>Friend ID Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScx82fFuZO5JSneihERecx5UKEJv42EGQKYZM3flPh_ERIa-A/viewform>Friend ID Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DGhOfaMX6D_YUR-P39_OJdVmAl0uacohIRstE9oN9SQ/edit>Tournament results/decklists:https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournaments/completed?game=POCKET>Upcoming events/datamines/schedule:https://pocket.codex.gg/news/schedule//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/‘s own meta (no random effects, no ex):vpnx>meta decks or high level play:vpmeta>/vp/ anything:vpPrevious: >>57059986
Do I need the Dome Fossil card to get the Mew card?4kav4
It just works.
>>57062055Way better than the other guy
>>57062048Nigga we already answered you: no
>>57062055it's so obnoxious that this event gives me all these promo jiggly's but I'm missing the second wiggly needed to actually use them.
LEAKS
>>57062048You need to make the highest level flair for it to get mew, but only the dome fossil. Don’t worry about the other two
>>57062067we're getting news at the game awards tomorrow
>>57062055I Jiggly slept a guy for 13 turns while I didn't draw anything else. Then he eventually woke up. Another time I stunlocked a guy's entire bench with Wiggly. I was totally fucking dead, but Wiggly did it for me. He rage quit (afk'd until timer ran out)
>9 win streak>mirror match>goes down to the wire and I lose by 10HPAt least the duel was fun.>reach 10 wins>think I'm done with the missions>"lol now win 15 times for more shitty dust"Fuck that noise.
No excuse for anyone to not get 5 wins. Have enough patienceand most importantlyHave enough luck
>>57062067SHE IS LEAKING SO MUCH!
>>57062072heh, no way this stupid card game would get any news at the tga
Does this game have fun decks?It has good decks and decks that are annoying but is anything actually fun to play. Is the pokemon tcg fun in general?
>>57062104>Does this game have fun decks?Yes.
What's the best Pidgeot deck?
>opponent has one single card that can stop him from losing>his deck NEVER plays it>he topdecks ityou already know i'm going to get you banned for your name you fucking faggot lmao hope you die irl too
Is M2 supposed to beat pikachu deck or is it the other way around?
aauughhherika san, i'm about toaughhh, i'm about about toerikaaaaaa saaaaaan
>>57062055Why onix though
>>57062137It's pretty even, whoever goes second can usually clinch the other unless someone bricks
>>57062151I’m just goofing around in the event queue, hoping to troll people coasting on Pika / M2 decks while running funny art. See pic related (swap 1 Sabrina for 1 Gio). It’s not amazing, but it has been throwing a lot of players off.
>>57062084But I don't have those cards.
Polywrath deck?
Add me if you're just opening Mewtwo packs, im trying to get the uno 4292882839753637
It's as shrimple as that
>>57062177Yeah saddam hussein's onix is pretty funny
>>570622012-2-2 Poliwrath 2-2 Jolteon2 Professor's Research 2 Giovanni 1 Sabrina2 Poké Ball 1 Pokédex 1 Potion 1 X Speed
>>57062037Finally got my 5th straight win badge. Last guy got so mad about his hand TURN 1 he left and made me wait 90 fucking secondsFeels anticlimactic
>match in the event queue with someone almost twice my level >we both already have the 5 wins>both play Pikachu ex decks>both get terrible hands and terrible draws>eventually win after a struggle >no likewhy even be butthurt I could understand if one of us got lucky, I even went first we just both had awful hands and me getting Pika in play earlier was enough even if I was only hitting 60 each turn
>>57062254Imagine seeing this board…and conceding lmao.
>>57062263>water plus lightning and a pokedexThis combo confuses me.
>>57062118Definitely pair it with a mon that hopefully hits hard and has low energy cost and that isnt anymore than a stage 1. Pidgeot already takes a long to evolve it needs a supporting mon asapMarowak, eggs, articuno, arbok is the main because of the no retreat attack
>>57062252I want to play this but I'm missing the second giovanni.
>>57062201Poli and greninja are awesome combo
>>57062100t. wuwa player
Why is everyone running Pidgeot + some Stage1 mon
>>57062301Free sabrina duh
>>570622792-2-2 Poliwrath 2-2 Jolteon 1 Porygon2 Professor's Research 2 Giovanni 1 Sabrina2 Poké Ball 1 Potion 1 X SpeedHappy now?
>>57062301Is that actually a thing? I just pulled a full art Pidgeot and wanted to know what to run it with. I haven't seen anyone actually playing Pidgeot.
>>57062055Based, you running Golem too?
>>57062048You need Dome Fossil EX
>>57062313Absolutely not. Golem is unrunnable. I’m messing around and giving people a shake-up on the way to their 5 win streak. The goal isn’t to hand out completely free wins kek.
>>57062118I run a Pidgeot/Arbok deck that’s pretty fun.
>>57062308I’ve seen Weezing, Dragonite, Primeape and a few others.
got my 5 wins with this beauty
You just know
>>57062334>Golem is unrunnableI'm not that guy, but Golem is not at all unrunnable. He's a Mewtwo that doesn't discard energy and can take Brock energy.
>>57062355mewtwo isnt a stage 2
>>57062362how come two in the name?
>>57062353How you do that?
>>57062362Okay? Golem is not unrunnable.
>>57062252>somehow has 4 metals on a stage 2 pokémonI don't know if you were blessed or opp was cursed but that just does not happen with pika decks, and I should know, because I run one.
>>57062379Mold>>57062354Gold
>>57062379SOUL>>57062354Soulless
Hitmonlee is the funniest card in the game. Just stomped the shit out of a dratini
>>57062354Cringe
>girl gets excited over Arcanine >boy gets excited over Gardevoir Do they know?
>>57062379You just know.
>>57062400>>57062379Whoops. Linked the wrong post.
>>57062370Mewtwo stalls 2 turns, 3 if i go second, khan tries to do the same, a little damage to anything and gengar oneshots it generally and gengar takes a hit from anything also. gengar + gren ohko pika and gren is just broken generically so getting the damage amp even on khan punches gets nuts as even in the lategame killing khan can be a problem. gengars huge health pool + denial of supporters means that if he comes out early he stuns them even if he isnt attacking right away and if he comes out late he locks them out of any shenanigans.
When the event ends, I'm unfriending everyone who doesn't have the 5 winstreak medal.
>>57062355Eh, Golem takes too much recoil for the effort it takes to get a stage 2 on board right now. Doesn’t help that Graveler is a bad stage 1. Geodude is (just) alright. If Brock supported the entire line, I’d like it a lot more.
Why does Onix look like a bad dragon in an angus?
>>57062412Dual energy or just psychic?
>>57062378It goes like thisI had a bisharp taking hits from pikaOnly applied energy to melmetalBishap dies after a few hits and mel goes in at 3, tanks a hit then goes for the kill after now at 4 energy
>>57062421He's certainly not unrunnable, by any means.
>>57062353I got the rainbow gengar and was thinking of making a deck but I can't make this anyway.
>>57062421With how busted Misty is, brock should give 1 energy to onix, geodude, graveler, golem, rhyhorn and rhydon
>>57062422Because they know the people want
>>57062427>He's certainly not unrunnableIn the sense that you can put any card in your deck, sure.
Brock should work exactly as he works now, but include Rhydon and make it 2 energy.
>>57062433No, in the sense that you can legitimately win games with Golem.
Finally got a 5 win streak, probably got lucky always getting the full line quick and not red carded though
>>57062434That is beyond retarded and broken
>>57062436Isn't Onix just like a worse Kanga?
