Sora was added to showcase the videogame i believe, so he wasnt going to be an actual character anyway, which sucks because his tiny arc was still super interesting especially his beyblade
@@prabhjotdhesi4015 and what’s crazy is that he used all those loses to study Galaxy Pegasus movements and patterns so he could finally beat the unmastered Galaxy Pegasus. Even Kenta called Masamune quite the blader.
Yu's comeback in metal fury was good though. He helped in the final battle and he held his own against 2 legendary bladers. As for forgotten characters from fusion it's because most of them were meant to serve as episodic villains. As for larger antagonists that didn't come back like Regi or Damian it's a pretty safe assumption that they just quit beyblade. They did beyblade for all the wrong reasons and they never gave a crap about "true beyblade" so when their ideologies were defeated they quit. Redemption is not for everyone and the characters that got it like Chris, Julian, Zeo, and even Jack to a lesser extent, did originally have the blader's spirit.
Well said, but what if Damian and Reiji did come back in Fury to side with the evildoers? I still think they come back with purpose & evil intentions + we could’ve had more battles during the ending of fury where the star fragments were stolen from the legendary bladers. It could’ve added more to the chaos of things and we could’ve finally figured out who was stronger between some of the characters
0:54 you are forgetting the fact that Damian also suffered this fate. And he got it way worse than yu. Damian suffered through this the worst. He was last seen on a boat escaping with jack. It is unknown what even happened to him. At least we know what happened to yu when the series ended
I agree with your pick but another character I feel was forgotten is Hyoma. He made his debut in episode 15 of Metal Fusion and continued to appear regularly. I’d say he was in about 20 or episode in Metal Fusion. Then in Metal Masters it went really down hill for him as I’d say he only appeared in 3-4 episodes. Yeah the season focused on the world tournament but I a feel like he could of been shown a bit more like Kenta. In Metal Fury he is only shown in one clip for about 3 or seconds in one of the final episodes. I think they could have done a bit more with his character after Metal Fusion.
I feel like it goes without saying that Yu is undoubtedly one of the strongest bladders. However, Metal Masters doesn't treat Yu like that and often bends itself to hurt Yu narratively which makes him look weak by default unfortunately. It doesn't help that by Metal Fury legendary bladders are pretty much gods, so anyone who isn't one is pretty much hurt by default. Although I will give credit and say that Metal Fury did try and give Yu some justice by making him hold his own against Tithi and Kyoya and even broke through Nemesis' barrier.
I think the world tournament should've include a tag team match by default so yu can have more involvement + his defeat especially on the hands of sophie was bs because he didn't have any issues battling hyuma in fusion despite the stadium being surrounded by water
I remember in Metal Masters treated Yu as an utter joke such as how he hasn't competed in the world championship as much as Gingka, Masamune and Tsubasa even when he and Tsubasa were hospitalized in the US cause of Damian
I feel the problem is Yus abilities would be to hard to write around I mean the guy can creat shields, shot sonic waves, turn the stadium to sand, and has a Aoe type of special move, plus his hyper intelligence. In any battle he is the focus of his abilities would be hard to create tension.
it could honestly be worse though. The writers did a pretty decent job of staying loyal to Yu's skillset without extremely nerfing him. Whenever Yu had a battle he would usually be the one controlling how the battle went with his opponents being the underdog in a way until they find a way to get through it's abilites
I hate how weak they made Yu in Masters. In Fusion, he literally fought Ryuga. In Masters he's a joke. I'd like to see Yu vs Jack. Imagine Jack just carving the arena while Yu turned the arena into sands. But at least Yu was a beast in Fury, holding his own against Tithi, a Legendary Blader and managed to destroy Nemesis' barrier
Let's also remember that Yu was actually giving Kyoya a good fight before Tithi is interrupted. Granted we all know the outcome had the battle continued but Kyoya himself gave Yu props which is something Kyoya only does occasionally.
Yu really wasn't weak during metal masters nor was he a joke. He was still a skilled blader during metal masters and only ever lost to strong bladers or to trickery from the Garcia family.
I always thought yu should’ve battled argo and won and he also should’ve battled nowaguma instead of aleksey. Tsubasa had that dope ass battle literally the match before it kind of felt like yu needed redemption throughout the series. I’d rather see Yu use final inferno blast in this match than in metal fury to show that he also has grown with the rest of the team
Wouldve been weird narratively because of the seasonal thing, but Yu 100% could've gotten Orion. Phantom Libra B:D is really a spiritual upgrade to Flame Libra T125ES.
Like... it could have been easy to make Yu the last one standing in the Garcia battle. Tsubasa got his spotlight (and would later get it again when he battles Jack in the Hades City arc). Yu was the one who got jumped so he had a grudge to settle. The battle could have been. Enzo
Yu was my fav character as a kid until tsubasa showed up ofc. Dude was silly and OP!!!! I could never find a flame libra when i used to beyblade hunt and they did him so dirty. A1 vid bro
In all honesty, I don't think that metal masters ruined Yu's character. Yu being the sub member did make sense considering that Gingka surpassed him during battle bladers, Tsubasa was arguably stronger than Yu since they battled in metal fusion, and Masamune did beat Yu in a difficult battle. Even as a sub member, Yu was still skilled and strong in battle, only losing to strong bladers or to the treachery of the Garcia family. I like Yu Tendo throughout all of the metal fight beyblade series.
