Wolfox

true, yet you could have guessed Yusaku was gonna win, since the stakes were quite high with Aoi's life on the line, and we've seen more links (no pun intended) between 5d's and vrains sofar, like how the line on Playmakes's suite looks kinda like Yusei's marker(?), Decode Talker and Junk Warrior/ Firewall Dragon and Stardust Dragon, the personalities of Yusaku and Yusei, both have risky duels played on a form of transportation, both have a no nonsense rival character with a badass dragon, the fact that that both technically start with a 5 and end with an s (v being the roman numeral for 5).

Can I just say that I did like how Yusaku ended the duel, just grasping at straws to an extend and eventually having it pay off

Actually he didn't grasp at straws at all. He was testing the waters with his attack with decode talker. If he was grasping straw he would have attacked with his firewall dragon first.

true...