Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Dan Kuso VS Gingka Hagane (Bakugan VS Beyblade)



"The magic of toys is that they allow us to step into different worlds, explore various roles, and ultimately discover more about ourselves."
-Debra Sterling

Dan Kuso, the number one Brawler with his Bakugan, Drago

Gingka Hagane, Japan's Top Blader with his Beyblade, Pegasus

These two boys have done some incredible things with what we would normally consider toys for children, and both being the best at the games that come with those toys. But which one is truly the best of the best. That's what I'm here to figure out to see which of these two prodigies would win a DEATH BATTLE!

Before I Start

For Dan I'll be using the original run of the Bakugan Battle Brawlers anime from the 2000s and not any of the new stuff from the reboot as that is a different Dan with a different last name.

For Gingka I'll be using the Metal Saga/ Fight and Shogun Steel from the 2000s and not the original series or any series after that as they seem to be different continuities of the series.

Also to ensure fairness, for this battle Dan will only be using Drago as though he does have more Bakugan, Drago is his partner and his strongest. And Gingka only has the one Bey being his partner Pegasus. And also to make the fight dynamic fully work as soon as Dan launches Drago it will be in monster form and Gingka's Pegasus will be in its Bey Spirit form. Also this fight will be set in a neutral site with no stadium so Gingka can fight until he and Pegasus are fully out of stamina.

And these are the sources that helped me in the making of this blog




Background

Dan

Dan Kuso was just a normal kid chatting online with his buddies. Until one day it started raining playing cards for a reason that no one really understood. And within these cards were strange looking toys that became full fledged monsters when it battle. And discovering this, Dan and his friends would create a new game that took children of the world by storm called Bakugan. And with this he and his friends, Shun, Marucho, Runo, Alice, and Julie would create the group known as the Battle Brawlers. And all seems well for the first couple months of this game as nothing out of the ordinary happens. Until one day during one of his Brawls, Dan encounters a talking Bakugan engaged in battle with another one. And what he discovered was that this Bakugan was a Pyrus Dragonoid, the strongest Bakugan type of the fire attribute, which he nicknamed Drago. And with Drago, Dan learned the truth of Bakugan, that being that they hailed from an alternate universe known as Vestroia. And with this came a fearsome opponent whose goal was to send other Bakugan to the Doom Dimension known as Masquerade. In order to take the Silent Core that powers Vestroia and give it to the Ultimate Bakugan, Naga. And also take the Infinity for themself to make their own ultimate Bakugan So Dan, Drago and their friends decided he needed to be stopped so they went on an adventure making new friends along the way.

During their journey it was revealed that in order to stand a chance against Masquerade and Naga that Drago would need to evolve into an Ultimate Bakugan. With this journey first starting during their battle against the third ranked Brawler in the world where Drago first evolved into Pyrus Delta Dragonoid. And after a match against Masquerade and his Bakugan Hydranoid where they lost, Dan and Drago went to the Doom Dimension and underwent a test in order for Drago to evolve once again into Pyrus Ultimate Dragonoid. And with Ultimate Dragonoid, Dan rematched Masquerade in order to protect the Infinity Core and are actually able to defeat him and his Hydranoid. And then it was revealed that Masquerade was actually a hidden away personality of Alice that took over her body when the energy from Vestroia passed to the humans world. But Dan and the rest of the Brawlers are able to bring Alice back to her senses fully and take the fight to Naga. And in order to defeat him Drago had to fuse with the Infinity Core to become Pyrus Infinity Dragonoid. And using the Infinity Cores power Drago destroys Naga and restores Vestroia back to its original form, with him and the other Bakugan leaving for their new home.

But Dan's journeys with Bakugan weren't over just yet as 3 years later Drago returns back to the human world to enlist Dan's help with fending of threats in his home dimension of Vestroia. So without hesitation Dan, Shun and Marucho jump through the portal to New Vestroia to help out Drago. This new threat was revealed to be invaders from another dimension known as Vestal. And their goal was to use Bakugan as weapons to rule over New Vestroia, led by the enigmatic Spectra Phantom. So Dan, Shun and Marucho teamed up with the resistance group who didn't want to rule over Bakugan as they knew they were sentient creatures. This conflict required Drago to evolve even further starting with the new body he received called Neo Dragonoid. 

And when the stakes got even higher the Legendary Guardian Bakugan Apollonir gave all his power to Drago in order to create Cross Dragonoid. But when even this wasn't enough Drago would absorb the powers of the other Legendary Guardians to evolve into Helix Dragonoid. And with this new power Drago would blast through their dimension and fight against Spectra Phantom one last time. With Dan even dueling him in a lightsaber fight to finally defeat him. And with that Dan, Shun and Marucho return back to their world for the time being.



