I personally don't consider Tron's manipulation too big of an asterisk. He still dueled fairly, but used mindgames to his advantage and keep Kaito off balance. Many characters including protags use that very strategy.
Yeah, he won fairly, and his number 69 was a better Anti XYZ than Neo Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon in that scenario, so yeah he won without cheating, and it was legit terrifying
@@ZER0lPTI feel like Yuma probably is the strongest when taking into account he can literally create and draw custom cards on the spot. Dude could make a card that reads if you control utopia you win the game if the show didn’t need to actually have duels last a while for the show to work
@@NotFromIntelligentSystemsI like yuma, but I don’t understand how people call Yusei a gary sue when yuma has this bs and atem has the heart of the cards.
@@toolazyforaname Gary Stu normally means someone who has no flaws, a bland personality, no have development or growth as a character, inexplicably good at everything etc; Yuma is _literally_ the furthest thing from that, least of all because he has the most character development in all of YGO.
@@dancostello4872 That is true, but haters use that terminology for yusei’s dueling when they run out of points, so i used it in the same way. Now that I think about it, its more of a deaus ex machina now that I think of it. I know I spelled that completely wrong
Honestly I think Zexal is pretty much invincible; he can essentially create any card in the form of zw and zs cards. Also creating rank up cards, which can be very strong in the anime. I did enjoy this video and was looking forward to it :D Also, I’m not sure anyone can say for sure that Tron would’ve lost to Kaito; the show doesn’t show any giant oversight he makes in rage during that duel
There is no asterisk on Tron’s win against Kaito. Kaito had quickly realized that winning this duel was an absolute necessity and continued to duel at his best that whole time, even if he was obviously reluctant about it. Kaito didn’t pull any punches and Tron still beat him.
@@drearydoll9430 exactly these ppl complaining about the hart situation are completely ignoring hart was freed by yuma and Co by the time kite went all out. There is no unfairness here, kite had a special power as well to fall back on. Why can't they accept this, again ?
Tron/Vetrix deserves a higher spot imo just because of his duel with Yuma, where he almost manages to shut down all of Zexal's plays, and only loses because Zexal was somehow allowed to declare battle phase twice in a row
I feel like shark had the Chazz problem of dueling the main protagonist way too many times yet never winning (shark won once when he didn't had Astral at his side). I think that shark being 3rd is very reasonable.
If you look at it without any context then yes, in most of the duels he loses he very much could've won, there was just always a level of plot relevancy blocking him from victory.
I never really understood why number 96 wasn’t number 93. Astral uses number 39 Utopia so his opposite should use number 93. Just make Dark mist number 93 and Utopia Kaiser 96.
Well they did that in the manga. In the manga version I’d the ceremonial duel between Yuma and astral instead of having number 99: utopic dragon as his ace he instead uses number 93: utopic Kaiser.
I find it interesting that between Number 93 Utopia Kaiser and Number 99 Utopic Dragon the 5 number monster can technically be called "Dark Numbers" being the Dark/Evil versions of the monsters of the main characters like Number 94 Crystalzero for Shark,Number 95 Galaxy-eyes Dark Matter Dragon and Number 97 Draglubion for Kaito,Number 96 Dark Mist for Astral and Number 98 Antitopian for Yuma. Would have been awesome to see the gang duel these numbers, they could just represent the darkness within them.
The Mizael win over III and V is definitely a more notable accomplishment than Vector's win over Merab and Durbe imo. Durbe had only an unfinished duel against Shark to that point and Merab had a little bit of hype upon her introduction, but probably still loses to III. Combined with Mizael's close performances against Kaito, I think he is definitely better than Vector by a reasonably significant margin, but Vector might still win head-to-head just due to the fact he seems to use a strategy specifically designed to combat other Barians.
@@Deathmare235Nah, Kaito is still the strongest duelist if you rlly think about it. You can't really compare Barians to other protagonists because other then Mizar and kite none of them are similar. Even with Mizar and Kite, Mizar was kites rival the point being other then their Galaxy Eyes' there both very different.
Idk because III and V shared their lifepoints against Mizar and thus alternated their turns, that was Mizar’s only condition, still an impressive win of course but vector had no such advantage, he basically said screw it because the 2v1 didn’t bother him. Just my opinion tho.
Mizar’s feat isn’t more notable than Vector’s. In episode 55 of the second part of Zexal after III stole Mizar’s number he stated:” but I am one of the seven emperors. The duel is not over yet”. So according to Mizar’s own statement even the weakest Barian emperor without his/her over hundred number can still put up a fight against III and V. On top of that Anna and Nelson were strong enough to force Mizar to summon number c107 and considering that at the beginning of the duel III and V were so weak that Mizar said thet he didn’t even need to bring out his C number then III and V aren’t much stronger than Anna and Nelson and overall Mizar almost lost (and keep in mind that although he was facing two opponents, III and V alternated their turns). On the other hand Vector dominated in a duel against two Barian emperors and won with 4000 life points using rules which put him at great disadvantage (such as Marin and Dumon had separate life points and they didn’t alternate their turns). On top of that Marin and Dumon were using strategies potentially good enough to otk even the good duelists of Zexal. Considering all of this Vector is far stronger than Mizar. Also Mizar doesn’t even have better feats than Alito so he’s not close to Vector. Lastly human Shark is easily stronger than III and V separately. Human Shark defeated IV who is stronger than III while it was shown that V’s strategy is weak against cards that negate his number’s effect so Shark’s rank 3 xyz monster can potentially be strong enough to beat V’s number. Rio as a human was able to put up a good fight against her brother so at the least Rio and Dumon (individually) are stronger than V.
The funny thing is that, although Kaito defeated Yuma and they never had a rematch in the Anime, in Zexal's Manga, Yuma did manage to defeat Kaito in a Duel. Other than that, I would say that Kaito, Soulburner, and Luke are the only Yu-Gi-Oh rivals that only got one on-screen loss in their entire series. PS: Yuma is still so far the MC who has the most defeats/loses (on screen and off screen) according to his own Anime
@@Diamondr11Blue I have never dismissed him. Yuma is the most developed MC, but he is not the best Duelist in general: only in his series (according to the series itself, Yuma lost many times and, in others, he had the power of ZEXAL to create cards out of nothing or win Duels that seemed impossible as it happens with many MCs with the exception of Yuga)
@@brunosanto3488 oh no I didn't say the best. More like most creative strategy wise? But most ppl completely overlook in the next seasons Yuma isn't a spoiled brat and leveled up
I’d say Reiji honestly. Had he have more duels, he would’ve really proved his duelling strength. He also would’ve easily beaten Z-Arc had he joined earlier but the writers rolled him over just so Ray could take the credit. Not that she deserved to - I have my own thoughts how that battle royale should’ve gone.
Dylan my guy i can say with 100% certainty that i NEED a video going over the strongest characters across the ENTIRE Yu-Gi-Oh! series as a whole. Whether it be a tier list of every character or a top ten of every character or what have you, all i know is that i NEED that video!
Zexel is probably my 2nd fav yugioh series being topped by 5D and while first part can feel like a drag alot of the time(at least for me) the second half definitely made up for it and the build up towards it and i loved everything about it
@@Diamondr11Blue i hate arguing with yugiboomers on the internet, they just sit there babbling on about how yugioh is shit after 5D's and how DM is the best
@@fxzzy__ you're so right. I grew up on the orignal but zexal is my favorite, xyz summons are cool. Synchros after for me, but pendulum can be fun. Not super sure of links
I knew Kaito would be number one on the list and I’m not surprised since he’s one of the best duelist of all time. I loved watching the duels that he took place in and my favourite duel was the one against Mizar on the moon.
One thing I’ve realized is theoretically Zexal III is the strongest in the franchise due to being able to make any necessary card he needs for any situation coupled with his Super Saiyan 3 form.
I really like your videos and have been watching your channel for years so I thought of a few videos I'd love to see you make: - Top 10 (or more) Protagonist vs Rival Duels - Top 10 (or more) Protagonist vs Best Friend Duels - Top 10 (or more) Villain v not Main Character Duels All of these videos would pull from all of the Yu-Gi-Oh! series and movies. Sorry if you have already made any of these, I tried to search for them and couldn't find them although I didn't look too deep. I just think you'd have an interesting thought process in ranking these topics. Either way, keep up the good work!
Unrelated but I loved the captions when introducing the characters on the list, made me laugh lol But I'd say this is a pretty reasonable list, nice one :)
I feel like if there was going to be a list for the Yugioh series as a whole, it should be more of a top 15, 20, or 25. That way, it would show off more duelists.
@@user-qc2kt5kd3istop trolling bro Anzu is a much stronger and has better than Tristan. She went undefeated, hence she's definitely the Best Duelist in the entire franchise
Kaito will always be my favorite character in all of Yu-Gi-Oh! He's just that awesome. Sometimes I just wish we could have one last Kaito vs Zexal III Face-off in a sequel series. Just imagine Neo Prime vs Utopic Dragon, best duel ever. Can someone tell me who you think who would win between Kaito and Zexal III. Which one would most likely win according to the narrative and in irl. Kaito's deck is a combination of his Manga Deck and Anime Deck and some of the newer Photon/Galaxy support. Same goes for Yuma/Astral/Zexal III, but they can't use Utopic Zexal. Basically Zexal III has to face Full Armor Photon Dragon, Photon Lord, Titanic Galaxy, Dark Matter, Dragluon, Afterglow, Numeron Dragon and most importantly Neo Prime. Also, it would have been way to lit if we could see five Utopias and five Photon Dragons clashing against each other.
If it’s composite than it’s hard to call, I’m not all that familiar with the ZEXAL manga but if we are judging by the anime…I’d say by the end of the series Yuma had surpassed Kaito skill wise and power wise by quite a bit. He could probably beat him without becoming ZEXAL. By the end of the series the only duelists Yuma would truly need ZEXAL to beat in my opinion were don thousand and Nash during their final duel. That version of shark had the powers of don thousand and the other barian emperors in addition to his own. Full power nash and ZEXAL III were portrayed as roughly equivalent in power.
I'd love it if you made a power rankings video for the gallop era of yugioh bc we all know there's a lot of broken characters in that era I'm also hyped for the arc v and vrains ranking vids.
