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Season 1
Episode 5: Luke, a Manly Battle
- Luke not only defends Rush Duels from Bakuro's criticism of it feeling shallow, he manages to survive with 100 LP and counters immediately in the next round via destroying all of Bakuro's monsters. Though Bakuro summons another Toughroid, Luke uses that to revive Multistrike Dragon Dragias again and with Twin Edge Dragon, turns the table on Bakuro's shallow perspective in one move.
Episode 11: No More Holding Back
- Villainous as it was, Roa's long scale manipulation and planning of Romin into reaching her berserk state via hunger worked!
- Romin's berserk state turns her into a competent duelist, breaking through Gakuto's effects with both Prima Guitama and her new ace, Esperaid, who uses Gakuto's numbers advantage to boost her own attacks, destroy his field, and blasts her former ally's LP with a rocking solo.
- Credit to Gakuto, who upgraded his Stone Wall deck to be more offensive and drive Romin in a corner via piercing damage.
Episode 13: Another King
- Otes, Yoshio, and the Newspaper Club's assistance and revelation proves Yuga's innocence in time to spare Yuga from disqualification. Otes declares that Yuga and Roa both have the potential to be the King of Duels and change Goha's rigid control over the game.
- Roa proves he's not left-handed, and summons his Level 8 Ace Monster, Royal Demon's Heavymetal, destroys Sevens Road Magician, and even with Yuga re-summoning it, Roa seals its effects to prevent its attack. How does Yuga win? Using Seven Road Mage's effects, it reduces Heavymetal's attack points first with its own effects, then with Magician on the field, unites all of the Spellcasters Roa sent to the graveyard. All of the spirits merge into Mage, who reduces Heavymetal's attack points from 2500 to 1100, leads Magician to slice through Heavymetal, and Mage finishes Roa off, transforming the stage into an abyss that Roa plunges into along with his life points.
Episode 14: Romin's Kitchen
- Though impossible to witness by normal human standards, Kaizo defeated three Goha Corporation Drones on his own.
Episode 16: The Man Who Washes Duels
- Romin's victory over Arata Arai, including her decision to have to duel to atone for her betrayal and defending Rush Duels. After Luke stops Arai from cheating, she performs a combination using a card from Gakuto's duel with her, filling up Arai's side with her monsters from the graveyard. Going in berserk mode, she uses all the monsters on both to weaken their attack points and Arai's ace one by one, with even the monsters on his side blasting at him once she attacks before finally soloing Clean Beret with Esperaid.
- Luke interfering and exposing Arai's cheating with his Pauli Effect (which Gakuto notes he hasn't used in quite some time) to short-circuit the cheating function in Arai's duel disk, allowing Romin to have a fair duel while declaring one of the most badass Magical Incantations that doesn't involve summoning a card. Even after getting interrupted, he gets one more punny jab at Arai's dueling before letting Romin resume the duel.Luke: Oh, ruler of chaos and oblivion that resides within the abyss of my soul. Now is the hour to release the crest of our contract and, with your jet-black radiance, confer the hammer of judgment on us! LUKE DEVIL!!
Episode 17: The Cat in the Garden of Providence
- Nekoyama Schrödinger "Lost Card" trap card. When Luke declares an attack, the trap forces Luke to discard a card from the top of his deck and guess what type of card it is. If he guess right the attack goes through but if he guesses wrong, the attack is negated Luke takes 300 points worth of damage.
- Yuga snapping Luke out of his Heroic BSoD by telling him that the possibility of him becoming King of Duels still exists. Yuga won't just give the title to him if he wins it but that doesn't mean the opportunity for Luke to be king doesn't exist.
- The above moment then leads to Luke's awesome comeback in the form of Thrust Dragon Bunker Strike's debut. This monster's effect allows Luke to draw cards equal to the number of monsters his opponent controls, then choose a number of cards in his hand equal to the number of cards drawn by this effect, and place them all on the top of his deck in any order. This proves the perfect counter to Lost Cat. Luke then attacks with both Rush Dragon Dragears and Bunker Strike, winning the duel.
Episode 18: Sorry, Gett-A Chance
- Roa makes a comeback in his duel against Getta, sacrificing Royal Demon's Heavymetal of all cards for his new Ace: Royal Demon's Invasion, destroying Getta's strategy and winning the duel in one fell swoop. And all this while his Leitmotif from the ending of episode 13 plays in the background.
Episode 22: The Sealed Devil
- With 13 cards in his hand and plenty in the graveyard after Arai's deck out strategy failed, Luke manages to get 3 of his ace monsters (Shocklead Dragon, Thrustrike Dragon Bunker Strike, Multistrike Dragon Dragias) on the field to win the duel.
