Episode 81

"Our Respective Battlefields" (それぞれの  Sorezore no Tatakai) is the eighty-first episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime.

Synopsis
"Is Crow an enemy or a friend?" In order to find out, Shun starts his fierce clash with Crow!! As the white-hot battle between both of their monsters continues, Jean agrees with Yūya's belief of "Make everyone smile with Duels", and proposes for a collaboration between the two to realize each of their dreams...!?

Shun Kurosaki vs. Crow Hogan
At the start of the Duel, the Field Magic Card "Cross Over Accel" is activated, as per the rules of an Action Duel and a Riding Duel. It will allow the players to use Action Cards, but they may only have one in their hand at a time.

Turn 1: Crow

Crow Normal Summons "Black Feather - Jet the Blue Sky" (CG Star 1/100/800). As he controls a "Black Feather" monster, Crow Special Summons "Black Feather - Oroshi the Squall" (CG Star 1/400/600) from his hand in Attack Position via its own effect. Crow tunes the Level 1 "Jet the Blue Sky" with the Level 1 Tuner monster "Oroshi" to Synchro Summon "Assault Black Feather - Sayo the Hidden Rain" (CG Star 2/800/100) in Attack Position. Crow equips "Sayo" with "Spinning Blade of the Trailblazer", increasing its ATK by 800 (800 → 1600). Crow activates the effect of "Spinning Blade of the Trailblazer", which lets him inflict damage to his opponent once per turn equal to the number of Synchro Materials used in the Summoning of the equipped Synchro Monster times 400 (Shun 4000 → 3200). As Shun took effect damage, Shun Special Summons "Raid Raptors - Avenge Vulture" (CG Star 4/1700/100) from his hand in Attack Position via its own effect. Crow Sets a card.

Turn 2: Shun

Shun Special Summons "Raid Raptors - Pain Lanius" (CG Star 1/100/100) from his hand in Attack Position via its own effect by targeting "Avenge Vulture" and changing the Level of "Pain Lanius" to that of the targeted monster until the end of this turn (1 → 4), but he must take damage equal to either the ATK or DEF of the targeted monster. He chooses DEF (Shun 3200 → 3100). As he took effect damage, Shun Special Summons another copy of "Avenge Vulture" (CG Star 4/1700/100) from his hand in Attack Position via its own effect. As he controls three or more "Raid Raptors" monsters, Shun activates "Raid Raptors - Sanctuary", letting him draw two cards. The cards are not shown, but his hand also contains a Trap Card and "Raid Raptors - Rapid Xyz". "Avenge Vulture" attacks "Sayo", with the effect of "Sayo" preventing its destruction by battle twice per turn (Crow 4000 → 3900). The second "Avenge Vulture" attacks "Sayo" with the same result (Crow 3900 → 3800). Shun activates the Quick-Play Magic Card "Rapid Xyz" as it is the Battle Phase and his opponent controls a Special Summoned monster. This lets him Xyz Summon a "Raid Raptors" Xyz Monster using monsters he controls and then allows him to immediately activate the effect of that monster that would require an Overlay Unit to be detached. Shun overlays his three Level 4 Winged Beast-Type monsters to Xyz Summon "Raid Raptors - Rise Falcon" (Rank Star 4/100/2000/3 ORU) in Attack Position. Shun activates the effect of "Rise Falcon", detaching an Overlay Unit to increase its ATK by the ATK of all Special Summoned monsters his opponent controls until the End Phase (100 → 1700). "Rise Falcon" attacks and destroys "Sayo" (Crow 3800 → 3700).

Turn 3: Crow

Crow Normal Summons "Black Feather - Tornado the Raging Squall" (CG Star 4/1000/???). As his opponent controls a Special Summoned monster, Crow activates the effect of "Tornado", letting him Special Summon a Level 1 Tuner monster from his Graveyard. He Special Summons "Oroshi" (CG Star 1/400/600) in Attack Position. Crow tunes the Level 4 "Tornado" with the Level 1 Tuner monster "Oroshi" to Synchro Summon "Assault Black Feather - Sohaya the Early Summer Rain" (CG Star 5/1500/2000) in Attack Position. As it was Synchro Summoned, the effect of "Sohaya" activates, letting Crow Special Summon an "Assault Black Feather" monster from his Graveyard. He Special Summons "Sayo" (CG Star 2/800/100) in Attack Position. As it was Synchro Summoned using a "Black Feather" monster, the effect of "Sohaya" treats it as a Tuner monster. Crow tunes the Level 2 "Sayo" with the Level 5 Tuner monster "Sohaya" to Synchro Summon "Assault Black Feather - Raikiri the Sudden Shower" (CG Star 7/2600/2000) in Attack Position. Crow activates the effect of "Raikiri", letting him destroy a number of cards his opponent controls equal to the number of "Black Feather" monsters he controls once per turn. He targets "Rise Falcon", but Shun finds and activates the Action Card, "Mirror Barrier", preventing the destruction of his monster by card effects this turn. "Raikiri" attacks "Rise Falcon". As his opponent's monster declared on attack targeting a "Raid Raptors" Xyz Monster, Shun activates the effect of the "Raid Raptors - Booster Strix" in his hand, sending it to the Graveyard to target his Xyz Monster and have it gain an effect that lets it detach an Overlay Unit to negate an attack on it and detach another Overlay Unit after that to destroy the attacking monster. Shun targets "Rise Falcon" and activates the effect now, detaching an Overlay Unit to negate the attack. He detaches another Overlay Unit to destroy "Raikiri". Crow activates his face-down Continuous Trap Card, "Blade Shade", and targets "Raikiri". Once per turn, he can either negate an attack against the targeted monster or prevent it from being destroyed by a card effect. If either effect is used, the opponent will also take 500 damage. Crow uses the second effect, preventing "Raikiri" from being destroyed by card effects (Shun 3100 → 2600).

Turn 4: Shun

Shun activates "Rank-Up-Magic Raid Force", Ranking Up "Rise Falcon" and performing an Rank-Up Xyz Evolution to Xyz Summon "Raid Raptors - Blaze Falcon" (Rank Star 5/1000/2000/3 ORU) in Attack Position. Shun activates the effect of "Blaze Falcon", detaching an Overlay Unit to destroy as many of his opponent's Special Summoned monsters as possible and inflict 500 damage to his opponent for each one. Crow activates the effect of "Blade Shade", preventing the destruction of "Raikiri" by card effects and inflicting 500 damage (Shun 2600 → 2100). "Blaze Falcon" attacks directly via its own effect (Crow 3700 → 2700). As "Blaze Falcon" inflicted battle damage, its other effect activates, letting him target and destroy one monster his opponent controls. He destroys "Raikiri", with "Blade Shade" destroying itself via its own effect as the monster it was targeting left the field. Shun Sets two cards.

Duel continues in the next episode.

List of Featured Cards
The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * 1) Melissa Claire
 * 2) Crow Hogan
 * 3) Shun Kurosaki
 * 4) Yūgo
 * 5) Serena
 * 6) Security
 * 7) Tops
 * 8) Jean-Michel Roger
 * 9) Tanner
 * 10) Frank
 * 11) Amanda
 * 12) Yuzu Hīragi
 * 13) Reiji Akaba
 * 14) Reira Akaba
 * 15) Yūya Sakaki
 * 16) Sora Shiun'in