Gingka

Gingka Hagane's story was just like that of any other kid in the world of Beyblade. He would play with, and battle Beyblade all the time with his friends in the small remote town of Koma Village. Until one day when his father Ryo Hagane finally decided to show him the ceremony celebrating the village and its signature Beyblade Storm Pegasus. On this day Gingka and his father notice intruders breaking into the village and storming Mt. Hagane in order to steal the forbidden Bey, Lightning L-Drago. So Gingka and his father make haste in order to stop them with Ryo even battling one of the intruders named Ryuga but loses horrifically. And due to the damage caused by Ryuga with L-Drago, the mountain started to collapse from the inside and caused an avalanche, with Ryo launching Pegasus to Gingka before being completely covered in stone. And with that Gingka gained his partner with the goal of eventually getting strong enough to defeat Ryuga and take back the forbidden Bey. And in order to accomplish this goal Gingka would travel from city to city looking for strong Bladers to battle in hopes of getting stronger. This would continue until Gingka came to the town of Metal Bey City. Where he met new friends and rivals, Madoka, Kenta, Benkei, Kyoya, Hikaru, Tsubasa, and Yu. They would help him develop his skills and strength and he would need it as he had his long desired battle against Ryuga. However, during this battle Gingka would suffer the same loss his father did against Ryuga which shattered his spirits.

But with the help of his friends Gingka would get over that loss and resolve to defeat Ryuga once again. And his chance of this would soon approach as a massive tournament called Battle Bladers would be announced after Yu won the wish for anything he wanted during a previous tournament. And with this came 3 months of intense training Gingka and his friends would enter the tournament of Battle Bladers with the goal of defeating Ryuga, but also to have fun battling strong opponents. And Gingka would climb the ladder in the tournament winning round after round up until he makes the final round. And who else was his opponent but Ryuga, giving Gingka the opportunity to get his revenge in their rematch. And while it took every last drop of strength he and Pegasus had, they were finally able to defeat him and win the Battle Bladers tournament. Making Gingka the strongest Blader in Japan. Though this came at a cost, due to the immense amount of energy that Pegasus used in their battle, it had to disappear in order to recover its strength someday soon.

And that day would be sooner than Gingka thought, as he heard from his childhood friend Hyoma, that there's a possibility of Pegasus returning in a new form sealed away within their hometown. So Gingka, Madoka and Kenta travel to Koma village where Gingka would have to go through trials and tribulations in order to make it to the cave where Pegasus was hidden in. And once he got there his spirit would be strong enough to reawaken the spirit of Pegasus in his new Beyblade, Galaxy Pegasus. And with this Bey he would battle against new friend Masamune Kadoya, and learn a new special move. And soon after this Gingka and his friends would learn of a new tournament happening all over the world due to success of Battle Bladers where each major country would get a team to enter. And due to his win at Battle Bladers Gingka would automatically get a spot in team Japan, otherwise known as GanGan Galaxy and be appointed their leader. So Gingka and his teammates, Masamune, Tsubasa, Yu and Madoka would travel the world in hopes of becoming the strongest Bladers on the planet. He traveled to China, and Russia and won there, then traveled back home to Japan where he would battle against Kyoya again and managed to defeat him in a 2v2 battle. Then he and his friends would travel to the European Union for the fight of their lives, with Gingka battling against the strongest of their team Julian Konzern. And in order to finally defeat him, he and Pegasus had to come up with another special move and Gingka was able to win using all his strength.

But the tournament wasn't over just yet as that was just the final round of the A block, and Gingka and his friends learned that they were was another block of competitors they had to face. First being the team from Brazil and while Gingka lost in their unique battle. His support for Tsubasa helped him pull through for the team and they moved on to the final round of the tournament. Where Gingka and the rest of team GanGanGalaxy would travel to the United States of America to do battle against Team Starbreaker. Though they were at a disadvantage due to Yu and Tsubasa being put out of commission prior to the final round. But luckily for Gingka and Masamune, Ryuga decided to show up and managed to win his battle, which set the stage for Gingka to win his final battle to win the world championship. But this victory was short lived as it was revealed that the sponsor for the US team Dr. Ziggurat had developed a type of energy made from a Beyblade that could destroy massive areas with ease and wanted to sell it to the highest bidder. So Gingka and his friends resolved to stop him. And in order to do that he and Ryuga had to team up to destroy the core of the machine, but are successful in doing so.

So after winning the world championship and beating world ending threats, Gingka decided to take a bit of a break from battling. Until his friend and eternal rival Kyoya called him out to battle. And during this battle Gingka's Pegasus evolved once again into Cosmic Pegasus. And this was revealed to be the result of a piece of star fragment hitting Pegasus and Gingka's Blader spirit and drive to win. And with this came another friend Yuki Mizusawa who told Gingka and his friends that he was prophesized to be one of the 9 Legendary Bladers, who would do battle against the God of Destruction Nemesis and his destined Blader, Rago. 

