Then why does Kaiba always lose to Yugi when he's like 5x more determined to best him?yugi might have thought abt wot cards atem was going to choose & made a counter-deck for that.
Kaiba said he analyzed all of Atem's duels and then lost to a De-Fusion combo in Battle Citykaiba might not know atem like yugi does, yugi's been with atem since he re-assembled the puzzle i think
The plot couldn't have Kaiba be smart on his last turn& also iirc being surprised that yugi figured-out kaiba was going to play blue-eyes-ultimate-dragon