They should have made it that he was destroying benkei and demure but then tsubasa turned on him because of the dark power but it took them having trouble to even trigger the dark power in the first place . Which is impossible because both of them can solo benkei and demure . They put themselves in a logical bind plotwise with this one . Also he shouldn't lose to sophie but he didn't know her special move yet so .
That powercreep for you, once relevant characters are now to weak to carry on in the story. Take Tien from dragon ball as an example, they had a similar role in the originals dragon ball series that Yu had, but in Z and super there mostly forgotten about.
I agree, he could’ve made his power so much better if it continued and it definitely would’ve game him some more character development. Still love him tho🤷♀️
I would have had the Garcia's be a foil to Yu. Let it be his moment to have an arc with the characters, as he gets jumped by them, and then ultimately beat Argo. Have the match order be Masamune Vs Enzo, Tsubasa vs Enzo, Tsubasa Vs Selen, Tsubasa vs Ian, Gingka vs Ian, Argo getting the jump on Gingka and Yu beating Argo by creating his own new special move, maybe something close to his Final Inferno Blast but maybe more directed at a beyblade as opposed to the sky. Tsubasa didn't really need that fight with Argo
Agreed. Tsubasa and Argo's battle also wasn't particularly satisfying to watch, since Argo was basically thrashing Tsubasa around for most of the battle and then Tsubasa finished him with one attack.
@@ameyakabra449nah after all that dark power bs Tsubasa went through and having to suffer the most, he needed those moments after his dark power arc. But I will say, Yu could have had more spotlight besides beating Alexi and funny comedic relief moments.
Wow, this isn’t a bad take at all. In fact I really like this idea ngl, it gives Yu his revenge AND he earns his spot back as one of the strongest bladers in the season as well. It also doesn’t make anyone else on Gingka’s team look bad either - Masamune losing to Enzo is possibly (maybe cheats to victory), Tsubasa almost carrying the team (but understandably tires out), Gingka winning then immediately getting jumped like it original was, then Yu in a hard fought final match beats Argo (and maybe even cracks Libra just to show that Argo was very strong as well idk). Personally tho, I still like Tsubasa being the last man standing more
Realistically Yu could have defeated every non leader blader except the American team and maybe Nile. He has both sharp eye sight and good hearing and is his own genius.His bey has Amazing stamina, his infernal blast is unstoppable unless you have a direct counter or have a attack of a giant scale that can match him.
You're forgetting a few expectionaly strong blayders. Like Dahsian and Julian. Who are without a doubt stronger then Nile by a fair margine. They all defeat Yu imo. Especially Dashain. He would win mid diff
While Yu did loose a lot of focus between seasons, at least he was there and still helped. So many characters from the first season that had potential were kicked to the curve afterwards. I mean look at Rutero for example, he had pretty crazy abilities. So imagine him in Metal Masters. I can easily see him pulling a Kiyoya and being on the Russian team. Or Captain Caprihelping the Garcias
Nostalgia purposes yes dark tsubasa storyline is cool fun and liked but all it did was to bring ryuga back and get tsubasa stronger and they couldve done both w/o the storyline tbh and still used Yu and masamune better
He was 5th in Metal fusion after Gingka Ryuga Ryo(Phoenix) Kyoya and Tsubasa. Should have stayed that way or he should have gotten better. Yu lost to Masamune but Masamune felt weaker than him considering all the time Masamune lost later on.
you forgot reiji and doji, reiji straight up beat Yu in the most 1 sided fight and doji was exactly on par with Ryo, who only won because of sagitario's fragment in the wolf bey, so yeah as much as I love Yu (his bey is my zodiac sign) he was at best 7th
@@SinMissilsNah, Gingka beat doji before he battled Ryuga for the first time and Yu defeated Gingka later. Ryo and Reiji one felt more of a plot armour but yeah I forgot Reiji completely.
Idk I think he could beat Phoenix, he did tie with tsubasa one time. But I feel like he was better he was way more skilled than massamune, as shown in the episode when he saw through strikers movements and was hunting it down. He only really lost due to plot armor, I mean he beat gingka and kyoya in metal fusion at the same time, even though kyoyas bey was damaged but still. He could have beaten jack too I feel like, even though they are both stamina types, Libra was known to be the ultimate stamina type bey.
and don't forget at the festivals of europan bladers sophie one shots Yu with her grand malestorm move but what we saw in metal fusion with his battle with hyoma libra can spin under the water however in the battle with Sophie libra can't do that either writers forget about that or they want to show Sophie strong whichever it is, it is a downgrade for Yu
Beyblade since it's original first season unfortunately has a pattern of introducing new characters with awesome power and victories against the mainliners of the show and then after they get beat by them, they fall pretty hard. In beyblade we see robert of the majestics whooping tyson's ass and he a few episodes later he joins kai and more bladers to fight tyson alone for the tala battle. The saint shields in vforce win a few times and even steal driger and thej they all get swept. Tala per se is the perfect example of a super powerful blader that turns into a sideline losing character (i kinda be mad at the writers for that although tala in the burst bladebreakers manga whoops tyson's ass badly so im fine with that lol) and in metal series we have Yu as you said and think that in fury, agoma made a stand in the tournament and then starts losing to everyone. Still for me the biggest bs on the metal saga is the fact that kyoya was not able to defeat gingka one time, specially because he was almost defeating ryuga and he only lost because the dark powerd took ryuga over. Great video!
