Line #8 Awesome/YuGiOhR


1	* Yako Tenma's complete 180 during his duel with Kaiba where after spending a few chapters getting beaten with little to no trouble he manages to effortlessly turn things around and completely curbstomb him. Even better? He's the only BigBad in manga or anime canon to defeat Kaiba '''''without''''' cheating.
2	** It's also worth noting that, during a filler duel exclusive to the anime between Kaiba and Jonouchi/Joey in the Battle City arc, Kaiba was understandably pissed off when Joey managed to summon a Blue Eyes White Dragon on his side of the field. So imagine how Kaiba must have felt when Yako summoned '' all three of Kaiba's Blue Eyes'' on his side of the field... and then ''treated them as sacrifices as if they were nothing.''
3	* Yako gets another one when Yugi calls Ra from the graveyard, and you think that he's either going to go One-Turn-Kill or God Phoenix (probably the latter), just as Yami Marik used to do so...and then Yako negates the Summon. One of the previous BigBad's best moves used by the protagonist made wasted just like that.
4	* All of Joey's duels against the Card Professors in ''R'' definitely qualify, particularly his matches against Reiko and his rematch against Bandit Keith, as in the former his encouragement to enjoy dueling and to have fun, prevents him from outright losing to her deck destruction strategy and the latter shows him matching Keith card for card and surviving against an Evil God Card and promising to help save Keith from his own hatred despite the jerk being responsible for the entire situation that they're in. For fans so used to seeing him ''almost'' win constantly in the anime, it was [[ThrowTheDogABone extremely refreshing]].
5	* Jounouchi's rematch against Bandit Keith. Keith's deck is armed with one of the Wicked Gods, the Eraser, and all Jounouchi's got is a deck of ordinary cards. Even Yugi resorted to trying to summon a God Card before using a Fusion Monster to destroy it. Jounouchi? He just summons something with more ATK than the Eraser and mows it down. And to top it off, he won. BadassNormal Jounouchi fought a Wicked God with no equivalent card or deck, and won.
6	* Yako's twin brother Gekko's duel with Ted Banias. At first, Gekko appears to be using a half-baked strategy built around building up his hand with Graceful Charity and playing the defensive. He begins to lose so badly that Banias and Keith begin taunting him with the implication that he's losing on purpose, just so that he'll allow his brother to continue on with his plans. But then, just when Gekko's about to lose, he summons ''five of his equip-spell cards from the graveyard'', and then it's revealed that he was planning this all throughout the entire duel, using Graceful Charity as means of sending his equip spells to the graveyard only to bring them back later. He then activates their abilities, [[CurbStompBattle allowing them to cut through Banias' monster and move in on his life points, granting Gekko victory]]. Pegasus clearly didn't call Gekko a perfect duelist for nothing.
7	* The final Duel against Yako is an awesome duel with heaps of tributes to Yugi's duels with Kaiba and Marik during the Battle City arc. When all seems lost, how is the Wicked Avatar, who is ''always'' the strongest monster on the field by one point, finally taken out? By Yugi using cards he got from both Kaiba and Gekko; Yugi summons Obelisk, uses its effect to boost itself to infinity, thereby making equal to Avatar's, and THEN upping it's divine rank with Divine Evolution to avoid the utter failure he had when he used that effect against Ra, resulting in Obelisk gaining a completely awesome new form, and both monsters destroying each other.
8	* When Gekko manages to convince Yako to continue the duel after both his and Yugi's god cards are destroyed, Yako immediately bounces back and starts going on the offensive while maintaining a lead, having 900 life points over Yugi's 98. Despite Yako managing to summon monsters that are on-par with the god cards, Yugi manages to hang on and has a counter to his overwhelming offense.
9	-->'''Yako:''' [Yugi] only has 98 life points left... but he might as well have 98,000.

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