Not a big fan of Chazz/Manjoume, but let's keep in mind he beat an entire school to become its representative, beat an entire dorm worth of high level duelist to release them from their mindcontrol, won the entire GX tournament (only for plot reasons) and beat a pro-level duelist while wearing a stupid costume... He Chazzed it up when he needed it the most
Chazz is what happens when you combine Kaibas Ego with Joey's Comic Relief. Hes a good duelist (my fav actually), but like Joey, he doesn't win plot duels, but it was always entertaining watching him duel. 1, 10, 100, 1000, MANJOUME THUNDER
Well one could argue the vital plot Duels he won were against his brother Slade for control of Duel Academy and against the Shadow Rider Don Zaloog, with the latter obviously much more impactful even though he ended up losing his key later. But considering Jaden took most of the Shadow Riders out by himself, it's honestly shocking that Chazz and Alexis managed to get in a W at all, considering powerhouses like Zane *his hand was forced* and Bastion didn't.
CORRECTIONS!!!!! Hi all! So Yuga actually should be tied for 1st... He lost a total of 9 times. I missed his third loss to Luke. Completely forgot that duel happened and the Wiki that I was using for fact checking actually doesn't even have that duel listed. My apologies on that! Also, Joey lost to Seeker (Exodia Rare Hunter) so he should be at 8. I didn't even look that one up b/c I vivdly remember it being off screen... Memory can be a funny thing sometimes Also, Mai def could have been an honorable mention. She lost to Yugi, Joey, Tea, and Marik. Not counting her losses to Raphael, Valon, and Panik since they were ALL off screen, she def lost a lot too but saved by the criteria of what counts lol
He’s my favorite protagonist of all time. No matter what happens to him he always gets up and still keeps at it. Whenever I think if Yuma’s loses, I can’t help with think of the Elton John song I’m still standing
I can't believe you missed my man Ushio, the all time character of Yugioh. He had 6 losses in 5D's (3 to Yusei, one to Aki, one to Ghost and one to Jack)
Pretty sure Chazz had an insane amount of wins tho. Beating North Academy and almost all of Duel Academy by himself. Chazz Princeton? More like CHAD Princeton.
Bastard did _a lot_ of stat-padding. And for the record, he beat just about everyone at Duel Academy *twice.* First to put them under the Light's control, second time to free them from it.
This is more about the number of losses then their actual percentage of wins. That is why characters who never won a duel are higher on the list. I think having a list of ratios would have been better.
I really liked Chazz I thought he had some solid development I do think that he became a great duelist towards the end of the show. Out of his nine losses I feel like one of them should have an asterisk beside it that being season 4 duel with judai where chazz could have won but lost on purpose.
Honestly this is why Yuma and Chazz are some of my favorite characters, its easy to make a character to start out good or average. But their character's (especially Yuma's and his department from astral at times) show true growth beyond where they started to where they ended.
With chaz i think they make it balanced(well as much as they could) in the sense he also racks up a lot of wins as well, and I don't think it gets to the point where you feel "they say he is good, but he never has anything to show". And he oscillate between goofy and serious too.
If we *were* to add in offscreen duels, I'm pulling for Sakaki Yuya. He lost 150+ times to Noboru Gongenzaka in a single night while figuring out WTF Pendulum even is. Makes Yuma losing to Bronk 27 times far less embarrassing, don't it?
I feel like Edo/Aster's first loss against Judai/Jaden shouldn't really count as he was acting like a newbie all throughout the duel to fool Jaden and scout him & his deck. Yes it's technically a loss but he used a weak deck that wasn't his and he misplayed on purpose, it was never a serious duel for him he was playing dumb & entered with the intent to lose. Imo only the loss when he was rematching Jaden after beating him once (their 3rd duel) should count. But I'm just nitpicking because I love him & how sassy he is in the dub (well, everyone is in the dub lol)
@@mlpfanboy1701 Lol well as I said, my point is losing to a deck - weak or not - doesn't really mean anything if you're actively *trying* to lose from the beginning. Just like winning against Tearlaments with Ojamas doesn't mean anything if the Tearlament player is actively throwing the game, for instance.
Agreed, even Judai/Jaden counts it as not being a real win hence why he said they're even now after he won with his Neo Spacians on the rematch against the Destiny Heroes.
@@x-mighty7602 Technically Joey only beat Odion because he stood up while Odion was still unconscious. Joey gets some shit luck against Marik but he also got lucky against Odion.
Fun fact: Jounouchi only lost one onscreen duel in the entirety of Battle City, which was against Kaiba. Exodia rare hunter was offscreen and Malik was technically a no result.
The fact that Joey loses so much is what makes him relateable character. I was always more interested in Joey's duel than Atem's, because Atem almost always wins (only two loses). While Atem is super cool and badass, Joey is the more interesting character.
Technically Atem "lost" to Pegasus in EP 2 also. The timer ran out and thus Atem lost the duel, even tho he would have won if the timer had an extra minute cuz he was in the middle of an attack. With the "loss" to Kaiba in duelist kingdom and the loss to Raphael, that's technically 3 overall.
Yuma is my favorite protagonists of all time, but the fact that he’s lost many duels is why I like him the best. After all the previous protagonists with Win Streaks it’s nice to see a change of pace. He never lets his losses get the best of him. Yuma gets back up, goes with flow and tries until he can Hi-5 the sky. If you don’t like him that’s fine, but that’s my reason my I love Yuma the most. He a real duelist who fails and keeps going.
@@christiansantana4869 I 100% agree. He’s the only protagonist in middle school and he’s like my age when I started as I was about to go to middle school. Also it’s fun that he starts the series off with a 20 consecutive lose streak and he finally wins. It really makes us happy for him. Not like Yusaku who goes in and leaves undefeated. Yuma loses, but gets up and Keeps going
I love him for that. He's not a perfect duelist but he works hard to get better with Astral's help. His optimism is much more realistic than Yuuya "Egao" Sakaki himself.
Chazz is underrated I think. He feels almost Joey-like. Where we're introduced to Chazz as an implied experienced and top tier duelist, his growth came on the emotional/friendship side of his character. Joey (in the anime) is introduced as a great and loyal friend, while his growth is shown in his journey from being a 4th Rate duelist, to someone who actually garners even a pinch of respect from Kaiba. Their growth mirrors each others, just in different parts of their character. Maybe I'm off, but that perspective helped me appreciate Chazz a lot more in revisiting the series.
God I love these types of vids I also really enjoy analyzing and taking notes numbers of yugioh, although some of the characters I like do be on the losing side sadly…
Yeah. Many people felt like he should've beaten Jaden in their second duel after he returned to Duel Academy representing the other school. I felt like Jaden shouldn't have won against him, yet made one of Jaden's 3 only loses to freaking Kaibaman.
It’s the same with Kaiba. Both are great duelist with Chazz defeating two schools, but unfortunately, both never defeating their rival.(I am not counting the time with Kaiba in duelist kingdom since Yugi was the one who conceded.) It’s like the first two series were afraid to let the rival win.