>>57062437Misty can theoretically put 100 water energy on ANY water pokemon on turn 1, as long as Misty exists I don't see why that card can't exist either.
>>57062423only psychic.>>57062429try this one it gave me the ideahttps://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/67426b30612052096f621ac0/player/lunchboy/decklist
>>57062442Kanga is fucking terrible. Is always get double tails. Id rather have consistency than luck
>>57062443Misty wins games with just one flip of heads. You're suggesting guaranteed two energy with no coin flips
>>57062451Okay, how about this: 1 energy for onyx, two for golem and rhydon. That way you can't steamroll anything turn 1 since the latter two are evolutions anyway. The thing you have to keep in mind is misty is a coinflip but for ANY water pokemon, whereas golen rhydon and onix are all kind of ass.As long as onyx isn't swinging for 70 on turn 1, I don't even think this change would make them that much more viable.
>event queue>game 4>waiting for opponent>error: opponent did not return in allocated time (or something like that)>victory>game 5>opponent goes first>insta-concedes during the setup>all winstreak emblems collectedalright, we take those
I've had more consistent wins on my venosaur ex/butterfree deck than on any of the meta decks I've used. I thought I was just getting lucky on it, but it keeps happening, I dunno. Maybe lots of people are used to meta decks but don't know how to play around massive healing as much?
>>57062442On avg Kang does 30 a turnIf you have one Brock onyx is above rate, and if you get the nuts turn 1 Brock into another Brock onyx is a literal monster god demonIf you have to manually power all three energy you're playing a chancy in your deck and you're better off just treating him like a baby mew2
>good health pool>one energyThis gets me so many wins despite the coin
I have enough hour glasses for 30 packs hurry uuuuuuuuup I want to roll!!!
>pikachu ex>giovanni activated>electric weakness detectes>big damage incoming>damage: 0, because opponent forgot to fill up the benchyou would think that a level 31 with all pvp emblems would know that's going to happenand no, it's not that opp didn't have any basics, because 3 of them came out the instant their next turn started
>>57062379false advertising. garde doesnt show up in packs.
>>57062496Level 31 could mean he opened a lot of packs.
>>57062493I got a 3rd turn win with him it was pretty funny
>>57062447Then play Tauros, by the time kanga averages 100 damage, tauros already did 150. The only caveat is that kanga covers 60 HP limits and can snipe with enough luck. And this matters more than consistent damage because it does it off a single energy.
>>57062546Tauros needs 2 energy
I swear so many players are yugioh brained. The amount of times I've turned a game around from a bricked hand because the opponent goes>oh he has 6 cards in hand, even though he only has two active basics I should use red card, think of the value!
>>57062418Should have done this day one desu
>>57062548And? Onix needs 3 and You have to open Brock for it to deliver the super mono stage lead experience.
>>57062555Yeah if someone has only 2 cards and isnt doing anything with them, chances are they are important stage 1 and 2 mons. Redcard people are retarded anyway, if you no value trashing your opponents hand then just play telescope too
>>57062555Prior to this event, I had *never* been Red Carded in a way that fucked me over. However, on the way to a 5 winstreak, I got Red Carded turn 1/2 probably about 5 or 6 times, each time it completely fucked me. This is the only good time to use Red Card, and it had never been done to me before. I started playing around turn 1/2 Red Card when I did not do that previously, because everyone waited until I had a bricked hand or was on the last real turn of the game to use it.
>>57062435You got a list?
>>57062555There are board states where red card is clearly more likely to be disadvantageous / advantageous, but at the end of the day, it’s a gamble.>>57062569You have to play expecting the card. In practice, it conditions you to play the cards in your hand for fear of losing them.
>>57062578>You have to play expecting the card.Nope. Never had to do that before. >In practice, it conditions you to play the cards in your hand for fear of losing them.Nope. Red Card is literally only good turn 1 and turn 2 after you Oak/Pokeball. This is what I had always done and had never been punished for. The way I'm playing around Red Card now is that I do not Oak unless I have nothing else I can do.
>>57062555Every time I've gotten red carded it's good for me. There are games I swear I'm going to lose and then red card gives me exactly what I need
>red card my oponent after a professors research and two pokéballs turn zero>the psychological damage is so intense they concedeLmao get destroyed little fella
I like using 2 red cards back to back.The first is to give them the cards they need.The second one is to take away that small spark of hope.
>>57062604>psychological damageIt's not psychological damage, anon. As I've said from the beginning, that's the literal only good use of Red Card. He probably had the nuts and you gave him like 2 X Speeds and a Giovanni with 1 non-EX Basic on board. That's just a loss.
>>57062334Nah Golem’s a demon, I was running a similar build and it was dunking on people earlier in both queues. Imo Onix is the thing holding the deck back because it’s just too inefficient and the retreat cost is horrid, it’s only real niche is catching people off guard with Brock
>>57062622>Implying you're not just giving me what I need twice
WHERE IS THE FOCKING CONTENT Would a draft mode work in this game?I feel like 80% of mons are just pack filler that will never see the light of day
>>57062493I legitimately flipped 8 tails in a row across 2 games with this fucker and honestly never again
>>57062634>Would a draft mode work in this game?Actually, yes, it could.
>>57062578Oh don't get me wrong, I think Red Card is really strong and I fit it in any deck that has space, but I just see so many people play it against a full hand instead of when it's actually useful.>>57062586>Red Card is literally only good turn 1 and turn 2There is a much stronger use case for it, maybe you'll figure it out after playing more.
>>57062643>shitposter begins shitpostingIt was only a matter of time until you started this.
I have never conceded, even obvious losses.
>>57062555I am guilty of this Everytime I see 5 cards I red card no matter what. And I end up losing because he draws into Oak 95% of the time It's just impossible not to doBut somehow my opponents always red card me when I have 3 cards in hand and it ALWAYS fucks me
>put a base mon on bench, have stage 1 and 2 in hand (I ran 1 copy of each)>suddenly Red Card>brick.jpg>redraws give me exact same 2 evos plus an Oak on topAnd that is what we call being skilled at the game.
Hand disruption is great in the real game. Here it's just "ok"Why?Because there are not nearly as many card advantage, draw engines, tutors etc. in pocket it's a guess whether or not the opponent has what they need. In ptcgl it's an educated guess when you can use it after they pop off with one of their pant card advantage engines, or win two prizes. Easy iono.Red card is sadly useless In pocket, at least for now. As more card advantage comes out, that may change. But for now don't bother
>have an idea for a flareon deck>want to run a variant of arcazard but with flareon instead of arcanine because flareon does almost as much damage and no self damage>realize moltres can't actually feed it energy until it evolves rendering it uselesscolorless pokemon are so ass, if you run any colorless outside of kanga you are actually trolling
thoughts
>>57062667>Want to run Jolteon in pika >Realize pika can't count it for damage until it evolves
>>57062676I've seen this happen to several people online, and laughed every time.
>>57062674What exactly do you plan to do with this
Pika isn't fun anymore
>>57062634The problem with drafting is it’s a lot of work and also unless they make you draft whole EVO lines it’s kind of silly
>>57062684Never has been
>>57062678I tried to make it work but the number of times you'd end up with 2 Eevees just shitting up the bench and your big dick Pikachu squirting out 30 damage like a fucking Nidorina was just too embarassing.
red card is garbage, there's a reason it never gets put in tournament deckst. former pro MTG player
>>57062686Drafting doesn't work in Pokemon but they need a solution for how the game is 90% chaff
>>57062690Something about this post is erotic but I can’t put my finger on it
Anyone else keeps ruining fellow noobturds lives by keeping playing the event despite already owning the 5 win streak? I just did another 5 wins in a row KEK!D E V I L I S HEVILISH
>>57062695removing any specific card type limiters, and letting cards that provide specific types of energy to apply to any card would make a lot colorless cards more useable, if not necessarily meta relevant. I also wish the non-EX versions of cards actually filled a different niche from their EX versions and weren't just worse. Default moltres having to flip 1 coin to see if it's 3 energy attack does anything is beyond retarded.
