Trout Trout , known as Teppei Tairyobata in the Japanese version , is a participant in the Arc League Championship of the " Yu - Gi - Oh ! ARC - V " anime . Personality . Trout is rather arrogant , greedy , and lazy , having plotted to become allies with Reed , only for him to do all the hard work during the Battle Royale so Trout could take away all his Pendulum Monster s after the latter was exhausted . He also rejected Gong ' s challenge unless he bet 5 Pendulum Monsters , knowing that he would be unable to do that . He likes taking credit and only acts when there ' s a worthy enough reward from him , as he didn ' t want to help Yuya when he was in his Awakened State and tried to persuade Yuya into giving him Pendulum Monsters without Dueling . He can also be a coward at times , as he was reluctant to face the Obelisk Force and only accepted due to Pepper ' s insistence . Despite seeing Reed as just a pawn at first , their friendship did become genuine , shown when Reed was brutally defeated and sealed into a card . Biography . Arc League Championship . He is a Fishing Duelist , and his favorite catchphrase is " Let ’ s catch a big haul of fish ! " . He has qualified to the Final 16 of the ALCS , and takes part in the Battle Royal challenge . Trout went to the Jungle Area and hooked a Pendulum Monster to his fishing line , waiting for an unsuspecting Duelist to pick it up . Reed picked up the card and Trout reeled it in , suggesting an alliance with him . He laid two more traps , catching Halil and Olga , and Reed Dueled them by himself . Trout plotted to have Reed defeat the competition and then defeat him himself to assure his own place in the Top 8 . As he was watching the Duel , Gong approached him and challenged him . However , Trout refused Gong ' s bet off a single Pendulum Card and told him to come back when he could bet five , much to Gong ' s fury . After Reed defeated Olga and Halil , Trout brashly took their Pendulum Cards , much to the duo ' s disdain . Trout was then roped into restraining a berserk Yuya Sakaki by Aura and helped hold him down , but was injured for his trouble . Losing his temper , he claimed that he wasn ' t Reed ' s friend , and Reed Pepper agreed , stating that he ' d teamed up with Trout to improve his skills . Yuya soon calmed down , and Trout provided fish for their evening meal . He tried to swindle Yuya ' s Pendulum Cards out of him , but no one listened to him . Reed cooked breakfast for them the next day , and Trout sincerely called him the best partner for both his cooking and Dueling skills . Yuya explained to Trout and Reed about the Duelists who had invaded from another Dimension , and they split up to look for everyone else . Trout and Reed found Aura , who had run off beforehand , in the Iceberg Area and decided to get her to safety , much to Trout ' s discomfort . However , they ended up running into the Obelisk Force , who were Dueling fellow competitors Shay Obsidian and Moon Shadow , as well as a girl resembling Zuzu . Reed intervened , dragging Trout with them , causing them to suffer the intrusion penalty of 2000 LP . Despite this , Trout combined his " The Legendary Fisherman III " with Reed ' s " Royal Cookpal s " to deal 2000 damage to each of their opponents . Their combo had inadvertently set up the Obelisk Force ' s own combo , which allowed them to revive their monsters with boosted ATK , inflict half of that ATK as damage , and then double that damage . Reed was defeated first and sealed into a card , much to Trout ' s sincere shock , and Trout was defeated next . In his final moments before being sealed himself , he dazedly wondered why Reed was a card , since they were supposed to be the strongest combination . Duel Academy . After Zarc ' s defeat and the Standard Dimension being reborn into the " Pendulum Dimension " , Trout was freed from his card , but had lost his memories of Zuzu and the events involving people from other dimensions . He was present during the Battle Royal with Reed and Aura . He is later seen watching Yuya ' s Duel against Jack Atlas with Reed and applauded when Yuya won . He then watched Yuya and Declan ' s Action Duel . He was happy when Yuya won the Duel and witnessed Zuzu ' s revival . Deck . Trout uses a Legendary Fisherman Deck , focused around Summoning his ace monster , " The Legendary Fisherman III " .