So with Yuki, and the rest of his friends Gingka would travel the world to get stronger and find the other Legendary Bladers in order to seal away Nemesis and stop the destruction of the world. With Gingka's role in this was to be one of the 4 Seasons Bladers, reperesenting the season of Autumn in order to use the goddess of Earth Gaia's power to seal away Nemesis and Rago. And while Gingka and the other 3 Legendary Bladers are able to temporary seal away the god, he was able to come back and threaten to completely engulf the world in darkness. So Gingka stood up to the God and with the Blader's spirits of him, his friends and all the Bladers in the world he is able to completely destroy the God of Destruction and create an era of piece in the planet. With him taking this opportunity to battle Kyoya one last time.

With this era of piece, came a new style of battling 7 years later. The Zero-G battles would take the world by storm. And due to his saving of the world, The WBBA would give Gingka a new Bey in order to fight in the Zero-G stadium. His latest and greatest Bey, Samurai Pegasus. And with this Bey Gingka would look after and foster the next generation of Bladers content with his career and to make sure that they never lose their path.

Skill & Experience

Dan & Drago

When it comes to skill and experience in the world of Bakugan, Dan and Drago are second to none. When it comes to skill Dan has been the best ranked Brawler in all 4 seasons and is consistently referred to as one of, if not the best Brawler. And Drago is no slouch in this department either as he has defeated some of the most impressive opponents in the entire world of Bakugan with Dan's cooperation. Like Masquerade, Spectra Phantom, and even one of the Six Legendary Guardians Apollonir. Who was said to be the strongest Dragonoid type Bakugan ever. And with the power of their bond they were able to defeat him. And on top of that the duo would just get more skilled and gain far more experience over time as the quality of battlers and their stakes would increase constantly. So all in all Dan and Drago are a very skilled duo while also having some good experience under their belts.

Gingka & Pegasus

When it comes to this category, Gingka and his partner Pegasus are no slouches. In terms of experience Gingka has been practicing the fundamentals of Beyblade and battling since his early childhood all the way until Shogun Steel where he's 21. So he has tons of battling experience under his belt. But his skill also comes in spades. he's so skilled when it comes to battling that he can even imitate the movements and special moves of his friends and rivals just by seeing them once. And on top of that he's defeated many Bladers of incredibly high skill levels like Kyoya, Yu, and the other Legendary Bladers. With Benkei even saying by the time of Shogun Steel that Gingka was the best Blader in the whole world. Which would include him being better than the other Legendary Bladers. So when it comes to skill and experience Gingka and Pegasus have a great amount of experience and also an insane amount of skill.

Forms
Drago
Pyrus Dragonoid
Drago's base form and the form he met Dan in. In this form he comes with the standard abilities that every Bakugan of the Pyrus attribute has. He also has abilities exclusive to him and he specializes in dealing attacks with his fire breath.

Delta Dragonoid

Drago's first evolution that he gained during his and Dans Brawl with the third ranked Brawler Chan Lee. With this form came a massive power and speed increase and stronger ability card attacks. 

Ultimate Dragonoid

Drago's second evolution that he gained after defeating Apollonir and then defeating each of the Battle Brawlers one by one. With this came another massive speed and power increase and even more powerful abilities.

Infinity Dragonoid

Drago's third evolution that he gained upon destroying Wayvern in order to get the Infinity Core. With this he got another buff to his stats, as well as abilties that he could use of any attribute instead of just Pyrus. And he also the ability to use the Infinity Core to overpower the Silent Core Naga possesed. And when that was done he got the Silent Core as well to create the Perfect Core.

Neo Dragonoid


The form that the Legendary Guardian Bakugan granted to Drago so he could fight and protect the New Vestroia after he gave up his body to create it. In this form he has the Perfect Core embedded in his chest and it gives him incredible new power.

Cross Dragonoid

This evolution was triggered by Apollonir as he gave Drago all his Pyrus Attribute energy in order to stop Zenoheld from triggering the system that would destroy and erase Bakugan. With this form not only does he have the power of the Perfect Core but also all of Apollonir's power as well. He also gains an extra set of wings.

Helix Dragonoid

After absorbing the attribute energy from the rest of the Six Legendary Guardian Bakugan, Drago evolved into Helix Dragonoid. With this form he gains a more sleek and human like body as well as more power.

Lumino Dragonoid


After getting The Element to protect by Neo Ziperator, Drago evolved into this form. In it he dons the Explosix Battle Gear and gains another increase in his stats and brings back the extra set of wings he had as Cross Dragonoid.

Blitz Dragonoid

After defeating Dragonoid Colossus in battle with his Explosix Gear, Dragonoid Colossus forced him to undergo this evolution that way he can protect the Sacred Orb in place of him. With it he has the upgraded Battle Gear, the Axator Gear. 