>>57062684It gets the job done for these PvP events. I prefer using other decks for regular play.
>>57062716Isint the niche of colorless that I can fit in any deck to shore up a week spot? Realistically the only ones that get run are kanga, farfetched etc
>>57062730I really wanted cincinno to be better but it's not
>>57062674Persian is bad, Hypno is only for stall and you are not stalling for anything. Hand Scope is fun but I don't like the -1.
>>57062737In theory this is correct, but basically every support card or pokemon ability that sends energy to other cards has the stipulation that it's the same type, so ex moltres can only send energy to other fire types, and not eevee or whatever. The only colorless you sometimes see run like farfetched/kanga/meowth are all 1 energy cost cards, colorless cards that require more energy have no way of getting it besides manually moving it, making them way worse compared to other types that have ways of getting energy.
Do you get bothered by not having a matching playset of a rare card? It's bothering me more than I expected it would. I think it's because it only takes 2 for a playset in this game, meaning just 1 short.
>>57062758I'm more pissed that I have one full art rare wiggly and no other wiggly so I can't even show off the one I have.
>missing like 70 cards >wait all day to open a pack>5 dupes of commonsSurely their player retention is gonna suffer once people run out of hourglasses.It's not like there's ranked rewards to keep you grinding or anything.Even the event is mostly cosmetic dust
>>57062637Are you me?
>>57062767You WILL login every dayYou WILL buy the premium passYou WILL fomo into gold to get the latest cards that everyone else seems to haveAnd you will be happy
>>57062767I have like a dozen and a half cards to go for the Mew and keep hitting dupes too, the abysmal hourglass flow is really stifling how much you can do with the game.
>>57062767>player retentionThey already made back their money like x10000 I don't think they care.
This wonder pick event has been pretty lame but at least I've felt zero pressure to waste hour glasses
>>57062793I'm looking for 3 cards and sitting on 360 hourglasses. I like that I can either poke my head in to open my packs every few hours and go or sit down and grind a promo event.
>>57062767The initial grind I had of getting exp has been soured by knowing there's a level cap, so I am actually speed running my ability to not get rewards
>>57062811>didn’t get ANY promo cards from the bonus picks>did the chansey picks>only got magnet, no bulbs>had to do more>as soon as I got the playset of Bulb, I start getting bulb and magnet a lot in the Bonus picks I got jewed
I don't know if I should use all the hourglasses now or save them for the next expansions
>>57062823why? unless you were actually sitting around for 6 hours a day, you aren't going to hit the level cap soon. Every time i've been about 10 wins away from a level, i've sat down and grinded it out and I'm only level 30. I'm sure they'll bump up the level cap eventually and there will always be events or promos for more glass
>>57062831do you have a deck your happy with? if not, try to get something now. If you do, hold off to see if the miniset has anything good, if not you can spend some of it now and save the rest for the next booster.
>>57062824>didn’t get ANY promo cards from the bonus picksI've gotten 5 promo Bulbasaurs and 3 promo Magnemeites. It's a numbers game just do more of them.>did the chansey picksBig oof.
>realized that my streak hasn't been broken since the event startedI want to get 10 wins straight now.
>>57062767It'll only filter out casuals trying to get a full pokedex and the retarded metafags who think they need to spend all their glass on the new expensive shiny thing to win gamesI also hope they don't change anything and it filters out the autistic gachafags who need shiny flashing colors and clear directions on how to be sheep grinding for what the jews drip feed them in their games
>>57062835I think I will save them. I just hope the next sets use the same kind of hourglasses and not some new shitty recolor just to screw us up
>>57062811I picked it every time I saw it because the free ones were only giving me Tickets and I was scared of being like Meowthless Anon.
>>57062811I started doing them because regular wonder picks suck.
New card when
>>57062811What is the point of these promos of bad cards nobody wants
>>57062899Magnemite seems some play.
>>57062899tricks newbies into wasting hourglasses since they don't see bonus picks/know it doesn't matter
>>57062899You WILL fomo
>>57062923I think I'd fomo if it was a 40 card deck game but with the current system where most decks run like 4 pokemon and they're all ex bullshit I just can't see myself caring about promos of regular cards.
>>57062899FOMOFOMOFOOOMOOOFOOOOOOMOOOOOOFO- *gets shot*
Tell me anonWhat is your plan when all the hourglasses you saved fail to get you the card(s) you wanted from the new pack?
>>57062965Why, I go to the trade function to get the cards I wanted then!
new pack tomorrow lets goooooo!
>>57062965I'll be indifferent to it. saving the hourglasses gives me better odds and really I just want to get more new cards to mess with rather than anything specific. I'm already resigned to not getting full art trainers I want without trading.
>try out alakazam+hypno for fun>Zam one shots pika ex while pika can't kill it even with giovanniwhy do I barely see this nigga? I thought it would be good against misty or decks that are energy hungry, I didn't realize it would be decent against pika too
>>57062965I just snipe it with my accumulated pack pointsLuckily I wasn't looking for anything 1 star or rarer
>>57062965Bitch about it here.
>>57062899>What's the point of collectable cards?peak retard
>>57062981I like how Abra has TeleportIf you start with it as your frontline basic and draw your meatshield you can attach an energy and switch out without wasting that energy or X Speed to retreat
>>57062965>fail to get you the card(s) you wantedThis has never happened to me and will never happen to me.
>>57062985same
>>57062981Because it sucks
>>57062676The problem isn’t so much this because you can at least play around it and only put an Eevee on the bench when Jolteon is in your hand. The problem is that doing that gets you absolutely sneedfeeded next turn if your opponent has a Red Card
>>57062965>T. Lucklet seethingCouldn't be me
>>57062065Just make your own wiggly,tuff.
O shit
>>57062981So what's your deck
>>57062965Just open two packs a day and fish for wonder picks until I get it like I've always been doing
>>57062981>Stage 2 in a Mewtwo worldThat's probably why
>>57063021Impressive, very nice
>>57063021Today has perhaps been my luckiest day on the app
>>57063021They're putting chemicals in the water to turn the centipedes gay?
>>57063038Nice, he will lead the way to you winning the PVP event emblem if you haven't already
>>57063038were you pulling from the pikachu pack though
>>57063038looks worse than the 3 star one
>>570630272 zam2 hypno2 sabrina2 potions 2 xspeedI'm currently rethinking if I should switch some of the potions, or x speeds for giovanni.
>sweaty M2 deck loses to 1 Onix & 2 GolbatThat had to hurt. Golbat sniped Ralts on turn 3, and they used Sabrina to bring in Onix only for Brock to ramp it up faster than M2 could go.
>>57062981Zam is nice for dual energy decks. It needs only 1 psychic energy which gives him pretty high chances of not bricking like Dragonite.
>>57063050It looks worse than the 2 star one.
I still don't know what this guy was doing with his deck
>>57063045Finished it with my Misty flips a couple nights ago>>57063049Mewtwo pack actually
>>57063069low tier colorless deck. Shame ditto needs the correct energy type for the attacks he steals, he's basically useless as is.
The great thing about this event isn't beating 5 consecutive opponents, it's showing everyone online that I did
>>57062699you like things that come out of butts because it reminds you of your own origin.
I need either Garde or Venomoth.Which one anon?
