Espa Roba is a playable Legendary Duelist in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links. This is a video game depiction of Espa Roba, a character from the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime.
He first appeared during special events as a roaming opponent. He also appeared as an opponent during the special event Duelist Chronicles: Battle City Begins!
Prior to December 18, 2018, he was exclusive to the special event Espa Roba's Duel Carnival, only being able to be dueled or unlocked during the event.
Green Gate Keys are required to challenge him at the Gate.
Description[]
The psychic Espa Roba channels the energies of the universe to read his opponent's hand during a Duel - or so he claims. Unfortunately, Joey debunked his cosmic powers as a hoax during Battle City. But what isn't fake are his Dueling skills, punishing Joey with his ace monster "Jinzo"
Biography[]
Gallery[]
Decks[]
Character[]
- Dharma Cannon x3
- Disk Magician x3
- Golgoil x3
- Holograh x3
- Machine Attacker x2
- Mighty Guard x3
Roaming Duelist (first event)[]
During his Duel with Bella, he proclaimed that he was going to showcase his real non-psychic abilities, and that he is no longer the psychic Duelist. However, he felt himself using ESP, and questioned why as he didn't bring his brothers to Duel Links. He thought the universe must've gave him ESP just recently, and announced that he is now an actual psychic Duelist. Bella thought to herself that he should end his turn.
Level 10[]
Level 20[]
Level 30[]
Level 40[]
Roaming Duelist (second event)[]
Level 30[]
Level 40[]
Duelist Chronicles: Battle City Begins![]
Level 20[]
Skill: "Shotgun Shuffle" (Espa Roba starts the Duel with 3 "Jinzo #7" on his field.)
Level 40[]
Skill: "Trap Search" (Espa Roba starts the Duel with "Jinzo" on his field.)
Level-up rewards[]
The following lists are the rewards the player accumulates from having Espa Roba reach a certain Level.
Level | Reward |
---|---|
2 | 10 Gems |
3 | 1 copy of "Ancient Telescope" |
4 | Psychic Vision (Skill) |
5 | Deck slot (Espa Roba) |
6 | 15 Gems |
7 | 1 copy of "Mesmeric Control" |
8 | Deck slot (Espa Roba) |
9 | 25 Gems |
10 | 1 copy of "Amplifier" |
11 | 1 copy of "Jinzo #7" |
12 | 35 Gems |
13 | Draw Sense: Dark (Skill) |
14 | 1 copy of "Jinzo - Returner" |
15 | 50 Gems |
16 | 1 copy of "Jinzo #7" |
17 | 60 Gems |
18 | 1 copy of "Jinzo - Lord" |
19 | 75 Gems |
20 | Psychic Onslaught (Skill) |
21 | 1 copy of "Jinzo - Returner" |
22 | 100 Gems |
23 | 1 copy of "Quarantine" |
24 | 120 Gems |
25 | 1 copy of "Jinzo - Lord" |
Level | Reward |
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26 | 150 Gems |
27 | Deck slot (Espa Roba) |
28 | 200 Gems |
29 | 250 Gems |
30 | 100,000 Gold |
32 | 200 Gems |
33 | 1 copy of "Amplifier" |
34 | 250 Gems |
35 | 1 copy of "Jinzo - Returner" |
36 | 1 UR Jewel |
37 | 200 Gems |
38 | 1 copy of "Quarantine" |
39 | 250 Gems |
40 | 1 copy of "Jinzo - Lord" |
41 | Deck slot (Espa Roba) |
42 | 100 Gems |
43 | 200 Gems |
44 | 250 Gems |
45 | 1 copy of "Jinzo - Jector" |
Duel rewards[]
When dueling against Level 40 Espa Roba, these are the only cards that can drop; at lower levels, cards from the standard pool for Legendary Duelists may also drop.
