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Oh come on! They’re actually doing it—they’re really gonna hand-wave all of Yugi’s hax and insta-kills, aren’t they? “Heart of the Cards”? Ignored. “Mind Crush”? Nerfed. “Exodia”? Suddenly not valid because “Ash wouldn’t count as a duelist”? Bro, what even is the point of putting Yugi in Death Battle if you strip away everything that makes him Yugi Muto?!
You can’t just say “the rules of the Duel Monsters universe don’t apply” and then act like that’s fair! That’s literally his entire power system! Meanwhile, Ash gets every legendary Pokémon he’s ever befriended, full anime scaling, and probably even Pikachu’s Plot Armor Mode from the Kalos League finale.
It’s like saying, “Oh, sure, Doctor Strange can fight, but no magic allowed.” What’s next, Saitama but he’s only allowed to use light jogs? Yugi’s entire shtick is reality warping through card game logic, and they just took that away.
I’m coping, I know, but man—this matchup was supposed to be brains vs belief, strategy vs instinct, not “kid with monsters vs kid with monsters, but only one of them gets to use theirs!”
I swear, if they make Ash tank a literal Egyptian God Card because “Pikachu friendship scaling,” I’m throwing my Millennium Puzzle out the window.