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/vp/ battle passwords to battle with other anons (might want to say in thread which one you wanna battle under so others can join you)
>/vp/ anything:
vp
>/vp/‘s own meta (no coin flips of any kind, no ex, no Dragonite):
vpnx
>meta decks or high level play:
vpmeta

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>>56942767
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first for fuck pikachu decks
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Janine's fertile armpit
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>>56945049
You got the OP wrong again, fuckwit. It's supposed to be /ppg/
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Damn, i really wanted Major Bob..
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>>56945150
>top right cultist
deserved
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So, what is your favorite card art? It doesn't have to be pocket specific.
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THERES NOTHING TO DO
THERES NOTHING TO DO
THERES NOTHING TO DO
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>>56945197
I'm still grinding out those 45 wins. You should have paced yourself.
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>>56945189
Maybe not the favorite, but this is definitely one of the funniest.
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Regarding the two-week subscription trial: do I need to manually cancel it before it expires or will it automatically cancel it on its own?
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>>56945223
you have to manually cancel it
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>>56945223
if you have no dosh in your account it will cancel on it's own, if you cancel on day 1 you will still have the rewards for 2 weeks
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hw many cards in the mini set
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>>56945244
considering it's just a 4th booster for Genetic Apex, about the same as the other 3 boosters
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>>56945244
Probably the same amount of exclusive cards as the other packs and shares the same amount as well
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What's a good Gengar deck bros
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>>56945269
I think a good pair with him would be Hypno, for better control
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>>56945269
There really isn't one yet. Maybe once we get Rare Candy or Evosoda but right now he's too slow to get going
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>>56945292
>Great HP
>Good damage
>Amazing ability
He's SO close to being good..
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>>56945257
Is there a higher res version of this?
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>>56945298
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>>56945302
Thanks
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>224 out of 226 cards
>around 100 hourglasses
>pulling cards in Japanese for the hell of it
F2p (Gardevoir aside, sorry!) is great assuming you started in New Zealand. If you have no interest in Wonder pack stamina and don't care a ton about art variants, I don't really know why you'd bother putting too much cash into this.
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I've made a shocking discovery
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We win again bottom right bros
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>>56945311
Marina would be best girl by a long shot if he eyebrows didn't imply she was constantly being held at gunpoint. This is funny as hell.
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>>56945257
What decks can you make from any packs?
Golduck aggro?
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>>56945319
It doesn’t matter where you pick, it’s just like coin flips and the booster pack wheel, it’s decided what you’ll get before you choose. Pick anywhere, it won’t change what you’ll get.
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>>56945269
I tried it with dactyl and it wasn't bad. ghastly is your only basic so you guarantee one, you don't need to play pokeballs and can make space for 2 red cards (which is a good card with gengar because you force your opponent to redraw all the trainer cards he couldn't use)
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>>56945295
Amazing ability isn't really true when you mainly want to stop people from using supporters in the first few turns, where it's very rare you've got Gengar set up.
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>>56945326
I see youre a glass half empty type of guy
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>>56945326
Do you have any proof for these claims?
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>>56945326
You're wrong in that it's decided before you pick. But it doesn't matter anyways.
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>>56945335
inb4
>they did it in the tutorial!!!
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>>56945333
It's still an amazing ability. Supporters will only get stronger with time. Stopping them at any point in the game is good. Gengars only fault is how long he takes to set up because, yeah, the early turns are more impactful.
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>>56945333
True, but it's still pretty baller to be able to not be able to get giovani'd or sabrina.
A single potion guarantees you beat pika, no questions asked.
And if you can manage it, you can safely build up a 2nd gengar in the back tanks to lack of Sabrina.

It also denies the Erika for Venusaur, among other niche late game supports.
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>>56945340
The tutorial is a scripted event. That doesn't mean that every pack after is also scripted. You need real proof to backup your claims or you'll sound like a tinfoil hatter
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>>56945349
I know, I'm just calling out the retards that try to use that as the reason wonder pick is rigged
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Coinflips are also rigged btw
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>>56945355
100%
dubs of trvth
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>>56945355
wrong, you can manipulate the manual coin flips
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>>56945349
It sure is scripted to have a 1/5 chance to give you a specific card.
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How do I make them usable?
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Doing 10 rolls on M2, and Charizard boosters, wish me luck.
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>>56945367
I just run 2 Kings with Arbok, needing to have 2 separate 3 stages out at once just for one to be powered up is a little unreliable right now
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>>56945367
rare candies
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>>56945049
Still haven't successfully won a single goddamn wonder pick yet
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>>56945367
Cut the queen. She requires too much setup. Find the king a new partner, preferably a basic EX pokemon or a stage 1. Perhaps Hypno? Hypno can sleep opposing pokemon, which can let the poison damage rack up.
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where's the fucking content
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>>56945367
1x Sacrificial Meowth, 1x sacrificial Nidoran, 1x Nidoqueen Line, 2x King line, 2x oak, 2x ball, 2x potion, 2x X Speed, 1x Gio, 1x prayer.

You will never beat a haymaker or Pika deck
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>>56945353
Everything else is scripted in this game, why wouldn’t wonder picks be as well.
I’d guess that when you choose a card, what card you then receive would be handled server side, and that would just pick randomly, it wouldn’t actually shuffle the cards. It’s all an illusion bro.
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>>56945388
>I’d guess
Nice 'proof' bro.
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>>56945390
>>56945388
it's a 1 in 5 chance either way, why are you even thinking about whether it's rolled before or after you press a card
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>>56945390
That is the exact moment it connects to the server to inform it that you've spent Wonder Stamina.
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200 mewtwo packs opened
0 fucking tentacruel
0 fucking weezing
0 fucking grimer
0 fucking muk
0 fucking koffing
How can my cards be so disproportionate
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>>56945390
Well we can’t check the packets in the same way that we can for packs, but it is known that when you pick, your device doesn’t know where any of the cards are, so you’re essentially picking a spot and then the server decides what you got.
Why go to the extra effort to code a shuffle when it’s unnecessary?
Coins flips work the same way.
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Collection thanks are rigged
Don't thank any collection and you'll seldom receive them
Thank 2 people's collections, close the app, come back 10 mins later and you'll get 4 tickets
>>56944974
>There's also a gyarados/magikarp event happening on friday too that we don't know any details of (which means theres a good chance of a meaty update / datamines)
pocket.codex.gg says it's just an announcement for it and not the actual event
>Announcement: Mission Event (Magikarp/Gyarados)
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>>56945392
Because it makes the act of picking a spot pointless, meaning you don’t need to worry about it. Choose wherever because you have no impact on the outcome. If anons knew this then they’d feel less bad when they miss a rare card because they chose top right. It doesn’t matter where you pick, it makes no difference as to what card you’ll fet.
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>>56945408
Everyone knows that none of this matters, it's just for fun.
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how do I get these? I only need one more.
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>>56945389
when you open a pack and this piece of shit or cottonee are the first thing you see, you know it's gonna be a garbage pack
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>>56945412
first, invent a time machine
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>Just pulled my THIRD full-art Dragonite
>Still don't have a single Dratini
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>>56945416
fuck, I shouldn't have traded 1 for shinedust.
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>>56945418
not having a 35 cost card is not something I'd call a problem
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>>56945418
I want a fourth FA Weezer so I can dust the extras for flairs. Not gonna do it if I can only flair one Weezer. Trading can't come soon enough.
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first zapdos, now muk.
from now on , I'll be a top middle believer.
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>>56945423
35 pack points is 7 packs. Half a week of f2p packs. Not something you want to waste on a low rarity card when you're saving for the good stuff.
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What goes good with beedrill
I want to make a deck with it, but I’m not getting any inspiration
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>>56945437
Not even half a week, 2.5 packs a day.
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Bottom right wins again
2 out of 3 wins
Bottom right is literally 66.6% win rate today
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>>56945432
Top middle is the least likely spot for the card you want to be in.
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>>56945438
venomoth, egg
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>>56945443
I’m thinking of going 2 energy with it, since I only need 1 grass
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>>56945438
Exeggutor. Go full grass aggro.
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>4 out of 6 of my battles today were my opponents conceding immediately for trans rights tickets
>the other 2/6 were me conceding for trans tickets and I had a bad hand anyways.
>The extra game i played was cause one conceders didnt thank me(bastard)
Yet somehow this game that nobody actually wants to play will win mobile game of the year
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>>56945449
I hear you, but that alone theoretically fucks half of your early games, and potentially fucks your midgame too.

Decks like Alakazam and Dnite can manage the multi colors, usually, since they are late game threats so the odds of being color fucked by that point are much slimmer.

I would think that a dual color bee would necessitate some good early starters while you can work on building bee and making sure he actually has the grass energy you need.
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>>56945467
You need battles for trans tickets?
I only did one game for the daily missions.
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>>56945467
nah, Balatro will
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>>56945400
I got 3 eelektross from a mewtwo ten pull today so I know the feeling.
At least I finally got my Ralts playset
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>>56945467
No one ever concede versus me, and I am playing M2
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>>56945441
keep crying, top right fag
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>>56945400
>packs
I really doubt that
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>>56945088
Looks right to me
You're just forcing an inefficient name
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>>56945189
Might not be my absolute favorite but definitely top 3

I really like the original ex's. A lot of them have this menacing aura to them and the card template was simple but effective at displaying that the card was special.

I pretty much hate the Lv. X style that extend into EX and the new SV ex where they are all sticking 1 arm out of the card frame and rest of the card looks like the pokemon threw up on it. I thought it was a good call to just go all the way in SM
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>>56945411
You shouldn't speak for everyone, there are people that definitely operate under the illusion it's their 2nd guess or initial gut reaction turned out to be true when they miss
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>>56945608
Retards don't qualify as being under "everyone"
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>>56945197
>>56945383
Don't expect anything until around a year in at this rate. Masters had no regular content until a year in when they rebranded to Masters EX and added Champion Stadium as weekly refreshed content. Virtually everything before that was just events with gaps in-between like what we're seeing in Pocket now.
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>>56945612
Yeah they do, everyone is everyone for a reason lol
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>>56945620
I guess you consider your pet goldfish as part of everyone too.
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>>56945627
It obviously stops at everyone playing TCGP
Because like, if you're restricting it further to say only everyone that knows better about WP would know better about WP then you were never making a statement anyway
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>>56945640
Goldfish and retards are on the same level of not qualifying as humans is the key point here.
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>>56945644
Retards are factually human beings, whatever 'level/qualification' is some personal thing hidden in your desk no one else has access to, because for normal people everyone is everyone, that's how words work
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>>56945617
this is a pvp game though, so there's an inherent difference
all they need to do is pump out cards from time to time and things are going to be fine probably
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>>56945049
Fucking decide on the /ppg/ or /ptpg/ already.
It fucks with my bookmarks.
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>>56945657
Who cares about factual definitions, sub-humans are just that, and the world would be objectively a better place if we started culling them.
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>>56945682
>Who cares about factual definitions
Uh, non-retarded people
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A bit lost.
Do i lose all the stuff in the top right, if i dont buy anything in a day?
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If someone did 1 wonder pick a day since launch, what's the probability of never even once picking the card you want?
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>>56945714
The blue ticket with the lock and diamond shapes on it, that you have 18 of? Yes, they will be deleted if unused
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>>56945714
jesus christ does no one know how to inspect their fucking items
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>>56945716
Anons can't really be this bad at math.
This is simple shit.