>>57063087Top right
>>57063087the stupid sheep sadly.
>>57063087bottom right
>>57063087middle
>>57063087Always middle.
>>57063087Numbuh 3, pick numbuh 3 milord*holds up 2 fingers*
>>57063053I just tried a modified version of this and Alakazam is great actually, nobody sees it coming. I made some changes though, I used clefable as an early game beater similar to rapidash in Blaine. I'm considering Jynx too but idk
>>57063087[12][34][56][78][90]Your roll says bottom left.
I think what people are loathe to admit is that there are actually several viable rogue decks and you don't need ex's to win. You do however need very specific lists.
Wooooobat. ;_;
We do have enough tickets to insta buy the shop tomorrow, right bros?Also Pocket miniset news @ the TGA's tmr
>>57063105It starts with one....... ONE THING
>>57063105Sorry anon, there's always next time
>>57063109I'm at 23 so I should be able to nearly empty it. The problem is I don't really want to keep getting these damn things since they go useless immediately after. I'd prefer hitting the WHGs since they're permanently useful.
>>57063103Or more accurately, RNG will screw over any and every deck once every 3-4 matches. It's because there's no controlled deck searching yet. The only controlled search card i can think of off the bat is Nidoran
>>57063099I think on paper, jynx is better for misty shenanigans, and when it only needs 2 energy to attack, it can work as a suprise against high energy opponents when you plop it down and then charge it up with gardevoir to attack the same turn. The opponent can see alakazam coming, and while jynx lacks the same kill potential in late stages of the game, being able to potentially set it up in a single turn with gard is invaluable. I mostly wanted hypno to stall while I set up zam but weezing is a pretty tempting option.
>>57063119weezychad (literally)
>>57062981>stage 2At that point, just use Zard. You don't bother with inconsistent Stage 2s unless it can also ohko and survive M2.
>>57063127>bro just play a more meta deckyou've missed the point
>>57063111I PUT MY TRUST IN YOUPICKED THAT CARD CAUSE YOU SAID SOFOR ALL THIS THERE'S ONLY ONE THING YOU SHOULD KNOWWWW
>>57063131I'm gonna quote what I replied to>why do I barely see this niggaBecause it's shit and not meta
>>57063121This is true. I've had a match where I drew all my basics but then nothing but support cards. Evolved mons are all at the bottom of the deck, why not.
>>57063081I don't think zoomies will get this ancient meme
Aren't we supposed to get a new set in under a week? No leaks? No datamines? No reveals?
>>57063154should be getting more info during the game awards tomorrow.
>>57063063Worse than the 4 diamond one even.
>>57063126
>>57063127I feel like you're missing the point
>>57063121You probably have no idea how right you are.
>>57063170And just to be more clear in wording..
>>57063170>>57063175The amount of coin flipping in this fucking game man
>>57063121If your rogue deck only wins because the other guy bricked, that shit is not rogue or good at all
>>57063170>>57063175To be fair, the physical card game uses 60 card decks. 20 card games can function without controlled search.Doesn't mean it shouldn't exist though.
>>57063176>wake up>flip a coin>if heads you get up as normal>if tail you are inflicted with sleep paralysis.
Please… just one regular Moltres…
>>57063103I just hate how optimal decks require multiple ex cards. I can finally play machamp cuz i got 2 copies of him last night, even though ive been playing since soft launch.
>>57063206Yeah you can probably get away with 1Ex1Baby of Zard, Blastoise, or MAYBE even Venu but most of the other EX pokemon are 2x or bust.
>>57063206Sometimes when I'm testing random ideas I'll add a random filler card in place of the second copy of a card I don't haveI feel you bro, that shit sucks to draw and know if it was the actual card it would have been great to play it there
>Don't pay attention to pocket for awhile >See this event and go into /VP/>People talking about how hard it is to win 5 in a row>Try with pika and lose>See someone post a weezing arbok list on here>Immediately get 5 wins. 9 wins in fact.>See someone post a kingler/tentacru deck>Immediately get 6 wins>Today see someone post about Alakazam>Make the deck with cards I own>7 win streakI don't even know what to say about this anymore
>>57063209>most of the other EX pokemon are 2x or bust.Zapdos EX is just a wall with a good retreat cost. Most decks running walls are only running one.
>>57063226>play off meta deck>opponent who has been playing articuno vs pikachu vs m2 vs etc. for 100 games in a row has no idea what you're trying to do and misplays (especially around shit like poison or Alakazam) to hand you free setsIt's more likely than you think
>>57063226stop stealing the decks I post about and then doing better with them than I am
>>57063206This is the reality of card games unfortunately. Consistency means you want as many copies of your good cards as possible. In pocket this means 2. If anything you can be grateful it's not 4 like other games. It's rough here though because of how difficult it is to pull a specific card, and I feel your pain. I have been pulling for pika and instead I have 5 Blastoise ex. I pull for zard and instead I have 6 art rare gloom
>>57063247nopost more of them
>>57063206If it were up to me, my EX Pokémon rule would be that your opponent immediately gets a prize point when you play an EX, rather than killing them gives you two points.
>>57063266absolutely fucking retarded bwo, that would just make sabrina even stronger
>>57063103erika......
>>57063105Reeeeeeee
How long did it take for that one god pack to go live in wonder pick some threads ago? Was it a day or two?
>>57063270When I say play i mean the instant they appear, be it the bench or the active slot. The only current card that could give the same card double jeopardy would be Aerodactyl.
>pulled FA Lapraswoo>4 energy for 90 damageshithate how waters are balanced around mistyhow was lapras ex anyway? I missed the event
>>57063316I pulled it from two accounts I got it immediately on one, and it took a day on the other. Depends on your luck but it's gone forever after 3 days
>Lorelei: place a water energy and heal 30hp from your dewgong, cloyster, or lapras>Bruno: flip a coin, your machamp/hitmonlee/hitmontop deals 30 during this turn or takes 30 less during your opponent's next turn depending on the result >Agatha: if you have ghastly haunter or gengar, the opposing pokemon is now paralyzed>Lance: attach 2 water energy to your gyarados, aerodactyl, or dragonite. You cannot attack during your next turnJust some ideas for trainers. I like the specific approach to things, it makes deck identity more neat, like what koga and surge do.
>>57063323lapras ex isnt that good honestlywell, so is just lapras too i suppose
>>57063323They'll ban or errata misty, almost certainly. By then, there will be a gardevoir for water types
>>57063323a bit underwhelming. it's got a good health pool but 80 damage for 3 energy isn't particularly good, healing for 20 doesn't make it that much tankier and 3 retreat makes it one of the most expensive water types to retreat. Not much reason to run it over articuno ex
>>57063226>pays the event when its almost done and all the tryhards finished it days ago>hurr durr its easy idk what 2 sAy?
>>57063323Lapras EX was obsensibly worse since you can't attack with it until you had 3 energy, even with the healing upside.
>>57063336reading this thread it's clear there's still plenty of tryhards
>>57063339Anyone who can't get it done on day 1 is shitters who can't win in a children card game
>play a meme deck for fun>brick, opponent gets all of their coinflips, plays their Stage 3 their third turn and attacks with it to kill your single mon>play Stall Blastoise>win every game, opponent has no line of play possibleShits' gonna drive me loco
Now that we've all gotten the 5 wins emblem, what decks are we playing to fuck over people in queue? Are we brewing or are we screwing? Are we conceding against people who are wearing the emblem? I am. I don't wanna fight them. I want to gatekeep the noobs.
