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Starmie needs a nerf in the form of my opponent never drawing it.
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I don't understand why they thought 0 retreat cost was okay. Everyone runs X Speed anyway, so at minimum it needs to have 2 retreat cost to have some effect.
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>>56874900
PREVIOUS!
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Limit on EX cards in deck when?
>>56877398
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>He doesn't change his language during Lapras event farming
Pathetic
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i was told the monkey deck was good but they throw starmie ex turn 2 or pikachu ex turn 1 with 2-3 benched electric ones and i dont even draw the primeape IF i even get the mankey early on to self inflict damage. maybe the kabutopses would help
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>>56877422
How could Mankey ever be good when it has to spend a turn in the active hitting itself for Primeape to be worth it
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>>56877385
ultimate blackpill of this game is that the cancer arent the coinflip cards but rather the inverse of them - the overly optimal mons like starmie and pikachu that punish the worst form of variance: getting bricked early game. they set up quickly and can be up and running by the opponent's second turn, all while having cheap RC. you can't play your way out of a starmie/pika as easily as a marowak that will miss coin flips or a cheap attacker that lacks bulk and damage.
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Weezing/Venusaur is very fun. Venusaur EX can solo like half the decks in the game. Erika + 2 potions + Venusaur heal = 120 HP heal in one turn. I learnt that you shouldn't place your 4th basic pokemon on the bench most of the time in this deck because of Sabrina. Weezing can also sometimes just win you games without Venusaur.
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>>56877422
Gaming communities always think any synergy or exploit is broken. Eventually, you'll learn that they're almost always wrong. Nothing about the Pikachu deck is remotely synergistic or exploitative and it's the best deck.
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Hell yes.
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>draw 1 pikachu ex and 2 bench mons during setup
>opponent puts out some random card, then concedes
enjoy the Thanks
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>>56877447
Lucky. I really want to make the Surge deck but it's so fucking expensive. FOUR rares, yeesh.
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Finally goddamn sone with this.
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welcome to 2 tap heaven
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>>56877447
I'm jealous. Game won't let me build that deck.
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I am 99% sure this is the currently the best Mewtwo list in the format.

Mandatory cards (17):
- Gardevoir line x2-2-2
- Mewtwo x2
- Professor x2
- Pokeball x2
- X Speed x2
- Potion x2
- Sabrina x1

Leaving 3 open slots:
- Basics like Meowth, Jynx, Kangaskhan... rarely Farfetch'd or baby Mewtwo (the 120hp one)
- Giovanni
- A second Sabrina
- Red Card
- Fossils

Fossils suck in this deck, running extra basics is fine but the more consistent strategy is NO additional Pokemon.
Meta is currently DOMINATED by Pikachu, and Giovanni is excellent against it. Red Card is generically strong against every deck.

So for the last 3 slots, pick one of the following:
- Giovanni x2 // Red Card x1
- Basic x2 (Jynx+Kang or Meowth x2 are great here)) // Red Card x1
- Basic x1 (one of the above) // Red Card x1 // Giovanni x1
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Who's the blue eyes white dragon of pokemon?
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>>56877453
>>56877461
Oh I already had two copies, I've just been wanting to make progress on flares.
I want my boy to look the coolest.
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>>56877398
Joke's on you, I already only play with one EX.
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>>56877422
>but they throw starmie ex turn 2 or pikachu ex turn 1 with 2-3 benched electric ones
I mean you would have lost no matter the deck here, they just drew better than you
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>>56877463
Right now, it's Charizard.
>Dragon(like)
>Extremely powerful, highest non-RNG damage in the game as of now
>Fan favorite
>Takes a while to get on the field, and has very few counters
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>>56877463
Charizard, does alot of damage but is vastly inferior to the faster speed of Summoned Skull (Pikachu)
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>>56877463
Charizard
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oh yay another opponent flips heads and kills me

i am having so much fun
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>>56877463
Charizard
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i shouldnt refresh the samina for the lapras event right/
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lol why does bricking bother you just concede nigga it takes like 2 secs
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Out fucking skilled bitch
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>>56877385
That's not the plague rodent who devastated Europe?
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>>56877483
lapras sucks so yeah not worth wasting resources on recharging event stamina
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>>56877462
desu i switched from 2 sab/1 gio and it completely handicapped my ability to recover from bricks. i like gio a lot and you hit some important targets with m2 but there are times when he's not useful, but a sab is almost always useful
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>>56877462
I run the deck in your image. Honestly I find Giovanni useless most of the time, I'll probably swap one out for another Sabrina.
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>>56877463
When are we gonna get Pokemon fusions
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>>56877463
no charizard and exodia are more alike because they actually won world tornaments.
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>>56877462
Pretty much except I don't bother running Red Card online
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https://youtu.be/v-YviA5KOzg?si=DwZjxDKXx32Yx-al&t=122
https://youtu.be/Hn_c0M-QU8U?si=PKw2JEp-0QH7Dhl0&t=2173
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>>56877439
>Weezing/Venusaur
I'm enjoying;
>Weezing/Arbok
>Weezing/Nidoking
>Weezing/Wiggly

There's a few other weezing decks I could try but I'd hate to see them become common.
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>>56877463
charizard currently
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>>56877533
I wish I had Wiggly EX so I could run that.
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>build a meme pidgeot/fearow deck
>happen to que into someone else playing absolute jank
>both completely exhaust our decks and I get my 45th win
absolute kino
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>>56877533
>no Weezing/Hypno
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>TCG is an unbalanced dogshit mess
whoa, just like every other one ever created
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>>56877540
>Wiggly EX
He takes a lot of energy to get up and running
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Sneed's Bleed and 'Cede
Formerly Rick's
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>>56877544
shhhhh
I didn't want to mention that
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>>56877533
>>56877544
Weezing/Greninja is my favorite personally
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HELP
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>>56877561
TOP RIGHT GANG
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Flip your last pathetic coin, so I can end this /ppg/
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>>56877550
Brick and Click or Brick and Crick
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>>56877561
If you're not right you're wrong and the top is on top.
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>>56877561
Top right is always right anon
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>>56877416
man fire emblem really did change
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>>56877561
It's over before it even began.
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>>56877561
top mid is what I would do.
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I'm not here to win i'm here to eat all your cards.
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>>56877563
I have no pathetic coins, *flips 10 coins on misty*.
BLASTOISE USE HYDRO BAZOOKA
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>>56877561
FUCK
I tried using my esp. I almost never pick middle...
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I swear 90% of the decks I fight is pikachu
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>>56877590
ummm
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>>56877590
It wasn't meant to be.
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>>56877590
kwab
just pick the sabrina next time
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>>56877591
90% of the decks I fight is Mewtwo. Which server do you play on? I'm in Korea, so all I get are squiggly little Japanese names for opponents.
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Post 'em bros
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>>56877561
>>56877590
charge yo phone nigga
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>>56877422
If you get Primape out early it can be very disruptive. No that doesn't make it a better than the best decks but that doesn't make it bad either. It's just a deck with a chance to run away with the match.
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Based on the coupon collector problem, we can determine how many booster packs you'd have to pull from to complete a set. For reference, this says that you need to pull 264 commons (1 diamond) on average in order to get a playset of the commons from a pack. That's about 90 packs. Per pack.

You need 170 uncommons (two diamonds) to get all the uncommons from a pack. That's about 110 packs. Per pack.

You need 50 rares (3 diamond) to get a playset of those. That's about 200 packs. Per pack.

You need to pull 10 ex pokemon to get a playset of those, which is about 120 packs.