Tala getting whooped is justified, g revolution had a theme about hard work matching talent so Tala being weaker than the bladebreakers is cool. Especially when he still seems like a dick, he said he was planning to use Kai, although Kai also used him so yeah I guess his character fr got wasted
The reason why his fall from grace was noticeable is that all his fellow strong bladers have gotten more powerful gingka acquired galaxy pegasus ryuga & kyoya left to do their respective training arc coming back even more powerful than ever & tsubasa got his sub plot of beating the dark power & makes it his own he swiftly defeated both sophie & wale who were un movable before later he defeated an opponent leader in full power & masamune beating yu was a huge disservice to the character because masamune lost for over 20 times against beginner galaxy pegasus & now he defeated yu that's so bad for him yu didn't get any stronger it felt like he actually regressed he no longer can survive underwater & he don't have any notable battles of his own he got destroyed twice leaving him out of commission which didn't help his case either
To this day, I wish they did more with Sora. His episodes were really fun to watch since it simultaneously showcased his development of going from a cocky underdog to someone who stands up for the innocent and also Kenta's by putting him in a mentor position which was interesting since Kenta himself was the "newbie" among Gingka's friend group. Even his bey was great, easily my favorite from Metal Fusion.
sora did become a part of gingka's friend group in the manga, he even fought ryuga at battle bladers and fought along side gingka's friends against rago in the manga
I personally fantasized if a series in which sora is the main character. Kenta is his mentor and Yu us his rival/freind. Yu is a good sidecharacter . And the antagonists would be hades henchmen but not johannes .
Yu Tendo is literally my fav character & Libra was my fav beyblade I believe Yu went from 3rd most OP (Survival battle) to finishing the season as 7th / 8th overall in the season ( behind Gingka Ryuga Kyoya Phoenix Reji Tsubasa & Doji ) Metal masters story arc for Yu was relatively expected as by process of elimination Yu was so OP in the qualifiers, yet got dogged on by Masamune n Tsubasa ( Yes my guy lost like 3 decisive matches just within the first few episodes ) Where I hoped to see more importance was when Yu & Tsubasa goes more 2v2 I wanted to see Yu actually dominate his opponents by just solo-Ing with inferno blast & taking over in small lapses Tsubasa went crazy ( like don’t just be screaming at him to snap out, you’re there to fight n show ur power too ) Only bright side for Yuu in metal fury was Final Inferno Blast & actually being included to fight nemesis, my fav bey n relatable character got dogged on the whole series Personally looking back at it, Yuu n flame libra has its limit as a character ( as Libra is just a scale and there’s not much constellation animation able to fight), if I could change the story is that I won’t let him get beat down as much, the show literally paced Inferno Blast like a special move every freaking Bey could break through just with sheer power. Man has the most broken bey counter in beyblade at like 5-6 times man it hurts
@@frankschaefer8890 no way dude Yuu got complacent, Tsubasa easily man handles Yu, while Phoenix doesn’t even need a special move to put out Tsubasa Doji never faced Yu but Doji darkness howling blazer is not a move everyone can easily defeat
Yeah, Sora has so much potential with his Cyber Pegasus, it's sad he was never in the main cast and was forgotten just like that from episode 37 by the anime and made little to no appearances later on 😔
Strength-wise for Yu: Metal Fury >> Metal Fusion >> Metal Masters. If you were to put the Metal fusions/Fury versions of Yu in metal masters? He’d dominated a major of the characters(Masamune, the twin jewels, and the Garcia’s).
Yu is never stated to have gotten weaker, in fact they often emphasize how much stronger all the characters have gotten, it's really the narrative and plot that brings Yu down.
@@rich355Yu definitely got weaker in the sense that he didnt use moves in metal masters that he used in metal fusion like libras canceling out waves abillty or libras ability to create a sandstorm. Those are all abilities that wouldve helped him a lot in his fights, but he never utilized them
@@flowtho7742 Well what you got to remember is that most of Yu's battles were team battles and Yu's moves work more for an antagonistic position so using a lot of those moves could endanger his teammate like the sand trap in the battle against Team Wild Fang. Plus we have to remember that Yu only had two sole battles. The first of which he couldn't use his moves because Alexi rigged the stadium and the second being against Enzo where Libya was severely damaged and couldn't make use of his abilities.
In Metal fusion when Yu tried to use his sand moves against Kyoya he wasn't able to escape that trap, But in Metal fury when Yu made his New Final Inferno blast against Kyoya he was able to use all his power and survive Yu new move
I feel like Yu was introduced to us in Fusion as “too strong.” Ngl him beating Gingka off rip should’ve lead to something more down the line but it never did. Idk maybe he should’ve drew with Gingka in the survivor final battle so that it could give them a reason to having the battle bladers tournament as a tournament to really decide who is the strongest amongst the 2 (and all the others). Just an idea
Thing is , Yu needed to win the survival battle so he could wish for Battle Bladers on behalf of the Dark Nebula. So you could say the plot demanded Yu to win there, whereas later it demanded him to lose.
