Kyou Yahagi

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==Summary==
Kyou Yahagi is one of the main characters of Cardfight!! Vanguard and wields a deck from the Spike Brothers clan. He was previously a member of Team Asteroid, consisting of himself, Asaka Narumi, Tetsu Shinjou, and Ren Suzugamori before being kicked off after losing to Toshiki Kai. At some point later, he forms his own team with other cardfighters that were also fired from Asteroid, Team Avengers. They planned to get revenge against Asteroid before being defeated by Team Q4. His Avatar Unit is General Seifried.
Kyou has the tendancy to refer to himself as "The Great Kyou" when cardfighting, overestimating his abilities. Prior to the beginning of the series, Kyou was an average ordinary cardfighter who was recruited by Ren and Tetsu to join their Asteroid/Foo Fighter Organization, alongside Asaka Narumi. Despite defeating Asaka in their demonstration cardfight, Ren saw better potential in Asaka instead, which made Kyou begin to resent Ren and plan to take over Asteroid when he becomes strong enough to by winning all of his cardfights to join Team Asteroid after Ren stressed the importance of victory. From that point on to when Team Asteroid becomes National Champions, Kyou becomes Team Asteroid's alternate and the fourth strongest of all Asteroid cardfighters. However, after he gets defeated by Toshiki Kai at Nationals, Kyou is taken off and fired from Asteroid. Wanting revenge, Kyou locates other cardfighters that were formerly members of Foo Fighter and forms his own team, Team Avengers, to get revenge against Asteroid. Only to be stopped by Team Q4 when Kyou loses to Aichi Sendou.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least with Grade 0 Units, with Grade 1 & higher Units
Key: Beginning of Series
Name: Kyou Yahagi
Origin: Cardfight!! Vanguard
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown, in his teens
Classification: Cardfighter, Former member of Team Asteroid, Leader of Team Avengers
Powers and Abilities:
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Imagination Manipulation, which also gives Kyou Soul Projection, Summoning, Possession, Fusionism, Mind Control and Transformation (Using the power of imagination, all cardfighters can project their souls onto the surface of Planet Cray during a cardfight; A cardfighters soul is able to not only summon the Units of Planet Cray and have them fight on their behalf as "Rear-Guard" allies, but they can also possess them to become and fight as the Units themselves, becoming "the Vanguard" and both can be done passively via Superior Calls and Superior Rides; All cardfighter's can also summon the Units on Planet Cray for defensive purposes, such as guarding against an opponents attacks), Self-Sustenance (Type 2 with the cardfighter's soul), Can act without a soul residing in his body and Resistance to Existence Erasure (Whenever a cardfighter loses a cardfight, their Vanguard gets completely destroyed entirely to the point where only the cardfighter's soul remains, but the cardfighter's soul remains perfectly unharmed)
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All previous Powers and Abilities, plus Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Existence Erasure with every hit (All Units are able to completely erase and leave no traces left of each other during cardfight's with any attack they unleash, retiring them from battle), Non-Physical Interaction (All Units are able to interact, come in contact with and attack souls), Weapon Mastery, Statistics Amplification through various means (All of Kyou's Grade 0 and Grade 1 Units have the ability to give their strength to allies to increase their power; Units with Trigger effects can give an additional boost in power to Units of Kyou's choice during battle, particularly Critical Trigger Units; Kyou's Juggernaut Maximum and Highspeed Brakki increase their power when destroying Units in "The Soul" via Soul Blasts; Kyou's General Seifried gains an additional power boost when being boosted by another Unit), Damage Boost (Critical Trigger Units increase the amount of damage Units can cause to opponents), Statistics Reduction (When summoning Units to defend against attacks, the power of the opponents Units is lowered in comparison to the power of the defending Units)), Healing (Heal Trigger Unit's have the additional effect of healing damage to a cardfighters Vanguard), Stamina Inducement (Kyou's Spike Brothers Assault Squad stands back up after boosting a successful attack), Aura, True Flight, Self-Sustenance (Type 1; All Units are capable of battling deep underwater in Planet Cray's oceans without issues), Electricity Manipulation (Kyou's Wonderboy can control electricity), Darkness Manipulation (Kyou's Black Panther attacks using darkness), Limited Clairvoyance (Kyou's Devil Summoner can preview the next Unit Kyou would actively call forth in the future), Summoning, (Kyou's Devil Summoner can superior call Grade 1 & 2 Units to the Rear-Guard; Kyou's Dudley Dan can call Units to the Rear-Guard when boosting another Unit's power; Kyou's Sky Diver can superior call Units to the Rear-Guard after sending itslf into "The Soul"), Attack Negation (Kyou's Cheer Girl Marilyn, a perfect guard Unit, can negate attacks), Soul Manipulation through various means (Kyou has Units that can move other Units into and out of "The Soul", like Dudley Dan, this would also count as Soul Absorption; Kyou's Juggernaut Maximum and Highspeed Brakki can destroy Units within "The Soul" and send them to the drop zone via Soul Blasts when attacking, this would also count as Soul Destruction; Kyou's Sky Diver, Silence Joker and Mecha Trainer can move themselves into and out of the "The Soul", this would count as Self Soul Manipulation), Nonexistent Physiology (Kyou's Mecha Trainer can use skills from within the Drop Zone), Regeneration (Mid-Godly; All Units are able to completely revive themselves after being completely destroyed during cardfights for later use, can be done immediately as well; When a cardfighter loses a cardfight, their Vanguard Unit and the Units within their soul are completely erased with nothing left but the cardfighter's soul and return later) and Resistance to Existence Erasure (Any Unit that is used as a Vanguard can safely withstand hits from other Units without being destroyed) 
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Attack Potency: At least Building level with Grade 0 Units, Large Star level with Grade 1 & higher Units (Comparable to Asaka Narumi and her Pale Moon deck; Is ranked the fourth strongest cardfighter in Ren's Foo Fighter Organization, making him superior to Team Brilliant Stars; Kyou's Grade 2 Units are superior to his Grade 1 Units; Kyou's Grade 3 Units are superior to his Grade 2 Units and has in his possession General Seifried, his strongest and signature Grade 3 Unit)
Speed: At least Peak Human reactions with Massively Hypersonic attack speed (Some Unit's can manipulate lightning) and Massively FTL+ travel with Units (The souls of Cardfighters are far inferior to the Units of Planet Cray, superior to the speed of Ren's Units)
Lifting Strength: Superhuman with Grade 0 Units, Pre-Stellar with Grade 1 & higher Units
Striking Strength: At least Building level with Grade 0 Units, Large Star level with Grade 1 & higher Units
Durability: At least Building level with Grade 0 Units, Large Star level with Grade 1 & higher Units (Units can withstand attacks from each other)
Stamina: Superhuman, Likely Infinite (All cardfighters are able to act and battle for extended periods without their souls being present in their bodies; All cardfighters are able to project their souls onto Planet Cray to battle using Units and cardfight from earth simultaneously for extended periods of time without tiring | Superhuman 
Range: Standard Melee Range, Planetary with his soul (All cardfighters can summon Units from across Planet Cray to use them for battle) | Standard Melee Range, several Tens of Meters with Grade 0 Units through attacks, Stellar with Grade 1 & higher Units through attacks
Standard Equipment: Vanguard card deck, Vanguard Units
Optional Equipment: None
Intelligence: Genius. Kyou is a very skilled tactician and strategist, being able to easily develop strategies and successfully pull off strong combinations and battle formations to make use of his Units skills and abilities to their fullest extent. Battling on Planet Cray reinforces his already great intelligence by being able to possess Units, enter combat as the Units, and lead other Units into battle against other Cardfighters. While he initially started off as somewhat of an average player, and can be arrogant and overconfident, Kyou quickly showed his potential when being recruited into Foo Fighter by defeating and outranking many of it's gathered skilled cardfighters to earn a spot on Team Asteroid alongside Ren. He improves exponentially by the time Team Asteroid becomes National Champions, being able to see through and fend off strategies from Toshiki Kai of all people despite being clearly inferior. He can also easily defeat cardfighters who could reach the level of National Tournament cardfighters and hold his own against Aichi to an extent, the latter using his PSYqualia to handily win. The Units Kyou uses are also very skilled tacticians and strategists by participating in numerous battles with Kyou.