Remember that these numbers are really multiplied by 3, because there are 3 packs to open from. While I think it's already insidious that it takes twice as long to get all the rares as it does to get all the ex pokemon, I think the truly horrifying thing is that you can have opened near to 300 packs and still be missing commons from the set.
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I feel like I used to see this fat birb in every deck early on and now no one plays him. What gives? Is he shit?
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>>56877439
>I learnt that you shouldn't place your 4th basic pokemon on the bench most of the time in this deck because of Sabrina
You pick for Sabrina. If you have a better option on the bench it becomes a free switch. Just be mindful when you have nothing else in the bench to not put something that could be KO'd.
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>>56877617
F2Pbros...?
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>>56877601
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If I lose matches in the event versus mode does my rank go down?
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>>56877628
no
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>>56877628
There is no rank. You can safely be a shitter, don't worry.
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ok but seriously primeape needs a health buff unless we get a primeape ex which is unlikely
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>>56877630
Damn that’s a relief. That really takes away any intimidation of playing, I love it
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>>56877601
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>>56877601
I'm not creative enough to come up with names for everything.
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>opponent runs dragonite deck with only thunder energy
huh wat u mean
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I tried to be a metafag and focused on getting the Mewtwo deck, but I actually kind of hate it. Every game is basically the same, you hope you draw Kirlia and Gardevoir soon enough or you just lose. This is supposed to be one of the best decks, but I lose to PikaEX often, so it doesn't really feel like it so I'd rather just be playing something fun instead but I don't have the cards for any other deck yet
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>>56877645
Maybe his rng was seriously that bad. I got taken for a loop by a fire deck that ran Heliolosk
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>>56877651
take the Primeape pill bro
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>>56877561
>>56877590
I would unironically rage delete this shitty app if that happened to me
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>retreats into zapdos to stall for some reason
he was fucked either way but I don't think he knew what nidoqueen does lol
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>>56877651
Pikachu has no way to outplay you if you get properly set up (barring Zapdos coinflip shenanigans). Either you're bricking too much (list problem or just bad luck) or you're misplaying too often.
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>2 energy 90 damage And 130 hp
im new and they keep diggin in a nigga
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>>56877601
I haven't really messed with deck building at all or online play.
Basically anything from the water on is just auto build stuff for solo missions, while Metachu is obvious.
Raichu is my half baked attempt to try to make a Raichu focused deck that I have no idea what I'm doing with.
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>>56877651
>Every game is basically the same, you hope you draw Kirlia and Gardevoir soon enough or you just lose
Are you doing Oak into Pokeball to draw Ralts and Pokeball into Oak to draw Kirlia/Gard? How are you managing your resources like Sabrina and X Speed? Are you leaving your main Ralts to get slapped by the opponent? Can you post your deck?
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>>56877651
Pikachu EX is a “win before they set up deck”. If you’re playing against it, you need disruption and stall to waste their time while you set up.
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>>56877651
Yeah, I find the Mewtwo deck boring too. High retreat costs and a straight forward game plan. You only need to make a choice in retreating like 1 in 6 games where it isn't clear what to do.
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>>56877675
I always Pokeball first so I can draw the most cards. X speed is either to get a turn 1 Ralts out or to switch Mewtwos to save my first and if my second one can swing. I usually save Sabrina for if I can get a snipe. Deck list is identical to this >>56877462 except I use two Sabrina and one Giovanni
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>reset rolls over
>no new events
ded game?
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>fight against sleep-themed deck
>Snorlax, Hypno, Wiggy EX
>out of the 20 something Hypno coinflips, they missed literally 2
>the only coinflips I won were when passing turn back to them except on 2 occasions
>could rolled me early but kept stalling for more coins
>finally manage to Sabrina and hit a Hypno, who goes on the bench
>Hypno misses the coin, evolves the other Drowsee, sleeps me
Kudos for the themed deck, but that, bar none, the most miserable card game experience I have ever had.
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>>56877686
>I always Pokeball first so I can draw the most cards.
Sometimes it's best to Oak first. Getting a dead card later is worth getting a basic you really need first.
>X speed is either to get a turn 1 Ralts out or to switch Mewtwos to save my first and if my second one can swing
That's good.
>I usually save Sabrina for if I can get a snipe
Not always the best play. Especially if you have 2, and you're going first. It may be best to use it early to stall, and swing the energy economy into your favor.
>Deck list is identical to this except I use two Sabrina and one Giovanni
If you think you're having momentum problems, switch things up for a Jynx, Kangaskhan, or 1 or 2 Meowths. You can also try fossils.
I forgot to ask something: how early are you playing Ralts? If you play Ralts with only 1 Pokemon on the field, your Ralts is open to be Sabrina'd.
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>>56877618
I just think most people find Sabrina to be an easier way to force someone to switch since it's only a 1 card investment instead of 3. It's not a bad card it's just you need 3 cards in your 20 card deck to get janky Sabrina or 6 if you want it to be more consistent and most deck struggle to fit that many cards into them and still do what they want to do.
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>>56877704
>Sometimes it's best to Oak first. Getting a dead card later is worth getting a basic you really need first.
How does this work?
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>2x zard ex and moltres ex
>0 charmeleons
Come on you little shit
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Handscope and Pokedex are underrated.
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Is it worth to spend 36 wonder hourglasses on a 20% chance?
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>>56877704
Thanks for the tips. As for Ralts, I usually just slap them down as soon as I can get them. I haven't had them sniped with Sabrina very often, and when they are, it's late in the game when I needed them to be Gardevoirs already. And if I hold them back that long, I'm just playing without them
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>>56877722
Imagine this card line up
>Basic you don't need
>Trainer/evo
>Trainer/evo
>Basic you need
Now, if you ball then Oak, you get a basic you don't need and two trainers. HOWEVER, if you Oak then ball, you get the basic you need.
Now, consider how many Basics you have in a Mewtwo deck. At least 4, usually 5, maybe 6.
You have a far greater trainer/evo to basic ratio, so that two trainer/evo gap can be a LOT larger.
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>>56877385
What's the best pack to pull on for my daily draws if I'm saving all of my hourglasses?
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>>56877722
You remove potential Mewtwos from your top deck, which makes it more likely that you ball your Ralts or vice versa. If for example, you already have both of your Mewtwos or both of your Ralts or one of each though, just go ball>oak
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>>56877733
That's why they're there bro... smash it

top right btw
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>>56877733
Not unless you really want the card. In general, stop yourself from overcapping by rolling on 20%(or 40% if you happen to see one right before capping), then use hourglasses on 40%+.
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>>56877734
>I usually just slap them down as soon as I can get them.
If it's working fine for you so far, then just go ahead and keep doing it. But I'd still consider it. Playing without a Ralts isn't very much different from playing with a Ralts when you don't have Kirlia, and getting your Gardevoir sniped is definitely a problem that waiting until you have a fodder basic can solve.
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>Open app
>Open daily free packs
>Collect daily reward
>Search through wonder trades for something worth bothering with
>Close app
Well, I guess I'll just be saving until the mini set. Battling is too repetitive after a while. I'm almost level 19.
I would rather be making comfy houses and treehouses in Conan Exiles, wanking to F95 slop or furthering my research into the connection between freemasons and jews, the first of which I will be doing after hitting post.
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>>56877734
>I usually just slap them down as soon as I can get them
That's how you get sabrina'd and lose
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>>56877653
What's the best Primeape deck?
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>>56877752
I've never had a match that I was going to win and that happened. If that happens, I already lost my Mewtwo and don't have the resources to set up my second one
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Alright, I tried out some more Gyarados games, and I genuinely don't think he can work. Yeah, you can snag the spare win or two, but he's just too much set up for just barely not enough damage/HP to make up for it.
I even tried stupid shit like regular Starmie for the free retreat/low energy req so you can force feed blues into Karp/Gyara but it doesn't matter when Mewtwo can still one-shot you from full.
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I'm surprised the "ball>oak is always better" is such a common misconception. Is it a holdover from TCGs with targeted tutors or is it something else? We had this discussion the other day too.
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>>56877737
depends what you're going for, if you just want cheap cards that can build a solid deck quick go charzard since Blaine fire decks can hit pretty well above their weight class and exeggutor can let you build a decent grass deck.

if you're going for what pack has the most good cards probably mewtwo since it has weezing, marowak, mewtwo (obviously), articuno, and dragonite.
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>>56877763
I assume people don't think about it beyond minimizing the chance of waste
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So I had an idea for a greninja/bruxish deck to mess around with. Should I toss articuno ex in there as well or no?
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>>56877735
That does make sense, but it's a pretty specific use-case. I don't think most decks will fall into this scenario.
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>>56877762
of course he won't work. deleting an energy from a mon is really not that big of a deal in pocket with both free energies and how cheap retreats are. fun mon in theory but just too much effort with no payoff sadly
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>User whose name is "L"
>Lost easily
;_;7
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>>56877777
checked
articuno's a good fit
if you're based you'll slot seadra in tho
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>>56877777
you got quints so yes
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>>56877777
based
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>>56877777
I run a similar list. It's not bad, but it's lacking in power until Greninja is online. Articuno definitely helps. I stopped running it once I got better options though. Still waiting for Starmies so I can play Greninja again
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>Round 1 hand
>Sabrina
>Sabrina
>Potion
>Potion
>Shitmon
I don't like this one bit
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>>56877730
I disagree. The decks are so small that I'm going to play 50-75% of my deck in every game, so it doesn't really matter if I know what's coming a turn early. I guess it's not bad as a deck filler instead of something like a red card.

As for handscope, why would I care what you're doing when my deck is busy ramping up. The only time handscope is really useful is trying to decide if you want to red card.
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>>56877777
I tried a similar thing with Poliwrath instead of Gren. It was alright, you'll probably see better success since Gren synergies much more. Will probably be fun.
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>>56877764
I need my first wonderpick, are any of these worth? I got a Blastoise EX from one of my first packs.
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>>56877792
Seriously fuck my ass
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>>56877781
Deleting energies is no big deal because the only mixed energy deck that has a hope of keeping up with the meta decks is Dragonite. If more ridiculous mixed energy mons get introduced, mons like Gyrados and Mawile really get a massive buff in viability.
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>already have 50 wins in the pvp event
>will not keep joining the queue
>I can stop and have fun not worrying about metashitters
>I'm a Lilligant player btw
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>>56877796
If you can snag another Blastoise from top middle you'd be on your way to having a deck for it, but 1 card wonderpicks are usually bad odds.
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>>56877777
Whenever I put a bird into a deck that's otherwise regular pokemon, I just end up sitting on that bird the entire game and losing when it dies. IMO it's not worth it. You need to lean into your deck's strengths.
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Damn, once venusaur EX is ready to go, he's unstoppable
But I'm not sure how to set him up
Snorlax kinda works to just sit there doing nothing, but then the opponent realizes that and also doesn't touch him
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>>56877796
honestly when it comes to wonder picks I just browse and see if I notice anything I want. If so I try for it, if not I just ignore it. If you don't want to waste any golden hourglasses and the game isn't forcing you to pick I'm pretty sure they have a free wonder trade option every few hours
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>>56877802
This isn't a bad thing though you can use every support card asap before you get red carded
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>>56877818
Most people use Liligant from what I see for the free greens.
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GUYS, THE YUGIOH PLAYERS ARE LAUGHING AGAIN
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>>56877818
Two main ways are Lilligant like >>56877823 said for an energy battery or Caterpie/Butterfree. Caterpie uses it's move to search Grass Pokémon and Butterfree sits on the bench sprinking potions on you every turn. With Butterfree, two Potions, Erika and Giant Bloom, you can heal a total of 140HP in a turn.
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>>56877818
Exeggutor is the most sensible choice to help tank, but personally I like adding Weezing/Koga to get to the point where you have Venusaur. Dark energy optional.
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Uhhh event?
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I'M BUYING THE ERIKA GOLD SET
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Can this make Gengar ex viable?
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>>56877823
>>56877836
I've tried lilligant but maybe I was just too retarded to use it well; I'll try again
>>56877838
Never tried it but worth a shot too
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>>56877850
I have 2 art surges but non of anything else. I don't even have a single blaine or koga and I opened like 40 charizard packs and like 20 pikachus.
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>>56877847
two events going on right now, the lapas ex event which is you fighting the computer. win and you get a chance to get a promo pack which has a single promo card in it. Most just being alternate art works but 2 are unique in the form of a mankey that can hurt itself to bring out the full power of primape when it comes out (assuming your opponent doesn't just take it out first) and Lapras EX which can do 80 damage for 3 energy and heals 20.

other even is a PvP event that if you can win 45 times before the end of the month you can unlock a special emblem.
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>>56877454

Deck list?
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>>56877832
I like both
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>>56877651
Do Greninja x2 and Lapras EX or a Wheez/Arbok deck. Both are really annoying to play against but fun when they work. I've won more games than lost with these two decks.
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>>56877838
I've been trying Dual Energy Venu and I just feel like I get cucked by the random energy desu
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How do we rate Pockets first ofifcial release month so far?