.8^n where n is the number of times you have pick'd
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>>56945679
Should be /tcgp/ as what makes the most sense but I don't really care to make threads
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>>56945738
>.8^n where n is the number of times you have pick'd
NERD
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>>56945716
0 because wonder picks have a pity system where it’ll eventually give you the highest rarity card out of the 5
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>>56945784
>Baseless schizobabble
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>>56945738
really puts into perspective how much better waiting for WPs with 2 hits is
with 10 tries, if you only have 1 hit you have a 10% chance of getting jack shit, with 2 hits it's 0.6%
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Bamboozled again...
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I'm tempted to flair copies of staple cards like Pokeball, Research and Speed X, but I saving tranny tickets to buy next months hourglasses seems more important.
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>>56945844
Didnt you read bottom left gang is always right
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>>56945438
Venomoth. I'm not a fan of exeggutor but if you're good at flipping heads the ex egg is okay. I ru 2 moth, 2 beedrill, 1 farfetch'd, 1 aerodactyl.
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>>56945189
I thought most of the early CG arts were pretty lame but it worked perfectly for Porygon
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>>56945844
Wigglytuff at home
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>>56945189
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>>56945992
What was the point of this card. Stalling?
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>>56946023
This was from the base set when they didn't really know what they were doing design wise
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Why js he such a joke compared to rapidash and ninetales
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What current "bad"/non-top-tier cards rn might become good or potentially game breaking in the future
My votes go to Gengar EX, Butterfree, Venu EX, and Alakazam
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>>56946069
He should have 100hp.
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>>56945992
>>56946046
I mean it still sucks but it does have a purpose of setting up a KO for your other mon, and if you don't have it ready yet + porygon didn't get hit, becoming resistant to your opponent who only has 1 color besides haymaker can let you survive a lot of the base mon attacks, and getting up to 60 isn't always easy in base set.
Being weak to hitmonchan is a death sentence though for an already bad card.

I wouldn't say that base set was "they didn't know what they were doing" as there were a lot of things that were given care and consideration with HP values and damage and stuff, they just had a few cards become outliers, and of course not realizing how powerful unlimited trainers were.
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>>56946069
Basic pokemon are supposed to be generally weaker than stage 1s, which they chose to ignore with the ex basics.

80 damage also matters pretty frequently.
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>>56946069
Stats gimped for the eventual evolution line
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>>56945049
>match going about even
>opponent makes a massive error and loses the following turn because of it
Does that feel like a deserved win to you? I don't feel like I can take pride in them being completely retarded. I'm not saying that I won't take the win, of course, but it's a bit of a hollow victory.
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>>56946083
>80 damage also matters pretty frequently
Stage 1 is not gonna be out for you to punch them
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>>56946082
I meant it more as they were exploring the design space and were trying shit out to see if it worked so there were both hilariously bad and overpowered cards
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>>56946077
if they release a double colorless energy a lot of mons will suddenly become viable
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>>56946069
Blaine’s Boober incoming.
>>56945049
>testing Wiggly meme deck
>close game because I forgot to attack on turn 2
>eventually win
>opponent doesn’t give “thanks”
I guess I’ll wait for likes to get my tickets.
>>56946090
Happens in every card game. You’ll lose games like that too at some point.
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>>56946090
As conceded as it sounds it just makes me sigh and shrug.
"Oh you're retarded I see, that's a shame"

I want a ranked mode or smth like that so I can choose to engage in more consistent top-level play without having to rely and set a whole day aside for touneys.
Mainly, I just want to play against someone who can actually play the game, surprisingly enough.
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>>56945432
why does your screenshot have film grain
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>>56946106
But how would you implement it? You cannot pick the usual energy if you play it? I don't think anyone will appreciate a literal Dark Ritual
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>saving up pack points for the second Mewtwo EX
>pull one just as I was considering buying gold
Thanks game, you're alright sometimes.
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>>56946095
It's just a magic number. 70+80 kills Mewtwo, 90+80 does it through a potion, 40+80 kills Pikachu, or stuff like 90+50 kills Moltres. 80's a really important number in this game. Technically Blaine means you can read it as 90+80 or 120+50 but either way it's an important number.
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>>56946106
DCE would actually be an incredible buff to old skortchy
All you have to do is just give him your fire for turn each turn.

Still hard loses to M2 though, but not the non-ex funnily enough.
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Why are the higher rarity cards ugly 3d?
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>>56946122
replaces your energy for the turn and if you're forced to lose one you lose both
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>>56946125
You cannot always expect Blaine to save a mediocre card. Rapidash and Ninetales work because they dish out good damage even without Blaine. You would have better result using Farfetch'D as the fifth basic over Magmar
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I have all my accounts friends with eachother for showcase tickets, do I need to be concerned?
Also once I had the same wonder pick in 2 accounts (from the same mutual friend), and the resulting positions were the same after shuffling, can someone keep an eye out for it? I think I rolled a 1/120 and am schizomaxing.
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Had a Surge fullart in my expired wonderpick but stupidly left it for no good reason and then it was gone a few minutes later… but i did pull a second Sabrina.
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ACTUALLY nothing to do

what the fuck man how is this allowed, why doesnt this game have at least something you can grind over and over?? do they really expect you to just do pvp battles for measely 15 exp?
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>>56945726
It’s a shopping bag
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>>56946122
Like a supporter card so you cannot spam it.
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>>56946201
For me it's constant pulls like this that wear me down.
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>>56946220
Looks like my last 5 packs, at least. Worst part is that I can’t pull several common/uncommon cards.
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>>56946201
>leveling up gives you hourglasses for a pack
Well duh, that's your infinite gaming mode
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I have to assume Rhyperior is going to be very good if rhydon and rhyhorn are as bad as they are now
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>>56946236
>rock/ground type
>good
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>>56946158
I saw 2 people pick my WP and the chase card was in different spots. would've been a pretty major exploit otherwise
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>>56946236
Wouldn’t count on it. Some cards are just bad, anon. The rhydon/rhyhorn from this set are probably always going to be bad, and if I’m not mistaken, any rhyperior that releases in the future should come with new basic / stage 1s.
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>not a single one after 120 Mewtwo packs
I don't think Gardevoirs are real.
What's more likely to drop, 1 Zard EX or 2 Gardevoirs? I might just buy the harder one to get.
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>playing against a Moltres/Charizard EX deck
>opponent gets full tails in 4 of 5 times he used Inferno Dance
How is that even possible lol?
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>>56946249
I got both of my Gardevoir from WPs, just try on those because yeah waiting on the packs to come through is not the move
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>>56946253
Your opponent? That was me.
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>my only two star (or above) card is "hey look at my cock and balls" exeggutor
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>>56946253
I get full tails regularly with that deck but I like the deck a lot so I just play solo battle instead of bothering with PVP
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>>56946249
3-D cards hilariously have identical pull rate as a 4-D cards, so I'd suggest either spend the PP or get them off WP
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ok, what now?
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>>56946270
Exchange for the perma 2 cost WHGs
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>>56946270
we wait
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>>56946265
EX mons might actually be more common if we add their full art versions. What's the percent on those?
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genuinely wild that my biggest hope for pulling a pack at this point is having even a single new card even if it's garbge
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>>56946249
I think I remember someone saying that while the chance of getting an ex card is technically lower than getting a 2 or 3 diamond card, the chance of getting a specific 2 or 3 diamond card is lower than the chance of getting an ex card.
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You DID get the 45 online wins badge, right?
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>>56946278
Seems like you are right
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>>56946201
>ACTUALLY nothing to do
Dude, wait until late next week. Or go to therapy for your obvious addiction. You're having withdrawals.
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>>56946281
I stopped pulling from the pack I had the most new cards left to pull from because I kept pulling repeats anyway. Now I'm just fishing from the pack that has 2 star cards I want.
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>>56946220
>For me it's constant pulls like this that wear me down.
I've given up hope of ever getting anything good from wonder pulls. Now I'll just pull 1 cost ones when my meter is full to avoid wasting the currency.
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>>56946270
how do you get so many of those tranny tickets?
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>>56946253
>How is that even possible lol?
I was using a zard/tres deck in PVP and I rolled all tails twice in a row.

I conceded.

In fact, I roll tails most of the time. When I roll heads, its when the effect wouldn't matter.
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>>56946220
This has been my last several days of packs. Meanwhile my buddies are posting their crowns, full arts, and EXs all the time. Suffering.
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>>56946308
>how do you get so many of those tranny tickets?
Probably likes from deck displays. If you have a full friends list it increases your chances of getting likes.
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Why dont nips give thanks? Cunts.
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>>56946318
Same. I got a Starmie EX after 12 or 14 packs of nothing but I see everyone with their double EX mons and cringe at my luck now.
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>>56946318
That's always how it goes. I tell myself they only show the highlights and the shit rolls they have are as bad as mine.
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>>56946338
Same desu. After several days last week of crap pulls, I pulled a full art Starmie EX this past Saturday. It’s cool, except that it’s my FIFTH Starmie EX. Been pulling Zard packs exclusively and STILL don’t have a Zard or Moltres EX.
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Enemies.: M2, Pika, M2, M2, Shitty cards in hand. Going first and repeat. Ffs.
At least let me go second since I have a shitty deck.
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For people complaining about nothing to do, I rerolled other accounts on emulator to try other decks I don't have. I farmed the 45 wins with an blaine account, a mewtwo account, pikachu account and I'm on a zard account right now.
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>>56946360
Guess I should do that, so I can trade with myself later, since I didn't reroll on my main account.
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Content tomorrow?
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>>56946387
Content late next week.
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>>56946387
friday
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You ARE going and liking all of your friend's collections, right anons?

You're making sure people get the most tickets they can without having to rely on people they beat in the ladder, right?
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>>56946404
I have 80+ friends I'm not doing that
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>>56946404
i mean i have 60 friends on my list and i hardly get any why should i do it
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>>56946404
I do because I have a modest <30 list but most of them don't like me back when all I need is 5
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>>56946408
They really need to add a button that lets you like all your friends collections dont know why they wasnt in the game to begin with
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>>56946425
rushed game
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>>56946408
>>56946419
You don't even need to go into them individually. Just go to Social-->Community Showcases and you can like 'em on the bottom part with just scrolling.