>>57063226I had an easy time with Pikachu even won the mirror matches it may be that luck is a factor
>>57063226If you play "jank", your deckweight matchmaking is lower. Also, after you already get the 5 wins, your queue becomes super easy mode.
>>57063109I'm on 18 tix saved up. Will we get a new set of missions for the second part of the event? If so, I should be able to full clear it right away; if not, I'll have to go hunting a few bonus picks.
>>57063370double hypno sleep scam, even if they win, it's going to take 20 minutes to get through the match>>57063378people keep repeating this when it's demonstrably not true. I've run into multi energy shitter decks while running T1 pika EX and I've run into mewtwo and pika decks running a no EX meme deck.
>>57063109Already have 35 which is more than enough
>>57063367What is "stall blastoise"
>>57063390
>>57063380Yes.https://ptcgp.raenonx.cc/en/mission/group/MI_GR_0002010_EVENT_05They pay out another 22 event tickets.And the shop runs out of things to sell after 51 tickets.
Do I just cut my losses or do I go all in? I only have 12 hourglasses left. I used like half of the ones I had stored up.
>>57063378How many times are you going to say this? It's wrong. It's not true.
Reminder many events like these will be held in the future but only once their badge will have the number 1
>>57063385>people keep repeating this when it's demonstrably not true.It was true in my experience. >I've run into multi energy shitter decks while running T1 pika EXLiterally never happened to me. >>57063397>It's wrong. It's not true.It was true in my experience across 2 different accounts.
>>57063370Just my pet VenuLilli. I dunno why I love this one deck so much but I do. Eggs are arguably better for Venu but I refuse to rely on coinflips.I'm trying to have some nice matches and concede to a few people when I can kill for game, but they keep consneeding too fast. Some I will just kill, though.
>>57063398if the community's bitching somehow actually works this could be the only consecutive win emblem we'll ever get too and it'd be an even bigger bragging rights emblem to have
>>57063404>Eggs are arguably better for VenuWhen I played ExeVenu, I felt like Venu was the weak link, and Exe was winning all of my games. That might be an "objectively" better deck than VenuLilli, but I don't think Exe and Venu belong in the same deck. I think Exe needs something a little bit faster than Venu to clean up the kills it doesn't secure.
>>57063404Why are eggs better? Venu lili seems good because you accelerate
>>57063394Figured. I've already emptied what was there, so now I just need to get the remaining stuff and grind the dust purchases, just like with Meowth.
>>57063411What is good about Exe? Seems really weak for an ex
>Charizard EX can OHKO any mon in the game>Blastoise EX can OHKO Charizard with luck, speed, and proper set up>Venusaur EX can... ???What the fuck can Venusaur do? Why the hell is Blastoise weak to Electric and not Grass?
>>57063408>all these people complaining about how getting 5 in a row is impossible>people insisting that people who already won the event should conced so shitters have an easier time.It was nice having meta and deck building discussions until I was painfully reminded the target audience is gacha playing shitters who want to pay for their wins.
>>57063417Venusaur is pretty good into everything but zard in my experience,
>>57063416Exeggutor is for closing games before the opponent can setup. The longer the game goes the worse it gets. Standard Exeggutor isn't too bad in that regard actually since it also has decent HP and doesn't reward 2 points at a lesser 30-60 damage
>>57063416>What is good about Exe?Yeah, that's what I thought too until I just started playing cards I had never played before. Exeggutor back by Erika is actually crazy good. Even swinging for 40 beats a lot of things that you might think it wouldn't. You don't even need to hit heads for Exe to be impactful, but if you can swing for 80 you pretty much just win before they set up.
>>57063417>190 hp>30 healing on a 100 damage attack>most likely also running potions/erika and butterfree for more healsVenu is supposed to take a lot of damage and keep going.
>>57063426Sounds intriguing desu. You got a list?
>>57063408Completely depends on how much money they made off this little event. If tons of normies swiped to build Mewtwo or Pika in an attempt to get their 5 wins then we'll be seeing these all the time.
>>57063412In theory, Eggs are better because you only commit one energy for something that'll hit harder than Lilli and tank more damage. Maybe even get some quick kills early on and disrupt the opponent's own curve while commiting every other energy to Venu; Petilil hits for a pathetic 10 damage.There's also the builds that use Butterfree, but then you're committing to way too many lines, so people just do EggsFree or VictreeFree.That said, I feel like the Lilli curve is more stable because while she doesn't hit as hard as Eggs or tanks as much, like you said she does accelerate Venu (the turn she evolves is neutral because you commit one energy to her but you also produce one new for Venu) and she's only worth one point, so you can put another basic down to avoid Sabrina shenanigans without risking that same basic being a liability later because that's a total of four points.
>>570634161 energy attack so Exeggutor can swing on turn 3. He also has a fat ass, so you can set up behind him without losing much tempo for the one energy you put on him.Lilligant in comparison attacks on turn 4 and the earliest. And they got hit as Petilil so Liliigant probably attacks once before they die. Which is still only a tempo loss of 1 energy but the payoff is much worse than Exeggutor.
>>57063433I got my first 5 wins with this trash (which means nothing). I only have 1 Wiggly. I tried Venusaur/Exe first, but I think Venu is too slow for Exeggutor. Maybe try Victreebel or something. Not sure who the best pair for Exe is. Switched Venu out because the star of every single game was undoubtedly Exe
>>57063411My personal argument for Eggs Venu is exactly that they do completely different things. Eggs are for closing games early, disrupting enemies with early burst damage and walling early game relatively low damage stuff. Venu is a late game mon, so he appreciates the early game protection and takes over once things go further and Eggs fall off.They're mons made for different game stages and cover each other that way, is the idea behind it.
>>57063433
>>57063451>>57063442Finally pulled my second Exeggutor ex the other day and this stupid game still refuses to give me a single Erika
>>57063451Alternatively
>>57063450Honestly it's the same principle as clefable Alakazam or even Blaine with rapidash and Ninetails. You use the line that only takes one energy to attack in the early game and the set up the closer on your bench. The difference with eggs being that he has a chance at a huge 80 damage for one energy and he's difficult to ko, so he's arguably the best single energy attacker in the game right now, fitting an interesting niche. When you look at him on paper compared to the other ex's it looks bad but when you consider the sheer speed and upswing that he can have it seems like eggs can end a lot of games before they even begin.
>>57063450>They're mons made for different game stages and cover each other that way, is the idea behind it.I understand the "theory" behind pairing Venusaur with Eggs, but I did not personally find it to be a good pairing. Like I said before, Venusaur doesn't even do anything. Venusaur won 1 game in the time I played it, against a Mewtwo deck where I flipped tails on Eggs every single flip. If any of them had been heads, I wouldn't have needed Venu to tank a 150 from Mewtwo. That's the only game where Venu did anything at all. Then you have games where you get Sabrina'd, and now you've got two different mons with a 3 retreat cost, and that's just not tenable. It fucks you over, because you need to be building both of them, but now you've got a Venusaur you can't really attack, and you can't really sac a bulba or something favorably because everything you're running is EX. I think Exe needs a slightly lower curve than Venusaur to really "mesh". I wanted to try Victreebel, since I think that would allow you to finish off any early game retreated pokemon from Eggs barrage, but I just switched to a different deck and wanted to play around with other mons (like Greninja)
>>57063417As long as Venu hits first, only Zard, full Draco Dnite and Zam + Gio can kill him. Blastoise requires a bit more work, since you need near max healing (Blastoise hits for 160 down to 30, you heal for 140 - Erika (50) + 2 Pots (40) + Butterfree (20) + attack (30) - back to 170, 'Toise hits again and toad lives with 10, but Venu can 2 round it as well.Venusaur is THE tank mon in this game as of right now and very little can 1v1 him if you maneuver correctly.