>Miniset dec16
>Main set 2 jan29

I think it's been pretty good. Hopefully momentum carries into the future though
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>>56877762
2 Greninja, 1 Gyara, 1 Lapras EX is the way to go. As long as you don't get fucked early on by getting no Oaks/Pokeballs set ups are easy.
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>>56877874
>>Miniset dec16
I heard it was January?
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Why won’t they give us freebies? Didn’t we reach like 10 million players?
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>>56877878
nah that's the main set
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>>56877874
I've hit 45 wins on the event and have 2 Lapras EX. I've got no content left.
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>>56877873
In this current meta where Mewtwo decks are so prominent I think the dual energy is worth it. I would take it out for tournament play but for just random matchmaking I win a lot more games because of Weezing attacking than lose games bricking grass energy. Weezing one shots Ralts which is most of the reason I use like it.
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How would you build a deck with no Kanto mons?
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>>56877763
I play YGO, and tutor before random draw makes the most sense to me. Why is ball into oak not the best?
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>>56877866
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>Matched against a JP
>Opens with Hitmonlee, I only have pidgey and some fossils
>Have Pidgeot lined up, just need to survive 2 turns, don't bench anything to play it safe
>They get Marowak ex out on turn 3 and gets the one coinflip they needed to disintegrate my pidgeotto with it

I aint even mad. 200iq play I walked directly into
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>>56877888
*wouldn't take the deck for tournament play
Typo.
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>>56877891
>>56877735
>>56877738
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>>56877873
>>56877888
Why not Zubat and Golbat? They hit Psychic for supereffective and they don't use Dark energy. Goes well on fighting decks, too.
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>>56877777
>that get
do a pack/wonder pick NOW
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>>56877893
How'd you handle fast aggressive attacker like rat and ape?
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>>56877874
Apparently december has Pikachu stuff on the premium things.
So I'll be happy.
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>>56877898
I haven't tried that but the main purpose of Weezing is just to stall with Koga until Venusaur gets set up.
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>>56877601
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>>56877890
Here's your no Kanto mon meta decks
>Gardelurk
>Zebcurchin
>Centiwool
>Bruxmothninja
>Metal
Shame Liligant gets cucked lmao
Gardelurk and Metal probably dominates and are the best options
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>>56877890
make a metal deck
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>>56877903
For rat you can use one (or two) of your mons as walls while you set yourself up. I tend to let a Lilligant get knocked out if it means I get one more attack off/one more free energy for Venu. Or you can hit with Petilil, evolve next turn for 60 damage (which is an important threshold) + one energy and then either just hit again or use Erika to keep Lilli on the field farming.

For ape you try to safeguard Bulby as much as possible to swing big toad dick and kill it in one shot.

Of course, it all depends on your draws. Ideally you want to start off with Peti up front and a Bulb in the back. Works best going second. Try to get Lilli as quickly as possible to get the engine online and then it's a matter of farming as much as you can while chasing the evos.
Get comfortable with maneuvering with retreats to safeguard the important pieces (sometimes it's best to spend the energy to reposition that you can gain later from Lilli). Last ditch effort is putting the bodies in front of Bulba so he can naturally get the energy.
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Wouldn't it be funny if ball tutored from the bottom instead of the top or randomly, making this whole discussion pointless?
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>>56877883
That's on you, man. Think about it from a casual's perspective. 3 weeks to get 45 wins. If they've got a ~50% win rate, that would take 6 games a day (15 wins a week, 2-3 wins a day). In my experience, each game is around 8 minutes. That's about an hour of play a day. For a casual player, an hour a day for 3 weeks is way too much.

These are just rough numbers. Remember that a casual is ftp and doesn't have a playset of Pikachus and Mewtwos. Don't sperg out on me.
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>>56877895
Makes me think of the Mewtwo player that had his big boy sitting on the active spot with an Alakazam in the back. If I put the final energy to kill M2, Alakazam could kill me; if I didn't, I didn't get the heal to survive M2. Quite simply outplayed, I wasn't even mad.
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>>56877893
I play this too but I have no Eirikas so I use other trainers and just pretend I don't need the healing.
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>>56877870
I would like to promote to Weezingchad, but I only have one Weezing and one Koga so far. Greninja is also a mon I have interest in running, but I haven't pulled one so far
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>>56877926
Maybe try the Butterfree version. Not as much energy gen, but a Butterfree on the bench is equivalent to a Potion every single turn.
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Requesting a couple of friends please.
3017179338537485
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>>56877928
I crafted a Greninja and Frogadier to complete my 2 Greninja team since I knew it would take forever to pull another of each. I also hadn't gotten any Sabrinas or Giovanni's so I wound up crafting 1 Gio and 2 Sabs.
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>gold so event is filled with nothing but Pika and Misty sweats that practically curbstomp my funny meme decks
>all the cool players with funny gimmicks like me are in the normal tcg player pool
Ahhhh.... it's good playing with fun players...
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>>56877778
I thought so too but I have been trying it and while my sample size is still small I like what I'm seeing. If there is a specific basic I need I use oak first, since the problem with oak first is that it could get you the target you need making pokeball less useful so this only works when the target is more important than a useless pokeball. If don't care which basic I get I use pokeball first, this maximizes the usefulness of the pokeball while oak gets to grab something other than the basic you just got.

It took me a while but the anon a few threads back explained it well to me. It's about increasing the chances of getting the basic you need vs getting the best from both cards.
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>a couple people on my list have the vs emblems
I guess I should bite the bullet finally.

>>56877941
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>its another "Kirlia is the bottom two cards of my deck" game
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>supporter full arts don't have flairs
Also I noticed that flairs appear when you attack. I wish they also appeared when selecting your active pokemon.
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>>56877960
NTA but for me it's the opposite. My deck only uses two basics, so if I have one and need the other, Pokéball first gives me a 2/3s chance of getting the basic I need, whereas if I were to Oak first, I might hit the one I don't need/already have. It all depends on deck/playstyle.
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>Heatmor
>1 energy, 30 damage, Fire, 80 hp
>Whimsicott
>Stage 1, 1 energy, 40 damage, 80 hp
Hmm.

>Hitmonlee
>1 energy, 30 damage, Fighting, 80 hp, targets the backline
>Kangaskhan, 1 energy, 30 damage on average with a chance of none or 60, 100 hp
The KANTOOOOO favoritism is showing.
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>>56877993
Whomsicott uses colorless energy so anyone can run her in a theoretical Onyx T0 meta. Kangaskhan costs 3 to retreat.
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I've reached the point where im just conceding immediately if I get first turn. It's not even worth the effort if you aren't playing a Misty Deck.
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>>56877385
Did the Friend sheet die?
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>>56877880
I don't think you understand. Those kinds of campaigns are never to actually thank players. They're to just hand out a little extra something to make them feel happy and more likely to stick with the game. Pokémon will never have to do such campaigns, because they're one of the biggest franchises in the entire world, bar none.
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>>56877385
I don't mind any other deck but I really don'tike articuno into misty. It's a chance to just end the game without even having a chance to do anything about it.
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>>56877880
You'll get another Promo Chansey when we reach 100 million and you'll like it.
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>>56878028
You know I expected like some hourglasses to help catch the new guys up to the NZ pre-load crew but there wasn't anything but that stupid ticket stub. They must be making money by the truckload in japan
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>>56877533
>>56877544
>>56877558
>>56877558
Weezing/Muk? With the honeybee koga mention
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I hear that grass-deck chads get laid weekly, is that true?
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There's no way hourglasses will be set specific r-right
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>>56878043
I'll raise you on that. Future card expansions are gold speed-up only. Card pack points are expansion exclusive and will empty every 3 months.
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>>56878040
It's true. I get a leafy supply of fresh pootang every saturday.
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>>56878058
based
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>>56877987
I also have a two basic deck, the same chance oak has to hit the card you have he has to hit the card you do want. If he hits the card you don't want your chances are at that time lowered but that is ignoring the chance he already gave you to grab the card you want. If oak doesn't grab a basic your chance to get the one you want go to their original chance. I'm going to keep gathering data to see if it works in practice.
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i hope we get dataminez soon
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
PATCH WHEN
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>>56878040
The grassy ladies are insatiable. Just when you think you gave all you could, they find a way to extract another helping out of you.
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look at that him go
if anyone's interested:
6666-9787-7628-0565
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>>56878074
>666
No thanks, Satan.
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>>56877918
Thanks lad, great tip. Just need to craft Erika and I aspire to be a Venusaur enjoyer like yourself.
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>only missing the final Zard EX and Machamp EX copies from the Zard pack
Might just save for the next expansion after this. When is it?
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>>56878100
in like 3 months
we'll get a mini-expansion before that
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The last time I saw a 4 cost wonderpick was TOO DAMN LONG
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never gets old
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>>56878074
Can you even get those from wonder trades?
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>>56877918
As a fellow Venuchad, I approve this message. I sacrifice my Lilli in most of my games. Hitting that 60hp threshold with Peti/Lilli is so nice. I've only got one Venu Ex, but the deck still works just fine. I've only had to use the regular Venu once in the past 30 games, but it was a lost cause because the opponent was a Charizard. Mewtwo decks don't give me any problems because they're even slower with lower consistency. I haven't faced enough Pikachus to give an opinion on them.
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>>56878104
Was the mini datamined already or did they announce it?
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>>56877599
I play in the Asia server too, everyone has double illustration rare Mewtwo ex for some reason.
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>>56877385
misty needs to be removed from the game. I am sick of some faggot getting lucky and winning the match because they got a lucky 50 50

I am generally starting not to even want to play against water decks. Makes me want to only use my Pikachu deck but then the match making would just pair me against fighting decks all day.
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can you see what you've offered people for wonderpicks recently? got 3 thanks for my last bunch of 10pulls so I must have done something right
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Missing Venusaur, Exeggcutor, and Erika in my effort to make a Grass deck. Missing a lot really, but I reckon those might be key. Should I tear open Charizards or Mewtwos in the name of 'make something half-functional as soon as possible?'
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>7 battles, 0 thanks
the fuck's gotten into people?
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>>56878128
Ranks not even in the game. Literally just consneed and move on to a less frustrating matchup. There is no reason to play against any deck or card you don't feel like. This is the most casual the game will ever be. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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>>56878153
what deck do you run
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Any Venusaur players feel like Dragonite is an impossible matchup?
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>>56878156
Ranked might not even be coming, what people thought was a ranked mode just turned out to be a "win matches" event
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I'm impressed at the guy who beat me, well done
>Butterfree
>Venusaur EX
>2 potions
>2 Erikas
>2 X Speeds in the same turn
Well constructed healing plan
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>>56878170
It's stall vs stall. Dragonite is random at the end of the day like Misty so it boils down to chance.
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I made a thing. Hopefully, it helps.

