I will never not find the mental image of Zane awkwardly picking up all of the cards he threw on the floor to activate Power Wall hilarious. Would really undermine his new edgelord motif by ending all of his duels that way.
See Vrains had the advantage of being able to pull off maneuvers like that because they were in a virtual world, but it never did anything like that with the cards
Now I imagine him just buying tons of copies of all his cards, wasting tons of money, just so he doesn't need to do pick them up, just replacing them when he gets home and keeping up his edgy persona.
Vehicroids really need an entire rework. All new monsters and maybe some errata's to some older ones. IMO, it should be a control deck that is capable of messing with your opponent and getting damage in through effects, regardless of the opponents board state. I like equipping monsters you destroy but truckroid is WAY too weak. I like attacking for 800 and switching to DEF but i'd prefer if it were a tag out ability.
Note: “Instant Fusion” in GX is not the card you’re probably thinking of. Instead it’s a quick-play spell that fusion summons using only monsters on the field. It got printed in the TCG as “Flash Fusion”
@@kyuubinaruto17 It's also called Instant Fusion... Kind of. Specifically, the GX card (Flash Fusion) is japanese for "Instantaneous Fusion", whereas Instant Fusion is still Instant Fusion in Japan - it's just written/pronounced with japanese characters (the wiki has its romanji as "Instanto Fyujon"). So it's just a case of two cards having the same name, but in different languages... Which is perfectly acceptable in Japanese since they can just write it differently to differentiate, but for english it makes things way more complicated than it has to be.
@@blastthechaos6083 i know, shunkan yugo translates to instant fusion in japanese - hence the issue. They have the same name in japan - just one is said in english and one is said in japanese, hence why they had to change the name of one of them in english to avoid confusion.
The Power Wall play is such a badass moment. And just recently I found out that they replicated that scene in the Tag Force games, in the very slight chance Zane manages to resolve the card, he has an specific animation and dialogue for it, which is amazing to see.
The iconic moment in the Sub version where Zane says “Disappear! Loser!” to Syrus before he attacks and wins the duel. You can clearly tell that Zane showed no remorse towards his brother
Sho asked him not to pull his punches and treat him like a real opponent. Showing remorse for winning would have been utterly disrespectful of what Sho wanted
Ok so here me out, WHAT if Zane intentally made that risky move. Cause part of him wanted to give Syrus his brother the chance to prove himself. Cause remember after this duel he did begin to chill out a bit, so maybe, he wanted to see if Syrus truely improved as a duelist.
I mean, my theory is that Zane did intentionally make the more risky move, but for a different reason. You see, the Cyberdark deck that Zane is using in the anime requires the duelist to keep going past their limits, meaning the duelist has to keep making more insane plays every duel. They have to keep upping the ante. It's basically like the escalation of going from a spice challenge to the knife game till you eventually get to Russian roulette.
That duel where he just straight up murders Mad Dog would be even better (and I'm saying he killed the guy, because the damage amplifiers are said to be potentially lethal at the standard 4000 LP already while Mad Dog had 15000 LP, and Zane dealt so much damage at once the damage amplifiers released so much energy they caused a freaking explosion and took part of the duel ring with them. And Zane dealt even more damage than you'd expect, as anime Chimeratech Overdragon can attack multiple times directly, as can be seen in his first duel vs Jesse where he declares he's attacking Jesse directly 3x, at least in the Japanese version he says that).
Add that to the duels we needed but never got in GX. Along with Amon’s rematch against Judai/Yubel and Jubel’s final fight against the Light of Destruction.
Me and my sister watched this episode a while ago, and we both still feel like Syrus was robbed. My sister was especially mad because Zane just leaves later, making his inclusion in this tournament feel pointless.
Zane only wanted to test his cyberdark deck. He did not care about the tournament at all. He even gave his medal to Blair , which shows how little he cared. Also Syrus doesn't deserve to win. I hate Syrus with a burning passion
Tbf he wasn’t in the tournament to win it. He was in it to fight the best. Shepherd invite every pro duelist he could find so duel academy has the highest concentration of incredibly powerful duelists and Zane’s easy wins made him feel like he was wasting time there
After so many request attempts, Sam has finally done this duel. I can finally stop requesting it. Thanks, Sam. When I first watched this duel, I was so sure Syrus had this duel won, but when Zane dropped that shock De-Fusion, my heart sank so hard. It’s so amazing that Syrus was so close despite his archetype. The only other requests I have is the rematch duels for Jaden vs Aster and Yusei vs Kalin.
@@HoffanheimJoey having zero monsters he can summon on the 1st turn against Seigfried is a worse blunder than Jaden not understanding Neo Spacian fusion monsters diffuse during the End Phase.
I hear you on how close Sy was to beating his big brother. No one else who crossed Zane’s path could get that close - not even Jaden and he was number one freshman from the first season.
Syrus wasnt close, Zayne was toying with him. As said on the video, Zayne had game since the last turn but let it slide just to see what would happen. He had enough LP to tank almost anything Syrus pulled (he cant pull a Jumboroid or anything like that with that few cards on hand, after all) and only needed one card to not insta lose by deck out. You can say that the emergency was something he didnt plan, and could cost him the duel, or that the last draw he did was the plot saving him... but Syrus having a trap-equip that would save his ass twice (the mirror didnt have any kind of effect as an equip that it couldnt do as a normal trap, but Syrus had to use it and have a trap to send to grave so... equip it is) is also the plot warping the duel so I think we can just put this last turn shenanigans at "we already have the game, but we need to show this sick art of Dark End equipped with Cyber End".
@@CharmCityGamer the thing is: he didnt have enough LP, and Zayne knew it. He only had enough to survive Cyber End because the same anime only card could be used to save his ass against Power Bond and as cost for emergency. Otherwise even if Zayne pulled a dead draw Syrus would still lose because the only trap he could have send was the 400LP one, meaning he would take full damage from all monsters.
@@albertonishiyama1980But the card has a hyper specific on field effect. Because as long as it is on the field, it protects cyrus from any spell damage that is exactly the original attack of the equipped monster and sends it to zane. The effect is garbage, you don't have to tell me, but it has a lingering effect while equipped to a monster. So no, the card wasn't JUST for plot an equip, it was an equip with a purpose that I don't know would've blocked more than, like, 2 cards in the entire game, one of which you have to activate yourself. This changes absolutely nothing, but you saying it has no purpose as an equip other than being emergency provisions fodder is wrong. It could, hypothetically, block damage from ectoplasmer targeting Sorcerer of Dark Magic while equipped to Pair Cycroid. Also, if you say Cyrus didn't come close, than we also have to discuss that Zane only won because he had crazy dumb luck. Wanting to "know where it would go" is not a good enough excuse to lose if the wrong card was on the bottom of his deck. Imagine this, he drew Cyber Valley instead of Warp Beam. He loses. So, imo, Cyrus was as close to winning the duel as Zane was lucky, and if you think otherwise... Well, good for you, but I don't know what else to tell you.
Ya can't help but respect Sy for not only trying his hardest but also standing up to his brother, granted he lost but this still earns him some respect for standing up for himself. And he almost beat Zane tbh, it was close 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Syrus played the best Duel he could. He may have had a weak archetype, but he played to his Deck's strengths like any true Duelist, he couldn't summon Monsters stronger than Zane's so instead he used effects to get around them and attack directly, while also minimizing the damage he took.
@@zexalbrony4799 I honestly loved that scene where it shows that syrus won a shit ton of uels just to prep himself to fight against zane. like jaden opens his jacket a bit and you see a bunch of genex medals falling down.
If the duel with Dimitri was any relevance, Emergency Provisions could have been used to sacrifice itself as well to give Syrus 1000 more LP and survive... But at this point in the series, they might've already adopted the TCG effect of the card.
Anime/Manga cards getting erratas and bans(Or in some cases like negate attack, an entire rework with how its cardtype went from Quickplay spell to trap between OG and GX) is genuinely the most aggrovating thing because it just makes the story harder to understand without meta knowledge.
He didn't use it on the card itself, he chained it to Monster Reincarnation and used it on that + 2 Set cards for 3000 total LP. So, just the TCG version. The only thing Syrus could've done different was to chain it to Power Bond so he wouldn't have to sacrifice Pair Cycroid due to Mirror Damage, but Pair Cycroid would get destroyed anyway by Cyberdark Dragon so it wouldn't make a difference.
@@_Vengeance_ If he chained Emergency Provisions to Power Bond he could send Power Bond and Training Wheels to the GY for cost, which would give him another 1000 LP (to 3600) and as a result let him use Life Force to reduce the damage of all of Kaiser's attacks on his last turn, with 400 LP remaining. He'd have won, and this is the most obvious misplay involving Provisions considering it's a play that would not have impacted Sho's card advantage in any way and give him more LP off of it as opposed to his actual play which had him lose cards for only 1000 LP. Alternatively, it's way less obvious but he could have activated Emergency Provisions in the damage step of Cyberdark Dragon's attack which would remove the Pair Cycroid from the field prior to damage calculation, and there would be no replay. He'd have 1400 LP to cover all of the De-Fusion attacks.
@@Zetact_ Right, I completely forgot Training Wheels was also on the field. That indeed changes everything! However, your other idea wouldn't work. Emergency Provisions can't be activated during the Damage Step (including Damage Calculation).
When Syrus activates "power bond" he should have used "emergency provision" and send "power bond" and "training wheels"gaining 2000 life points instead of 1000. In this way he would have been able to survive all of Zane's attacks.
@@snowy5646 Because since power bond doesn't remain in play after use this means it's downside isn't canceled by destroying it. the reason this dodges mirage of night mares ability is because mirage stays in play until it's downside is triggered in the anime.
@@Dratspider Wait I'm pretty sure the intention isn't to stop power bond's damage, but to gain more lp and Syrus still has his mirror trap availiable to stop the damage anyway. So the damage wouldn't happen ans Syrus would've had enough lp to survive Zane's final attack. Right? Well, there may be one thing to consider since idk how timing works out in Yugioh, but in the example that @snowy5646 said, Syrus has to also send training wheels to get more lp along with power bond. Problem is training wheels has a lame ass effect that if it leaves the field, so does the equiped monster. So does this cancel out power bond's fusion summoning? I've never been in a scenario like this
@@DranzerG3 I was responding to snowy5646 asking why power bond was still considered in the damage calc for the theoretical play. But as for the question about training wheels I'm not sure. If I had to guess based of my limited knowledge I'd say that training wheels will either miss timing because its a when or if its an if effect, fizzle, because it's equipped monster is no longer present. Either way power bond will successfully fusion summon.