Titanium Dragonoid

Drago's penultimate form, and the one he was originally born with. After battling Emperor Barodius, the Sacred Orb entered within his body and he evolved as a result. With this came the power of the Sacred Orb which increased his overall capabilities an extensive amount.

Fusion Dragonoid

Drago's final and strongest evolution. After using the power of the Gate and Key, he evolved into this form. With it comes an almost human looking appearance with razor sharp wings and gold accents all over his body. This comes with such a buff to his abilities that he easily defeated evolved Razenoid with a single attack right after evolving. And Evolved Razenoid was previously winning their battle, showing just how much stronger Drago got from this evolution.

Pegasus
Storm Pegasus

Pegasus' inital form and the Bey that Gingka received from his father that he thought passed away. Storm Pegasus comes equipped with the Pegasus I Energy Ring, and the Storm Type Fusion Wheel to deal out massive damage and the Rubber Flat Performance Tip in order to have better traction on the stadium floor. Pegasus also uses its Performance Tip for its special moves.

Galaxy Pegasus

The spirit of Storm Pegasus that reincarnated into the Bey in Koma Village become an evolution called Galaxy Pegasus. In this Bey form Pegasus gains the Pegasus II Energy Ring to have a wing like appearance. This is expanded with its new Galaxy Fusion wheel which has three curved wings on it. It also has a Right Rubber Flat or R2Flat Performance Tip which is an upgrade over the Rubber Flat Performance Tip as it now has 6 curved edges on it to increase its spin strength.

Cosmic Pegasus

After Galaxy Pegasus was hit with a piece of the prophesized Star Fragment and responded to Gingka's Blader spirit, it evolved into Cosmic Pegasus. With its new evolution came a new the new Pegasus III Energy Ring to carry on the wing motif. It also carries the new Cosmic Fusion Wheel and uses the rotating pink and silver pieces to swap modes between  barrage, smash and upper mode. And finally it has the Final Drive Performance Tip with it activating its strongest mode final Drive Mode whenever Pegasus is on its last legs to increase its spin strength and power massive power increase for its special move.

Samurai Pegasus

The latest and greatest of Gingka's Beys. Gingka was given this evolution to Pegasus as a reward for saving the world against Rago in order to keep up with the times in the Zero G stadiums. With it comes the new Warrior Wheel and Element Wheel systems to replace the Energy Ring and Fusion Wheels. So Pegasus has the new Pegasus Warrior Wheel and the new Samurai Element Wheel. It also brings back the R2F Performance Tip from Galaxy Pegasus and has blade like wings on its spin track for better mobility and to dish out more damage. 

Bey Spirit Form

The soul of the Beyblade made manifest is their Bey Spirit form. And the spirit form of Pegasus, is obviously the Pegasus from Greco-Roman mythology. This is the Bey Spirit Form of Storm, Cosmic and Galaxy Pegasus, showing that even though the Beys are different the spirit remains the same. In this form Pegasus can clash with other Bey Spirits and Gingka can even ride Pegasus on horseback. 

Samurai Spirit Form

The Bey Spirit form of Gingka's Samurai Pegasus. Its appearance is mostly the same as before but with it donning samurai armor. It has a saddle, shin guards, wing guards and a helmet. With it also carrying two samurai swords under its wings as well.

Abilities
Dan & Drago
Ability Cards

During the course of the series, Drago has shown to be capable of a myriad of different abilities through the use of Dan's Ability Cards. And they even seem to have gotten stronger with all of his evolutions, with Dan getting fancy new cards to coincide with them. So I'm just going to list the ones he's used along with the Dragonoid form that used them. 

Pyrus Dragonoid:
  • Boosted Dragon: Drago shoots a fireball from his mouth, while also increasing his power by 100 Gs
  • Melt Flare: Is a fusion ability that Dan can stack on top of Boosted Dragon to make it even more powerful and add on another 100Gs of power to Drago
  • Ultimate Boost: Makes Drago's body so hot that it rapidly increases his power and causes massive flames to erupt and burn away his opponents.
Delta Dragonoid:
  • Wall Burst: Reflects the ability of Drago's opponent back at them with twice the power, like Meliodas' Full Counter.
  • D-Strike Attack: Drago causes a massive meteor shower to rain down on his opponent and also shoots a massive meteor fireball from his mouth, while also increasing his power by 200 Gs.
  • D-Strike Extreme: Is a fusion ability that Dan can stack on top of D-Strike attack to make the ability more powerful and increase Dragos power by another 200 Gs.
  • Draconic Reinforcement: Is a defensive ability that surrounds Drago in fire while increasing his Gs by 50.
Ultimate Dragonoid:
  • Ultimate Dragon: Drago shoots a massive fireball while his power increases by 200 Gs and nullifying the effects of the opponents Gate Card.
  • Exceed: A fusion ability that Dan stacks on top of Ultimate Dragon in order to have the ability deal out more power while increasing his power by 200Gs and allowing him to attack anywhere on the field.
  • Draconic Orge: Drago heats himself up then charges full steam ahead at his opponent to hit them with his massive wings.
  • Boosted Ultima: Drago shoots a massive stream of fire from his mouth with enough force to knock them backwards, while also increasing his power by 200 Gs and lowering the power of his opponent by 100 Gs.