Rarity | Card |
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UR | "Master Gig" |
UR | "Armored Axon Kicker" |
SR | "Scrap Recycler" |
SR | "D.D. Telepon" |
SR | "Time Escaper" |
SR | "Psychic Overload" |
SR | "Psychic Shockwave" |
SR | "Pulse Mines" |
R | "Cyber Esper" |
R | "Senri Eye" |
R | "Omega Goggles" |
R | "Inspection" |
N | "Cyber Soldier" |
N | "Cyber Soldier of Darkworld" |
Skills[]
Skill | Effect | Unlock |
---|---|---|
Psychic Vision | Use ESP powers to view your opponent's hand until the end of your first turn. Your starting hand will be reduced by 1 card. While this Skill is active, you will not be able to view the details of the cards in your opponent's hand, and your opponent will not be able to use card effects that require cards in the hand to be revealed to activate/resolve. |
Level 4 |
Draw Sense: DARK | Can be used before your normal draw each time your Life Points decrease by 1500. One of the cards from your normal draw this turn will be a random DARK monster in your deck. | Level 13 |
Psychic Onslaught | At the beginning of the Duel, add 1 or 2 "Jinzo" to your Deck and shuffle it. | Level 20 |
Cosmic Enlightenment | Can be used before your normal draw each time your Life Points decrease by 1000. One of the cards from your normal draw this turn will be a random Psychic-Type or "Jinzo" monster in your Deck. | Drop |
Cyber Energy Amplified | When "Amplifier" is equipped to a monster, increase that monster's ATK by 500. Once per turn, increase the equipped monster's ATK by 300 for each Equip Spell Card equipped to it. | Drop |
Supernatural Tactics | Send 1 monster on your field that originally belonged to your opponent or a monster on your field with "Jinzo" in its text to the Graveyard. Then, play 1 "The Fiend Megacyber" from outside of your Deck. Following this, if your opponent does not control any Trap Cards, place face-up "Cyber Raider" to your opponent's Spell & Trap Zone from outside of your Deck as a Continuous Trap Card. You can Special Summon only Machine-Type monsters during the turn you activate this Skill. This Skill can only be used once per Duel. |
Lifetime Mission |
Trap Search | Can be used when you control a monster whose original name is "Jinzo". Destroy all Trap Cards your opponent controls. The Skill can only be used once per Duel. |
Drop |
Draw Sense: Machine | Can be used before your normal draw each time your Life Points decrease by 1000. One of the cards from your normal draw this turn will be a random Machine-Type monster from your Deck. | Lifetime Mission |
Balance | Your starting hand will reflect the card balance of your deck. This Skill will not activate unless you have at least 6 of each type of card (Monster, Spell, and Trap) in your Deck. You cannot Special Summon or activate monster effects until the end of the Main Phase of your first turn. |
Drop |
Draw Pass | During your Draw Phase, instead of conducting your normal draw, recover 300 Life Points. This Skill can only be used three times per Duel. |
Drop |
Draw Sense: EARTH | Can be used before your normal draw each time your Life Points decrease by 1500. One of the cards from your normal draw this turn will be a random EARTH monster in your deck. | Drop |
Draw Sense: Spell/Trap | Can be used each time your Life Points decrease by 1000. In the Draw Phase, instead of conducting your normal draw, draw a random Spell/Trap Card. This Skill will only activate if you begin the Duel with a Deck that has 3 or more Spell/Trap Cards with different names. |
Drop |
Heavy Starter | If you have 3 or more Level 5 or higher monsters with different names in your Deck, you will have an improved chance of having a Level 5 or higher monster in your starting hand. You cannot Special Summon or activate any monster effects until the end of the Main Phase of your first turn. |
Drop |
Life Cost 0 | Until the end of the opponent's next turn, for one time only, you do not have to spend Life Points to activate a card. This Skill can only be used once per Duel. |
Drop |
LP Boost α | Increases starting Life Points by 1000. | Drop |
LP Boost Γ | Increases starting Life Points by 2500, reduces hand by 2. | Drop |
Dialogue[]
Character-specific[]
- Joey Wheeler
- When starting a Duel with Joey Wheeler, Roba announces "Let's Duel, Joey!" followed by "Fair and square! No cheating!"
- When he wins the Duel, Roba says "See that, Joey!" followed by "I don't need to cheat to beat you!"
- When he loses the Duel, Roba says "Joey, you defeated me."
- Rex Raptor
- When starting a Duel with Rex Raptor, Roba announces "Rex Raptor!" followed by "With my extrasensory abilities, your hand is an open book!"
Card-specific[]
- Monsters
- When Roba Summons "Jinzo", a cut-in frame of Roba briefly appears, and he announces "I Summon the mighty Jinzo!" followed by "And Jinzo is gifted with incredible scanning abilities! Trap Search!" If that player hasn't already Summoned "Jinzo" during that Duel, a cutscene of "Jinzo" being Summoned plays afterwards.
