Top Ten Weirdest Zombie Monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Zombies are a classic type of monster in Yugioh, so why not look back at the over 25 year history of them. It’s a broad topic, so we have a lot to choose from. It could be the weird effects, surprising retrains, strange backstories, or simply how they look that lands them on this list. It’s good to make an impression, so we have some well-known monsters mixed in with obscure ones. Judgment Meter joins me for this list, too.
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I love when a monsters flavor text is poetry, so Zombino is one of my favorite normal monsters
I love how so many people are invoking the name of @JudgmentMeter
And good ol Judgment Meter seeing the good in all the zombie archetype
I try
@@JudgmentMeteryou did great .
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Vampire Lord was such a powerful monster back in the day.
When equipped with an equip spell, the only way to deal with it was by destruction and then it would come back the next turn.
But it's aged so badly
even without equips he was hard to out, because of the self revival effects as well as the bleed effect getting rid of monsters that could out him
but yeah he aged horribly
When you said "He's a hungry zombie," I thought there was a "Hungry Zombie" card that that was actually a pun on, but unfortunately it doesn't exist. It just sounds like the name of a card that Konami would make for Yugioh.
In Yugioh Sevens they created a lot of goofy retrain versions of classic yugioh cards. There are several Kiaba ones based around cooking. It seems like Wightbaking may hace been origionally designed as one but considered too good to pass up making a regular TCG card. I also want to see J.M.'s reaction to Blue Eyes White Cat and Red Eyes Black Cat. Im sure it would be the most adorable ever! 💛
Still no Galaxy-Eyes Space Cat. Darn you, Konami.
Don't forget Odd-Eyes twin tail cat!
Cat-dragons?
For Vampire Genesis, you to remember that the deck had a huge emphasis around milling at the time and the best card for that was soul absorbing bone tower. The deck was more focused around locking with that monster's effect on field and burning through your opponents deck with Zombie sepcial summons. Two bone towers were great but if you didnt have two out, you relied on whatever else was on the field to be protection first. Pyramid turtle was good because it could bring another out and mill at the same time, locking your oppoent into a temp loop and protecting bone tower. Sadly there were limits to this and gravyard special summoning for the deck at the time. It was there but not always enough. Most zombies in the deck could be beaten over with a boss moneter given time so Genesis was a back up. It had high enough attack that it was not easily battled over and could act as a last resort special summon generator to mill out the last several cards of your opponents deck. With three bone towers on field, drop a 5 or higher monster to bring out a pyramid turtle from the grave and thats 6 cards sent from your opponent's deck to the grave.
I mean, that's the issue in its design. It is an emergency back-up card, but it relies on a specific Level 5 monster to be present on the field and _removes_ said monster from the field in order to be summoned.
Especially for the 2005 meta, that is way too specific of a condition, so 60 - 70% of the time it's a brick that even when summoned could easily just get rolled over by any destruction/bounce at the time.
If it just required a Level 5 or higher Zombie monster, instead of exclusively Vampire Lord, to be summoned, then it would be seen everywhere. And I don't think it would have been broken with that easier summoning condition either, since, you know... BLS was already out at the time.
Vampire Genesis does what Vampire Nintendon’t
Goldfine literally just has Mammoth Graveyard’s stats +1000.
An interesting thing about Zombino that was left out when localizing him was the last line of his flavor text, "That is why they will never meet again." It's a sadder story.
You forgot to mention that the OCG names of Yokai Girls have 2 readings which the TCG names references both readings.
Maybe that’s why Zombina’s effect revives a card when she’s destroyed. They return to life, but not together.
That both cool and disappointing that they removed in English. I guess they didn't want to make it overly sad, which is not a good reason. I didn't even think to look at the direct translation since there was so much more we wanted to talk about with them, but if they ever get featured in another video, I'll definitely bring that up!