Infinity Dragonoid:
Neo Dragonoid:
  • Burning Dragon: Drago fires a flaming meteor from his mouth to attack his opponent while increasing his power by 200 Gs.
  • Burning Tornado: Drago wreathes himself in a flaming tornado. This ability also transfers 200 Gs from Drago's opponent to himself.
  • Fire Shield: Drago lights hits wings on fire and uses his flaming wings to protect himself from his opponents ability while also decreasing their power by 200 Gs.
  • Burst Shield: Drago engulfs himself in a massive tornado of flame that nullifies the ability of his opponent.
  • Tornado Barrier: Drago wreathes himself in a massive tornado of flames in order to protect himself and deflect attacks while also lowering their power by 100 Gs
  • Strike Dragon: Using the power of the Perfect Core embedded in his chest Drago unleashes a massive shockwave with enough power to split open the ground and knock over towers. It also takes 400 Gs from Drago's opponent and transfers it to himself.
  • Dragon Contender: Using the power of the Perfect Core Drago absorbs the ability of his opponent and blasts the attack back out. This also returns his opponents power to their base level of Gs and adds 600 Gs to Drago.
  • Maximum Dragon: Using the power of the Perfect Core, Drago engulfs himself in a massive tornado of flame and uses it to appear right in front of his opponent. This ability also transfers 500 Gs from Drago's opponent to himself.
  • Pyrus Slasher: A fusion ability that Dan typically stacks on both Burning Dragon and Burning Tornado. Drago wreathes himself in a flaming tornado and then dive bombs his opponent. This ability also transfers 400 Gs from his opponent to himself.
  • Dragon Clash: Using the power of the Perfect Core, Drago fires a laser from his chest that does immense damage while also transfering 400 Gs from his opponent to Drago himself.
Cross Dragonoid:
  • Superior Shield: Drago makes a circular barrier around himself that nullifies the opponents ability and increases Drago's power by 200 Gs.
  • Fire Reflector: Drago makes a circular barrier around himself that reflects the opponents ability back at them.
  • Shooting Dragon: Drago shoots a massive fireball from his mouth at his opponent, while also increasing his power by 500 Gs.
  • Dragon Shield: Drago forms a barrier around himself that nullifies the opponents ability and increases his power by 200 Gs.
  • Spinning Tornado: Drago wreathes himself and his opponent in a flaming tornado that brings his opponents power back to its base level.
  • Burning Infinity: Using the power of the Perfect Core, Drago lights himself up and charges at his opponent to dive bomb them. This ability also subtracts his opponents power by 500 Gs while increasing Dragos power by 600 Gs.
  • Maximum Dragon: Using the power of the Perfect Core, Drago lights himself up and  transfers 500 Gs from his opponent to himself, then delivers a devastating uppercut.
  • Shooting Tornado: Drago wreathes his lower body in a giant flaming tornado and then launches himself at his opponent at a high velocity to dive bomb his opponent. This ability also transfers 600 Gs from his opponent to himself. 
Helix Dragonoid
  • Dragon Hummer: Dragos body heats up and his speed increases dramatically in order to dodge and nullify the opponents ability.
  • Firim Tornado: Drago comes out in a flaming tornado to nullify his opponents Gate Card and transfer 400 Gs from his opponent to himself.
  • Galactic Dragon: Drago coats himself in flames that he then spews out in a stream to attack his opponent. This also decreases his opponents power by 500 Gs.
  • Helix Shield: Drago makes a circular barrier to block attacks while also increasing his Gs to match the power of his opponent.
  • Burning Reflector: Drago spews a spiral of flame out of his mouth in order nullify his opponents ability.
  • Spinning Wall: Drago engulfs himself in a flaming tornado and spins rapidly to hit his opponent. It also nullifies the ability of his opponent and transfers 500 Gs from the opponent to Drago.
  • Dragon Phalanx: Drago emits a bright light before shooting a laser beam from his chest to hit his opponent with. This ability nullifies that of his opponent and transfers 300 Gs from his opponent to Drago himself.
  • Strike Tornado: Drago flies at his opponent and then spins at high speeds and engulfs himself in a tornado while spinning and charges at his opponent. This also decreases his opponents power by 400 Gs and adds that to his power instead.
  • Power Glazer: A fusion ability that simply increases Dragos power by 500 Gs
  • Dragon (Impulse) Surge: Drago forms a massive fireball in his hands then blasts it outwards to hit his opponent. This also nullifies his opponents ability and increases his power by 500 Gs
Lumino Dragonoid:
  • Crossfire: Drago lights his wings on fire then crosses them to form an X and shoots out the flaming X at his opponent while also increasing Dragos power by 300 Gs
  • Particle Wave: Drago lights up his wings then draws that light to the Perfect Core in his chest and then blasts his opponent with a beam made of that light. This also transfers 500 Gs from Dragos opponent to himself.
  • Cross Fernum: Drago lights himself on fire and then charges at his opponent to deliver a devastating blow with his elbow, while also increasing Drago's power by 500 Gs
  • Lumino Wave: Drago lights up his whole body in order to nullify both his opponents ability and Gate Card.
  • Lumino Fernum: Drago flies up in the air then shoots a stream of fire from his mouth and aims downwards at his opponent. This ability also decreases his opponents power by 500 Gs.
  • Lumino Reflector: Drago lights himself on fire to nullify his opponents Gate Card and transfer 200 Gs from his opponent to himself.
  • Lumino Hammer: Drago lights himself up and flies into the sky, then comes crashing back down in order to nullify his opponents ability.
Blitz Dragonoid:
  • Particle Buster: Drago lights up his wings with plasma, them shoots bolt of lightning out them to attack his opponent.
  • Dual Fernum: Drago produces fire from his wings and then shoots it out in front of him to hit his opponent with.
  • Blitz Reflector: Drago makes a barrier of fire that nullifies his opponents ability.
  • Blitz Wave: Drago lights himself up and then draws that light into his fist to deliver a mean right hook that then explodes on impact.
  • Blitz Explosion: Drago makes a fireball in his hands then shoots it out like a Kamehameha.
  • Blitz Hammer: Drago lights himself up to increase his speed dramatically and charges at his opponent.
  • Spire Dragon: Using the power of the Sacred Orb, Drago charges up a massive amount of power in his wings and then forms a plasma ball that he turns into a beam in order to shoot his opponent with it.
  • Blitz Superior: Drago covers himself in bright light and then shoots out that light from his whole body to hit his opponent with a massive plasma beam.
Titanium Dragonoid:
  • Dragon Strength: Drago shoots a barrage of small fireballs from his mouth.
  • Dragon Hard Striker: Drago shoots out a powerful current of electricity from his wings that can even nullify his opponents ability.
  • Dragon Force Striker: Drago shoots out a powerful current of electricity from his wings and then a beam of plasma from his mouth. This seems to be an upgraded version of his Dragon Hard Striker ability.
  • Dragon Maximum Striker: This seems to be another upgraded version of both Dragon Hard Striker and Dragon Force Striker. Drago shoots out a powerful current of electricity from his wings while simultaneously shooting a powerful beam of plasma to attack his opponent 
  • Titanium Rumble: Drago lights himself up in order to increase his strength, speed, and durability while also nullifying the opponents ability.
  • Double Up: Is a fusion ability that can only be activated after Titanium Rumble. This doubles the effects of Titanium Rumble so Drago becomes even faster, stronger and more durable.
  • Titanium Screen: Drago makes an energy shield in order to block and nullify his opponents ability.
  • Thor Buster: Drago shoots a plasma blast from his mouth into the air that then separates into multiple different energy blasts that cause widespread damage.
  • Dragon Blazer: Drago unleashes a powerful beam of plasma from his mouth to attack his opponent with.
  • Revolutional: Drago flies up into the sky then generates "lenses" made of energy then fires a beam of plasma that passes through each lens with the beam becoming bigger and stronger until it reaches the final lens and attacks Dragos opponent.
  • Wonder Superior: Basically and upgraded version of Revolutional where Drago makes more energy lenses in order for the plasma beam to be even stronger.
  • Generation Shield: Drago makes a barrier of energy in order to block out attacks from his opponents.
  • Meteor Screen: Drago makes a massive barrier of energy that covers his whole body that nullifies and reflects the opponents ability back at them.
  • Titanium Torrent: Drago shoots a blast of plasma from his wings in order to attack his opponent with.