- Also, noticeably, this time Arai's cheating is not disabled. Arata is able to rearrange his deck and draw the card he wants through all the duel, and Luke manages to stop him through skill alone.
- Prior to this, Luke also avoids falling into the same trap that Romin did when she Dueled Arai by consciously avoiding Summoning Dragias when he doesn't need to, so Arai doesn't have a valid target to use White Foam - Bleach Motor on.
Episode 23: That Which Lies Beyond Providence
- Nail manages to reverse engineer the programming of Rush Duels through Kaizo's data and Yuga's actions & behavior, which allows him to discover something unknown to even Yuga himself.
- Nail showing off what he discovered by Maximum Summoning Yggdrago the Heavenly Emperor Dragon Tree, a monster so large that by comparison Sevens Road Magician is nothing more than a mere bug. He then uses its effect to destroy Yuga's ace and then attack him directly dropping his LP to 0 in one hit!
- Like Roa, Neiru manages to make Yuga speechless during their duel. Unlike that time, however, Yuga doesn't have any answer ready and doesn't manage to get an answer during the duel, and is actually hit hard by this defeat, making it the first time Yuga actually finds himself out of his depths and cementing Neiru as a threat.
Episode 24: Resolve
- It's finally revealed how Nail discovered Maximum summon: he noticed that Yuga let the program open to allow more people to develop new rule, so he took advantage of it, effectively turning Yuga's methods against him.
- Gakuto, Romin and Luke all manage a OTK against Otes. Incidentally, one could notice that, despite not having as many duels, both Romin and Luke have had their fair share of duels so far and have a better record than Yuga (with respectively only 1 and 0 losses against Yuga's 2).
Episode 25: Dream, Courage, and Friendship
- During the rematch with Nail, Yuga reveals he has his own Maximum Monster now. Then with a flashback it's shown that Gakuto, Romin and Luke gave away their duel account cards so that it could be reprogrammed. And when Yuga's duel disk couldn't handle the reprogramming BicycleSeat!Kaizo jumps in and lets Yuga sacrifice itself for additional power, trusting that he will win and get back its original code. Then with the 3 Maximum Cards in his hand, the episode ends with Yuga Maximum Summoning Super Magitek Deity Magnum Over Road. The mech he was designing since the first episode of the show to rival Nail’s Yggdrago.
- When a Goha Drone found the kids as they were opening their Duel Disks, Gakuto put a stop to it by leaping across the room and karate chopping it out in a single hit.
Episode 26: Maximum Duel
- The ending of the duel showcase both player's resourcefulness, with a particular mention to just how Crazy-Prepared Neiru proved to be:
- First, Nail uses a trap to stop Yuga's newly created Maximum monster from performing a one-hit kill, and manages to diminish Yuga's life point in the process.
- When Nail counterattacks, Yuga manages to save himself and Magnum Over Road by sending it back to his hand and ending the battle phase.
- Nail then has Yuga shuffle his hand back into his deck so that he won't Maximum Summon again the next turn. Yes, he had a way to counter Maximum Summoning even if he was supposed to be the only one having it.
- Undeterred, Yuga comes out with a solid plan to win that doesn't require Maximum Summon, but his old ace, Seven Roads Magician.
- Nail doesn't just save himself, but manages to use the attack to replenish his life points, and then almost wins the duel, with Yuga barely holding on with just 100 LP.
- Yuga almost manages to Maximum Summon a second time, but Nail has him once again shuffle his hand in his deck.
- Yuga then just breaks the Magic Poker Equation to get the cards needed to Maximum Summon a third time, finally managing to get Magnum Over Road back on the field. Knowing that Neiru had a trap that would have ended the duel in a draw if Yuga managed to destroy Yggdrago, Yuga reveals the last effect of Magnum Over Road, taking advantage of the 3900 LP disparity between them to boost Magnum Over Road's attack to 9400, wiping out Nail’s Life Points before he can activate his trap and finally winning the duel.
Episode 32: The Lady Who Loves Heavy Cavalry
- Both Yuga and Asana Matsuba display some impressive skills and comebacks, but the latter takes the cake for the return of Maximum Summoning, which in-universe was supposed not to exist anymore (since Neiru is permanently banned from dueling, Goha is firmly against Rush Duels and refuses to expand them further, and Yuga lost his own returning the ID cards to his friends at the end of the duel with Neiru).