I just recently finished toradora so I absolutely adore Judgment Meter going with a Taiga avatar
I love the skull servant archetype. Hes a zombie that found love from beyond the grave
skull king should adopt zombina and zombino to his family
=)
I love your voice dude and all of your special guests and how much knowledge you have of yugioh I grew up with classic yugioh and left it after GX then I saw vrains and was like wtf is all this lol nice to have you explain a bunch of stuff
Fusioh Richie was basically a less aweful version of Spirit of the Pharoah. That was a boss zombie who had even greater/weirder requirments to hit field in the form of 3 trap/spell cards played through each other in sucession like the Spirit board. Once it suceeded though, you got a monster with 100 less ATK than Fushio Richie, 900 less DEF and a much more watered down version of its effect. It can special summon up to 4 zombies from your graveyard, but only on its summon and only level 2 or lower normal zombies..there were a couple weak vannilas relaeased alongside it as the Pharoahs servents in theme so this seemed to be the point aroudn the useless gimik. There were few targets at the time aside from them, no real use unless you planned to just tribute them immediatly for something big and required tou to jump through SO many hoops to do it. Fusioh Richie sucks on its own but was a mich better version of another card that should have been much better from the start, considering its implied importantance in themeing not only to the pack it came in, but the whole series! It is the SPIRIT OF THE PHAROAH! HOW COULD TOU MESS IT UP SO BAD! Yami is like..THATS not me! I dont even KNOW that guy! I SWEAR! IMPOSTER! That said..Fusioh Richie could be seen as an evik counterpart to Mahado as the Spirit of the Pharaoh can be seen as a crappy verion of Atem.
28:18 you mean to tell me that just like beaver warrior(whose ocg name is Luis) Skull Servant is called Wight.
Yes, but Wight is not a proper name 😅 It's a type of ghost apparition.
I wanna mention that Moonlit chill isnt actually the worst ghost sister. She saw and still sees niche play in sidedecks. Ghost Reaper is actually the worst one arguable, she sees the least amount of play, even in the most recent tear 0 format where she is supposed to shine, and also in decks like floowandereeze that dont even use their extra deck she doesnt see play.
The bottom 3 of my ghost girl ranking all seem interchangeable, so I'm open to say Reaper is the worst. The main hangup I had about Moonlit Chill was that there were a few other handtraps that did her job, but with more freedom or less annoying limitations, but I can totally see how it has side deck purposes if you know you're going second. The main thing Reaper and Sister had going was their effects were more unique, so they were harder to substitute, but I agree that life point gain or putting together an extra deck blindly are less useful than a quick effect negate on paper.
Always love JudgementMeter's commentary
Thank you!
Top 10 disembodied heads -
Zordon (Power Rangers), Spirit of the Harvest Moon (Courage the Cowardly Dog), Andross (Star Fox), etc.
I believe (& I could be wrong about this) that at Plaguespreader's peak, he was placed on the ban list. To deal with such banning, konami released pain painter (I completely forgot about Mauler). Ever since Plaguespreader got unbanned, painter & mauler fell by the way side.....to an extent for any Painter & Mauler fans out there.
Mad Mauler is actually a fairly recent card and is pretty good in Zombie World decks, I use him way more than Plaguespreader.
Yeah, Jeff mentioned it, but Mauler came out in 2022. I'm usually good about mentioning the year a card came out for context, but I forgot to there. Still strange that they'd give it the Plaguespreader relation when the specific Plaguespreader synchros are not used much, outside of maybe Doomkaiser Dragon.
I did not know Mauler was released recently. I may not be a zombie duelist, but to those who do. Your choice.
Some of the Ghost Trick cards remind to me of Darkstalkers in a way. Speaking of Darkstalkers, I really like your Forgotten Darkstalkers list so much that maybe you should make a follow up that should involve niche fighting games that should be revived Darkstalkers included.
The Darkstalkers series also has some loose ends that need to be tied up as well.
Johnny Steps using Musician King makes sense when you realize how little Johnny's strategy does, so neither do his monsters
Considering how weird Yugioh is, this list could have a part 2 in the next Halloween, for me, I'm more curious about what monsters would have a Illusionist retrain in the future.
