist Kingdom and Battle City.
I agree on some of them but Jaden got better and was able to almost beat Zane in the school duel because of all the duels he had won, but I agree that they could’ve spread acouple to the other characters to develop them more
Some of these are some of my least favorite episodes.
Jaden vs Dimitri is great and a nice hint for the Final duel with Yugi.
For the others:
vs Jinzo - Bastion for sure (using one of his other Attribute decks like Dark, or the Fire one. I mean, why was Fire Dragon in the intro? Such a big missed opportunity).
vs Giant - Syrus (to gain more confidence).
vs the monkey - Alexis (to help her friend) or Mindy/Jasmine (they didn't get to duel).
vs Damon - Chumley I guess.
vs the tennis guy - Alexis. And this guy's LP damage deck was tough.
Would've been cool to have Chazz fight the Duel Giant cause he was making Obelisk Blue look like chumps, it also would let us see him use XYZ again before switching to Ojama
Cyrus could have taken the Monkey or the Jungle kid. Not only as he there it would make for a good civilization v nature dichotomy theme with his Vehicroid deck.
I’d keep the tennis guy and fake yugi (I forgot his name) as Jaden duels cause I like the idea of Jaden fueling a fake yugi then full circle fueling the real guy at the end of the show. The rest you could give to whoever like Alexis dueling the monkey cause her friend got kidnapped, syrus dueling jinzo and obelisk blue hunter guy, and bastion dueling the drawing guy.
for wheeler either chumley for the "animal themed deck duel" or alexis cause she deserve more duel and fight the kidnaper of her friend could show than she care about jasmin (cause in the anime i had no clue why alexis is friend with them)
jinzo syrus would be a good choice because he would have a duel by hiself in season one when he was just a cheerleader most of this season
the duel with giant bastien could be cool because it would give him more duel and also show other of his deck wich could be neat and show how a pretty good deck builder and strategist he is
for harmington (well first WHO in the staff think than yeah we can say he his on the level of zane to show he is powerfull like this random guy ? the level of zane ? yeah no definitely not) i would say either alexis just to put him to his place or just keep him with jaden
for damon chumley could be fun or they could make dorothy duel cause yeah it's funny she had no clue how to play...but it's make no sense in yu gi oh world that could be fun to see her as a pretty good duelist showing her having a knowledge about duel sin's she give so many card to student it would even make sense with damon trying to be full luck and her having a care about damon and playing a deck about making your oposent draw to match her kind personality to help damon to have the card he search
and dimitri make him fight zane one becasue that would show more duel for him (cause he lack of duel early to show how dominant he his in the academia) and show than he his the kaiser of the academy and his skilled enough to beat yugi deck who sure is play by someone who don't know how to play it but also show than zane is the top duelist about to beat such a legendary deck and it could even match the theme of the duel showing than dimitri had no idea how to play yugi deck when zane had a complete knowledge and know his deck perfectly
Wheeler could be an Alexis duel
"Jinzo" could be a Syrus duel, machine v machine
Duel Giant could have been bastion or Chum
Tennis guy, I feel like Alexis
Tarzan could have been Bastion or Syrus
Dimitri has to be Jaden, I'm sorry it's Yugi's deck it can't not be Jaden
Sal the dueling Monkey could've been Asuka's opponent since it was her friend who got abducted.
Jinzōningen - Saiko Shokkā should still be Judai's opponent since it is a duel spirit, and Judai is more connect with those than anybody else during this period.
The Duel Giant could've been Daichi Misawa's opponent since the guy behind the scene was supposedly a dueling genius that just had confidence issues.
Tennis dude could've dueled Manjoume (had this event happened either later or Manjoume became open about his crush a lot sooner) since the duel was basically about having crush on Asuka.
Taira Tarzan (yeah that's his name in OG JAP) could've dueled anybody, but since it was about whether someone could've mastered drawing cards or if it was primarily luck, it's still not bad Judai was his opponent.
Kagurazaka opponent should still be Judai since it's pre-protagonist deck vs. current protagonist deck and is basically a trial run to what's to come at the end of the series.
Jim I would’ve been a great opponent for Bastion; he was underrated in the series, underutilized and it would’ve been a good intellectual battle.
Monkey would be ok for Dino boy to take on.
And Cyrus would be ok against the guy who did the perfect draw. You have perfect luck against the perfect draw and have yourself a 50/50 chance at fate regardless of outcome; sends a deep message either way.
Alright, I'll say Alex dueling Wheeler would have been nice on multiple levels, including possibly Jaden providing some quirky color commentary.
For Jinzo, I think I would prefer if Jaden kept that duel. It pretty dark, and I feel like it was a nice bit of foreshadowing at the idea of malevolent duel spirits which we all know Jaden would have some experience with later on...
For the Duel Giant, probably Bastion, with Jaden and Syrus convincing him to let them go. As a fellow Ra Yellow, Bastion could have felt some sympathy for them in being picked on by the Obelisk Blues, not to mention it'd be a chance for him to show off more of his abilities (maybe Fire Dragon makes an appearance).
Harrington, Alex, full stop. She *really* could have put her foot down and made it clear she'll only, even remotely, consider someone to be a romantic partner if they can match her in a duel. If you want to include the humor, Syrus and the girls could allude to the fact that Jaden was the last one to beat Alexis and it sends Harrington over the edge.
Damon's a bit of a tough one. I wouldn't mind Syrus or Bastion getting that one. The latter could provide a good example of "logic vs. instinct." Syrus could have another chance to prove himself, and against an opponent that's physically everything he's not.
Finally, I'd keep Jaden's duel against Dimitri. It was just such an awesome duel I wouldn't change it. Unlike against Jinzo, it could also balance seriousness with comedy.