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Go! Jinzo!" followed by "Cyber Energy Shock!"
- When Roba Summons "Jinzo - Lord", a cut-in frame of Roba briefly appears, and he announces "I Summon Jinzo - Lord!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Attack Jinzo - Lord!" followed by "Cyber Energy Impact!"
- When Roba activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Jinzo - Lord's effect!" followed by "Hyper Trap Destruction!"
- When Roba Summons "Jinzo #7", a cut-in frame of Roba's face briefly appears, and he announces "I Summon Jinzo #7!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Attack, Jinzo #7!" followed by "Cyber Energy!"
- When Roba activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Jinzo #7 uses his effect!"
- When Roba Summons "Jinzo - Jector", a cut-in frame of Roba's face briefly appears, and he announces "I Summon Jinzo - Jector!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Attack Jinzo - Jector!" followed by "Cyber Energy Ject!"
- When Roba activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Jinzo - Jector's effect!"
- When Roba Summons "Reflect Bounder", a cut-in frame of Roba's face briefly appears, and he announces "Come forth, Reflect Bounder!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Reflect Bounder attacks!" followed by "Mysterious Mirror Ray!"
- When Roba activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Here's Reflect Bounder's effect!" followed by "It won't perish in vain as it reflects damage back at you!"
- When Roba Summons "The Fiend Megacyber", a cut-in frame of Roba's face briefly appears, and he announces "I Summon The Fiend Megacyber!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "The Fiend Megacyber! Attack!" followed by "Cyber Swipe!"
- When Roba Summons "Cyber Esper", he announces "I Summon Cyber Esper!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Cyber Esper attacks!" followed by "Cybernetic Shock!"
- When Roba activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Cyber Esper's effect!" followed by "Let me see the card you drew!"
- When Roba Summons "Cyber Raider", he announces "I summon Cyber Raider!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Attack, Cyber Raider!" followed by "Cyber Knuckle!"
- When Roba activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Cyber Raider uses his effect!"
- When Roba Summons "Jinzo - Returner", he announces "I Summon Jinzo - Returner!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Jinzo - Returner attacks!" followed by "Cyber Energy Shot!"
- When Roba activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Jinzo - Returner's effect!"
- When Roba Summons "Swordsman of Landstar", he announces "I'll use Swordsman of Landstar!"
- Most of the time when Roba declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Attack Swordsman of Landstar!"
- Spells/Traps
- When Roba activates "Altar for Tribute", he announces "My Trap Card, Altar for Tribute!"
- When Roba activates "Amplifier", he announces "Hee hee hee... The Equip Spell, Amplifier!" followed by "I equip it on Jinzo!"
- When Roba activates "Brain Control", he announces "I activate my Spell Card, Brain Control!" followed by "Your monster is mine! Nobody can resist my psychic powers!"
- When Roba activates "Factory of 100 Machines", he announces "The Quick-Play Spell, Factory of 100 Machines!"
- When Roba activates "Mesmeric Control", he announces "I activate my Spell Card! Mesmeric Control!" followed by "Your monster is getting sleepy..."
- When Roba activates "Mind Control", he announces "Here's my Spell Card! Mind Control!" followed by "Hahahaha! Your monster is like a puppet, and I'm pulling the strings!"
- When Roba activates "Peeking Goblin", he announces "Hahaha... I'll take a quick little peek in your Deck." followed by "I activate my Spell Card, Peeking Goblin!"
- When Roba activates "Psychic Shockwave", he announces "Pfft! As if that would ever work against me!" followed by "Not when I have the Trap Card, Psychic Shockwave!"
Unused Dialogue[]
(Voice lines found in game files but not currently not in game yet)
- Spells/Traps
- When Roba activates "Sixth Sense", he announces "The Trap Card, Sixth Sense!"
Trivia[]
- The inclusion of "Cyber Esper" as card-specific dialogue references Espa Roba's Japanese name, "Esper Roba".
- Yugi Muto (DM), Espa Roba, Seto Kaiba (DSOD), Aigami, Jesse Anderson, Chazz Princeton, Jaden/Yubel, Axel Brodie, Yusei Fudo, Jack Atlas, Crow Hogan, Akiza Izinski, Leo, Luna, Tetsu Trudge, Dark Signer Kalin Kessler, Antinomy, Kalin Kessler, Yuma and Astral, Reginald Kastle, Bronk Stone, Tori Meadows, and Kite Tenjo are the characters who possess a Skill that allows them to begin a Duel with copies of specific Monster Cards added to their Main Deck and/or Extra Deck.
