Valon Valon , sometimes rendered Varon among fans , is one of Dartz ' three most trusted henchmen . He often quarrels with Alister , as evidenced by the one scene where they actually converse and end up arguing because of each one ' s motives to go after their targets . He and Rafael seem to get along fine . He is responsible for leading Mai Valentine to Dartz . In the English dub , Valon has a heavily stylized accent , which was greatly mistaken for an Australian one . Design . Valon ' s usual outfit consists of typical biker clothing including goggles , gloves and padding on his shoulders and elbows . His thick head of chocolate brown hair is styled in thick flares out in all directions and possesses crystal blue eyes and a tanned complexion . Valon wears his Orichalcos Stone in a ring on his middle finger on his right hand . He carries a Chaos Duel Disk on his left wrist . The name " Valon " is of Albanian origin , and it means " seething . " Biography . Valon is shown as a child who loves getting into fights . He appears to be an orphan , but is looked after by a kind nun . One day she was in the church with Valon cleaning the wounds he had gotten from a previous fight when a group of thugs entered , telling the nun that their boss has bought the church and that they must leave . Valon is ready to fight and almost throws a punch , but the nun , smiling , grabs his wrist and shakes her head , telling him not to . That night a fire is started at the church . Valon is there and spots the thugs from earlier who are laughing about it . ( The nun is also suspected to have been in the church at the time of the fire . ) Valon thinks that they are responsible and later he is seen in an alley holding a length of pipe , the bodies of the thugs on the ground around him . It is uncertain whether he killed them or not as they have been briefly seen in later scenes . ( This entire sequence is from the Japanese version of the anime and is completely omitted in the dub . ) Valon is taken to prison ( or a juvenile detention center ) where he gets into more fights . Eventually he is taken to the warden ( or headmaster ) , who tells Valon that he will let him leave if he defeats all the other prisoners on an island using " The Seal of Orichalcos " . ( The warden was working for Dartz . ) Valon defeats all of his opponents . He is then encountered by Dartz and offered to work for him , and Valon accepts . Valon doesn ' t know that Dartz was the one who had the church burnt down . He actually tells Dartz that ' be careful , since one day I may end up beating cha ' , to which Dartz merely smiled . In the dub , Dartz had instead framed Valon for his first crime . Valon eventually became infatuated with Mai , although she does not appear to return those feelings as strongly as he wished she would . Partly out of jealousy and partly to help Mai let go of her past , Valon Duel s Joey Wheeler , whom Mai thought fondly of . In their Duel , each gains immense respect for one another , each seeing the other ' s devotion to protecting Mai and his refusal to be intimidated . While Mai is initially angry at Valon for taking this Duel , he refuses to let her take his place . In the final clash his drive to win is matched by the joy at facing a great opponent like Joey . However , his focus wavers when Mai ( knocked off her feet by the explosion from the attacks colliding ) looks at the grappling opponents , and calls out Joey ' s name . Once he loses , he admits it , drops to one knee in exhaustion and remains conscious just long enough to entrust Joey with rescuing Mai from her own fears . He then collapses and the Seal takes his soul . His image appears on a tablet in Dartz ' s temple to signify his capture and the image shows him in the same kneeling state with a solemn expression on his face . ( It is noteworthy that , for all his combativeness and defiance in the past , he and Joey are the only two characters whose soul - carvings do not depict them panicking at their imprisonment . ) Mai goes to him and shows great concern for him , but quickly regains her composure and deems him as having been weak . This act is the final straw for Joey and he challenges her to a rematch to dispel the changes to her heart . Valon ' s soulless body , along with Mai ' s , is rescued by Rafael and they are both restored when Dartz is defeated . He wakes up in a seaside house and realizes that Mai was there also when he sees that she left him one of her " Cyber Harpie " cards . He also makes a brief appearance at the end of the Grand Championship arc . He is seen during the montage after Yugi Muto ' s victory with the in the background . He is last seen at the end of the Dawn of the Duel arc on his motorcycle looking up at the sky . Deck . Valon utilizes an Armor Deck where the monster s he Summon s are equipped to his own body as a futuristic suit of power armor . His Armor cards lack ATK but have powerful effects to make up for this ranging from Magic and Trap Card negation to monster destruction to effect damage . Valon Summons them to the field in numbers using " Armor Gravitation " cards to Special Summon multiple pieces at once , then activating all their powers . " The Seal of Orichalcos " is critical to Valon ' s Deck , as it boosts the strength of his Armor cards and allows him to Summon more of them to make his suit of armor more powerful with additional effects . Valon has little subtlety in his moves , using few Magic and Trap Cards , and the Duel s he have been involved in are extremely fierce . Duels with Valon are far more damaging than in a normal Duel since instead of the player feeling a stinging sensation from being attacked by a hologram , they are actually physically being assaulted by him , punching and beating them as hard as he can and leaving them terribly injured .