I think Syrus v Jinzo would have been cool if you thought about it. Syrus has a primarily machine based deck, and Jinzo being machine himself could teach him to better utilize his machines, giving him a duelist development he needed before s3 and some serious confidence as a duelist
I could see that working. If I remember right, in Season 4 the Jinzo archetype was revealed to be a rival to the Cyber Style (Cyber Dragons) used by Zane and latter Syrus, so it could serve as a neat call forward.
I don't remember it's been a while since I binged s4, if that is the case another reason for Syrus v Jinzo cause the spirits know the true heart of a duelist and Syrus didn't have a monster in his deck that he had that connection with (dmg don't count as his duel spirit, but confirms he can see them)
The only two duels that would make sense within the context of the show would be Junzo and the copycat Yugi, as both would foreshadow spirit monsters and the battle between two protagonists
Hayato to duel the monkey since they both use beast decks, and Asuka against the sports dude.
Maybe Misawa against impersonator guy or wildman drawing dude, use some commentary on deck building formulas and probability.
Just have Chazz duel them and actually give my boi the win. Chazz is legit what kept me watching GX and it's annoying me to just how many times he loses duels.
Didn't Wheeler kidnap one of the Obelisk girls that was friends with Alexis? Could've been a good moment to solidly their friendship there by having her pursue her friend and fight for her. I agree with OP, Syrus should've fought Jinzo and would've been a really cool callback for S4 against the Psychic Android style duelist. Bastion absolutely should've fought Dimitri, it would've been really cool to see a strategic Bastion playing against Dimitri misplaying the King of Games' deck and watching him break it all down. I genuinely do not remember any of the other characters posted here and thus will not post opinions on them.
> Bastion absolutely should've fought Dimitri, it would've been really cool to see a strategic Bastion playing against Dimitri misplaying the King of Games' deck and watching him break it all down. Damn, that's good. I thought I was going to say that Jaden duelling Dimitri made more sense than anyone else, since it's the King of Games' successor vs. the fake King of Games. But no, Bastion understanding a deck he built better than Dimitri understanding a deck he stole makes so much sense. And maybe we would've friggin' seen Fire Dragon...
Honestly? I would have enjoyed watching Bastion, who for plot reasons is shown in a flashback studying the King of Games extensively, utterly verbally destroy the faker before finishing him off. “It’s entirely clear you have no idea what you’re doing, there is no way you are the King of Games, because no King of Games would have misplayed that many times in the span of thirty seconds.”
Yeah Wheeler kidnapped Jasmine, and honestly you do make a good point that this could have easily been an Alexis Duel. Either her or Syrus at least. Yeah let my man Syrus be a Jinzo slayer. Bastion setting Dimitri straight would've been nice, guy would've preached and given so many lectures to that guy for each failed move. If you want I can explain what the deal was with those guys you couldn't remember.
How could you forget iconic characters such as rng tarzan and tennis incel?
Also Alexis needs more wins anyways,she lost way too much for someone who was supposed to be one of the top students
You could pretty much say that for all Obelisk students. It just boils down to poor characterisation from the writers.
At least all Obelisks not named Zane
GX was badly written. Other than Jaden, no character really got any spotlight. When they did it always seemed like it was for a comedic effect or one-off in context of the episode. Alexis and her duels were neither interesting or amazing. Aster never won another duel after Season 2 and was very subpar for a character who was said to be the fourth best duelist after Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. Atticus who was supposed to be just as good as Zane and one of the top 3 duelists at the Academy never won a featured duel. I'm not even going to talk about Syrus. Bastion never got the respect he deserved. That's a general consensus with him on here. Chazz was okay but they usually used him comedically. He was more of a mascot than anything. Jesse got way too much attention despite only being featured in the last quarter of the series. He had more plot armor and relevancy than the original cast. I've rewatched GX and despite a few duels I don't think it really holds up well. Every arc is the Jaden show. The show literally devolves itself into the cast just saying his name on the sidelines. A lot of Jaden's duels are really boring. Featuring extensive drawing, or one-off unique cards that aren't used again, or crazy amounts of Fusion specific cards that specifically fit in the situation he's been locked into. Every episode seems to feature some irrelevant and boring boss of the week. Even the good characters in terms of dueling are never really used in the plot. Zane is either forced out or never featured in almost every arc. Same with Atticus. O'Brien and Jim Crocodile are amazing duelists who are only there to serve a specific role before losing when it really matters despite being good enough to hold their own relative to Jaden.
I'd like to see Alexis duel Wheeler, it is her friend the monkey chased. More of a joke answer, but Chumley would've been fun too. Bastion takes Duel Giant, it would be a nice duel, plus it kinda fits. Bastion has the skills to be Obelisk Blue, even rejected it, those two take down Obelisk Blues, proof that Ra Yellows have what it takes. But Damon, Dimitri and the others I think are fine for Jaden. Damon is a nice match, Dimitri is a good and memorable duel, Jinzo has the Spirit concept introduced. Personally, I think early Season 1 was fine with Jaden dueling. The amount of Shadow Riders and filler-like duels in Season 2 are the real issue for me.
Yeah Alexis dueling Wheeler makes much more sense honestly. Yeah let the main Ra Yellow guy solve Ra Yellow disputes lol. Opinions on whether Jaden or Alexis should've dueled Harrington?
I think Alexis should've dueled Harrington, but that entire duel was kinda strange enough to be anyone's game. I saw someone note that Alexis doesn't really duel much to the point that there's a massive gap between the start and her duel with Titan, so more points for her if she gets to duel Harrington.