>>56946424
Good on you anon.
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>>56946270
You spend them on the WHs. Starting with the monthly ones.
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I wonder if we'll ever get posts like
>2025
>still using Pika EX
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>>56946425
>wasnt in the game to begin with
It's a japanese game, don't be surprised.
Take a look at GBF, they barely made any upgrades during the long years. Same shitty gameplay and UI.
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>>56946452
I'm sure there will be posts llike that.
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>>56944415
>he's really still going
>still thinks brainlet Pika is harder for some reason
>just keeps saying the same things
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>>56946253
I've gotten 3 tails twice in a row then conceded before. It is what it is
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>>56946452
the second a new set comes out and new decks emerge it'll be exactly like that.
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I WANT JOHTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHERE IS MY SUDOWOODO MASUDA YOU FUCKING NIGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER
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>>56946466
Don't be so hard on him anon. Rats have tiny brains, so it's to be expected the rat shitters do too.
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>>56946466
>>56946485
>he's still going
>it's necro shitposting now
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how do i play Arbok/Weezing deck?
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>>56946288
yes marnie
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>>56946288
I did
I'm never even gonna use the damn badges
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What rituals do you do to get god packs?
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>>56946518
don't be me
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>>56946518
if that's yours, friend code? that's a wp-able god pack
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why shouldnt i just add everyone on the OP? isnt that like free tickets? i just wake up and like all of my friend's showcases as should everyone else
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>>56946536
wait, you can like once a day?
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>>56946545
yep
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>>56946497
>how do i play Arbok/Weezing deck?
https://www.pokemonmeta.com/top-decks#deck=Koga
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>>56946545
Once per day per person, yeah
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>>56946545
Not all, if you have too many it gives you a selection I think.
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>Decide to play Dragonite since it's been a while
>Immediately reminded the joy of playing Dragonite
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>>56946270
get 66 more tickets so you can exchange for another 6 packs worth of hourglasses on dec 1
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>>56946518
friend code?
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>>56946265
What site is this?
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>Seaking/King Crab/Misty
This is the only acceptable Misty deck. And it's fun as shit.
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>>56946605
post deck then
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>>56946621
>he wants the secrets of the universe
Why should I? I already told you half of the deck. Go make your own.
>figureshitoutforyourselfcopypasta.exe
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>>56946631
Post. The. Deck. Now.
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>>56946568
Dual type decks should never grant the same energy more than three turns in a row.
3-type decks shouldn't ever have a run of more than 2, and you should be guaranteed one of each by the 5th turn
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Dragon type seems DOA
Why they did things this way is a mystery to me
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>>56946639
>Dual type decks should never grant the same energy more than three turns in a row.
I tried a duel energy deck early on and it gave me the same energy 6 times in a row. Since it was so early in the release, I wondered if I was doing something wrong in not getting the second energy type.
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>>56946647
Isn't it based on how much your deck needs those energies?
Not saying that's what happened.
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>>56946635
You're scaring me, oni-chan... Here it is...be gentle...
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>>56946518
Photoshop
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>>56946642
There's simply not enough dragon or steel type to make any viable elite decks. Gonna have to wait for a couple of new sets before there's enough dragon or metal cards.
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>>56946605
too coinflippy
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>>56946642
How so? You can still win with Dragonite. Just because it isn't as good as Mewtwo or Pikachu doesn't mean it's DoA.
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>>56946639
You're a retard and you don't understand how tcgs work.
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>>56946494
Anon, I had a nice sleep of 9 hours, breakfast, and then checked 4chan. Please understand I can't be online 24/7
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>>56946650
>Isn't it based on how much your deck needs those energies?
Nah. I needed the second energy type desperately and it was only giving me the first.
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>>56946655
Post the other 17 cards. Now.
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>>56946659
Aren't Dragon decks always going to be dual energy by nature?
>>56946661
Inconsistent since you not only have to assemble an evolution line but you have to worry about getting the appropriate energy. Dragon Pokemon that wind up not Dragon (like Baxcalibur going Water) have it better dodging that bullet.
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>>56946668
>you don't understand, I NEED to bring shitposts from the previous thread forward, 9 hours after they would have been relevant
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>>56946660
Those who live by the blade, die by the blade.

>>56946676
>still trying
kek, sorry, kid. Your force powers don't seem to be working right now.
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>>56946621
You're missing the point of the first post, my dude.
>doesn't bother trying the deck
>wants other people to just give them their experiences so he can skip to the finalized product

I'll say it again, redditor.

Try the deck for yourself.

Throw whatever shit you want into the deck and find out what works.

Try thinking for once.

What felt good and what didn't?

What slowed you down? Are there any alternatives that are faster/cheaper/stronger?

What are the trade-offs?

Figure this shit out instead of asking for strangers to spoonfeed you.

Holy shit, how do you even enjoy the game if you don't want to play it?

Are you honestly telling me that pro-players never try their own shit out and just wait for a bunch of nerds on /vp/ to theorycraft for them, Mr. "Professional TCG Cicle"?

There, I even put breaks in between each sentence to help with your reading comprehension.
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>>56946677
>Inconsistent since you not only have to assemble an evolution line but you have to worry about getting the appropriate energy.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean support cards can't or wont be printed in the future, and that doesn't make it DoA. It's already kinda good, even if it's just B tier or something.
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>>56946664
In the actual TCG you can set the ratio yourself
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>>56946689
When building the deck, yes. When playing the game, no. It's random, my dude.
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>>56946672
No, like in general. If you had 3 Grass and 1 Fire in your deck, 75% you'd get Grass.
Of course you could get unlucky and all that, but I think that's how it works?
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>>56946686
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
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>>56946698
For me, it's
>>56945197
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>>56946691
Yes but we can't do that in this game. There will be games where you get 100% a single color because fuck you
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>>56945049
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>>56946722
Nice pick
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>>56946288
Just got it, and now there's nothing else to do.
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>>56946717
>There will be games where you get 100% a single color
Yeah. That's called luck. It's a tcg. Luck is inherent in the game's design. Yeah, you can get even more fucked over in this because there's no 100% guarantee that you'll get the proper energy on turn 60 like in the physical tcg, but that's the nature of the game. They changed shit. The original tcg had prize cards instead of points, but I don't see you complaining about not losing 6 cards from your deck.
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>>56946676
There are enough points on the graph to draw a line
2x Krabby
+ 1x Kingler
2x Goldeen
+ 1x Seaking
+ 1x Misty
1x Helix Fossil
1x Sabrina
2x Professor's Research
2x Poké ball
2x Potion
2x X Speed
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>>56946664
Peculiar choice of argument, considering this game went ahead and hardcoded that you open with a basic mon. We're already doing whatever the devs want
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>>56946737
Sounds like you prefer this energy system to the other energy system. There are people who do not.
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Pic related isn't a bad (budget) deck. Actually got someone to concede the second I brought out nidoking

(see, I actually post good decks to share with the community)
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>>56946754
I haven't come to terms with Dark or Metal being a type yet, back in the day, for some ungodly reason they made the energies for them Special Energies with extra effects, meaning you could only run 4 in a deck.
What the fuck were they thinking.
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>>56946749
>fossils in a non-fossil deck
top kek
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>finish the advanced missions
>get rewarded with 120 timeskips
>get to do my first 10 pull
>excite.jpg
>nothing higher than 3 diamond
...............fuck you charizard

you were supposed to be the brosen one
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>>56946758
At least in this game you can actually run a Dark deck and there is actual Dark support. Steel just has fucking nothing.
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Special Shop Ticket is one of the stupidest things they could have put in this game good lord, I just finally paid attention to how you're supposed to get more of them
Why are they asking you to sacrifice high rarity cards for this garbage in a TRADING card game
These devs are some kind of special stupid
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>>56946765
Trust in the next set.
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>>56946753
Preferring one over the other is like preferring ice cream over frozen yogurt. They're very similar, but still different foods. They're different takes on the same product. The physical tcg has much more randomness and a fully built game. The digital version trades complexity for a much quicker game. If you don't like it, the physical game is still available for you to play.
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>>56946770
>I just finally paid attention to how you're supposed to get more of them
What??
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>>56946770
I assume they think that WE think that our surplus rares will be used on flair and once we run out of stuff to flair we'll be upset we can't use our dupes for anything

It's retard logic so it tracks
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>>56946758
>I haven't come to terms with Dark or Metal being a type yet, back in the day, for some ungodly reason they made the energies for them Special Energies with extra effects, meaning you could only run 4 in a deck.
yeah, just trying this deck out a little bit, poison doesn't seem like it's THAT useful, especially with the fact that the second you put a poisoned mon on the bench, it loses the effect.

And the retreat costs are too high to switch out nidoking to lock your opponent in place with arbok for one turn.

Now if poison stayed regardless of being on the bench...

Though I admit I'm using Arbok because I don't have enough Muk's or Weezings. God, I can't pull darks to save my life. Just one more muk or weezing (especially weezing) and this deck would be much better.
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>>56946778
>the physical game is still available for you to play
or the digital version of the same mechanics the physical version uses
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>>56946778
>the physical game is still available for you to play.
ahhh yes, the cost. the smell. the P2W dads trying to buy their child's love.

what's not to like?
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>>56946788
nidoking would be dozens of times more viable if koga also worked on it
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>>56946789
Yeah, go ahead and keep wishing for something that will literally never happen. They made Pocket different for a reason. Stop being retarded.
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>>56946801
the fuck is this idiot saying
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>>56946800
>nidoking would be dozens of times more viable if koga also worked on it
I think it takes to long to build up nidoking though. 3 turns 3 energy. lose all that just to avoid the opponent getting a point? hmmm...

now if there was a way to get that dark energy on it quicker or evolve it quicker...
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>>56946798
The physical game isn't even that bad (when it comes to cost) as far as tcgs go. Magic is far worse across the board. Standard decks are insane because you have to buy a playset (4) of a $40+ card three times over for some decks, and unlimited is far fucking worse. Then again, the last time I looked at physical pokemon cards was pre-covid and I know that youtubers fucked it up for everyone, so I could be wrong.
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>>56946639
this happened to me this morning retard-kun
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Mewtwo ex + gardevoir is quite fun. Only gripe is that I wish the 2 energy attack did more than just 50, which can't even one shot most stage 1s. 60 would be so much better, I could use a Giovanni on top if I really needed to.
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>>56946810
>the fuck is this idiot saying
>or the digital version of the same mechanics the physical version uses
Dude, I'm still not sure what the fuck you were trying to say to begin with. I interpreted your retarded scribblings as best I could.
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>>56946819
>Mewtwo ex + gardevoir is quite fun.
it should be. it's top 2 deck in the game right now.
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>>56946785
Other than the ridiculous 300 shop ticket cost, you get them by converting FAs. But get this, you're expected to convert tiptop FAs to get anywhere. It costs 7 for the backdrop and cover, 12 for the coin and sleeve, and 26 for the playmat. Converting a 1 star (you're likeliest to turn into flair) only gets you 1. Converting a 2 star gets you 5. Converting a 3 star/immersive gets you 12. Converting a crown rare gets you 64. But you'd have to be a moron (or a giga whale) to have so many of the 2 star or higher that you'd want to convert them to flair instead of save them for trade fodder. It's completely unreasonable they spent time on this extraneous nonsense.