This duel was hard to watch. In the sense that it was brutal for Syrus, especially given Zane gave them both Shock Collars. I applaud Syrus for trying his heart out to beat Zane and speak sense to him. It’s one of my favorite duels in the entirety of GX.
about the flash fusion missplay, syrus had a face down, so I guess he didn't want to risk using all his resources and don't finish him off. Syrus is known to play magic cylinder and defusion after all.
@@MisterMcCrumchPower Bond allows you to Fusion Summon a machine Fusion monster by using materials from hand and field. Additionally the Fusion monster has its attack doubled, at the cost of you taking that monster’s original attack as damage at the end phase. It’s better to use when the attack boost can let you win that turn, thus avoiding the damage.
In the Japanese version. Zane only refers to Syrus/Sho by his name right before he’s going to win, from the start to that moment of the duel, he never addresses himself as the elder brother or Syrus/Sho as his younger one A nice touch to Zane’s disrespect edginess
He didn’t disrespect. Sub is clear on this in Zane’s first fight. People are just reading him wrong because no one ever thought what happened would happen
DAMN, DE-FUSION!!!! Also, what I found interesting is that Syrus claimed he wasn't ready to use Power Bond, and yet he had a card specifically to combo with/counter Power Bond
@@christopherb501implying that Yugo wouldn't adopt him in the same way Jaden did. I think it would be an interesting episode where Yugo and Yuzu end up bonding with Syrus over who they've lost because of the Academy starting a war cuz Syrus hasn't heard from Zane in a long time and also that Syrus and Zane both play Roid decks from different dimensions and Syrus ends up giving Yugo one of his cards, Supercharge, that eventually gets used as his power of friendship card to draw 2 monsters that eventually get him into Clear Wing. Could be a funny or a serious episode, could imply Kite carded Zane to set him up as a threat to Yuya. I dunno, everything I wish would have happened will sound better to me than what was made so all I can do is share my ideas and accept the flaws of the existing product.
Even if it’s not pure Roids, in a recent Edison tournament, a Machine Roid list managed to make it to Top 8. Is the best deck ever, definitely not, but check it out if you want to at least have a laugh.
Life Force is quite a busted card if you think about it. Imagine if it got printed IRL and it maintained its same effect to reduce the damage to 0 by paying 400 life points. I can see working great in stall decks for burn or Exodia. What do you think?
Either double the LP cost or add an upkeep and it would be fine imo. But like, it's a trap, chances are your opponent might just pop it before you get a chance to activate it.
Life force might have been good when GX was new, but now it's too weak. It can easily be negated, or just outright destroyed even by something like MST
Considering how much removal most decks have in the modern game, DESPITE being a strong card, Life Force would be practically useless without being able to protect it. Likely even destroyed before even getting the chance to activate. And even in older formats where it would be able to see decent amount of play, a stray MST would be a solid counter to it even on activation (continuous traps must remain on the field for their effects to apply, so being destroyed before resolution is basically getting negated in all but name).
I honestly love this duel. This is by far one of the most pain inducing duels I have ever seen. The fact he was able to keep fighting despite the amount of pain Syrus was enduring... well done, Sy. Well done. He may not have won, but you have got to give this little guy some props. The kids got guts, and grit!
You should do Joey vs Zigfried next. It is such a long and entertaining duel. You would have such good commentary for the first turn of the duel and I reckon you would make a good video of it.
@@mystery8820He meant was the Trap Card combo by Zigfried that trigger when they are removed from the field. 1.) Apple of Enlightenment - This lets him draw cards equal to the number of Valkyrie Monsters plus 1. Since Zig has none, he draws one card. There is also another effect that he can banish Monster's from Joey's GY equal to the number of Valkyries he control. Since there are none, he doesn't have too. 2.) Loge's Flame - He can special summon a Valkyrie Monster. *NOTE:* This is an illegal play because 1.) Nowhere in both cards state that it activates when returned to the hand or leaving the field in general. For Apple's case, it leaves the field due to opponent's card effect AND sent to the Graveyard or banished at the same time. For Loge's Flame, it has to be destroyed before the effect triggers 2.) This is a possible CHAIN reaction. Remember, in the chain rule, we follow FILO (First In Last Out). The last activated card resolves first meaning Loge's effect resolves first Summoning Valkyrie then Apple's effect activates and since Zigfried controls one Valkyrie, he should've drawn 2 cards instead of 1 If not for this shenanigan, Joey could've won.
Have you considered doing any of the team duels from 5ds? I know they would be a lot of work but seeing 5ds vs team ragnarok would be interesting to see.
I rather see 5Ds vs Unicorn. You know...the infamous duel where Unicorn literally would've won if the guy just ENDED HIS DAMN TURN??????????????? Like.....COME ON, DUDE! You LITERALLY had game by just ENDING TURN, and Yusei would've lost to deck out....and you instead ATTACK and fall into Yusei's trap and PURPOSELY lose???? Yes, that duel STILL irks me why they wrote that duel in such a piss poor sloppy way, and I want him to rip that duel apart.
Wow! To get a dual analysis on this particular dual was such a treat. This dual is Zane at his lowest point and I suspect the reason he didn’t end the dual earlier was because he wanted to prove that his new dual outlook was the correct one, being that losers only deserve pain. In other words he wanted to see Syrus suffer. I’m just glad that later on Zane apologized to his brother, and in a way he would pay for his actions as the deck he now uses, would cost him his life during his final duel against Yubel. The way Zane returns to his respect outlook was just golden and by the time he duel’s Yubel he realizes he was wrong. Admittedly, this dual is hard to watch because of the way Syrus is tortured, but I can’t thank you enough for this dual analysis, it’s a gem! 💎
He isn’t at his lowest point. The sub mskes this clear. The fight in the sub isn’t even about that issue, it’s about Sho being able to prove he is strong enough to stand across from his brother. Him using the deck had nothing to do with costing him against Yubel. The shocks did.
@@mrbubbles6468In the 4th season of Yugioh GX as Syrus is preparing to duel an opponent using both his and Zane’s deck, he feels the underworld deck strong desire to win which affects his body. The deck’s desire is what caused Zane’s heart problems to the point in where he needed to be in a wheelchair for a while. Also the fact that he was willing to torture his brother all just for the sake of victory is despicable, so I respectfully disagree that he isn’t at his lowest point (no disrespect at all intended)
Judging by your expressions at the beginning of the video, I can see you’re pretty sour of Syrus mixing Zane’s Cyberdark deck with his Roid deck in the Makoto duel in S4. I know Roids aren’t that good but the duel itself is great and shows the type of great character development Syrus should have gotten a lot earlier in the series. Maybe that would be a duel to cover in the near future.
I think what makes that combination of his deck frustrating is that we only ever see it used the once - so we have no idea what else it can do besides Dragonroid substituting for a Dragon to equip onto Cyberdark Fusion, and a way to get around the main counter to that.
I think it would have been way better if Syrus inherited the Cyber Dragon without Cyberdark after his brother's "death", a sign of maturity as a duelist and redemption for the late Zane.
I had always taken it as a given that Instant Fusion was the card Zane drew on the final turn, for the reason mentioned that he could have won earlier with it (his draw of Warp Beam on the final turn cuts without him being shown which card form his hand/draw goes into the disk, so that doesn’t lock it down). And there wasn’t an earlier point where Warp Beam would have made a difference, as he was always inflicting piercing damage or attacking directly, so it’s 400 off Life Force either way. But the animators putting it in earlier… yeah, hard to argue with that. Also, Mirror Damage mostly annoys me for the standard equip restriction on an anime-created card where the script would call for a stronger monster attacking anyway, and the damage would be the same after the Emergency Provisions play via Life Force, with Pair Cycriod gone. Maybe future proofing if it was ever used again? Hard to say, but what a waste.
Syrus could have won if he simply had enough LP to pay with Life Force to survive Zane's onslaught. Where would he get enough LP for that? Emergency Provisions. On the penultimate turn, once Cycroid returned with Training Wheels, Syrus could have activated Power Bond, chained Emergency Provisions and sent both Power Bond and Training Wheels in exchange for 2000 LP. Both spell cards were on their way to the GY regardless and the play of activating a card and immediately chaining Emergency Provisions to gain extra LP has been done before in GX. Syrus would have had an extra 1000 LP going into Zane's final turn and be able to block 4 attacks and survive rather than 2, allowing him to endure the Instant Fusion + De-Fusion combo. Zane's only real out at that point would have been if he didn't throw his entire deck away with Power Wall and kept more than one card. Otherwise Syrus could just stall him into deck-out. In fact, if Syrus never even used Mirror Damage and just sent it, Power Bond and Training Wheels to the GY, ate Power Bond's damage and went into Zane's turn with 3000 LP, Zane still couldn't attack him enough times to break through Life Force and Syrus would end with 200 LP. Basically, Life Force and Emergency Provisions were completely busted and Syrus should have just gained as much LP as he could to abuse it.
Aren't you forgetting warp beam? Syrus 1600 --> 3600 End Phase: Syrus: 3600 --> 2000 (Power Bond's side effect) Zane's Turn Zane: Plays Warp Beam Battle Phase: Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Keel (600atk) Syrus: Plays Life Force 2000 --> 1600 Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Horn(600atk) Syrus: Plays Life Force 1600 --> 1200 Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Edge(400atk) Syrus: Plays Life Force 1200 --> 800 Zane: Plays Flash Fusion Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Dragon Syrus: 800 --> 400 Zane: Plays De-fusion Zane: Attacks directly with Cyberdark Edge Syrus: LOSE
I respect the little apology so much that i've decided to canonically change the name of the card to light force sword in my head, great video for an awesome battle too
Actually there is a game-changing misplay here: instead of using Emergency Provisions on the last turn, if he instead chained it to Power Bond, sending Power Bond and Training Wheels to the GY for the cost. This raises Sho's LP to 3600, giving him a total of 8 activations of Life Force (plus 400 LP), enough to tank all of Kaiser's 7 attacks on his last turn. Every other move could have been identical and he'd win.
