Who can compete with Horakhty?

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In the original anime series it was implied that Horakhty is the pinnacle of strength. Does anything come close?
 

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There is one statement by Aknadin-possessed Seto in the manga where he claims the White Dragon will even surpass Atem's Horakhty, but that's almost definitely a bluff considering that the BEWD was repeatedly stated only to rival the gods, who are pissants to their fusion. This was also in that typical scenario where the biggest evil (Zorc) was gone and they had to tie up loose ends while the main character was still winded from his previous battle. I don't know much about the sequel series, but after destroying Zorc in a single hit I don't think anything could come close to Horakhty as far as the original series goes
 

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Do you know about Armityle the Chaos Phantom. It seems to be the counterpart in GX although I haven't seen the show

Maybe @Kamikaze Pyro
 

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I don't think that's as powerful. The three sacred beasts don't seem to be treated as equals to the Egyptian Gods within even the confines of GX.
 

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The Sacred Beasts are pissants to the Egyptian Gods. Even their anime counterparts aren't nearly as good as the anime Gods. Horakhty is basically an infinitely powerful monster, while Armityle isn't really anything special beyond a giant beatstick. Horakhty has lore behind it, while Armityle was never given any special backstory or anything as far as I recall.

The only thing that comes close to Horakhty's power is Zorc, and we saw how that turned out. I was going to mention the Great Leviathan, but then I remembered it got beat by the individual Gods' combined attack.
 

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To be fair the gods also needed to be powered up by all the human souls again Leviathin, although I think you can argue that was because they were summoned via duel disk.

I think at least if the wicked gods were given a combination they could compete with it.
 

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The Wicked Gods are the true counterparts to the Egyptian Gods, although I don't know if they were based in Egyptian lore or just made by Pegasus as a failsafe.
 

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Pegasus made them a failsafe as far as I remember of that short manga. Even Bandit Keith could control those Wicked Beasts, so I doubt they're some special type of cards that can be controlled by a select few like the Gods or the three dragons from the Dartz arc.
 

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I don't like that lack of balance then, although the YGH storyline is all over the place.
 

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What do you mean by lack of balance? The Gods being held so highly compared to every other set of monsters?
 

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Timelords? They're practically invincible in almost every stretch of the word. In a duel one Timelord could clear out all 3 Egyptian Gods at the same time. Zushin was said to be on the same level as the Egyptian Gods.
 

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Kamikaze Pyro said:
What do you mean by lack of balance? The Gods being held so highly compared to every other set of monsters?
Kinda. The good guys having such powerful trump cards that no one can really compete with them.
 

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That's true, but they're not the easiest monsters to summon. Well, unless you're Kaiba and you get that broken first hand he got against Yugi in the semi-finals of BC. Anyone but Yugi would've been owned by that bullshit. At least they're kept to a minimum beyond the BC arc to keep a fair playing field for anyone else, which is something the Orichalcos arc did very well by removing the Gods pretty much in the first episode.

I don't think the characters are invincible with the Gods, though. They still need to be summoned. Other characters can hold their own so long as the Gods aren't on the field.
 

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Kamikaze Pyro said:
That's true, but they're not the easiest monsters to summon. Well, unless you're Kaiba and you get that broken first hand he got against Yugi in the semi-finals of BC. Anyone but Yugi would've been owned by that bullshit. At least they're kept to a minimum beyond the BC arc to keep a fair playing field for anyone else, which is something the Orichalcos arc did very well by removing the Gods pretty much in the first episode.

I don't think the characters are invincible with the Gods, though. They still need to be summoned. Other characters can hold their own so long as the Gods aren't on the field.
I meant more in the sense of summoning to fight actual monsters like Zorc or Leviathan.

But in theory skill should be able to overwhelm them god cards easily in TCG
 

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The gods are way more broken in the anime than the TCG though
 

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