I just wanted an excuse to post Slowpokes.
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>>56878176
Other than Butterfree that's pretty standard grass fare.
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>>56878170
I'm halfway through the pvp event. I've played against 3 Dragonites and all 3 fell flat on their face. Is that deck even consistent enough to really be used? Like, without Weezing, would the deck even be viable?
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>>56878185
just use a pokedex and then decide
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>open articuno and misty
>flip 5 heads
>concede before my opponent can
>send a friend request
>no thanks
just a small glimpse into my twisted fucked up world
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There was no reason to release EX cards this early.
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>>56878185
>excuse to post slowpoke
Nice.

Doesn't ball shuffle your deck and therefore make the theory crafting moot?
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>>56878185
anyone who isn't retarded already know that you always ball first unless you REALLY need a specific basic
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guys I'm getting worried. I've been doing the PvP event with an incomplete arbok/pidgeot deck (I'm missing a single Pidgeot so I've just been substituting that with the weezing line) and in my last 7 matches 6 have been mewtwo and one Pikachu. I've won them all since in the mewtwo matches my snake or weezeing can take out the mewtwo before they can set it up or take out their psychic cheerleaders before they hit stage 2 crippling them and in the Pikachu match... well that one just came down to my opponent drawing like ass.

People are playing other decks besides mewtwo right?
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>>56878205
There is a reason; they're cool.
>mfw I pull a FA Golbat
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>>56878212
>People are playing other decks besides mewtwo right?
>30 matches into the event
>more than 20 of those matches were Mewtwo
No.
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>>56878189
you need to stall for that deck to work, some variants I've seen have frostmoth/Articuno small for sleep/paralyze stall, or try to set up omastar to just stop them attacking outright.

It's like the diesel engine of the game right now, bitch to set up but damn does it go once you do.
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>>56878187
I actually don't run Potions, but Sabrinas. I'd rather have the switch tempo to generate more energy. Too much stall makes me a dull boy.
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>>56878220
well my cobra is eating well tonight I guess
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>>56878207
Yes. You either know what's coming (Pokedex) and make a judgement call from there, or you Pokéball and believe in the Heart of the Cards that you're not bricking yourself.
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>>56878226
>paralyze stall
Wouldn't Pinchurin be cheaper/faster?
t. someone who doesn't have a single Dratini
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>>56878240
>Wouldn't Pinchurin be cheaper/faster?
Misty... well that and mini articuno has 100 health and only 1 energy retreat cost so even if the misty fails you can just have it be a wall and get beat on until it dies or you get dragonite up and can retreat it with a single point of energy or an ex-speed if you got one.
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The normal queue is so cooler now that all the netdeckers are in the event queue. I ran into a Brock deck, a Kabutops deck, and a Seadra deck.
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>>56878270
yeah I've been using it to test out some of my less polished decks as well to see if I find anything interesting that I might want to try myself. Well that and a pallet cleanser from fighting only mewtwo decks in the event
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>>56878207
>shuffle
I totally forgot. Some slight editing of the examples is probably needed, but the core points are actually unchanged because

Oak - > Ball
>Still potentially removes basics that could get in the way of ball tutoring a specific basic

Ball - > Oak
>Removes a basic from the deck before making you draw two cards, meaning those two cards you draw are less likely to be basic Pokemon
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>event pvp
>3 different marowak decks in a row
>including a single jap
The fuck happened here? Did meta switch overnight?
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>>56878284
HA
they got tired of all the dark decks popping up to stop the mewtwos
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>>56878284
>Everyone and their mother is running pikachu/mewtwo
>People catch up and start running fighting/dark decks
Yes, it's a very natural and normal thing in games with a meta, something that smogon trannies will never understand.
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>>56878284
Based I say
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This very specific situation has been game deciding for me so many times, I couldn't imagine being a Zapdos player
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>>56878270
I ran into a gengar ex/psyduck CHAD who refused to let me play supporters. Would've been toast if his second haunter wasn't at the bottom of his deck.
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Top right chads we win again
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MISTY IS SO FUCKING DOGSHIT MAN
JUST GIVE ME HEADS
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>>56877385
Starmie, Pikachu and Articuno can get taken out back
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>salty jap whaler running misty deck gets god rolls both times, fucks up, and abuses the time limit to bm me until he just gets the auto DQ
hehehe, lil bro mad
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>doing pikachu mirror
>opponent goes first
>wins
every single fucking game i go first and it's the most hamstring thing ever
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>>56878322
kino second coin but I'm not buying
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>Opponent setting up a Dratini with a Cloyster in the active slot
>Snipe it with a Seadra because no one knows what the fuck it does
Yeah, the regular matchmaking is a lot more run right now
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What makes Gardevoir X Mewtwo any better than Moltres X Charizard?
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>>56878322
I've always hated Erika since HGSS so no, gossipy cunt
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>>56878284
>>56878287
>>56878290
>got out of the event just before the great Mewtwo extinction
Fuck, could've saved myself some annoyance, but I just wanted to be done with it as fast as possible.
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Part of the problem
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>>56878332
based.... !
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>>56878322
no sir i no boughted
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>>56878329
Gardevoir supports from the bench without using energy or attack turns.
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>>56878299
I once fought someone with two Gengar ex. The moment I managed to scrape by one, the other was waiting in the bleachers to still deny my supporters. Complete shutdown.
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>>56878329
>Mewtwo is cooler
>Gardevoir is a waifu
>Charizard needs to fully evolved to start playing while Mewtwo doesn't, Gardevoir just needs to fully evolved to start supporting
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>>56878322
I was gifted a 10 dollar apple giftcard and used it for this game but I'm saving the gold so no
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>>56878322
Did you really thunk I boughtered? I no spending money. Me am F2P.
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>>56878329
Both rely on a 3 stage mon to set up. Moltres is a bit more consistent BUT pikachu exists. You're at the mercy of rng for getting zard to show up as well.
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>>56878329
Turns out a Basic who requires charging and a Stage 2 backliner who does the charging is more effective than the other way around. Who knew?
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Cute art
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>>56878322
Waiting for Sabrina or Lillie
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>>56878296
The game decider is Zapdos doing average damage with its attack, which only Machamp ex does more damage than on 3 energy?
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>>56878322
Call me when Flannery.
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>>56878301
I counter with my leftiechads
Congrats tho, toad is awesome
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>>56878216
man fuck golbat, crobat when
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so am i just fucked if i'm unlucky enough to not get lapras ex at all
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Top right chads, i kneel
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>>56878372
if i get one more fucking butterfree i will riot
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>>56878372
How many rolls are you at? I think by now it's pretty unlucky NOT to get it
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>>56878375
i havent even gotten a butterfree
>>56878378
like thirteen or fourteen. i've used up all the natural stamina up to this point without overcapping
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do you get better odds of pulling lapras if you do the higher difficulty ones or can i just keep redoing the first battle to speed things up
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>>56878381
Same. Two Lapras, no Butterfree.
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>>56878382
You have better odds of getting Lapras by doing expert, yes.
It goes from "sometimes not getting a promo pack" to "always getting a promo pack".
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>>56878382
expert is 100% guaranteed pack drop
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>>56877385
>2 cuno + 1 starmie
>1 cuno + 2 starmie
>2 cuno + 2 starmie
Which do you think would yield the best results?
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>>56878370
I feel you. I have 2 FA Golbats and I'm excited for the Brobat. Golbat's art is fuckin wonky and I love it. A lot of these Full Arts in general are really nice. They chose some superb art.
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Dual energy decks should be able to select which energy you start with. The rng is fucked.
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>>56878387
https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/672d1c250947ec3b5d199b7a/player/ursiidae/decklist
Judging by this tournament winner, 2 of both
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>>56878390
then dont play dual energy then you fucking mongoloid lol
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>>56878337
A lot of the time I just a see Mewtwo being a sitting duck while Zard gets powered up.
>>56878339
Charmeleon and Charizard's basic attacks are stronger than Mew2 which helps sometimes. Moltres also has the advantage of letting you set up Mander while you wait for the evo cards.
>>56878346
It honestly feels more or of the same except the fire deck can reach it's ideal form faster if you have all cards in hand.
I feel that a worst case drawing Mewtwo will be better than Charizard so it is lower risk, lower reward but not by that much.
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>>56878390
We should also be able to pick ban cards like a moba and force people to change their deck at the last second
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>>56878390
I like the RNG representation. I mean, it IS a card game. It's hilarious that you dual type monkeys are the only ones that have to deal with it, though. kek
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>the Charizard dickrider has appeared to defend his goat again
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Dual energy decks should get 2 energies per turn.
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>>56877444
>Nothing about the Pikachu deck is remotely synergistic or exploitative
Wrong.
You bench Pikachu, feed it with energy, your active pokemon is voltorb which will high likely will evolve for 0 retreat cost, sparing you the x speed to use with Zapdos and Pikachu.
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Dual energy decks should be banned.
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>>56878322
Not gonna spend money on a free to play game this soon, which is a shame because the Gardevoir cosmetics are nice. My rule is they've earned my money if I actually stick with it long term. The only f2p I've spent money on so far is Fate/Grand Order which I've played every day for five years now.