A little Addendum: You could give Jean-Michel Roger an honoral mention, because (just in theory) he has an infinite-lose-record against Reiji. Because of Reiji's Loop-Combo he has two loses, but the fact, that he ran away instead of retry the duel for so long that he coul draw a card like MST or something to break Reiji's combo, shows, that he couldn't beat Reiji even if he would have tried for eternity. P.S.: Sorry for my (written) english. I am a native german guy, whose english is more worse than everything else. But i just wanted to leave at least one comment to one of your videos. I am watching your videos since the 5. Season of Arc-V and i liked every one of it. So thanks for your work and your great entertainment. ^^
This is what I always found hilarious about the infinite loop; if they'd kept going forever like Roget initially planned, every time he re-intruded he would have had a fresh 5-card hand, so the fact he still scooped after the first application of the loop, despite theoretically being able to keep trying until he managed to 'draw the out' showed he literally didn't have one.
@@dancostello4872 What benefits Reiji is that the intruding player must have their turn before the others can get their turns while said player will have 2K LP. This means, Reiji cant get a deck out because of draw phase since he would never get his turn if he keeps otking Roget
@@unknowed5048 Yeah I know, that's what makes it funny - Reiji literally couldn't lose until Roget had taken his turn, and if Roget couldn't find a way to break the loop (during his own Draw Phase, given that Apocalypse' Special Summon - which sets the chain off - was a Quick Effect) he'd just get OTK'd again, resetting the whole cycle. Under these circumstances the 'correct play' for Roget would be to keep letting himself lose & re-intruding immediately to try again with a fresh hand and hope he 'drew the out' this time - the fact he chose to just surrender instead meant he knew that out of all the (presumably 40) cards in his deck, not a single one could out the loop.
Just a reminder that even if a character has many loses, it still doesn't neccessarily mean they are bad duelists, just that most of their defeat were against really strong opponents or for contextual reasons; and as long they show progress throught out the series and perform really well even in the duels that they lost ( as long it was not a stomp or really quick). That said, Yuga kinda fall really hard in this regards. It is not that he lost a lot, it is because he started losing more often after getting the maximum and fusion upgrades, even against people that he had already beaten (like Roa and Tiger). Say what you will about Yuma or Chazz, at least they seemed to get stronger with series progression, while Yuga seemed to have gotten weaker. No hate for the character, just pointing out that it seems the writers really wanted to screw him over any given opportunity (instead of dedicating some of this losing force against someone that could afford some *cough* Luke *cough*).
Honestly, I'm not surprised by this ranking, though to be fair with some of these characters on the list, I tend to remember more of the character development and some of their amazing duels then their loses (More so Shark/Nash, Joey, and Yuma). Also fun fact: I feel if we merged GX and Arc V's Aster Phoenix's losses together, he'd probably be higher on the list with 7 one-on-one loses.
I wish manjoume won against judai in episode 25 he returned from a whole arc of growth going from trash to a beloved leader, the story about his brother's and how he wanted wanted to prove his skills to them. The other 3 losses made some sense especially the first and third losses, one for the start of his character growth arc in the north academy and because he was a duel ghoul
Manioume has great character development...in season 1. He like most GX characters got shafted from season 2 on and arguably since the latter half of season 1.
So how come Ushio didn’t make the list he lost 6 times; 3 times to Yusei,once to both Jack and Aki,and to Ghost so that would be six loses, I’m just going to guess you didn’t count the lost to Ghost cause it was mostly offscreen or the duel with Jack cause he was possessed
@@Deathmare235 I did think of that but then I realized that would count either games from the manga or season zero neither of which happen within Duel Monsters continuity,we never see what happens to Ushio in Duel Monsters so he might actually have gotten no punishment there for beating up Yugi,also if we want to count an actual off screen duel he did have a named cameo as someone beaten by Tureman in GX
Otes' duels against Luke, Gakuto and Romin specifically do count as 3 duels based on what we see in the series. After he loses, their Penalty Count increments by 3 as per the arrangement of Nail's competition. His losses are largely because most of his duels he is sandbagging since he's not trying to win, he's trying to push the cast forward as a sort of mentor character. Also a big reason why I say Sevens has more reps on a list like this isn't specifically because Rush Duels almost always get finished in a single episode but also because having more of a cast of recurring characters who aren't dueling in life-or-death scenarios means that they don't NEED to win constantly. For example, Atachi with her 5 duels is the same amount as Emma and Atachi is a side character who isn't even focused on dueling. And Sevens having main characters duel each other more frequently means that at least one of them was going to end up getting a loss added. Rush Duel letting them get duels through more quickly is certainly a part of it, but really most of the series tend to wrap up most of their duels in a single episode, maybe 2.
Yeah, Otes was basically jobbing the entire series, and when he finally got serious and used his true deck, they only defeated him with a deck made from all the strongest cards of the entire cast. Even that was by the skin of their teeth. That duel showed that he could basically have defeated any of the duelists there if he was actually trying and they'd tried to duel him alone.
If I'm being honest, I thought going into this that Shingo would be number 1 or 2. I swear, he was my favorite character and throughout the show I was rooting for him to get literally ANY wins. And while seeing him seemingly outwit Z-ARC was awesome, I knew throughout the scene that they would not let a character as minor as him actually win. It's as sad as seeing Joey technically lose to Marik cause he passed out and I still get sad thinking about the scene where the writers truly did him dirty just cause Z-ARC did the equivalent of picking up his card for a second and writing new text on it with a marker.
The list really shows that even if you lost much does not mean you can't developed. Yuma is the best example. Even thought he is high on this list, he is the only Protag with an ongoing win streak and and is high on the win streak list.
I still get bummed every time I re-watch the Battle City duel between Marik and Joey. Because if Marik wasn't a prick zapping Joey every time he took life point damage, which left him completely exhausted as the aftermath, Joey actually could have defeated Marik. That would take away some of the spotlight from Yugi/Yami, but I don't give a shit. lol. He really did have some promise in his dueling ability, especially even during Kaiba during Battle City.
Marik purposely dragged out the duel just to torture Joey in front of his friends, Yami Marik is a complete psychopath who wanted to break Yami Yugi mentally before his duel with him even started. He only didn't expect Joey to end up as tough as he did which almost caused him to lose.
Joey VS Marik is honestly one of the rare moments where a non protagonist beating the main villain WOULDN'T have felt derailing for the plot. Joey had a REALLY great arc throughout Battle City where he truly climbed the ranks of the tournament after Duelist Kingdom paved the way for him to truly come into his own, and Marik was a personal enemy for him right from the start because he fell victim to the Rare Hunters very early on when the Arc was still in it's prep stages. And things only get more personal between them as the arc goes on (Marik using Joey as an enslaved vessel to try to kill Yugi, his best friend, and what Marik did to Mai). The Marik duel was the apex of Joey's journey up to that point, both in terms of personal stakes AND how much he's grown from the novice he once was. You could have Joey win that duel, and it would've been every bit as satisfying.