I think Don Thousand should be top 1. I simply can't see Astral, Yuma, shark or even Kaito beating him individually. If I'm not mistaken, Astral didn't defeat Don Thousand, but rather their battle ended on a draw, but nonetheless I'd assume that the Don Thousand that Yuma and Shark fought is stronger since he absorbed 6 of 7 Barian Emperors and their numbers (he even absorbed Kaito's numbers in the process).
@@Honest_Mids_Masher You're right, so I guess that would make Shark top 1 then, since I wouldn't count his loss against Yuma and Astral because the result of that duel was wack due to the circumstances influencing Yuma's mentality of not wanting to defeat Shark. If he played seriously going for the win, Shark would've won. So the ranking should be: 1 - Shark 2 - Don Thousand 3 - Yuma 4 - Astral 5 - Kaito Considering each one in their peak.
Zexal is much more "DBZ scaling" than the rest of yugioh because of the "loser get absorbed by winner" rule. Yuma and Astral get significantly stronger after they defeated Shark, who himself was significantly stronger than the Shark that fought Don Thousand. 1. Yuma 2. Astral 3. Shark 4. Don Thousand
nash absorbed don thousand and obtained all of his number cards including the over hundred numbers and all of Kaito’s numbers with the exception of numeron dragon since Yuma had it. That version of Nash was portrayed as roughly equal in power to ZEXAL III. Perhaps slightly stronger since it is stated that Yuma and astral would have lost to the effect of glorious seven had Yuma not stopped his attack with utopia’s effect. Yuma and astral then get stronger after that duel since astral had all of the numbers as well as the numeron code so he could have used the numeron cards if he wanted to while Yuma gained the ability to shining draw without ZEXAL and created utopic future.
Honestly i think yuma could beat kite at the end of the series. Remember that in the duel against astral he didn't have any number cards. Also he was able to use shining draw on his own. I really wish we got to see nash vs kite tho, that would've been epic. I think shark would win because of plot reasons but it can go either way
It’s not even close ZEXAL would demolish kite, they would have every single number mister plus Yumas numbers and cuz cards. They also have shining draw to pick any card they need from their deck and to create brand new cards from scratch. Yuma also created number F0: Utopic Future.
This would be my list 10.Dr Faker (this one was probably the hardest to choose from) 9.Quattro(The one who faced Nash) 8.Vetrix 7.Number 96(final form) 6.Mizar 5.Kite 4.Vector(full power) 3.Don Thousand 2.Yuma and Astral Power of Zexal(the ones against Don Thousand and Shark) 1.Nash (inherited Don thousand powers)
It’s not even close ZEXAL would demolish kite, they would have every single number monster plus Yumas numbers and xyz cards. They also have shining draw to pick any card they need from their deck and to create brand new cards from scratch. Yuma also created number F0: Utopic Future.
@@Dawg477 pretty much. End of series Yuma had figured out how to shining draw without ZEXAL and had utopic future. That version of Yuma beat an astral that had all 100 number cards. By this point Yuma could probably beat Kaito without using zexal. I’d say don thousand and Nash are the only people he would need zexal to beat.
@@andrewscruggs7896couldn't even create zexal weapons so no he would not win since all the number cards belong to astral world . Yuma will have utopic future but kite will have galaxy eyes and neo galaxy wich will most likely destroy utopic future . Not only that another thing is that kite is literlay still a better duelist even at the end of the series who actually know how to play his cards well . Only advantage yuma has is hax
Kaito at 1 is impossible to justify from a rational viewpoint. 1. I dislike the kaito never lost argument. in the end of s1 yuma could have won if he had used zexal. yuma not using zexal means he didn't use his full power. some might argue that it would not be fair of yuma to use zexal since kaito doesn't have powers on his own. no one complained when atem did the same vs yugi. life is simply not fair and kaito is the kind of duelist who would want yuma to go all out. in s2 kaito's hardest opponent was mizael who is the 3rd strongest barian emperor. kaito has that win record because the competetion he faced in s2 was nothing compared to what yuma and shark faced. win record means nothing anyway. z-one stands at 1 win and 1 loss and he is still the strongest duelist in 5d's since yusei barely won despite having all signer dragon, the crimson dragons power, antinomy telling him that there is something beyond accel synchro, aporia givingbhimndata on z-one, his father preventing him from throwing the duel and more. back to kaito. Aoi for instance is on the opposite side of the spectrum if you look at female characters only. she dueled 2 primary season villains, a portagonist who bever lost onscreen in the present time, soulburner who had the ultimate plot armor thanks to flame being fated to be absorbed by bohman and a secondary villain who had his debut duel so him losing was very unlikely. Aoi has a bad win record but she is still a great duelist. her competition was simply very strong. actually it was stronger than kaito's which is crazy sinde yugioh loves their male trios. 2. he barely improves in s2. he gets one new ace which he loses in the end since astral takes all numbers. yuma and shark meanwhile improved a lot. 3. he has no powers. yuma can draw cards at will and create new ones on will as well. idk if he has the third zexal power which allows you to rwrite cards in your hand. astral had over 100 numbers and still lost to yuma. saying that yuma would lose to kaito in the end of the show is again impossible to rationally argue for.
Agreed Nash and Yuma became stronger than Kaito. I also don't understand why he said they needed Kaito to defeat Don Thousand, wtf? Kaito only appeared as a spirit. The numeron dragon was in Yuma's extra deck.
@@TheDream6842true. he might have meant from a emotional stance since kaito encouraged them but that's not a argument for him as a duelist. yusei's father made yusei not give up vs z-one. is he now a top duelist of 5ds? by that logic kotori would be the goat since she encouraged yuma so often I stopped counting.
Zexal was only tapped into when absolutely necessary, in the duels that were literally life or death. Yuma would never rely on that in a duel that’s just for fun. But I absolutely agree that if he had dueled Kite one more time at the end of the series he would’ve won.
So wouldn't that make Kite stronger than them since it would take both of them together and the bs "I can draw any card I want to" hax for them to win?
@@darknesswave100ZEXAL is still superior to Kite, not to mention ZEXAL has access to all the number monsters and shining draw, Kite probably can’t even beat Shark at the end of the series.
@@Dawg477At the end of the series Kite was definitely better then Shark as his deck remains nearly unaltered save for number 62. I'd say the same about Yuma whose deck takes a real drop, I mean seriously Astral LITERALLY told him what to do to win when they dueled each other so I still don't rank Yuma above kite tbh
literally, end of series nasch should've bested the strongest incarnation of zexal 3 in the show, only losing to plot. (yuma making the irrational play ends up making him win.) when it comes to characters by themselves, nasch is at the pinnacle of the top.
I'm gonna be honest, I truly think solo Yuma (No Zexal or Numbers 1-107) would beat Kaito if they were to battle at the end of the series. While Kaito was undefeated for most of the series, Yuma grew a whole lot as a person and a duelist since his loss back in Zexal 1. (Halfway through the series, mind you!) He was able to not only defeat a literal dueling god and the king of barians with Zexal, but he also defeated the proclaimed greatest duelist of the dimensions/the holder of EVERY number monster INCLUDING the greatest number monsters of their adversaries AS WELL AS every form of his own ace number monster (The same monster that almost defeated Kaito in Zexal 1) without any assistance. Call me crazy and call me desperate, but if we saw a match between series finale Yuma and series finale Kaito, I know for a FACT who will win!
I think Astral should have just been one slot higher, but I do agree Yuma not being #1 is not a disrespect because the competition is just way too damn good Yuma was a good protagonist and I'm tired of pretending he isn't
tron vs kaito had us legit somewhat surprised and shocked, that kaito came out as one of the strongest rivals EVER in the history of anime, and tron was really that much of hidden he beat kaito in like a surprising twist if you ask me. like this duel is the duel that made tron look like some unstopable menace... but kaito's soft spot for harto made him get defeated anyways
@@BenPrime0886I wish he duelled in Zexal 2 since kaito went basically invincible while tron did nothing though if he did duel he’d probably lose to the barians
Mizael 100% should be higher than Vector - he's the only Barian Emperor (besides Nasch) who has the dueling chops to feasibly beat Yuma in a 1-on-1. He had Yuma absolutely dead-to-rights in their duel (especially if Yuma continued instead of fainting), and even when Kaito took over, if C107 hadn't overloaded the Barian Field with its overwhelming power (which should say a lot in itself), Mizael would have still won against Kaito. In their Sargasso duel, Mizael was about to win that one too but thankfully again, duel field surrounding shenanigans ended it prematurely. There's a reason that the 1st time we get to see a Mizael duel not end prematurely (and the first time C107's effect is revealed) is when the entire world is tantamount to a Sphere Field so it couldn't get overloaded by C107; his first full on-screen duel was against III & V, 2 incredibly powerful duelists in their own rights, let alone when tagging together, and considerably more impressive than defeating Mirag & Durbe IMO. Heck, he only losses were because Kaito created a new Galaxy-Eyes monster on the moon, & then again because Don Thousand basically cheated (starting with Numeron Network on field & being able to rewrite cards with his 'Revision' Counter Traps, which could be activated from the Deck). He was the first duelist where I genuinely got scared for his opponents because, except the Don Thousand duel where he was obviously about to get worfed, he genuinely seemed unstoppable & I couldn't see how he was going to lose, even in the moon duel against Kaito.
@@cowgoesquack5945 lmao, bruh Faker had 12000 LP because he was fighting 3 dudes. Plus there is no Tron's number that could beat Faker's because Heart earth and Heart Earth Dragon are unafected by Spell/Trap and Monster effects. They were said by Astral to be the strongest numbers.