I'm still bitter of how Yu was treated in metal masters. They put him aside in favour of Masamune who was the worst player of that team and lost all of his battles, but one maximum two if I remember correctly.. 🤪
@@GG-fy2bm Yeah, which made zero sense, cause Yu was a better blader.. Also the qualifying round made no sense at all. Putting the two strongest bladers (Kyoya and Tsubasa) fight each other, so that only one of them can represent the team, and leave the two weakest fight each other for the second position.. And it's not like I'm hating on Masamune, but I feel there were many more interesting and strong characters that could have been used for the second season instead.. 🤔
@@jasonmoukala8909 For starters, Yu had skills. The blader's spirit is fine, so long as it's Gingka the one using it, because it went along with skills as well. Masamune compare to his team was whatever.. He never had a strategy, he was losing his fights and the few times he won, it wasn't cause of his skill, but his blader spirit.. which is disappointing considering that there were so many characters with unique battle styles and they gave Masamune nothing but will.. 😌
Kenta's arc was elite. At the beginning he didn't even know what blader's spirit was and by the end he had become the truest blader of all, so much so that Ryuga recognized it.
i disagree. Kenta was in the show since day 1 he deserved his development more than any other character. Especially since Yu was a prominent character in Masters than compared to kenta who did literally nothing
@@vincentxie3090 from strongest to weakest in fusion at the end: Galaxy Nova Gingka, Ryuga, Kyoya, Tsubasa, Phoenix, Doji, Reji, Yu, Kenta, Benkei, Hyoma, Hikaru. Actually, Yu is top 8 😂
@@vincentxie3090 yea when I say FUSION, I mean just strongest at the END of Fusion. I know Reji didn’t appear at all in the rest of the series and he just turns into stone.
I agree with your ranking but you're wrong about a lot of his losses. Gingka beat Yu, but you beat Gingka too so there 1-1. Kyoya by the end of metal fusion probably would have beaten Yu, but he has never actually beaten Yu, in fact Yu actually has a victory over Kyoya. Tsubasa and Yu tied, but Tsubasa was holding back and later on would defeat you in metal Masters. Ryuga and Reji beat Yu with ease.
@@rich355 it's true he's 1- 1 with gingka but gingka surpassed him . I thought kyoya won a battle royale that had him but if not I still think kyoya surpassed him .
Yu perfectly embodies the "Boss when you fight him vs when you unlock him as a playable character" meme
Yu still got more screen time than other characters like why was characters like sora even introduced he completely got forgotten
Facts The first gingka clone got done more dirty than gingka clone 2 (masusume)
Sora was added to showcase the videogame i believe, so he wasnt going to be an actual character anyway, which sucks because his tiny arc was still super interesting especially his beyblade
@@jaydbankz0266 there can only be one Gingka
What’s crazy is his win loss ratio is still better than Masamunes
Are we counting his losses against Ginga at the start of Metal Masters? Cause… hoooo boy….
@@kidomni5283 more like his loss against Galaxy Pegasus and not Gingka
@@prabhjotdhesi4015 and what’s crazy is that he used all those loses to study Galaxy Pegasus movements and patterns so he could finally beat the unmastered Galaxy Pegasus. Even Kenta called Masamune quite the blader.
Yu was definitely my favourite character
Same
Yu's comeback in metal fury was good though. He helped in the final battle and he held his own against 2 legendary bladers.
As for forgotten characters from fusion it's because most of them were meant to serve as episodic villains.
As for larger antagonists that didn't come back like Regi or Damian it's a pretty safe assumption that they just quit beyblade. They did beyblade for all the wrong reasons and they never gave a crap about "true beyblade" so when their ideologies were defeated they quit. Redemption is not for everyone and the characters that got it like Chris, Julian, Zeo, and even Jack to a lesser extent, did originally have the blader's spirit.
Good way of thinking about it
Well said, but what if Damian and Reiji did come back in Fury to side with the evildoers? I still think they come back with purpose & evil intentions + we could’ve had more battles during the ending of fury where the star fragments were stolen from the legendary bladers. It could’ve added more to the chaos of things and we could’ve finally figured out who was stronger between some of the characters
Yu was so powerful they had to keep destroying his Beyblade just so he couldn’t battle lmao
Bro got done so dirty. I could name 4 different times where Yu got knocked out 💀. Not only that, bro got clapped in every match he was in.
except the russian team... who were all essentially noobs with cheat strats!
