Awesome / Bakuten Shoot Beyblade

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Season 1

• Takao defeating Hiruta in the first episode. Hiruta appears undefeatable, even with Takao doubling the length of the launcher's ripcord to increase his beyblade's spin and thus the power. But, literally overnight, he comes up with a way to ring-out Hiruta's defence-based beyblade.
• Kai in the second episode. It looks like he would be punished for beating up Hiruta (itself a punishment for getting his ass handed to him by Takao) by being on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle... Cue the Spinning Fire Bomb, so awesome that, for the entire run of all the three seasons of the original series, a beyblade pulling some sort of attack from above (called gattai in the actual game) became the sign its blader was a serious contender.
• Max vs Kai at the national tournament in season 1 is this for both.
  • First set: Max's pre-Bit Beast beyblade, Protoshell, is completely invulnerable to Dranzer's attacks, so what does Kai do? Spinning Fire Bomb. Cue One-Hit KO, and 1-0 for Kai.
  • Second set: this time Kai doesn't even bother with normal attacks and goes directly for the Spinning Fire Bomb. Too bad that Max made Protoshell spin left, so when Dranzer hits, Protoshell not only resists, but the opposite rotations end up stopping Dranzer and making Protoshell spin right. 1-1, and the only time a connecting gattai attack is completely defeated (every other time it usually has at least some effect).
    • This gets two Calls Back. The first is in the very following episode, when the Chief, among the modifications he does to Dragoon, has it spin left, a characteristics all of Takao's beyblades from now on will have specifically to counter Kai's gattai attacks. The second is in Russia, when Takao is facing a minor Neoborg beyblader with a beyblade that's spinning very fast and Kai tells him to think about his match with Max, at which point Takao brings Dragoon over the foe's beyblade and wins.
  • Still, Kai's second Spinning Fire Bomb left its mark: Protoshell's bit protector exploded right after the end of the set, and Max has to repair it. But with what? Easy: with a bit protector from his mother that contains a Bit Beast. Goodbye, Protoshell. Welcome, Draciel.
  • In the third set, the battle is hard, and Kai isn't bothering with the Spinning Fire Bomb as Max spun Draciel left again. How does it end? Draciel, a Defence-based beyblade, apparently rings out Dranzer, only for it to fall back in and use the fall to gain the strength to ring out one of the strongest Defence-based beyblades at the time.
• In season 1, the first match of the Asian Tournament against the Thai team due their gimmicks.
  • In the first set, the Thai representative has an absurd extensible beyblade three times as powerful as Driger... So Rei used the georama-like field to drop a mountain on it.
  • In the second set, the Thai beyblade emitted enough heat that it was starting to melt Draciel. Max and Draciel knocked it down as soon as it started to slow down.
    • The gimmick was so awesome that the DJ freaked out. He never freaked out again, no matter what the bladers pulled.
  • The final Thai representative was a Muay Thai practitioner, who literally kicked his beyblade into the field to make it spin faster, and Dragoon's Storm Attack was made useless by the field featuring a river that would be sucked in by the tornado and change the sand into mud, slowing it down. To make it worse, the Thai beyblade could jump and use a Goomba Stomp attack a dozen times in a row (thankfully it was nothing like Kai's). How to deal with this? Easy: jump in the river and generate the tornado mid-air. There was no mud to slow Dragoon down (and the river's bed was in solid rock), and the tornado, made stronger by the water, threw the Thai beyblade out of the ring.
  • And to complete the Bladebreakers' awesomeness... The Thai team congratulated them for the win.
  • And at the same time of all the above, the White Tigers are facing the Brunei team in their first match. The Brunei team is among the favourites for victory. By the time the Bladebreakers show up to see the match, the Brunei team is already out of the competition and fighting to score at least a victory, and Mao proceeds to cut into pieces her opponent's beyblade.