@@TheDream6842 literally Neo Galaxy eyes cancelled our heart earth abilities lol, also Yuma would’ve beat him first turn if it was just him and Dr Faker, within Dr Faker and Yuma’s first turn his life points when from 12,000 to 6,600 which is 5,600 life points. Also Kite Neo Galaxy would’ve easily just beat Faker in a normal duel and it showed during the 3 on one duel and at the time Vetrix was more powerful than Kite
@@cowgoesquack5945 Bruh just go read the anime effect of number 53: heart earth, it's unafected by cards effects. How could Tron's Médaillon defeat it?😂
My top 10 strongest Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal duelist. 10. Faker 9. Number 96 Dark Mist 8. Tron (Vetrix) 7. Mikael (Mizar) 6. Vector 5. Don Thousand 4. Shark (Nash) 3. Yuma Tsukamo 2 and 1 can easily be flopped cuz they are as good as each other. 2. Astral 1. Kite (Kaito)
I agree with most of this list except Yuma at 3. I mean he literally defeated Astral with no numbers in his deck until the end of his last turn and with his Gagaga and Gogogo monsters.
@@demigod4842 I feel Astral is the stronger duelist, but this doesn't take from Yuma's skill. But during the Duel Astral could have won twice, but Yuma turned the tables with his unpredictable style, if anything Yuma is why Astral isn't number 1.
I've always said Nash specifically, not Shark, is the best duelist in all of YuGiOh. When he's in that form, he is blisteringly impressive and the only reason he loses to Yuma is because Yuma purposefully holds back and it chance makes him lose the duel. If Yuma was just gonna go full strength at him, he was going to remain undefeated (again Nash, not Shark). For a list like this, I don't know how much you can separate Nash from Shark, but by the metric that we're talking about the characters where they are at their peak; Shark/Nash is absolutely the best duelist in Zexal for my money and all of YuGiOh.
WHAYT IM SAYING, HE LITERALLY ABSORBS DON THOUSAND'S ESSENCE THEN DUELS YUMA AND ASTRAL IN ZEXAL 3 AND ONLY LOSES TO PLOT, THERE'S NO WAY FOR EITHER OF THEM SINGULARLY TO BEST HIM!!!
@@WelahMan brother nash literally has went to nationals as a 15-year-old teen and has the experience of a past life king stop downplaying Nasch clears both of them horrifically in all ways.
@@themarshian5124Bruh you can't even use that logic. Kite dueled shark during that period and smashed him into next week. Literally Kite didn't even lose a life point. Plus Kite didn't know how to duel until he was 16 bc he just didn't care.
@@WelahMan first off, kite duelled shark in early zexal, a shark that had no ace or his past life experience,so that point means nothing so idk why u saying I can't use the logic, second, the hell are you talking about, kite in his youth was put into rigorous training so that he could collect numbers, so you literally contradict the point your making. There's a reason kite never duels nasch again, cause he'd get smoked
When the 5Ds Top 10 video came out I made my predictions for this video. Pretty cool to see how much overlap and how close I was with some of them. 10 = IV 9 = Dr. Faker 8 = Tron 7 = Mizael 6 = Vector 5 = Shark 4 = Astral 3 = Yuma 2 = Don Thousand 1 = Kaito I picked IV over #96 Dark Mist. I love Tron, one of my favorite characters, but I had him a little bit lower than Dylan. Then I had Shark below Astral. Finally I put Don Thousand closer to the top than Dylan.
Of course Kite was Number 1. Consistently was a good duelist, only lost once to Vetrix and was never beaten by Yuma. He racked up many good wins: Yuma, Shark, Quinton, Mizar and Jin Lon.
@@Deathmare235They never dueled in the second season? You got something against kite lol? The dude was the best duelist in Zexal 1 and the start of Zexal two until Shark gets don thousands power and Yuma gets Zexal III, Kite was dead by then anyway tho. But then by the end of the series Yuma loses all his numbers and Shark loses all that power. And yes Yuma is still worst then Astral, Astral LITERALLY told him how to win against him, like Literally told him. Now all Kite lost was number 62, which makes his deck mostly unaltered because he was formidable enough without it. Therefore Kite is the best duelist at the start and at the end of Zexal,with Yuma and Shark surpassing him in the middle of Zexal 2 ,fair?
Normally speaking kaito is definitely stronger than Yuma but shining draw is a literal cheat code, then again I don’t really see Yuma using shining draw against kaito since he cares more about having fun and making friends rather than winning
Mizar and vector should have been higher up on the list. I also think Yuma should be number 1 because we haven't seen Yuma and kite duel since the end of season 1 and in season 2 Yuma saves Kite from a loss vs Faker.
Mizar and Vector only beats Vetrix and Astral, I’ll be honest Astral individually isn’t a good duelist and when he had access to all the numbers he was just terrible.
I love this video so much as far as the top 3 yuma shark and kite...considering their different individual feats and dueling abilities and records you could honestly argue that the top 3 are endlessly interchangeable with each other in a sense they're just that good. In fact I'd probably go as far as to say that yuma shark and kite are three of the best duelists of all time right there with yugi moto (1) yusei fudo (2) jack atlas (3) yuma tsukumo (4) shark (5) kite tenjo (6) crow hogan (7) Jaden yuki (8) declan akaba (9) yusaku fujiki (10) soulburner (11)and yuya sakaki(12) oh and no this top 12 isn't based on dueling abilities from best to worst or anything like that but just generally the 12 strongest duelist of all time.
A final duel between Kite and Yuma was definitely needed. It seemed like Kite was the goal post for Yuma in Zexal and we never got to see if he surpassed him. He probably did, since he beat Astral when he was using 100 numbers, but still.
Nice edit but IMO kaito is literally too high, at his best he's just a little stronger than mizael (who is destroyed in 1 turn by don thousand). When a character like nash who has the power of don thousand is below him. Kaito is surely the greatest duelist if we exclude characters who are capable of shining draw like yuma, nash, astral or don thousand but I don't see a world where he could beat them at their full power.
Agreed, Nash and Yuma became stronger than Kaito. I also don't understand why he said they needed Kaito to defeat Don Thousand, wtf? Kaito only appeared as a spirit. The numeron dragon was in Yuma's extra deck.
@@TheDream6842 EXACTLY, one rank up to 73 would've given them abyss supra, who could've 3x stacked an already 100k+ utopia, they simply wanted to include kaito in.
Ah Mizael I remember the duel with Trey and Quinton almost loose it. :3 I have mind blow in the End. Team Tachyon forever. Shark and Kaito we are agree both GOAT. Maybe next you do Worst duelists in Zexal ? 🤔 Honorable Mention Alito: not the best but in ep 129 he almost won with 1 turn Kill to Yuma. XD
@fxzzy__ when I first saw it on the internet and I haven't watched the second part I thought yuma fused with shingetsu who I didn't know 🤣🤣🤣 guess my surprise during the big reveal
Becauseis the only one who draw against Zexal, Astral needed Yuma's help against Kite and well we didn't see Yuma vs Kite at te end, but the last time they duel Kite won
@@Dawg477 his peak isn't having all the nunbers that's Astral. I won't deny it's posible for Yuma to defeat him, but that's mostly for godly powers more than ability for the game. I will always say the strongest duelist from the franchise is Zexal because of his powers and I guess Yuma is there because he has powers too, but we never saw a final duel between the 2
@purplecraft_1079 exactly. When Reginald was “Shark”, he did look quite bad imo. But when he understood that he had a Barian form, that’s when he really started to perform
@@user-qc2kt5kd3i nah, he was outplayed. Uts actually gair since the barians were jumping earth duelists who they thought were weak, so stop with the excuses. Nasch > mizar
In my list I had Vector and Mizael much higher, with Mizael just behind Kaito (considering that they should be about equal in power). Yuma with Astral combined (Zexal) would be the strongest duelist, but individually I can see why Kaito could overtake him. My Arc-V list would be: 1. Z-arc 2. Yuya 3. Reiji 4. Yuri 5. Leo 6. Yuto 7. Battle Beast 8. Jack (Arc-V) 9. Yugo 10. Shun
Kite and Yuma did duel at the end of the series and again Kite of course proved to be the number 1 duelist! In fact Kite has managed what all other rivals ever dreamed of, to never be beaten by the protagonist and that is part of the reason he is one of my favourite characters, along with Jack Atlas!
Im surprised IV didn't make the list, considering he only ever lost to Shark, and was considered a threat whenever he was onscreen, even to Nash (who only lost to Yuma because that man was built different and played insane in that last move).
I think you can make a strong case for Mizael being the strongest barian at base level, it seems like barian's grow 'stronger' in dueling when they absorb each other, there's a reason that Vector didn't go full-out villain from the start, I think at base Vector would've been CLOCKED by base Mizael and Shark
In my opinion Yu-Gi-Oh zexal is my 2nd favorite Yu-Gi-Oh anime right behind the original Yu-Gi-Oh anime but also correct me if im wrong but isn't Kaito one of the only rivals in the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise to never lose to the main protagonist of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise
It's also worth noting that in his duel against Tron, on top of being worried about Heart, Kaito was in terrible conditions physically due to overusing his photon transformation thing
@@Deathmare235it want exactly fair remember he made kite hold back most of the duel when he showd kite that any damage he takes hart will take too . Then when kite was worn out tron used his most powerful number to win . Kite would have won if tron didn't play dirty .
@@Diamondr11Blue watch the whole duel again its pretty clear that throughout the whole duel vetrix was playing dirty and the duel would have had kite winning if vetrix didn't use the crest on hart and the whole reason he has that number was mostly from kites rage without it he would have lost. I can tell you didn't even watch the whole duel you just watched the end and assumed I'm wrong lol.
Now you may be able to make an argument for Kite being the smartest character in zexal, but I have to disagree with him being the strongest, Outside of all the characters with hacks, Astral gaining even parts of eons of experience, Shark gaining his past memories as a king and don thousand being a legitimate god. I also would not say he carried the don thousand duel, his addition seemed more or less to include him along with yuma and nasch, one supra would've curved that duel even worse for don thousand than kite did. or down to just decks, he may have a chance against shark if he could stop him from summoning barian hope, but utopia beyond and don thousand would overwhelm him if he were to duel either of them. And for me, saying he's only been best by tron in the earlier half of zexal is a bad argument.