Fusion Dragonoid:
  • Dragon Thrasher: Drago shoots a beam of energy at his opponent
  • Dragon Spur: Drago lights himself up and increases his speed and the charges at his opponent and circles around them to confuse them.
  • Dragon Exploder: Drago engulfs himself in a torrent of flame and then detonates the flame to nullify his opponents ability.
  • Dragon NR Gear: Drago charges up a powerful attack the results in him making a giant ball of plasma that he launches at his opponent.
  • Dragon Over Cannon: Drago shoots a plasma beam from his mouth to attack his opponent with.
  • Dragon Astral: Drago shoots a beam of energy from his mouth that then splits into multiple different beams that all target the same opponent.
  • Hyperdrive: After Drago makes physical contact with his opponent, he drags them around at high speeds, the drops then. After that he covers himself in fire and then dive bombs them from the sky.
  • Saber Shield: Drago makes a plasma barrier in order to block and nullify his opponents abilitiy.
  • Dragon Blade: Drago makes a sword of energy from his arm and uses it to attack his opponent.
  • Dragon Tornado: Drago shoots a stream of a flaming tornado from his mouth, this also transfers 500 Gs from his opponent to himself
  • Dragon Eternal Force: With the power of the Perfect Core Drago stores power in his wings and shoots out a massive stream of fire.