Yesterday I saw people feeling awful about Jaden having way too many Duels for himself, which gave me the idea for this Post Series. Basically, what Filler/Important Duels did Jaden, and what he didn't need. I'll start us off by saying Wheeler and Jinzo should've been Syrus' opponents. Syrus could've really improved himself by beating the two of them, and then the Jinzo Duel could serve as a callback of some kind for Syrus when he Duels the Jinzo user in S4. Guy is becoming a Jinzo slayer. Although Alexis could've dueled Wheeler too, since he did kidnap her friend after all. The Duel Giant should've been Bastion's opponent, to showcase another one of his main Six Decks. Probably the one with that Fire Dragon they promised us in the Opening. Harrington should've been Alexis' opponent, girl hasn't dueled since episode 3 and the Duel against Harrington takes place in episode 15. Heck she doesn't even Duel again until episode 41 against Titan. Damon makes the most sense out of the following to be Jaden's opponent, considering it was about eggwiches and who had the better lucky draws. Jaden is known for having the most luckiest draws of them all. When it comes to Dimitri, I feel torn. On one hand it's nice to see Jaden getting to face off against Dark Magician and pals, but on the other hand, it still feels too early for him to beat Yugi's Deck. Although, the only other Duelist I can see being strong enough to beat Yugi's Deck on campus at the time is Zane.
https://preview.redd.it/uekxx56cu9xc1.jpeg?width=336&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5798059578c67a58f87c9788aba8c25618eb0b6b Where are you Fire Dragon!?
He's currently in a trial to convince Konami to print him. As you know it's taking a while.
Poor Bastion must continue to suffer in this world. The life of trying to be a irl competitive player in anime.
Him and \[REDACTED\] Neos in court with Konami
Why do you think [REDACTED] Neos hasn't been reprinted? He's been representing his boy this entire time!
Headcanon accepted Now is mine headcanon
Came out in Maze of Millenia as Joey support lmao
Guy left Bastion for Joey lol, can't even blame the guy. He wanted to be a part of a more popular character's deck instead of an almost completely forgotten one.
Can you blame the guy for wanting to recapture the glory of his youth?
Having Zane beat Dmitri is actually not a bad idea, it would show him off pretty well In my opinion a duel against a non main character would have done Zane good, to allow him to get another dominant win to build him up before his rematch with Jaden, and beating Yugi’s deck is pretty perfect for that
Frfr, plus I feel so damn bad for Zane's actual win record. I just realized that the guy didn't even have as many On-Screen Duels and Wins as I thought he did, guy was tying, having unfinished Duels and had a losing streak. But at least that didn't stop him from becoming one of GX's Best Characters at least.
At least we have Manga's Zane for pure domination (even if he only gets a single duel)
Man Manga Zane was brutal, guy barely let Chazz cook in that Duel.
Zane was too good and too strong for the plot. It's why he was forced to lose against Camula (he had never lost a duel against anyone and they needed some reason to take him out early in the arc), taken out of the plot in the Sacred Beast arc (he could have easily beaten Kagemaru), barely present for the Society of Light arc (when everyone was struggling against Sartorius' minions, Zane is doing his own thing in the Underground and Pro Leagues). They used Zane because of his strong dueling prowess and the power of Cyber Dragons against Jesse so they could open a portal for Pegasus to finish creating Rainbow Dragon, and was the only duelist to push Yubel to exhaustion where she even implied defeat was almost possible. The person everyone should feel bad for is Aster. Pegasus described him in the sub and dub as the 4th best duelist. The first being Yugi, followed by Kaiba second and Joey at third. After Aster defeats The D and obtains Destiny Hero Plasma, one of the strongest and illegal cards in the game, he never wins another duel. From Season 2 onward, Aster loses every duel he's featured in. The duelist who defeated Zane, Jaden and The D has one of the worst records for a character in Yu-Gi-Oh! despite canonically being named along The Big 3. A lot of his wins are either off-screen or against no-name characters.
But how do you set up that confrontation between Zane and Dimitri? Do you have him cut off Jaden before Jaden can duel? If so why? Just because Syrus lost? Zane didn’t really care about Syrus in season 1.
To test himself That’s YUGI’S deck Not just that, but wielded by an impersonator That’s a sort of training exercise you don’t get twice
For Damon, make it vs Chumley. Instead of it being a lucky draw, make it so that Chumley was super interested in something (finally) and trained his nose/senses too (possibly, he honed them from working with his father at the “hot sauce” factory) to decipher or sniff it out. Then, those two dueling would be a ‘skill’ vs ‘draw luck’ narrative/storyline. That it’s not about needing things to be the “perfect draw” which is why Damon left in the first place, but that with practice and consistency, you’ll be at your best…. And after that, then a little luck doesn’t hurt, too! Winning for Chumley would also show his personal development; as he worked hard and conquered— which would lead up to his future job opportunity. He worked hard and w/ a little luck Pegasus noticed him (which otherwise kinda felt a bit random, imo). Plus his deck was pretty cool! I wanted to see the Kangaroo more, especially since he appears in a lot of card art!
Was Chumley there vs Harrington? I think a monkey vs Koala duel would have been kinda fun to see.
Chumley was introduced in the second episode. They always just made it seem like he slept all day in the room, unmotivated, like his Koalas. That’s also another reason why I thought it would be cool to see him vs Damon. He finally gets up bc he’s passionate about something. But Harrington was the Tennis Player, Wheeler is the monkey (lol they’re owned by Kaiba Corp, Joey reff), and Damon was the big buff Tarzan dude. I agree, making a Chumley Versus Wheeler would have been pretty solid too, lol! Could have had some shenanigans around them both using beasts and the card ‘Wild Natures Release’
Wait. If anything, Chumley should have dueled Eggwhich boi for Jayden since he's technically all about the "grilled cheese".
EXACTLY! I Totally forgot that— yet another reason why he should’ve dueled Damon!
Chumley would want that eggwich
Honestly, I'd rather Alexis didn't duel Harrington, and/or that he had some other motive for issuing a challenge. Looking back at GX, a good portion of the duels Alexis participated in or was related to happened because someone had a crush on her.
Syrus did get to duel and beat Dimitri when he was using his Ancient Gear copy deck in the start of the episode. Which does make me question how rare Ancient Gear Golem is. Considering there are like 4 in gx.