My favorite zombie archetype is Shiranui & Mayakashi due to the backstory especially Ghost Meets Girl and Yuki Onna the Absolute Zero
Very true I enjoy sharunai decks
Didn't even make it past Vampire Genesis and liked the video. Loved the SNES reference, too!
It's would be sweet to see other zombie retrains of iconic yugioh monsters like red eyes zombie dragon like a zombie dark magician/girl,zombie blue eyes white dragon a zombie jinzo and even a zombie goddess with the third eye and even zera the many would be pretty sweet
Zombino is screaming for a yu gi oh background
Supposedly, zombies and fiends were going to be included in the same type. They would have more of a relation and synergy because of this and I believe some of the earlier video games refelects this too. The message that they were being made their own thing more for the manga/anime story not reaching the makers of the real cards seems to be the only real explaination I can find for the pumpking/castle weirdness. That or they wanted to elude to a greater halloween theme beween the two bosses to combine into a singel deck for that. The castle was the lead for a deck based on fear of what lurks in the dark and pumpking is the boss of an undead deck. Both are unique though as castel is about illusions of dark monsters and pumpking is a clear jackolantern that boosts the image of the scary thinks..almost like halloween decorations that enhance the atmosphere. A huanted housecastle and scar jacko lantern. Id love retrians that reveal these two as just thar and everything is being seen through the eyes of a child. I made a bunch of costome cards years ago that buikd the fear/despair from the dark cards into a simialr archtype. It had supporting spell/trap cards in the form of projectors and speakers to reveal the monster was created from the emotional state of the person being tricked in the graveyard over a real monster itself. Panic was a mid level version and Demise was a final verion after giving into depair. Later card releases showing the Marauding Captian and othrr face down fear with physical consequence sadly ruined that but I'd love to see Castle and Pumpking do that dance! Could even have the Ghosttricks get in on it with them being represented as the children in costume. Everything more real and spooky was really just their imagination on the big spooky night!
Saturn is a huge proponent for Live Twins
Yes
Three legged zombie… only has two legs.
Yo mama says otherwise.
Spirit barrier works good with the ghost trick deck.
Spirit barrier, zero damage
Moon chill looks like it should be an ice barrier card.
How about the fact that Great Mamoth of Goldfine was shown to be a fusion of The Snake Hair and Dragon Zombie in the anime..but at another point we see Dragon Zombie is itself made through Call of the Haunted used in combination with Crawling Dragon. Does Dragon Zombie ALSO just exist as its own card in that universe or fo you need to create it first with Call and Crawling? That wasn't how it happened to make Goldfine..what the heck?!
Isn't Zombino and Zombina the two ghost kids in YGO 5Ds that dueled Leo/Rua and Luna/Ruka. I think they also had blue and pink hair, maybe.
I don't think they're meant to be those characters exactly, but they could be inspired by them since they have similar aesthetics
What if the 12345 678910 11 12 song from Sesame Street was a pinball game with JM and ATG. the real homies know what I'm talkin' about
EXCELLENT WORK. MR.TOPTENLIST
I collected the Ghost Trick cards because I absolutely ADORED the artwork on them (same reason I collected all the Lovecraft monster cards), and it’s upsetting that they’re so bad competitively 😭😭😭.
So..the names of ghosteick are mostly done to reflect little kids G-rated, friendly persepctives. The Warwilf though..is a sad other story..it seems the TCG wanted to cram him into a neglected series of cards depite it doung nothing to help them. Warwolf is a series of werewolf themed cards that actually started failry early on with Pitch Black Warwolf. It was a counterpart to Mirage dragon with Dark Atribbute and Beast Warrior Type but the same effect and stats. We also Got Gene Warped Warwolf as the first 2000 attack, level 4 vanilla. He was an earth attribute beast warrior which was nothing too special for support at the time, but still a big deal since he was the first normal summonable monster with such high ATK stats that didnt have a cost or negative effect to compensate. Aaand..that was it for a while. They kind fo just forgot about the series of monsters..they eventually came out with T.G. warwolf which just..was confusing. It was also a Dark attritubute Beast Warrior but had pathetic stats and an effcet clearly meant just for T.G. support. They finally came out with the Ghsotrick one that seeemd to solidify the fact the series was being relagated to name only cameos. They were just going to be random, unlreated monsters, popping up in other archtypes rather than creating a coherent one of their own. I really liked the idea when they forst came out and wanted to see what they could be. The waring theme seemed interesting to me and iw as currious if they would be battling the vampires or something else altogther. Perhpas another new archtype. They had both supernatural and scientific elements with the first two cards giving a little lore as to the organization begind their efforts. There were also other itneresting werewolf monsters at the time that reflected odd attributes or manipulations like Fenrir and Lycanthrope so I got excited to see what canid based madness the Warwolves would offer..and it was madness..boring..confusing..stupid, madness.