• In episode 12 of season 1 we have a match between Rei and Takao: if he wins, Rei, who is depressed for his Bit Beast leaving him, will be free to leave the Bladebreakers and return to the White Tigers as Mao was trying to convince him to do, otherwise he'll have to stay with the Japanese team. So, Rei without his Bit Beast versus Takao and the Dragoon S with his Bit Beast that had already inflicted them a Curb-Stomp Battle at the Japanese National Tournament. Rei, who Mao had reminded was practically undefeatable back at the village even before receiving his Bit Beast, wins. He still stays with the Bladebreakers.
• Episode 13 has many.
  • One of the Mongolian team manages to win against Gao. Why is this awesome? Because even when not at full concentration, Gao is ridiculously strong, and surviving long enough for him to get distracted by food is an incredibly difficult task.
  • Following Gao's loss due to distraction (as Mao had mentioned food), Mao has to win, but her foe, like Gao's, has a defensive beyblade covered in wool to No-Sell a foe's attack. Mao cut it into pieces.
  • Captain battle: Rai versus Balto, the Mongolian captain. A Tiger Claw later, Balto's beyblade is shattered, and most of the Bladebreakers are in full Oh, Crap! mode at seeing Rai using Rei's attack.
  • The Bladebreakers have to face the Indian team, whose gymmick is having beyblades with a ten centimeters-wide attack ring for superior stability.
    • Takao starts with his usual tornado, but the foe's attack ring pushes enough air upward to stay on the ground. Takao's reply to this? Storm Attack while physically hitting the enemy's beyblade. Cue ring-out.
    • Not to be topped, Max, who has a defence-type beyblade, rings out the foe's beyblade (and nearly hits him in the face), and sends the whole Indian team in full Oh, Crap! mode (seen on the background).
    • Rei has to face their captain. What does he do? He attacks with such fierceness that the following happens in quick sequence: the field's reproduction of the Great Wall of China starts being damaged hard as soon as Driger the beyblade hits it; Driger the Bit Beast returns to his beyblade; Rai goes into Oh, Crap! mode and Kai looks in awe; Rei uses Tiger Claw, starting to demolish the Wall and sending his foe in Oh, Crap! mode; the Tiger Claw doesn't fully connect with his foe's beyblade due to the latter running, so he demolishes the whole wall and scores a glancing hit that heavily damages the target and makes it stop spinning.
• An older entry mentioned that Kai's Dranzer S curbstomps multiple world class oppositions in Season 1. In episode 14 he finally fights against a member of the Maldives' team, and wins with one hit. Granted, the Maldives' team was rather poor and had to scavenge parts to put together their beyblades, but given it was the semi-final of the Chinese Tournament, they weren't supposed to be easy opponents...
  • Kai fought because, due to Takao oversleeping and Rei trying to wake him up with a chilli pepper, only Max and Kai were available to fight from the start, with a landslide blocking the road. This paves the way for some non-beyblade related awesomeness: Takao and Rei climb ten kilometers of mountain and cliff to reach the battlefield, and make it just in time. Oh, and Takao had Rei on his back for the final part of the climbing, as the latter had sprained his ankle to dodge a falling boulder.
  • Also, the Maldives' team going as far as the semi-finals with embarrassingly inferior beyblades and no gymmick.
  • Max's new beyblade, capable of No Selling the attacks of a semi-finals worthy opponent. Max promptly christened it Draciel Shield.
    • Then his opponent, using a subpar beyblade, nearly overpowers him.
  • Finally, Takao. When he arrives he's tired from the travel, but still wins his match, and was even faster than Kai.
• The final of the Chinese Tournament.
  • Max vs Gao, fought on a field with two areas: a large rotating one and a non-rotating smaller one placed above the rotating one.
    • In the first game, Max is being overpowered by Gao's superior strength, estimated as three times as strong as Rei's Tiger Claw without special attacks. How does he deal with that? He brings the battle to the rotating area, where Draciel's superior stability gave Max a decisive advantage over Gao's powerful but unstable Galzzly.