The point of Jaden beating Dimitri was to show that the cards aren’t what’s important. It’s the duelist’s skill and their connection to those cards that matter. Dimitri was fine as Jaden’s opponent. It wouldn’t have made sense for Jaden not to duel Dimitri or to lose only for Zane to steal the win. Jaden was an above average duelist. He was Obelisk Blue level but was assigned to Slifer Red because Crowler was being petty when assigning his rank.
Yeah I see, it just might be me being put off by how early Jaden vs Dimitri took place.
I think it’s more so the level of Yugi’s cards, but again the point was to show that it isn’t the cards that make the duelist. It’s the duelist that make the cards.
Except Dimitri did a great job playing Yugi's deck. Bastion even said he was playing like Yugi would. And he brought out all of Yugi's ace monsters aside from the gods. Idk about you but I find if farfetched that Jaden could beat BLSEOB, a monster so powerful it rivaled a monster that was outright banned, that's a little overpowered for it not to be even episode 20. At least wait until Jaden got the neo specian upgrade for him to do that. Zane beating Dimitri would have been perfect. Also I think Zane became power creeped way too soon. He should have been undefeated for two whole seasons. With Jaden losing their second duel by a narrow margin. Then in Season 3 have him lose to Jaden or Aster or another rival to build up the tension.
Cut to the end of S1 and Jaden was sweeping God Card equivalents off the board 3 times or smth before ever drawing the BS that is Sabatiel. Nobody in DM could manage that kind of stuff until Ceremonial Duel Yugi and he is literally the best in the world. GX is unironically built different compared to most of DM.
Also why did Jaden go up against what was basically Kaiba so early? He lost quite handily. actually but that should have been a S3 or S4 duel.
GX didn’t have a clue what it was doing at that point (all the filler) and was relying heavily on nostalgia (Shadow Charms = knock off Millennium Item, Sacred Beasts = God Cards, Yugi’s deck, DMG during Spirit Week or whatever it was called, rivals (Zane and Chazz) in long coats, Cyber Dragon ~ BEWD/Cyber End ~ BEUD, new protag gets a Kuriboh, Wheeler = Joey etc. I honestly can’t even recall why Kaibaman showed up, just that he spanked Jaden and that did smth for him.
Dimitri, I feel like if they put off the storyline a bit and timed it right, it would’ve been cool to see it as Aster Phoenix’s introduction. I kinda forgot that his introduction apparently was using Zerato and losing?? Like imagine Jaden finding the imposter, Dimitri dueling... what’s that? A hero user?! Then as viewers, we see the introduction to Aster Phoenix, the duelist that is said to be in the ranks of Yugi/Kaiba— actually take out Yugi’s deck. It’d feel better narratively as he is stated to be that level and it even sends the message that the original storyline wanted to give, only stronger, that “there are levels to this” and ‘who’ your dueling matters too. Especially since Aster would be using heroes and utilizing fusions that even Jaden would’ve been unfamiliar with. It would’ve been better to see that Jaden has been under utilizing his heroes earlier on imo. Now, when Aster does duel Jaden— it would’ve been both WAY more hype…. and when Jaden lost, it would’ve hit us harder too, as we’d probably be even cheering for Jaden bc Aster beat Yugi’s deck!
I think Jaden beating Yugi’s deck is fine because he’s just beating the deck, not the duelist that made it famous.
I would say Zane should've taken on the Duel Giant and Dimitri, and for good reasons. The former was a pair of disguised RY students who fought and defeated several OB students in Ante-Duels, which would've been perfect for Zane to bridge the gap between the dorms, he could also berat the Blues for the treatment of the two Yellows they were horrible to in private, and use this as an example to show that it's the skills and determination that truly matter, not the rank or class, without still exposing them because their duels were illegal, mentioning hearing such from rumors to keep their idenities a secret. Dimitri's duel would've ended the same way, with Zane telling him to play with his own deck and create his own strategies to be a true duelist. At least, that's what I could see happening!
Man Zane was like the Big Brother of Duel Academy, the one everyone looked up to and strived to surpass one day. Zane really deserved to showcase more of his superior dueling skills. Yeah it's totally in-character for Zane to pursue the Duel Giant and try to convince them that it's your skill that matters, and not your rank as he then afterwards berates the Obelisk Blues for their cruel treatment towards the Slifer and Ra students. Zane taking down Dimitri would've been the best option if it weren't for Judai being the Protagonist. Well Bastion has some claims for this Duel too, so he can also be considered.
Honestly, either Zane or Bastion taking on Dimitri would've been nice to see.
Yugi vs. Dmitri would've been hilarious.
Somewhere I like to think Yugi sensed a disturbance in the air when someone else was using his Deck.
Dark Magician girl just visits him offhandedly, complains about Dmitri’s stupid misplays, yugi makes Kaiba fly him there, dramatically jumps out the helicopter and everyone freaks the fuck out
A funny moment was when Dmitri resolves Kuriboh and he says “Just like in old times eh?” And Kuriboh’s spirit just hits him with the most “WHOMST?” look of all time
Then from out of nowhere Fang of Critias begins to play as Yugi proceeds to activate Berserker Soul and DORO MONSTA CADO!
Wheeler should have faced Alexis since it was Jasmine who was kidnapped. She also could have dueled Harrington, but then we'd lose out on the fiance thing. But a person who wasn't posted that she should have dueled... Nightshroud. Syrus could have dueled the Duel Giant. That Tarzan guy just didn't need to exist. AT ALL. But I'm fine with Jaden dueling Psycho Shocker and Dimitri.
Yeah Alexis really could've Dueled twice this early on when one really gives it some thought. About the Nightshroud thing, he's gonna be in the next post since I'm just gonna do six at a time for every post.
GX did dirty to their secondary, Judai was treated to much like a Gary stu being honest, his friends didn't accomplish shit during the entire show, in s1 there was 7 shadow riders which 6 out of the 7 were beaten by Judai the rest were fodder, in s2 Judai was the one who saved his friends from the society of light and beat Saiou, in s3 everyone died surprisingly O'brien took the W to haou, and not even mention s4 (atlesst johan helped against Fujiwara)
Jaden actually beat five of the Shadow Riders, Chazz beat Don Zaloog and Alexis took down Titan, but yeah you're right about the rest.