IIRC Wight is a term used for a type of undead where the person retains their memories/personality from when they were alive unlike zombies who are strictly mindless and either require a controller or just move by instinct to procure food
So it makes sense the SS and family have actual personalities and made a family
Funny fact about Ghost Mourner and Ghost Sister:
They're staples thanks to time rules. This turns them from laughable members to frustrating cards to deal with.
This is one of my first times catching one of your videos when they first drop. So I want take the chance to say thank you for the many great videos.
Thank you!
GREAT RELATED HALLOWEEN MR.TOPTENLIST YU-GI-OH WEIRDEST ZOMBIES MONSTERS,
I had the Three Legged Zombie when I was younger.
Soo we in agreement that Judgement Meter is why we all here?
Everyone here is so sweet
Off topic, but did you ever cover rivals in fighting games? There is some overlap with the deuteragonist top 10, but the rival is not necessarily the deuteragonist.
Been enjoying your vids for a while didn't relaize I wasn't subscribed! Love these yugioh vidz!
Welcome aboard! Glad to hear that you've been enjoying the videos!
A forever fan
Huh, interesting List, i wonder what’s the Scariest Zombie Monsters?
Also, Yokai Girls, huh? I hope they get something more for them, they seem interesting.
I would def argue moonlit chil is better than spooky dogwood. Effect negation is still 1000x better than life gain. Great vid though!
Thank you! I definitely think it's up for debate between the bottom 3 girls. My main reasoning was just that Moonlit Chill's effect was on other monsters or handtraps, so there was generally no reason to play it when other cards at the same value were around. But in a vacuum, Spooky Dogwood has less of a benefit.
Will you ever create :
1 Top 10 weirdest Pendulum monsters
2 Top 10 weirdest Link Monsters
Ghost Sistet only gives you LP based on EFFECT Monsters Special Summoned NY your opponent.....I learned thus the hard way.
Every time I hear “Ghostrick,” I think, “Ah yes, Ghost Rick. Like Pickle Rick!”
"I got hung, Morty! I'm Ghost Rick!"
Another great video :) I'm a bit of a vampire and yokai enthusiast
We got a new Skull Servant/Wight support card recently, Wightlord, a guy who honestly reminds me of Lord Marquaad. He can discard himself and mill cards from your deck equal to the number of Skull Servants in the grave already and can banish himself from the grave to revive any of the Skull Servant family from the grave. His second effect is pretty sweet since it seems like they wanted to rectify the main issue of King that he can only revive himself from battle, not spells or traps, his first effect is 50/50 since you could be sending some graveyard cards to the grave which is good or send something like Monster Reborn or Infinite Impermanence to the grave which is bad.
I really like your channel and the videos you make with your friends hoping you get 100k soon
Hoping it'll come by next year! No idea with how CZcams is, but we'll keep on pushing forward. Thanks for the support!
Yes, do top ten weirdest off all types and Attributes, up next Dragons
You got a detail wrong with Ghostrick Ghoul.... it doesn't buff a Ghostrick by combining it's ATK with it's DEF, and buffs them by combining the ATK of all face-up Ghostricks and putting them on that one monster (which then becomes the only monster to attack that turn). As such, you can get some VERY big numbers with that guy in your deck.
Good catch! I even showed him going up to over 4000 attack and didn't notice that.