>>56946786
It's like they forget this is supposed to be a game about trading, so dumb.
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>>56946817
>water pikachu
You better not have lost that fucking match, Anon.
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>>56946811
it shouldn't be your setup mon regardless. put in a shield with a lower retreat cost if you draw it in your opening hand. until we get more sets for better engines stuff like that is necessary. stalling is actually viable for now while the power creep hasn't made everything speed up yet
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>>56946288
Yes. Now I’m running meme decks in beginner matchmaking.
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>>56946819
>Only gripe is that I wish the 2 energy attack did more than just 50,
Buffing the small attack would make Mewtwo insanely strong. His first attack is supposed to be weak to compensate for how strong the big attack is. If they were both beefy, Mewtwo would be broken. Compare his second attack something like Articuno Ex. Art needs 3 energies for 80 damage and a little bit of splash. Mewtwo only needs one more energy to do nearly double. That math doesn't quite add up.

>inb4 but the 150 burns two energies
Yeah, that's why they put Gardevoir in the game. If she didn't exist, sure, I'm with you. Let's buff him.
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>>56946778
>food analogy
>completely inaccurate
sausage
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>>56946824
>It's like they forget this is supposed to be a game about trading, so dumb.
The trading will supposedly come ((((soon)))) but for some reason they seem to think people won't immediately offload their dupes in trades rather than for flair and special shop tickets. I bet they're scratching their heads rn wondering why people are hoarding dupes instead of cashing them in, not realizing people are stockpiling in anticipation of trading being added.
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>>56946825
Funny enough he was hard pulling water nonstop which is why he even wasted one on the pikachu.
only because he hard bricked too did I win
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>>56946836
>it shouldn't be your setup mon regardless. put in a shield with a lower retreat cost if you draw it in your opening hand. until we get more sets for better engines stuff like that is necessary. stalling is actually viable for now while the power creep hasn't made everything speed up yet
OIC using nidoking as a meatshield while building everything else up. Okay, I can see that.
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>>56946849
>ice cream and frozen yogurt are different foods, but functionally serve the exact same purpose
>pocket and ptcg are different products, but functionally serve the exact same purpose
No salt. I'm genuinely curious how that's completely inaccurate.
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When you don't Thanks me, that's the true W. I remember the name of all my opponents and the ones I beat. I'm looking for you, and when I go to my inbox and see that you didn't give Thanks. I won, I beat you in game, I beat you mentally, spiritually, and it feels so SOOO fucking good. Thanks for the game kid.
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>>56946753
nta but to me it’s the difference between a gourmet steak and a TV dinner. Sure, the tv dinner is serviceable but it’s nothing when compared to the wonderful, glorious taste of a nice rare steak prepared by a Michelin star chef.
I’ll let you decide which system is which meal
t. 25+ year tcg player
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>>56946848
The compensation for the strong attack already comes in the form of costing 4 energy and eating 2. I'm not saying I want to guarantee one hit knockouts against everything below ex, just that it shouldn't be one shotting basically nothing. There's plenty of stuff at 70+ hp that mewtwo ex would still need multiple turns to kill with 60 attack if it isn't ready for the big move yet.
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OG tcg player here, is the meta stupidly lopsided towards one specific deck like irl started out with Charizard? I had a lot of fun back in the day clowning on $300+ decks using fuckin Mr mime
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>>56946824
Cosmetics will always be whale territory so I don't care. Everyone else will be trading cards to complete decks/binders, unless trading is complete dogshit.
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The battle system is biased against Stage 2
>get some of the coolest artworks/cards/effects
>they see little action in battle because you have to work through Basic and Stage 1 and energy accumulation for most of the battle's length
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>>56946906
inb4 they make you consume multiple dupes to get enough tokens to claim a card in a trade, so basically both sides need to spend 5 cards to get the 1 they want from each other or some shit like that
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>>56946737
You massive retard.
The physical TCG has always had a bunch of ways to deal with multitype decks.
As previously noted, you determine the energy ratios, so you can run 10x fire, 5x water for a deck that mostly wants fire.
But just in the first four WotC sets:
>Base Set:
>Electrode Buzzap makes it a double rainbow energy
>Charizard doesn't care about energy type
>Energy Retrieval to grab any energy from your discard (and you end up with many more discarded energy in a 6-prize format)
>Computer Search gets you anything

>Fossil
>Energy Search gets you whichever energy you need

>Rocket
>Introduced Rainbow Energy

And there have been 30 other multitype energies released over the years.

Pocket needs *something*, and the most elegant one is just preventing getting energy screwed by setting global streak limits.
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>>56946917
>tfw still no Full Art Sabrina
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>>56946917
>sex
Okay
>feet
You lost me
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>>56946905
>OG tcg player here, is the meta stupidly lopsided towards one specific deck like irl started out with Charizard?
problem with base set was charizard was so rare and sought after, no one ran it in decks. blastoise was the meta deck in base set.
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>>56945319
Bro I need that
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>>56946921
The physical tcg also had the same problem originally. Power creep eventually changed it. This will be the same, they just wanted to start small so that every new set will activate our FOMO neurons
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>>56946890
>he didn't read the whole post
I'll say it again.
>inb4 but the 150 burns two energies
>Yeah, that's why they put Gardevoir in the game. If she didn't exist, sure, I'm with you. Let's buff him.
>wanting Mewtwo to be good at every point in the game
The whole point of my post is that Mewtwo is shit early to wreck shit late game. The game needs balance. If he hit hard early and late, then 90% of the decks we see in every tourney would be Mewtwo. The primary reason why Pikachu is more dominant than Mewtwo right now is because he hits hard early and therefore doesn't let the game go late. If Mewtwo could do what Pikachu does early AND what Charizard does late game, he'd be incredibly fucking broken.

I bet you're the type of kid that finished the game with a level 75 Charizard, and 3 or 4 level 20-something shitmons.
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>>56946921
>The battle system is biased against Stage 2
>>get some of the coolest artworks/cards/effects
>>they see little action in battle because you have to work through Basic and Stage 1 and energy accumulation for most of the battle's length
its biased for EX. I can see why, they're fun cards, but this game would be a lot different if they left EX cards out for a set or two.
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>>56946771
The Elite4 mini December set?
No.
You'll need Jasmine, Steelix, Scizor, Forretress, and Skarmory in the January set.
Forretress/Scizor could make for an interesting grass/metal deck.
I really hope Skarmory doesn't suck. Metal needs a solid basic.
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>>56946921
We need an item to tutor stage 2 or a trainer that can force evo stage 1 into a stage 2 that's in your deck.
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>>56946921
This will change once something like Rare Candy is released. The Exs don't bother me too much. They're big, flashy, hit hard, and make you feel cool, so I understand why they're in the launch set, but it would have been cool to have held off on them for a set or two.
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>>56946817
I SAID 'SHOULD' YOU NIGGER. CAN YOU NOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IS AND OUGHT?
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>>56945223
Kid, there's not a single sub service on the planet that won't auto-enroll you for another payment period after the trail expires. That's literally the largest incentive of the trial in the first place. Companies realized that people are fucking lazy and stupid and will forget to cancel until months later when they decide to check their credit card statement (they have PTSD so ignore it, just having it set to minimum autopay) and see they've accumulated multiple payments for a service they aren't even using (credit card companies aren't going to refund you something from multiple months, unlike a single unexpected fee you can try charging back).

Sure the other half of it is give the customer a taste of what the red carpet experience is. But they'd really love if you just let it slip your mind. Not this game in specific, but every fucking service that runs on sub models. Sub models are a fucking cancer to everything, and that's why they're included in fucking everything now. Infinite company growth can't happen by providing actual fucking value anymore so it has to instead be made by swindling.

Thankfully they do have mercy, probably because of how big Pokemon is and their demographic, and let you cancel early without hassle. Most services nowadays have you click several "are you sure????" dialogues where they play funny games like switching the "yes" and "no" buttons or have you call a fucking agent if you want to unsub.
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>>56946951
Multiplayer should have two ruleset options:
>Anything goes
>No rules box (ex)
That's it.
Articuno and Mewtwo decks barely change, just swapping the normal version out for the ex, and decks play just a bit slower, but it makes so many alternate decks viable that it should happen.
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>>56946968
Want to make non-pika lightning decks
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>>56946962
I just wanted to call you a retard. I do agree, more or less
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>>56946926
>hating rng in a tcg
kek
Admittedly, setting a streak limit wouldn't be a horrible idea if it's something reasonable like 5 energies, but the original anon in >>56946639 was begging for a two turn limit. That almost completely removes the rng and is fucking retarded. When you run a multi-color deck in any physical tcg, you are inherently accepting a greater risk of completely fucking yourself over. You know the risks when you make the deck. Don't bitch about it when it bites you in the ass.
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>>56946968
>reply with a pokemon you want in the game NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fully art, holo, gold border Jigglypuff EX.
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>>56946924
What’s the money conversion from packs to a single full set rare 1250 pack point card?
Pretty sure if you spent 100 dollars on cards you couldn’t even buy a rare.

I just tried the math and failed, how much pack points do u get per pack opened? Is it 5?

100 dollars gets you 690 gold which is 11.5 10 packs.

Is it 825?
So a “rare” card is like 200 dollars of spending to guarantee.
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>>56946968
Low hitting, low energy and with a healing move.
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I noticed that aside from all the gen 1 pokemon, gen 5 is the most represented in this set by far, rather than it being spread out more. I wonder why. Curious.
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>>56946953
I meant the full set yeah. The mini is still a part of the first set it seems
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>>56946968
magnezone
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>>56946968
Furret
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>>56946980
Oh, that's fine then.
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>>56946986
5 points per pack opened yeah. The pity system has absolutely horrendous exchange rates.
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>>56946976
>Multiplayer should have two ruleset options:
>>Anything goes
>>No rules box (ex)
>That's it.
I think if/when they pull sets from rotation (or at least pull old cards from official play) they should absolutely add stuff like that.

hell, let people make tourneys with specific rulesets. the game can give rewards of hourglasses or the like (just make sure there's rules so people don't exploit the system).
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>>56946982
>two turn
I suggested 3 turn limit.
So that by your fourth turn where you can play an energy, you're guaranteed both types.
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>>56946997
>I noticed that aside from all the gen 1 pokemon, gen 5 is the most represented in this set by far, rather than it being spread out more. I wonder why. Curious.
I think this should've been a exact copy of Base Set. Release a new set every month and a half in line with the TCG release
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>>56946968
KIRLIA sEX
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reminder to get 50 wins for the stardust mission
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What's the over/under on us getting a Delta Species set by year 3?
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>>56947011
>3-type decks shouldn't ever have a run of more than 2.
That sounds an awful lot like a 2 turn limit.
>semantics
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>>56946997
Gen 5 won’t get its own set until well after gen 10 launches. Here’s my prediction:
>Kanto mini set
>Johto large set
>Legends ZA large set
>legends mini set
>Hoenn large set
>Hoenn mini set
>Gen 10 large set to coincide with launch of those games
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>>56946968
Chandelure

Psychic type, 100hp
Ability: does 20 more to burned opponents
2 psychic 1 colorless: 70 damage, flip a coin for burn
3 retreat
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>>56947032
I did.
Now I have 11000.
What's the point?
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>>56947032
There's no point in doing it now, will do it when the 5 in a row event mission shows up
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>>56947044
Trade currency
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I trust you with this choice.
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>>56947039
Would Litwick/Lampent be able to set burn?
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>>56947048
It’ll be too late by then. Do it now
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>>56947051
You didn't get it, sorry. No matter where you pick, you're not getting it.
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>>56947048
>there's no point
you don't have to min/max every single thing in life anon lol
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>>56947051
Hear me out:
Bottom left, the fat fuck isn't going to move.
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>>56947051
I checked my magic balls. It will be top right. No, I'm not a part of the cult, but I believe that the raticate will be top right.
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>>56947051
TOP MIDDLE (my luck is shit, maybe yours will be better)
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>>56947051
its going mid
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>>56947051
center
for a guaranteed rat
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>>56947060
It won't be too late, the shinedust mission isn't event-dependent
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>>56946253
>Playing against a Pika deck
>My Kanga gets 2x heads every fucking time
>All their basics ge oneshot so Pika has no batteries to work with

I bet they must have thought I was using cheat software or something, they didn't give thanks after the win. I felt bad too.

