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Yu-Gi-Oh Duel, who wins? Let's see!
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Yami Bakura vs Akiza Izinski
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Complete stomp. 5ds was the peak of strength in the card game in the anime. Bakura goes -2 to summon a single monster. In 5ds Akiza goes -2 and blows up your entire field, and has a synchro on the field. Also, I don't think we should be discussing card game duels and should rather be talking with the actual characters fighting.
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If it were actual fighting that would be quite interesting. Bakura wins by having Akiza forfeit in exchange for a role on ''Zorc and Cody.''
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The problem with these kind of Yu-Gi-Oh! matches is that we don't know (or at least I don't know) how a duel will go because the characters get their desired card(or cards) out of convenience or by the heart of the cards (lol). If this was a fight, Bakura would send Akiza to a place deeper than the Shadow Realm.
Eh, Bakura's plot armor made him lose every single duel except against Bonz.
Akiza only ever lost against the MC. Her plot armor is far, far stronger.
But, if we're being serious, Akiza no-diffs Atem. 5Ds decks and those that came after are too fast. No one in the original can react to anything.
Akiza only ever lost against the MC. Her plot armor is far, far stronger.
But, if we're being serious, Akiza no-diffs Atem. 5Ds decks and those that came after are too fast. No one in the original can react to anything.
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Ok, so the plant Synchro engine in Aki's deck ***** on any engine in Bakura's deck and she should win a majority of the time. HOWEVER, Bakura has access to a plethora of powerful broken cards that had been banned by the 5Ds era.
3 Raigeki, 3 Heavy Storm, 3 Pot of Green and Graceful Charity for an absurd boost in consistency so if he plays 3 Dark Hole as well, he's going to see those board wipes very very frequently so if Aki over commits to the board and ends up with nothing but 1-2 cards left in hand, all Bakura has to do is summon monsters and keep swinging for 1300-2200 every turn and that's game. Against a deck with so much draw power, she'd lose on card advantage alone. Add 3 monster reborn and change of heart and now we're looking at some relatively consistent OTKs as long as he knows to blind second.
Aki isn't as invulnerable to DM era characters as, say, the Arc V cast is. Monster effects were not as powerful, engines weren't as consistent (by design) and resilient as there was far far less negation, floating, free advantage, etc... in 5Ds era when compared to the following eras.
Bakura's biggest problem in a matchup vs GX and 5Ds characters is is that he has absolutely no chance going first.
TLDR unless your deck can consistently negate and/or easily recover from board wipes, the DM power cards give Bakura a shot.
3 Raigeki, 3 Heavy Storm, 3 Pot of Green and Graceful Charity for an absurd boost in consistency so if he plays 3 Dark Hole as well, he's going to see those board wipes very very frequently so if Aki over commits to the board and ends up with nothing but 1-2 cards left in hand, all Bakura has to do is summon monsters and keep swinging for 1300-2200 every turn and that's game. Against a deck with so much draw power, she'd lose on card advantage alone. Add 3 monster reborn and change of heart and now we're looking at some relatively consistent OTKs as long as he knows to blind second.
Aki isn't as invulnerable to DM era characters as, say, the Arc V cast is. Monster effects were not as powerful, engines weren't as consistent (by design) and resilient as there was far far less negation, floating, free advantage, etc... in 5Ds era when compared to the following eras.
Bakura's biggest problem in a matchup vs GX and 5Ds characters is is that he has absolutely no chance going first.
TLDR unless your deck can consistently negate and/or easily recover from board wipes, the DM power cards give Bakura a shot.
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I agree that the board wipes do indeed give Bakura a shot. The issue is, unlike the raw free advantage of the Arc V cast, or the easy to summon beaters that the Zexal crew can constantly pump out, the 5Ds cast specialize in graveyard effects, things like dandylion, level eater, trust guardian, with plenty of traps to special summon from grave, in particular with cards like black rose that blow up the entire field. The 5Ds duelists, in particular the signers, are very used to having their entire fields blown away, and having to rely on traps or effects in the graveyard. In particular when a mecklord can make any synchro duelist go -2 bare minimum, just by existing on the field.
In addition, Bakura just wouldn't be able to keep up. His deck, even with all the draw power, honestly just doesn't have the power of Akiza's deck. Akiza can easily pump out synchros turn one, and something like Queen of Thorns would inflict burn damage that would come back to destroy Bakura in the end, as Akiza can remake her fields with relative ease. Zexal and 5Ds duelists, in particular 5Ds, are frequently forced to remake their fields from practically nothing, being forced to rely on traps or effects in the grave, as they don't have the convenience of pendulum cards, or one card xyz plays that result in less advantage lost. Two hits of 2400 is game in the anime, and Bakura's primary way of remaking his field is through monster reborn, which isn't a guaranteed draw, assuming he isn't killed in a single turn.
Overall, in general, the later strategies are just more equipped to duel. Even as seen in modern Yu-Gi-Oh, one card power plays are not enough to get over a snowball of advantage that starts as early as turn one. And it would be easy to get a hand full of one card power plays when one plays so many of them.
In addition, Bakura just wouldn't be able to keep up. His deck, even with all the draw power, honestly just doesn't have the power of Akiza's deck. Akiza can easily pump out synchros turn one, and something like Queen of Thorns would inflict burn damage that would come back to destroy Bakura in the end, as Akiza can remake her fields with relative ease. Zexal and 5Ds duelists, in particular 5Ds, are frequently forced to remake their fields from practically nothing, being forced to rely on traps or effects in the grave, as they don't have the convenience of pendulum cards, or one card xyz plays that result in less advantage lost. Two hits of 2400 is game in the anime, and Bakura's primary way of remaking his field is through monster reborn, which isn't a guaranteed draw, assuming he isn't killed in a single turn.
Overall, in general, the later strategies are just more equipped to duel. Even as seen in modern Yu-Gi-Oh, one card power plays are not enough to get over a snowball of advantage that starts as early as turn one. And it would be easy to get a hand full of one card power plays when one plays so many of them.
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Yeah, I suppose if both abuse their available card pool then Aki's advantage becomes much larger and I def neglected key combo pieces.
Aki probably wins far more often than just a simple majority.
And hey man, one card power plays in the vein of board wipes and the like can't compete with snowballing advantage but the one card engine is a powerful thing. Let us not forget that every yugioh protag auto loses to a normal summoned 0/0 beast warrior
Aki probably wins far more often than just a simple majority.
And hey man, one card power plays in the vein of board wipes and the like can't compete with snowballing advantage but the one card engine is a powerful thing. Let us not forget that every yugioh protag auto loses to a normal summoned 0/0 beast warrior
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Pretty sure Aki takes this simply because Bakura has a very horrible track record in hindsight of making this.