Weaknesses: Can be very arrogant and over-confident, which can hinder his strategies and plans if he isn't careful. Cardfighters have to ride Units in chronological order, they cannot skip a grade when riding, like going from a Grade 0 Unit to a Grade 2 Unit. Cardfighters in most situations cannot summon Rear-Guard Units that exceed the grade of their Vanguard for offensive and defensive purposes. Cardfighter's must sacrifice Units when using them for defensive purposes | None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Imagination Manipulation: All Cardfighters use the power of imagination for various purposes and to different extents in the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard
*Soul Projection: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, all Cardfighters can use the power of imagination to project their spirits onto the surface of a planet that is very similar to Earth in the Vanguard universe, Planet Cray.
*Summoning, Possession, Transformation, Mind Control & Fusionism: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, all Cardfighters cannot only summon but possess one of the Units living on Planet Cray for their spirits to reside in after projecting them onto Cray's surface. Upon summoning and possessing the Unit, the Cardfighters soul takes the Unit's form and can use them to battle other Cardfighters during a cardfight. This is otherwise known as a "Ride", where Cardfighters use Units to become "Vanguards". Cardfighters are also able to summon the creatures of Planet Cray to fight on their behalf as allies. This is otherwise known as a "Call", where Cardfighters summon Units as "Rear-Guards". In most situations, Cardfighters can only summon Units who's grades are equal to or lower than the grade of their Vanguard's. For example, if a Cardfighter uses a Grade 1 Vanguard, they can only summon Grade 1 or Grade 0 Units for support. They cannot summon Grade 2 or Grade 3 Rear-Guard Units.
**Guarding: To go along with being able to summon Units, all Cardfighters in the Cardfight!! Vanguard game can also summon Units for defensive purposes. They can sacrifice Units to protect the Vanguard or other Rear-Guard Units from being harmed or destroyed by opponents by using the power given in shield values which are combined with the Vanguard's own power. This can also be done using Perfect Guard Units that can negate the opponents' attacks. Guarding can be accomplished by either summoning the Units or using Units already in battle with you that have the "Intercept" skill. While Grade 3 Units cannot be used as defensive Units in the game itself, this would fall under as nothing but card-game mechanics.
***Power Draining: Whenever Cardfighter's summon Units for defensive purposes, they can also weaken the power of the opponents' Units that are attacking in efforts to weaken their attacks. The defensive power of the Unit that's being used as a guard is directly subtracted from the Unit that is attacking. For example, if a Cardfighter uses a Unit that has 10,000 power for a shield value, and the opponent is attacking with 15,000 power, the total amount of power the opponents Unit will have left is 5,000 power, weakening them. However, only Units with shield values (Grade 0s, 1s, 2s, and some 4s) can weaken the power of opponent Units. So Grade 3 Units and Perfect Guard Units would not be able to drain the power of opponents when used for guarding purposes.