Though that is closer to a hindsight thing since he probably wanted to save provisions as an in case shit happens type of thing. He defo would have won as Zane would have to play more conservatively which means he can't go over cycroid (well he wouldn't be able to do much about it really since he would need to use power bond to fuse by that point) honestly I think the issue was that he couldn't respect Zane's edgy makeover
Wait quick question. Training wheels has a stupid effect that if it leaves the field, so does the monster it's equiped to. So if you chain emergency provisions to power bond, would that cancel out the fusion summon?
@@DranzerG3 well not necessarily, when cards with that stipulation are sent it's often a chain trigger. So it depends on how the effect itself is worded
Another way Syrus could have won was by summoning Truckroid in defence on his first turn. Had he done that the following turns would create a snowball effect resulting in him joining Chazz and Alexis in the hall of Duel Academy who out dueled their big brothers if there is such a section there. Truckroid has 2000 defence and by combining that with Life Force it would make it next to impossible for Zane to pull off a comeback as his attention would be focused on Submarineroid and Pair Cycroid.
i dont know where else i would bring this up besides maybe the supreme king duel video but i personally believed Syrus should have been the one to save jaden from the supreme king. considering how close the two are which would make for a more emotional duel and better storytelling and how there are certain parts of that arc with Syrus just cloaked in the shadows and watching on which didn't really lead to anything and Syrus was just back to his cheerleader self after jaden is saved. now whether Syrus would have beaten the supreme king is up to interpretation and can go either way in terms of a draw or a win in terms of story telling but i just feel like it would have been better narratively for Cy to duel Supreme king jaden instead of axel (also cause i never really got attached to axel all that much in that season.)
I wish they had gone that route. Don't get me wrong I liked Johan and the other top duelists from the sister schools, but the third season felt like it put all of Judai's other friends on the sidelines.
@@Jjop017 if by putting Jaden’s friends on the sidelines you mean having all of them (except for Syrus and Bastion) getting sent to the stars it certainly was gut wrenching but just imagine how Jaden felt considering the bonds he had forged with them during his time at Duel Academy. If anything they were more sidelined in the first season.
Funny enough without warp beam, Zane would have lost in that instance. Without warp beam,Zane would be forced to attack with the 2800 monster (as far as I know the 500 that pair cycroid lost is permanent). Syrus takes 100 damage leaving him with 1,500. The other two attack as planned but this time Syrus is left with 700. This means that when Syrus does the emergency provisions play, he'll have 1,700 life points which means that he can withstand the defusion play with only 100 lps left. Zane decks out and loses.
This is true because Cyber Dark Horn can deal piercing battle damage (during the replay). But if Sy plays Life Force, his battle damage is reduced to 0 (but only he has to pay 400 LP per attack)
The only issue with 3:24 is that Truckroid has 2000 defense, and Zane doesn't have a way around that without his cyberdarks being powered up from infernal dragon. Syrus could've played defense for a while longer and set himself up for the power bond and mirror damage play, which when combined with submarineroid potentially poking at Zane's LP, would result in the power wall play, and Zane not having enough damage, since Syrus wasn't taking any while truckroid was in defense.
@@alicepbg2042 it would still be able to inflict 1600 damage thanks to cyber repairer, which sets syrus up for the power bond mirror damage play, and without the extra damage Zane gets from being able to beat over truckroid, he'd Deck out
Sho could’ve chained his emergency provisions to power bond,sending it and training wheels to the graveyard to gain 2000 Lp,so he would’ve had enough Lp to survive hell kaisers turn.
Syrus could have played chained Emergency Provision to his Power Bond to gain free 1000 LP Then, he wouldn't have needed to send Mirror Damage to the GY that destroys Pair Cyclroid. With only Cyberdark Edge being able to attack directly (Horn and Keel being walled by the 3200 ATK Pair Cyclroid), Syrus could have survived that turn. Then all Sy had to do was pass his turn and win the duel.
Aren't you forgetting warp beam? Syrus 1600 --> 3600 End Phase: Syrus: 3600 --> 2000 (Power Bond's side effect) Zane's Turn Zane: Plays Warp Beam Battle Phase: Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Keel (600atk) Syrus: Plays Life Force 2000 --> 1600 Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Horn(600atk) Syrus: Plays Life Force 1600 --> 1200 Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Edge(400atk) Syrus: Plays Life Force 1200 --> 800 Zane: Plays Flash Fusion Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Dragon(8800atk) Syrus: 800 --> 400 Zane: Plays De-fusion Zane: Attacks directly with Cyberdark Edge(400atk) Syrus: LOSE
One thing to note that I feel goes underappreciated is that Kaiser when he's about to defeat Sho, he uses the same finger pointing Judai does whenever he wins a duel and says "Gotcha!", which he probably did on purprose to really rub salt in the wound about Sho's defeat and him sticking with Judai and their own principles.
I’m wondering if syrus could’ve chained emergency provisions onto power bond and sent both that and the training wheels to the grave for 2k lifepoints Possible misplay not targeting cyberdark keel, though. Zane would have had to recover it to fuse into cyberdark dragon, and he didn’t have many other cards that could attack over Syrus’ monster
I also thought of that. An attack on Cyberdark Keel with Pair Cycroid would have Zane mill 24 cards from his deck to survive the attack and the duel would’ve been decided by what Zane’s fourth last card was.
I might need to rethink this. But I'm not sure how that would have gone. If Syrus did that when he used power bond then Zane would have seen how many lifepoints Syrus had and probably doesn't overuse power wall. He might not finish the duel on his next turn like in this scenario. But he'd also have more turns to whittle Syrus down.
This was a silent wish I had in the back of my head for a while, so thank you Sam for making a "was x about to defeat y" on Syrus vs Zane. Imo, while the roids are garbage, I find them weirdly enough really cool. Probably because Syrus is one of my favorite yugioh characters in general, but also because that was the first archetype I ever played because it was a gift from my little brother, who bought the Jaden and Syrus Starter Deck because he wanted to play yugioh with me, and since then it is an archetype very dear to me.
Syrus isn't a bad duelist. For the most part, he is held back by his deck. It, in general, lacks the initial power options other decks have and lacks control cards, which is another method we saw other characters use with weaker base power decks. Unlike Jaiden, who has a large variety of fusions from any single one of his elemental heroes, Syrus has very specific fusions requiring, for the most part, vastly different cards. The Roids deck just doesn't match up with the power level of his opponents, and season 4 proves that as the only roids we know he keeps act as synergistic pieces for the common plays.
If Syrus had chained emergendy provisions to power bond sending both power bond and training wheels to GY he would had gained 2000 LP, enought to use life force to endure Zane's turn. I don't know if Zane would had done something different in that case
from reading other comments i can assume Sho is the subbed name of Cyrus but how many of those seven did Cyrus WIN? because i think Joey had a decently even win/loss ratio
@@alakazamlover4908cyrus won 4 out of six, if I remember correctly. he lost against zane and the monarch duo, and won against para dox, insect lady, tyranno and Makoto there's a practice duel against jaden that he lost, but I don't know if he was counting that one.
no he doesn't, please refer to all the times he lost because he passed out, or the plot demanded him too (Against Marek), Joey has NO plot armor at all! all his wins were skill, YUGI/ATEM have plot armor@@pn2294
Thank you Sam! Two duels Id love to see you cover is Mai Vs Marik. Or Nesbit vs Tristan, Duke and serenity? As for why Zane didn’t go for game earlier I might have an answer. It might be because the same reason he didn’t go for game against Jaden in their first duel. Subconsciously, Zane wants to see how far Syrus improved himself. Since he made a few good plays against him prior
I love these duel analysis. Checking for mistakes and misplays is a thing I see a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh fans care about. I make 3D animations of Yu-Gi-Oh duels on my channel and I often get comments trying to find mistakes in my duel scripts! Nobody has been able to find a legit misplay in my Kaiba VS Yugi duel so far! I dare anyone to try to find one! Just keep in mind to keep kind when doing so!
Syrus: Oh yea? Well, I play a bicycle... Btw, if someone runs an infinite damage combo, wouldn't someone end up getting killed by the shock collars...?
The only way I see it, with most of the plays being the same if Syrus had used Emergency provisions, chained to Powerbond and send both Powerbond and Training wheels to the grave. It would have been an extra 1000 LP and allowed him to survive the cyberdark trio in the second round of attacks after defusion was used. Granted, there is nothing saying if training wheels being removed would destroy the cycroid, but perhaps that was an unmentioned effect.
Good analysis here. Syrus demonstrating a lot of awareness regarding how to counter an opponent, and demonstrating that he is actually a rather skilled duelist this duel, despite running a bad deck. Analysis idea for your next gx video: Was professor Viper about to defeat Jaden? I watched that duel recently and noticed Viper made a misplay, and could have won if he played differently. Think it would be a good one for you to cover!
Sy certainly had been studying his brother’s duels long enough to know about the Underworld deck which houses the Cyberdarks that depend on having monsters in the graveyard.
Well, he didn’t say something among the lines of “I like killing people. It makes me happy,” or “I find joy in others dying”, so the censors must have let that slide.
This is definitely one of Syrus' best duels in the series, and he did come close to defeating Zane, but Zane just wanted the victory more and played better during this duel.
We did in season 3, but Jaden was in such a state of despair, and made so many misplays it pissed Zane off, and he called off the duel, calling Jaden out in those misplays
@@roninwarriorsfanactually Zane wasn’t so sadistic then. Also the true reason the duel didn’t end properly was because of Zane’s weak heart (which he believed was due to all the shocks from those collars but it was actually due to his Cyberdark cards) but I’m surprised TGS Anime didn’t include in the Was Jaden About To Defeat Zane video their third duel considering it’s highly possible Jaden could’ve if he wasn’t playing so frightened - third time lucky you know.
This was a good duel in the end. One duel that keeps popping in my head if there was any way someone could of won the ZARC battle. Could there of been anyway someone could of won earlier? it's a such a big battle as well.
