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* The belief that he is this [[CantCatchUp nags at]] Kubota Junichiro from ''Manga/TomoChanIsAGirl'', and compratively speaking he is not wrong. As a young boy he begn studying under particularly hardcore martial arts master Aizawa Goro for the express purpose of becoming a powerful fighter like his childhood friend Tomo (*heh* "Tall order, kid's a beast."). Now a high-school freshman, Jun is a [[StrongAndSkilled fearsome fighter by any remotely sane standard]] and when he goes all-out he can beat Tomo in a fight. The issue is that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin puberty hit him and Tomo rather differently]] and she not only has the speed and precision to completely dominate Jun in anything resembling point-based tournament sparring despite his superior reach, but [[LightningBruiser enough strength]] [[HugeSchoolgirl in her own right]] that hammering on her like she is a man is the only chance Jun has to keep her from dismantling him whenever she sets her mind to it... ''and they both know it''.

* The belief that he is this [[CantCatchUp nags at]] Kubota Junichiro from ''Manga/TomoChanIsAGirl'', and compratively speaking he is not wrong. As a young boy he begn studying under particularly hardcore martial arts master Aizawa Goro for the express purpose of becoming a powerful fighter like his child Tomo (*heh* "Tall order, kid's a beast."). Now a high-school freshman, Jun is a [[StrongAndSkilled fearsome fighter by any remotely sane standard]] and when he goes all-out he can beat Tomo in a fight. The issue is that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin puberty hit him and Tomo rather differently]] and she not only has the speed and precision to completely dominate Jun in anything resembling point-based tournament sparring despite his superior reach, but [[LightningBruiser enough strength]] [[HugeSchoolgirl in her own right]] that hammering on her like she is a man is the only chance Jun has to keep her from dismantling him whenever she sets her mind to it... ''and they both know it''.

** ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'': Don Thousand solely relies on Numeron Network's effect to rewrite his opponent's plays and overpower his opponent with Numeron monsters that can reach astounding ATK values with his final monster, Number Ci1000: Numerronius Numerronia, having an ATK of a whopping ''100,000''.

*** Similarly Gozaburo's strategy against Seto solely relies on the near-invincible Exodia Necross, which is immune to destruction and its attack keeps rising per battle despite this Kaiba was still able to continue damaging Gozaburo's life points before finding a way to defeat Exodia Necross.

** Pegasus, the prior main antagonist, is a more extreme example: his [[ToonPhysics Toon Deck]] is made up of [[SuperPrototype cards so broken that they never saw release]], and he can read thoughts on top of that. But though he's fairly clever and good at manipulating people, his actual strategies are decidedly lackluster; whenever he can't read an opponent and instantly set up countermeasures, his tactics amount to "attack the opponent with my best monster and see how it works out for me." By the time of ''GX'', his skills have notably improved, after having lost the original Toon World and his mind-reading.
** While Dark Marik is by no means a ''bad'' duelist, his main dueling strategy relies on two things: the magic of his Shadow Games and the Winged Dragon of Ra. In all of his duels, Marik is on the cusp of defeat only for him to summon the Winged Dragon of Ra and win (not helped by it [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands pulling out a new ability each time]]). In the four-way duel between him, Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey, he is the first one eliminated due to him not having access to Ra or his Shadow Games. And in his later duel with Joey, he only won because the latter passed out from the life-draining effects of the Shadow Game before he could deal the finishing blow. He would have been defeated in his first match, if Mai didn't try to use Ra to finish him (not knowing it required to recite a summoning phrase written in a dead language to unlock it).
** Noah can be considered the most unskilled duelist of the whole anime despite having a deck with powerful cards and a Deck Master with a huge amount of abilities rather than just one like the others have, his duel skills are very lacking, he makes many misplays and wastes them in ways that prolong the duel rather than actually finish off his opponent. Not to mention the fact he starts his duel against Yami with a huge advantage[[note]]Noah has his Deck Master, Shinato, with an ATK of 3000 on his field and has 7400 Life Points, while Yami has no cards in his hand nor field and only has 400 Life Points remaining[[/note]].

*** Kagemaru's strategy with the Sacred Beasts is as follows: Spam the field with three 4000+ monsters and resummon them upon destruction. He also has a Field Spell, Fallen Paradise, that pretty much lets him draw two extra cards every turn. However, he demonstrates no particular understanding of their abilities, wastes lots of cards on trying to summon them, and fails to exploit their effects - compare to Yubel, who actually does try to exploit their effects and come up with ways of summoning them besides tributing random cards and hoping for the best.