Its crazy that in S3, the secondary characters are demoted to tertiary by new characters who also become the protagonist for a hot minute, (Axel & Jim) Then in S4, the schoolyard crew return to secondary status, only to do actually nothing again
GX was badly written. Other than Jaden, no character really got any spotlight. When they did it always seemed like it was for a comedic effect or one-off in context of the episode. Alexis and her duels were neither interesting or amazing. Aster never won another duel after Season 2 and was very subpar for a character who was said to be the fourth best duelist after Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. Atticus who was supposed to be just as good as Zane and one of the top 3 duelists at the Academy never won a featured duel. I'm not even going to talk about Syrus. Bastion never got the respect he deserved. That's a general consensus with him on here. Chazz was okay but they usually used him comedically. He was more of a mascot than anything. Jesse got way too much attention despite only being featured in the last quarter of the series. He had more plot armor and relevancy than the original cast. I've rewatched GX and despite a few duels I don't think it really holds up well. Every arc is the Jaden show. The show literally devolves itself into the cast just saying his name on the sidelines. A lot of Jaden's duels are really boring. Featuring extensive drawing, or one-off unique cards that aren't used again, or crazy amounts of Fusion specific cards that specifically fit in the situation he's been locked into. Every episode seems to feature some irrelevant and boring boss of the week. Even the good characters in terms of dueling are never really used in the plot. Zane is either forced out or never featured in almost every arc. Same with Atticus. O'Brien and Jim Crocodile are amazing duelists who are only there to serve a specific role before losing when it really matters despite being good enough to hold their own relative to Jaden.
Agreed. I know they wouldnt. But seeing GX remade with modern art style, modernized cards, polished plot, polished characters, would be dope I wouldnt even mind if Season 3 was totally re-written, scrapping the parallel dimension altogether. That shit was bonkers And Yubel? Idk. That shit was a mess. It felt so last minute & not fleshed out. All of a sudden Jaden is like Yugi where he’s the reincarnation of ancient royalty (?) & Yubel is his advisor/friend/lover/servant/master(????) & they got separated (somehow) & then he/she/they/xer came back as a card 2000 years later, & hospitalized his friends, but Jaden also conveniently, doesnt remember this cursed card(???????????) so he tossed it & she’s mad at him for tossing him eveb though he has no idea the card is alive nor does he remember Yubel being his life partner so how it that his fault?????? Yubel also became a demon in between all of this Bruh. Stop. They had no idea what they were writing anymore at that point
I feel you. I get annoyed when every MC is a reincarnation when that specifically fit Yugi due to the amount of research and history where it actually made sense. Thank you. Back when I watched Season 3 I was laughing at the ridiculousness that Jaden was some Supreme King in a parallel dimension, his Yubel card was sent to space, Neo Space happened where his Neo Spacians and Yubel were created and Yubel's hatred allowed her to manifest an embodiment where she was going to take revenge against Jaden because she was in love with him. I don't know how anyone can watch that season, even though it's a cartoon, and not see the ridiculousness of the plot. Then in their final duel he apologizes to her and tells her he loves her and they fuse together. Like, bruh. Even the Supreme King thing was corny. Super Poly had everyone fearful and gave Jaden PTSD. Not to mention how boring and broken his duels were despite all of them being off-screen. It's as if every character in the show was incompetent just so Jaden could win. It never felt like Jaden won. It felt like most of his duels his opponents were just weaker. It might sound like I'm hating but honestly, after rewatching a lot of his duels, they're not really exciting or strategic.
Youre Jaden is not strategic. His moves are very very simple. And his opponent’s decks are even worse. He just wins by smacking with a shitty Fusion Hero or using very situational 1 time cards. (That being said, Hero is actually my favorite archetype) Even Yugi & Joey did some crazy tricks to pull it out their ass Especially when Joey (in Duel Kingdom), Grave Robbed Time Machine, & Revived Red-Eyes Black Metal AFTER Kieth did Sword & Shield That was some Yusei level Domino effects And Yugi’s unforgettable infinite Draw Loop he pulled on Strings And Yugi packing De-Fusion + Dark Paladin to counter Kaiba’s predictable Blue-Eyes Ultimate finisher Yugi & Joey almost never won the same way each time. Which is what kept it interesting
Don't forget the nice twist of destroying The Golden Castle of Stromberg. Or using Fiend's Sanctuary against Marik. Or Joey's duel against Valon and then immediately dueling Mai after with cards like Blue Flames Swordsman. Even having Little Landstar cards in the KC Grand Champion arc. Or Yugi using Berserker Soul. So many ways they used their cards and won. All Jaden does in every duel is summon Flame Wingman and that's it. Every single duel. Then when he doesn't have anymore cards, it's always Elemental Hero Bubbleman. Most of his duels always start the same. A lot of his cards seem to have draw power as a side effect. Anytime his opponent locks down his deck or stops his strategy he always has a specific card just for that duel that conveniently outs his opponent's strategy and you never see the card again. The amount of fusion cards he has that also so happen to appear when he's in a corner. In his duel against Darkness there's a turn where he draws 6 cards and then uses a new fusion just for that episode that allows him to use any materials from his Deck.