>"There's no way I get another double heads on this fucking Volbtorb and pop him out of exis-"
>"LOL"
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>>56947032
Flairs are worthless. Maybe trading will cost stardust, making them less useless.
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>>56946968
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So how many do you guys got?
Naturally I bought out everything I could.
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>>56947020
so much sexo in one pic...
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>>56947079
19
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>>56947075
>Flairs are worthless
only reason to use flair is on cards you have 15 copies of. which are worthless anyways cause you have 15 copies of them
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>>56947020
What makes middle stages so breedable?
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>>56947058
Yes but only with a fire energy
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>>56946754
Holy shit. I beat a Mewtwo/Gardevoir PVP deck with this deck.

(we were both drawing shit but still)
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>>56947062
>>56947064
>>56947065
>>56947067
>>56947068
>>56947070
Maybe next time.
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>>56947094
why would you pick the same spot it was in
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>>56946754
I have been playing this too.
Been testing what to cut between giavannis, sabrinas, potions and xspeeds.
Sabrina and xspeeds are OP, but I found out you need the giovannis to kill pikachus, they take 110 on your turn and if they want to attack back they die. Its still a bad trade but pikachu is the best/most popular deck aside from mewtwo that we tear apart with arbok alone.
In the end I felt like potions were the weakest card and I didnt really miss it after testing.
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>>56947094
Yeah I saw it coming, again sorry.
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>>56947084
I put the Pokéball flair on my Pokéballs.
It looks bretty gud, and it only costs one card (2 tranny tickets) apiece.
I also flaired up Professor Oak and X Speed, since I use them in every deck and buying extra copies is easy.
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>>56947093
Beating M2 with Arbok is nothing to feel accomplished over.

>>56947094
At least you add another Sabrina to your harem
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>>56947099
how do you play this
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>>56947094

>bottom left

I'm a bottom right fag and I'm not even THAT crazy
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>>56945471
You get them when others thank you (I think there's a daily limit on how many you can get this way) or when others like your display shit.
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Will tyranitar, houndoom, sneasel, and umbreon save dark decks?
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>>56947113
dark decks are fine
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>>56946824
This is supposed to be a game about spending money
Is this your first time playing a mobage?
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>>56947099
>Been testing what to cut between giavannis, sabrinas, potions and xspeeds.
from experience with this deck:
sabrina is great for when they want you to attack their stall.
x speed is great for when you're drawing dead
I actually don't have any gios but they'd be great for obvious reasons
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>>56947113
Arbok/Weezing is the best deck in the game. It doesn’t need saving
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Just a reminder that Night March will never work in Pocket, because you won't be able to stuff enough mons into your deck to charge the damage up to respectable levels.
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>random player takes 10 minutes worth of turns
>he decked out fucking 8 turns ago
What a slog. Doesn’t help that I’m salty from his vastly superior coin luck. I’m over here getting meme’d on by hypno’s 25% chance to sleep, and wiggly / frosmoth are failing the 50% nearly every time.
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>>56947103
>Beating M2 with Arbok is nothing to feel accomplished over.
It was beating Mewtwo with nidoking. so there. :P
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>>56947094
>>56947065
>top right rat
I fuckin nailed it.
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>>56947058
I'm thinking probably not considering the desired game speed currently but I would be willing to consider it if the proposal is good.

What I was thinking is Litwick does no damage but prevents trainer cards on the opponent's next turn, and Lampent does 40 plus 10 to basic pokemon
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>>56947127
>Is this your first time playing a mobage?
It's not, which is why I am calling it out in the first place. Don't be a spineless shill.
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>>56947144
Fuck off.
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>>56947144
If I wanted good gameplay I'd be playing Netrunner. I'm here to pull Pokemon.
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>>56947097
NTA but I got half of my EXs by picking the same spot desu
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why play this when master duel exists
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>>56947097
This has happened to me too often, like it seems more likely it won't move than it'll be in any of the other spots
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>>56947113
>T-Tar
Will probably have a viable ex, and a decent base form too.
>Houndoom, Sneasel
Equally likely that their first cards are fire/water. So that's a hard 'maybe'.
>Umbreon
The first eeveelutions are great, so probably decent. We really need Energy or Chain evolution Eevee.
Don't Sleep on Crobat.
Since Golbat only needs 1 energy for 40, you can attack T2 even when you go first.
Crobat cards historically have had 1-or-2 cost attacks, so setup would be easy.
They also often set extra damage poison.
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why play master duel when hearthstone exist
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>>56947147
>Netrunner
based
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>>56947153
Because I played it for like 2 weeks when it came out and Im pretty sure if I play it now I wont have enough resources to craft any new decks so Im stuck with some shit deck from when the game launched
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>>56947157
Sneasel/Weavile barely feel like Ice types design wise. I highly doubt they won't be Dark.
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>>56947107
Idk depends on the game, but I found out people don't see nidorino as a threat when I'm powering it in the bench.
Nidoking usually manfights 2 pokemon and only costs one point but its a stage 2 so its really inconsistent. Arbok ability is probably the strongest ability in the game IMO.
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why play hearthstone when xxxenophile exists?
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There will be more eevee cards with different artwork when umbreon and espeon drop right?
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>>56946968
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why play hearthstone
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>>56947175
Eevee ex and all Eeveelution exs are inevitable so likely yes
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>>56947175
Dunno just give me Glaceon already
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>>56947181
because Reynad can't balance The Bazaar for shit
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>>56947088
Found the guy whose only issue with typhlosion is that they prefer quilava
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>>56947113
>Crobat
>Poisonous Drain
>Every time an opponent's pokemon takes damage from poison, restore that much health to each of your pokemon.

>Qwilfish
>Potent Toxin
>Double the poison damage all pokemon take.

>Beast Tamer Karen
>Draw two random dark pokemon from your deck.
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Ace Spec cards when
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>>56947169
Woah, Weavile from Secret Wonders is amazingly flavorful.
>Water Type
>Uses Dark energies
>Can typeshift your active to Dark on any turn
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>>56947188
Didn't know my sister was on this board.

>>56947194
Hopefully never.
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>>56947198
Lyra is your sister?
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>>56947187
>a literally what game in closed beta made by a literally who
nobody will ever make a game/format that will get 0 complaints about the balance. As long as it isn’t horribly off then the game is balanced just fine. As a rule. Fight me
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>>56947202
My sisterwife.
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>>56947181
For the same reason you play pocket: to see random effects completely obliterate your opponent, because you are a luckchad.
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>>56947203
You know what I always say? If you can't balance a game, just put in lots of coinflips and make going first or second dogshit.
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can we get a chat feature in the game so i can flirt with my opponents?
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Lyra raped my quilava
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>>56947203
>Fight me
no, it isn't balanced
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>>56947216
I think those were my grandfather's last words on his deathbed, actually. Guess that's folk wisdom for you.
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>rainbow sparkles out of the pack
>it's a full art starter
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>>56947258
dont you love le reddit starters thoo??????
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>dragonite deck
>6 water energies in a row
Worst mechanic in the whole game
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>>56946761
Seethe more.
t. Network Fossil Chad
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>>56947109
I should've been more clear, I should've said "(You) need battles for trans tickets?" because I don't. I get more than enough from just displays.
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>>56946968
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>>56947221
>n-nuh-uh
literally not an argument, faggot
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>>56947203
It is horribly off and every week he's done a major rework "balance patch" that was still horribly off. There doesn't seem to be any methodology or direction to it. I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel.

>>56947258
11 more and you can grind them up for a coin skin.
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Is there a way to tell a pack will be a rare one or does the spinning wheel of packs make no difference whatsoever
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>>56947079
0
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>>56947344
no difference, the moment the wheel shows up your fate has been decided already, it is all the same
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>>56947344
makes no difference, your pack is decided on the previous step (when you click open pack)
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Today I learned Magic Online was the first gacha
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>>56947352
Dataminer-sama, does Wonder Pick work the same way?
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>>56947355
I thought that was maplestory
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>>56947344
There are anecdotes of:
>Player 1 opens up the pack carousel
>Player 2 is a friend of Player 1 and checks wonder pick
>Sees a wonder pick associated with player 1
>Player 1 picks a pack and it exactly matches the wonder pick
The RNG roll happens the moment the carousel appears. Your pack ritual does nothing.
But it might affect the next pick.
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>>56947359
Fuqqqq Neopets was the first gacha?
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>>56947350
Then why the fuck do some packs randomly appear rotated backwards sometimes, without me having done it manually? It's fucking with me.
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>>56947357
the card you tap on is sent to the server, so unless they're just collecting analytics you influence the choice
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>>56947366
That's the demon Naberius trying to trick you into making a pact with him, open 5 of them and your soul is gone, be wary
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>>56947366
If you flip them back around then open a *different* pack, the pack you open *after* that one will have better pulls.
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>>56947366
Because it makes people talk. It's the modern day version of mew under the truck.
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>>56947159
Both are worse than this Pokemon game so far.
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>>56947367
>bad wonder picks are a skill issue
I guess I suck then.
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I found a video explaining how wonder pick works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpbxud-pd10
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>>56947367
TopRightGODS we win again
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>>56947376
I don't believe you. But fucking hell, I want to.
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>>56947366
>>56947376
But only if you use hourglasses to do it before closing the app. If you wait til natural regen it resets on you.
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>9/10 matches were electric type faggots
So they can't play anything else I guess?
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>>56947366
Just wait when you learn about the BENT packs.
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Feels good dumping on metafags in beginner matchmaking. Too bad I can’t force them to roll 4 tails every game kek.
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>>56947344
Bent corners
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>>56947398
>pulled on pika packs
There’s a decent chance they have nothing else to run.
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I'm curious what happens when its pikachu vs pikachu? The biggest faggot wins?
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hes so good for the rarity single player challenges. not for literally anything else though
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>>56947398
The only other deck they could have pulled along the way is Nidoran.
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>>56947406
And why are you in beginning matchmaking?
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>>56947415
The one that goes second
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>>56947390
Someone did research, its been proven that all packs are the same. If you add someone as a friend, you can view their pull on the wonder pick menu before they even open a pack. Its pre determined
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>>56947415
Depends. Ignoring luck, I would guess that whoever is running zebstrika is favored in that matchup.
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>>56947406
>beginner matchmaking
What does this even mean? I never saw or noticed a beginner queue.
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what are some FUN decks
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>>56947421
Goofing off with shit decks, mainly.
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>>56947417
>4 energies single attack for gambles
>4 retreat cost
hard pass
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>>56947439
You build him up will a stooge dies then sweep. If you get unlucky you try again.
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>>56947433
You can select “beginner” or “tcg player” when queuing for a regular pvp match. In practice, it doesn’t make a huge difference because there are a lot of people trying to farm easy wins in beginner. Might actually be easier to test meme decks in tcg player.
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>>56947417
If you had too how woukd you build a deck with this nigga. If he had more hp itd be OK
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>>56947451
>You can select “beginner” or “tcg player” when queuing for a regular pvp match.
Oh. I've never done anything put queue the event. That would explain it.
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>>56947457
It might work if you had Hypno ready to stall with.
Most of the good status stallers aren't going to be on Psychic.
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>>56947457
Gardevoir
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>>56947457
He's just bad Mewtwo.
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>>56947473
You could get away with mixed energy + frosmoth with a misty or two, but I don’t think it would be particularly good.
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>>56947073
I was thinking of adding Kanga to my deck, but then I saw the retreat cost.
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add me i like all of my friend's showcases every day