@@heavydonkeykong5190 I totally agree. He was considered the underdog to just about anyone in the series (except for Yugi because they're best friends) and even Kaiba specifically labeled him a "second rate chump" at times. But that battle between him and Joey was great (despite the outcome) where he used his Blue Eyes against him, totally pissing Kaiba off. He could have almost defeated him too directly after him losing to Yugi, but I love how they implement the Crush Card Virus card--which is not the way it works in the actual game--and just renders most of Joey's deck useless. That's a rivalry that will probably never get any resolve, sadly.
It'd be awesome to see a win percentage list of characters. Like the best and worst win/loss ratios of characters that dueled at least 3 times or something. That being said it would take literally forever to count the wins and losses
Not sure if this could be a video topic, but after seeing which characters were on here, I had thought of: How many times that a character has changed their decks.
I believe you missed dennis from arc v he list to Selena in the battle royal, gongezeka when they had just arrived in the synchro dimension, he lost to shun in the tournament, he lost to kite on the boat in the fushion dimension, and last he lost to yuya at the end of the series
I think it's hilarious that Manjome tops the list and still has a massive ego. I mean, props for that confidence even with three annoying duel spirits.
He was probably the second or third character who won the most throughout the series (counting off-screen duels) just below Darkness and the supreme king tho
Yeah but at the time he was an untrained duelist who just ran head first into duels as a toddler. His On-screen duels is when he actually trained and managed his deck. I'm also pretty sure toher characters had plenty of losses at a young age. Yuma is the only person mentioned in his show to have lost as a kid. And then he made it up for legit all of them during Zexal II
The crazy thing about this list is that even if a character racks up a lot of losses, they STILL might have a good dueling record overall. Using the rules from the video, I’ve got Joey having ~12 wins in the anime, and a 12-7 record is pretty good.
Unlike with the protagonist winstreak video, I don't think I can confidently nor accurately predict this before watching, but nonetheless I'll give it a go. My immediate guess would be Yuma, not because he's on the thumbnail but because he had 20-something losses total (20 were in a row) to Bronk off-screen throughout Zexal (before even looking at his other losses), but I'm assuming that like the protag winstreak video, off-screen duels that were merely mentioned won't be counted; if they are then surely Yuma does take it, as much as I love him as a character. I was going to say Yuga's a solid shout for most losses because he seemed to have a proclivity for it but because I can't remember just how many he had, I'm going to say Joey; I can think of at least 9 losses (though I may be forgetting one or two) he had off the top of my head, and despite the remark I just made, I don't think Yuga ended up amassing more than that. Joey on the other hand lost to Tea (including 4 times off-screen but they presumably wouldn't be included), Kaiba, Yugi, Duke, Seeker, Marik, Kaiba again, Mai & Zigfried - again I feel like I'm missing one but can't remember off the top of my head.
Very interesting pre video predictions. I made a couple of errors in this list so make sure you look at my pinned comment as well, although the errors don't change things too much
I’m here today because we lost the creator himself Kazuki Takahashi. It doesn’t matter who loses the most in Yu-Gi-Oh we all lost the one person who brought us into this world and to me that’s the greatest loss any duelist could ever face.
Out all the protagonists. Yuma as a main character if you were a novice you learned with yuma throughout the series. Like jaden he likes dueling for fun but lost what was most important to him. His final duel was the closest to the original ending of the yugioh series he had to beat. His mentor with his own strength during that entire duel showed his strength and growth throughout the series. And it ended with a full circle moment the double of nothing effect, brought the entire duel to a close.
Nevwr forget that Shingo was the only character to make Zarc flinch and he nearly bear him but plot BS prevented him from winning. He deserved it the most to be the one to bear Zarc.
Can you do yugioh video about it top Yugioh rival ace monsters and top main protagonists ace monsters and also video about yugioh protagonists dark side
Good list. I also only count on screenduels for a win to lose to count. But for me it's we need to see the duel from start to finish without skipping turns like Chazz's duel against Blair. First Chazz is winning, later we see he's losing and has the Ojama's out instead of him union monsters
Neat thing I noticed: There is no 5Ds character mentioned at all in this video. As that is the show that contains most of my favorite characters, I am quite happy about that.
You're absolutely right. 5Ds cast really benefits from ALOT of 3 VS 3 duels in the second half that just aren't eligible for the list. It probably had the least amount of eligible duels and maybe even the least amount of 1 VS 1 duels among all the shows! :)
True. I am mainly thankful that only 2 of my top 5 characters got onto this list. Those 2 being Shark and Joey, who are number 5 and number 3 for me respectively. 4 is Yuto, 2 is Jack, 1 is Yusei.
As a teacher in training, i see it more from a test scoring perspective, if they win they get a point, if they lose they don't get a point but doesn't lose a point, so for me if a character wins more that's good for them, if they loose a lot that doesn't effect the way I see the character. Plus the way I see it, if you only care about a character from their win-loss record, why watch the anime at all, just stare at the wiki page and cry about it. While I'm here to see the characters, their growth, their interaction with other character, the dueling is just a fun bonus and to see the monsters in the card come to life and be in motion
It may not have been shown, but Joey did lose to Yami yugi 2. Once in Duelist Kingdom and once at the end of battle city, as a duel to get red-eyes. He lost since yugi still held king of games status but Joey was given his red-eyes back because friendship
A character which I don’t think anyone would even think about being a huge loser would be Dennis Macfield from Arc-V. Out of the 7 complete duels he had, he only won his introduction duel and his duel with yuzu immediately after that. From then on it’s a long series of L’s and no results, a total of 5 definitive loses! Once vs Celina, Gong, Kurosaki, Kite, and of course Yuya. I was really surprised by this as he’s always been portrayed as a powerful character both in his characterization and within the worlds logic as he has mastered Fusion, Xyz, and Pendulum, but ultimately he has one of the worst win loss ratios!
Chazz IMO shouldn't defeat Edo,when I saw their match I was very sad for the ending.Also I have to say that even Kazuki tried to give us the next Kaiba (where were 3 between him,Edo and Zane) didn't worked well in GX
Oh man... You just KNOW this is going to be painful. XD Your favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! Character might be here and it's gonna sting. EDIT: Number 1 has got to be the SADDEST entry on this list. He fits the fan favorite moniker too! XD
6:59 ok you can't count the one with Mai cause joey was already finish with a duel and was barley damage and mai challenged an injured joey to a duel and joey should have won with marik
Yusaku is my favorite protagonist, but I'm on the fence about his win record in his series. PLAYMAKER doesn't lose a single duel in the entire show. That is impressive and it was nice to know the outcome of the duel beforehand because that shit gives me anxiety. However, is that boring? It feels boring to never lose. I think it worked out all right for him because of what the story had going on, but realistically I don't think WINNING all the time is very interesting for a character.
Kaiba lost to Yugi 4 times (Start of YGO, Battle City, Pyramid of Light, Darkside of Dimensions), lost to Pegasus once, lost to Dartz once, lost to dragon dick dude once on Darkside of Dimensions. So he should definitely be a honorable mention. Jack Atlas also lost a total of 7 TIMES, so he should also be on the list as a honorable mention, though 3 of his losses were simply because he was the starter for Team 5Ds. Leo also lost a total of 6 times.