You know if Vetrix dueled Faker he couldn't have done much considering Hearth Earth is not affected by card effects in the anime and thus immunity to Number 8 and Number 69, Vector in his final stage should be at least superior to Tron
Look him being weak at the beginning and losing one while important is still one duel Look at his level at the end and the cards and the strategies he has he hasn't beaten kite because a rematch would be a waste of time
I would go with 1.Kite 2.Astral 3.Shark/Nasch 4.Vector 5.Mizar 6.Yuma 7.Quattro 8.Vetrix 9.Nistro 10.Quinton As with the other lists I don't like to factor in outside abilities/cheats when it comes to ranking the strongest Duelist. Number 96 while a good villain always felt more like an annoyance than an actual threat. Faker's duel was hijacked by Vector so I don't think he meets the criteria of having 1 duel under his belt. Quinton never really really grew as a Duelist but he started from a strong place so that really helps him get 10th for me. Nistro really grew as a Duelist and while to Alito I felt it could go either way. I put Quattro over Vetrix as I felt his performance against Nasch, although a losing effort, pushed Nasch to his limits. I've put Yuma lower down than you did as I feel that a lot of his victories he owed to Astral. Unlike Yugi (who showed his growth and ability against multiple opponents without Atem around), Yuma almost always had Astral and while he did pull off some independent wins, it always felt like he was struggling. I put Astral at the number two spot as I felt he deserved a lot of the credit for Yuma's victories (especially his wins as Zexal) but he relied on unfair tactics (shining draw) when he clearly had the skill to win without.
I'm sorry the only one I disagree with is of course Yuma unless you don't understand he not pose to be a good duelist in being if we where to rank how many duel astral helped Yuma it only be 26 ep exactly out whole series The rest was just pep talks so I just hope this change your opinion
You really put Astral, Shark, and Vector over Yuma. Yuma defeated Astral with zero numbers in his deck and with his Gagaga and gogogo monsters. He beat shark and vector multiple times as well.
Kaito is a very secure top place for Zexal given his sheer consistency and quality of opponents beat or shown as superior to, Tron loss being closer to an outlier since its asterisk isn't even close to like Atem's asterisks for canon duels ("let me introduce blatantly in my favour timelimit Yugi boy") though that still secures Tron a spot in top 10, and certainly puts him with Seto and Soulburner as strongest duellists outside the MCs, the basically MCs characters (Supreme King, Yu Boys and Z-ARC and even AI a bit) or those who are straight up hax (like Yuma and Astral in ZEXAL which doesn't count in such lists as its a combo) among the master duel series, Rush Duels are their own tier list for me.
Don Thousand broke the limit. Here is a monster with base 10000 ATK If that is not enough, here is one with 100000. Also he is Rank 13 and i dont have to do shit to win! Also, you thought Numbers ended at 100 or 107? Nah, heres Number 1000 and here is a new version of Chaos Xyz!
I would not put Tron higher than any Barian, at least not the 3 best Barians, remember that all the Barians got the Rank-up Sevens spell that gave them an instant Chaos Number monster. Also, I would exchange Yuma and Astral positions, Yuma was the rival of Shark, and Astral was the rival of Kite, and Shark was always better than Yuma and Kite was a bit better than Astral, even with the Zexal morph. I think people confuse Astral with Yuma and gives more importance to Yuma because he was the human and Astral depended on Yuma to duel but Yuma was like Joey Wheeler (a clown) and Astral was more like Atem. The only reason why Yuma defeted Astral was, because Yuma new very well how Astral thinks, and because he was able to make shining draw and make a new version of Utopia without the help of Astral. Not even Astral expected that. I guess while dueling each other affected Yuma, evenso Astral was not by his site, Yuma was able to use Astral`s power by dueling against him. And like Yugi Muto would have never been able to defeat Atem, if they did not share there time together, Yuma would not neither.
Even Astral said himself that Shark was the most posing threat to Yuma and himself when they had Kite and Vetrix in their way too at the duel carnival, but the end of the series it was very clear Shark and Yuma was miles ahead of Kite at the end
yes absolutely we want to see the full list with kaito being in the top 5 is so interesting and to think what the other duelists are would be so interesting
I think if Shark and Kite weren’t injured, they would’ve probably done better when they dueled Dr. Faker. Because of the asterisk, I would’ve swapped Vetrix and Vector’s spots I think if Yuma and Kite were the final duel, they MIGHT give Yuma the win, but that’s only if they don’t draw. Yuma might be skilled enough to just barely win over Kite, but if they both duel their absolute best games, they might end up drawing.
I think I would actually start out the list with Dr. Faker. Would put Quattro after Faker in this list instead of 96. He showed how strong he was throughout the series only losing to the top 3 on this list definitely showed us how he was the strongest of the 3 brothers by being a champion. He didn't lose to Bronk like 96 did who I feel really didn't show us great results despite being powerful. Astral could go up to number 3 I feel since he technically did beat Shark with Yuma at the end of the show and he certainly gave Yuma quite a battle but I can see him being number 4 too still like you put him. Kaito number 1 hands down the strongest of the yugioh rivals ever and certainly up there as top 5 or 3 duelist in all of yugioh!
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I personally don't consider Tron's manipulation too big of an asterisk. He still dueled fairly, but used mindgames to his advantage and keep Kaito off balance. Many characters including protags use that very strategy.
Kito dueled best he coud, to save hart but vetrix(tron) was beter duelist in my opinion.
Yeah, he won fairly, and his number 69 was a better Anti XYZ than Neo Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon in that scenario, so yeah he won without cheating, and it was legit terrifying
I agree.
GREAT YU-GI-OH EVERYTHING YU-GI-OH ZEXAL DUELIST
na i disagree he literallyconnected himself to hart to stop kite causing damage and hurting his brother so no he isnt.
A video ranking the strongest duelists in all of Yu-Gi-Oh! once this series is done would be amazing!
It would be all the protagonists and then the rest.
With Judai or Yusei at the top.
@@ZER0lPTI feel like Yuma probably is the strongest when taking into account he can literally create and draw custom cards on the spot. Dude could make a card that reads if you control utopia you win the game if the show didn’t need to actually have duels last a while for the show to work
@@NotFromIntelligentSystemsI like yuma, but I don’t understand how people call Yusei a gary sue when yuma has this bs and atem has the heart of the cards.
@@toolazyforaname Gary Stu normally means someone who has no flaws, a bland personality, no have development or growth as a character, inexplicably good at everything etc; Yuma is _literally_ the furthest thing from that, least of all because he has the most character development in all of YGO.
@@dancostello4872 That is true, but haters use that terminology for yusei’s dueling when they run out of points, so i used it in the same way. Now that I think about it, its more of a deaus ex machina now that I think of it. I know I spelled that completely wrong
Honestly I think Zexal is pretty much invincible; he can essentially create any card in the form of zw and zs cards. Also creating rank up cards, which can be very strong in the anime.
I did enjoy this video and was looking forward to it :D
Also, I’m not sure anyone can say for sure that Tron would’ve lost to Kaito; the show doesn’t show any giant oversight he makes in rage during that duel
There is no asterisk on Tron’s win against Kaito.
Kaito had quickly realized that winning this duel was an absolute necessity and continued to duel at his best that whole time, even if he was obviously reluctant about it.
Kaito didn’t pull any punches and Tron still beat him.
@@drearydoll9430 exactly these ppl complaining about the hart situation are completely ignoring hart was freed by yuma and Co by the time kite went all out. There is no unfairness here, kite had a special power as well to fall back on. Why can't they accept this, again ?
Tron/Vetrix deserves a higher spot imo just because of his duel with Yuma, where he almost manages to shut down all of Zexal's plays, and only loses because Zexal was somehow allowed to declare battle phase twice in a row
Yes and he defeated the goat (kite)
@@BenPrime0886tbf kite ain’t the goat
@@Deathmare235disagree
Tron is ranked too high in this video. Mizael, Vector, Alito and IV are stronger than him. Arguably even Faker.
@@Deathmare235agree
I feel like shark had the Chazz problem of dueling the main protagonist way too many times yet never winning (shark won once when he didn't had Astral at his side). I think that shark being 3rd is very reasonable.
shark should've also won in the semi-finals of the wdc against yuma but he purposefully lost
He also lost on purpose when yuma was depressed
@@markogamingtv7030 no that time he didn't lose on purpose
Shark isn’t as good as astral
If you look at it without any context then yes, in most of the duels he loses he very much could've won, there was just always a level of plot relevancy blocking him from victory.
I never really understood why number 96 wasn’t number 93. Astral uses number 39 Utopia so his opposite should use number 93. Just make Dark mist number 93 and Utopia Kaiser 96.
Nah completely flip it and have Dark Most be Number 63, 39 upside down
@@elemomnialpha as Astral would say, good observation
Well they did that in the manga. In the manga version I’d the ceremonial duel between Yuma and astral instead of having number 99: utopic dragon as his ace he instead uses number 93: utopic Kaiser.
I find it interesting that between Number 93 Utopia Kaiser and Number 99 Utopic Dragon the 5 number monster can technically be called "Dark Numbers" being the Dark/Evil versions of the monsters of the main characters like Number 94 Crystalzero for Shark,Number 95 Galaxy-eyes Dark Matter Dragon and Number 97 Draglubion for Kaito,Number 96 Dark Mist for Astral and Number 98 Antitopian for Yuma. Would have been awesome to see the gang duel these numbers, they could just represent the darkness within them.
@@Solitude2500crystalzero is his sister’s myrian number
The Mizael win over III and V is definitely a more notable accomplishment than Vector's win over Merab and Durbe imo. Durbe had only an unfinished duel against Shark to that point and Merab had a little bit of hype upon her introduction, but probably still loses to III. Combined with Mizael's close performances against Kaito, I think he is definitely better than Vector by a reasonably significant margin, but Vector might still win head-to-head just due to the fact he seems to use a strategy specifically designed to combat other Barians.
This. Mizael seemed to be the Kaito of the Barian's, and if Kaito is the strongest then surely Mizael is the strongest too
@@tsunax1400but vector is the Yuma of barians and Yuma is the strongest human
@@Deathmare235Nah, Kaito is still the strongest duelist if you rlly think about it. You can't really compare Barians to other protagonists because other then Mizar and kite none of them are similar. Even with Mizar and Kite, Mizar was kites rival the point being other then their Galaxy Eyes' there both very different.