    • Before the second game, Gao smiles, and Rei goes in Oh, Crap! mode. Why? Gao just stopped thinking about food and is about to go all out. As anticipated by Rei (and possibly Foreshadowed by his Oh, Crap! face as soon as he learns they'd fight in three-games sets and not single-game sets), Gao wins through sheer power with the first attack to connect (from above, no less), and heavily damages the rotating area of the battlefield with the ones that doesn't. Oh, and those attacks... Most of them weren't actually attacks, but Galzzly still bouncing after being shot in.
    • In the third game, Max plans to use the damaged rotating area to his advantage. News flash, Max: Gao's previous attack was a warm up, and now he's going all-out. Gao's launcher explodes, and the battlefield is quickly disintegrated, burying Draciel under its remains. This feat, that left the Blader DJ speechless (so much that Gao had to call out to him) and apparently got Kiki to crap in his pants, wouldn't be equalled, let alone topped, until Brooklyn. One-nil for the White Tigers.
  • The second set is Rei versus Mao:
    • The field is awesome enough to be mentioned separately: a very accurate reproduction of the central building of the Forbidden City, in precious wood to boot. Too bad they wreck it...
    • Mao dominates the first game. Sure, Rei is unconsciously holding back, but in their match he did hand Kiki his ass while holding back, and Mao has even managed to attack from above. Also, Rei making Driger dodge most of Mao's Bit Beast-powered attacks in the last part of the game before pulling out his own Bit Beast.
    • In the second game, Mao and Kai snap Rei out of his funk, and Rei wins with a single attack. Also for Mao: they hit at the same time, and for a moment it looks like Driger would stop spinning before Galux.
    • The third game is so awesome that, in-universe, their respective Instant Fanclubs start cheering both their beloved and the opponent. Highlights include Galux tearing down the Forbidden Mansion plastic with a Goomba Stomp that Rei dodges and Driger connecting with a Goomba Stomp while Galux is mid-air. Then, before launching their decisive attacks, Mao declares her love for Rei, and Rei replies he knows and reciprocates. Still, we have to get a winner, and it's Rei, so 1-1.
  • For the third set we have Takao versus Rai on a sandy-rocky battlefield meant to invoke the Gansu province:
    • The first game starts well for Takao, and Dragoon quickly brings Rai's beyblade Galeon to the edge of a sandy area that would slow down any beyblade unfortunate enough to end up in it. One Tiger Claw later, Dragoon is out of the ring. Bonus point for Rai using his actual special move to power up his Tiger Claw and make it ten times as powerful as Rei's.
    • In the second game it's Rai who has the initial advantage, with Takao bringing Dragoon into the sandy area on purpose. An error? Nope, he's just following Kai's advice to use the battlefield to his advantage, and when Galeon moves in for the finish, Dragoon's Storm Attack causes a sandstorm that defeats Galeon. This is when Rai stops insulting Rei and actually concentrates on beating Takao.
    • In the third game Rai whips out the Dark Lightning, before summoning his Bit Beast. When the Bit Beast shows up, Dragoon gets thrown away ...but lands inside the ring. Takao replies in kind, and after the battle of the Bit Beasts, both beyblades lands out of the ring. It's a tie.
  • To resolve the match, the organizers order an extra set of a single game, on a standard field as they have no special fields anymore. The White Tigers obviously send Rai back in, but the Bladebreakers deploy Rei:
    • Rei gets one even before going in for sheer courage and calming the Chief, who was worried due to Rai's frightening power.
    • As soon as the match starts, Rai attacks with the Bear Axe, Gao's attack. While he whips out all the team's special moves, Mao explains that they are ancient attacks that have been taught to their tribe's best beybladers, and Rai has learnt them all.
    • Another for Mao, as she's the only one of their team to stand up to Rai and his hate-filled madness.