You're correct! Alot of people always make fun of Yuma for all the off screen losses... but like, Yuya had a crazy amnt of them too. It just wasn't as clearly stated as Yuma's to Bronk
a lil comment about the beginning of the video regarding a character losing doesn't necessarily make a bad character; i think is a bit of the opposite, making the character have some loses does a lot for their development and character traits, like for example, Yuma, Kaiba, Jack Atlas, Manjome, mean while making so the character almost never loses or straight up goes undefeated can sometimes make them feel like a bit of a Gary Stue, like Playmaker and Yusei also, since i mentioned him, would Kaiba be qualified for the list as an honorable mention if you take into consideration his other 2 loses against Yugi in the early manga/ "season 0"? because then he would be at 4 loses before the ending of Duelist kingdom
I would say it depends, on how you want to make a character develop, for example in Yuseis case even though he won the duels, he often lost something else for it. So in this case I would say it is more about personal development, than development of his skills.
@@lisaruhm6681 You're right in many cases too, Lisa. I think what we mean is that losing is a valuable teacher as much as winning can be, since, to borrow a quote from another card game anime, "Defeat is an opportunity to get stronger".
Edo and Shark both being on this list is initially surprising. However, both have been kinda been foder for some characters, and just fighting strong dualists each time. Also, it is still funny to me seeing Yuma losing to Caswel and Bronk, lmao; just goes to show how far he came. Also, I suppose you can say Sevens gave more duels for different characters (total parallel to GX), so they had more diversity.
How about a list of my favorite badass moments in yugioh, like Manjoume taking out 4 opponent's at once, Zigfried's intro duel and Godwin catching that spike with one hand?
I honestly still think to this day that Joey should have beaten Kaiba. It would have been even better if Joey beat him with his own blue eyes. And yeah Kaiba doesn't see Joey as as much of an opponent at all, but he legit almost beat him.
Dennis, Kenzan and Fubuki should both be tied for 7th as well with 5 losses each. Fubuki lost to Judai twice, Asuka, Hell Kaiser and Fujiwara. Kenzan lost to Judai, Sho, Saio, Jim and Trueman. Dennis lost to Serena, Gongenzaka, Shun, Kaito and Yuya. All these duels were fully on screen (with Kenzan vs Trueman being partly off-screen but still qualifies for the list). Great list nonetheless 😄
Watching this right after most wins in a row, it makes me realize that the entirety of GX is really just: Introduce character, make them beat character that's supposed to be good, and then let Judai take care of them.
5:01 Still better than Akira Zaizen's track record: 2 Duels, and lost both.... which is so sad as I liked his character so much 9:43 Actually Yuga Lost THRICE. The lose from episode 2. the one from the tournament and that time Luke at first just wanted to give him an easy win thinking that if he did that, somehow that would let him become Goha President.... I love Luke's image perfectly summarizes him in this video 11:50 you didn't have to finish Rex raptor with such a burn
Not a big fan of Chazz/Manjoume, but let's keep in mind he beat an entire school to become its representative, beat an entire dorm worth of high level duelist to release them from their mindcontrol, won the entire GX tournament (only for plot reasons) and beat a pro-level duelist while wearing a stupid costume... He Chazzed it up when he needed it the most
That's true. When his back was against the wall, The Chazz showed up like no other. And he got a massive win against Edo in S4
Not to mention he would have actually defeated Jaden/Judai in Season 4 if his sponsor Mike didn't ask him to throw the match.
@@TheReaperofHades thats very true
@@TheReaperofHades The only character that will shown he is actually defeating judai S4
Someone bout to get the back of they head chazzed.
The fact that regular Edo has one more loss than his ARC-V counterpart who didn't win ONCE is a hilarious form of irony.
He really never won once? God damn that's dirty lol. At least Kaito in Arc V won a few duels.
Meanwhile Jack duel runner go brrrrr
they did him so dirty
Didn’t he card alexis?
@@realrealwarpet That was Yuri.
Chazz is what happens when you combine Kaibas Ego with Joey's Comic Relief. Hes a good duelist (my fav actually), but like Joey, he doesn't win plot duels, but it was always entertaining watching him duel. 1, 10, 100, 1000, MANJOUME THUNDER
Thunder, thunder, Manjoume Thunder!!!
Well one could argue the vital plot Duels he won were against his brother Slade for control of Duel Academy and against the Shadow Rider Don Zaloog, with the latter obviously much more impactful even though he ended up losing his key later.
But considering Jaden took most of the Shadow Riders out by himself, it's honestly shocking that Chazz and Alexis managed to get in a W at all, considering powerhouses like Zane *his hand was forced* and Bastion didn't.
He suck
@@TheReaperofHades so after season 1 he became irrelevant
Manga Chazz is him though
CORRECTIONS!!!!!
Hi all! So Yuga actually should be tied for 1st... He lost a total of 9 times. I missed his third loss to Luke. Completely forgot that duel happened and the Wiki that I was using for fact checking actually doesn't even have that duel listed. My apologies on that!
Also, Joey lost to Seeker (Exodia Rare Hunter) so he should be at 8. I didn't even look that one up b/c I vivdly remember it being off screen... Memory can be a funny thing sometimes
Also, Mai def could have been an honorable mention. She lost to Yugi, Joey, Tea, and Marik. Not counting her losses to Raphael, Valon, and Panik since they were ALL off screen, she def lost a lot too but saved by the criteria of what counts lol
Woah Yuga really lost a lot but only won when it was needed
So I whas right Yuga did loose three times to Luke
Win streaks for rivals
So what’s the Actual Tierlist now?
Chazz, Yuma and Joey wheeler loses don't compare to the greatness that is Shingo Sawatari.
Yuma lost to Bronk 20 times off screen and is still one of the best duelists in the show. Wins and losses aren’t everything
To be fair you need alot of skill and duel ability to use UFO turtle
For the record, Yuma's losses to Bronk took place when he was clearly a novice. Not when Yuma improved as a duelist.
Yea it was said that at the begining of zexal yuma was a terrible duelist tho
Shark is the best due list in zeal imo
He’s my favorite protagonist of all time. No matter what happens to him he always gets up and still keeps at it. Whenever I think if Yuma’s loses, I can’t help with think of the Elton John song I’m still standing
I can't believe you missed my man Ushio, the all time character of Yugioh. He had 6 losses in 5D's (3 to Yusei, one to Aki, one to Ghost and one to Jack)
Pretty sure Chazz had an insane amount of wins tho. Beating North Academy and almost all of Duel Academy by himself. Chazz Princeton? More like CHAD Princeton.
Honesty this just says less about North Academy and most of Duel Academy than it does about Chazz's skill lol
Bastard did _a lot_ of stat-padding. And for the record, he beat just about everyone at Duel Academy *twice.* First to put them under the Light's control, second time to free them from it.
This is more about the number of losses then their actual percentage of wins. That is why characters who never won a duel are higher on the list.
I think having a list of ratios would have been better.
I really liked Chazz I thought he had some solid development I do think that he became a great duelist towards the end of the show. Out of his nine losses I feel like one of them should have an asterisk beside it that being season 4 duel with judai where chazz could have won but lost on purpose.