That said I do actually really like the game so I can see myself sticking to it.
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>>56878409
>fgo

Huh. No.
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>>56878406
I don't particularly like Mewtwo OR Gardevoir all that much but I run their deck
I think I've grown fonder of them from using them, however
On the other hand my rat hatred has increased
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>>56878406
you could try a hybrid blain/Charzard deck. just run the standard ninetails and rapidash lines with a few Blains in the back for some quick damage and use them to stall while you power up charzard. Careful with the ninetails though, it cause an energy to use it's attack but could still make a good backup nuke if zard goes down or just as a body while you build up zard
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>>56878412
I'm not gonna defend it, bro, I'm just saying I only spend money on f2p/gacha if I am personally invested.
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>>56878406
>I wanna run a Charizard deck, but I do not like Moltres as a pokemon at all
Tough luck, suck it up and pray they add a fire-type Misty.
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so when the next set of packs drop you think they're going to stick to mostly Kanto again or do you think they'll splash Johto in?
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>>56878419
Praying for Johto but it could just be Kanto EXs and another small assortment of random gen mons
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>>56878419
I really really hope they don't do expansions based on generations, it's been done on so many different Pokemon things and it makes it a crapshoot for certain newer mons.

I'm hoping the Kanto focus was just a marketing decision basically, and that expansions from now on will just have whatever theme they want to run with. Fuck waiting a year for anything cool from Sinnoh or two years for anything cool from Alola.
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Should I buy out the limited monthly hourglasses instead of the cheaper one-time hourglassed?
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>>56878426
I brought the first time ones to make my deck building go along faster. You'll most likely have time every month to clear out the pack hourglasses. The wp hourglasses you can get from bonus picks.
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Update on the no Lapras situation. I've completed all event tasks, having defeated the expert deck for the 20th time tonight. Now that it has been 24 packs with no Laprasx, would any of you like to make a prediction on which pack I open will have my first Lapras? And how many monkeys will I have pulled by that point?
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>>56877462
I run this with drowzee and hypno for sleep coin shenanigans.
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I'm just wondering if the next big pack drop is going to have a larger focus on duel energy decks? I mean this first pack set seems more to just get people use to playing the game by making mono energy decks better with a hint of duel energy with the dragonite line. Wonder if the next packs will have more duel type cards and support to make said decks less rng depended.
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>>56878428
Between 1 and infinity I guess.
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>>56878428
Yeah the future is looking grim if they don't do anything about this. There should definitely be some sort of pity or guarantee system that lets you get everything for playing through their events.
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>>56877601
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>>56878428
not sure if it helps or just superstition on my part but I got all the alternate art cards and monkey before getting my first lapras and then couldn't pull a second on to save my life so I started holding the primo packs in the hopes that opening more then one at a time would work and it did.

If you're out of ideas I guess you could give it a try and hope it works?
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>>56877416
to what?
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>>56878443
instant loss allegory
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>game decides you go first
>I decide I'll concede
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>>56878419
Hopefully their greed for their golden geese will let us see Lucario and Mimikyu and Sylveon expansions soon.
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i am finally relieved of my duties in getting BEEG number for the versus battle record
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>>56878406
You don't need Moltres. Just run Rapidash and Meowth or Kangaskhan or something. Moltres is a big investment, it's not as cost-efficient as it seems.
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Grasschads rise up
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>>56878452
you licked out their soul
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>>56878444
I could try that, I appreciate the suggestion. I will say though early in the event when I did open multiple packs in a row I remember just opening Mankey after Mankey
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I'm thinking about paypigging a bunch a Mewtwo packs exclusively to look for extra copies of Koffing and Weezer. I want to flair my dark deck so bad and I've somehow only managed to open 2 Koffing and one Weezer (had to craft the second).
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The heck is this
Trio rainbow cards?
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>>56878451
>Eevee set where all the EXs are the Eeveelutions
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>>56878464
I think you need the full arts of all three birds
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>>56878464
Yeah. That's the paypig emblem.
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https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/671d5be40947ec3b5d18beb8/player/samtojo/decklist
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>>56878456
The worst part of Moltres is that when it goes down it gives 2 points. You really need that Xspeed to get him out before.
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>>56878471
Who the fuck dropped a game to this ai deck?
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>>56878426
Obviously buy the cheaper ones then move on to the monthly hourglasses.
I wouldn't bother with the wonder hourglasses unless you've got nothing else to buy, though.
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>>56878467
>>56878467
That's insane, getting a rainbow bird is hard. 3 different at that and this is probably the hardest "achievement" in the game so far
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>>56878440
>There should definitely be some sort of pity or guarantee system
There will be. It's called trading.
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>>56878473
Depending on the tempo of the game sometimes I put two energy on Moltres to threaten being able to attack next turn so I'm already able to retreat if X speed doesn't show up
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>>56878471
mf burnt down the kitchen
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>>56878476
I don't know if they have to be the rainbow version, or if the normal full art 2 star works, but yeah it's going to be a ridiculous thing to accomplish for the average player without trading, especially a free to play player
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>>56878426
>should i buy the more expensive version or the cheaper one
lol

just lol
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>>56878487
you know that the second one is more expensive because the stock will refresh eventually right
Unlike the top one
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>>56878491
Anon, are you fucking stupid? Are you retarded? Were you dropped on your head as a kid?
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>>56878491
>it won't refresh, so I should just never buy it and spend more on the expensive one
I bet you still have dozens of elixers in your inventories, don't you? So do I...
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>do 5 expert matches
>get 5 packs
>they're all fucking Pikachu
you have to be fucking kidding me with these packs
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>>56878504
I was gonna say that they should add special cards you can only use a limited amount of time for but then I realized that's what rentals are
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>>56878452
Anon...care to explain those card sleeves?
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>>56878322
I'd like to but can't. If I scrounge enough Pokegold, maybe I'll get the B set for the backdrop, much as I'd like the rainbow coin. I don't think it's realistic to expect to get the A set as a cheapskate though.
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>>56878511
Those are his opponent's, no?
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>>56877590
You got the dud!
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>>56878515
Nope, his side
>Erika, Gardevoir, Kangaskhan
anon is a lady magnet
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>>56878525
Ah, you're right. Very fascinating.
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>>56878525
With 9 consecutive licks it's no wonder if you ask me.
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>>56878508
They're retarded. Accounts must be coded to have their own unique pack pull ratios, probably to encourage trading. This is probably true for all the packs and why that one anon pulled three Immersive rare Pikachus a thread or two ago on his new account. He's meant to trade with someone who pulled three Charizards but can't get a Mewtwo or Pikachu to drop
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>>56878491
anon that was a weird double down

i'll pray 4 u tonight
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>>56878530
Oh forgive me
8

Not that much of a Chad let's not get crazy now
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>>56878532
I forget I'm on /vp/ and then I see concentrated schizophrenia like this. Never change.
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>>56878537
You're welcome. I just wanted to get it out of my system
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>>56878532
These levels of retardation have only been imagined before today.
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>>56878548
Now I hope I've inspired you to turn your gaze inward and enjoy your own retardation, you're in for a treat
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I have no fucking trainers
No kogas, mistys, blaines or sabrinas. I only just got a second Giovanni
Do I craft at least one Sabrina or something?
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>>56878452
That weezing came
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>>56878553
I did, no regrets. Also I still haven't pulled a second copy but I'm still hunting for cards in the Charizard pack so I haven't been able to justify to myself crafting a second yet
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Really, Psycucks?
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>>56878553
Reroll or grab them from 1 cost wonder picks
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>Starmie on Charizard packs
>Articuno on Mewtwo packs
>Misty on Pikachu packs
Painful
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Uhhh Sabrinalets? :^)
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>>56878569
Let me borrow your Venusaur Exeggutor deck bro I can't get either EX to drop for me
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>f2p (played on prerelease)
>got optimal Pikachu EX, Articuno + Starmie deck, Moltres + Charizard decks

Guess I'm rolling for them full art Misty/Sabrina now
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>>56878578
It’s strong as fuck, you basically win if you get Venusaur out, especially if you have Erika in hand.
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>>56878580
>rolling for cosmetics as f2p
just hoard for miniset, bratta
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>>56878445
Whatever language you're learning, of course! Add cards from a promo pack that are potentially going to be sought out later and combine two topics you're interested in!
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>>56878582
What did you sacrifice to put the Eggs in?
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>>56878601
To pull it? A couple lambs.
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>>56877416
fucks sake you're right
so tried of getting useless extra laprases when butterfree refuses to exist
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>>56878322
Hella tempted
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>>56878601
I’d probably cut the Eggs if I had one more each of Erika and Kangaskhan, and maybe cut the Red Card for another Sabrina.
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>>56878626
her arms look wack as fuck
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>>56878322
No, I will only buy pokemon stuff not humanshit
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>This app is unavailable on your device
Fuck my stupid life bros
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>>56878633
Is that ai?
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>>56878628
>severe lack of healing
I dunno how you do it, man.
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>>56878652
It often doesn’t matter by the time Venusaur is out. My best plays are opening Kang, building up a Venusaur and best-case is having a a Lilligant as well to swap to and help build Venusaur when Kang goes down
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My 45th victory was a Mewtwo mirror match where I outmaneuvered my opponent by getting out a second Gardevoir. Fun stuff.
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>>56878661
I think it's just two different routes to the same end game. You have more bodies and little healing whereas I play fewer bodies and keep them alive longer. I gotta say that I do like knowing exactly what my pokeballs are going to pull. I think that's one primary difference between our decks.
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>ihateniggers profile on wonder pull
>They have a Sabrina card I want.
>Pull
>Get sandrew
Fucking nigger
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>>56878633
Let me guess, Samsung phone?
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>>56878669
The next card I’ll craft will probably be another Erika and I’ll try your deck, I really like the idea of Pokeballs being beneficial almost every time
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>>56878688
How did you know?
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>>56878633
>coomer has a 9 year old android phone
tip top lel
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>>56878689
>>56878669
Oh shit dog I had a second Erika that I didn’t know about
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>>56878689
>>56878706
Nice. My deck isn't quite done. I need a second Venusaur Ex and another FA Bulbasaur. It's fun and extremely consistent. The only decks I lose to on a regular basis are fire decks. This deck eats Mewtwos for breakfast.
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>he actually ragequit instead of just conceding
something about this event seems to really get people worked up
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>>56878727
>poor mans pika ex vs mewtwo meta deck
no one won this duel
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Heliolisk or Electrode?
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>>56878733
Electrode hits hard and hits consistently. Zero retreat cost is unmatched. Helio is weirdly better for a mixed energy deck.
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>>56878693
They have a meme about shipping 32bit versions of android on some phones, even though the SoC is 64bit capable
Could affect you even if you bought something that was new in 2022
If you buy anything make sure that you've got more than 4GB of RAM (RAM "extensions" don't count) so it's sure to be 64 bit
>>56878651
>Illus. Bill's computer
probably
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>Top right is always right!
>Except for all those times it was middle...
>But the times I went middle it ended up being top right!
>Tap on top right
>It was actually middle
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lmao
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>>56878763
kino
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>>56878651
If you can't tell does it really matter?
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>>56878762
That's what you get for being a wishy-washy little faggot.
Pick one and stick to it.
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It’s becoming so pretty
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>it's a rat deck lost because he staked it all on the Vegas bird episode
You just love to see it. Raichu feels more of a menace.
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>>56878818
Vegas mentioned
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>>56878820
Wrong image, whoops
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>>56878727
It’s pretty sad, honestly. There aren’t any punishments for losing in the event, yet people are clearly getting salty based on the online discourse I’ve seen + the lack of thanks and friend request accepts.