1929-4827-8200-4602
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>>56947435
Venusaur/butterfree/erika. Add lilligant as opener if needed.
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>>56947495

3 fucking mewtwo EXs and not one single bastard fucking buttefree
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>>56947505
You didn't get any in the Lapras promo packs?
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>>56947505
...bro your free event Butterfrees?
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>>56947505
Butterfree and Mewtwo EX are in different packs little bro
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Asking this as a genuine question. Is there a luck seed? There's no way of knowing for sure, obviously, but if I do my pulls on my alt and get a crown rare, would I have gotten that on my main if I had pulled at that exact moment on that account instead? Or would I have gotten something else because both of those accounts have a different luck seed?
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>>56947508
>>56947511
NAYRT but I joined after that.
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Nearly all the worst most salty faggots who tryhard then have the audacity to timestall and disconnect rather than concede came from my few experiences with Beginner randoms.
Fuck those shitters.
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>>56947516
All true gacha players know about and believe in the account seed. When you're rerolling, yeah you're rerolling for meta, or power, or just a good start, but more important than that you are rerolling for an account with a good seed.
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Why is the general called ptpg now
I couldn't even find the thread
Ppg makes more sense
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>>56947541
ppg is already taken
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why do you guys get so angry its just a game

my exeggutor deck flips 10 tails in a row and i dont get as angry as you guys do playing way easier decks
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>>56946968
We need MetaGODs to save the metal archetype
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>>56946997
There more gen V mons that any other generation.
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>>56947406
I should see if I can build this, just so I have a reason to run Frosmoth.
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>>56947541
/tcgp/is the only sensible one, but here we are.
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>>56947544
Unironically i play this game and just laugh, its so simple and involves so many coin flips. Theres no way people are stressing out over this shit, just relax and have fun.
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>>56947562
>keep rolling head to go first
>proceed to keep rolling tails with gaskhan
Thanks game.
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I see this dumbass tree and it wins sometimes and it makes me happy
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Fuck I did not do enough lapras packs, I had a full set of plays left
I think I got enough tho, I got mankey set and lapras set, but kinda bummed I didn’t get any of the cute bulbasaurs.

Why is the meowth bullshit still up and we don’t have a new gold shop items, premium items for 40 days, and the multiplayer even you can do unlimited time still open?

But the lapras event is closed????
At least I saved 12 hourglasses but damn I could have def got 5 more packs.

Tell me I did good to save these hourglasses instead of going for Bulbasaur..
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>>56947406
>peopel are running tier 1 pika ex in beginner
we need a ranked system.
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is there a way to trade doubles for pack points?
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how the fuck do you cheese the first coin flip I KEEP GETTING TAILS
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>>56947435
Mine
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>>56947217
That's oddly specific
You'd also statistically be flirting with men 70% of the time
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>>56947006
Yeah that’s nuts, the value of “hard to obtain” cards is over 100 dollars, I’ve pigged out to try and get waifu cards and stopped because I still didn’t get after 100 bucks in. This game is gonna be wild to look back on in 3 years after not spending another scent on it. They’re def gonna try and create a 1:1 paper environment where certain rare cards are super rare and “expensive” but instead of paying card shops you pay them.

Serious players won’t stick around for this though, they need to remove coin flips or make different lobby’s for different play types.
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>>56947603
>You'd also statistically be flirting with men 70% of the time
uhhh that's the point??? where do you think you are
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Next expansion won't be Johto
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>>56947611
>they need to remove coinflips
First time playing a card game? this might shock you but your rolling the dice everytime you pull the next card out of your deck. Card games have RNG, if you don't like it they might not be your thing. Or just play a deck that minimizes how much RNG you need to worry about
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>>56947435
Mewtwo
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>>56947627
All of this is hearthstone’s fault. If not for that game there wouldn’t have been a boom of “you get [RESOURCE] for free every turn” that has proven time and time again to be the worst aspect of the game it’s in. Yet every time you suggest a better system (resource cards in the deck) you’re met with more vitriol than a presidential candidate
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>>56947617
>where do you think you are
on a right-leaning bolivarian shoemaking website?
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>>56947644
No sir, the internet is for porn
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>>56947641
I don't see what the energy gain has to do with coinflipping, aside from your suggestion of switching to card based energy increasing the amount of coinflipping you would have to do during play.
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Does Giovanni card boost all damage, or just the base attack damage? Will it increase by 10, stuff like
>greninja ability
>articuno benched pokemon damage
>poison damage that turn
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>>56947653
reread giovanni
the answer is no
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>>56947653
It definitely doesn't buff the 10 from sharticuno. I think the exact wording on Giovanni says damage from active pokemon attacks on the active Pokemon.
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>>56947653
just base damage, it doesn't affect abilities. For dragonite it only boosts damage done to the active pokemon, not all pokemon that get hit
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>>56947653
It doesn't affect poison or bench damage
Don't know about greninja ability on active mon though
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>>56947560
>package name is jp.pokemon.pokemontcgp
Clearly we should be /jpp/
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>>56947652
Flipping coins is the exact kind of output randomness that players tend to really hate. Of course they should get rid of it. They should have gotten rid of it 20 years ago, but it’s too late now. This is how the game is.
Energy cards in the deck is a different kind of randomness, one that the player has a LOT more control over and is therefore better. Yes, you can lose to variance, but new players tend to blame the system rather than their shitty deckbuilding when it happens. You can lose to variance in coin flips, too, but with the supposedly “old, outdated” system you still have the option to maximize your win percentage despite the shitty draw. No such luck with coin flips. A card game needs variance. Pocket just chose the wrong kind
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>>56947648
People wouldn't have time to chat in a battle
They should add clans/guilds instead
But this game is very casual so I can't see that happening
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>>56947664
>During this turn, attacks used by your Pokémon do +10 damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon.
Water Shuriken isn't an "attack", so it shouldn't buff it.
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Do I save on the hourglasses for next packs or just keep using it for the chance of getting 10 or so nonstar cards I still don't have in the packs right now
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>>56947679
>>56947641
For me, it's having a separate deck consisting of only your energies, the best energy management system.

It does need balance around it though, Force of Will did this but also revolved around your ruler being your main special card, and while you always had the ability to get an energy per turn, you both still built the deck and ratios yourself and actually paid an opportunity cost to get your energy per turn, since if you did that then you wouldn't be able to "activate" your big special main card which put them into the field to do all their special cool stuff.
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>>56947627
The existence of Kengaskan disproves your argument because if they go second they can one shot most basic mons off a coin flip and you can’t really build against that.

>>56947641
Getting mana screwed isn’t fun and the energy is good, but it is also random, which is bad, if it was one of each energy every other turn it would work because
>powerful moves like Zapdos 3 electric energy would then be forced to turn 6 if you dual energyed
>you could actually play more than 2 colors without risking an L for no reason.
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>>56947689
Save if you have Mew, spend if you don't.
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>>56947376
Nah, that's wrong. You need to find one that has a bent corner AND is naturally flipped, then you flip it forwards and then you look for a DIFFERENT bent corner pack and it will be a god pack. If there is no other bent corner pack, then open a different naturally flipped pack - it guarantees at least one rare.
Since you flipped the first pack you won't know when you actually get back to it by going around the wheel. If you end up opening it by mistake it will be full commons.
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>>56947693
>not one but two ways built into the game system to make variance as low as possible.
Remind me how force of will is doing again?
>>56947694
You’re just a retard, it’s not worth my time trying to convince you of shit
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>>56947406
>>56947421
>>56947433
There is no difference between beginner and the other one.
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>>56947707
>Remind me how force of will is doing again?
Dead!
But not because of the resource management system.
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>make a normal deck
>go first every time
>get fucked
>make a deck that specifically wants to go first
>go second every time
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>want to test my meme deck in begginer matchmaking
>gold medal level 30 with a pika deck barges in
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>>56947644
>newfags actually believe this
2016 was a mistake.
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>>56947693
Having an energy deck would probably be better especially if dual colorless becomes a thing or other special energy.

>>56947707
Cool non argument, coin flips should be removed from the game
>card draw is random
No it’s not, not when 2 charmeleons are at the bottom 2 cards of my deck for 18 games in a row.
20 card deck with 2 max cards is actually so kino also, too bad game is clearly rigged on the backend.
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>>56947594
You WANT tails retard
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>>56947714
>but not because of the resource management system
Whatever you say, anon. I’ll bet the 100th game was really fucking boring, though, if anybody’s ever played that many
>>56947729
>n-n-not an argument!!
I had a perfectly reasonable argument: reduced variance leads to reduced playability and long-term viability of a game. You’re just mad you don’t get consistently lucky
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How many hour glasses do you guys got saved up? Im not sure if its worth doing this, but i dont wanna spend too much money and also getting free packs daily is nice.
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>>56947719
What deck wants to go first? I assume you evolve and hit for 1 energy turn 2
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>>56947738
Variance should come with deck building and game balance, if you could be fighting any type of water deck, that is more fun than the same coin flip deck over and over again.
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>>56947723
Just finished a game that I barely won with a wigglytuff ex deck.
>beginner matchmaking
>jap whale joins (level 30)
>full, sweaty zard deck
>check his stats
>over 400 wins
Why are they like this?
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>>56947740
It’s too late for me to save them now, go, save them, become king of release set 2 for me, I’ll be waiting for you in paradise with full art Sabrina and Erika by my sides.
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>>56947750
Something has to be the best deck. It’s unreasonable to expect every single evolution line to be exactly as powerful as every other evolution line in the game. There will be better cards, there will be worse cards.
You must be a hearthstonebaby
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>>56947740
I’m at 192 with over 200 wonder hourglasses and 440 pack points. Saving pack hourglasses isn’t too hard because I know I’ll want them for something in the future. Wonder hourglasses are easy to save because wonder pick hates me. The pack points are tough, though. Every fucking zard pack that I open without another copy of vulpix/ninetales or my first copy of primeape makes me seethe just a little more.
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>>56947759
Nope, never really played much hearthstone.