I think I get why Zane went out of his way to equip Cyberend, which is that facedown on Syrus's field. A common card in machine decks (which they should both play) is limiter removal. That would Make Syrus have a huge Cycroid on the field to defend himself with, so having Cyberdark Dragon be massive can play around this counter and swing over. Just my theory because it would've been a weird flex otherwise.
Cyrus made a lot of great plays. He clearly put a lot of thought into his moves and if he was using a deck that isn’t worth less than the paper it’s printed on, his strategy would have worked.
I don't care if it would've been cheesy or if it wouldn't have made sense or power scaling or whatever; I wanted Syrus to win this duel! It would've done much more for Syrus' character!
4:37 does exploder read "when destroyed and sent to the graveyard"? And if yes, wouldn't that mean that it wouldn't activate because truckroid would equip it without it ever hitting the grave? Is that some kind of shenanigans?! >.>
13:16 So something that should be mentioned about Zane using Power Wall. If the card in the anime behaves the exact same as the real world, then Zane discarding 27 cards is actually mandatory. Thing is, Power Wall will always force you to discard the necessary amount of cards as possible from your deck to make the damage 0. You don’t get to choose how many cards you toss to block damage. I’ve tested this in both Master Duel and LotD and both games forced me to discard as many cards as possible to block all damage. Moral of the story, Zane’s “over the top” play was mandatory since you can’t stop some of the damage but instead you have to stop all of it.
Question: Did the anime and or managa ever clarify if these to are blood, haft, or adapted siblings. Even after all these years its hard for me to believe these 2 are siblings. I don't feel the story really did a lot with them being siblings. If they were just childhood friends I feel the story would have been basically the same.
.... Holy hell you may be right... The only thing I can think of is the vampire duel? Where Zane basically forfeits the duel so that Cyrus soul isn't taken. The main emotion of that scene is that Cyrus is SO certain Zane would do it, something that'd be lost if they were childhood friends and Cyrus had basically any positive memories to draw on, and is basically just letting Zane know ahead of time "I get it, this is the fate of the world and you're one of our best. I seriously won't hold this against you." Zane may not believe Cyrus has any right to run a machine deck but, at that point at least, he still loves his brother.
My one argument is whether exploder dragons effect would have resolved the way it did. Since it crashing with truckroid means both their effects activate. There could be the argument that if truckroid is chain link 2, And it equips exploder dragon. Exploder dragon is no longer in the graveyard to activate its effect and fizzles out. *This of course is highly speculative, And whether Ifs and When effects clash with one another*
I wonder is there a deck for Cyrus that fits these 3 conditions 1. It’s a deck made in the GX or original duel monsters 2. Focuses on fusion on a strong machine archetype that can use power bond 3. Is not just adding fusion monsters to the roids or using Zane’s deck until season 4
@@pn2294no, they never name any of them their "true deck", they just adapted and changed as they went on. Except joeri. Not that it matters, since he still used whatever deck he felt like using. Add bastion misawa by the way.
14:54 Barrel Behind the Door wouldn’t work in this situation. The drawback of Power Bond doesn’t start a chain, so you can’t activate anything in response to that. Syrus’s trap card works in this situation.
I only wished that after this duel, Jaden faced Zane and for the first time win him with his neo space monsters... A true and better ending for the GX tournament if it happened after he defeated Sartorious
I love this series. The GX duels were very fun to watch you dissect. If you can work on Jaden vs Axel, maybe even a two parter with the Supreme King duel, that would be amazing. Keep going with the great content man!!!
One duel that I would love to see is Aster vs Adrian with Exodia. Given how aggressive Aster had to play it would be interesting to see if there actually WAS a path to victory or if my guy was doomed from the start.
A duel between those who have the same last name is so rare. Maybe down the track you could look into the sibling battles before this one - Chazz vs Slade and Alexis vs Atticus or how about Chumley vs his dad?
I know Syrus kept spamming Life Force in order to protect himself as Zane kept spamming attacks , but I found the duel boring as that was 90% of his move-set in the duel 🙁🙁 If Zane hadn’t had that De-Fusion , he’d have lost the duel to Syrus via deck out I’d have loved to see Power Wall work against him lol 😃😃
Hey man loving the new video, would love to see another Zexal duel analysis. Maybe Zexal vs Vetrix or Yuma and Kite vs Trey and Quattro Keep up the good work :)
I wished I was friends with Elon Musk, to be able to have money to buy this channel and help him make this series two times every week because they are too good.
Power wall’s card art is kind of strange In the artwork, this guy with a shield on his arm, projects some energy barrier with his other hand instead (Just makes you wonder what the shield is for if he has such a power even if it costs something to him) And the card itself isn’t so demonic looking, but cause Edgy Zane is using it, he makes it look disrespectful and evil cause he just chucks his cards like that for dramatics
![Was Atticus About To Defeat Yusuke? [The Invasion of Darkness! Stolen Memories]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Lb29Vh5Ce08/mqdefault.jpg)
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I will never not find the mental image of Zane awkwardly picking up all of the cards he threw on the floor to activate Power Wall hilarious. Would really undermine his new edgelord motif by ending all of his duels that way.
Oh my god, I never even thought about that till I saw this
See Vrains had the advantage of being able to pull off maneuvers like that because they were in a virtual world, but it never did anything like that with the cards
Now I imagine him just buying tons of copies of all his cards, wasting tons of money, just so he doesn't need to do pick them up, just replacing them when he gets home and keeping up his edgy persona.
Its is call not giving a shit because you have money and just buying the cards back
🤫🤫🤫🤫shhhhhhhh we don’t talk about how the sausage is made 😂
I love the idea that Syrus's biggest misplay wasn't even any move he specifically made during the duel, but just his choice in archetype being trash.
Vehicroids really need an entire rework. All new monsters and maybe some errata's to some older ones. IMO, it should be a control deck that is capable of messing with your opponent and getting damage in through effects, regardless of the opponents board state. I like equipping monsters you destroy but truckroid is WAY too weak. I like attacking for 800 and switching to DEF but i'd prefer if it were a tag out ability.
The fusions definitely need a rework. Also, we need kiteroid. Its the only one that's actually good
Ironic, isn't?
Roids are a cool deck. They're just not great.
tbf, cyberdarks suck too
Note: “Instant Fusion” in GX is not the card you’re probably thinking of. Instead it’s a quick-play spell that fusion summons using only monsters on the field. It got printed in the TCG as “Flash Fusion”
I figured he used the sub name, but then what is the English Instant Fusion called in Japanese?
@@kyuubinaruto17 It's also called Instant Fusion... Kind of. Specifically, the GX card (Flash Fusion) is japanese for "Instantaneous Fusion", whereas Instant Fusion is still Instant Fusion in Japan - it's just written/pronounced with japanese characters (the wiki has its romanji as "Instanto Fyujon").
So it's just a case of two cards having the same name, but in different languages... Which is perfectly acceptable in Japanese since they can just write it differently to differentiate, but for english it makes things way more complicated than it has to be.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 I see. Thanks for explaining.
@@jaernihiltheus7817it's called Shunkan Fusion in JP
@@blastthechaos6083 i know, shunkan yugo translates to instant fusion in japanese - hence the issue. They have the same name in japan - just one is said in english and one is said in japanese, hence why they had to change the name of one of them in english to avoid confusion.
The Power Wall play is such a badass moment. And just recently I found out that they replicated that scene in the Tag Force games, in the very slight chance Zane manages to resolve the card, he has an specific animation and dialogue for it, which is amazing to see.
I know right 🫨
Love your "Was A about to defeat B" videos. Every turn, I feel like you're about to say "and the penultimate turn of the duel." lol!
What does penultimate mean
Second to last.
@@RyanEllwoodthe turn before the final turn
Usually people call the 2nd to the last boss as "Penultimate boss"
@@stk2322yeah learned that word because of Sam😄
I cracked up when he said that on Blue Angel's second turn. 😅
"They don't call it Speed Duels for nothing!"😂
The iconic moment in the Sub version where Zane says “Disappear! Loser!” to Syrus before he attacks and wins the duel. You can clearly tell that Zane showed no remorse towards his brother
Sho asked him not to pull his punches and treat him like a real opponent. Showing remorse for winning would have been utterly disrespectful of what Sho wanted
@@mrbubbles6468Oh I see
@@mrbubbles6468and torturing Sho along with Cyber End Dragon?
which mind y ou, he almost lost to his little brother
Yu-gi-oh! Duel Monsters GX is certainly an experience. Idk if it is a good one, but it is one.
Ok so here me out, WHAT if Zane intentally made that risky move. Cause part of him wanted to give Syrus his brother the chance to prove himself. Cause remember after this duel he did begin to chill out a bit, so maybe, he wanted to see if Syrus truely improved as a duelist.
I mean that’s exactly what he was doing. Zane did not want to fight his brother originally. Syrus demanded the fight. Then demands the shock devices.
@mrbubbles6468 I don't know own how much thr Dub, changed in translation. But in it, Zane only agreed to duel Cyrus if he used the Shock collars.
I mean, my theory is that Zane did intentionally make the more risky move, but for a different reason. You see, the Cyberdark deck that Zane is using in the anime requires the duelist to keep going past their limits, meaning the duelist has to keep making more insane plays every duel. They have to keep upping the ante. It's basically like the escalation of going from a spice challenge to the knife game till you eventually get to Russian roulette.
In this case russian roulette was his duel against johan @@FruityGroovy
Speaking of Zane, I would love to see Zane vs Aster, the duel that started Zane’s downward spiral
Agreed.
Man that was a clapping and he didn‘t even play the Destiny Heros
That duel where he just straight up murders Mad Dog would be even better (and I'm saying he killed the guy, because the damage amplifiers are said to be potentially lethal at the standard 4000 LP already while Mad Dog had 15000 LP, and Zane dealt so much damage at once the damage amplifiers released so much energy they caused a freaking explosion and took part of the duel ring with them. And Zane dealt even more damage than you'd expect, as anime Chimeratech Overdragon can attack multiple times directly, as can be seen in his first duel vs Jesse where he declares he's attacking Jesse directly 3x, at least in the Japanese version he says that).
Add that to the duels we needed but never got in GX. Along with Amon’s rematch against Judai/Yubel and Jubel’s final fight against the Light of Destruction.