@@SinMissils True, how did they even make it to the World Championship? 🤣
@@LunchBox092 ... cheating? paid? maybe both? we never know
Yu still won more battles than masamune though
They have the same amount of wins in the world championship
@@halamadrid4life556 Yu was a substitute 💀
@@aahiljcat yea that's even crazier
Team wins:
Ginkga - 6
Tsubasa - 3
Masamune - 3
Yu - 1
@@ashhabimran239 would you count team battles. Also you forgot ryuga
0:54 you are forgetting the fact that Damian also suffered this fate. And he got it way worse than yu. Damian suffered through this the worst. He was last seen on a boat escaping with jack. It is unknown what even happened to him. At least we know what happened to yu when the series ended
dude probably got sent to a mental institution lol
@@HyperXero52 they should have told us that
bro went from defeating Kyoya and Gingka to losing to masamune 💀
I agree with your pick but another character I feel was forgotten is Hyoma. He made his debut in episode 15 of Metal Fusion and continued to appear regularly. I’d say he was in about 20 or episode in Metal Fusion. Then in Metal Masters it went really down hill for him as I’d say he only appeared in 3-4 episodes. Yeah the season focused on the world tournament but I a feel like he could of been shown a bit more like Kenta. In Metal Fury he is only shown in one clip for about 3 or seconds in one of the final episodes. I think they could have done a bit more with his character after Metal Fusion.
I feel like it goes without saying that Yu is undoubtedly one of the strongest bladders. However, Metal Masters doesn't treat Yu like that and often bends itself to hurt Yu narratively which makes him look weak by default unfortunately. It doesn't help that by Metal Fury legendary bladders are pretty much gods, so anyone who isn't one is pretty much hurt by default. Although I will give credit and say that Metal Fury did try and give Yu some justice by making him hold his own against Tithi and Kyoya and even broke through Nemesis' barrier.
I think the world tournament should've include a tag team match by default so yu can have more involvement + his defeat especially on the hands of sophie was bs because he didn't have any issues battling hyuma in fusion despite the stadium being surrounded by water
Alternate title: Why Yu isn't popular... explained in 7 minutes.
Yu is probably one of my fav character
I remember in Metal Masters treated Yu as an utter joke such as how he hasn't competed in the world championship as much as Gingka, Masamune and Tsubasa even when he and Tsubasa were hospitalized in the US cause of Damian
I feel the problem is Yus abilities would be to hard to write around I mean the guy can creat shields, shot sonic waves, turn the stadium to sand, and has a Aoe type of special move, plus his hyper intelligence. In any battle he is the focus of his abilities would be hard to create tension.
it could honestly be worse though. The writers did a pretty decent job of staying loyal to Yu's skillset without extremely nerfing him. Whenever Yu had a battle he would usually be the one controlling how the battle went with his opponents being the underdog in a way until they find a way to get through it's abilites
Yu got nerfed and powercrept for NO REASON. 😐😑😐
True as hell 😂
Yu's f*ck you to Jack was elite.
He wasn't forgotten he was just done dirty
I hate how weak they made Yu in Masters. In Fusion, he literally fought Ryuga. In Masters he's a joke. I'd like to see Yu vs Jack. Imagine Jack just carving the arena while Yu turned the arena into sands. But at least Yu was a beast in Fury, holding his own against Tithi, a Legendary Blader and managed to destroy Nemesis' barrier
Let's also remember that Yu was actually giving Kyoya a good fight before Tithi is interrupted. Granted we all know the outcome had the battle continued but Kyoya himself gave Yu props which is something Kyoya only does occasionally.
Yu really wasn't weak during metal masters nor was he a joke. He was still a skilled blader during metal masters and only ever lost to strong bladers or to trickery from the Garcia family.
That was masamune who pierced it though Tsubasa and Yu just helped break it. Still an impressive feat though.
I always thought yu should’ve battled argo and won and he also should’ve battled nowaguma instead of aleksey. Tsubasa had that dope ass battle literally the match before it kind of felt like yu needed redemption throughout the series. I’d rather see Yu use final inferno blast in this match than in metal fury to show that he also has grown with the rest of the team
THIS!!! You know ball.
At least in metal fury he gets a new special mouve that was equel to kyoyas special move and then against rago he helped destroy the dome
*equels
*move
Bro replied to his own comment twice💀💀💀
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Wouldve been weird narratively because of the seasonal thing, but Yu 100% could've gotten Orion. Phantom Libra B:D is really a spiritual upgrade to Flame Libra T125ES.
Like... it could have been easy to make Yu the last one standing in the Garcia battle. Tsubasa got his spotlight (and would later get it again when he battles Jack in the Hades City arc). Yu was the one who got jumped so he had a grudge to settle. The battle could have been.
Enzo
Yep
Yu was my fav character as a kid until tsubasa showed up ofc. Dude was silly and OP!!!! I could never find a flame libra when i used to beyblade hunt and they did him so dirty. A1 vid bro
Thanks bro 🙏
In all honesty, I don't think that metal masters ruined Yu's character. Yu being the sub member did make sense considering that Gingka surpassed him during battle bladers, Tsubasa was arguably stronger than Yu since they battled in metal fusion, and Masamune did beat Yu in a difficult battle. Even as a sub member, Yu was still skilled and strong in battle, only losing to strong bladers or to the treachery of the Garcia family. I like Yu Tendo throughout all of the metal fight beyblade series.
Yu may not have done anything battle-wise against Sophie and Wales, but he did knock some sense into Tsubasa, so there's that
You know they nerfed him when he could end the battle against Benkey and Damur by throwing that green energy move he has… but he didn't use it 🤡
Honestly half of the matches he struggles with are only because he didn't open with inferno blast.