I’ve had some really good games, including a win against an articuno deck that used blizzard on turn two and a win against a set up zard that required me to play towards a 3% out. Basically no one has thanked or accepted friend invites.
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>>56878833
Why anyone would rely on this card for anything other than stalling is beyond me.
>>56878837
Invites I can understand because not everyone wants to be filled with randos.
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My wonder picks are pure fire.
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>>56878818
He gives and he takes away
>Raichu feels more of a menace
Nah. Raichu is too energy hungry. Zapdos fits better into the deck as a basic that can soak attacks, poke when needed, and retreat easily. You NEVER want to rely on zapdos ex’s coin flips as your win con, but sometimes you have no choice. Raichu would be decent if surge didn’t suck, I guess. It blows that the best use for raichu (one-shotting mewtwo ex) can’t be done without telegraphing it to your opponent.
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>>56878837
>+ the lack of thanks and friend request accepts.
Huh, I didn't notice anything like that while playing the event. Made some friends who played cool decks too.
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>>56878858
And I just lost 3 in a row.
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I have never lost against a Dragonite deck.
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>use Red Card
>your opponent conceded
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>>56878895
Red card does psychic damage if you use it at the very start of a match.
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>>56878879
Lost to one that Giovannied. This should be against the rulesm
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Shouldn't have won this, unluckiest zard
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>>56878862
It’s probably because I’ve been running a pikachu deck, but that’s one of the reasons I mentioned the decks that I did. I’m not sure why someone running a very competitive looking zard deck (who seemingly knew to hold basics to block sabrina) would be mad about losing a close game to a pika deck. Likewise, I would think I’d be more surprised than angry if someone managed to win against *the* misty meme (turn 1/2 blizzard).

The event bracket is pretty sweaty, overall. I thought that was the point.
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>Pincurchin keeps winning the paralysis coin flip
>Frosmoth/Wigglytuff Ex/Hypno keeps winning the sleep coin flips
>Opponent plays Starmie ex turn 3/4

Which is more frustrating?
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>>56877385
played f2p just fine for a month but something in me broke this morning and i whaled out for like 200 bucks. i can afford it fine, sure, but feels bad to give in. and still no moltres EX rip. at least all the collections are done.
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>>56878954
>Hypno keeps winning the sleep coin flips
I’m assuming this one because it requires two coin flips to have the opponent stay asleep in their turn.
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do you put Muk into a dark deck or only Weezing and Arbok?
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>>56878962
Did you just buy cards? Also learn to budget gacha games because once you spend you open up pandora's gate.
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>>56878904
Gio only affects the first hit.
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>>56878954
Marowak misses, that card alone turns easily winnable games into completely unwinnable ones.
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>>56878954
>Win the coin flips when passing turn
>Lose the coin flips when starting turn
>3 turns in a row of this
Fuck Frostmoth. I'm salty.
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The Alpha of Alienation.
The Boss of Braps.
The Champ of Crap.
The Don of Disgust.
The Expert of Expulsion.
The Father of Farts.
The God of Grossness.
The Hero of Horrificness.
The Imperator of Icky.
The Justiciar of Junk.
The Knight of KOs.
The Lord of Loogies.
The Master of Measles.
The Ninja of Nastiness.
The Operator of Odor.
The Prince of Poison.
The Questor of Queefs.
The Ruler of Rubella.
The Saint of Shit.
The Titan of Terminality.
The Umpire of Urine.
The Victor of Vomit.
The Wizard of Wee-wee.
The Xenophobe of X-rated.
The Yardmaster of Yucky.
The Zenith of ZERO SURVIVORS.
ENTER
W E E Z I N G
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I’m fully convinced this piece of shit feature is designed to taunt you.
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>>56878973
just cards, yeah. i have pretty much everything else i want through in-game rewards and the Erika specials aren't super interesting to me, so cards is it. butt yeah this is pretty much it, the remaining 6 cards i need can just be pulled slowly or bought with pp eventually. but now i have to explain to my wife. not the random 200 dollars but why i have so much more shit than her.
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Do you prefer if your opponent concedes when they know they've lost or do you want to make the finishing blow?
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>>56879004
>200 dollars
Jesus Christ, dude.
>doesn't have a full playset still
Jesus Christ, dude.
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>could craft 2 Erikas to complete a Venu Ex deck (with only 1 Venu ex though)
>could craft 1 Garde, 1 Ralts and 1 Giovanni to complete a Mewtwo Ex deck
>could craft 1 Koffing and 1 Giovanni to complete a Weezbok deck
what to do, what to do...
there's nothing to earn right now anyway, so maybe I should just patiently await the pack dripfeed.
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>>56877836
>>56877823
>>56877838
Yeah I ended up trying Lilligant/Exeggutor/Butterfree and it's great
Either petilil starts first and once lilligant feeds energy pretty nicely (and lilligant does respectable damage)
Or caterpie just farms deck pulls
Once venusaur is in, if the opponent doesn't have charizard, it is almost always over for them
Exeggutor mostly ends up just to scare them from using sabrinas; I rarely need to even bring it out
Very fun deck
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>>56879000
yes, you have to understand that every feature in a gacha like this is specifically designed to create engagement, the idea with wonder picks is that you'll get so frustrated you'll just buy a bunch of packs.
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>>56879008
If there's a deck/meta that's particularly annoying or oppressive, sometimes I want that dopamine hit, but I haven't felt that in this game. The only times I get stomped are when a Charizard pops off or I'm at a type disadvantage. There's nothing to be mad about that, though. It is what it is. Charizard is going to do Charizard things and there's no shame in losing a match with a substantial disadvantage.
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>>56879008
If they brick or just can't get going, the former. I obviously want to win, but I also want them to at least have a chance.
If it was a tight game and it could've gone either way up to the very end, the latter. Going down fighting after a long and arduous battle is a satisfying loss.

I greatly prefer just winning the Misty coinflip turn 1 and wiping their pokemon before they even get a turn though.
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>just got my 5th Mewtwo EX
for fuck's sake release trading already
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>>56879036
same brother, still no garde btw
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>>56879030
This is how I feel, no point dragging out a match you know you'll lose, but if it comes down to the final turn and it can go either way depending on what cards you draw, and then they concede as you're about to get the final blow, then I feel well and truly blueballed
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>>56879013
Hoard until something better comes out.
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Lots of salty niggers in this event. Well, I got my 50 wins so I don't have to care anymore.
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>0-0, opponent has only weezing on field
>I have lilligant active, butterfree and ivysaur on bench
>he plays koga
>You Win!
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>>56879072
you won't be able to use your pack points from this set on the next set m8
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no news on trading yet? worried that they're going to be overly cagey with it, like having a new resource both players need to give up in order to gas the trade or something. or you can only trade like for like rarity. i guess it would break the game if there were no restrictions, but still.
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>140 but you have to discard all energy
>130 and only discard one energy, which means shit since you get a free energy every turn
This shit doesn't make sense. In both cases it should be 2 energy for it to be balanced.
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>>56879098
obviously. what do you think what kind of game this is?
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I love this little bastard
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>>56879100
it's not meant to be balanced. one card is shit and makes you want to get another pack for something better, the other is decent.
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>>56879100
Balance? In MY card game? Outta here with that sound logic.
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>3 games in a row lost solely because my opponents opened 2 pokeball/2 oak
wow, amazing
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>>56879022
>There's nothing to be mad about
When it comes to trading card games, this is generally true. You should always analyze your own gameplay for misplays, but you have to keep in mind the inconsistencies inherent to the game and your deck. You won’t win every game.
>>56879030
>I greatly prefer just winning the Misty coinflip turn 1 and wiping their pokemon before they even get a turn though
How about losing the game despite landing a turn 2 blizzard?
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>>56879100
Raichu would be acceptable if surge allowed you to choose how many lightning energy you move from the bench. As is, surge is often a momentum killer, and because it’s a trainer support card, you can’t use it alongside important stuff like gio / sabrina / research.
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>>56879100
all Raichu needs to be balanced is a 50 attack that only needs one energy besides the 140 attack
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>>56879132
>>56879149
>make surge good
>give raichu a decent poke
Why not both? Doesn’t feel like they wanted to the combo to be very strong when you think about it. Electabuzz sucks. Electrode is decent but rarely your go-to cleaner. And raichu drains all of your energy for an attack that is incapable of wiping out a lot of relevant threats. In the current metagame, raichu feels more like a pika mirror match tech, but I don’t think it’s good enough to run over pincurchin / zebstrika.
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>>56879160
>Electrode is decent
maybe if it didn't have such low HP
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How is Charizard?
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>See a 3 point wonder pick with a Charizard ex
>Decide to roll on it, use my hourglasses to get 3 points
>Haha just kidding I used all of my f2p gold instead because I didn't have enough hourglasses
Gee I sure hope nothing comes out for f2p playersl to buy with gold, haha
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>>56879174
good with moltres
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>>56879174
4th fiddle to Pika and Mewtwo and Starmie chads
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How's Gyarados?
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>Lose coin toss - insta-lose
>Opponent opens pokeballs and oaks - insta-lose
I wish I could get real games
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>>56879100
Don't care, I intend to try to make my boy work regardless.
And hope they actually do balance updates
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>>56878532
no I got all of them. I don't need to trade but thanks for the offer
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>>56879191
Huh cool that's solid.
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28/45.....
*coughs blood*
i... must... con-
*coughs up more blood*
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been pulling exclusively mewtwo packs trying to get mewtwo and venasaurs. so far I've gotten 3 of these ugly fucking golbats and 2 dumbass porygons WHEN ALL I WANT IS JUST 2 FUCKING REGULAR MEWTWO EX AND 1 MORE VENASAUR. when is the fucking trading system coming ffs
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>>56879202
You should be able to win despite a good opponent draw, what deck are you using?
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>>56879219
I was the same and now I've given up on getting Mewtwo
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>>56879221
How can I win when my opponent has 4 cards left in deck, evolves on curve while I have 13 cards left in mine and a bunch of useless basics that just get oneshot. They also get to have all the X-speed/Potions etc. utility cards as well. The deck I play doesn't matter (Sandslash/Marrowak)
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This game sucks shit
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>>56878971
I have a weezing Arbok and a weezing nidoking
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>>56879030
>greatly prefer just winning the Misty coinflip turn 1 and wiping their pokemon before they even get a turn though
KYS
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>>56879015
>Once venusaur is in, if the opponent doesn't have charizard, it is almost always over for them