Jubel 😂😂
Me and my sister watched this episode a while ago, and we both still feel like Syrus was robbed. My sister was especially mad because Zane just leaves later, making his inclusion in this tournament feel pointless.
Zane only wanted to test his cyberdark deck. He did not care about the tournament at all. He even gave his medal to Blair , which shows how little he cared.
Also Syrus doesn't deserve to win. I hate Syrus with a burning passion
@@soukenmarufwt5224TF he do to you bruh
Tbf he wasn’t in the tournament to win it. He was in it to fight the best. Shepherd invite every pro duelist he could find so duel academy has the highest concentration of incredibly powerful duelists and Zane’s easy wins made him feel like he was wasting time there
@@soukenmarufwt5224bro what did syrus do to you
Pls bring back yugioh profiles!!!!!
After so many request attempts, Sam has finally done this duel. I can finally stop requesting it. Thanks, Sam.
When I first watched this duel, I was so sure Syrus had this duel won, but when Zane dropped that shock De-Fusion, my heart sank so hard. It’s so amazing that Syrus was so close despite his archetype.
The only other requests I have is the rematch duels for Jaden vs Aster and Yusei vs Kalin.
No problem!
I love that rematch between Jaden and Aster
@@giovanniorellana2200yeah and how Jaden didn‘t know that the Contact Fusions with Neos defuse in the End Phase without Neo Space funny moment😂
@@HoffanheimJoey having zero monsters he can summon on the 1st turn against Seigfried is a worse blunder than Jaden not understanding Neo Spacian fusion monsters diffuse during the End Phase.
I hear you on how close Sy was to beating his big brother. No one else who crossed Zane’s path could get that close - not even Jaden and he was number one freshman from the first season.
This match was such a gut punch. Sy was so close... Thanks TGS!
Syrus wasnt close, Zayne was toying with him.
As said on the video, Zayne had game since the last turn but let it slide just to see what would happen. He had enough LP to tank almost anything Syrus pulled (he cant pull a Jumboroid or anything like that with that few cards on hand, after all) and only needed one card to not insta lose by deck out.
You can say that the emergency was something he didnt plan, and could cost him the duel, or that the last draw he did was the plot saving him... but Syrus having a trap-equip that would save his ass twice (the mirror didnt have any kind of effect as an equip that it couldnt do as a normal trap, but Syrus had to use it and have a trap to send to grave so... equip it is) is also the plot warping the duel so I think we can just put this last turn shenanigans at "we already have the game, but we need to show this sick art of Dark End equipped with Cyber End".
@@albertonishiyama1980 I mean if Sy had enough life points to block the triple attack after DeFusion, Zane's screwed, so yes, Sy was close.
@@CharmCityGamer the thing is: he didnt have enough LP, and Zayne knew it. He only had enough to survive Cyber End because the same anime only card could be used to save his ass against Power Bond and as cost for emergency.
Otherwise even if Zayne pulled a dead draw Syrus would still lose because the only trap he could have send was the 400LP one, meaning he would take full damage from all monsters.
@@albertonishiyama1980 I'm aware of that, I'm speaking in hypotheticals.
@@albertonishiyama1980But the card has a hyper specific on field effect. Because as long as it is on the field, it protects cyrus from any spell damage that is exactly the original attack of the equipped monster and sends it to zane. The effect is garbage, you don't have to tell me, but it has a lingering effect while equipped to a monster.
So no, the card wasn't JUST for plot an equip, it was an equip with a purpose that I don't know would've blocked more than, like, 2 cards in the entire game, one of which you have to activate yourself.
This changes absolutely nothing, but you saying it has no purpose as an equip other than being emergency provisions fodder is wrong. It could, hypothetically, block damage from ectoplasmer targeting Sorcerer of Dark Magic while equipped to Pair Cycroid.
Also, if you say Cyrus didn't come close, than we also have to discuss that Zane only won because he had crazy dumb luck.
Wanting to "know where it would go" is not a good enough excuse to lose if the wrong card was on the bottom of his deck.
Imagine this, he drew Cyber Valley instead of Warp Beam. He loses.
So, imo, Cyrus was as close to winning the duel as Zane was lucky, and if you think otherwise...
Well, good for you, but I don't know what else to tell you.
Syrus tried his hardest to defeat Zane. I applaud to you Sy 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Ya can't help but respect Sy for not only trying his hardest but also standing up to his brother, granted he lost but this still earns him some respect for standing up for himself. And he almost beat Zane tbh, it was close 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Screw that little btc
Syrus played the best Duel he could. He may have had a weak archetype, but he played to his Deck's strengths like any true Duelist, he couldn't summon Monsters stronger than Zane's so instead he used effects to get around them and attack directly, while also minimizing the damage he took.
@@zexalbrony4799 I honestly loved that scene where it shows that syrus won a shit ton of uels just to prep himself to fight against zane. like jaden opens his jacket a bit and you see a bunch of genex medals falling down.
Syrus' POV after seeing Zane play De-Fusion...
"Oh s**t!"
13:16 as badass as that scene look, it's hilarious to imagine Zane kneeling and picking up his cards afterwards
Imagine a strong wind blows and he loses some of his deck cards xDD
@@ppikach64 it's more hilarious
Kinda funny that Zane's Cyber End Dragon-equipped Cyberdark Dragon became an actual card itself years later as Cyberdark End Dragon
If the duel with Dimitri was any relevance, Emergency Provisions could have been used to sacrifice itself as well to give Syrus 1000 more LP and survive... But at this point in the series, they might've already adopted the TCG effect of the card.
Anime/Manga cards getting erratas and bans(Or in some cases like negate attack, an entire rework with how its cardtype went from Quickplay spell to trap between OG and GX) is genuinely the most aggrovating thing because it just makes the story harder to understand without meta knowledge.
He didn't use it on the card itself, he chained it to Monster Reincarnation and used it on that + 2 Set cards for 3000 total LP. So, just the TCG version.
The only thing Syrus could've done different was to chain it to Power Bond so he wouldn't have to sacrifice Pair Cycroid due to Mirror Damage, but Pair Cycroid would get destroyed anyway by Cyberdark Dragon so it wouldn't make a difference.
@@_Vengeance_ If he chained Emergency Provisions to Power Bond he could send Power Bond and Training Wheels to the GY for cost, which would give him another 1000 LP (to 3600) and as a result let him use Life Force to reduce the damage of all of Kaiser's attacks on his last turn, with 400 LP remaining. He'd have won, and this is the most obvious misplay involving Provisions considering it's a play that would not have impacted Sho's card advantage in any way and give him more LP off of it as opposed to his actual play which had him lose cards for only 1000 LP.
Alternatively, it's way less obvious but he could have activated Emergency Provisions in the damage step of Cyberdark Dragon's attack which would remove the Pair Cycroid from the field prior to damage calculation, and there would be no replay. He'd have 1400 LP to cover all of the De-Fusion attacks.
@@Zetact_ Right, I completely forgot Training Wheels was also on the field. That indeed changes everything!
However, your other idea wouldn't work. Emergency Provisions can't be activated during the Damage Step (including Damage Calculation).
When Syrus activates "power bond" he should have used "emergency provision" and send "power bond" and "training wheels"gaining 2000 life points instead of 1000. In this way he would have been able to survive all of Zane's attacks.
Syrus: 1600 -> 3600
*Turn ends*
Syrus: 3600 -> 2000 (Power Bond's side effect)
Zane: *Plays Instant/Flash Fusion* *attacks*
Syrus: *Plays Life Force*
2000 -> 1600
Zane: *Plays De-Fusion*
*Attacks with Keel, Horn, and Edge*
Syrus: *Plays Life Force*
1600 -> 1200 -> 800 -> 400
Why did you consider the damage from power bond?
@@snowy5646 Because since power bond doesn't remain in play after use this means it's downside isn't canceled by destroying it. the reason this dodges mirage of night mares ability is because mirage stays in play until it's downside is triggered in the anime.
@@Dratspider Wait I'm pretty sure the intention isn't to stop power bond's damage, but to gain more lp and Syrus still has his mirror trap availiable to stop the damage anyway. So the damage wouldn't happen ans Syrus would've had enough lp to survive Zane's final attack. Right?
Well, there may be one thing to consider since idk how timing works out in Yugioh, but in the example that @snowy5646 said, Syrus has to also send training wheels to get more lp along with power bond. Problem is training wheels has a lame ass effect that if it leaves the field, so does the equiped monster.
So does this cancel out power bond's fusion summoning? I've never been in a scenario like this
@@DranzerG3 I was responding to snowy5646 asking why power bond was still considered in the damage calc for the theoretical play.
But as for the question about training wheels I'm not sure. If I had to guess based of my limited knowledge I'd say that training wheels will either miss timing because its a when or if its an if effect, fizzle, because it's equipped monster is no longer present. Either way power bond will successfully fusion summon.
This duel was hard to watch. In the sense that it was brutal for Syrus, especially given Zane gave them both Shock Collars. I applaud Syrus for trying his heart out to beat Zane and speak sense to him. It’s one of my favorite duels in the entirety of GX.
It's my favorite specifically cause Syrus is in pain
Yeah, the shock collars are already brutal by design, but using them on your own little bro is even more messed up.
Zane was perfectly in control. Syrus was never going to beat sense into him because he hadn’t made a mistake.
@@faeremani mean, the brother did ask for them to be used. And everyone was like ‘are you sure about this?’
about the flash fusion missplay, syrus had a face down, so I guess he didn't want to risk using all his resources and don't finish him off. Syrus is known to play magic cylinder and defusion after all.
Imagine not knowing how to use power bond
a bona fide syrus moment
Couldn't be me
What does Power Bond do?
@@MisterMcCrumchPower Bond allows you to Fusion Summon a machine Fusion monster by using materials from hand and field. Additionally the Fusion monster has its attack doubled, at the cost of you taking that monster’s original attack as damage at the end phase.
It’s better to use when the attack boost can let you win that turn, thus avoiding the damage.
@@MisterMcCrumch I think it allows you to draw 2 cards from your deck and add them to your hand.