Idk because III and V shared their lifepoints against Mizar and thus alternated their turns, that was Mizar’s only condition, still an impressive win of course but vector had no such advantage, he basically said screw it because the 2v1 didn’t bother him. Just my opinion tho.
Mizar’s feat isn’t more notable than Vector’s. In episode 55 of the second part of Zexal after III stole Mizar’s number he stated:” but I am one of the seven emperors. The duel is not over yet”. So according to Mizar’s own statement even the weakest Barian emperor without his/her over hundred number can still put up a fight against III and V. On top of that Anna and Nelson were strong enough to force Mizar to summon number c107 and considering that at the beginning of the duel III and V were so weak that Mizar said thet he didn’t even need to bring out his C number then III and V aren’t much stronger than Anna and Nelson and overall Mizar almost lost (and keep in mind that although he was facing two opponents, III and V alternated their turns). On the other hand Vector dominated in a duel against two Barian emperors and won with 4000 life points using rules which put him at great disadvantage (such as Marin and Dumon had separate life points and they didn’t alternate their turns). On top of that Marin and Dumon were using strategies potentially good enough to otk even the good duelists of Zexal. Considering all of this Vector is far stronger than Mizar. Also Mizar doesn’t even have better feats than Alito so he’s not close to Vector. Lastly human Shark is easily stronger than III and V separately. Human Shark defeated IV who is stronger than III while it was shown that V’s strategy is weak against cards that negate his number’s effect so Shark’s rank 3 xyz monster can potentially be strong enough to beat V’s number. Rio as a human was able to put up a good fight against her brother so at the least Rio and Dumon (individually) are stronger than V.
The funny thing is that, although Kaito defeated Yuma and they never had a rematch in the Anime, in Zexal's Manga, Yuma did manage to defeat Kaito in a Duel.
Other than that, I would say that Kaito, Soulburner, and Luke are the only Yu-Gi-Oh rivals that only got one on-screen loss in their entire series.
PS: Yuma is still so far the MC who has the most defeats/loses (on screen and off screen) according to his own Anime
Don't discredit Yuma's still the most developed mc
@@Diamondr11Blue I have never dismissed him. Yuma is the most developed MC, but he is not the best Duelist in general: only in his series (according to the series itself, Yuma lost many times and, in others, he had the power of ZEXAL to create cards out of nothing or win Duels that seemed impossible as it happens with many MCs with the exception of Yuga)
@@brunosanto3488 oh no I didn't say the best. More like most creative strategy wise? But most ppl completely overlook in the next seasons Yuma isn't a spoiled brat and leveled up
@@brunosanto3488 end of zexal Yuma is an amazing duelist wdym
@@brunosanto3488I feel like yuma along with yuya and Yugi are the strongest duellists
I think number one in arc v might be the placement I'm most curious about in this series.
Do fully agree with this list, great vid as always dyl
I feel like we might get our first villain number 1, Z-Arc is just crazy AND he actually has wins.
I’d say Reiji honestly. Had he have more duels, he would’ve really proved his duelling strength. He also would’ve easily beaten Z-Arc had he joined earlier but the writers rolled him over just so Ray could take the credit. Not that she deserved to - I have my own thoughts how that battle royale should’ve gone.
@@SpecsTube As a die hard Odd-Eyes fan, I have no earthly idea how Yuya beat him.
@@7thHourFilmsby borrowing from the sister archetypes
Zarc definitely number 1 declan wouldn't be able to duel all those people then zarc still won
Dylan my guy i can say with 100% certainty that i NEED a video going over the strongest characters across the ENTIRE Yu-Gi-Oh! series as a whole. Whether it be a tier list of every character or a top ten of every character or what have you, all i know is that i NEED that video!
Zexel is probably my 2nd fav yugioh series being topped by 5D and while first part can feel like a drag alot of the time(at least for me) the second half definitely made up for it and the build up towards it and i loved everything about it
Finally someone who's not a yugiboomer
@@Diamondr11Blue i hate arguing with yugiboomers on the internet, they just sit there babbling on about how yugioh is shit after 5D's and how DM is the best
@@fxzzy__ you're so right. I grew up on the orignal but zexal is my favorite, xyz summons are cool. Synchros after for me, but pendulum can be fun. Not super sure of links
zexal and vrains right after 5ds for me
@@Diamondr11Blue Yugiboomer?? Is that like the Yu-Gi-Oh equivalent of Genwunner?
I knew Kaito would be number one on the list and I’m not surprised since he’s one of the best duelist of all time. I loved watching the duels that he took place in and my favourite duel was the one against Mizar on the moon.
Plus Kaito only lost one on-screen duel overall (not counting flashbacks).
@@mattstonge7112Yeah. His defeat against Tron was actually shocking
He’s not even the strongest human
@@Deathmare235 What do you mean?
@@rainbowdragon168He means he doesn't like Kite. Yeah Kite was the strongest definitely
One thing I’ve realized is theoretically Zexal III is the strongest in the franchise due to being able to make any necessary card he needs for any situation coupled with his Super Saiyan 3 form.
I really like your videos and have been watching your channel for years so I thought of a few videos I'd love to see you make:
- Top 10 (or more) Protagonist vs Rival Duels
- Top 10 (or more) Protagonist vs Best Friend Duels
- Top 10 (or more) Villain v not Main Character Duels
All of these videos would pull from all of the Yu-Gi-Oh! series and movies. Sorry if you have already made any of these, I tried to search for them and couldn't find them although I didn't look too deep. I just think you'd have an interesting thought process in ranking these topics. Either way, keep up the good work!
seeing yuma shining draw out of zexal form was mind blowing
Unrelated but I loved the captions when introducing the characters on the list, made me laugh lol
But I'd say this is a pretty reasonable list, nice one :)
I feel like if there was going to be a list for the Yugioh series as a whole, it should be more of a top 15, 20, or 25. That way, it would show off more duelists.
I'd love a full video of the strongest duelists in all of Yu-Gi-Oh!
Why? We all know that #1 is going to be Tristan
@@user-qc2kt5kd3i you're right, it wpuld still be fun to see though
@@user-qc2kt5kd3istop trolling bro
Anzu is a much stronger and has better than Tristan. She went undefeated, hence she's definitely the Best Duelist in the entire franchise
Kaito will always be my favorite character in all of Yu-Gi-Oh! He's just that awesome.
Sometimes I just wish we could have one last Kaito vs Zexal III Face-off in a sequel series. Just imagine Neo Prime vs Utopic Dragon, best duel ever.
Can someone tell me who you think who would win between Kaito and Zexal III. Which one would most likely win according to the narrative and in irl.
Kaito's deck is a combination of his Manga Deck and Anime Deck and some of the newer Photon/Galaxy support.
Same goes for Yuma/Astral/Zexal III, but they can't use Utopic Zexal.
Basically Zexal III has to face Full Armor Photon Dragon, Photon Lord, Titanic Galaxy, Dark Matter, Dragluon, Afterglow, Numeron Dragon and most importantly Neo Prime.
Also, it would have been way to lit if we could see five Utopias and five Photon Dragons clashing against each other.
If it’s composite than it’s hard to call, I’m not all that familiar with the ZEXAL manga but if we are judging by the anime…I’d say by the end of the series Yuma had surpassed Kaito skill wise and power wise by quite a bit. He could probably beat him without becoming ZEXAL. By the end of the series the only duelists Yuma would truly need ZEXAL to beat in my opinion were don thousand and Nash during their final duel. That version of shark had the powers of don thousand and the other barian emperors in addition to his own. Full power nash and ZEXAL III were portrayed as roughly equivalent in power.
Utopia has way better support than galaxy also Yuma is the stronger duelist
Could you do a top 10 yugioh characters including all of the shows but only base them purely on design alone that would be a really fun list I feel
I'd love it if you made a power rankings video for the gallop era of yugioh bc we all know there's a lot of broken characters in that era I'm also hyped for the arc v and vrains ranking vids.
would love to see a full series power ranking!
He better count ZEXAL as an individual character next time.
@@Dawg477 nah
Yeah I’d like to see a whole Yugioh franchise power ranking video.
I think Don Thousand should be top 1.
I simply can't see Astral, Yuma, shark or even Kaito beating him individually.
If I'm not mistaken, Astral didn't defeat Don Thousand, but rather their battle ended on a draw, but nonetheless I'd assume that the Don Thousand that Yuma and Shark fought is stronger since he absorbed 6 of 7 Barian Emperors and their numbers (he even absorbed Kaito's numbers in the process).
Shark absorbed don thousands power after his defeat along with the other six emperors
@@Honest_Mids_Masher You're right, so I guess that would make Shark top 1 then, since I wouldn't count his loss against Yuma and Astral because the result of that duel was wack due to the circumstances influencing Yuma's mentality of not wanting to defeat Shark.
If he played seriously going for the win, Shark would've won.
So the ranking should be:
1 - Shark
2 - Don Thousand
3 - Yuma
4 - Astral
5 - Kaito
Considering each one in their peak.
@@scailerboyshark lost to them clean hell astral was more powerful than shark
Zexal is much more "DBZ scaling" than the rest of yugioh because of the "loser get absorbed by winner" rule. Yuma and Astral get significantly stronger after they defeated Shark, who himself was significantly stronger than the Shark that fought Don Thousand.
1. Yuma
2. Astral
3. Shark
4. Don Thousand
nash absorbed don thousand and obtained all of his number cards including the over hundred numbers and all of Kaito’s numbers with the exception of numeron dragon since Yuma had it. That version of Nash was portrayed as roughly equal in power to ZEXAL III. Perhaps slightly stronger since it is stated that Yuma and astral would have lost to the effect of glorious seven had Yuma not stopped his attack with utopia’s effect. Yuma and astral then get stronger after that duel since astral had all of the numbers as well as the numeron code so he could have used the numeron cards if he wanted to while Yuma gained the ability to shining draw without ZEXAL and created utopic future.
Honestly i think yuma could beat kite at the end of the series. Remember that in the duel against astral he didn't have any number cards. Also he was able to use shining draw on his own.