Have you ever tanked Arcanine Ex or Centiskorch?
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Yeah they need to do something to balance the dual energy system. There needs to be the ability to pick your starting energy or an increasing chance of getting the opposite energy as opposed to rolling. a 1/2 over and over again.
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>>56879242
t. person on the receiving end of a Misty OTK
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>>56879013
I do not regret crafting a koffing and koga. Weezing is way more fun to play than my moltres Deck, pika deck, and wiggly deck.
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>>56879229
You can either interrupt their flow or focus on bring your deck online. Your deck would do best at interrupting I guess.
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>>56879250
Not him but I've tanked a centisorch, I had Erica and two potions.
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To those of you running Venasaur EX decks, which variant are you finding more success with, the Lilligant version or the Exeggutor EX version? I don't have Caterpies so I can't try that one.
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>>56879254
weezing is love
weezing is life
(with koga of course)
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>>56879255
>You can either interrupt their flow or focus on bring your deck online.
Wow, it's almost like I can't do either of these because I didn't open pokeballs/oaks and am 6+ cards behind on curve
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>>56879262
A single Pokémon can interrupt their flow,
Farfetch is a great example
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Dragonitebros, how many weezings/kogas do you run? Theoretically you can run 2 koffings and 1 weezing right?
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>>56879250
Arcanine yes, never seen a centiskorch though
I beat a charizard EX too because he didn't have moltres so he wasted his 200 attack on my lilligant and burned his energy
I have no counter besides incredible luck when it comes to moltres/zard
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>>56879251
why can't you just play something that doesn't need dual energy? I have multiple decks and I don't have that problem
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>>56879268
I twin him with Kangaskhan as I don't have Wheezing
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>>56879203
If by balance update you mean they will sell you Raichu EX, sure.
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>>56879272
I want the game to be fun and I'm officially out of mono-colored decks to brew
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>>56879268
i run 2 weezings and 1 koga since i dont seem to need to stall with 2 kogas
i also have 2 potions for the weezings, but i mainly try to conserve them for my main dragonite line when he takes chip damage
i guess you can try 1 weezing and 2 koffings, but im just worried about opponents using sabrina so i like to have 2 weezings on the field if possible
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>>56879251
They could make it so there's a pattern to the energy that appears (ex. Water -> Lightning -> Water -> Lightning -> etc.)
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>>56879272
Why shouldn't people be allowed to play multi-colored decks?
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please for the love of god just let me open 10 promo packs at once
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>16 more hourglasses from being able to open 10 Charizard packs at once
boys i'm about to shit myself
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>>56879299
>>56879281
play it and shut up about the energy being random. why should you get special do every energy deck? Deal with it
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>>56879310
What?
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I thought playing Muk would be fine but it really is too costly.
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>>56879172
Eh, the zero retreat cost is great. I just don’t think it makes sense to run electrode as your stage one in pika when zebstrika provides way more flexibility and value. Chipping something in the active or on the bench to put it within pika ko range is so important for setting up win conditions, and you get that for only one energy, meaning you can start swinging as early as turn 3.
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>>56879310
retard
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>>56875661
>>56875661
>>56875661
Am I going schizo? It seems like all of these youtube videos popping up on my feed are using decks and ideas that we just discussed a few days ago in these threads. I could have sworn we just had a discussion about how to make Ditto viable by using the most Meta energy types. Are they stealing our ideas?

https://youtu.be/PiFTZi-JImc?si=0G2mrCnXJjXEmMUB
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>>56879308
Farm your meat.
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>>56879326
no, anon, people just think alike
you're not unique and you're not even special, you're just another dude
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>>56879326
Wouldn’t surprise me. That’s one of the reasons I don’t pass around the general gameplay strategies / best practices I’ve been learning during games. I’d share with my fellow retards, no questions asked, but I don’t know who else is reading. May as well enjoy being one of the “good” players before everyone catches on.
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>>56879326
that deck idea isnt exactly the most novel but it's possible i guess
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>>56879326
Stop shilling your channel here
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Anyone try out regular Mewtwo in the psychic deck yet? Picrel went undefeated in the swiss stage of a 1000 man tourney, I just played like 3 games where I wish I had something that lived a 90 instead of my Jynx. I wish the rc was lower but the fact it can tank and dps is pretty cool utility.
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>>56879350
Seems decent to me. Card counts are good too. Might consider an extra sabrina if you aren’t comfortable with red card, but I think 2x potion is the right call in mewtwo.
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>>56879333
Don't gaslight. People steal ideas for their YouTube videos from everywhere, Discord, Reddit, Quora; 4chan is no different. In the past 10 years, I've seen videos based on ideas from threads on /v/, /vp/, /co/, /a/, and /toy/ before.
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>>56879350
Something people have yet to realize and I don't know how is that having something that needs to get hit by Articuno/Pikachu/Starmie twice as opposed to once is the line between winning and losing those match ups. You'll find lots of lists of random decks with 1x Kanghaskhan, you can pokeball into it and randomly donk or get the turn that you need to win. Unfortunately for most types they don't have a big basic or even a big stage 1.
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>Japanese full art Eevee yesterday
>Full art Nidoqueen this morning
>Another full art Eevee just now
My wonder pick luck is amazing.
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I do not like full art exeggutor ex, and yet it's the only one I've got
Feels like goofy art of a cartoon character with their cock and balls out which is then used as a shocking twitter reply
But then people find out it was originally made on deviantart unironically or something
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How does wonder pick work exactly for my pulls? I just pulled an Articuno and Mewtwo EX and want to know if that'll show up for others if I keep pulling or if I should let it stay for the day
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>>56879372
I've been using Heatmor as a stopgap mon for my fire deck. Works, I guess.
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So uh... this is the power of meta decks
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>>56879056
>no point dragging out a match you know you'll lose
If they take out my heavy hitter and all I've got is a Farfetch'd on the bench and nothing in hand, sure. I'll forfeit. But you'd be surprised how often people make poor plays or just fuck up what they're doing. I've pulled victory from shitty situations quite a few times.
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>>56879372
As a pika player, I agree with your breakdown. It’s also why I think potion is really good in decks like mewtwo. Pika’s win condition is reliant on knocking out mewtwo without taking the 150 in return. If potion keeps you out of that 90 break point (or even above 100 if zapdos is being set up), your shot at victory is much better. In general, I think mewtwo is a small consistency boost away from being better than pika because the matchup isn’t usually a blowout as it stands right now.
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>>56877601
I cannot get enough copies of cards for the life of me dude. I've gotten 0 Erikas, 0 Sabrinas 1 Zap. I have to craft basic shit because I simply can't pull a middle stage evo.
This shit sucks.
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>>56879372
Yeah that's what I've been doing
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>>56879400
I’ve posted it a few times already, but I banked everything on a 3% chance win condition yesterday vs a set up zard and pulled it off. No sense in scooping when you aren’t dead, even if a gio / sabrina might do you in.
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>>56879356
I actually run dual sab in my own since I feel like it helps play out of bricks more, so I’d probably do the same if I ran this.
>>56879372
Yeah that’s pretty much why I considered running it, sadly I don’t actually have the mon or Kangaskhan so I’d have to craft or wonder pick it
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>>56879277
Hey, I'll gladly take being able to collect a new Raichu.
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>>56879229
>(Sandslash/Marrowak)
>complains about being slow
>plays one of the faster decks in the meta
Have you ever thought about tweaking your deck? Run more searchs/card draw. If you're that salty about being oaked/balled on turn 1, then start running red card. I say that as a guy who thinks red card is a meme.
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>>56879310
nta, but I think the dual color decks will start being much more viable once/if we get the special energies. Right now, they're a shitshow, but it is a tcg. Rng is an inherent part of the game.
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>>56879443
Deck doesn't matter
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>>56879451
You are right, the anon is clearly a shitter.
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FUCK YOU PIKACHU
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
YOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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>>56879450
>special energies
How would that work with the way the game's removed energy cards?
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>>56879443
>Run more searchs/card draw.
Like?
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>>56879464
"The next energy applied from the energy zone will also grant the following additional effect: ..."
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>>56879464
I imagine they would just fit into your deck like an item or support. For balancing, I'm pretty sure there'd be some mechanic to eat your energy for the turn. Even Double Colorless could be viable if that were the case (with the 2 card limit).

