Pokemon Is better than Yu-Gi-Oh

I am going to start off by refuting my opponents arguments first then moving on to presenting my own. C1: SO MANY OPTIONS My opponent tries to claim that Pokémon has more options than Yu-Gi-Oh when it comes to the breadth of the series. But this simply is not the case. Yu-Gi-Oh had a robust TV series that ran from 1998-2006 hosting 5 seasons of the "original" characters. (1), and that was without with more recent Yu-Gi-OH GX and Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds offshoots. Yu-Gi-Oh GX ran from 2004-2008 and had 4 seasons. (2) My opponent then claims that Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't match up with Pokémon on terms of video games, which is simply not true either.Yu-Gi-Oh has 49 games across 14 gaming platforms stretching all the way from the original GameBoy. (3) Looking at the argument, both Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon have manga series, card games (which my opponent ceded to Yu-Gi-Oh as being better), a long running TV series and video games. I can't see an area where Pokémon truly stretches far ahead of Yu-Gi-Oh in terms of options and breadth. C2: IT HAS MANY HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENTYu-Gi-Oh also has many hours of entertainment. Like chess, Yu-Gi-Oh has thousands of strategic options that keeps you coming back time and time again. If you want a story line and bosses and such, buy one of the 49 Yu-Gi-Oh video games and play through it. Or watch the TV show which has dozens of episodes that add in storyline, bosses and such. Yu-Gi-Oh is not "just a card game" it's an entire franchise. If you like clicking a button and watching Pokémon with four attacks battle each other for hours, you'll get hours of entertainment, if you enjoy strategically building your deck, dueling people of all types in a way that no two duels are the same then you'll get far more rewarding hours of entertainment out of Yu-Gi-Oh. You are silly to think that Yu-Gi-Oh is "just a card game".C3: IT'S CHEAPERAverage Pokémon game: $20-$40... for a single generation game. If you want to play you're original Pokémon Red version for the rest of your life then yes it costs you $20-$40 however, there are over 20 Pokémon games for the GameBoy platform (4) which all cost, we'll say $30. Even if you get only one game per generation and say two of the special games that's at least 8 games at $30 which is $240. Then my opponent falsely assumes that everyone is going to go buy their deck card by card for exorborant prices on eBay when a pack of Yu-Gi-Oh cards at a retail store goes for around $3 and has around 9 cards so each card is $0.33 not $5. Pokémon also has a card game, which has starter decks and extremely expensive cards on eBay, something my opponent fails to mention. There is no evidence that Pokémon is any cheaper than Yu-Gi-Oh. Now that I have neutralized my opponents arguments I will make my own.A. Strategic Depth Yu-Gi-Oh has vast strategic depth in a way Pokémon does not. There are trap cards, special effect monsters, magic cards, field cards, sacrifices to set monsters etc. Where Pokémon you only have to worry about who super effects who in an almost Rock Paper Scissors fashion, Yu-Gi-Oh has strategy that makes it a thinking mans game. You have to build your deck to be perfect if you want to be any good. Each card has a purpose. Pokémon mainly relies on who is the strongest while Yu-Gi-Oh relies more on who is the smartest in their play style and deck construction. The strategy in Yu-Gi-Oh makes the game far superior to Pokémon.B. It's SocialThe crux of the Pokémon series is its handheld games which is what most people indulge in when doing Pokémon related activities. Sure, you can battle your friends and trade Pokémon but who really does that? Let's be real, if you're playing Pokémon you're in your room on a sunny afternoon trying to level up your newly acquired Ice Pokémon to beat the Dragon gym. Yu-Gi-Oh is far more social in the way that you have to duel actual people in person. You can team duel, trade cards, have tournaments with your friends. The game lends itself to being much more social than Pokémon is on a regular occasion. This social component adds to the fun of the whole Yu-Gi-Oh experience and nudges it ahead in my book. C. Crux v CruxI am going to match up the Pokémon GameBoy games against the Yu-Gi-Oh card game. Both series have TV shows, manga, merchandise etc so I am going to compare what really matters. Pokémon handheld games are antisocial in nature, you have 4 attacks where people attack back and forth back and forth back and forth, there's no dodging or needed focus. You just press the A button over and over again. The Yu-Gi-Oh card game is strategically far superior, every duel is majorly different, there are far more Yu-Gi-Oh cards than Pokémon. There are less than 500 Pokémon but there are thousands upon thousands of Yu-Gi-Oh cards to collect and connect and strategize with. The Pokémon games have their charm but on terms of replaybility (how many times can you watch Pikachu evolve?), social interaction, strategy and longevity Yu-Gi-Oh is king. Each Pokémon game is almost exactly the same from the way you start the game to the end game with the Pokémon League while you can build different Yu-Gi-Oh decks for years!That is all. (1) http://www.imdb.com... (2) http://www.imdb.com... (3) http://yugioh.wikia.com...