
He is a highly skilled Duel Runner driver, he frequently does highly acrobatic maneuvers when dueling and can do long jumps when riding outside Duels. He loses this ability after Riley Akaba removed Z-ARC's soul from him. Unlike Yuto and Yuya who appear unable to remember what happened when entering the state, Yugo appears to able to retain a glimpse of his memory while awakened as shown when he was able to remember Yuya who was protecting Yuto at the time. Like his dimensional counterparts, Yugo can be Awakened. Yugo believed that "Clear Wing Synchro Dragon" felt his desire to save Rin but later realized that "Clear Wing Synchro Dragon" guided him to where Yuri and later Yuto were. Yugo is able to travel through different dimensions with the power of " Clear Wing Synchro Dragon", though he has no control over when or where he travels to. In the dub, Yugo's voice is somewhat similar to Yuya's but is deeper. Yugo speaks in a rough and somewhat vulgar manner comparable to that of a delinquent, especially when he is angry (often referring to others as "Temē" and often using the curse, "Chikusho!", which are rude forms of "You" and "Damn" in Japanese). While dueling, he shows a tendency to remain on his Duel Runner even if the duel is not a Turbo Duel. This confusion extends to another of Rin's counterparts, Celina.ĭespite his short temper and rudeness, Yugo is a kind person at heart, especially towards Rin and Zuzu. He occasionally continues to mistake Zuzu for Rin, such as when he signed her up for the Friendship Cup, and when he saw Zuzu wearing Rin's clothes. In the dub, he sometimes refers to Rin as 'RinRin'. Yugo harbors feelings for his childhood friend, Rin, getting embarrassed and blushed when Zuzu thought Rin was his girlfriend. Yugo believes that a by-the-books strategy is the wrong way to go while dueling and that the flow of a duel can change any minute, to the point where he is willing to trust in and believe in luck if he needs to. This extends to his dueling to the point that it can affect his performance, though as Yugo himself has noted when he is able to duel seriously he does so with great skill. Once he has set his mind on something, he becomes quite unaware of his surroundings, not noticing Yuya despite the latter talking throughout his duel with Yuto, though he was able to recall him later after stopping and thinking about the event. However, he recognizes that his short-temper can go too far, and apologized to Zuzu when it made her upset. Because of this, Yugo frequently got into many fights against others, including Yuto, who incorrectly stated he was a pawn of Fusion, and the Bandit Warrior Academy Duelists who mistook him for Yuya Sakaki. Yugo is very impulsive and short-tempered, especially when his name is pronounced incorrectly. Unlike his counterparts however, the color of his hair does not correlate with his dimension, being blue and blonde rather than white. As such, Yugo wears white like the color of Synchro Monsters. Yugo, and his dimensional counterparts' attire are all based on the color of the cards that their dimensions are based on. He also wears a white helmet, which is discarded when its visor breaks during his duel against Rin. He wears a white jacket with red borders and yellow stripes on the sleeves, along with a white jumpsuit that has red, blue, and yellow stripes that meet in the center in a chevron pattern, white gloves, shoulder, elbow and knee pads, and white, red, and gray boots. Just like the three of them, his hair is dual-colored, with yellow bangs swept to the right and blue in the back. Yugo has the same face as his dimensional counterparts.