I can't wait for equips. I don't know what they'll be, but I think shit like the promo Mankey/Primeape would go fuckin hard with some equips.
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>>56879480
What sort of things could you equip them with?
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>>56879480
I haven't played the tcg in like 8 years, but I remember there being stuff like +/-20 hp to damage/incoming hits and reduced retreat costs.

I'm curious if they'll ever add stadiums. I doubt it judging by how the game works and the layout of the board, but I would love to be able to double evolve my grass pokemon again. I miss my Yanmega Break deck...
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Anons, are you buying the hourglasses from the shop, or hoarding the currency?
I could buy about 20 packs if I spend everything on hourglasses but I'm not sure which is the right decision.
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>>56879484
>NTA
This one looks amazing on Mankey and Primeape
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How many wins is it from Silver to Gold? Anything beyond Gold? I'm sitting at 10 wins and wondering if it's even worth going beyond that.
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>>56879484
handheld fan to weezing
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Can someone give me a good darkness deck?
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>>56879532
You need 45 total wins for gold. 50 wins nets you some additional dust. Best rewards are simply for participating in 10 battles.
>>56879507
Up to you. I bought them all, but I was chasing a zapdos ex that the game wouldn’t cough up. I almost have enough tickets to purchase all of next month’s pack hourglasses when they refresh.
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>>56879484
I just scrolled through the list of tools and picked a few examples of good tools.
>Trick Coin: Once during your turn, after you flip any coin for an attack of the Pokémon this card is attached to, you may ignore all effects of those coin flips and begin flipping those coins again.
>Rockey Helmet: Deal 20 damage to any attacking pokemon
>Poison Barb: When receiving damage, poison the attacking pokemon
>Muscle Band: Your attacks deal 20 more damage
>Karate Belt: If you have more Prize Cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of this Pokémon cost 1 less fighting energy
>Focus Band: If this pokemon would be knocked out, flip a coin. On heads, it survives with 10hp.
>Expert Belt: This pokemon's attack deal 20 more damage and this pokemon takes 20 less damage from attacks. When knocked out, the opponent takes 2 prize cards.
>Amulet Coin: At the end of your turn if this pokemon is your active pokemon, draw 1 card.
>Air Balloon: This pokemon's retreat cost is 2 colorless less.
Obviously these would need to be balanced for this game, but you get the idea. Here's the list if you wanna check it out.
https://serebii.net/card/dex/trainers/tools.shtml
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>>56879532
Tiers are at 1 win, 5 wins, 25 wins and 45 wins.
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>>56879532
Gold is at 45 wins total. There's a Stardust reward for 50 matches played but that's it.
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>>56879537
weezing/arbok [REC]
weezing/arbok/muk
arbok/pidgeot
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>>56879539
>>56879544
>>56879546
So I would need 60 more wins to "beat" this thing. Yeah I'm good. Too much of a time sink.
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Oh wait sorry misread. 35 wins. Still too much.
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>>56878759
That information about Samsung will never be relevant to me but I'm glad I know it, thanks.
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>>56879386
>>56879402
>>56879410
>>56879427
While I've got you here I would like to express a few more game fundamentals that people don't pay enough attention to.

-Make your opponent take 4 prizes, in deckbuilding figure out how to force your opponent to need to take 4 points worth of knockouts in order to win the game. The easiest(and worst) way to do this is to make a deck that has only ex pokemon for your opponents to take knock outs on. Ex pokemon's health values are not so inflated that your opponent needs to work harder to take 2ex pokemon down(unless its eg/venu) than they would to take down 2 normal pokemon + 1 ex pokemon. So you want to craft your deck in a way where the health and damage values line up vs opposing match ups that make it difficult for your pokemon to be taken down.

For example, I'm going to use my current deck. Whether I lead khan, egg or abra because of the double x-speed its very easy to get swinging immediately to either match the more aggressive decks or put pressure on a slower deck like Mewtwo. 100/120/130/160 are all health breakpoints that are difficult for meta decks to swing at outside of their perfect scenarios which they aren't going to get because of the board pressure forcing retreats/resource usage. Even with the heavy retreat costs of my team their low energy requirements make it very easy to swap them around on board to deny knock outs and games will always go long when your opponent has to do 400+ damage to end a game and Alakazam will generally one-tap all of the big set up pokemon or one tap them after they get egg on their face as my guys will always find themselves attacking first. Card advantage comes in many forms and you have to recognize what the cards in a deck actually are on the board where the game happens to figure out how to get more value out of your own cards. Abilites, HP, Retreat and Damage, if you can conceptualize them all you'll be able to build more fun decks and win with them.
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>>56879549
I think it’s based on total wins. Your win count carries on between tiers.
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>>56879333
>no, anon, people just think alike
>you're not unique and you're not even special
>t. someone who is actually not creative or special in any way
>>56879345
>says a guy is probably stealing ideas from us
>you think it's shilling
retards
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>>56879558
Is it? I saw some Anon say that you needed like 70 wins to actually complete it. I haven't been paying attention to my quests.
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>Mankey on turn 2
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>>56879557
>Make your opponent take 4 prizes
Again, gotta agree with you, don’t give away all of my secrets. If you tell them about proper energy allocation, I’m gonna freak! I like my opponents wasteful and tunnel visioned on a single win con, personally.
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>>56879569
That was probably me. I’m retarded and was wrong (I think).
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>>56879575
how do we stop this menace
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>>56879549
no, it's Silver once you hit 25, it's not win 25 after you get the 10 win medal, it's win 25 total. same for Gold.
>>56879557
that shit looks so fun anon, if they ever fix energy to be consistent instead of rng then I think a lot of dual energy egg decks are gonna start wrecking shop. not to say they aren't already good, but they'd be even better.
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>>56879583
No need. Pika doesn’t auto-lose or anything. Anon just had the perfect hand. Even if his opponent hadn’t scooped, anything that wasn’t zapdos ex was going to get one-shot.
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>>56879569
that was one guy and he was trolling. it's 45 for the medal then 50 more wins gets you some shinedust.
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>>56879575
fighting support is gonna be so fuckin funny
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>>56879543
Poison Barb Muk will be the new hotness
Believe it
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>>56879566
>>says a guy is probably stealing ideas from us
>>you think it's shilling
>retards
What better way to get people here to watch the video?
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Some retard just spent the whole game playing every card and ability he could just to drag the game out (2 hypno's sleep abilities on my already sleeping pokemon) Then when he had the chance to KO me he evolved his pokemon instead, didn't have the energy to attack, then Sabrina'd my Pokemon into a fossil waking it up so I could switch it back in to take the win
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I guess the general advice about wonder trade is only do it when there is a god pack and never just for one card you want because most of the time you will fail to get it and you will be consumed by anger?
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>>56879619
Idk say he's a good player. I also posted the video in the previous thread, which was a different steamer. I don't care about these streamers but I do find it odd how we theorycraft about decks then I see someone playing that exact deck a day later. Anyway if I see someone else coincidentally posting a deck we theory crafted about I'll post that too.
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What's the best emulator to play on PC?
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>>56879631
The odds of a god pack appearing in WP are really low, though. I think the odds of someone getting one of those is less than 1% and if it contains anything above two stars it won't show up in WP. You're better off spending your stamina when you see something you really want and just bracing yourself for disappointment while keeping your Wonder Hourglasses in case you see a god pack.
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>Persian Mankey deck in the ranked/event battles
>cant really get my mankey/primape out
>have persian set up though
>first attack coinflip success, discards a Greninja
>nice
>next turn, DISCARDS ANOTHER Greninja
>opponent immediately concedes
KEK
Meowth/Persianpilled draw/discardcels where we at
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>>56879631
Just wonder trade if you see a single card you want. Waiting for a godpack is just a waste of time, especially since you can somehow pick the single bad card in the pack.
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>>56879631
After netting the second zapdos ex I needed, I’ve just been patiently waiting for stamina to refill while watching for pulls with two cards of triple diamond rarity or higher. You get better odds for the same cost that way.
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Finally got a promo mankey
Can rape ape work with only one?
Also this looks goofy fun >>56879649
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>>56879651
>Just wonder trade if you see a single card you want
That is what I did! I wanted the last stage of tynamo and ended up getting a fucking Scyther and now I am MAD!
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>>56879656
2 Promo Mankeys are preferable, but 1 regular mankey 1 promo mankey works too
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Fina-fucking-ly
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>>56879629
>guy has Pikachu with two energy and three on the bench
>I have Mewtwo with 1 energy and Gardevoir on the bench
>enters his turn
>he could KO my Mewtwo by attacking this turn and then attacking again next turn, winning the game
>instead he switched out to a basic to tank a hint , which I Giovanni and KO
>he then brings Pikachu back in which only does 60 damage because he lost one of his bench
>and now I can just Psystrike for the 150 damage
why did he do this
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>>56879657
RNG is RNG. You can always use your stash to restore wonder trade if you actually see a godpack.
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>>56879670
I got a god pack once, it had two zapdos ex, a pikachu ex and two wigglpuff ex...i ended up getting one of the fucking wigglipuffs...
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>>56879549
>>Gold is at 45 wins total
>So I would need 60 more wins
anon...
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>>56879326
its possible but info gets around fast nowadays. its not 1999 anymore. a time where the only place you could get meta info from is kids on the playground and game magazines that might have recorded your local's tourney results. they don't have to watch this thread to get info. they can just look at their discords and see their fans talking about different decks Or twitter or reddit or w/e.
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>>56879667
Were you rerolling?
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>>56879659
I only have the promo mankey unfortunately
Definitely not spending points on a stankey mankey for now though
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>>56879674
I got a Charmander FA from one. That one's not even rare.
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>>56877601
sorry I ain't very creative
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Can we talk about how GAY and DISGUSTING the full art Nidoking is?
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>>56879713
>>56879713
>>56879713
NEW NEW NEW
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>>56877796
pick bottom right on blastoise pick
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Just looked like I bmed the shit out of a guy but I was just nervous because I played the most methodical game around a Zard team and didn’t want to accidentally choke
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>>56879268
Zero. I run a single kanga.
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>>56878322
I boughted. I will only boughted cute girls.
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>>56878349
this card, with the japanese is one of the coolest in the whole game

grats anon, grats



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