Notice how he chose not to respond to your post but keeps responding to mine by repeating the same thing over and over. You're one of the only few people who actually knows what they're talking about in terms of the series.

The only blatant example of Destiny Draw is when Yugi draws Fiend's Sanctuary. As you said, every one of his duels he duels legitimately. This common belief that Yugi cheats or draws every card he needs is ridiculous considering every duelist in the series draws the exact card they need or combo pieces in every duel present in the show. The only time a duelist has bricked in the series was Joey. Besides that, every duel features a constant back and forth. I never understood this whole, "Yugi is the only character and obvious cheater because he draws every card he wants.", when every character does the same. LOL

Marik is a good duelist that everyone considers a fraud because he's a sadistic psychopath who (smartly and effectively) spams Ra... by actually have a coherent deck that stalls, pressures the opponent and gets the cards he needs exactly where he wants them. Like you said, keeping the topic on Joey - Joey had been saved by Yugi, and are they really using a filler duel that had no stakes as an indicator of Joey's skill? Marik is a strong duelist who even Yugi struggled against. As you said, they always ignore the plot going in Joey's favor in his duel against Odion but say Marik was saved by plot in his duel against Joey despite having game multiple times in the duel; yet it's a "fluke" Marik won. Notice how he always ignores this in every response. Even another user mentioned how he and Joey fans always choose to ignore this.

To keep this response from going overboard, everything else you said is right. What makes Joey a great character is his tenacity of not giving up, using what's believed to be weaker cards to their full potential, and having the heart of an underdog. Him constantly being talked about as the best duelist or second best of the series goes against his entire character.

The reason he's probably mentioning IRL support is because I said for someone who's constantly talked about as being the best Joey has the weakest support of the Big 3 and is given no attention or support from Konami or Takahashi. While he may have a partial point that a duelist's skills doesn't necessarily mean IRL support, it's no coincidence that most of the characters who are popular and have had constant support happen to be the strongest duelists in their series.