- Yugi Muto (DM), Mako Tsunami, Rex Raptor, Bandit Keith, Ishizu Ishtar, Odion, Maximillion Pegasus, Arkana, Espa Roba, Scud, Prana, Dr. Vellian Crowler, Syrus Truesdale, and Sartorius Kumar are the characters with the least character-specific dialogue in-game.
- The aforementioned characters, excluding Prana, have the average amount of character-specific dialogue a Legendary Duelist possesses.
- There are some Legendary Duelists who share the same signature card, and 3D cutscene for the said card:
- Yami Yugi, Yugi Muto (DM), Yugi Muto (DSOD) - Dark Magician (including its Dark Side of Dimensions counterpart)
- Yami Yugi, Téa Gardner (DM), Yugi Muto (DSOD), Téa Gardner (DSOD) - Dark Magician Girl (including its Dark Side of Dimensions counterpart)
- Yami Yugi, Seto Kaiba (DM), Seto Kaiba (DSOD) - Obelisk the Tormentor
- Yami Yugi, Yami Marik - The Winged Dragon of Ra
- Seto Kaiba (DM), Mokuba Kaiba (DM), Seto Kaiba (DSOD), Mokuba Kaiba (DSOD) - Blue-Eyes White Dragon (including its Dark Side of Dimensions counterpart)
- Seto Kaiba (DM), Seto Kaiba (DSOD), Mokuba Kaiba (DSOD) - Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
- Joey Wheeler (DM), Rex Raptor, Joey Wheeler (DSOD) - Red-Eyes B. Dragon
- Joey Wheeler (DM), Mako Tsunami, Joey Wheeler (DSOD) - The Legendary Fisherman
- Joey Wheeler (DM), Espa Roba, Joey Wheeler (DSOD) - Jinzo
- Yugi Muto (DM), Yugi Muto (DSOD) - Gandora the Dragon of Destruction, Silent Magician LV8
- Jaden Yuki, Jaden/Yubel - Elemental HERO Neos, Elemental HERO Flame Wingman
- Yubel, Jaden/Yubel - Yubel
- The Legendary Duelists who, in descending order, share the same amount of card-specific dialogue with each other are:
- Jack Atlas and Crow Hogan
- Joey Wheeler (DSOD), Zane Truesdale, and Syrus Truesdale
- Seto Kaiba (DM) and Yugi Muto (DSOD)
- Leo and Bronk Stone
- Akiza Izinski and Rex Goodwin
- Alexis Rhodes, Dr. Vellian Crowler, and Kalin Kessler
- Yami Yugi, Ishizu Ishtar, and Bastion Misawa
- Tristan Taylor (DM) and Sartorius Kumar
- Mai Valentine and Tetsu Trudge
- The Paradox Brothers, Mokuba Kaiba (DSOD), Axel Brodie, Dark Signer Carly Carmine, and Antinomy
- Téa Gardner (DSOD) and Yubel
- Yami Bakura and Lumis and Umbra
- Yugi Muto (DM), Maximillion Pegasus, and Mokuba Kaiba (DM)
- Weevil Underwood, Yami Marik, Espa Roba, Aigami, Sera, and Prana
- Téa Gardner (DM) and Mako Tsunami
- While Legendary Duelists have their own theme music when a player Duels against them, some share the same theme music:
- Joey Wheeler (DM), Mai Valentine, and Tristan Taylor (DM)
- Téa Gardner (DM) and Yugi Muto (DM)
- Weevil Underwood, Rex Raptor, Bandit Keith, and Bonz
- Mokuba Kaiba (DM), The Paradox Brothers, Espa Roba, and Lumis and Umbra
- Yami Marik and Yami Bakura
- Ishizu Ishtar and Odion
- Mokuba Kaiba (DSOD), Joey Wheeler (DSOD), and Téa Gardner (DSOD)
- Sera and Prana
- Jaden Yuki and Jesse Anderson
- Zane Truesdale, Aster Phoenix, Chazz Princeton, Syrus Truesdale, Tyranno Hassleberry, and Axel Brodie
- Leo and Luna
- Dark Signer Kalin Kessler, Dark Signer Carly Carmine, and Rex Goodwin
- Bronk Stone and Tori Meadows
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