    • Still, it seems that Rai will win. But then Rei, after some encouragement, launches a Tiger Claw that turns Gao's destructive power back on it and rings out Galeon, also breaking through Rai's hate.
• Episode 19 gives us one of the few times Emily battles. The result? She utterly defeats Max with one hit. By ring out. True, Max was distracted, but she still won with one hit.
  • Also, this match drives home that the PPB Martial Arts and Crafts approach is quite good. Why? Well, Emily's launcher is a tennis racquet, and she launches her beyblade like it's a tennis ball.
    • The worst part? She's not the most powerful of the All Stars, Michael is. Even when holding back by launching with his left hand.
• Episode 20:
  • Kai literally jumping out of nowhere to save Max from getting crushed under a falling block of bulletproof crystal.
  • Steven of the PPB All Stars overpowering and defeating Rei.
• In episode 21, Antonio, a beginner beyblade, crushed Takao. Sure, Kai, playing the Trickster Mentor for Takao, had explained to him how, but he was still a beginner who could barely launch straight, and his beyblade was what appeared to be a Makendo, AKA one of the three oldest beyblades, that was so outclassed by Takao's Dragoon S that it wasn't even funny.
• The charity match of episode 22 has an interesting one for the billionaire McSneeze -or, in the original, the President of the United States: thanks to his smarts and having a quick talk with the organizers, the Celebrity Team isn't completely outmatched by the representatives of three of the teams taking parts to the World Championship (namely Max for the Bladebreakers, Emily for the All Stars and Mario for the Brazilian team), but, thanks to the format of three rounds with the entire teams in it and their teamwork, give them a desperate run for their money and actually win the second round.
  • Made more awesome because the teamwork of the celebrity team gave Emily a much needed slice of Humble Pie, as her insistence on working alone made her an easy target for her opponents. The way they did it was especially humiliating: first they lured her into accidentally hitting and knocking down Draciel, then, with her beyblade Trygator destabilized and slowed down by the impact, ganged up on her and made short work of it.
• Episode 23:
  • Kai decides to be nice with Emily and give her a chance to get some data on him by fighting a member of the Mexican team. The Curb-Stomp Battle not only ends up wrecking the beyblade and the launcher of his opponent, but is so fast the PPB computers couldn't tell how hard he attacked.
    • About the beyblade of Kai's victim... It had guitar strings around the attack ring to slow down the opponent and steal its spin. Kai replied with a Spinning Fire Bomb.
  • Max has to deal with an opponent with a survival-type beyblade whose attack ring has blades and can actually damage Draciel. How does he deal with him? He has Draciel catches the blade on the weight disk and then throw the opponent away.
  • In the final set Takao has to face an opponent with a beyblade powerful enough to shatter rocks whose Gatling Attack consists into landing on the target's attack ring and stay there until it stops spinning or it has to do it again. Takao's new Dragoon F easily resisted the first attack and then used the Storm Attack to throw it on the Grand Canyon-like mountains of the field. Mountains that the Mexican beyblade hit so hard they crumbled on it (that's why we said it could shatter rocks).
• Episode 24 is full of these, mainly due the Equador team. So strong and unpredictable (partly to them being in perfect symbiosis with nature) that Emily, normally sure of the All Stars' ultimate victory, admits they could defeat them.
  • First set, Rei versus Sancho. Rei loses. Hard. As in One-Hit KO hard. Bonus point for this being the only time Rei is completely caught with his pants down in all three seasons.
  • Second set, Max versus Fernando. Fernando's attack consists into making the opponent's beyblade bounce on itself and throw it in air until it exhausts the spinning. Max only wins due Fernando's beyblade losing interest in the game and leaving the field.