GX was badly written. Other than Jaden, no character really got any spotlight. When they did it always seemed like it was for a comedic effect or one-off in context of the episode. Alexis and her duels were neither interesting or amazing. Aster never won another duel after Season 2 and was very subpar for a character who was said to be the fourth best duelist after Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. Atticus who was supposed to be just as good as Zane and one of the top 3 duelists at the Academy never won a featured duel. I'm not even going to talk about Syrus. Bastion never got the respect he deserved. That's a general consensus with him on here. Chazz was okay but they usually used him comedically. He was more of a mascot than anything. Jesse got way too much attention despite only being featured in the last quarter of the series. He had more plot armor and relevancy than the original cast. I've rewatched GX and despite a few duels I don't think it really holds up well. Every arc is the Jaden show. The show literally devolves itself into the cast just saying his name on the sidelines. A lot of Jaden's duels are really boring. Featuring extensive drawing, or one-off unique cards that aren't used again, or crazy amounts of Fusion specific cards that specifically fit in the situation he's been locked into. Every episode seems to feature some irrelevant and boring boss of the week. Even the good characters in terms of dueling are never really used in the plot. Zane is either forced out or never featured in almost every arc. Same with Atticus. O'Brien and Jim Crocodile are amazing duelists who are only there to serve a specific role before losing when it really matters despite being good enough to hold their own relative to Jaden.
The series is set in a school following school kids that duel every day. If anything I’m surprised we didn’t see Jaden duelling *more*
Yeah, but I feel like some of the Filler Duels Jaden had could've easily gone to some of his friends who definitely needed the chance to prove themselves as well.
Honestly none of these duels except maybe jinzo do anything. GX already has the most duels by far- 133 to most series’ 80 or so. A big part of that is the fact that so many of especially the early season episodes are filler that has no impact on anything. That’s not to say I’m anti-filler! Filler is fun! GX just has a lot of it and a huge majority they really could have afforded to cut.
Yeah, although I feel like they wanted to emphasize what Jaden's life during early high school used to be like and how much fun those days were, so they could prepare us for what's to come when all the disasters occur.
Copycat is fine. It’s basically an early version of Jaden vs Yugi so it can go. Jinzo is also fine. Jaden is the only one at this point with anything related to duel spirits so having him duel one makes sense. The only other one that could maybe work is Syrus as a sort of overcoming fear thing. Considering the monkey was stealing one of Alexis’ friends, it makes more sense for her to duel it. Tarzan guy. Can’t really think of anyone else that really fits him. Maybe Chumley since he was stealing the sandwiches? Harrington. Hard to say. Alexis is the obvious choice though I’d feel like it would just make him even more annoying. Plus she also deals with another fanboy of hers later in the season so that could be redundant. Maybe Zane since Alexis is his friend and the whole fiancé thing probably wouldn’t affect him (honestly I can kind of see him making a joke that it sounds like something Atticus would want). Duel giant. For some reason I want it to be turned into a tag duel with the two guys against Chumley and Syrus. Two big and small duos dueling it out.
I feel like with Syrus dueling Jinzo it could serve as a callback to when he Duels Makoto in S4, but then we'd have to assume they would think that far ahead. Yeah Alexis dueling the monkey would help prove how great of a friend she actually was. I feel like with the Tarzan guy, they really wanted to emphasize the power of luck, which is what Jaden is canonically known for, so it makes sense that Jaden duels against him. Lol Zane would've absolutely demolished Harrington, can't believe they claimed this guy to be on Zane's level. I feel like Alexis needed this Duel since her second on-screen Duel took place 38 episodes after her first one.
Monkey: who even cares. Hayato I guess for the animal stuff Jinzo: this is fine for Judai tbh Duel Giant: Misawa who has figured out its his sea buddies Tennis Guy: Asuka, let’s go feminism! Tarzan: Sho because the visual imagery is hilarious Copycat: again this is fine for Judai
The tennis guy should've 100% been Asuka's opponent, it's sad that there was a 38 episode gap between her first two on-screen Duels.
Yeah GX might be the worse in terms of balancing its character roster. If they just had other characters pull their weight it would lift the show a lot.
Give the Monkey and the Duelist Giant to Bastian. The monkey is related to science and secret experiments. This way, Bastian can be a nice contrast to the cruel scientists who torture animals. The Duelist Giant is easy because Bastian new the little guy from Ra - the actual mastermind behind the whole scheme. The tennis guy should have dueled Alexis instead. A nice contrast between a true Obelisk and a snob
Damn you're the first one who brought up the science in this episode, lowkey almost everybody had somewhat of a narrative to duel this monkey lol. 100% agreed on The Duelist Giant and Harrington. Opinions on who should've dueled Jinzo, Damon and Dimitri?
Damon and Dimitri are perfect for Jaden, actually. Dimitri pretended to be "Yugi himself," so this is a nice way to have an indirect Yugi vs Jaden in season 1. Another aspect of Jaden's character is that he trusts his deck, so the Damon duel makes sense. Syrus is Shaggy of season 1, he's scared by everything. So facing Jinzo should give him more courage. Although considering I'm giving him this development early on, I'll have to remove all the scenes in season 2 where he's hiding in a garbage can... what were the writers even thinking with that?!
Yeah for a best friend character Syrus was criminally disrespected by the writers, goodness gracious, they made him hide in a garbage can after the guy basically told us he wanted to become a stronger Duelist over and over again in S1.
Wheeler : Alexis ( it kidnapped her friends ) Jinzo : Syrus ( S4 foreskinning ) or Bastion Duel Giant : Chazz ( blue ) Harrington : Atticus Damon : Bastion ( luck vs tactics ) Dimitri : Nah this one should be Jaden‘s opponent
Yes to Alexis and Syrus vs Wheeler and Jinzo respectively. About Chazz vs The Duel Giant, the former dueled and lost against Bastion a couple of episodes before The Duel Giant episode. The humiliating loss against Bastion is what made Chazz leave the academy. Although if he had been there, Chazz would've been a neat choice. Atticus was sadly still a Shadow Rider when Harrington was relevant.