They should have made it that he was destroying benkei and demure but then tsubasa turned on him because of the dark power but it took them having trouble to even trigger the dark power in the first place . Which is impossible because both of them can solo benkei and demure . They put themselves in a logical bind plotwise with this one . Also he shouldn't lose to sophie but he didn't know her special move yet so .
That powercreep for you, once relevant characters are now to weak to carry on in the story. Take Tien from dragon ball as an example, they had a similar role in the originals dragon ball series that Yu had, but in Z and super there mostly forgotten about.
Yu did have a power come back in the 3rd show
I wish the dark tsubasa storyline evolved eagle
I agree, he could’ve made his power so much better if it continued and it definitely would’ve game him some more character development. Still love him tho🤷♀️
I would have had the Garcia's be a foil to Yu. Let it be his moment to have an arc with the characters, as he gets jumped by them, and then ultimately beat Argo. Have the match order be Masamune Vs Enzo, Tsubasa vs Enzo, Tsubasa Vs Selen, Tsubasa vs Ian, Gingka vs Ian, Argo getting the jump on Gingka and Yu beating Argo by creating his own new special move, maybe something close to his Final Inferno Blast but maybe more directed at a beyblade as opposed to the sky. Tsubasa didn't really need that fight with Argo
I agree especially sense Tsubasa already had his moment in the previous battle.
Agreed. Tsubasa and Argo's battle also wasn't particularly satisfying to watch, since Argo was basically thrashing Tsubasa around for most of the battle and then Tsubasa finished him with one attack.
@@ameyakabra449nah after all that dark power bs Tsubasa went through and having to suffer the most, he needed those moments after his dark power arc. But I will say, Yu could have had more spotlight besides beating Alexi and funny comedic relief moments.
Wow, this isn’t a bad take at all. In fact I really like this idea ngl, it gives Yu his revenge AND he earns his spot back as one of the strongest bladers in the season as well. It also doesn’t make anyone else on Gingka’s team look bad either - Masamune losing to Enzo is possibly (maybe cheats to victory), Tsubasa almost carrying the team (but understandably tires out), Gingka winning then immediately getting jumped like it original was, then Yu in a hard fought final match beats Argo (and maybe even cracks Libra just to show that Argo was very strong as well idk). Personally tho, I still like Tsubasa being the last man standing more
Realistically Yu could have defeated every non leader blader except the American team and maybe Nile.
He has both sharp eye sight and good hearing and is his own genius.His bey has Amazing stamina, his infernal blast is unstoppable unless you have a direct counter or have a attack of a giant scale that can match him.
You're forgetting a few expectionaly strong blayders. Like Dahsian and Julian. Who are without a doubt stronger then Nile by a fair margine. They all defeat Yu imo. Especially Dashain. He would win mid diff
@@prabhjotdhesi4015he said NON LEADER which means people like Benkei, Chi yun, mei Mei, demure, choa xin and the Garcias besides Argo.
@@amari648 oh yeah you're right 😅. Thanks for correcting me
@@prabhjotdhesi4015 it’s all good 👍
@@prabhjotdhesi4015those guys aren’t stronger than Nile. Nope didn’t lose a single battle and won fairly easily
While Yu did loose a lot of focus between seasons, at least he was there and still helped. So many characters from the first season that had potential were kicked to the curve afterwards. I mean look at Rutero for example, he had pretty crazy abilities. So imagine him in Metal Masters. I can easily see him pulling a Kiyoya and being on the Russian team. Or Captain Caprihelping the Garcias
Nostalgia purposes yes dark tsubasa storyline is cool fun and liked but all it did was to bring ryuga back and get tsubasa stronger and they couldve done both w/o the storyline tbh and still used Yu and masamune better
He was 5th in Metal fusion after Gingka Ryuga Ryo(Phoenix) Kyoya and Tsubasa. Should have stayed that way or he should have gotten better. Yu lost to Masamune but Masamune felt weaker than him considering all the time Masamune lost later on.
Nah Masamune only lost so much for plot reasons. Masamune is still stronger than Yu and his feats were better than his despite losing a lot.
you forgot reiji and doji, reiji straight up beat Yu in the most 1 sided fight and doji was exactly on par with Ryo, who only won because of sagitario's fragment in the wolf bey, so yeah as much as I love Yu (his bey is my zodiac sign) he was at best 7th
@@SinMissilsNah, Gingka beat doji before he battled Ryuga for the first time and Yu defeated Gingka later. Ryo and Reiji one felt more of a plot armour but yeah I forgot Reiji completely.
Idk I think he could beat Phoenix, he did tie with tsubasa one time. But I feel like he was better he was way more skilled than massamune, as shown in the episode when he saw through strikers movements and was hunting it down. He only really lost due to plot armor, I mean he beat gingka and kyoya in metal fusion at the same time, even though kyoyas bey was damaged but still. He could have beaten jack too I feel like, even though they are both stamina types, Libra was known to be the ultimate stamina type bey.