  • Decisive set, Takao versus Bartolomeo. Whose beyblade and style are based on the Galapagos tortoise. So the first attacks are deflected effortlessly, and then Bartolomeo's beyblade suddenly attacks with overwhelming force (don't believe it? Just watch the males in the mating season, or try and attack them. They bite hard). To add psychological pressure, Bartolomeo noticed that Takao is irritated by the story of how he received the beyblade from a tortoise, and continues talking about it to make him lose focus. Thankfully Takao gets thrown back to his senses by his grandfather explaining him how Bartolomeo was distracting him on purpose, and wins by having Dragoon enter the seawater area of the beyblade stadium based on the Hawaiian beaches and unleashing a storm attack there, with the water-filled tornado throwing the foe's beyblade out of the ring (and Ryu back to his newest Instant Fanclub).
  • In the meantime, the All Stars are facing the Australian team. When the Bladebreakers come their stadium, Steve has just thrown his opponent's beyblade out of the stadium so fast it broke a wall. Then Michael parachutes down from the sky to show off for his fans, and in his set the Cannonball Attack not only lands precisely on the top of the opponent's beyblade, but is so powerful it disintegrates it. A bit ruined by him showing off his Bit Beast to the Bladebreakers on purpose, but still formidable.
• Episode 25, Brazil vs. Bladebreakers:
  • Salvador, the first Brazilian blader, has a samba gimmick... That includes gattais. As in multiple ones in quick succession. Nearly won against Max, at least until Draciel outdanced his opponent's beyblade...
  • Rei vs. Maura, the second Brazilian blader. This one has multiple moments for Rei:
    • Maura has a fishing rod launcher to increase her beyblade's spinning speed (sort of what Takao did in his match with Hiruta), also making it incredibly fast. Rei has Driger outrun it without bit beast, because he can.
    • Maura tries a Doppelgänger Spin. Rei casually sends Driger to hit the real target, even dodging one of the fakes. Because he can.
    • Maura tries her ace in the hole: Doppelgänger Spin plus gattai. Rei dodges by having Driger run the whole lap of the racetrack-like field and attack from behind, and then throws the opponent's beyblade into Maura's hands. Because he can. Remember, this is the period where Rei was hit hard by The Worf Effect...
  • The final match has Kai playing for the Bladebreakers against the strongest blader of Brazil. Do we really need to say what Kai did to the strongest blader of Brazil?
• The finals of the American tournament in episodes 26, 27 and 28:
  • First set, Takao vs. Steve in a New York-inspired beystadium full of miniature skyscrapers:
    • Takao wins the first game with relative ease, using the environment and Dragoon's agility to dodge without Steve's Tryhorn being able to charge. We then get the second set... And find out that Steve was holding back and, due his American Football gimmick, this is the best possible stadium for him, as the buildings are easier to dodge than opposing players. He can even use the buildings to bounce and hit Dragoon with a gattai ...and that's how he throws Dragoon out.
    • The third game is where they both pull all stops. After a failed attempt at matching Steve head-on, Takao (following Rei's suggestion) starts using Dragoon's still superior mobility to lead Tryhorn around and attack on a hit-and-run, with Steve getting mad and losing concentration. Then the PPB provides a new tactic, and Steve destroys the buildings of the stadium: nowhere to hide, and now Tryhorn has the space for its Stampede Rush. Steve does just that, and Takao (following Kai's suggestion this time) No Sells it by the simple expedient of having Dragoon stay in contact without trying to resist, thus surviving the attack and steal spin from Tryhorn. At which point Steve finally loses it ...and exposes himself to Dragoon's usual tornado. One-nil for the Bladebreakers.
  • Second set, Rei vs. Eddie in a low-gravity stadium:
    • One for the NASA for providing the stadium. Seriously, this is borderline Artificial Gravity...
    • One for the PPB, for actually realizing Eddie's launcher... In a basketball. One for the anime's staff too for not making it look ridiculous, especially when compared to the more plausible ones of his teammates (Emily has it on a tennis racquet, Steve has a hi-tech one in a football, and Michael has it attached to his arm to simulate launching a baseball).