I really wish we got to see nash vs kite tho, that would've been epic. I think shark would win because of plot reasons but it can go either way
Maybe they have kaito die kinda like with mizael or maybe even a 2v1 with shark and mizael vs kaito
It’s not even close ZEXAL would demolish kite, they would have every single number mister plus Yumas numbers and cuz cards. They also have shining draw to pick any card they need from their deck and to create brand new cards from scratch. Yuma also created number F0: Utopic Future.
Plot? Nasch literally has gained his memories and don thousand's essence plot is unneeded
Yuma beaten astral with the number card utopic future . Kite almost beated astral with utopia ray until yuma came.
This would be my list
10.Dr Faker (this one was probably the hardest to choose from)
9.Quattro(The one who faced Nash)
8.Vetrix
7.Number 96(final form)
6.Mizar
5.Kite
4.Vector(full power)
3.Don Thousand
2.Yuma and Astral Power of Zexal(the ones against Don Thousand and Shark)
1.Nash (inherited Don thousand powers)
Someone who actually watched zexal
@@JANATACREATIVE
Yeah I think I messed up my 10-8 spot but anything after should be correct
Wonder if Yuma would have beaten Kaito at the end of Zexal if they dueled…
Anyway we all know the best duelist in Zexal was Tomato Guy right?
It’s not even close ZEXAL would demolish kite, they would have every single number monster plus Yumas numbers and xyz cards. They also have shining draw to pick any card they need from their deck and to create brand new cards from scratch. Yuma also created number F0: Utopic Future.
@@Dawg477 pretty much. End of series Yuma had figured out how to shining draw without ZEXAL and had utopic future. That version of Yuma beat an astral that had all 100 number cards. By this point Yuma could probably beat Kaito without using zexal. I’d say don thousand and Nash are the only people he would need zexal to beat.
@@andrewscruggs7896couldn't even create zexal weapons so no he would not win since all the number cards belong to astral world . Yuma will have utopic future but kite will have galaxy eyes and neo galaxy wich will most likely destroy utopic future . Not only that another thing is that kite is literlay still a better duelist even at the end of the series who actually know how to play his cards well . Only advantage yuma has is hax
@@galacticempire857 Time at the very end? I can't rly imagine still losing to Kite, Kite is rly strong but I can't put him above Yuma at his strongest
@@emmanjr935 what do you mean by strongest yes yuma at end does have more cards but his skill level is not even close to kites.
I watched this vid just to see where you put Kaito, an you did not disappoint 🎉
Kaito at 1 is impossible to justify from a rational viewpoint.
1. I dislike the kaito never lost argument. in the end of s1 yuma could have won if he had used zexal. yuma not using zexal means he didn't use his full power. some might argue that it would not be fair of yuma to use zexal since kaito doesn't have powers on his own. no one complained when atem did the same vs yugi. life is simply not fair and kaito is the kind of duelist who would want yuma to go all out. in s2 kaito's hardest opponent was mizael who is the 3rd strongest barian emperor. kaito has that win record because the competetion he faced in s2 was nothing compared to what yuma and shark faced. win record means nothing anyway. z-one stands at 1 win and 1 loss and he is still the strongest duelist in 5d's since yusei barely won despite having all signer dragon, the crimson dragons power, antinomy telling him that there is something beyond accel synchro, aporia givingbhimndata on z-one, his father preventing him from throwing the duel and more. back to kaito. Aoi for instance is on the opposite side of the spectrum if you look at female characters only. she dueled 2 primary season villains, a portagonist who bever lost onscreen in the present time, soulburner who had the ultimate plot armor thanks to flame being fated to be absorbed by bohman and a secondary villain who had his debut duel so him losing was very unlikely. Aoi has a bad win record but she is still a great duelist. her competition was simply very strong. actually it was stronger than kaito's which is crazy sinde yugioh loves their male trios.
2. he barely improves in s2. he gets one new ace which he loses in the end since astral takes all numbers. yuma and shark meanwhile improved a lot.
3. he has no powers. yuma can draw cards at will and create new ones on will as well. idk if he has the third zexal power which allows you to rwrite cards in your hand. astral had over 100 numbers and still lost to yuma. saying that yuma would lose to kaito in the end of the show is again impossible to rationally argue for.
Agreed Nash and Yuma became stronger than Kaito. I also don't understand why he said they needed Kaito to defeat Don Thousand, wtf? Kaito only appeared as a spirit. The numeron dragon was in Yuma's extra deck.
@@TheDream6842true. he might have meant from a emotional stance since kaito encouraged them but that's not a argument for him as a duelist. yusei's father made yusei not give up vs z-one. is he now a top duelist of 5ds? by that logic kotori would be the goat since she encouraged yuma so often I stopped counting.
Zexal was only tapped into when absolutely necessary, in the duels that were literally life or death. Yuma would never rely on that in a duel that’s just for fun. But I absolutely agree that if he had dueled Kite one more time at the end of the series he would’ve won.
While Kaito is definitely worthy of the top duelist spot in Zexal, I do think that Yuma and Astral together could beat him using the power of Zexal.
So wouldn't that make Kite stronger than them since it would take both of them together and the bs "I can draw any card I want to" hax for them to win?
@@darknesswave100I still feel like Yuma could beat him
@@darknesswave100ZEXAL is still superior to Kite, not to mention ZEXAL has access to all the number monsters and shining draw, Kite probably can’t even beat Shark at the end of the series.
Didn't they use Zexal against him inside the Golden Key duel. And even with that, all they could do was pull out a DRAW.
@@Dawg477At the end of the series Kite was definitely better then Shark as his deck remains nearly unaltered save for number 62. I'd say the same about Yuma whose deck takes a real drop, I mean seriously Astral LITERALLY told him what to do to win when they dueled each other so I still don't rank Yuma above kite tbh
Sharks, the strongest
Stronger then vector and the empires
literally, end of series nasch should've bested the strongest incarnation of zexal 3 in the show, only losing to plot. (yuma making the irrational play ends up making him win.)
when it comes to characters by themselves, nasch is at the pinnacle of the top.
@@themarshian5124
yep I dare say he would beat Don Thousand at both of their peaks
I think at the end of zexal Yuma and shark surpassed kite.
*''he looked exactly like astral but much more... uh... Well, Black.''*
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I'm gonna be honest, I truly think solo Yuma (No Zexal or Numbers 1-107) would beat Kaito if they were to battle at the end of the series.
While Kaito was undefeated for most of the series, Yuma grew a whole lot as a person and a duelist since his loss back in Zexal 1. (Halfway through the series, mind you!)
He was able to not only defeat a literal dueling god and the king of barians with Zexal, but he also defeated the proclaimed greatest duelist of the dimensions/the holder of EVERY number monster INCLUDING the greatest number monsters of their adversaries AS WELL AS every form of his own ace number monster (The same monster that almost defeated Kaito in Zexal 1) without any assistance.
Call me crazy and call me desperate, but if we saw a match between series finale Yuma and series finale Kaito, I know for a FACT who will win!
I think Astral should have just been one slot higher, but I do agree Yuma not being #1 is not a disrespect because the competition is just way too damn good
Yuma was a good protagonist and I'm tired of pretending he isn't
Ahh I gotta have Mizael ahead of vector, to me he’s the second strongest Barian emperor after Shark
I thought that at first too.
Vector has don thousand power he would curbstomp mizael
so don thousand is the strongest villain in term of a duelist from yugioh zexal and omg I agree so much
tron vs kaito had us legit somewhat surprised and shocked, that kaito came out as one of the strongest rivals EVER in the history of anime, and tron was really that much of hidden he beat kaito in like a surprising twist if you ask me. like this duel is the duel that made tron look like some unstopable menace... but kaito's soft spot for harto made him get defeated anyways
Yeah Tron beating Kaito will always be one of the most shocking results IMO
Unpopular opinion but I think tron is beter duelist than kaito. He did cheat but kito still didnt pull back.
I honestly wasn't that shocked he lost. Didn't figure they were gonna have Yuma and kite be the finals seeing how much of a menace vetrix was
Nah Tron beat kaito clean
@@BenPrime0886I wish he duelled in Zexal 2 since kaito went basically invincible while tron did nothing though if he did duel he’d probably lose to the barians
Mizael 100% should be higher than Vector - he's the only Barian Emperor (besides Nasch) who has the dueling chops to feasibly beat Yuma in a 1-on-1.
He had Yuma absolutely dead-to-rights in their duel (especially if Yuma continued instead of fainting), and even when Kaito took over, if C107 hadn't overloaded the Barian Field with its overwhelming power (which should say a lot in itself), Mizael would have still won against Kaito. In their Sargasso duel, Mizael was about to win that one too but thankfully again, duel field surrounding shenanigans ended it prematurely.
There's a reason that the 1st time we get to see a Mizael duel not end prematurely (and the first time C107's effect is revealed) is when the entire world is tantamount to a Sphere Field so it couldn't get overloaded by C107; his first full on-screen duel was against III & V, 2 incredibly powerful duelists in their own rights, let alone when tagging together, and considerably more impressive than defeating Mirag & Durbe IMO.
Heck, he only losses were because Kaito created a new Galaxy-Eyes monster on the moon, & then again because Don Thousand basically cheated (starting with Numeron Network on field & being able to rewrite cards with his 'Revision' Counter Traps, which could be activated from the Deck).
He was the first duelist where I genuinely got scared for his opponents because, except the Don Thousand duel where he was obviously about to get worfed, he genuinely seemed unstoppable & I couldn't see how he was going to lose, even in the moon duel against Kaito.
Why is Tron above Faker? Only Yuma was enough to defeat Tron while it took the 3 main protagonists to defeat Faker.
Vetrix would beat Faker in a duel, his cards just counteract his numbers that and Faker had 12,000 life points to summon 3 level 5’s the first turn
@@cowgoesquack5945 lmao, bruh Faker had 12000 LP because he was fighting 3 dudes. Plus there is no Tron's number that could beat Faker's because Heart earth and Heart Earth Dragon are unafected by Spell/Trap and Monster effects. They were said by Astral to be the strongest numbers.
