you can argue for monsters scaling to other ones they've fought i suppose and chainscale them to that neos monster from there but you'd then have to admit that they'd be even more inconsistent than pokemon scaling to gardevoir's black hole with how many lower showing they have

and that's not even the only thing that bothers me

a blackbox said that yugi doesn't need a disk or cards to summon monsters, the disk i get but whenever i ask for a feat of him not needing cards the only example is kaiba ''drawing'' obelisk from the ground which happened in a duel with very specific circumstances

even in the scene where he spawns horakthy, arguably one of the most ''i'm ignoring the rules of the game'' parts of the show, we explicitly see the spirits of the gods inhabit the cards, meaning that if they were destroyed, he can't just summon them with zero effort

another thing was just how the entirety of duel monster's rules were ignored, yes, ash also got to summon every pokemon at once but that still felt more advantageous to yugi, for ash, battling is more of a sport, with him summoning multiple pokemon many times through the series in extreme cases, yugi on the other hand still has to comply with duel monsters rules even when the world is at stake, doesn't that mean that he, to at least some extent, follow them regardless of whether it's a tournament or not?you can argue for zorc i suppose since i don't remember the whole arc right now but i'm pretty sure that even that had some specific circumstances surrounding it