>>57063393The only way this deck stalls people is from the aneurysm they get from reading the recipe>Regular Mewtwo as the sole psychic mon>1 Misty>Helix Fossil
>>57063472he only relevant cost on Mewtwo is his retreat.
The bottom 4 cards on my deck? Well just my 2 unevolved basics and my 2 poke balls.
>>57063370>Now that we've all gotten the 5 wins emblemBut I didn't get it.
>>57063480If you wanted it you'd have it by now so that's not your problem.
>>57063472Mewtwo is just a Snorlax with a 2 retreat cost instead of a 4 retreat cost.
>>57063472why do retards say stuff so confidently
>>57063461Oh, I don't like VenuEggs myself, which is why I play Lilli. I think Eggs can do well with Victreebel (since it has the best bench effect in the game as you can choose what gets dragged out) and one line of Butterfree to keep your boys up (since Free heals *everything*, including itself for 20 every turn).Cringe youtuber aside, this video showcases the deck's potential pretty well, I'd say.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQBUOMgB-jI
>>57063489Victreebel doesn't have a bench ability. You're conflating it with Pidgeot.
>>57063489>the best bench effect in the game
>>57063491I meant as an ability that interacts with the bench, just didn't feel like being too wordy about it.
>>57063489>Fragrance Trap is Basic Pokemon onlyWell that's kinda fucked. I didn't even notice until now. Luckily with the meta, that's usually a hit, but I'm not so sure I want to try it now.
>>57063496Considering the biggest threats are usually EX basics - Pika, M2, Cuno - you still hit a lot of big stuff and, if you can get it set up fast enough, deny the opponent getting their evos by killing the basics first.
>>57063494right, that's why victreebell is in the most meta deck in the game and not zebstrika right?
>>57063501>deny the opponent getting their evos by killing the basics first...which you can only do after evolving twice? you have to get very lucky to get to your stage 2 while they still have basics on the bench
>>57063507>The most meta deck in the gameWhat?
>>57063507Are you being intentionally obtuse? Zeb only needs one energy and, because of it, it can be splashed in anything way more liberally, on top of being a Stage 1. Victreebel's ABILITY to choose anything to come to the active and taking 60 damage is objectively better, but that doesn't mean Victreebel itself is a better mon or easier to use.Please keep your bullshit to yourself, yeah?
>>57063507If Hitmonlee were allowed in Pikachu's harem nobody would be playing Zebstrika.
I want a second one of this guy.EX is stronger but the noncommittal stage 2 mon is perfect for a future plan I have.
>>57063515Hitmon can't hit active spot. Also even if it had a colorless attack cost, you still couldn't play it in Pika for being a fighting type when you need a bench full of electric.
>>57063520Hitmonlee is getting away with some real thievery.
>>57063520Hitmon can't hit active spot. Also even if it had a colorless attack cost, you still couldn't play it in Pika for being a fighting type when you need a bench full of electric.
>>57063522yeah i hate how ex gengar is suddenly 3 energy which actually slows it down a loti'd take a lower energy cost for 80 damage honestly
>>57063520I think the Zebstrika Pikachu variant is worse than the Voltorb variant and especially the Raichu variant.
>>57063523>you still couldn't play it in Pika for being a fighting type when you need a bench full of electric.The FUCK did you think I meant by "allowed in Pikachu's harem"?>Hitmon can't hit active spot.Yeah he also has -10 HP. WoAh ZeBsTrIkA iS sUcH a GoOd CaRd ThE sTaGe 1 InCoNsIsTeNcY iS pAyInG iN dIvIdEnDs. You're a moron.The only thing Zebstrika has going for him is that he's Lightning type.
>>57063517jesus christ your retarded. the abiltty doesn't exist in a vacuum, if it's on a shittier mon, it's a shittier ability. the ability could literally give a free point every turn and it wouldn't matter because it's on fucking victreebell
>opening nothing but charizard packs for weeks looking for full art Erika and Sabrina.>No luck, decided to open a mewtwo pack for a change>Pic relatedGODDAMMIT! Now I have the three immersives but not a single full art waifucard!
>>57063530the difference between only hitting the bench and being able to hit the active as well is huge, I found that out immediately playing with the shit deck the game gives you to start. >>57063529tournament results don't agree with your opinion. I run electrode in mine but it's not nearly as good as something that can punish retreats.
>>57063513Sure but, like everything else in this game, it all depends on luck of the draw. Imagine the opponent has a Moltres in the active and is building an Arc and a Zard. You can potentially interrupt one of these right away if they don't evolve immediately which is potentially game saving.Or someone with Starmie with an Articuno in the back and vice versa (with a Staryu, of course). All up to good 'ol RNG.>>57063531*you'reGood thing it's not on a shittier mon, then. Victreebel is a better mon in a worse color.
>>57063529I'm convinced Zebstrika is worse than Magneton.
>>57063544>the pokemon is good, he just has bad typing!retard cope. not everything in electric typing is good just on virtue of being electric
>>57063541>tournament results don't agree with your opinionYeah that's fine. Makes no difference to me. Most people don't play in tournaments either though. I think Raichu is the best and Zebstrika is the worst. >>57063546I haven't run the Magneton version, but I want to agree with this. Zebstrika is usually dogshit and is countered entirely by a potion.
>>5706354130 damage is so low, what is it actually hitting that doesn't die to pika?
>>57063539if you're lucky, that'll be trade fodder for full arts.
>>57063555>what is it actually hitting that doesn't die to pika?The answer is that it's finishing off a Pikachu EX that doesn't get potion'd. That's the answer. There is no other answer.
>>57063551>cope cope look he's copingIf that's your argument, suit yourself. I'll be sure to cry in the shower tonight because you sure showed me the error of my ways, anon.
>>57063546Magneton is bad but... Honestly I've been running zeb for awhile and it's very bad. I'm inclined to believe it's electrode > magneton > zeb
>>57063555anything that's 100-110 or more? anything that's got 70-80 when you don't pull a 3rd bench mon?a fair number of EX's are just outside of pika's OHKO range and that's where zeb comes in to punish the retreats.
>>57063561>I'm inclined to believe it's electrode > magneton > zebI agree with this, but Raichu is better than all of them.
Is Eelektross good or back?
>>57063553>I haven't run the Magneton version,I'm not even talking about Magneton as a generator for Lt. Surge. I just mean Magneton as a body.If you swap Blitzle for Magnemite (same card lol) and Zebstrika for Magneton you have improved your deck.>>57063561>I'm inclined to believe it's electrode > magneton > zebI'm on the fence about where Heliolisk falls in this but I definitely see Magenton as a (slightly worse) 3rd and 4th copy of Electrode.
>>57063565Raichu is pretty good, but having to commit to Surge and basically having to carry Magneton with you hold it back.>>57063566By the utter lack of mention it has, I'd say it's bad. I'd love to test it out myself, since I like the mon, but one month and change in and I haven't pulled 1 (uno, one) Eelektrik.
>>57063569I actually like heliolisk a lot but I was only really running it because I didn't have electrode. I have yet to really test electrode desu because I've moved into other decks.>>57063565Not a fan of Raichu because then I have to run surge and surge is bad. With that being said I do feel you're right because the only times I lose to pika now is because of a surge + Raichu finish
>>57063570>Raichu is pretty good, but having to commit to Surge and basically having to carry Magneton with you hold it back.You don't need to do that at all. You just retreat to the bench and Surge the Raichu. Sometimes you can even just raw build the Raichu (instead of Zapdos) and slap a Giovanni on it to kill Mewtwo. https://www.pokemonmeta.com/top-decks/community-tournaments/takunya's-pok%C3%A9pok%C3%A9-competition-(128-players)/4/pikachu-ex/%E3%81%84-/-zZCB
>>57063575>retreat to the bench and Surge the RaichuAnon...