@@TheDream6842
literally Neo Galaxy eyes cancelled our heart earth abilities lol, also Yuma would’ve beat him first turn if it was just him and Dr Faker, within Dr Faker and Yuma’s first turn his life points when from 12,000 to 6,600 which is 5,600 life points. Also Kite Neo Galaxy would’ve easily just beat Faker in a normal duel and it showed during the 3 on one duel and at the time Vetrix was more powerful than Kite
@@cowgoesquack5945 Bruh just go read the anime effect of number 53: heart earth, it's unafected by cards effects. How could Tron's Médaillon defeat it?😂
@@TheDream6842tron lasted longer against yuma and astral in zexal than faker did whilst being amped up by vector.
My top 10 strongest Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal duelist.
10. Faker
9. Number 96 Dark Mist
8. Tron (Vetrix)
7. Mikael (Mizar)
6. Vector
5. Don Thousand
4. Shark (Nash)
3. Yuma Tsukamo
2 and 1 can easily be flopped cuz they are as good as each other.
2. Astral
1. Kite (Kaito)
I agree with most of this list except Yuma at 3. I mean he literally defeated Astral with no numbers in his deck until the end of his last turn and with his Gagaga and Gogogo monsters.
@@demigod4842 I feel Astral is the stronger duelist, but this doesn't take from Yuma's skill. But during the Duel Astral could have won twice, but Yuma turned the tables with his unpredictable style, if anything Yuma is why Astral isn't number 1.
I've always said Nash specifically, not Shark, is the best duelist in all of YuGiOh. When he's in that form, he is blisteringly impressive and the only reason he loses to Yuma is because Yuma purposefully holds back and it chance makes him lose the duel. If Yuma was just gonna go full strength at him, he was going to remain undefeated (again Nash, not Shark).
For a list like this, I don't know how much you can separate Nash from Shark, but by the metric that we're talking about the characters where they are at their peak; Shark/Nash is absolutely the best duelist in Zexal for my money and all of YuGiOh.
WHAYT IM SAYING, HE LITERALLY ABSORBS DON THOUSAND'S ESSENCE THEN DUELS YUMA AND ASTRAL IN ZEXAL 3 AND ONLY LOSES TO PLOT, THERE'S NO WAY FOR EITHER OF THEM SINGULARLY TO BEST HIM!!!
Key words there is WITH Don thousands power unfortunately. Without it... Yuma and Kaito and Astral all surpass him
@@WelahMan brother nash literally has went to nationals as a 15-year-old teen and has the experience of a past life king stop downplaying Nasch clears both of them horrifically in all ways.
@@themarshian5124Bruh you can't even use that logic. Kite dueled shark during that period and smashed him into next week. Literally Kite didn't even lose a life point. Plus Kite didn't know how to duel until he was 16 bc he just didn't care.
@@WelahMan first off, kite duelled shark in early zexal, a shark that had no ace or his past life experience,so that point means nothing so idk why u saying I can't use the logic, second, the hell are you talking about, kite in his youth was put into rigorous training so that he could collect numbers, so you literally contradict the point your making.
There's a reason kite never duels nasch again, cause he'd get smoked
When the 5Ds Top 10 video came out I made my predictions for this video. Pretty cool to see how much overlap and how close I was with some of them.
10 = IV
9 = Dr. Faker
8 = Tron
7 = Mizael
6 = Vector
5 = Shark
4 = Astral
3 = Yuma
2 = Don Thousand
1 = Kaito
I picked IV over #96 Dark Mist. I love Tron, one of my favorite characters, but I had him a little bit lower than Dylan. Then I had Shark below Astral. Finally I put Don Thousand closer to the top than Dylan.
Nah bro every video you edit is fun and enjoyable to watch 💜. Good video as always.
Of course Kite was Number 1. Consistently was a good duelist, only lost once to Vetrix and was never beaten by Yuma. He racked up many good wins: Yuma, Shark, Quinton, Mizar and Jin Lon.
He never beat astral though and couldn’t beat shark and Yuma in the second season
@@Deathmare235They never dueled in the second season? You got something against kite lol? The dude was the best duelist in Zexal 1 and the start of Zexal two until Shark gets don thousands power and Yuma gets Zexal III, Kite was dead by then anyway tho. But then by the end of the series Yuma loses all his numbers and Shark loses all that power. And yes Yuma is still worst then Astral, Astral LITERALLY told him how to win against him, like Literally told him. Now all Kite lost was number 62, which makes his deck mostly unaltered because he was formidable enough without it. Therefore Kite is the best duelist at the start and at the end of Zexal,with Yuma and Shark surpassing him in the middle of Zexal 2 ,fair?
@@SpecsTube he would've lost earlier in the WDC if plot no jutsu hasn't kicked in at last moment. He was legit being outplayed left and right
Normally speaking kaito is definitely stronger than Yuma but shining draw is a literal cheat code, then again I don’t really see Yuma using shining draw against kaito since he cares more about having fun and making friends rather than winning
Mizar and vector should have been higher up on the list. I also think Yuma should be number 1 because we haven't seen Yuma and kite duel since the end of season 1 and in season 2 Yuma saves Kite from a loss vs Faker.
Mizar and Vector only beats Vetrix and Astral, I’ll be honest Astral individually isn’t a good duelist and when he had access to all the numbers he was just terrible.
I would suggest a tier list based on each duelists' strength.
Please make a full franchise ranking. Also Kite is the goat.
I love this video so much as far as the top 3 yuma shark and kite...considering their different individual feats and dueling abilities and records you could honestly argue that the top 3 are endlessly interchangeable with each other in a sense they're just that good. In fact I'd probably go as far as to say that yuma shark and kite are three of the best duelists of all time right there with yugi moto (1) yusei fudo (2) jack atlas (3) yuma tsukumo (4) shark (5) kite tenjo (6) crow hogan (7) Jaden yuki (8) declan akaba (9) yusaku fujiki (10) soulburner (11)and yuya sakaki(12) oh and no this top 12 isn't based on dueling abilities from best to worst or anything like that but just generally the 12 strongest duelist of all time.
Replace shark with astral
Yuya should be higher especially against reiji in his original form he defeated everyone
Where’s joey wheeler?
@@Prideium9001 he’s not good enough
Zarc and yugi definitely top 5 and jaden
A final duel between Kite and Yuma was definitely needed. It seemed like Kite was the goal post for Yuma in Zexal and we never got to see if he surpassed him. He probably did, since he beat Astral when he was using 100 numbers, but still.
Nice edit but IMO kaito is literally too high, at his best he's just a little stronger than mizael (who is destroyed in 1 turn by don thousand). When a character like nash who has the power of don thousand is below him. Kaito is surely the greatest duelist if we exclude characters who are capable of shining draw like yuma, nash, astral or don thousand but I don't see a world where he could beat them at their full power.
That's taken out the fact all those characters have more credible experience then kite.
Agreed, Nash and Yuma became stronger than Kaito. I also don't understand why he said they needed Kaito to defeat Don Thousand, wtf? Kaito only appeared as a spirit. The numeron dragon was in Yuma's extra deck.
@@TheDream6842 EXACTLY, one rank up to 73 would've given them abyss supra, who could've 3x stacked an already 100k+ utopia, they simply wanted to include kaito in.
I’d like to see a full franchise top 10 please
I'd definitely like a franchise power ranking. That would be the pinnacle of this series so please consider it
More than 10
Ah Mizael I remember the duel with Trey and Quinton almost loose it. :3
I have mind blow in the End.
Team Tachyon forever.
Shark and Kaito we are agree both GOAT.
Maybe next you do Worst duelists in Zexal ? 🤔
Honorable Mention Alito: not the best but in ep 129 he almost won with 1 turn Kill to Yuma. XD
Also my favorite design for the zexal morph was the second form
same lol
@fxzzy__ when I first saw it on the internet and I haven't watched the second part I thought yuma fused with shingetsu who I didn't know 🤣🤣🤣 guess my surprise during the big reveal
@@reverseflash7095 lol
Amazing series and would love it for other series as well as their crossover 🎉
The disrespect for Yuma doesn’t stop, I can’t actually believe how many people think Kite is a better duelist than Yuma or Astral.
Becauseis the only one who draw against Zexal, Astral needed Yuma's help against Kite and well we didn't see Yuma vs Kite at te end, but the last time they duel Kite won
@@FranciscoRamirez-nb4uuDon’t pretend like Yuma wouldn’t beat kite when he has shining draw and all the number monsters at his peak.
@@Dawg477 his peak isn't having all the nunbers that's Astral.
I won't deny it's posible for Yuma to defeat him, but that's mostly for godly powers more than ability for the game.
I will always say the strongest duelist from the franchise is Zexal because of his powers and I guess Yuma is there because he has powers too, but we never saw a final duel between the 2
Or nasch. the dude who literally dueled them both at their highest form!?!??!
@@Dawg477astral world has all the number monster not yuma . The shining draw done by yuma is only shown to create utopic future not zexal weapons.
I'm late, but I agree on Kaito and vote for a top 10 strongest duelists in all alof YGO !
Nice I might need to finish zexal looks interesting
1. ZEXAL
2. Yuma
3. Astral
4. Shark
5. Kite
Saddly facts
Now i definitely need to see a duel between kaiba(dsod), kaiser(cyberdark), atlas(signer), and kite(1000).
Unpopular opinion: Mizar’s duel against III and V makes him the strongest character for me. They stole his ace and used C Numbers, but Mizar still won
Nah, Shark is quite average. It’s Nasch who was really strong
@@user-qc2kt5kd3ibut they are the same person. Shark just didn't know he was a barian until his memories returned.
@purplecraft_1079 exactly. When Reginald was “Shark”, he did look quite bad imo. But when he understood that he had a Barian form, that’s when he really started to perform
@purplecraft_1079didn't the real Shark died and Nash took possesion of the body?
@@user-qc2kt5kd3i nah, he was outplayed. Uts actually gair since the barians were jumping earth duelists who they thought were weak, so stop with the excuses. Nasch > mizar
In my list I had Vector and Mizael much higher, with Mizael just behind Kaito (considering that they should be about equal in power). Yuma with Astral combined (Zexal) would be the strongest duelist, but individually I can see why Kaito could overtake him.