Honestly this is why Yuma and Chazz are some of my favorite characters, its easy to make a character to start out good or average. But their character's (especially Yuma's and his department from astral at times) show true growth beyond where they started to where they ended.
Absolutely, a lot of the characters on this list had really great growth!
With chaz i think they make it balanced(well as much as they could) in the sense he also racks up a lot of wins as well, and I don't think it gets to the point where you feel "they say he is good, but he never has anything to show". And he oscillate between goofy and serious too.
Yeah, underdog stories can be fun to indulge into granted if written right.
@@namoma4922 he did crush the gx tournament
I like Chazz but hate Yuma. Yuma is the dumbest main character in the series.
If we *were* to add in offscreen duels, I'm pulling for Sakaki Yuya. He lost 150+ times to Noboru Gongenzaka in a single night while figuring out WTF Pendulum even is.
Makes Yuma losing to Bronk 27 times far less embarrassing, don't it?
Didnt luke lost like many times against otes off screen at the start of sevens
To be fair Gongenzaka was pretty strong in early Arc V right? Bronk is like... REALLY pointless. His ace is Tin Archduke LOL
I am not used to hearing the Japanese names of most of these characters, but what's insane is that you use the English version of Joeys name
I feel like Edo/Aster's first loss against Judai/Jaden shouldn't really count as he was acting like a newbie all throughout the duel to fool Jaden and scout him & his deck. Yes it's technically a loss but he used a weak deck that wasn't his and he misplayed on purpose, it was never a serious duel for him he was playing dumb & entered with the intent to lose. Imo only the loss when he was rematching Jaden after beating him once (their 3rd duel) should count.
But I'm just nitpicking because I love him & how sassy he is in the dub (well, everyone is in the dub lol)
Yah so? Jaden plays a verry weak deck himself. Losing to him is an insult.
@@mlpfanboy1701 Lol well as I said, my point is losing to a deck - weak or not - doesn't really mean anything if you're actively *trying* to lose from the beginning. Just like winning against Tearlaments with Ojamas doesn't mean anything if the Tearlament player is actively throwing the game, for instance.
Agreed, even Judai/Jaden counts it as not being a real win hence why he said they're even now after he won with his Neo Spacians on the rematch against the Destiny Heroes.
Yeah. If Malik VS Jounouchi counts, this should count, as that duel was technically a no result. Jounouchi collapsed before the duel ended.
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Technically Joey only beat Odion because he stood up while Odion was still unconscious. Joey gets some shit luck against Marik but he also got lucky against Odion.
Peak rival character is when you're considered one of the strongest duelists of the show but you still can't beat that one guy.
Fun fact: Jounouchi only lost one onscreen duel in the entirety of Battle City, which was against Kaiba. Exodia rare hunter was offscreen and Malik was technically a no result.
Remember everyone, even losing some duels you’ll still get character development/dueling development
Absolutely
Except in GX, you either die or get sidelined until Judai saves the day 🗿
@@GzzGtu20 In season 4 everyone but Tyranno and Jim got character development.
The fact that Joey loses so much is what makes him relateable character. I was always more interested in Joey's duel than Atem's, because Atem almost always wins (only two loses). While Atem is super cool and badass, Joey is the more interesting character.
"Super Cool and Badass" being literally the only thing the writers ever cared about with Yami
Atem never had any real loses except for the final Ceremonial Duel.
His loss to Rafael is not canon.
(Cough Cough, Seal of Oricalcose)
I count it
@@Nefaliss He lost to Kaiba because Kaiba was about to commit suicide.
Technically Atem "lost" to Pegasus in EP 2 also. The timer ran out and thus Atem lost the duel, even tho he would have won if the timer had an extra minute cuz he was in the middle of an attack.
With the "loss" to Kaiba in duelist kingdom and the loss to Raphael, that's technically 3 overall.
Yuma is my favorite protagonists of all time, but the fact that he’s lost many duels is why I like him the best. After all the previous protagonists with Win Streaks it’s nice to see a change of pace. He never lets his losses get the best of him. Yuma gets back up, goes with flow and tries until he can Hi-5 the sky. If you don’t like him that’s fine, but that’s my reason my I love Yuma the most. He a real duelist who fails and keeps going.
I agree because he’s super realistic, and I mean I hate the argument “I can’t stand his voice” or “he’s annoying” he’s literally just a kid bro
@@christiansantana4869 I 100% agree. He’s the only protagonist in middle school and he’s like my age when I started as I was about to go to middle school. Also it’s fun that he starts the series off with a 20 consecutive lose streak and he finally wins. It really makes us happy for him. Not like Yusaku who goes in and leaves undefeated. Yuma loses, but gets up and Keeps going
Exactly
@@ProfessorTakatoPalm ok now I gotta ask. Yuma's in middle school....WHY CAN SHARK DRIVE? isn't he a middle schooler?
I love him for that. He's not a perfect duelist but he works hard to get better with Astral's help. His optimism is much more realistic than Yuuya "Egao" Sakaki himself.
I think the funniest thing about Sylvio (Shingo) was the fact that he was one of the closest duelists to defeat Zarc, the other one is Declan (Reiji)
“Rex lost to Mai in the bedroom going to Duelist Kingdom” 😹 🦖
Chazz is underrated I think. He feels almost Joey-like. Where we're introduced to Chazz as an implied experienced and top tier duelist, his growth came on the emotional/friendship side of his character. Joey (in the anime) is introduced as a great and loyal friend, while his growth is shown in his journey from being a 4th Rate duelist, to someone who actually garners even a pinch of respect from Kaiba. Their growth mirrors each others, just in different parts of their character. Maybe I'm off, but that perspective helped me appreciate Chazz a lot more in revisiting the series.
God I love these types of vids I also really enjoy analyzing and taking notes numbers of yugioh, although some of the characters I like do be on the losing side sadly…
Just b/c they lost a lot doesn't mean they were bad characters!!!
I think chazz losses to Jaden where more because of the plot, i mean chazz always proved he was the better duelist than most of the other characters.
Yeah. Many people felt like he should've beaten Jaden in their second duel after he returned to Duel Academy representing the other school. I felt like Jaden shouldn't have won against him, yet made one of Jaden's 3 only loses to freaking Kaibaman.
It’s the same with Kaiba. Both are great duelist with Chazz defeating two schools, but unfortunately, both never defeating their rival.(I am not counting the time with Kaiba in duelist kingdom since Yugi was the one who conceded.) It’s like the first two series were afraid to let the rival win.
If we’re counting offscreen duels, than we have to count the 20 times Tetsuo beat Yuma lmao
That's the exact reason he said as to why he was specifically not counting off-screen duels.
A little Addendum: You could give Jean-Michel Roger an honoral mention, because (just in theory) he has an infinite-lose-record against Reiji. Because of Reiji's Loop-Combo he has two loses, but the fact, that he ran away instead of retry the duel for so long that he coul draw a card like MST or something to break Reiji's combo, shows, that he couldn't beat Reiji even if he would have tried for eternity.