@@Anomaly_Files18 but Pheonix beat Tsubasa
Yeah, I really felt sorry for how much he's fallen. I still like him
and don't forget at the festivals of europan bladers sophie one shots Yu with her grand malestorm move but what we saw in metal fusion with his battle with hyoma libra can spin under the water however in the battle with Sophie libra can't do that either writers forget about that or they want to show Sophie strong whichever it is, it is a downgrade for Yu
Beyblade since it's original first season unfortunately has a pattern of introducing new characters with awesome power and victories against the mainliners of the show and then after they get beat by them, they fall pretty hard. In beyblade we see robert of the majestics whooping tyson's ass and he a few episodes later he joins kai and more bladers to fight tyson alone for the tala battle. The saint shields in vforce win a few times and even steal driger and thej they all get swept. Tala per se is the perfect example of a super powerful blader that turns into a sideline losing character (i kinda be mad at the writers for that although tala in the burst bladebreakers manga whoops tyson's ass badly so im fine with that lol) and in metal series we have Yu as you said and think that in fury, agoma made a stand in the tournament and then starts losing to everyone. Still for me the biggest bs on the metal saga is the fact that kyoya was not able to defeat gingka one time, specially because he was almost defeating ryuga and he only lost because the dark powerd took ryuga over. Great video!
Tala getting whooped is justified, g revolution had a theme about hard work matching talent so Tala being weaker than the bladebreakers is cool. Especially when he still seems like a dick, he said he was planning to use Kai, although Kai also used him so yeah I guess his character fr got wasted
The reason why his fall from grace was noticeable is that all his fellow strong bladers have gotten more powerful gingka acquired galaxy pegasus ryuga & kyoya left to do their respective training arc coming back even more powerful than ever & tsubasa got his sub plot of beating the dark power & makes it his own he swiftly defeated both sophie & wale who were un movable before later he defeated an opponent leader in full power & masamune beating yu was a huge disservice to the character because masamune lost for over 20 times against beginner galaxy pegasus & now he defeated yu that's so bad for him yu didn't get any stronger it felt like he actually regressed he no longer can survive underwater & he don't have any notable battles of his own he got destroyed twice leaving him out of commission which didn't help his case either
Yu is a great character but the fact is he was never supposed to be a main one and it's a gift we got so much of him instead of kenta .
To this day, I wish they did more with Sora. His episodes were really fun to watch since it simultaneously showcased his development of going from a cocky underdog to someone who stands up for the innocent and also Kenta's by putting him in a mentor position which was interesting since Kenta himself was the "newbie" among Gingka's friend group. Even his bey was great, easily my favorite from Metal Fusion.
yeah but Sora was just a videogame tie-in sadly
sora did become a part of gingka's friend group in the manga, he even fought ryuga at battle bladers and fought along side gingka's friends against rago in the manga
I personally fantasized if a series in which sora is the main character. Kenta is his mentor and Yu us his rival/freind. Yu is a good sidecharacter . And the antagonists would be hades henchmen but not johannes .
Yu sadly is the original victim of the renji effect
Do you think Kenta, Hyoma and Gingka are also the victims of Reiji
Yu Tendo is literally my fav character & Libra was my fav beyblade
I believe Yu went from 3rd most OP (Survival battle) to finishing the season as 7th / 8th overall in the season ( behind Gingka Ryuga Kyoya Phoenix Reji Tsubasa & Doji )
Metal masters story arc for Yu was relatively expected as by process of elimination Yu was so OP in the qualifiers, yet got dogged on by Masamune n Tsubasa ( Yes my guy lost like 3 decisive matches just within the first few episodes )
Where I hoped to see more importance was when Yu & Tsubasa goes more 2v2 I wanted to see Yu actually dominate his opponents by just solo-Ing with inferno blast & taking over in small lapses Tsubasa went crazy ( like don’t just be screaming at him to snap out, you’re there to fight n show ur power too )
Only bright side for Yuu in metal fury was Final Inferno Blast & actually being included to fight nemesis, my fav bey n relatable character got dogged on the whole series
Personally looking back at it, Yuu n flame libra has its limit as a character ( as Libra is just a scale and there’s not much constellation animation able to fight), if I could change the story is that I won’t let him get beat down as much, the show literally paced Inferno Blast like a special move every freaking Bey could break through just with sheer power.
Man has the most broken bey counter in beyblade at like 5-6 times man it hurts
Yu is stronger than Doji and Phoenix
@@frankschaefer8890 no way dude Yuu got complacent, Tsubasa easily man handles Yu, while Phoenix doesn’t even need a special move to put out Tsubasa
Doji never faced Yu but Doji darkness howling blazer is not a move everyone can easily defeat
Sora 💔
Yeah, Sora has so much potential with his Cyber Pegasus, it's sad he was never in the main cast and was forgotten just like that from episode 37 by the anime and made little to no appearances later on 😔
@@Fireflies790 :(
He honestly could have been the main character of shogun steel
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@@Fireflies790 He did kinda become a main part of gingka's squad in the manga
Strength-wise for Yu: Metal Fury >> Metal Fusion >> Metal Masters.
If you were to put the Metal fusions/Fury versions of Yu in metal masters? He’d dominated a major of the characters(Masamune, the twin jewels, and the Garcia’s).
Yu is never stated to have gotten weaker, in fact they often emphasize how much stronger all the characters have gotten, it's really the narrative and plot that brings Yu down.