Episode 33: Goha 6th Elementary School
- Gakuto, seemingly on the verge of a Heroic BSoD, surprises his opponent by stopping Shield Bowling Kong's attack using a trap card that switches the attacking monster to defense position. He then switches Bowling Kong to defense position a second time, draining its defense points.
Episode 35: Sound! Gohanium
- Tiger throwing her bassoon right in front of Zomyoji‘s drill tank, not only stopping it in its tracks, but due to it being made out of Gohanium, it also causing it to explode afterwards.
- Tiger’s final attack with her new ace, Bassoon Finger the Divine Music Oni, serving as one big shout out to Mobile Fighter G Gundam of all things, specifically to Domon Kasshu’s Signature Move, The Shining Finger.
Episode 38: Unearth Maximum
- The insane level of Crazy-Prepared Yuga goes to to get a Maximum in his deck. Already aware of the cache of prototype Duel Disks he can potentially use to rewrite old Duel ID cards, he also sent Kaizo to ask Nail to borrow Yggdrago just in case he couldn't regain Magnum Over Road.
- Once Yuga does bring Magnum Over Road out and boost it ATK, Asana is able to reduce its ATK to match that of Wurm Ex-Cavator, resulting in the two Maximums clashing in a moment reminiscent of Obelisk and Slifer/Osiris in Battle City, slowly destroying one another.
Episode 39: Bring it Back! Mutsuba's Pride!
- There's surprisingly little mention of it, but when the energy created by Magnum Over Road and Wurm Ex-Cavator finally fades, the energy sphere blasted a hole in the mountain. While the devastation Yggdrago and Magnum Over Road were depicted as causing was ultimately Solid Vision effects, this seems to have been strong enough to have a physical effect.
- Yuga Out-Gambitting Asana with his new ace, Mirror Innovator. Having explained its effect to her, she's wary that he'll somehow find Machines in his Graveyard even though the Magnum Over Road cards aren't in his Graveyard anymore, and she blocks Machines from attacking that turn. Yuga's response is to change it into a Spellcaster with his Type Change Beam, allowing him to bypass Asana's Trap.note
Episode 40: Give Me Jam ♪
- Romin defeating Yuga, making her the second main female protagonist after Yuzu defeated Yuya in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V to have won against the main protagonist. What’s more is that both sides are Dueling without holding back. Even more impressively, Romin doesn't go into her "awakened" state to do so, defeating Yuga with the help of the seemingly useless CAN:D card that Princess G slipped into her deck.
Episode 45: Upstart Hunter
- Although he is being a major jerk at the time, Hunt becoming the fourth Maximum user ahead of Luke and summoning the Great Imperial Dinocarriage Dynarmix is impressive for someone who was originally the sidekick of a side character. Granted, he got them not just by himself but was helped along by Goha 66, but still. His scheme to get rich while ensuring no one else would get a full Maximum was also pretty clever. Him also carefully choosing his approach to make it just a duel between him and Yuga, knowing that otherwise Roa and Neiru would have trashed his teammates and they would have lost, showed great foresight. Too bad that...
- Yuga does then upstage Hunt thanks to his friendly rivalries with Roa, Nail, and Asana, assembling enough Maximum cards to summon his second Maximum monster, Hyper Engine Vast Vulcan.
- This is also a subtle reminder that Yuga, Neiru, and Roa aren't just among the best duelist in the series, they are some three of the most intelligent characters and best schemers in the series as well.
- Hunt's team managed to successfully reach third place with 140 points, which seems impressive...until we are shown that Luke and Yuga's teams have *over 340 points each*. Yes, they have around two times and a half as many points as their closest competitor. This shows just how much they outclass everyone else. It's particularly impressive for Luke's team since they are the only one without a Maximum.
Episode 49: RoaRomin
- Romin keeps her winning streak alive by defeating Roa in their duel, meaning she defeated both the protagonist and one of the main rivals. To make things even better, she still won even after Roa actually gets all three of his aces on the field and a field spell to boost them.
Episode 50: Gakuting
- Gakuto manages to score a tie against Nail of all people. What started off as an absolute curb stomp turned into an episode that shows off Gakuto's willpower and strength in the face of absolute adversity, culminating in a last ditch effort to stop Neiru from walking out with a win, even if Gakuto has to go down with him. Even Nail was impressed with his fortitude.
- Gakuto accomplished it without a Maximum Summon of his own. He didn't win, but he is the first one not to be defeated by a Maximum. Remember that Yuga himself could only face Maximum Summons with a Maximum of his own, and he lost on the turn both Nail and Asuna brought out their Maximum Monster. Gakuto survives Neiru's and tied against it, and from behind at that.