In the Japanese version. Zane only refers to Syrus/Sho by his name right before he’s going to win, from the start to that moment of the duel, he never addresses himself as the elder brother or Syrus/Sho as his younger one
A nice touch to Zane’s disrespect edginess
He didn’t disrespect. Sub is clear on this in Zane’s first fight. People are just reading him wrong because no one ever thought what happened would happen
@@mrbubbles6468
He’s petty then, but his attitude towards others and his own boasting of not needing respect or to looked up to says it all
JP GX still worse because they did him dirty.
One of the rare Ls in the sub
DAMN, DE-FUSION!!!!
Also, what I found interesting is that Syrus claimed he wasn't ready to use Power Bond, and yet he had a card specifically to combo with/counter Power Bond
I love the absolute struggle with the Roid archetype. Just…so bad.
It's enough to make you wish that Sho would turn up in Arc-V just so Yugo specifically would clean his clock.
@@christopherb501is that different from all the other characters in ARC-V?
@@christopherb501implying that Yugo wouldn't adopt him in the same way Jaden did. I think it would be an interesting episode where Yugo and Yuzu end up bonding with Syrus over who they've lost because of the Academy starting a war cuz Syrus hasn't heard from Zane in a long time and also that Syrus and Zane both play Roid decks from different dimensions and Syrus ends up giving Yugo one of his cards, Supercharge, that eventually gets used as his power of friendship card to draw 2 monsters that eventually get him into Clear Wing. Could be a funny or a serious episode, could imply Kite carded Zane to set him up as a threat to Yuya. I dunno, everything I wish would have happened will sound better to me than what was made so all I can do is share my ideas and accept the flaws of the existing product.
Even if it’s not pure Roids, in a recent Edison tournament, a Machine Roid list managed to make it to Top 8. Is the best deck ever, definitely not, but check it out if you want to at least have a laugh.
lol
Life Force is quite a busted card if you think about it. Imagine if it got printed IRL and it maintained its same effect to reduce the damage to 0 by paying 400 life points. I can see working great in stall decks for burn or Exodia. What do you think?
Either double the LP cost or add an upkeep and it would be fine imo.
But like, it's a trap, chances are your opponent might just pop it before you get a chance to activate it.
@@ItsPForPea Considering it's an anime card scaled to their 4k starting LP, doubling the cost to fit with the 8k LP format would be fitting.
Life force might have been good when GX was new, but now it's too weak. It can easily be negated, or just outright destroyed even by something like MST
Considering how much removal most decks have in the modern game, DESPITE being a strong card, Life Force would be practically useless without being able to protect it. Likely even destroyed before even getting the chance to activate. And even in older formats where it would be able to see decent amount of play, a stray MST would be a solid counter to it even on activation (continuous traps must remain on the field for their effects to apply, so being destroyed before resolution is basically getting negated in all but name).
It'd be pretty good until you remember any backrow removal can just utterly buttfrick it.
I honestly love this duel. This is by far one of the most pain inducing duels I have ever seen. The fact he was able to keep fighting despite the amount of pain Syrus was enduring... well done, Sy. Well done. He may not have won, but you have got to give this little guy some props. The kids got guts, and grit!
You should do Joey vs Zigfried next. It is such a long and entertaining duel. You would have such good commentary for the first turn of the duel and I reckon you would make a good video of it.
"I can't summon one single monster." Joey after looking at his hand before his 1st turn 😂
Funniest moment in duel monsters history.
It is ironic that Giant Trunade ended up sealing Joey’s fate. Maybe had he not played it he would be making the KC Grand Championship semi finals.
@@mattbartels
WDYM?
@@mystery8820He meant was the Trap Card combo by Zigfried that trigger when they are removed from the field.
1.) Apple of Enlightenment - This lets him draw cards equal to the number of Valkyrie Monsters plus 1. Since Zig has none, he draws one card. There is also another effect that he can banish Monster's from Joey's GY equal to the number of Valkyries he control. Since there are none, he doesn't have too.
2.) Loge's Flame - He can special summon a Valkyrie Monster.
*NOTE:* This is an illegal play because
1.) Nowhere in both cards state that it activates when returned to the hand or leaving the field in general. For Apple's case, it leaves the field due to opponent's card effect AND sent to the Graveyard or banished at the same time. For Loge's Flame, it has to be destroyed before the effect triggers
2.) This is a possible CHAIN reaction. Remember, in the chain rule, we follow FILO (First In Last Out). The last activated card resolves first meaning Loge's effect resolves first Summoning Valkyrie then Apple's effect activates and since Zigfried controls one Valkyrie, he should've drawn 2 cards instead of 1
If not for this shenanigan, Joey could've won.
Have you considered doing any of the team duels from 5ds? I know they would be a lot of work but seeing 5ds vs team ragnarok would be interesting to see.
I rather see 5Ds vs Unicorn. You know...the infamous duel where Unicorn literally would've won if the guy just ENDED HIS DAMN TURN??????????????? Like.....COME ON, DUDE! You LITERALLY had game by just ENDING TURN, and Yusei would've lost to deck out....and you instead ATTACK and fall into Yusei's trap and PURPOSELY lose????
Yes, that duel STILL irks me why they wrote that duel in such a piss poor sloppy way, and I want him to rip that duel apart.
I'd love to see that one myself. Could Team Ragnarok at any point have won?
@@vgmaster02 Considering they had some busted cards, yeah...the guy deserved to lose so bad lol.
@@vgmaster02 well that tournament is one of the worst ones I've seen in Yugioh anime
Nah
That moment when you realise Zane has Five Headed Dragon in his extra deck
Wow! To get a dual analysis on this particular dual was such a treat. This dual is Zane at his lowest point and I suspect the reason he didn’t end the dual earlier was because he wanted to prove that his new dual outlook was the correct one, being that losers only deserve pain. In other words he wanted to see Syrus suffer. I’m just glad that later on Zane apologized to his brother, and in a way he would pay for his actions as the deck he now uses, would cost him his life during his final duel against Yubel. The way Zane returns to his respect outlook was just golden and by the time he duel’s Yubel he realizes he was wrong. Admittedly, this dual is hard to watch because of the way Syrus is tortured, but I can’t thank you enough for this dual analysis, it’s a gem! 💎
He isn’t at his lowest point. The sub mskes this clear. The fight in the sub isn’t even about that issue, it’s about Sho being able to prove he is strong enough to stand across from his brother.
Him using the deck had nothing to do with costing him against Yubel. The shocks did.
@@mrbubbles6468he is at his lowest point. All he cares about is victory. Even to the point where he’s ok with torturing Cyber End Dragon.
@@mrbubbles6468In the 4th season of Yugioh GX as Syrus is preparing to duel an opponent using both his and Zane’s deck, he feels the underworld deck strong desire to win which affects his body. The deck’s desire is what caused Zane’s heart problems to the point in where he needed to be in a wheelchair for a while. Also the fact that he was willing to torture his brother all just for the sake of victory is despicable, so I respectfully disagree that he isn’t at his lowest point (no disrespect at all intended)
Judging by your expressions at the beginning of the video, I can see you’re pretty sour of Syrus mixing Zane’s Cyberdark deck with his Roid deck in the Makoto duel in S4. I know Roids aren’t that good but the duel itself is great and shows the type of great character development Syrus should have gotten a lot earlier in the series. Maybe that would be a duel to cover in the near future.
I think what makes that combination of his deck frustrating is that we only ever see it used the once - so we have no idea what else it can do besides Dragonroid substituting for a Dragon to equip onto Cyberdark Fusion, and a way to get around the main counter to that.
@@jaernihiltheus7817 I believe the answer to "What it can do" is "Brick horrendously, because it's made up of half vehicroid monsters."
I think it would have been way better if Syrus inherited the Cyber Dragon without Cyberdark after his brother's "death", a sign of maturity as a duelist and redemption for the late Zane.
I had always taken it as a given that Instant Fusion was the card Zane drew on the final turn, for the reason mentioned that he could have won earlier with it (his draw of Warp Beam on the final turn cuts without him being shown which card form his hand/draw goes into the disk, so that doesn’t lock it down). And there wasn’t an earlier point where Warp Beam would have made a difference, as he was always inflicting piercing damage or attacking directly, so it’s 400 off Life Force either way. But the animators putting it in earlier… yeah, hard to argue with that.
Also, Mirror Damage mostly annoys me for the standard equip restriction on an anime-created card where the script would call for a stronger monster attacking anyway, and the damage would be the same after the Emergency Provisions play via Life Force, with Pair Cycriod gone. Maybe future proofing if it was ever used again? Hard to say, but what a waste.
Reiji vs Yuya (final duel) is another one I’d love to see in a video like this. These duel breakdowns are so good.
That duel was tough to watch. I couldn't decide who I wanted to win
Syrus could have won if he simply had enough LP to pay with Life Force to survive Zane's onslaught. Where would he get enough LP for that? Emergency Provisions.
On the penultimate turn, once Cycroid returned with Training Wheels, Syrus could have activated Power Bond, chained Emergency Provisions and sent both Power Bond and Training Wheels in exchange for 2000 LP. Both spell cards were on their way to the GY regardless and the play of activating a card and immediately chaining Emergency Provisions to gain extra LP has been done before in GX.
Syrus would have had an extra 1000 LP going into Zane's final turn and be able to block 4 attacks and survive rather than 2, allowing him to endure the Instant Fusion + De-Fusion combo. Zane's only real out at that point would have been if he didn't throw his entire deck away with Power Wall and kept more than one card. Otherwise Syrus could just stall him into deck-out.
In fact, if Syrus never even used Mirror Damage and just sent it, Power Bond and Training Wheels to the GY, ate Power Bond's damage and went into Zane's turn with 3000 LP, Zane still couldn't attack him enough times to break through Life Force and Syrus would end with 200 LP.
Basically, Life Force and Emergency Provisions were completely busted and Syrus should have just gained as much LP as he could to abuse it.
Aren't you forgetting warp beam?