@@rich355Yu definitely got weaker in the sense that he didnt use moves in metal masters that he used in metal fusion like libras canceling out waves abillty or libras ability to create a sandstorm. Those are all abilities that wouldve helped him a lot in his fights, but he never utilized them
@@flowtho7742 Well what you got to remember is that most of Yu's battles were team battles and Yu's moves work more for an antagonistic position so using a lot of those moves could endanger his teammate like the sand trap in the battle against Team Wild Fang. Plus we have to remember that Yu only had two sole battles. The first of which he couldn't use his moves because Alexi rigged the stadium and the second being against Enzo where Libya was severely damaged and couldn't make use of his abilities.
Yu should’ve been a legendary blader
They should've made Yu stronger in Metal Masters
Thanks for making inciteful videos like this one
In Metal fusion when Yu tried to use his sand moves against Kyoya he wasn't able to escape that trap, But in Metal fury when Yu made his New Final Inferno blast against Kyoya he was able to use all his power and survive Yu new move
I feel like Yu was introduced to us in Fusion as “too strong.” Ngl him beating Gingka off rip should’ve lead to something more down the line but it never did. Idk maybe he should’ve drew with Gingka in the survivor final battle so that it could give them a reason to having the battle bladers tournament as a tournament to really decide who is the strongest amongst the 2 (and all the others). Just an idea
Thing is , Yu needed to win the survival battle so he could wish for Battle Bladers on behalf of the Dark Nebula. So you could say the plot demanded Yu to win there, whereas later it demanded him to lose.
Yeah his character took a backseat
getting yamcha'd so hard man
Yu is easily the most screwed over character.
I think its because yu never trains
Loving Yu is a loosing game 🎶
Nah you have to talk about Hikaru. She had so much potential man…she definitely had it the worst.
ryuga destroyed her career
I'm still bitter of how Yu was treated in metal masters. They put him aside in favour of Masamune who was the worst player of that team and lost all of his battles, but one maximum two if I remember correctly.. 🤪
Worst player? Didn’t Masamune defeat Yu in the qualifying tournament?
@@GG-fy2bm Yeah, which made zero sense, cause Yu was a better blader.. Also the qualifying round made no sense at all. Putting the two strongest bladers (Kyoya and Tsubasa) fight each other, so that only one of them can represent the team, and leave the two weakest fight each other for the second position.. And it's not like I'm hating on Masamune, but I feel there were many more interesting and strong characters that could have been used for the second season instead.. 🤔
@@katara1610how was yu a better blader
@@jasonmoukala8909 For starters, Yu had skills. The blader's spirit is fine, so long as it's Gingka the one using it, because it went along with skills as well. Masamune compare to his team was whatever.. He never had a strategy, he was losing his fights and the few times he won, it wasn't cause of his skill, but his blader spirit.. which is disappointing considering that there were so many characters with unique battle styles and they gave Masamune nothing but will.. 😌
@@katara1610 masamune definitely had skill
You haven’t talked about his battles against Kyoya and Tithi in season 3
yh cuz this vids abt metal masters not fury
@@rahatislam4002 I don’t understand what you’re saying
@@SharpAsRavenClawshe’s saying the second season not the third season.
@@pt5728 Tithi isn't in the 1st 2 seasons
Yu should of replaced Kinta
Kenta's arc was elite. At the beginning he didn't even know what blader's spirit was and by the end he had become the truest blader of all, so much so that Ryuga recognized it.
Yu is one of my favorite characters but I disagree. I do think that he should’ve been a legendary blader though, him and Tsubasa
I don't think that Yu Tendo should have replaced Kenta Yumiya, especially since Yu actually liked Kenta.
i disagree. Kenta was in the show since day 1 he deserved his development more than any other character. Especially since Yu was a prominent character in Masters than compared to kenta who did literally nothing
Yu wasn’t even top 5 💀
He was top 7 at the end of fusion.
@@amari648 what, plz explain to me
@@vincentxie3090 from strongest to weakest in fusion at the end: Galaxy Nova Gingka, Ryuga, Kyoya, Tsubasa, Phoenix, Doji, Reji, Yu, Kenta, Benkei, Hyoma, Hikaru. Actually, Yu is top 8 😂
@@amari648 Also Reiji didn't in fact appear in master or fury when you said at the end of Metal fusion
@@vincentxie3090 yea when I say FUSION, I mean just strongest at the END of Fusion. I know Reji didn’t appear at all in the rest of the series and he just turns into stone.
Before I watch this video He was not top three in fusion gingka , kyoya , ryuga , reji and tsubasa beat him from. What I remember .
I agree with your ranking but you're wrong about a lot of his losses. Gingka beat Yu, but you beat Gingka too so there 1-1. Kyoya by the end of metal fusion probably would have beaten Yu, but he has never actually beaten Yu, in fact Yu actually has a victory over Kyoya. Tsubasa and Yu tied, but Tsubasa was holding back and later on would defeat you in metal Masters. Ryuga and Reji beat Yu with ease.
@@rich355 it's true he's 1- 1 with gingka but gingka surpassed him . I thought kyoya won a battle royale that had him but if not I still think kyoya surpassed him .
I realize this response was unnecessary I didn't read your reply properly at first
@@rich355Well Kyoya did defeat everybody in in the 6 way match. So therefore defeating Yu.
Agreed with the first 3. However. I'd say Phoneix is stronger then Tsbusa, and arguably Reji.