    • Another for the PPB, for putting together a plan that Rei, who had Seen It All, could not invent his way out: a low friction environment where Driger has trouble moving and using his usual Speed Blitz, Trypio has an attack ring that both grants it superior balance and sucks it to the dish (thus giving it the ability to move as usual even with low friction). The PPB brags of their ability of put together tactics that guarantee victory ...and Eddie inflicting two Curb-Stomp Battles in a row to Rei proves that they're not just braggarts. 1-1.
  • Final set, Max vs Michael in a baseball diamond-like stadium (with Michael as the pitcher):
    • First game. Trygle is an attack beyblade, Draciel a defence-type, meaning Max should have the advantage. Hence why Michael threw Trygle in with five times the power Max gave to Draciel. It's called Cannonball Attack, and it's enough to One-Hit KO Draciel.
    • Second game, after Takao gave Max a verbal kick in the pants. One that worked, as Max managed to overpower Michael and throw out Trygle.
    • Third game. After running the data, the PPB team realizes that if nothing is done Max will overpower Michael again... So they do just that: until now Michael has thrown with his off-hand, but now he will use his far stronger right (finding out this is enough to cause a Mass "Oh, Crap!" among the Blade Breakers). When launched right-handed, Trygle is more powerful than before, enough that Draciel starts being pushed back... Then Max, through sheer confidence, gets Draciel to overpower Trygle again, knocking it down and making the PPB computers shut down and discharge electricity as it overpowered their sensors too.
• Episode 30:
  • Ralf is first introduced looking at the matches between the children on the ship and getting challenged because he looked at the matches as if they were beneath him. Next we see him, he has accepted the challenge ...and destroyed every single beyblade of the kids there. Takao shows up just in time to see him one-shotting the last challenger...
  • Takao decides to avenge the kids (even after Ralf explained that, technically, he is the victim: he was challenged rudely, and after he crushed the first four everyone else tried to avenge the defeat of the previous one). Ralf's reply? Call him out for his rudeness.
  • Takao challenges Ralf ...and, even with the Bit Beast, gets at the wrong end of a Curb-Stomp Battle (as Ralf has one of his own, and it's an aggressive one). That's right after winning the whole American tournament.
  • And all of the above Ralf did it holding back: he didn't use the bit beast until Takao brought out his own, and he wasn't using his custom launcher but a basic light launcher without even a grip, while Takao had a launcher with custom grip.
• Episode 49 is an all-timer for Ray, who showcases an astonishing amount of determination throughout his battle against Bryan.
  • During the second session, despite his friends trying to get him to withdraw from the battle out of concern for him, Ray refuses to give up and keeps enduring Bryan's attacks until he gets the oppurtunity to knock Bryan's beyblade out of the dish. As Tyson's grandfather observes, even against the ferocity of Bryan's physical blows, Ray was still able to maintain his concentration and lead Bryan into a counterattack that decisively finished the session in his favor. His victory provokes genuine awe.
    Robert: What a warrior he is!
  • Driger sacrificing himself to save Ray's life at the end of the battle, defeating Bryan and even destroying Bryan's beyblade in the process.
    • Pretty much how that scene goes is just pure awesome - Ray, on the verge of collapsing after Bryan's relentless attacks, gathers up the strength to bring out Driger's true power. Bryan is quickly reduced to screaming in shock as Ray unleashes the mother of all Tiger Fangs/Claws, engulfing the stadium in blinding light. When the light clears, Bryan collapses face-down, the shattered remnants of Falborg landing beside him.
    Boris: *thinking* Why can he keep fighting? He shouldn't even be standing... Then... die!
    Rei: You will not get your hands... on Byakko, nor my life! This is it! TIGER FANG!!!
    • The above exchange is no less awesome in the dub, either, even if it does go into Never Say "Die":
    Bryan: I'd say farewell, but that would be lying. I really hope you fare-BADLY!