>>57063578Nta but he's right that's literally how it works
>>57063578I'll wait for you to figure out that you're the one who is wrong.
>>57063566I've only seen it in Eelektross Hypno Wigglytuff EX meme comps.
>>57063578The other two anons were mean so I'll be nice and say I think you misunderstood him thinking he meant retreat Raichu to the bench, but he meant retreat something else to the bench to bring Raichu out.
Magnezone should be steel-type and require 3 steel energy for its attack
>>57063584>>57063583I get what he meant, but he worded it very badly.Also, I don't really like to run Raichu without a Mag battery. I did fight someone once that did some cute maneuvering with Pika/Zap/Rai, but considering I beat them with Venu, I wouldn't say it's great.If it could just discard the attack cost, it'd be infinitely better.
>>57063590>but he worded it very badly.Nope. You retreat to the bench and Surge the Raichu. Just because you chose to interpret it in a way that you thought made me sound stupid does not mean that I worded it poorly. If you wanted to try to understand it, then if you play this game at all you would have understood that when I said "retreat to the bench and Surge the Raichu" I meant that you "retreat to the bench and Surge the Raichu". There is no Magneton involved.
>>57063569>(same card lol)
>>57063596One of these things is not like the others.
>>57063596This is unironically one of the things I hate about playing electric.
>mfw I open an immersive pika and a reg pika ex with a zapdos ex, along with 2 FA voltorb>but I just wanted raichu and magneton only to make a non ex decki actually get actively annoyed i keep getting lucky and pulling exs and FAs instead of the rares i want to build around
>>57063605>>57063596This is unironically one of the things I hate about playing pocket
>>57063600In my mind's eye I see what you have seen. Pikachu, Blitzle, and Eevee can breed with each other. Magnemite and Voltorb can breed with each other. But Helioptile? Maidenless.
>>57063607You can't be saying that without a screenshot and a friend code.
>>57063620You can't WP Immersives.
>>57063600Yeah, pikachu is fat. GET OUT OF HERE, FATTY.
>>57063621Forgive me I was speed reading.
>>57063622>hating FatchuWe cannot be friends, anon.
Kill me
>>57063607if it makes you feel any better magneton is shit even in a surge deck and you shouldnt play him
>>57063637
>>57063642That's a very bizarre comparison
>>57063642
Reset time, fuckos. Don't forget to go thank your friends before getting lost in the new stuff dropping. Be responsible.
>>57063654What new stuff?
>>57063669Hm. I thought there'd be new stuff today, but I guess not. Still a good idea to get your thanks out of the way first so you don't have to worry about it til the next reset.
>giving up against insurmountable odds
>>57063675Get dabbed on loser
>>57063154>No leaks? No datamines?Data isn't in the game yet
>10 hourglasses leftI think I give up. It wasn't meant to be
>>57063685You've still got one more card in 12 hours.
where's the new miniset
>>57063685Don't give up FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
>>57063690Yeah, hopefully I get it, but I'm not holding my breath. It'll just be more puffs. >>57063693I'm already missing promo Meowth, and I probably wont get a Magnemite either. My account is already bricked so I think I wanna save my 10 remaining hourglasses just in case this happens again in the future and the rare is actually good.
>>57063607STOP I DON'T NEED ANOTHER META DECK I JUST WANT REGULAR CARDSrest of the pack was shit tho but if someone wants to try to gamba for one ex here 0685412200042311
>>57063699If promos are trade-able then this is a non-issue
>>57063691>>57063682
>5 streak with my mediocre flareon greninja decknever give up contrarian bros
>>57063705If the "leaks" are to be believed, it's one trade per week. I'm never going to waste my trade on a shit promo.
>>57063691We're blind anon, we only have up to tomorrows event (Bulba/magnet wonderpicks part 2) for datamines >tfw blind in a gachaWTF
>>57063398>Missing these emblems will cement your account as a newfagI wonder what's the next type of pvp emblem so we can display all three.
Hope they fix the energy pool by either making it alternate every turn or at least make the same energy not appear more than twice in a row
why did i spend 270 dollars on this gamesigh
>>57063714>"leaks"That wasn't a leak it was fanfiction. We don't know shit about trading.
>get second pika ex>finally make an electric deck>give it a test ride>get 5 wins emblem with no issue>including 3 consneedsplaying this deck feels so fucking lame, but holy shit is this effective, no wonder there's so many of those going around
>>57063721The cards have Pokemon on them.
>>57063685>>57063699Nothing much to be done about the Saur, but for Mags, the promo WPs can only show up in the 12 public slots and not the 4 friend slots. So just go to the list, see when the nearest timer expires and check then to see if you get a bonus or Chansey pick. Do it if you can, then repeat. At some point I had a bonus pick already picked and two simultaneously expired Chansey picks because I check as soon as one dies, so I'm constantly rotating slots.
>>57063716>tfw blind in a gachaIs this normally not a thing? Konami doesn't reveal anything coming in a new Master Duel pack until 1-2 days before it drops. If it wasn't for a youtuber having a literal insider mole at Konami, then nobody would know early pack leaks.
>needed a 4th promo Greninja with only 2 remaining chances>used a Greninja deck yesterday and pulled that 4th Greninja>used it again today and pulled a 5th>another anon also pulled his after switching to his Greninja deck on my suggestionI think I cracked the code
>>57063746>Is this normally not a thing?nta, but back before homoverse invaded the gacha space, ruining video games forever, it was very normal for the GL version of any gacha to be as many as 2 years behind the JP/CN version.
Alakazam is my favorite deck now, you can punish so many other decks
>>57063716>>57063746>>57063749>""blind""It's just like in Masters. We're at the point where every event has been started but the update hasn't dropped yet
>>57063758Weezing or something else?
>>57063763I use clefable and hypno
Why doesn't this see more play? 40 damage for 1 energy on a stage1 is par for the course but she can go in ANY deck with any energy type
>>57063770Who do you hit supereffective with that? At least Golbat targets Mewtwo decks.
>>57063770thats just farfetch'd but worse
>>57063770There are plenty of 40 power attackers like Mienshao and Golbat. Dodrio's even got zero retreat cost
>>57063771Not him, but I think it's like, Marowak and that's it.
Is Magnezone gonna be busted?
I GUESS IM NEVER GETTING THAT MAGNEMITE
>>57063770guess grass hits half of one typing for super effective damage and that typing isn't even water
>>57063782Does main TCG ever have water weak to grass?
Just fought dugtrio hypno who timer stalled until the last second each turn, and still lost despite him misplaying multiple times because of super sleep hax. Still not mad because that's fucking hilarious and I was on the job anyways.
>>57063785A quick look shows Quagsire and Swampert normally having a grass weakness, but shit like this is still a thing
>>57063770https://pocket.limitlesstcg.com/cards/?q=weakness:grass+rarity:1,2,3,4+20 vs>real shitSandslash lineMarowak line>memesDugtrio lineOnixKabutops line>unplayably badGolem lineRhydon lineSo that's advantage against exactly one deck. Which isn't even a good deck.If your opponent is running the Primeape version you only get advantage against half the deck.
>>57063803There's a deck with primeape?
>>57063809Marowak runs over Sandslash if they can. The winrate is marginally better but not everyone has promo Mankeys.