Cards would still be better or worse but the fact is that coin flips and EX mons make almost all other mons unviable.

>>56947761
I have like 40 copies of every non-ultra rare card I will trade to /vp/ for free/whatever once trading is around. Trainers, non-full arts, I will give them all away (I just hope you have 2 promo mankys)
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>>56947679
If the choice is between a system where
>I lost because I didn't get the right energy at the right time
or one where
>I lost because I didn't pull any fucking energy at all
then I'd rather go with the former over the latter. The reason the latter one even works is because of energy search cards which just add more cards your forced to run in your deck instead of allowing for a better variety of support/item/pokemon cards
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god I love Giovanni
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>>56947769
I’m down, anon. We’ll see what the restrictions are, but assuming I haven’t pulled them by then, I might be asking around here.
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>>56947694
Kangaskhan has a 1/4 chance to do 60 damage more likely doing 30 and 1/4 chance to not do shit. Situations where you get randomly one shot by kangaskhan at game start are about as rare as misty+lapras turn 1 bullshit. You can't defend against it but it happens so infrequently that it's not worth worrying about. I don't really think kangaskhan is all that good of a pick for any deck as it's too reliant on hitting that 1/4 chance.
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>irl tcg feature or mechanic not yet common in pocket that you wish becomes a mainstay later on
>irl tcg feature or mechanic not yet common in pocket that you're glad is gone and hope it fucks off forever

special energies
effects that depend on how many points (prizes) a player has
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>>56947742
Exeggutor
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>>56947738
>Whatever you say, anon. I’ll bet the 100th game was really fucking boring, though, if anybody’s ever played that many
At least when I played there was a decent amount of deck variety, sets came out pretty regularly and added variety, shifted the meta etc.

Your argument stems from the necessity of randomness to induce variance in order to keep games from being stale, but that's just one easy way to help it out,
You can have plenty of variance in different match ups, additionally if you are side-decking in accordance.
Having energies in the main deck has pros and cons, and will lead to a slower, more luck-dependent game which also heavily boosts the usefulness of search and draw cards. With a split main and energy deck you allow for deck and energy to be more consistent, which speeds up the game and makes it less luck-dependent,

If you think about something like chess, there is an extreme amount of variance in the amount of opening moves you can make, and that does not rely on luck.
Just moving the energies outside of the deck doesn't make every deck 100 percent consistent and you still need to plan around adjustable variance in your turn 1/2/3 plays, it just means you can actually DO something each turn instead of just putting down a land and passing because you have shit all in your hand.
Or having nothing but lands in your hand and simply being in top-deck mode.
Is this the type of "variance" that you praise so much? The new beautiful gamestates of being either landfucked or land starved?

I'd rather have a more consistent deck and have them create variety in new cards, set rotation, etc. rather than having more luck-dependent potential to get fucked over.
It ends up making more strategic and less luck-based, which isn't inherently death-inducing.

Naturally for FoW you had a smaller hand size compared to pokemon and magic which helps against consistency, well it's 5 so same as pocket but that was with a 40 card deck not a 20 card one.
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>>56947740
I'm missing too much of these first sets to be saving hourglasses. If I get fucked out of the 2nd expansion, I'll just quit or reroll.
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>>56946018
Holy based burgerbro
I love yugioh making a deck that made it playable later on too, nice to see them giving archetypes to the shit vanilla mobs from early yugioh
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Hot take: going first should allow you to do everything but attack, including attaching energy
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>>56947594
I had that issue too at first. You're flipping it the same way every time so of course you always fail. Find a way to get heads, and then replicate it. I have pretty much 100% success rate now.
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>>56947820
I mean, that really isn't a hot take. I legit thought that's what happens on the first turn until I battled.

It should be like Yugioh where you can do everything except attack.
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>>56947693
>Force of Will
There were a couple people at my LGS that were trying to get people into Force of Will back when it first came out in America. I liked the art, so I bought a pack. I never got into actually playing the game, but I will say that Force of Will had the nicest feeling cards I've ever touched. They felt like silk or velvet, and they were really sturdy too. Beautiful feeling cards, I loved just touching them.
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>>56947814
it might be worth saving them if the way trading gets limited is that you can't trade the current booster but can trade everything older. If that's how they do it, you'll get a chance to trade for stuff you want from the old deck instead of needing to roll for it. Unless your a diehard collector, in which case your probably fucked
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>itt: people complaining once again about having rng in a tcg
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>>56947653
>dragonite fags always gio before pressing their big button for the first time after 12 turns
Why? Why do they all do this? Don't any of them realise that it only affects the first tic?
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>>56947834
There will always be luckchads like us, and there will always be luckvirgins like them that can't help being jelly
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>>56947840
No because it's their first time actually getting to use it since it took 30 battles before they could survive long enough to pull it off
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>>56947834
>nooo, I didn't get to go first/second, I literally can't win
>nooo, I didn't pull the cards I needed, I literally can't win
>noo, I didn't flip heads 6 times in a row, I can't win
>nooo, I didn't get the energy types I needed, I'm doomed
the skill in a tcg comes from minimizing RNG and trying to keep yourself out of a bad sitution where you can get fucked by RNG. You can't prevent it every time but if your good you'll win much more often regardless of rng.
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>>56947486
I only add people with Snorlax as their profile pic
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>>56947820
>player 1 can attach energy
>player 2 can't attack
>this fixes the game
Riot doesn't do a lot right, but giving both players a turn to set up was the right choice. I wish more tcgs would take notes from them.
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>>56947856
I'm sorry for being a twink with 16 BMI
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>>56947860
Come back when you're over 30 BMI
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>>56947864
I'm 5 9
weight 250 lbs.
can bench 300 lbs
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Imagine if cards like this get added
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>>56947869
>benching 50 more than your body weight
god I hope so, not sure how you would get out of bed otherwise
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>>56947834
There’s a decent amount of leeway around bad rng and the better decks (ie strong early game) we get, it will have even less influence.
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>>56947871
Can't wait for the power creep
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>>56947871
>Alcremie that have been cherished produce exauisite cream.
Coincidentally, Misty also produces cream (and milk) after being cherished.
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>>56947752
I’m glad you put that tryhard in his place anon
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>>56947847
>minimizing RNG and trying to keep yourself out of a bad sitution
100% correct. Deck building is at 65% of the skills needed to win consistently. Anyone saying otherwise is coping hard. This is the first lesson I learned at 12 after I entered my first Magic tourney at the local quarterly anime convention and got my shit kicked in. The second lesson I learned is how important deck thinning is.
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>>56947808
I'd also like to say I don't even dislike energies in the main deck, it just has a bit of a different feel to it, and no it doesn't feel good to be forced to pass since you can't do shit because of the inherent increase in randomness that having energies in the main deck causes.

There is so much more that goes into a game and the long term health of it than just making things more consistent and faster, though it should be handled with care.
I also will say I don't like how Hearthstone does things since there is no cost to getting energy every turn, same for pocket, but again in Force you usually WANT your Ruler card out in the field, but you also want energy every turn, so it can be fun deciding when the best time to flip your ruler and put them in the field was, since doing so sacrificed your per-turn energy, and of course if you chose to get more energy then you can't put your ruler into the field.

A bit more off-topic than before yeah but I'm not going to have another opportunity to really talk about this game, and I liked how it did the energy deck that I haven't really seen other games do, since if they do then there is no cost to it and just like Hearthstone Shadowverse which is lamer and also isn't an actual deck either and just something that builds each turn regardless of player agency.


>>56947828
It's a shame I had a nice local scene for a while but it both became too overly meta and future sets were less interesting with the new game mechanics and characters art what have you, also the people around me dying out so being left with basically nothing.

Touching the cards now and comparing it to pokemon and yeah the pokemon cards and yugioh for that matter feel very paper and flimsy, but the FoW cards have this nice thickness and silky texture on the back. And yes I love the art.
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>>56947890
I'm not reading all that shit.
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>>56947840
>>56947846
Dragonite is going to be elite when it gets more supporting cards
Tick Tock mewkazard keks
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>>56947820
literally how it works in the actual tcg
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>>56947915
Exactly. The more this game refuses to be like yugioh and pisses off the people who expect it to be like that, the better it will be.
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>finally got a 2nd Gardevoir from Wonder Pick
>both of my Gardevoirs are from Wonder Pick
>my 2 Weezings came from Wonder Pick also
>I got 2 Mewtwo EXs from Wonder Pick, but then I opened 2 Immersive art Mewtwo EXs over the next week

>still don't have Marowak EX or Gengar EX
>don't have Articuno EX
>don't have Articuno normal
>don't have Beedrill
>don't have Aerodactyl
>don't have Koga
>don't have Pidgeot
>don't have Kirilia
I think I'm just gonna start opening Charizard. The Mewtwo pack fucking hates me.
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>>56947834
I don’t mind it, but I also don’t understand how some seem to enjoy lower-tier decks that rely on a lot of rng. Feels bad getting robbed when aerodactyl rolls 5 fucking tails in a game you know?
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>>56947820
I'll do you one better: that's how it is for both players on their first turn.
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>>56947929
Friend me in the future anon.
I can trade you Marowak ex, Koga, Kirlia, Full Art Pidgeot if we need 3-ofs.

Both of my Gards had to come from WP too.
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>>56947147
I'm still sad the pocket general is here and not tg so i don't have to see casual gacha niggers seething about a tcg
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>>56947930
[KING KINGLER DISLIKED THIS POST]
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>>56947930
It's all about balance, man. I alternate between my Seaking/Krab/Misty and my Ape/Hedgehog decks as needed.
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>>56947929
Do you have 2x Dragonite line?
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>>56947890
This is the type of shit a Yu-gi-oh villain would play in the anime
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>>56947947
Same anon here.

>>56947946
MY MAN.
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>>56947511
>>56947508

I DIDN'T GET A SINGLE FUCKING ONE FROM THEM JUST A BUNCH OF MANKEYS

>>56947512

I KNOW I DO ALL OF THEM
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>>56947948
I don't have a 2nd Dragonite, but I'm not interested in playing Dragonite.