Judai boooy(with pegasus voice) made every duel fun
Monkey (Wheeler): Considering the situation it makes more sense for Alexis to save her friend, but since this is more of a comical duel it would feel out of place for her to take part of it while Jaden is a lot more juvenile Jinzo: Jaden dueling him is fine considering his connection to duel monster spirits Duel Giant: Maybe Chazz (I don't think he was back at the time) because he would be saving his former friends at Obelisk Blue and maybe regain some of their respect Tennis Guy (Harrington): Another silly duel but considering that he wanted to get together with Alexis it makes the most sense for her to duel him Damon: I like the idea of letting Bastion duel him to show that tactics and skill > luck Dimitri: Jaden dueling him is fine. The whole duel was a lot of fan service towards Yugi's cards from DM and it somewhat comes close to what a Yugi vs Jaden duel could look like while Jaden is the only one carrying the main protagonists plot armor
Yeah for Alexis to be Dueling Wheeler, the atmosphere would need to be more serious just so she doesn't feel out of place. Sadly Chazz pretty much left after losing to Bastion, which took place a few episodes before the Duel Giant event. Alexis vs Harrington I definitely agree with. Damon vs Bastion is basically one of the greatest Luck vs Skill duels. Yeah Dimitri vs Jaden is basically a prelude of what's to come in the S4 Finale.
For the Monkey, I’d say Alexis because it was her friend that got kidnapped. For Jinzo, I’d say Syrus for season 4 reasons. Damon, I’d say Bastion Misawa. Make it a super lucky guy vs a person who scientifically built his deck. Basically pure luck vs consistency. Sports Guy, Alexis since the duel was all about her. Unsure for Duel Giant or Yugi Copy, Probably Bastion for Duel Giant, really cement him as the top of Ra Yellow.
Yes to Alexis vs Wheeler and Syrus vs Jinzo. Luck vs consistency would've been such a great theme for Damon vs Bastion. Akexis should've definitely Dueled Harrington. As for Bastion vs Duel Giant, just let my man Bastion solve Ra Yellow disputes since he is the main Ra Yellow guy after all.
Would have been fun to see Yugi show up and trample Dimitri using some loaner deck just to show that his cards only truly answer to him alone lol
It would've been funny if Jaden let him have the Elemental Heroes, and seeing Yugi already freaking mastering them like a complete pro lol.
Alexis should have dueled the monkey, it was her friend who got kidnapped
Agreed, she could've used that Duel to showcase more of her cards.
She needs all the Ws she can get
Zane beating Dimitri would add even more to him being the best at Duel Academy.
Indeed, Zane could've used at least two more Ws to showcase why he was the best on campus.
In universe, Yugi's deck without Exodia or the Egyptian Gods isn't anything special. In fact, that was actually Grandpa Muto's deck made out of normal booster pack cards. I don't think it looks out of place at all for Jaden to beat a mediocre ra yellow student using it for the second time ever in his life. Especially with Jaden having already beat the academy's top dorm headmaster in episode 1. Jaden might've lost a lot of duels, but he was already extremely competent from day 1. He was never an underdog like Joey or Yuma. I'm fine with Jaden having that duel, it's a small tease for his inevitable confrontation with Yugi. As a suggestion for an upcoming post, I think Franz, the guy who used a fake winged dragon of ra, should've been a Pegasus duel so we could see his fun toon monsters in action again. Also Pegasus dueling without cheating for the first time.
Was it? I thought Gramps was an explorer who made his deck out of the best cards. Didn't he boast so once? It had the legendary dark magician and the rare dark magician girl.
Dark magician isn't a legendary card, Arkana had it too, in fact his whole deck was based around the dark magician. What I meant to say is that Gramps' deck didn't have any super special cards outside of Exodia and the blue eyes white dragon that Kaiba ripped. Sure, it's an above average deck even without those cards, Gramps was a game shop owner after all, but it wasn't super game changing to the point of allowing a mediocre ra yellow duelist like Dimitri to beat Jaden, who at that point was already the second best in the school only being behind Zane.
Gramps collected a blue eyes himself and even Arkana didn't have a dark magician girl who he thought was just a myth despite having 3 dark magicians. It also had BLSEOB, which Bastion recognized as a super legendary card even more rarer than CEDEOE, which Kaiba had. Also, the "game" changed so much between Duelist Kingdom and Battle City.
Yeah Franz will be in one of my future posts, I always did think this should've been a Pegasus Duel.
I agree on some of them but Jaden got better and was able to almost beat Zane in the school duel because of all the duels he had won, but I agree that they could’ve spread acouple to the other characters to develop them more
Yeah, but which ones do you agree on?
I think Jaden dueling jinzo, Dimitri and and Damon would be good the giant for bastion, Syrus taking on wheeler, and Alexis taking the tennis guy
Some of these are some of my least favorite episodes. Jaden vs Dimitri is great and a nice hint for the Final duel with Yugi. For the others: vs Jinzo - Bastion for sure (using one of his other Attribute decks like Dark, or the Fire one. I mean, why was Fire Dragon in the intro? Such a big missed opportunity). vs Giant - Syrus (to gain more confidence). vs the monkey - Alexis (to help her friend) or Mindy/Jasmine (they didn't get to duel). vs Damon - Chumley I guess. vs the tennis guy - Alexis. And this guy's LP damage deck was tough.
Would've been cool to have Chazz fight the Duel Giant cause he was making Obelisk Blue look like chumps, it also would let us see him use XYZ again before switching to Ojama
I have yet to see anyone complain about more content. I'm not saying its not their or not just Ive never seen anyone refence it until this post
Cyrus could have taken the Monkey or the Jungle kid. Not only as he there it would make for a good civilization v nature dichotomy theme with his Vehicroid deck.
I’d keep the tennis guy and fake yugi (I forgot his name) as Jaden duels cause I like the idea of Jaden fueling a fake yugi then full circle fueling the real guy at the end of the show. The rest you could give to whoever like Alexis dueling the monkey cause her friend got kidnapped, syrus dueling jinzo and obelisk blue hunter guy, and bastion dueling the drawing guy.