@@MrTopTenList No prob... as someone who likes the ghostrick archetype enough that I made an OC that uses them and wrote up a small fanfic centered around said Ghostrick using OC, noticing that the mentioned effect of a card was different then how I used it in said fanfic was not a difficult task... especially since I, like, quadruple checked the cards to make sure the effects were accurate for said fanfic (and naturally still got other cards wrong in the duels anyway).
Pain painter exists because plaguespreader was banned for a while but some synchros required it
Pumking retrain could be called pumemperor, emperor of ghosts
Maybe they want to make a warwolf arctype some day.theres already two others and ghosttrick warwolf wouldn't be the first monster who's name is just two different arctypes
I think Wightbaking is cooking brains, not yams.
Pumpkins and Pumprincess
Three legged zombie
Zombino and zombina
And Skull servant .
*just….I love them*
Just in time for spooky month
Mad MAULER seems to be wearing the masks of sorcerer of the doomed.
I like how I read wightbaking as wightbadabing for some reason 😂
5:37 lowly Worm from The Busy World of Richard scarry!
That's the one! She told me when watching the video that "he drives an apple" and I immediately got it with that detail. I watched that cartoon so much as a kid.
HE DRIVES THE APPLE
@JudgmentMeter He PILOTS the apple! Remember, it has a flight mode with apples stim leaves. 🤗
@@jamcalx I’m so happy that people get this reference
Zombie day.
Zombie pile is my favorite deck, my pet deck if you will. It's not very great but I like to play it better than my other decks. (Too bad they recently banned Chaos Ruler in OCG, they hit my baby boy hard)
28:15:so that's why tri-wight is called that
Top 10 weirdest fiends in Yu-Gi-Oh
my brother had a version of the ghosttricks where is was based only on the level 3 and lower types and used gravity bind to stop other decks
I think zombino and zombina are based on the 2 characters of 5D's.
The brother and sister from the spooky mansion, if you look at them, they were ghost but they look very similar as the zombies as well as the mansion.
Hey I missed u guys! Welcome back!
they made a video two weeks ago
@@thebookbandit5830 Well to me it’s felt like forever.
Should have added something like "When Zombina and Zombino are on the field, they cannot be destroyed by battle" or something.
I've seen a decent amount of people playing Mad Mauler just recently :o
I noticed it too! I never hear him spoken about much in zombie piles, but I saw him in a few decklists, so I added the "and mauler seems pretty useful" line since I could see him floating in and out of rogue/meta relevance.
I would say that Vampire Genesis would be the type of monster
Simon Belmont should be fighting. But then I remember
Konami are the ones who distribute the Yu-Gi-Oh trading
card game worldwide. (Konami also owns the rights to
Castlevania as well.)
Pumpkin got retrained into Jack o bolin
I’m so unbelievably addicted to spyxfamily lol I’ve got a bunch of signed stuff from the American voice actors
Thank you for showing me and all my other neighbors in zombie world some love
Thank you for your service, Clown Zombie.
Wasn’t actually aware archfield zombie skull was a thing just added it to the deck sounds useful (though harder to summon since uni zombie is so useful)
Mad mauler is played in a majority of zombie decks my guy
Wait..was the "JM:But hes a zombie. MTTL:A hungry zombie!" dialogue an omage to the DBZA line "Gohan: But Krillin, arn't you a Buddhist? Krillin: A hubgry Buddhist! "? If so..(claps enthusiastically while nodding approvingly)
The Ghostrick cards also released in the U.S. around Halloween, so there's that, too.
If you like DC comics or have any intent of talking about Lobo the Bounty Hunter in the future, it's fun to know that his co-creator is THE Roger Slifer. The same exact Slifer that we all know the sky dragon.
I learned about that when confirming the Slifer info for this video. Cool stuff! I'll probably bring it up if there's another Slifer or Egyptian God segment in a future video since some of the 4Kids people have some interesting history.
I would like to see the Pumpking and Castle in the Sky retained like Pumprincess. It's not good, but it would be very thematic, creating mounting pressure if you can't remove them.