    Ray: Did you say 'fare-badly'? My Bit-Beast begs to differ! Tiger Claaaaaaaaaw... ATTAAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK!!!

Season 2

• Episode 5: Kenny and Hilary are kidnapped by Gideon's henchmen in front of Tyson. Through a series of calls from the henchmen, Tyson is forced to run across town with an impossible time limit set for each part of the run for Gideon's scientists to take readings of his body when he exerts himself. At one point he outruns a pack of dogs and a car. Even the scientists state that there is no way he should be able to do that considering he's already ran across town.
• Episode 24: Kai's battle with Goki of the Psykicks. Kai's been struggling due to the fact that he's being haunted by an illusion of Wyatt who had been driven to madness and hospitalisation by the same beyblade Goki's using. Despite Tyson's encouragement, it looks like Kai's going to lose his Dranzer like Max lost his Draciel. Then Goki decides to make fun of Wyatt in front of Kai. Cue an epic line from Kai, and an epic thrashing which lasts for 30 seconds before ending with Goki's beyblade being obliterated.
  Kai: How dare you. How dare you laugh at him! Now you pay!

Season 3

• In season 3, Kai's battle with Daichi. For a while it looked Daichi would win easily, with Kai unable to fight back... Then Kai shows he was just distracted, and Dranzer proceeds to swat Gaia Dragoon out of the ring, setting the ring on fire in the process.
  • Followed by a Funny Background Event: as the scene concentrates on Daichi and the referee's shock at the reversal, two staff members with extinguishers walk by and put out the fire.
  • The manga version plays it differently, and manages to make it awesome for Daichi. At first Kai is humiliating him by dodging for a while and then completely deflecting Daichi's attack, but, after some encouragement (from Hiruta of all people), he gets back some spirit and gives Kai a run for his money. Kai still wins, but at least this time he had to get serious...
• Tyson vs Max, which shows the lengths Max was willing to go to secure a victory for his team. Instead of his usual style to use his defense to burn his opponent out, he goes all in and sets up a perfect plan against Tyson which involves timing Draciel's Engine Gear to counter Dragoon's causing him to fall behind even further. Tyson barely squeezes out a win by using Max's move to build momentum and ring him out. While Tyson fought hard, it left Dragoon battered showing how strong Max is.
• The Semi-Finals, a 2v2 involving Tyson and Daichi against Raul and Julia of F-Dynasty. Now that Tyson and Daichi are on the same wavelength, they were able to match F-Dynasty in their element.
• Episode 29 and 30, Tyson vs Kai, arguably the best battle in the original series. Starting from the reveal of the dish (an open terrain so that the both of them can go all out) to the initial attacks, their spirits are resonating so much, each clash sends shock waves through the entire stadium.
  • Kai, knowing Tyson had to go all out against F-Dynasty, did some extra training before the fight to exhaust himself to match Tyson's condition (while Tyson did rest between rounds, he still has some wear by the start). This way, by the end of it, neither of them can give any excuse.
• Kai's battle against Brooklyn.
  Kai: Kai. That's my name. And I'm a Beyblader. And you might think you are but you're not. You learned from the best but you forgot a very important lesson. Beyblading isn't just about overpowering your opponent with fancy moves. That's only part of the game. There's more to it than that. Much more. That's why I have something you don't. I have learned from every battle I fought. Every friend, enemy and spectator always had something to offer me. And I'm a student to this game. And I always will be. With the hardships of training, competitions, the wins and the losses, they all taught me something. And I've taken that knowledge and used it to my advantage. That's why I can say, that I'm a true beyblader. That's what keeps me going. And that's my strength. I don't think you ever will (understand). Because you're not a true beyblader. You have the power and the skill but something is missing from inside you. You don't have the beyblading spirit! That's why I have to win this battle! Because beyblading means more to me than you could ever understand! IT'S NOT JUST A GAME TO ME! FINISH HIM NOW, DRANZER!