Gingka & Pegasus
Special Moves

During the course of the Metal Saga, Gingka and Pegasus have shown to be able to use a myriad of different abilities. The most notable ones being their special moves. So similar to Dan and Drago's list, I'll list all of Gingka's special moves and with the Pegasus Bey that used them.

Storm Pegasus:
  • Star Blast Attack: Pegasus uses the edge of the stadium or something similar to it to fly into the air and come back down and hit the opponent with full speed and force.
  • Tornado Wing: Pegasus circles the stadium or his opponent at high speeds and creates a tornado with a vacuum like effect.
  • Meteor Shower Attack: Pegasus flies into the sky and then comes back down in its Bey Spirit Form to deliver a devastating blow to
  • Full Power: Pegasus circles his opponent/the stadium so fast it produces intense heat enough to create an actual vacuum and create an updraft effect. And Gingka usually combines this special move with
  • Storm Bringer: Gingka uses Pegasus' Full Power move to create a vacuum and then Pegasus shoots out waves of the vacuum it created at the opposing Beys to launch them in the air then strike them just as they're about to hit the ground again.
  • Galaxy Nova: Gingka has Pegasus fly so far it reaches outer space and even outside the Galaxy, then Pegasus draws power from the universe and dive bombs its opponent with the power it got. Though this effort did require Storm Pegasus to dissipate to recover its strength.
Galaxy Pegasus:
  • Star Booster Attack: Pegasus use the edge of the stadium like a ramp or does the same with something similar to fly up in the air and come back down to nose dive its opponent. This is seemingly an evolution to the Star Blast Attack.
  • Stardust Driver: After mastering the use of Galaxy Pegasus' new performance tip Gingka learned this new special move. This move has Pegasus use its perfomance tip as legs and its fusion wheel as wings as it flies into space and come back down like a shooting star.
  • Storm Bringer: Does the same thing it did when used as Storm Pegasus. But Galaxy Pegasus' edition is far superior and caused a massive vacuum that put out a ring of fire that covered the entire stadium.
Cosmic Pegasus:
  • Full Power: Gingka has Pegasus use its full output in order to increase its power output. It can also similarly create a vacuum like the one used by Storm Pegasus.
  • Cosmic Tornado: After mastering the use of Cosmic Pegasus' new modes Gingka unlocked this move. Pegasus enters its Final Drive Mode to increase its spin strength and then uses Smash Mode to rapidly spin in a circle in order to crash into its opponents with immense force.
  • Shining Wind: Using the power of every star fragment on the planet, Pegasus makes a tornado in order to launch itself into space and outside of the galaxy to use its strongest special move yet, that being.
  • Super Cosmic Nova: An evolution of sorts to Galaxy Nova. Using the power of every star fragment on earth Gingka and Pegasus come from outside the Galaxy in space and Pegaus use Cosmic Tornado on the way down to attack. And the final hit tears through their opponent.
Samurai Pegasus:
  • Galaxy Nova: The same attack as before, though this time it doesn't require Pegasus to recover its strength after its use due to being immensely stronger than before. 

Feats

Dan & Drago
Overall
  • Dan and Dragos bond helped the latter evolve multiple times
  • Dan was the only one of the original Bakugan Battle Brawlers to keep his partner Bakugan
  • Dan and Drago saved both the human world and Vestroia from destruction
  • Stopped Spectra Phantoms plans to enslave Bakugan to take over Vestroia
  • Stopped the invasion of earth by the Gundalians
  • Defeated Masquerade, Naga, Spectra Phantom, Gundalian Invaders and Razenoid
  • Dan became the best Bakugan Brawler in the world with the help of Drago

Power

Speed
  • Won the Battle Bladers Tournament with Storm Pegasus
  • With Galaxy Pegasus he won the World Championship
  • Saved the world multiple times with all forms of Pegasus
  • Became a Legendary Blader 
  • Is widely known as the strongest Blader on the planet

Power

Speed


Scaling
Dan & Drago
Battle Brawlers

Due to being the best Brawler in this group and basically their leader, Dan would scale to the feats that any of them has performed. And to further support this he and Drago have beaten each member of the Battle Brawlers in a Brawl.