I would think King could power up zombies or dark monsters based on the number of counters, and castle could be a field or continuous spell that protects your zombie or dark monsters.
Mad musket is still used in zombie decks in fact it was in the one I netfecked in master duel it’s resummon with level modulation is actually a very useful alternative to plaguespresdsr zombie and you generally play both (not so much pain painter)
Judgment Meter is Anya in disguise 😅
Three legged zombie is based on a Japanese comedy duo, hence why the card has received such special treatment.
My boys the Three Legged Zombies made the list! Let's go! 🎉
Do we like Skull Servants? There can be only one has him accosted by the Yugioh equivalent to the TSA. They even want to take his dog!
Skull servant did nothing wrong. #WightPower
Doomkaiser Dragon is an undead version of a monster. A Gemini named Chthonian Emperor Dragon.
I never thought to even look it up since I assumed if it was based on another monster, it's be referenced in the name, so good to know! Glad I could learn something. Seems the original effect is pretty lackluster compared to Doomkaiser.
@@MrTopTenList Technically it was referenced in the name in Japanese, since the original was Hellkaiser Dragon. I guess whoever translated the zombie version was unaware they changed the name of the original version so much, or maybe not aware there was an original monster to refer to. It probably should have been called Doom Emperor Dragon in English to match better with its counterpart.
@@DaPopeANata It's even more interesting that he's named after Zane from the GX anime in Japanese since he never used a dragn like this and it doesn't resemble any of his Cyber or Cyberdark monsters. Sounds like good stuff to talk about if I go into Plaguespreader zombie facts in another video!
I wish the weirdest halloween ever mrtopten
Top 10 archetypes based on other properties
danger: based on cryptids
entity: based on H.P. Lovecraft creatures
frightfur: based on 5 nights at freddys series
kaiju: based on the godzilla/ ultraman series
masked hero: based on kamen rider series
super quant: based on power rangers/ super sentai series
A-Z machines: based the power ranger zords & megazords
dragonmaid: based on the anime of the same name
My favorite scary monster is puppet plant.
I actually run one copy of Genesis in my vampire deck only for nostalgia factor plus the fact my levels tend to be 6 or 5 in hand and 5 or 4 in grave usually so that's nice I guess
mentioning spy x family JudgementMeter could pull using Yor as an avatar in the videos
This is one thing that bothers me for a long time
Old fusion monsters need specific monsters but they dont look like them and todays fusions look like they would need specific monsters but nope
For example cybersaur would be perfect as a 1 dinosaur + 1 machine monster but nope a 2 headed dinodragon and a bombrobot
And meteor black comet dragon IS the fusion of red eyes b dragon and meteor dragon but nope one level 7 red eyes and 1 lvl 6 dragon ...like ok i fuse my red eyes black dragon sword and naturia barkion
(I know why it is that way and its a bit of an extreme example but still)
Missed opportunity.
This video should've been uploaded yesterday (as of me typing this) because ot was Friday the 13th.
That would've been perfect.
Hope you're having a good day
Yayyyyy. Judgement meter!!!!!
YAY!!
Top 10 moths -
Morph Moth (Mega Man X), Mothra (Godzilla), moth cards (Yu-Gi-Oh), Venomoth (Pokemon), etc.
Completely wrong about the hiragana
I question that a bit, yes. When I was a toddler, some of my relatives and friends of the family wanted me to learn certain kanji because "it would be culturally useful" and they also wanted me to be able to spell my name in katakana. But everyone learns things differently. I didn't know what Hiragana was until I was like..8? -- A.T.
We need a what if monsters were in a fighting game video its the series i love them most
I remember Pain Painter, but wtf is Mad Mauler?
Mauler came out in 2022. I'm usually good about mentioning the year a card came out for context, but I forgot to there. Still strange that they'd give it the Plaguespreader relation when there are only still 3 specific Plaguespreader synchros, making me wonder if they're doing more with that concept.
Ghostricks are fun. I love em
In Legacy of the Duelist i play i deck based around King of the Skull Servants and its fun as hell to play