Episode 52: The Last Rush Duel
- Luke becomes the first duelist to defeat a Maximum Monster without using a Maximum Monster of his own.
- This is the conclusion of the duel for the title between Yuga and Luke, and they both are at their peak.
- First, Luke reveals his new ace: Metagias who, beside his trademark attack-twice move, can shrug off battle damage and trap effects. Combined with a trap card, he uses it to one-up Gakuto and defeat Yuga's maximum.
- Yuga's turn. He summons Mirror Innovator and a new ace, Thunderbold, which he then uses to bring along Sevens Road Magician, empowered by six different attributes in his graveyard. He then attacks Luke, who only survives by making Metagias indestructible for the turn.
- During his turn then Luke summons Miragias and Dragias, lining up all his three aces and activating all of their effects, allowing him to wipe out Yuga's field and have three attacks left...
- Yuga then activates two traps: first, Elemental Rush which allows him to replenish his field, and second Seven Roads Force, which activates thanks to him having ten different level 7 in his graveyard, sending all Luke's monsters back to his hand while summoning Sevens Road Magician again.
- However, Yuga special summoning allows Luke to activate his own trap, Dragon Encounter, which allows him to summon Dragias again. Being freshly summon, Dragias can also attack once more, defeating Sevens Road and winning him the duel. And leaving Yuga frustrated from his loss for the first time in the show.
- While the duel was going on, Yuga wired-up Kaizo to work on real-time Rush Duel install. So after Otes finishes deleting the program from the moon's surface there is already a back-up ready to go, saving rush duels. Not only that, but this one is made of metal and much harder to destroy.
Season 2
Episode 58: Intercrossing Destinies
- From the strain of its forced stretches, the Rush Duel Robot's right arm falls off. Which contains the code that handles Maximum Monsters. Thus Yuga's monster is about to vanish during his duel. However as its head and left arm is free from the restraints, it manages to repair itself.
Episode 59: "Order Button"
- Mimi didn't realize she lost her privileges and can't pay for the food she ate at the AI restaurant. She has to work for Arata to clean all the dishes. She proudly succeeds while doing an even better job than Arata. By the end of the episode, she’s the one ordering him around.
Episode 62: The☆Lukeman! The☆Lukeman!!
- Everything about the titular The☆Lukeman. He takes Luke's bombastic persona and duel skills, and takes them up a notch. And to top it off, he can use Fusion and uses it to defeat Yuo.
Episode 65: Solitary Providence
- Asana's duel against Nail. Instead of using her friends' ID cards to Maximum summon, she asks to borrow their ace monsters for the duel despite, how Nail points out, not fitting into her archetype. They end up being instrumental in her victory. And it isn't due to extremely specific circumstances requiring their effects either: Asana modified her deck to take advantage of them being three level seven or higher monsters, sending them to the grave and back to her deck/hand to activate effects more beneficial to her deck.
Episode 66: Final Battle! The Devil Empire
- The☆Lukeman assuming his perfect mode. It's later suggested to have been Yuga and the Goha Siblings providing him with the costume, but the genuinely cool appearance, epic music, The☆Lukeman's bombastic voice, and the over-the-top imagery make it truly awesome.
- Yuga managing to survive an attack from Superstrike Dragon Dragiastar F, albeit barely.
Episode 67: Space Warrior The☆Lukeman
- The☆Yugaman manages to destroy Superstrike Dragon Dragiastar F. However on the next turn The☆Lukeman comes back stronger with 2 fusion monsters.
- The☆Yugaman has to draw the same card as The☆Lukeman or lose. Which in itself is a low chance but it's made worse when he draws Fusion. Yuo now gloats that The☆Yugaman's chances of winning and saving Rush Duels is 0! However The☆Yugaman comments that's still better odds than dueling a living manga character. At this moment a burning Goha satellite falls onto him who blocks it with his Duel Disk then retrieves its Fusion card onto the top of his deck. Drawing it and performing his Fusion Summon.The☆Yugaman: No matter if it's common sense, probability, or the Earth's atmosphere! The☆Yugaman's draw will carve right through! Miraculous Meteoric Draw!
The☆Yugaman: Witness and tremble as you see it! This is The☆Yugaman's Fusion Summon! Now, with the new power bestowed by the meteor! The hero of miracles bearing the name Sevens comes into existence! Wield your demonic blade! Sevens Paladin the Magical Knight!- Not to be understated: Yuga blocks a falling meteor with his fist and duel disk.