>>56947942
I'm probably just gonna buy the Koga and Kirilia. Thanks though. These threads will be neat in the future if trading is actually worth.
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>>56947929
I'd friend you so that I can get rid of most of the Gengar and Articunos I have.
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>>56947915
>>56947925
2/3 of the text is unnecessary
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Is the gold worth buying at all? was thinking of getting that deal that was like 8 bucks with a bunch of free gold or something then using that gold for the next set of cards
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>>56947834
It's therapeutic to complain about it because there's nothing you can really do about it. Fix your ratios? Almost impossible (at the current time) when you can only have 2 copies of cards per deck, the limit is 20 cards, and building is fairly streamlined. The most you can do right now is just play whatever the best deck is that's good going first or second.
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>>56947971
Wait until black friday, there will be deals
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>>56947954
Agreed, especially since this is the one it usually got attached to. The lv x era was strange, but at least they made it so that lv x cards were treated as not having a different name, meaning a full playset only was 2 of each
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>>56947971
The only $ spending that makes sense is the monthly subscription since it is worth 30 packs.
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>>56947153
Because playing against Maxx c blows dick, and the coin flip of first/second is about a million times worse
Off meta deck building that can win a decent amount of games vs meta is also actually possible here in pocket, the most deck building you do in yugioh is optimizing deck lists and hand trap suites unless you're a literal god that can put together table 500 stuff or come up with dragon link type stuff
It's also easier and more casual than md, so for a phone game it's pretty bis, plus the input lag on mobile is miserable to play with
MD is generous as fuck tho, you can build every big meta deck on every set release possible if you really wanted to
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so uuuuuuhhhhh what's the point of wonderpick once we're able to trade cards?
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>>56948010
knowing which friends to beg trades off of
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>>56947979
>The most you can do right now is just play whatever the best deck is that's good going first or second.
top kek. I got 50 wins in less than a week playing casually and the most "meta" deck I have is Venu/Lilligant. A lot of what you just said sounds a lot like cope.
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>>56948010
More inventory for fodder I guess. Especially if the dupe dust starts being required for something actually functional at some point.
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Is venusaur + liligant deck any good? It seems like it should work but i see people use the tree instead
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Parasect is underrated.
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>>56948010
We don't know how trading works, and I'm assuming you'll only be able to trade things that you have 3 or more of, and it will probably only allow trading for cards of the previous expansion, and even then it might not allow trading for all of the cards in the set.

Wonder Pick is free, like you'll always be regenning Wonder Pick energy, it will be available for the current set, and you wont have to trade anything away in order to get a card.
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>>56948034
The values of eggs is he only needing one energy. Liligant needs to live two turns to repay you.
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Just watch, trading is only going to be 1 card for 1 card, and they must be equal rarity. It's gonna suck so much.
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>50 HP
>Ability: If this Pokemon is knocked out, it's knocked out. This ability has no effect if this Pokemon is knocked out.
>Rock Throw: 2 Fighting Energy - 10x (Flip 3 coins, this move does 10 damage for each heads)
>Retreat cost: 3 energy
>Weakness: Fire
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>>56946518
How hard do you think Lt.Surge pounds that?
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>>56948059
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>>56948059
Lt. Surge's feelings about Pikachu are entirely platonic. Zapdos, on the other hand...
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>>56948025
>A lot of what you just said sounds a lot like cope
What do you think therapeutic complaining is? They'd why I do it, at least. It's just big cope. There's no justifying it. Sometimes I'm just looking for someone to empathize with me.
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>>56946968
Ampharos.
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>>56947847
10x this and the other reply
Just get gud noobs
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>>56947729
>Having an energy deck would probably be better especially if dual colorless becomes a thing or other special energy.
At that point you may as well just add energy cards into deck creation and have them shuffled along with your other cards.
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>>56948076
You think Misty invites Jynx along? Kinky girl.
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>>56948076
As long as you have a gardevoir out already the threat of a surprise jynx that doesn't even exist yet just instantly appearing to do this is always present
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>>56947946
Kingler gang
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>>56948075
>asking for a therapy session on 4chan
Holy fucking kys and go find a discord where some tranny can tell you that your gay feelings aren't retarded
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>>56947483
The ting about Kanga is that he's such a threat and has such a large HP pool for a basic that him being an immovable wall is fine. Unlike Snorlax who just sits there as a fat sack of shit with no intimidation factor, Kanga with a lucky coinflip can seriously cripple or take out whomever is on point so has to actually be respected.

You're supposed to lead with Kanga and DBZ powerup behind her. Your opponent will be too scared to bring out something heavy hitting because Kanga can fuck their shit up, so it buys you a lot of turns. The obvios drawback is if you get Kanga late game she becomes way less useful. I've still sometimes picked up a surprise win in the end using her as a hail mary in the final stretch but chances are if you get her late game she'll be staying in your hand.

I think the tradeoff is worth it. I don't mind not being able to retreat her cause she actually does damage.
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Am I retarded to keep pulling on Charizard pack for the hopes of full art Sabrina even though I haven't touched the Pikachu pack yet?
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both of you fags are embarrassing its just a fun game and the thread is to talk about fun stuff, why waste time talking about bad stuff?
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>>56948115
>Kanga
>him
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>>56948115
>he/him
>she/her

fuck I messed her pronouns up, pretend I'm talking about her (male) baby in the pouch sometimes
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>>56948107
Shut up, bitch.
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>>56948120
>>56948122
You need to do a barve, now.
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>>56948076
Someone tell me how to make a Jynx deck
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>>56947800
>irl tcg feature or mechanic not yet common in pocket that you wish becomes a mainstay later on
60-card decks, mulligan if no basic in opening hand, mulligan in general, 6 prize cards, 10-card packs

>irl tcg feature or mechanic not yet common in pocket that you're glad is gone and hope it fucks off forever
Nothing comes to mind, but I only played the real TCG up till one of the first Johto expansions and then a bit during Night March/Seismitoad Ex times.
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The first lesson that all pocket players should learn when deck building: If you need to cut cards from your deck, red card should be the first to go. It doesn't matter whatsoever what your opponent is doing if your deck isn't doing what it should be doing. Focus on getting your house in order before worrying about what the opponent is doing.
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>build a decent deck
>get all solo battle rewards
>win 50 event battles
Now what? Just open 2 packs a day until next event?
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>>56948126
FUCK I just wanna club in this stupid lizard's face with a big stick so badly
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>>56948136
Yes. Best Mobile Game of the Year nominie btw
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>>56948149
Mobile games are shit so this could win
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>>56948107
top kek

>>56948126
No, he's right. Therapy is for women and low IQ retards. With that being said, seek help. Maybe post on reddit/MtF. They'll probably understand you.
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>>56948149
Sounds about right, unironically
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>>56948149
You say it like TGA is worth anything.
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>>56948117
>its just a fun game
Doubt
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>>56948135
>opponent wrecks your house with red card
>lmao just get your house in order
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>>56948185
>get red carded
>doesn't matter because my deck has been built properly and I draw a decent hand every time
I can't wait until ranked comes out so all of the red card retards get stuck in Silver.
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>>56947929
I have this from wonder pick
2x Pikachu ex
2x Tauros
1x kangashkan
1x moltres ex
1x articuno ex
1x Giovanni
1x Erika
1x omastar
1x raichu
1x starmie ex
1x weezing
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>>56948135
How will removing red card and adding other situational stuff help me draw the cards I need?
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>>56948211
>I can't wait until ranked comes out
I am incapable of waiting for that as well. I recognize that it will never come.
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>>56948221
Pokedex
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>>56948136
>>56948149
>gacha niggers can't imagine dueling for the fun of it and need some dopamine stick to do pvp
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I don't really need wonder hourglasses right now but its still better to clean out the monthly shop since the rest is permanent, while monthly is limited and will reset
right?
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>>56948239
Yes.
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>>56948228
So I know whether I should concede immediately, instead of waiting for 3 turns?
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>>56948239
It seems the non-monthly stuff will just never refill once you buy it out, while monthly stuff refills every month, and is more expensive because of that.
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>>56948239
>>56948245
The only way buying monthly first matters is if
1) It is impossible to buy both monthly and cheap before month resets
and
2) At some point in the future we will get a surplus of tickets such that we can now buy monthly and free in the same month

Also
If you run out of tickets and didn't buy all the monthlies than GUESS WHAT you bought more hourglasses in total because they were cheaper so you spent your tickets more efficiently.
the only way you "profit" from buying the monthly ones before they go away provided you wouldn't have had enough to buy both that and the cheap ones is if they, in the future, give us a lot of tickets.

And again, if you buy the monthly stuff and then the cheap ones it doesn't matter cause you bought it all anyway.
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>>56948247
So that you can see what you're going to draw, plan accordingly, or shuffle it away with Pokeball.
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>>56948239
Absolutely 100%. The price difference between the monthly and one-off purchases is bait to make new players miss out. Same reason you have to scroll down to see the monthly stuff.
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>>56948135
Why can’t we have 22 card decks bros, 20 isn’t enough
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When do you consider a wonder pick "worth it"?
Is just one card I want worth the stamina if the other 4 blow cock?
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>>56948280
>Is just one card I want worth the stamina if the other 4 blow cock?
Only if your stamina is near full.
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>>56948267
What if I didn't draw a pokeball?
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>>56948287
Look, play Pokedex or don't. I don't give a shit what you do. You asked what you should be playing instead of Red Card, and I gave you an example. I didn't know you were just shitposting.
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>>56948269
That's a dumb idea. Decks would be much more consistent if they had less cards, not more.
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>>56948298
I'm not shitposting, it was an actual real life ingame situation.
This time I got saved by my opponent red carding me, though.
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Does flipping the pack before opening it mean you'll see the rare cards first? I'd rather get disappointed immediately
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>>56948338
yea
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>>56948338
It's not necessarily a rare card, but you will start from the last spot, so that's the one with a bigger chance to be rare (it can still be just a common, though).

On that note
>>56947800
>irl tcg feature or mechanic not yet common in pocket that you wish becomes a mainstay later on
Guaranteed rare in each pack.
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>>56948298
>he actually thinks not drawing the card you need is shitposting
Fuck off, Yugi.
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>>56948385
>he doesn't believe in the heart of the cards
NGMI
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>>56945049
>>56945088
>>56945679
/ppg/ has been used for many years by pokemon prototype general. It's good you guys moved away from trying to co-opt it.
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>>56948390
I believe in the heart of the cards, but the heart of the cards does not believe in me.
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>>56945269
Psyduck, turn off water
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who's baking
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>>56948460
You.
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>>56948462
Goddem.
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>>56948398
>you guys moved away
more like astroturfing leakfags did
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>>56947890
love him
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>>56947572
I hate 3D "art" so much. Anyone who thinks AI won't take over the industry has been fucking blind for over a decade now. 3D was slop before AI slop and they kept forcing 3D into our faces until it just became the fucking norm and now people unironically like this soulless cheap piece of shit. The same will happen with AI. Can't wait for the 2032 EX cards to be literal fucking slop generated and people will praise it because "oooo they're animated now!" just like how piece praise this shit because "I can wiggle my screen and it pops out le card!!!"
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>>56947679
They should get rid of coin flips and replace them with D20 rolls
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>>56948735
They should make it so the premium pass gives holders a 0.5% increased probability of winning a coin flip (also let them pick if they want to go first or second after winning the first coin toss). If both players have a premium pass than it's just like normal.



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