My Arc-V list would be:
1. Z-arc
2. Yuya
3. Reiji
4. Yuri
5. Leo
6. Yuto
7. Battle Beast
8. Jack (Arc-V)
9. Yugo
10. Shun
Kaito beat shun
Kaito is so good like the guy never lost to yuma I felt he was stronger in the beginning of the show to I agree with number 1
1-) Astral
2-) Yuma
3-) Shark
4-) Don Thousand
5-) Kaito
Kite and Yuma did duel at the end of the series and again Kite of course proved to be the number 1 duelist! In fact Kite has managed what all other rivals ever dreamed of, to never be beaten by the protagonist and that is part of the reason he is one of my favourite characters, along with Jack Atlas!
the first Time i agree 100%
I think Shark and Yuma are both better than kite. Kite struggled against Mizael who got clowned on by Don Thousand.
You're forgetting that they used zexal to beat don thousand . Without it they would have lost.
For sure, but don't forget Mizar didn't have any Barian powers against Don Thousands.
I'm guessing the top 10 for arcv will involve jack yugo yuya yuri reiji zarc kaito battlebeast crow yuto
I need to see Kite vs. Playmaker ASAP
Playmaker wins easy
Im surprised IV didn't make the list, considering he only ever lost to Shark, and was considered a threat whenever he was onscreen, even to Nash (who only lost to Yuma because that man was built different and played insane in that last move).
Shark and Kaito are among my fav characters.
I think you can make a strong case for Mizael being the strongest barian at base level, it seems like barian's grow 'stronger' in dueling when they absorb each other, there's a reason that Vector didn't go full-out villain from the start, I think at base Vector would've been CLOCKED by base Mizael and Shark
Clearly the strongest zexal charicter is the guy who loves tomatoes or maybe the footballer guy who uses playmaker
Good for him that he summoned one of the strongest protagonists to defeat Yuma with his Decode Talker
@@user-qc2kt5kd3iI still can't belive there is a monster card called playmaker
@@nebbynetwork2089 you new here? There are plenty of cards that have similar names to mcs
In my opinion Yu-Gi-Oh zexal is my 2nd favorite Yu-Gi-Oh anime right behind the original Yu-Gi-Oh anime but also correct me if im wrong but isn't Kaito one of the only rivals in the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise to never lose to the main protagonist of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise
Would love to see a top 10 greatest duelist of all time it wouldn't be easy but it be fun to see
That fanart in the thumbnail goes hard.
I would like to see strongest duelist of the entire francize
It's also worth noting that in his duel against Tron, on top of being worried about Heart, Kaito was in terrible conditions physically due to overusing his photon transformation thing
But he still lost fairly
@@Deathmare235He lost not really fairly lol. Still great duel
@@Deathmare235it want exactly fair remember he made kite hold back most of the duel when he showd kite that any damage he takes hart will take too . Then when kite was worn out tron used his most powerful number to win . Kite would have won if tron didn't play dirty .
@@galacticempire857 nope. Vetrix did win that match by using his trap and his Numbers effect. Stop c oping
@@Diamondr11Blue watch the whole duel again its pretty clear that throughout the whole duel vetrix was playing dirty and the duel would have had kite winning if vetrix didn't use the crest on hart and the whole reason he has that number was mostly from kites rage without it he would have lost. I can tell you didn't even watch the whole duel you just watched the end and assumed I'm wrong lol.
Now you may be able to make an argument for Kite being the smartest character in zexal, but I have to disagree with him being the strongest, Outside of all the characters with hacks, Astral gaining even parts of eons of experience, Shark gaining his past memories as a king and don thousand being a legitimate god.
I also would not say he carried the don thousand duel, his addition seemed more or less to include him along with yuma and nasch, one supra would've curved that duel even worse for don thousand than kite did.
or down to just decks, he may have a chance against shark if he could stop him from summoning barian hope, but utopia beyond and don thousand would overwhelm him if he were to duel either of them.
And for me, saying he's only been best by tron in the earlier half of zexal is a bad argument.
Who else ain't surprised Kite is number 1 I know I wasn't always thought Kite was strongest
You know if Vetrix dueled Faker he couldn't have done much considering Hearth Earth is not affected by card effects in the anime and thus immunity to Number 8 and Number 69, Vector in his final stage should be at least superior to Tron
@@ramzehx6534 nor is heraldry Crest.
Can’t wait for you to get to Arc V. I’m a firm believer that Reiji is one of the best duelists. Period.
Look him being weak at the beginning and losing one while important is still one duel
Look at his level at the end and the cards and the strategies he has he hasn't beaten kite because a rematch would be a waste of time
Eliphas should be on this list instead of Faker, in the spot that Faker is currently in.
I would go with
1.Kite
2.Astral
3.Shark/Nasch
4.Vector
5.Mizar
6.Yuma
7.Quattro
8.Vetrix
9.Nistro
10.Quinton
As with the other lists I don't like to factor in outside abilities/cheats when it comes to ranking the strongest Duelist. Number 96 while a good villain always felt more like an annoyance than an actual threat. Faker's duel was hijacked by Vector so I don't think he meets the criteria of having 1 duel under his belt. Quinton never really really grew as a Duelist but he started from a strong place so that really helps him get 10th for me. Nistro really grew as a Duelist and while to Alito I felt it could go either way. I put Quattro over Vetrix as I felt his performance against Nasch, although a losing effort, pushed Nasch to his limits. I've put Yuma lower down than you did as I feel that a lot of his victories he owed to Astral. Unlike Yugi (who showed his growth and ability against multiple opponents without Atem around), Yuma almost always had Astral and while he did pull off some independent wins, it always felt like he was struggling. I put Astral at the number two spot as I felt he deserved a lot of the credit for Yuma's victories (especially his wins as Zexal) but he relied on unfair tactics (shining draw) when he clearly had the skill to win without.
I'm sorry the only one I disagree with is of course Yuma unless you don't understand he not pose to be a good duelist in being if we where to rank how many duel astral helped Yuma it only be 26 ep exactly out whole series The rest was just pep talks so I just hope this change your opinion
You really put Astral, Shark, and Vector over Yuma.
Yuma defeated Astral with zero numbers in his deck and with his Gagaga and gogogo monsters. He beat shark and vector multiple times as well.
@@demigod4842 Yuma and Astral could have lost against Nash in their last duel if he attacked. Even them reconized that they won because of pure luck.
@@scizoreon4068 Quinton wouldn't have lost if he direct attacked. He had been outplaying kite since turn 1
Kaito is a very secure top place for Zexal given his sheer consistency and quality of opponents beat or shown as superior to, Tron loss being closer to an outlier since its asterisk isn't even close to like Atem's asterisks for canon duels ("let me introduce blatantly in my favour timelimit Yugi boy") though that still secures Tron a spot in top 10, and certainly puts him with Seto and Soulburner as strongest duellists outside the MCs, the basically MCs characters (Supreme King, Yu Boys and Z-ARC and even AI a bit) or those who are straight up hax (like Yuma and Astral in ZEXAL which doesn't count in such lists as its a combo) among the master duel series, Rush Duels are their own tier list for me.
Don Thousand broke the limit.
Here is a monster with base 10000 ATK
If that is not enough, here is one with 100000. Also he is Rank 13 and i dont have to do shit to win!
Also, you thought Numbers ended at 100 or 107? Nah, heres Number 1000 and here is a new version of Chaos Xyz!
102k
Kaito made kaiba and every rival who came before him proud
I would not put Tron higher than any Barian, at least not the 3 best Barians, remember that all the Barians got the Rank-up Sevens spell that gave them an instant Chaos Number monster.
Also, I would exchange Yuma and Astral positions, Yuma was the rival of Shark, and Astral was the rival of Kite, and Shark was always better than Yuma and Kite was a bit better than Astral, even with the Zexal morph.
I think people confuse Astral with Yuma and gives more importance to Yuma because he was the human and Astral depended on Yuma to duel but Yuma was like Joey Wheeler (a clown) and Astral was more like Atem. The only reason why Yuma defeted Astral was, because Yuma new very well how Astral thinks, and because he was able to make shining draw and make a new version of Utopia without the help of Astral. Not even Astral expected that. I guess while dueling each other affected Yuma, evenso Astral was not by his site, Yuma was able to use Astral`s power by dueling against him. And like Yugi Muto would have never been able to defeat Atem, if they did not share there time together, Yuma would not neither.
I think Yuma and Shark are head and shoulders ahead of Kite by the end of the series.
Exactly
Even Astral said himself that Shark was the most posing threat to Yuma and himself when they had Kite and Vetrix in their way too at the duel carnival, but the end of the series it was very clear Shark and Yuma was miles ahead of Kite at the end
Not shark
yes absolutely we want to see the full list with kaito being in the top 5 is so interesting and to think what the other duelists are would be so interesting
Kaito will always be the strongest
I agree!
Idk, he never could beat Caswell
He’s not even the strongest of his race
@@YugiohEverythinghe’s not even the strongest of his race
@@Deathmare235 yes he is he beat Dr faker with Yuma and shark + he beat mizeal and help beat don thousand and beat many other duels as a number hunter
I think if Shark and Kite weren’t injured, they would’ve probably done better when they dueled Dr. Faker.
Because of the asterisk, I would’ve swapped Vetrix and Vector’s spots
I think if Yuma and Kite were the final duel, they MIGHT give Yuma the win, but that’s only if they don’t draw. Yuma might be skilled enough to just barely win over Kite, but if they both duel their absolute best games, they might end up drawing.
He also put Tron above Faker, wtf? Only Yuma was enough to defeat Tron while it took the 3 main protagonists to defeat Faker.
And then we have ZEXAL at number 0, he technically is his own person right? Alr I'll stop coping he doesn't count
Please do a full series powerscaling video
I think I would actually start out the list with Dr. Faker. Would put Quattro after Faker in this list instead of 96. He showed how strong he was throughout the series only losing to the top 3 on this list definitely showed us how he was the strongest of the 3 brothers by being a champion. He didn't lose to Bronk like 96 did who I feel really didn't show us great results despite being powerful. Astral could go up to number 3 I feel since he technically did beat Shark with Yuma at the end of the show and he certainly gave Yuma quite a battle but I can see him being number 4 too still like you put him. Kaito number 1 hands down the strongest of the yugioh rivals ever and certainly up there as top 5 or 3 duelist in all of yugioh!