Episode 79: Rush Duel Sealed Away
- Luke's victory. Yuga has merely 100 LP, but also a monster with 6100 ATK, gaining power from the 41 cards in his graveyard, and then activates a trap that prevents monster with 3000 ATK or more from attacking. Luke then uses a card that allows him to send card from Yuga's graveyard back into his deck, three at a time. He doesn't have a loop, but he still manages to recycle it over and over again, sending 33 cards back to the deck, dropping the monter's ATK to 2800 and winning the duel.
- Luke had taken over the duel from Yuga, who was too tired to continue, and realized he could use this strategy piecing together clues from Yuga's words. Meaning Yuga had already figured out Goha Yuga's strategy AND developed a countermeasure.
Episode 83: Journey's Companions
- During their duels to get Gakuto, Asana, and Nail's memories back, Rinnosuke uses Fusion against Gakuto summoning his own Fusion Monster, Galient uses Asana's Maximum Monster with the remainder of the Heavy Cavalry Duel Club's ID cards to form it, and finally Sebastian uses Neil's Maximum Monster. All three of them don't defeat their respective opponents, but you rarely ever see side characters like these pull off these kinds of summons that are usually confined to the main characters and the villains. Most importantly, upon summoning and attacking them with said monsters, that was the trigger that unlocked their memories, which was the goal they were hoping to achieve.
- We sadly don't see how Sebastian gets the card, but Rinnosuke and Galient both draw the card for their summons in a way similar to how a protagonist would. Galient sends his hand back to the deck and draws the three cards one after the other, showing the ID cards turning into the three pieces just like Yuga's first summon. Rinnosuke (and Ranze, who joined the duel) need a normal monster to activate the effect of their monster, but have no card in hand, so activate an effect to draw one. They lament how the deck did not respond to their feelings and send the right card...just to reveal they were kidding and show the card they drew: fusion.
- Galient, Chevelle, Trapigeon, and Caterpillo reciting Wyrm Excavator's summoning chant together.
- Speaking of which, Gakuto, Asana, and Nail were all able to overcome each of their respective threats, Gakuto went Fusion against Rinnosuke's Fusion, Asana was able to overcome Wyrm Excavator, and Nail was able to defeat Yggdrasil. Asana and Nail's were impressive as they defeated their own Maximum Monster without using another Maximum Monster.
Episode 85: Return of the King
- To say Yuga pulled out all the stops in his long-awaited rematch with Roa is an understatement. It puts his performance in the Rush Duel Tournament Finals to shame. And Roa still won, making him the first character to defeat a main protagonist with less than 10 episodes left in a series. And you don't actually think they're going to have Yuga lose. He pulls out a new Fusion monster, the Ultimate "Sevens Road" for god's sake. There's just no way. Then Roa survives "Master of Sevens Road's" attack, and Miniscape starts playing. At that point, you know Roa has this in the bag. What a send-off for a character who was starting to achieve Memetic Loser status towards the end of Season 1. Oh and as a reminder, he does not own a Maximum Monster or a Fusion card, but in no way was the lack of these kinds of cards ever going to stop him. He also boasts that he doesn't have them because he doesn't need them. And then Roa closes his arc by conceding the title of king of the duels to Yuga, saying that he will take that of god of duels instead, and that it's Yuga's time to chase after him.
Episode 86: The Romin Affair
- Luke completely obliterating Bakuro in their rematch, with an OTK after he had set up his three ace monsters.
Episode 90: To Space
- In order to get to space, nearly every character involved throughout the series comes to help the seven main characters get their spaceship up and running.
- Of course for a series as crazy as Sevens has been, the only way the climactic duel against Otes could possibly be done is by docking their Curry Powered Spaceship into the Rush Duel Robot, the structure that makes Rush Duels possible, and use that to Rush Duel against Otes in his own robot of his image. And yes, it's as amazingly absurd as it is.
Episode 92: King of Duels
- The last duel between Luke and Yuuga, both without their ace monsters in their decks. Both manage to summon them, Luke through sheer determination just like he created Miragias, Yuuga by using his ID card to get another copy in his deck. And Yuuga wins.
- As the final duel resumes, Yuuga is forced to resume the attack that will cause his loss (the attack is forced and he will take the damage instead of his opponent due to a trap). Only for him to pull out a trap card foreshadowed in the beginning of the first intro that takes advantage of everyone's ace monsters being in the graveyard to survive the hit and get another attack that will not be redirected and allows him to win. The card in question? Perfect Sevens
- After being presumed dead for two years, with Rush Duels having disappeared with him, Yuuga triumphantly returns. We see the whole cast happily waiting for his return, and duel disks globally switch back to Rush Duel mode.