Six Legendary Soldiers (and other Bakugan)

Dan and Drago scale to them as Drago has directly defeated their leader Apollonir, as well as absorbed the energy of him. And he later absorbed the power of the rest of the Soldiers as well. And they also scale to the other Bakugan as Drago is stated to be the most powerful one when he evolved into Fusion Dragonoid.

Gingka & Pegasus
Legendary Bladers

The group prophesized to defeat the God of Destruction Nemesis. Gingka scales to them as not only is he one of them but is constantly regarded as the strongest. And this is backed up by the ending of Metal Fury where Kyoya challenges all the Legendary Bladers one by one and has Gingka be the last one he faces. And though the result of the battle wasn't shown it's heavily implied that Gingka won that battle as he's still referred to as the strongest Blader by the time of Shogun Steel.

Fight Script
-Thumbnail by u/Ssundpool on reddit
Due to how much I like this matchup, I decided to write a fight script for it. And it does spoil the winner so if you don't want to read it, you don't have to. But for those of you that do wanna read it, here's the link to the google doc.

My Verdict

Stats
When it comes to stats it's incredibly simple, so let's start off with strength Gingka has impressive universal feats himself and can even have some Low 4-D scaling due to helping defeat Tempo and far surpassing it by the time of Metal Fury and especially Shogun Steel. However this is still trumped by Dan and Drago by the end of the first season of Bakugan. As in that episode Drago fuses all 6 attribute worlds of Vestroia together to create New Vestroia. And though his next evolutions weren't necessarily as capable they are just as strong. As evidenced by Helix Dragonoid breaking the walls of the universe to attack another one. And on top of that Fusion Dragonoid easily defeated Evolved Razenoid. Who had he won, would have destroyed all 12 universes. So Dan takes strength. And speed doesn't get much better for Gingka either. The best speed feats he gets is through Galaxy Nova and its variants all travelling to another Galaxy, which is calculated at around 2 trillion times faster than light. And using multipliers that I gave Gingka and Pegasus to be generous as each series does power cliff the last one. I gave it a multiplier of 8 times, which came out to a little over 20 trillion times faster than light. This still isn't close to the speed Drago has though as one of the lower end calculations I could find was Drago travelling through universes. Which was calculated at 66 quadrillion times faster than light on the low end. On the high end it was calculated at 133 quadrillion times faster than light. So even with the multiplier I gave Gingka to be generous Gingka and Pegasus are still thousands of times slower than Dan and Drago. As well as around 6 times weaker, so Dan takes stats comfortably.

Experience & Skill
Though skill and experience is a different story. With Gingka taking this category with no room for debate either. While Dan does have a good amount of experience Brawling and his skill is second to none. Gingka has been battling and practicing Beyblade since he was a child all the way up until he was 21 in Shogun Steel. And on top of that he's still regarded as the best Blader in the new era. So Gingka takes Skill and Experience.

Abilities
And now for what was the most confusing category to find the winner for, their abilities. Now when it comes to who has the most abilities that would obviously go to Dan and Drago with their extensive amount of abilities and evolutions. And while Gingka and Pegasus have their fair share it still falls short by a considerable amount. But there is a bit of a wrinkle, as most of Dan and Dragos abilities produce fire, Gingka could have Pegasus use its Storm Bringer Special Move to nullify most of Dan and Dragos abilities. However, not only are they far to slow to realistically ever get off that win con. There are other abilities that Dan and Drago could use that aren't reliant on creating a massive amount of fire. Like Dragon Astral, Dragon Eternal Force and especially Revolutional. So while Gingka could have Pegasus theoretically counter most of Drago's moves. Drago is too fast for that and still possesses a great amount of abilities to use even if Storm Bringer nullified his fire abilities. So Dan and Drago take abilities as well.

Conclusion

Dan & Drago

Advantages:
  • Stronger than Gingka and Pegasus
  • Thousands of times faster than Gingka and Pegasus
  • Has significantly more abilities
  • Even if a good chunk of them were nullified it wouldn't matter due to the other abilities not using fire
  • And is too fast for his fire abilities to even be nullified
Disadvanatges:
  • Slightly less skilled
  • Significantly less experienced 
  • Could potentially have their fire abilities nullified

Gingka & Pegasus

Advantages:
  • Is slightly more skilled than Dan
  • Is significantly the more experienced battler
  • If Storm Bringer is used, could nullify all of Dan and Drago's fire abilities but..
Disadvanatages:
  • Is far weaker
  • Thousands of times slower
  • Has less abilities to contend with
  • ...Is too slow for it to matter at all
  • ... And Dan and Drago still have far more abilities that don't rely on fire at all.

To finish this off, this was a fun matchup to research and a fun walk down memory lane for me as these were some of the first anime I ever watched as a kid. But back on topic if you've been reading this whole blog you should probably know who I think wins. And that would be Dan and Drago as they are way more versatile, way stronger and thousands of times faster. So the winners are Dan Kuso and his partner Drago.













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