Syrus 1600 --> 3600
End Phase:
Syrus: 3600 --> 2000 (Power Bond's side effect)
Zane's Turn
Zane: Plays Warp Beam
Battle Phase:
Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Keel (600atk)
Syrus: Plays Life Force
2000 --> 1600
Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Horn(600atk)
Syrus: Plays Life Force
1600 --> 1200
Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Edge(400atk)
Syrus: Plays Life Force
1200 --> 800
Zane: Plays Flash Fusion
Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Dragon
Syrus:
800 --> 400
Zane: Plays De-fusion
Zane: Attacks directly with Cyberdark Edge
Syrus:
LOSE
I respect the little apology so much that i've decided to canonically change the name of the card to light force sword in my head, great video for an awesome battle too
Actually there is a game-changing misplay here: instead of using Emergency Provisions on the last turn, if he instead chained it to Power Bond, sending Power Bond and Training Wheels to the GY for the cost. This raises Sho's LP to 3600, giving him a total of 8 activations of Life Force (plus 400 LP), enough to tank all of Kaiser's 7 attacks on his last turn. Every other move could have been identical and he'd win.
Ah I didn't catch that, good eye!
Though that is closer to a hindsight thing since he probably wanted to save provisions as an in case shit happens type of thing. He defo would have won as Zane would have to play more conservatively which means he can't go over cycroid (well he wouldn't be able to do much about it really since he would need to use power bond to fuse by that point) honestly I think the issue was that he couldn't respect Zane's edgy makeover
Wait quick question. Training wheels has a stupid effect that if it leaves the field, so does the monster it's equiped to. So if you chain emergency provisions to power bond, would that cancel out the fusion summon?
@@DranzerG3 well not necessarily, when cards with that stipulation are sent it's often a chain trigger. So it depends on how the effect itself is worded
Another way Syrus could have won was by summoning Truckroid in defence on his first turn. Had he done that the following turns would create a snowball effect resulting in him joining Chazz and Alexis in the hall of Duel Academy who out dueled their big brothers if there is such a section there. Truckroid has 2000 defence and by combining that with Life Force it would make it next to impossible for Zane to pull off a comeback as his attention would be focused on Submarineroid and Pair Cycroid.
Crazy I just started rewatching yugioh because of your channel and now this is exactly the part I’m up to.
Power wall is so goddamn broken. The grass looks greener is gonna get a run for his money
i dont know where else i would bring this up besides maybe the supreme king duel video but i personally believed Syrus should have been the one to save jaden from the supreme king. considering how close the two are which would make for a more emotional duel and better storytelling and how there are certain parts of that arc with Syrus just cloaked in the shadows and watching on which didn't really lead to anything and Syrus was just back to his cheerleader self after jaden is saved. now whether Syrus would have beaten the supreme king is up to interpretation and can go either way in terms of a draw or a win in terms of story telling but i just feel like it would have been better narratively for Cy to duel Supreme king jaden instead of axel (also cause i never really got attached to axel all that much in that season.)
I wish they had gone that route. Don't get me wrong I liked Johan and the other top duelists from the sister schools, but the third season felt like it put all of Judai's other friends on the sidelines.
@@Jjop017 if by putting Jaden’s friends on the sidelines you mean having all of them (except for Syrus and Bastion) getting sent to the stars it certainly was gut wrenching but just imagine how Jaden felt considering the bonds he had forged with them during his time at Duel Academy. If anything they were more sidelined in the first season.
4:53 Fun fact: You can replicate this turn (and others similar) with "Arrivalrivals". I actually like that card, pretty cool.
Funny enough without warp beam, Zane would have lost in that instance. Without warp beam,Zane would be forced to attack with the 2800 monster (as far as I know the 500 that pair cycroid lost is permanent). Syrus takes 100 damage leaving him with 1,500. The other two attack as planned but this time Syrus is left with 700. This means that when Syrus does the emergency provisions play, he'll have 1,700 life points which means that he can withstand the defusion play with only 100 lps left. Zane decks out and loses.
13:32 give props to the animaters, i counted and there 27 cards being animted on the screen
Syrus didn't need to use life force on Edge's attack, it was already 400 damage, there wasn't anything to reduce
7:25 "My monster cant be destroyed by battle!" -Syrus
*"YOU STILL TAKE THE DAMAGE!"* - Kaiser
This is true because Cyber Dark Horn can deal piercing battle damage (during the replay).
But if Sy plays Life Force, his battle damage is reduced to 0 (but only he has to pay 400 LP per attack)
The only issue with 3:24 is that Truckroid has 2000 defense, and Zane doesn't have a way around that without his cyberdarks being powered up from infernal dragon. Syrus could've played defense for a while longer and set himself up for the power bond and mirror damage play, which when combined with submarineroid potentially poking at Zane's LP, would result in the power wall play, and Zane not having enough damage, since Syrus wasn't taking any while truckroid was in defense.
submarine roid would die in 1 turn. just 1800 defense.
@@alicepbg2042that’s higher than most LV4 monster ATK
@@pn2294 but not the 2k guy zane had. that's the point.
@@alicepbg2042 it would still be able to inflict 1600 damage thanks to cyber repairer, which sets syrus up for the power bond mirror damage play, and without the extra damage Zane gets from being able to beat over truckroid, he'd Deck out
@@jj209th6 no? he will just negate the necessary damage and play. he would still get the cards to negate this combo.
This series is so awesome man. I always look forward to these, and appreciate all the hard work you put into them. 👍🏻
Sho could’ve chained his emergency provisions to power bond,sending it and training wheels to the graveyard to gain 2000 Lp,so he would’ve had enough Lp to survive hell kaisers turn.
Super excited for this big analysis video! Thanks so much for uploading! Might comment more later!
Syrus could have played chained Emergency Provision to his Power Bond to gain free 1000 LP
Then, he wouldn't have needed to send Mirror Damage to the GY that destroys Pair Cyclroid.
With only Cyberdark Edge being able to attack directly (Horn and Keel being walled by the 3200 ATK Pair Cyclroid), Syrus could have survived that turn.
Then all Sy had to do was pass his turn and win the duel.
Aren't you forgetting warp beam?
Syrus 1600 --> 3600
End Phase:
Syrus: 3600 --> 2000 (Power Bond's side effect)
Zane's Turn
Zane: Plays Warp Beam
Battle Phase:
Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Keel (600atk)
Syrus: Plays Life Force
2000 --> 1600
Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Horn(600atk)
Syrus: Plays Life Force
1600 --> 1200
Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Edge(400atk)
Syrus: Plays Life Force
1200 --> 800
Zane: Plays Flash Fusion
Zane: Attacks with Cyberdark Dragon(8800atk)
Syrus:
800 --> 400
Zane: Plays De-fusion
Zane: Attacks directly with Cyberdark Edge(400atk)
Syrus:
LOSE
One thing to note that I feel goes underappreciated is that Kaiser when he's about to defeat Sho, he uses the same finger pointing Judai does whenever he wins a duel and says "Gotcha!", which he probably did on purprose to really rub salt in the wound about Sho's defeat and him sticking with Judai and their own principles.
I’m wondering if syrus could’ve chained emergency provisions onto power bond and sent both that and the training wheels to the grave for 2k lifepoints
Possible misplay not targeting cyberdark keel, though. Zane would have had to recover it to fuse into cyberdark dragon, and he didn’t have many other cards that could attack over Syrus’ monster
I also thought of that. An attack on Cyberdark Keel with Pair Cycroid would have Zane mill 24 cards from his deck to survive the attack and the duel would’ve been decided by what Zane’s fourth last card was.
I might need to rethink this. But I'm not sure how that would have gone. If Syrus did that when he used power bond then Zane would have seen how many lifepoints Syrus had and probably doesn't overuse power wall. He might not finish the duel on his next turn like in this scenario. But he'd also have more turns to whittle Syrus down.
@@Flarisunless I’m mistaken, he has the one turn to get rid of pair cycroid or it can just attack for game
What is the background music used at 13:00! I haven't found it anywhere and I keep hearing it in your videos.
I love the song
@@anonluxor470 I've asked TGS in like 7 comments sections and he's never replied 😭
This was a silent wish I had in the back of my head for a while, so thank you Sam for making a "was x about to defeat y" on Syrus vs Zane.
Imo, while the roids are garbage, I find them weirdly enough really cool.
Probably because Syrus is one of my favorite yugioh characters in general, but also because that was the first archetype I ever played because it was a gift from my little brother, who bought the Jaden and Syrus Starter Deck because he wanted to play yugioh with me, and since then it is an archetype very dear to me.
Mirror Damage May sound hyper specific (and it is) but in a deck with Power Bond it would be live. And by Yugioh anime rules it almost always will be.
Even though Syrus was not a powerful duelist, and loses a lot, you must admit, he did pretty well for himself here in this duel
Syrus isn't a bad duelist. For the most part, he is held back by his deck. It, in general, lacks the initial power options other decks have and lacks control cards, which is another method we saw other characters use with weaker base power decks.
Unlike Jaiden, who has a large variety of fusions from any single one of his elemental heroes, Syrus has very specific fusions requiring, for the most part, vastly different cards. The Roids deck just doesn't match up with the power level of his opponents, and season 4 proves that as the only roids we know he keeps act as synergistic pieces for the common plays.
Syrus is the training AI that you face when learning the game.
If Syrus had chained emergendy provisions to power bond sending both power bond and training wheels to GY he would had gained 2000 LP, enought to use life force to endure Zane's turn.
I don't know if Zane would had done something different in that case
Fun fact, Barrel behind the door does not actually protect you from the damage of power bond
Fun fact, the amount of Sho’s complete duels in the anime is 7, the same amount Joey had in Duelist Kingdom.
from reading other comments i can assume Sho is the subbed name of Cyrus
but how many of those seven did Cyrus WIN?
because i think Joey had a decently even win/loss ratio
@@alakazamlover4908Joey has plot armor.
@@alakazamlover4908cyrus won 4 out of six, if I remember correctly. he lost against zane and the monarch duo, and won against para dox, insect lady, tyranno and Makoto
there's a practice duel against jaden that he lost, but I don't know if he was counting that one.
do we count para and dox as +2 wins or +1 win? @@sasir2013
no he doesn't, please refer to all the times he lost because he passed out, or the plot demanded him too (Against Marek), Joey has NO plot armor at all! all his wins were skill, YUGI/ATEM have plot armor@@pn2294
Thank you Sam!
Two duels Id love to see you cover is Mai Vs Marik.
Or
Nesbit vs Tristan, Duke and serenity?
As for why Zane didn’t go for game earlier I might have an answer.
It might be because the same reason he didn’t go for game against Jaden in their first duel.