P.S.: Sorry for my (written) english. I am a native german guy, whose english is more worse than everything else. But i just wanted to leave at least one comment to one of your videos. I am watching your videos since the 5. Season of Arc-V and i liked every one of it. So thanks for your work and your great entertainment. ^^
This is what I always found hilarious about the infinite loop; if they'd kept going forever like Roget initially planned, every time he re-intruded he would have had a fresh 5-card hand, so the fact he still scooped after the first application of the loop, despite theoretically being able to keep trying until he managed to 'draw the out' showed he literally didn't have one.
@@dancostello4872 What benefits Reiji is that the intruding player must have their turn before the others can get their turns while said player will have 2K LP. This means, Reiji cant get a deck out because of draw phase since he would never get his turn if he keeps otking Roget
@@unknowed5048 Yeah I know, that's what makes it funny - Reiji literally couldn't lose until Roget had taken his turn, and if Roget couldn't find a way to break the loop (during his own Draw Phase, given that Apocalypse' Special Summon - which sets the chain off - was a Quick Effect) he'd just get OTK'd again, resetting the whole cycle.
Under these circumstances the 'correct play' for Roget would be to keep letting himself lose & re-intruding immediately to try again with a fresh hand and hope he 'drew the out' this time - the fact he chose to just surrender instead meant he knew that out of all the (presumably 40) cards in his deck, not a single one could out the loop.
Fun fact: Roger would've needed to draw 2 MSTs because Siegried could've negated one of them lol
Just a reminder that even if a character has many loses, it still doesn't neccessarily mean they are bad duelists, just that most of their defeat were against really strong opponents or for contextual reasons; and as long they show progress throught out the series and perform really well even in the duels that they lost ( as long it was not a stomp or really quick).
That said, Yuga kinda fall really hard in this regards. It is not that he lost a lot, it is because he started losing more often after getting the maximum and fusion upgrades, even against people that he had already beaten (like Roa and Tiger). Say what you will about Yuma or Chazz, at least they seemed to get stronger with series progression, while Yuga seemed to have gotten weaker.
No hate for the character, just pointing out that it seems the writers really wanted to screw him over any given opportunity (instead of dedicating some of this losing force against someone that could afford some *cough* Luke *cough*).
Honestly, I'm not surprised by this ranking, though to be fair with some of these characters on the list, I tend to remember more of the character development and some of their amazing duels then their loses (More so Shark/Nash, Joey, and Yuma). Also fun fact: I feel if we merged GX and Arc V's Aster Phoenix's losses together, he'd probably be higher on the list with 7 one-on-one loses.
I wish manjoume won against judai in episode 25 he returned from a whole arc of growth going from trash to a beloved leader, the story about his brother's and how he wanted wanted to prove his skills to them.
The other 3 losses made some sense especially the first and third losses, one for the start of his character growth arc in the north academy and because he was a duel ghoul
Use the real names
Manioume has great character development...in season 1. He like most GX characters got shafted from season 2 on and arguably since the latter half of season 1.
So how come Ushio didn’t make the list he lost 6 times; 3 times to Yusei,once to both Jack and Aki,and to Ghost so that would be six loses, I’m just going to guess you didn’t count the lost to Ghost cause it was mostly offscreen or the duel with Jack cause he was possessed
Does the game with Yugi count as well or is it just duel monsters
@@Deathmare235 I did think of that but then I realized that would count either games from the manga or season zero neither of which happen within Duel Monsters continuity,we never see what happens to Ushio in Duel Monsters so he might actually have gotten no punishment there for beating up Yugi,also if we want to count an actual off screen duel he did have a named cameo as someone beaten by Tureman in GX
Otes' duels against Luke, Gakuto and Romin specifically do count as 3 duels based on what we see in the series. After he loses, their Penalty Count increments by 3 as per the arrangement of Nail's competition. His losses are largely because most of his duels he is sandbagging since he's not trying to win, he's trying to push the cast forward as a sort of mentor character.
Also a big reason why I say Sevens has more reps on a list like this isn't specifically because Rush Duels almost always get finished in a single episode but also because having more of a cast of recurring characters who aren't dueling in life-or-death scenarios means that they don't NEED to win constantly. For example, Atachi with her 5 duels is the same amount as Emma and Atachi is a side character who isn't even focused on dueling. And Sevens having main characters duel each other more frequently means that at least one of them was going to end up getting a loss added. Rush Duel letting them get duels through more quickly is certainly a part of it, but really most of the series tend to wrap up most of their duels in a single episode, maybe 2.
Yeah, Otes was basically jobbing the entire series, and when he finally got serious and used his true deck, they only defeated him with a deck made from all the strongest cards of the entire cast. Even that was by the skin of their teeth. That duel showed that he could basically have defeated any of the duelists there if he was actually trying and they'd tried to duel him alone.
If I'm being honest, I thought going into this that Shingo would be number 1 or 2. I swear, he was my favorite character and throughout the show I was rooting for him to get literally ANY wins. And while seeing him seemingly outwit Z-ARC was awesome, I knew throughout the scene that they would not let a character as minor as him actually win. It's as sad as seeing Joey technically lose to Marik cause he passed out and I still get sad thinking about the scene where the writers truly did him dirty just cause Z-ARC did the equivalent of picking up his card for a second and writing new text on it with a marker.
@@Colesia Respect, my dude! That's awesome!
Wait a minute... Go Onizuka lost 5 times... "Go" is 5 in Japanese.
FORESHADOWING.
If I hear "losingest" one more time I'll commit a war crime.
The list really shows that even if you lost much does not mean you can't developed. Yuma is the best example. Even thought he is high on this list, he is the only Protag with an ongoing win streak and and is high on the win streak list.
True even without astral he's still invisible.
The Chazz got smashed so hard. Give the guy an ice pack.
It is kind of ironic that Chazz lost the most onscreen duels while also winning the most offscreen duels (North Academy Initiation)
I still get bummed every time I re-watch the Battle City duel between Marik and Joey. Because if Marik wasn't a prick zapping Joey every time he took life point damage, which left him completely exhausted as the aftermath, Joey actually could have defeated Marik. That would take away some of the spotlight from Yugi/Yami, but I don't give a shit. lol. He really did have some promise in his dueling ability, especially even during Kaiba during Battle City.
JOEY SHOULD HAVE WON. God, it annoys me too John xD
Marik purposely dragged out the duel just to torture Joey in front of his friends, Yami Marik is a complete psychopath who wanted to break Yami Yugi mentally before his duel with him even started. He only didn't expect Joey to end up as tough as he did which almost caused him to lose.
@@Tibainium Yep, and I was hoping he could summon his Gearfried the Iron Knight for the win at that point but all those attacks were too much for him.
Joey VS Marik is honestly one of the rare moments where a non protagonist beating the main villain WOULDN'T have felt derailing for the plot. Joey had a REALLY great arc throughout Battle City where he truly climbed the ranks of the tournament after Duelist Kingdom paved the way for him to truly come into his own, and Marik was a personal enemy for him right from the start because he fell victim to the Rare Hunters very early on when the Arc was still in it's prep stages. And things only get more personal between them as the arc goes on (Marik using Joey as an enslaved vessel to try to kill Yugi, his best friend, and what Marik did to Mai). The Marik duel was the apex of Joey's journey up to that point, both in terms of personal stakes AND how much he's grown from the novice he once was.
