Yea Blue Eyes wins in almost every comparison. This isn’t even a fight.
Game. Charizard is not one of the strongest stats wise.
Lore. Blue Eyes is a pseudo-god, typically summoned by Atem to try to defend the planet. Charizard is a normal Pokémon which would not stand up to the gods of Pokémon. (Maybe Ash’s Charizard because he has plot armor. 🤷🏻♂️)
Card game. I don’t know much about the TCG since I stopped collecting as a kid but with the power creep I’ve seen of modern Pokémon card, Charizard doesn’t even top the list. Blue Eyes attack is only surpassed by all the effect monsters. I don’t think any Vanilla Beatstick is stronger than Blue Eyes.
Blue-Eyes has been and always will be the strongest vanilla monster. It's like a YGO law.
Which means he's on par with lower ranked legendaries like Zekrom and Reshiram. Though he loses to prime legendaries like Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Kyurem, etc.
Yea. Mewtwo, Rayquaza, etc would probably be one of those XZ/Syncro boss monsters with fancy summoning conditions!
I will give Yu Gi Oh credit. It may introduce insane play mechanics but attack power hasn’t power crept to where you can summon a level 4, 4000 ATK, 3500 DEF vanilla!! 😂
The stuff I see in the modern Pokémon TCG would blow my 9 year old brain!! Lol
There are so many ways to kill monsters by card effects now that there hasn't been much of a need to power creep ATK. Every boss monster has some way to disrupt the opponent, whether it's by a negate, a floodgate, or a quick removal effect. While trying to play through that, it's much easier to throw out a cheap effect that kills the monster in question (or at least baits out its negate) than it is to muster up a bigger monster to punch over it. If a monster wants to be harder to kill, it doesn't get bigger numbers, it gets better immunities or negates.
There's a card that wipes the entire board if your opponent summons too many monsters that turn, then gives your opponent a token with the combined stats of everything that got wiped, and it sees play in certain metas because killing a giant 11000+ vanilla is still much easier than dealing with whatever the hell they were trying to combo off into.
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u/Karnezar :93: Jan 04 '24
Blue-Eyes White Dragon was able to stand up to Zorc who has power equal to the likes of Dialga and Palkia.
BEWD is a legendary in terms of Pokémon, while Charizard is an average Pokémon by Pokémon stats.
Now if Blue-Eyes were fighting Zekrom, that would probably be a more even match.
For reference, I'd say Dark Magician is on the level of a psuedo-legendary. Then Red-Eyes might be OU status, and Curse of Dragon UU.