The strongest duelist in Yugioh is none another than… Bakura! I know, a lot of people will argue that Bakura is weaker than some of the duelists I had mentioned in my first and second list. However, if you watched the Egypt arc of the original Yugioh series, then you’d have seen Bakura’s amazing power.
Bakura’s spirit monster, which was a monster known as Diabound Kernel, was literally undestructable. It took the power of all three Egyptian God cards to stand up to Diabound Kernel, which shows how powerful Bakura’s spiritual strength was. In terms of pure dueling, Bakura was shown to be as good as Yugi.
Like Yugi, Bakura is an all-around duelist who relies who gradually overwhelming his opponent. One of his most popular strategies is the Destiny Board tactic, which is an OTK that utilizes the F-I-N-A-L cards. In order to beat Bakura, you have to be able to outsmart him and anticipate his moves.
The Yugioh anime has introduced us to some awesome cards, including cards that are highly over-powered. What are some of the most over-powered cards in Yugioh?
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Bakura is awesome, but I say Noah is stronger.
@frycook
Hey, how have you been fry? Noah was strong, but he was only strong because he created his virtual world and thus had an advantage over everyone.
@yugiohblogger
OK, that’s a good point. Bakura is awesome anyways
Been good, but busy. You?
Bakura too good
@fry
I’ve been so busy as well with school and everything!
@woot
Bakura is literally unbeatable. It took the three Egyptian Gods to beat that dude.
@yugiohohblogger
YOU’RE STILL IN SCHOOL!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
the best duelist would be ME!
@card lover
Haha yeah, I’m going to be a senior next year! There’s just been so much work, which is why I haven’t been on the site that much lately.
@card lover
Bro, I would WRECK you!!!
I disagree I think Dartz is the strongest duelist ever featured in any yugioh TV show. As far as we’ve seen his monsters have had as high as 20,000 attack, or infinity atk if divine serpent is included, and atks that will always be “300 higher than the monster” its battling. His versions if the seal of orichalcos lock down the entire back row of opponent and are impervious to removal. Not to mention, he gained as much as 20,000 LP before divine serpent.
Also, the legendary knights are almost as badass as the anime egyptian gods, and it took more than them to defeat divine serpent. The question of who’s the strongest duelist would not even be close.
@Victor
I honestly never thought of Dartz… you bring a good point. Although, both Bakura and Dartz were both pretty badass/unstoppable in their respective arc. The reasons I would still take Bakura over Dartz is because one, Bakura survives everything, and two, he has control over the manifestation of evil itself, Zorc.
But Dartz existed long before even the Egyptian Gods were around, and he had FAR more broken cards from what I’ve seen. There’s no consensus on who’s the strongest duelist in the anime. I’ve heard that Marik was strongest, Paradox was strongest, Anubis is strongest, etc.
What about Paradox vs Dartz?
@Victor
Well, we don’t know that for sure. Wikia says he existed 10,000 years ago in which case Egyptian civilization would have just started to bloom. The Gods could theoretically existed. But I guess that’s besides the point, Dartz is super OP there is no doubt. I would take Dartz over Paradox any day. The reason I took Bakura over Dartz is because it took 3 duelists to take down Dartz, while it literally took every single character in the series to beat Bakura. If Tea didn’t figure out the Pharaoh’s name, Bakura and Zorc would be ruling the world!
What about the most broken card featured in the anime? Divine serpent is a no go because its just as prone to spell/trap/effect monster destruction as any other monster. The seal of orichalcos might be a top candidate, but I’d say golden castle of stromberg. There’s a reason why it was featured in the Grand Championship series, after Waking the Dragons.
@Victor
Easily GCS. No question haha.
@yugiohblogger
That’s what I thought. I mean, the Seal was broken enough to have Konami water down the real life version of the card, which is still a really good field spell card. But GCS is so OP that there is no way of modifying it to reasonable effects without completely altering the way the card can be used.
@Victor
Yeah I agree. By the way, you were right, Dartz existed way before the God cards. I realized this because there’s an episode where he is spying on King Atem using the God Cards, and this is after he’s evil.