You could have Joey win that duel, and it would've been every bit as satisfying.
@@heavydonkeykong5190 I totally agree. He was considered the underdog to just about anyone in the series (except for Yugi because they're best friends) and even Kaiba specifically labeled him a "second rate chump" at times. But that battle between him and Joey was great (despite the outcome) where he used his Blue Eyes against him, totally pissing Kaiba off. He could have almost defeated him too directly after him losing to Yugi, but I love how they implement the Crush Card Virus card--which is not the way it works in the actual game--and just renders most of Joey's deck useless. That's a rivalry that will probably never get any resolve, sadly.
Yuga comes to mind but so does Sawatari. I should have seen Chazz coming.
It'd be awesome to see a win percentage list of characters. Like the best and worst win/loss ratios of characters that dueled at least 3 times or something. That being said it would take literally forever to count the wins and losses
I'm really curious about this ! :) Thanks for the video !
Great vdeo; really interesting and fun topic! Are you planning to make a Most Wins list in the future? I would love to see it!
Not sure if this could be a video topic, but after seeing which characters were on here, I had thought of: How many times that a character has changed their decks.
Great on the Video! I think you miss officer trudge/ tetsu from yu-gi-oh 5ds.
I REALLY DID NOT KNOW THAT I HAD AN IDEA BUT I HAD FORGOT.
Shocked Bakura didn't make the list since he lost every duel he had except to Bones
I believe you missed dennis from arc v he list to Selena in the battle royal, gongezeka when they had just arrived in the synchro dimension, he lost to shun in the tournament, he lost to kite on the boat in the fushion dimension, and last he lost to yuya at the end of the series
Okay analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Kinda thought trudge from sector security lost like 5 times, dont even recall him ever winning
I think it's hilarious that Manjome tops the list and still has a massive ego. I mean, props for that confidence even with three annoying duel spirits.
He was probably the second or third character who won the most throughout the series (counting off-screen duels) just below Darkness and the supreme king tho
Definitely Yuma as that boy had lost every single duel in life up the moment he meet up with Astral. That is a life time of loses right there
Yeah but at the time he was an untrained duelist who just ran head first into duels as a toddler. His On-screen duels is when he actually trained and managed his deck. I'm also pretty sure toher characters had plenty of losses at a young age. Yuma is the only person mentioned in his show to have lost as a kid. And then he made it up for legit all of them during Zexal II
The crazy thing about this list is that even if a character racks up a lot of losses, they STILL might have a good dueling record overall.
Using the rules from the video, I’ve got Joey having ~12 wins in the anime, and a 12-7 record is pretty good.
Unlike with the protagonist winstreak video, I don't think I can confidently nor accurately predict this before watching, but nonetheless I'll give it a go.
My immediate guess would be Yuma, not because he's on the thumbnail but because he had 20-something losses total (20 were in a row) to Bronk off-screen throughout Zexal (before even looking at his other losses), but I'm assuming that like the protag winstreak video, off-screen duels that were merely mentioned won't be counted; if they are then surely Yuma does take it, as much as I love him as a character.
I was going to say Yuga's a solid shout for most losses because he seemed to have a proclivity for it but because I can't remember just how many he had, I'm going to say Joey; I can think of at least 9 losses (though I may be forgetting one or two) he had off the top of my head, and despite the remark I just made, I don't think Yuga ended up amassing more than that.
Joey on the other hand lost to Tea (including 4 times off-screen but they presumably wouldn't be included), Kaiba, Yugi, Duke, Seeker, Marik, Kaiba again, Mai & Zigfried - again I feel like I'm missing one but can't remember off the top of my head.
Very interesting pre video predictions. I made a couple of errors in this list so make sure you look at my pinned comment as well, although the errors don't change things too much
I’m here today because we lost the creator himself Kazuki Takahashi. It doesn’t matter who loses the most in Yu-Gi-Oh we all lost the one person who brought us into this world and to me that’s the greatest loss any duelist could ever face.
Out all the protagonists. Yuma as a main character if you were a novice you learned with yuma throughout the series. Like jaden he likes dueling for fun but lost what was most important to him.
His final duel was the closest to the original ending of the yugioh series he had to beat. His mentor with his own strength during that entire duel showed his strength and growth throughout the series.
And it ended with a full circle moment the double of nothing effect, brought the entire duel to a close.
Nevwr forget that Shingo was the only character to make Zarc flinch and he nearly bear him but plot BS prevented him from winning. He deserved it the most to be the one to bear Zarc.
The most losingest characters? Grammar dies here
Can you do yugioh video about it top Yugioh rival ace monsters and top main protagonists ace monsters and also video about yugioh protagonists dark side
I will definitely consider all those, thanks for the recs! :)
@@YugiohEverything no problem
Good list.
I also only count on screenduels for a win to lose to count.
But for me it's we need to see the duel from start to finish without skipping turns like Chazz's duel against Blair.
First Chazz is winning, later we see he's losing and has the Ojama's out instead of him union monsters
I laughed so hard when they started the Manjoume chant that was great.
Neat thing I noticed: There is no 5Ds character mentioned at all in this video. As that is the show that contains most of my favorite characters, I am quite happy about that.
You're absolutely right. 5Ds cast really benefits from ALOT of 3 VS 3 duels in the second half that just aren't eligible for the list. It probably had the least amount of eligible duels and maybe even the least amount of 1 VS 1 duels among all the shows! :)
True. I am mainly thankful that only 2 of my top 5 characters got onto this list. Those 2 being Shark and Joey, who are number 5 and number 3 for me respectively. 4 is Yuto, 2 is Jack, 1 is Yusei.
Next video's idea: How many duelists of each type of Monster are there in total considering all the Yu-Gi-Oh series?
oh lord, that would be a CRAZY video! Great idea
As a teacher in training, i see it more from a test scoring perspective, if they win they get a point, if they lose they don't get a point but doesn't lose a point, so for me if a character wins more that's good for them, if they loose a lot that doesn't effect the way I see the character. Plus the way I see it, if you only care about a character from their win-loss record, why watch the anime at all, just stare at the wiki page and cry about it. While I'm here to see the characters, their growth, their interaction with other character, the dueling is just a fun bonus and to see the monsters in the card come to life and be in motion
You know your L’s are bad when you have more losses than Yuma
"Who's the biggest loser in Yugioh?"
I completely forgot Todoroki beat Yuma. I'll call him Todoroki because all Japanese names are objectively better and because it sounds badass.
It may not have been shown, but Joey did lose to Yami yugi 2. Once in Duelist Kingdom and once at the end of battle city, as a duel to get red-eyes. He lost since yugi still held king of games status but Joey was given his red-eyes back because friendship
I'd be interested to see a video about Yugioh characters with the best and worst win/loss ratios
Revolver also lost 4 times
Yusaku×2, Lightning and Soulburner.