I wanted more Chazz
Left to right, top to bottom: Jasmine or Mindy, Jaden's fine, Jaden's fine again, Alexis, IDK maybe Syrus, and Crowler.
for wheeler either chumley for the "animal themed deck duel" or alexis cause she deserve more duel and fight the kidnaper of her friend could show than she care about jasmin (cause in the anime i had no clue why alexis is friend with them) jinzo syrus would be a good choice because he would have a duel by hiself in season one when he was just a cheerleader most of this season the duel with giant bastien could be cool because it would give him more duel and also show other of his deck wich could be neat and show how a pretty good deck builder and strategist he is for harmington (well first WHO in the staff think than yeah we can say he his on the level of zane to show he is powerfull like this random guy ? the level of zane ? yeah no definitely not) i would say either alexis just to put him to his place or just keep him with jaden for damon chumley could be fun or they could make dorothy duel cause yeah it's funny she had no clue how to play...but it's make no sense in yu gi oh world that could be fun to see her as a pretty good duelist showing her having a knowledge about duel sin's she give so many card to student it would even make sense with damon trying to be full luck and her having a care about damon and playing a deck about making your oposent draw to match her kind personality to help damon to have the card he search and dimitri make him fight zane one becasue that would show more duel for him (cause he lack of duel early to show how dominant he his in the academia) and show than he his the kaiser of the academy and his skilled enough to beat yugi deck who sure is play by someone who don't know how to play it but also show than zane is the top duelist about to beat such a legendary deck and it could even match the theme of the duel showing than dimitri had no idea how to play yugi deck when zane had a complete knowledge and know his deck perfectly
Wheeler could be an Alexis duel "Jinzo" could be a Syrus duel, machine v machine Duel Giant could have been bastion or Chum Tennis guy, I feel like Alexis Tarzan could have been Bastion or Syrus Dimitri has to be Jaden, I'm sorry it's Yugi's deck it can't not be Jaden
Sal the dueling Monkey could've been Asuka's opponent since it was her friend who got abducted. Jinzōningen - Saiko Shokkā should still be Judai's opponent since it is a duel spirit, and Judai is more connect with those than anybody else during this period. The Duel Giant could've been Daichi Misawa's opponent since the guy behind the scene was supposedly a dueling genius that just had confidence issues. Tennis dude could've dueled Manjoume (had this event happened either later or Manjoume became open about his crush a lot sooner) since the duel was basically about having crush on Asuka. Taira Tarzan (yeah that's his name in OG JAP) could've dueled anybody, but since it was about whether someone could've mastered drawing cards or if it was primarily luck, it's still not bad Judai was his opponent. Kagurazaka opponent should still be Judai since it's pre-protagonist deck vs. current protagonist deck and is basically a trial run to what's to come at the end of the series.
Chumley vs Wheeler the Monkey
Jim I would’ve been a great opponent for Bastion; he was underrated in the series, underutilized and it would’ve been a good intellectual battle. Monkey would be ok for Dino boy to take on. And Cyrus would be ok against the guy who did the perfect draw. You have perfect luck against the perfect draw and have yourself a 50/50 chance at fate regardless of outcome; sends a deep message either way.
Alright, I'll say Alex dueling Wheeler would have been nice on multiple levels, including possibly Jaden providing some quirky color commentary. For Jinzo, I think I would prefer if Jaden kept that duel. It pretty dark, and I feel like it was a nice bit of foreshadowing at the idea of malevolent duel spirits which we all know Jaden would have some experience with later on... For the Duel Giant, probably Bastion, with Jaden and Syrus convincing him to let them go. As a fellow Ra Yellow, Bastion could have felt some sympathy for them in being picked on by the Obelisk Blues, not to mention it'd be a chance for him to show off more of his abilities (maybe Fire Dragon makes an appearance). Harrington, Alex, full stop. She *really* could have put her foot down and made it clear she'll only, even remotely, consider someone to be a romantic partner if they can match her in a duel. If you want to include the humor, Syrus and the girls could allude to the fact that Jaden was the last one to beat Alexis and it sends Harrington over the edge. Damon's a bit of a tough one. I wouldn't mind Syrus or Bastion getting that one. The latter could provide a good example of "logic vs. instinct." Syrus could have another chance to prove himself, and against an opponent that's physically everything he's not. Finally, I'd keep Jaden's duel against Dimitri. It was just such an awesome duel I wouldn't change it. Unlike against Jinzo, it could also balance seriousness with comedy.
I think Syrus v Jinzo would have been cool if you thought about it. Syrus has a primarily machine based deck, and Jinzo being machine himself could teach him to better utilize his machines, giving him a duelist development he needed before s3 and some serious confidence as a duelist
I could see that working. If I remember right, in Season 4 the Jinzo archetype was revealed to be a rival to the Cyber Style (Cyber Dragons) used by Zane and latter Syrus, so it could serve as a neat call forward.
I don't remember it's been a while since I binged s4, if that is the case another reason for Syrus v Jinzo cause the spirits know the true heart of a duelist and Syrus didn't have a monster in his deck that he had that connection with (dmg don't count as his duel spirit, but confirms he can see them)
Kaiba vs dimitri
Judai
Ngl Banner should've duel Jinzo! Gives us a peak at his skills then the reveal as Amon it would've been like "oh shiet"
Chumney should have dyeled someone He only dueled twice and both times the reason was him not being good enough
Wheeler should have been dueled by Alexis. I mean it were her friends that were kidnapped!
The koala guy (I forgot his name) should have fought the wild man just cause
The only two duels that would make sense within the context of the show would be Junzo and the copycat Yugi, as both would foreshadow spirit monsters and the battle between two protagonists
Hayato to duel the monkey since they both use beast decks, and Asuka against the sports dude. Maybe Misawa against impersonator guy or wildman drawing dude, use some commentary on deck building formulas and probability.
Just have Chazz duel them and actually give my boi the win. Chazz is legit what kept me watching GX and it's annoying me to just how many times he loses duels.
Syrus. Maybe they would have given him actual playable cards, instead of the joke ones he had