  • And Brooklyn is screaming in fear of Kai after this. Brooklyn.

Unsorted

• It's a bit of Fridge Logic with the actual game, but every time the Chief beyblades, it's one for him. His beyblades with a spring base are balance types that are very cool but near useless against normal beyblades, yet:
  • In the national tournament of season 1 he nearly passes the qualification round, getting in the top ten and surviving Kai's wrath in the battle royal until he actually focuses on him.
    • Both manga and anime have this scene, but the anime makes it more awesome: in the manga Kai is using the Master Dranzer, but in the anime he's using the improved Dranzer S, that would later proceed to mop the floor with international-level competition. The Chief, while curbstomped too, actually took more effort than any of Kai's opponents in the tournament.
  • Near the end of season 1, the Chief joins the rest of the team in challenging Kai, who has pulled his Face–Heel Turn, is now using Black Dranzer and going all-out. He's the first to be defeated... But still outlasts the entire American team, who had earlier pulled an identical team effort against Black Dranzer and got wiped out in half the time;
  • In season 2 he has a spar with Takao and makes him run in circles for a while. Note that Takao is the friggin' world champion by this point.
  • In season 3 he takes part in the selection tournament with an improved jumping base and makes it to the semi-finals, only losing before facing Takao due an absurd opponent with a shapeshifting and ability-copying beyblade that pulls a surprise Mirror Match to win (in the final Takao overpowers him in the Mirror Match, and Hitoshi, who is selecting the team, shoots him down as a copycat and unfit to take part in an international tournament).
    • The Chief's performance in the tournament was so good that it got him in the Japanese national team for the world championship.
  • Finally, in the world championship he faces Yuri, who is just too stupidly powerful for him. By playing it smart, he gives him such a desperate run for his money that Yuri has to use his Bit Beast to win. It ends with the Chief's beyblade shattered, but still, props for forcing Yuri to go all out.
    • By virtue of this set and Kai, who was playing for the Blitzkrieg Boys, throwing the set against Daichi because Takao had been excluded by Hitoshi for disciplinary reasons, the match is to be decided by Daichi and Yuri. Yuri is stupidly more powerful than Daichi too... So the Chief, basing himself on how he just lost to Yuri, instructs Daichi on what he has to do. Yuri loses, and cannot understand how it happened.
• Takao's early victories in the manga. Why? Well, his beyblade there is the Ultimate Dragoon (Spin Dragoon in international releases), that, while the first beyblade ever released, is completely outclassed by pretty much everything else (the only ones that don't completely outclass it are Makendo and Megaro Arm, that are Ultimate Dragoon with a different paintjob and weight disk). Yet, after some training, it took Kai to stop him.
• The 10bBistool custom beyblade. Why? Not only it was practically undefeatable in the plastic beyblade era, but it even shows up in the anime and inflicts a Curb-Stomp Battle on a bully (the same bully who previously destroyed the original beyblade of 10Bistool's owner).
  • In the anime, 10bBistool was put together by the Chief. When the local Gadgeteer Genius is the one who invents a metagame beyblade configuration, you know it's good.
• Hiruta (Carlos in the US dub) has one in the manga, where he has two battles with Daichi. In the first match he immediately realizes that Daichi is immensely more powerful, admits it ...and then easily annihilates him. With one hit.
  • The second time they fight is another one for Hiruta. Between the encounters Daichi Took a Level in Badass by perfecting his beyblade (now named Gaia Dragoon, or Strata Dragoon in the US) and acquiring some decent skill... Yet Hiruta still gives him a desperate run for his money.
• One for the Nelvana dub only — having Mark Dailey, legendary Citytv news anchor/announcer, as Brad Best. Say what you will about the need for additional commentators, but Mark's Large-Ham Announcer antics could make anything bearable (hence why he announced City's Great Movies for years, even if the movies they were playing stunk).