A character which I don’t think anyone would even think about being a huge loser would be Dennis Macfield from Arc-V. Out of the 7 complete duels he had, he only won his introduction duel and his duel with yuzu immediately after that. From then on it’s a long series of L’s and no results, a total of 5 definitive loses! Once vs Celina, Gong, Kurosaki, Kite, and of course Yuya. I was really surprised by this as he’s always been portrayed as a powerful character both in his characterization and within the worlds logic as he has mastered Fusion, Xyz, and Pendulum, but ultimately he has one of the worst win loss ratios!
Chazz IMO shouldn't defeat Edo,when I saw their match I was very sad for the ending.Also I have to say that even Kazuki tried to give us the next Kaiba (where were 3 between him,Edo and Zane) didn't worked well in GX
Oh man... You just KNOW this is going to be painful. XD Your favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! Character might be here and it's gonna sting.
EDIT: Number 1 has got to be the SADDEST entry on this list. He fits the fan favorite moniker too! XD
Not mine 🥰
@@SerenitySpiderMonkey Damn. XD Nice!
6:59 ok you can't count the one with Mai cause joey was already finish with a duel and was barley damage and mai challenged an injured joey to a duel and joey should have won with marik
Ah yes, a children's trading card game, one of the most taxing activities a person can preform.
@@bestaround3323 to be fair, before dueling mai, his duel with valon was literally just a fist fight
Yusaku is my favorite protagonist, but I'm on the fence about his win record in his series. PLAYMAKER doesn't lose a single duel in the entire show. That is impressive and it was nice to know the outcome of the duel beforehand because that shit gives me anxiety. However, is that boring? It feels boring to never lose. I think it worked out all right for him because of what the story had going on, but realistically I don't think WINNING all the time is very interesting for a character.
Kaiba lost to Yugi 4 times (Start of YGO, Battle City, Pyramid of Light, Darkside of Dimensions), lost to Pegasus once, lost to Dartz once, lost to dragon dick dude once on Darkside of Dimensions. So he should definitely be a honorable mention.
Jack Atlas also lost a total of 7 TIMES, so he should also be on the list as a honorable mention, though 3 of his losses were simply because he was the starter for Team 5Ds.
Leo also lost a total of 6 times.
Yuya would be pretty high up if off screen duels count. Because he had a little less than 50 duels before the start of the series and around 50-60% wr
You're correct! Alot of people always make fun of Yuma for all the off screen losses... but like, Yuya had a crazy amnt of them too. It just wasn't as clearly stated as Yuma's to Bronk
@@YugiohEverything But do you count Aster's loss to Yuya tho hahaha
I like how when they were chanting if u listen in you hear the discord notification noise
a lil comment about the beginning of the video regarding a character losing doesn't necessarily make a bad character; i think is a bit of the opposite, making the character have some loses does a lot for their development and character traits, like for example, Yuma, Kaiba, Jack Atlas, Manjome, mean while making so the character almost never loses or straight up goes undefeated can sometimes make them feel like a bit of a Gary Stue, like Playmaker and Yusei
also, since i mentioned him, would Kaiba be qualified for the list as an honorable mention if you take into consideration his other 2 loses against Yugi in the early manga/ "season 0"? because then he would be at 4 loses before the ending of Duelist kingdom
I feel the same way. It's why Yusei and Yusaku are my lowest ranked Yu-Gi-Oh! MC's overall; they just feel too Gary Stu and wish-fulfillment-y to me.
Thank you for saying this because I agree 100%!
I would say it depends, on how you want to make a character develop, for example in Yuseis case even though he won the duels, he often lost something else for it. So in this case I would say it is more about personal development, than development of his skills.
@@lisaruhm6681 You're right in many cases too, Lisa. I think what we mean is that losing is a valuable teacher as much as winning can be, since, to borrow a quote from another card game anime, "Defeat is an opportunity to get stronger".
@@BryonYoungblood agreed.
Edo and Shark both being on this list is initially surprising. However, both have been kinda been foder for some characters, and just fighting strong dualists each time.
Also, it is still funny to me seeing Yuma losing to Caswel and Bronk, lmao; just goes to show how far he came.
Also, I suppose you can say Sevens gave more duels for different characters (total parallel to GX), so they had more diversity.
(See chazz in the thumbnail without seeing him)
Please don’t be #1 please don’t be #1 oh please don’t be #1
Talking about Otis: "I don't want to get too into spoilers" *shows clips from the final duel *
Thank you so much for counting on screen duels only Dylan!
OFC! That's the fair thing to do!
How about a list of my favorite badass moments in yugioh, like Manjoume taking out 4 opponent's at once, Zigfried's intro duel and Godwin catching that spike with one hand?
Interesting how Shark is basically anime Manjoume, while Kaito is basically manga Manjoume.
Honestly if you look at Joey’s deck it’s a shocker he hasn’t lost more and most of duels towards the end show how talented he is lol.
But his deck is amazing, it has so many cool monsters in it
LOL for real, guys got so much luck. He was a lucky card pick away from arguably beating Zigfried at the end too
@@YugiohEverything and he should’ve beaten Marik
Konami: why don’t girls want to buy our cards
Anime: *whistling misogynistly*
The "Manjome Thunder" chant really adds insult to injury here haha
I honestly still think to this day that Joey should have beaten Kaiba. It would have been even better if Joey beat him with his own blue eyes. And yeah Kaiba doesn't see Joey as as much of an opponent at all, but he legit almost beat him.
I love these fun top ten list the next one you should do is what character has the most dnfs
Thank you Frost!!
Dennis, Kenzan and Fubuki should both be tied for 7th as well with 5 losses each.
Fubuki lost to Judai twice, Asuka, Hell Kaiser and Fujiwara.
Kenzan lost to Judai, Sho, Saio, Jim and Trueman.
Dennis lost to Serena, Gongenzaka, Shun, Kaito and Yuya.
All these duels were fully on screen (with Kenzan vs Trueman being partly off-screen but still qualifies for the list).
Great list nonetheless 😄
Technically the synchro dimension dude got put in an infinite loop of losses
I cracked up at the Manjoume Thunder ⚡🤣
Watching this right after most wins in a row, it makes me realize that the entirety of GX is really just: Introduce character, make them beat character that's supposed to be good, and then let Judai take care of them.
What about Hell Kaiser and Yubel?
I did find this one a bit interesting seeing a few duelists get their loses even when watching some of the anime franchise growing up
5:01 Still better than Akira Zaizen's track record: 2 Duels, and lost both.... which is so sad as I liked his character so much
9:43 Actually Yuga Lost THRICE. The lose from episode 2. the one from the tournament and that time Luke at first just wanted to give him an easy win thinking that if he did that, somehow that would let him become Goha President....
I love Luke's image perfectly summarizes him in this video
11:50 you didn't have to finish Rex raptor with such a burn
Genuinely surprised that Vector wasn't even on this list given that he only ever won one duel and that duel was a 2 v 1.
I guess that line in Yugioh abridged was before some of these other protags came out.
Ah yes, Sylvio. The character that lost so much he practically became a meme.
I like it how Rex was on the list but you didn't count his lost to Joey
You pointed out thar go lost to all strong dualists, but not how edo (aside from chazz) also lost to strong duelists......and a guy who pulled exodia
I've said it many times Yuma is just Joey if Joey had Atem instead of Yugi.