*Soul Manipulation: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, there is a mechanic that all Cardfighters make use of with their Units known as "The Soul". "The Soul" is when and where Units are placed underneath a Cardfighters Vanguard that is currently in use, making it a "soul-stack" and when the number of Units in the soul reaches a certain point, they can be sacrificed for the price of activating different abilities. There are two methods on how to add Units into the soul. One method would be for Units to be ones that have been previously rided on. For example: if a Grade 3 is rided ontop of a Grade 2, who is rided on top of a Grade 1, who is rided ontop of a Grade 0 starting Vanguard, the lower Grade Units will be within the Grade 3 Vanguards soul. The second method would be to use a skill called "Soul Charge" where Units get added into the Vanguards soul. In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, "The Soul" is also considered the soul of any Unit that is being used as a Vanguard for a cardfighter, and when Units enter or are placed within "The Soul", they become souls themselves. Using "The Soul", Units can use soul manipulation to multiple degrees. They can use it to send themselves into and out of the soul, soul absorption to "Soul Charge" other Units as Vanguards, or soul destruction to destroy Units within the Vanguards soul through a skill called a "Soul Blast".
*Boosting: This is a skill exclusively for Grade 0 and Grade 1 Units in the Cardfight!! Vanguard game. When in the rear-guard as support Units, Grade 0s and 1s can give their power to other Units to boost their power further.
*Triggers: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, there are Grade 0 Units who have unique abilities called Triggers. Whenever a Vanguard attacks or takes damage from attacks, Cardfighters reveal cards from their decks during battles in an attempt to get a Trigger. There are 4 kinds of Triggers in Vanguard and each Trigger has a different effect, along with a power boost to be given to the Unit of choice. There are Draw Triggers, Critical Triggers, Heal Triggers and Stand Triggers. The only trigger that can be discarded as nothing but game mechanics would be the Draw Trigger Effect. Heal Triggers would be Healing Hax, Stand Triggers could be treated as a kind of Stamina Inducement to allow Units to attack more in succession, and Critical triggers would be given Damage Boost. Also, whenever a Cardfighter reveals a Trigger during a Drive or Damage check, it's the equivalent to the cardfighter summoning the Trigger Units to give them the Trigger Effect on Planet Cray.
*Existence Erasure & Resistance: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, all Units from Planet Cray can completely erase Units with every kind of attack they unleash in battle. When Units are destroyed, they get sent to the Drop Zone, which is the direct equivalent to Units being completely destroyed when they battle between each other on Planet Cray. The cardfighters themselves don't have existence erasure, but their souls have resistance for being able to remain unaffected by their Vanguards being erased at the end of a cardfight.
Notable Units: The following is a list of all Units and decks that Kyou has used throughout the course of the series.
==Beginning of Series Composite Deck==
=Grade 0 Units=
===Spike Brothers===
*Mecha Trainer 
*Cheer Girl, Tiara (x3; Heal Trigger Unit)
*Silence Joker (x1; Critical Trigger Unit)
*Sonic Breaker (x1; Critical Trigger Unit)
*Cheerful Lynx (x2; Draw Trigger Unit)
=Grade 1 Units=
===Spike Brothers===
*Wonder Boy (x2)
*Cheer Girl, Marilyn (x2)
*Dudley Dan (x3)
*Spike Brothers Assault Squad (x2)
=Grade 2 Units=
===Spike Brothers===
* Treasured, Black Panther (x3)
* Highspeed, Brakki (x2)
* Devil Summoner (x3)
=Grade 3 Units=
===Spike Brothers===
*General Seifried (x2)
*Juggernaut Maximum (x2) 
*Sky Diver (x3)
==Gallery==
Kyou and General Seifried.png|Kyou and General Seifried
Young Asaka with Team Asteroid.png|Young Kyou with Team Asteroid
Kyou and Team Avengers.png|Kyou and Team Avengers
Kyou cardfighting Toshiki Kai.png|Kyou cardfighting Toshiki Kai
Kyou cardfighting Aichi Sendou.png|Kyou cardfighting Aichi Sendou
==Respect Threads==
Cardfight!! Vanguard Feats Blog (1)
==Notable Matchups==
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Category:Cardfight!! Vanguard
Category:Card Users
Category:Male Characters
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Category:Statistics Amplification Users
Category:Statistics Reduction Users
Category:Aura Users
Category:Flight Users
Category:Self-Sustenance Users
Category:Electricity Users
Category:Darkness Users
Category:Soul Users
Category:Regeneration Users
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