Subconsciously, Zane wants to see how far Syrus improved himself. Since he made a few good plays against him prior
I love these duel analysis. Checking for mistakes and misplays is a thing I see a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh fans care about. I make 3D animations of Yu-Gi-Oh duels on my channel and I often get comments trying to find mistakes in my duel scripts! Nobody has been able to find a legit misplay in my Kaiba VS Yugi duel so far! I dare anyone to try to find one! Just keep in mind to keep kind when doing so!
Syrus: Oh yea? Well, I play a bicycle...
Btw, if someone runs an infinite damage combo, wouldn't someone end up getting killed by the shock collars...?
Gotta do Z-Arc vs Everyone else. Because no action cards!
13:46
Zane's POV: Picking up the cards he literally threw and send them to the Graveyard
The only way I see it, with most of the plays being the same if Syrus had used Emergency provisions, chained to Powerbond and send both Powerbond and Training wheels to the grave. It would have been an extra 1000 LP and allowed him to survive the cyberdark trio in the second round of attacks after defusion was used.
Granted, there is nothing saying if training wheels being removed would destroy the cycroid, but perhaps that was an unmentioned effect.
Good analysis here.
Syrus demonstrating a lot of awareness regarding how to counter an opponent, and demonstrating that he is actually a rather skilled duelist this duel, despite running a bad deck.
Analysis idea for your next gx video: Was professor Viper about to defeat Jaden? I watched that duel recently and noticed Viper made a misplay, and could have won if he played differently. Think it would be a good one for you to cover!
Sy certainly had been studying his brother’s duels long enough to know about the Underworld deck which houses the Cyberdarks that depend on having monsters in the graveyard.
How did 4kids allow Zane's "I find pleasure in pain"
Maybe one of the staff members is into BDSM
Too central to his character arc to ignore probably
I mean have to make him seem like an arsehole. Can’t have him be the japanese version where he isn’t.
kinda hard to pretend it was tickling him I guess...
Well, he didn’t say something among the lines of “I like killing people. It makes me happy,” or “I find joy in others dying”, so the censors must have let that slide.
Crazy synchronicity 😮. I was going to ask you to upload this duel, and you did
One of my favorite fight
This is definitely one of Syrus' best duels in the series, and he did come close to defeating Zane, but Zane just wanted the victory more and played better during this duel.
The only reason Syrus came close to winning was just because Zane wanted to flex.
Top dub moment in this duel "I felt the same way but then I understood the meaning of pain"!
O sorry "pleasure"....is this a kid's show?
I really wish we got the duel of Jaden vs Dark Zane.
We did in season 3, but Jaden was in such a state of despair, and made so many misplays it pissed Zane off, and he called off the duel, calling Jaden out in those misplays
@@roninwarriorsfanactually Zane wasn’t so sadistic then. Also the true reason the duel didn’t end properly was because of Zane’s weak heart (which he believed was due to all the shocks from those collars but it was actually due to his Cyberdark cards) but I’m surprised TGS Anime didn’t include in the Was Jaden About To Defeat Zane video their third duel considering it’s highly possible Jaden could’ve if he wasn’t playing so frightened - third time lucky you know.
You know what duel I love to see you do this to? Jaden and Syrus vs the Paradox Brothers. It would be your first tag duel as well
Also love the vash the stampede shirt
Is a nice t-shirt, fam.
I can’t get enough of these
This was a good duel in the end. One duel that keeps popping in my head if there was any way someone could of won the ZARC battle. Could there of been anyway someone could of won earlier? it's a such a big battle as well.
The way anime ZARC works, Sylvio going alone would probably have won
Shingo probably would've been the one to do it.
@@captianblitznah he just would’ve lost sooner
ZARC-duel is still kinda dumb, with how the strat was just to send in more and more people until bro faltered.
@@lpfan4491 isn’t that the smartest thing anyone can do? Why be chivalric and go one at a time?
I think I get why Zane went out of his way to equip Cyberend, which is that facedown on Syrus's field. A common card in machine decks (which they should both play) is limiter removal. That would Make Syrus have a huge Cycroid on the field to defend himself with, so having Cyberdark Dragon be massive can play around this counter and swing over. Just my theory because it would've been a weird flex otherwise.
Cyrus made a lot of great plays. He clearly put a lot of thought into his moves and if he was using a deck that isn’t worth less than the paper it’s printed on, his strategy would have worked.
13:30 I dont think throwing your cards into the air really counts as discarding them to the graveyard but ok sure.
I don't care if it would've been cheesy or if it wouldn't have made sense or power scaling or whatever; I wanted Syrus to win this duel! It would've done much more for Syrus' character!
4:37 does exploder read "when destroyed and sent to the graveyard"? And if yes, wouldn't that mean that it wouldn't activate because truckroid would equip it without it ever hitting the grave? Is that some kind of shenanigans?! >.>
Truckroid aslo mentions destroying and sending to the graveyard, so Exploder still hits the graveyard first thus truckroid go boom
Fun fact! Zane could have gone really overboard with his luck if fusion guard made him discard his BLOODY five headed dragon
Cyberdark dragon would of had 6000 atk
@@foxyshadow0682I know and he didn't need Rebirth Judgment anymore
I've been waiting to see you cover this duel for a VERY long time.
Really hoping we get to see an Adrian vs. Yubel video in the future as well.
"No offense to the Roids of course, but they're just not good" The sheer amount of dislike is palpable, and I am here for it
13:16 So something that should be mentioned about Zane using Power Wall. If the card in the anime behaves the exact same as the real world, then Zane discarding 27 cards is actually mandatory.
Thing is, Power Wall will always force you to discard the necessary amount of cards as possible from your deck to make the damage 0. You don’t get to choose how many cards you toss to block damage. I’ve tested this in both Master Duel and LotD and both games forced me to discard as many cards as possible to block all damage.
Moral of the story, Zane’s “over the top” play was mandatory since you can’t stop some of the damage but instead you have to stop all of it.
Question: Did the anime and or managa ever clarify if these to are blood, haft, or adapted siblings. Even after all these years its hard for me to believe these 2 are siblings. I don't feel the story really did a lot with them being siblings. If they were just childhood friends I feel the story would have been basically the same.
.... Holy hell you may be right... The only thing I can think of is the vampire duel? Where Zane basically forfeits the duel so that Cyrus soul isn't taken. The main emotion of that scene is that Cyrus is SO certain Zane would do it, something that'd be lost if they were childhood friends and Cyrus had basically any positive memories to draw on, and is basically just letting Zane know ahead of time "I get it, this is the fate of the world and you're one of our best. I seriously won't hold this against you." Zane may not believe Cyrus has any right to run a machine deck but, at that point at least, he still loves his brother.
My one argument is whether exploder dragons effect would have resolved the way it did.
Since it crashing with truckroid means both their effects activate.
There could be the argument that if truckroid is chain link 2, And it equips exploder dragon. Exploder dragon is no longer in the graveyard to activate its effect and fizzles out.
*This of course is highly speculative, And whether Ifs and When effects clash with one another*
I wonder is there a deck for Cyrus that fits these 3 conditions
1. It’s a deck made in the GX or original duel monsters
2. Focuses on fusion on a strong machine archetype that can use power bond
3. Is not just adding fusion monsters to the roids or using Zane’s deck until season 4
No, decks aren’t just interchangeable like they are in real life.
@@pn2294Dimitri/Chazz/Sylvio/Joeri/The wrestler from vrains have entered the chat.
@@sasir2013 don’t all these characters dispute your point since the each had a true deck?
@@pn2294no, they never name any of them their "true deck", they just adapted and changed as they went on.
Except joeri. Not that it matters, since he still used whatever deck he felt like using.
Add bastion misawa by the way.
@@sasir2013 Onizuka literally did that when he went back to Gouki
Chazz also said that Ojama Yellow was his signature card
14:54 Barrel Behind the Door wouldn’t work in this situation. The drawback of Power Bond doesn’t start a chain, so you can’t activate anything in response to that. Syrus’s trap card works in this situation.
The anime pair cycroid reduces his atk by 500 points when using his effect
Are you blind? Cycroid reduces its own attack when attacking
I only wished that after this duel, Jaden faced Zane and for the first time win him with his neo space monsters... A true and better ending for the GX tournament if it happened after he defeated Sartorious
I love this series. The GX duels were very fun to watch you dissect. If you can work on Jaden vs Axel, maybe even a two parter with the Supreme King duel, that would be amazing. Keep going with the great content man!!!
Zane was too harsh on him fr
I approve
One duel that I would love to see is Aster vs Adrian with Exodia. Given how aggressive Aster had to play it would be interesting to see if there actually WAS a path to victory or if my guy was doomed from the start.
Day whatever of asking for “Was Team Taiyo About to Beat Team 5D’s?”
Funnily enough, I was re-watching this episode yesterday and thought to myself:
"Man, I wonder if TGS Anime is gonna make a video about it someday"
Now if Cyrus could run speedroids in this Gen my God he could have beat Zane six ways to Sunday
A duel between those who have the same last name is so rare. Maybe down the track you could look into the sibling battles before this one - Chazz vs Slade and Alexis vs Atticus or how about Chumley vs his dad?
I know Syrus kept spamming Life Force in order to protect himself as Zane kept spamming attacks , but I found the duel boring as that was 90% of his move-set in the duel 🙁🙁
If Zane hadn’t had that De-Fusion , he’d have lost the duel to Syrus via deck out
I’d have loved to see Power Wall work against him lol 😃😃
Hey man loving the new video, would love to see another Zexal duel analysis. Maybe Zexal vs Vetrix or Yuma and Kite vs Trey and Quattro
Keep up the good work :)
I wished I was friends with Elon Musk, to be able to have money to buy this channel and help him make this series two times every week because they are too good.
Power wall’s card art is kind of strange
In the artwork, this guy with a shield on his arm, projects some energy barrier with his other hand instead (Just makes you wonder what the shield is for if he has such a power even if it costs something to him)
And the card itself isn’t so demonic looking, but cause Edgy Zane is using it, he makes it look disrespectful and evil cause he just chucks his cards like that for dramatics
A lot of fans jumped to see the duel they've been recommending since forever finaly get analysed.
Love seeing Cyberdarks and hope they get more support soon