>>57063780I hope so, magneton's just a shitty battery right now. Basically every pokemon currently in that's missing an evo is meta irrelevant so hopefully in the mini set or next booster we can get a bunch of those like magnezone and crobat.
>>57063815I have the mank but I was frustrated by the deck and necessity of getting damage counters on the primeape, that wasn't nearly as straightforward as I wanted it to be.
>>57063781How?
>>57063803>unplayable bad>golemGolem can work with strong enough stall because it hits hard as fuck and is only worth 1 point. rhydon is fucking useless, I'll give you that.
What's the best way to post a deck? The app doesn't give good screenshots
>>57063835just type it out in text, probably easiest
>>57063824Promo Mankey is an awkward card but turn 2 Reckless Charge turn 4 Fight Back can kill Pikachu ex. That alone makes it good enough to see play.>>57063835https://my.limitlesstcg.com/builderOr type out the decklist.
>>57063823akshually pikachu is technically missing an evolution and it's meta relevant
>>57063824primeape gets dicked especially hard by going first, wilth how low health promo mankey is, even if you don't attack your liable to die before you get the second energy on it and evolve it. When it works, it can steam roll as hard as ninetails but when it doesn't, you basically wasted two cards on a dud.
>>57063823>I hope so, magneton's just a shitty battery right now.He can't attack on turn 4 (which is a huge downside) but otherwise he's basically Electrode.80 HP, effectively free retreat, and you put 2 energy on him for 60 damage (10 less than Electrode).If you don't need him ASAP you can put 1 or 0 energy on him and still get him online.
>>57063866>free retreatif it was 1 energy to retreat this would be correct. outside of moving energy with surge it just does what other pokemon do but worse. Which I think is fair considering the gimmick, but I still want magnezone to make actually using it more interesting.
>>57063841Preferably in haiku format so anons remember
>>57062965>your plan when all the hourglasses you saved fail to get you the card(s) you wanted from the new pack?Very unlikely.
>>57063877But then you haven't saved your hourglasses for the next pack...
>>57062965I'm not spending any of them on the mini expansion>>57062982>I just snipe it with my accumulated pack pointsI have bad news for you
What do you think about running 2 evolution ex Pokemon and a 1 copy of their non-ex? Like Charizard, Exeggutor, Gengar and Marowak
>>57063905It can be functional, depending on the deck. For the starters and maybe gengar it's fine if you don't have both EX's but definetly not better than just using the two EX versions. For marowak or eggs I don't see the point in using either normal version. normal marowak hits for shit damage, and normal eggs is just kangaskhan you need to evolve first.
>>57063912Regular Marowak has the benefit of hitting fast with 100HP in a bad situation or as a lead I guessExeggutor I think would be decent since it's meant to be a lead so you want to draw an Exeggutor as soon as possible and it also doesn't give 2 points when knocked out
>>57063467zapdos
>>57062965I've got over 400 hourglasses saved. Depending on wether the miniset is 1 or 2 packs (even the leaker was unsure about it) I may drop a 10-pull. I'm definitely saving a "pull 10 from each pack" for a new set in january.
There's a potentially game breaking mechanic out there if one brainstorms how to exploit it.Most people know that you're not obligated to use certain energy types in a deck even if certain Pokémon will not be able to attack (i.e Darkless Weezing). But an interesting note is that cards designed to fetch energy do not require that energy to be available in your recipe.>Brock>Misty>Magneton>Gardevoir>MeltanThere are little to no reasons why anyone would bother doing this, but I considered a strange idea with the Psyduck line. Maybe there's another practical motive out there that I'm not thinking about.
>>57063529>>57063546I think zebra just has a better match into water types and zapdos
>>57063923wait a minute, reading comprehension / sleep depravation hitignore that post, or let's call you a retard and say it definitely will work
>>57063924I cooked up a golem deck with this concept everyone said it was garbage
>>57063920Ah, right, that too. Thanks for the reminder.
>>57063905iirc, that's how the current meta mewtwo deck works. it's 2 ex mew2, 2 gard, 1 jynx, 1 normal mewtwo. Normal mewtwo serves primarily as a meatshield with two retreat cost to soak hits while you build up gard and ex mewtwo, and can also work as a backup plan if you struggle to pull mewtwo but manage to get your gardevoir up quickly to charge it.>>57063918the problem is that normal executor needs to evolve to get online while doing almost the same damage as kangaskhan. it being worth less points matters less since EX eggs has 160 hp, and benefits more from healing, being able to potentially take a psychic sphere and psy drive back to back without dying.
>>57063924>>BrockOnly works on Golem and Onix. Onix requires 3 Fighting energy, so this is impossible. Golem does only require 1 energy, but it now requires a trainer and a stage 3.>>MistyCompletely a coinflip. Likely to do nothing. >>MeltanRequires Metal energy to AmassYou are late to the party, and none of this is game breaking.
>>57063835The best deck creator is Pokémonmeta imo, limitless you have to search through all of the tcg and the other websites lag to infinity or are equally as aids to use No fancy export options tho and it probably looks worse than others
>>57063928Golem.. well that would mean that Brock is a dead draw until you manage to fully evolve Golem; to install a stage 2 evolution that kills itself from recoil. I, can't say I see the appeal either. Sorry desu.
Apart from the initial leak, do we even have a confirmation that a miniset is coming? For all we know, it may disappear from existence just like the mythical gyarados event.>>57063924I've seen anons making a brock/golem set without fighting energy, but I'm unsure of its effectiveness outside of being considered a meme
>>57063940>By the end of the yearIt tracks
>>57063924I've seen some decks that run one water type meat shield like normal articuno or lapras and rely on misty to occasionally let it attack, but it generally seems like a worse option compared to using pokemon with the correct energy type.>>57063940the official twitter account already responded to a question asking for miniset details to watch the game awards
>>57063905I'm running my Gengar like that.
>>57063934>MeltanWhoops, right. Like Moltres EX and Liligant. My bad.>You are late to the party, and none of this is game breaking.Might as well state my train of thought since it isn't that great as much as it is interesting.Psyduck is decent at annoying the opponent, and its 1 energy cost is colorless. It's somewhat possible to go Misty & waterless for Golduck since praying for two heads isn't the most mission impossible. From there you have the option to run it in a different mono-theme deck, in a way that you're not so inconvenienced when Misty fails you.
>>57063905Seems ideal in stage 1 Evo decks, pokeballs mean you have 4 copies of your basic and then you have 3 stage 1s.
>>57063940Gyarados event never had any data related to it and fell right at the same time as the Fire Type eventPeople should have guess it was some scrapped thing that was never happening
>>57063959Not to mention that you're all but guaranteed a lot more consistency as opposed to taking the multi-energy gamble; which can be fun, but only to a certain degree.
>>57063924I saw a gengar deck that used only psyduck and no Golduck. Countered my koga hard.
>>57063968So you may have a general idea of what I'm going for, albeit likely more convoluted. The lack of Persian usage is also concerning, as it has objectively the most devastating hand effect at present.
>>57063975>two energy to coinflip if you can remove one card from their hand>significantly shittier redcard>most devastating hand effect nope
>>57063975I tried Persian with fearow and something else. didn't seem to work to well because of the low damage and health, along with not being a coin flip
>>57063977Most devastating =/= bestThe balance keeps it from being meta but what I'm saying is that the discard pile is permadeath in this game compared to oh say YGO. 20 decks can easily have their whole plan ruined by one lucky reap.
>>57063924I fail to find the issueIt either doesn't pick energy because you didn't set it, or is a desired feature
>>57063770wouldn't this pull grass energy that you probably don't want
>>57063989Just don't set grass in your deck
>>57063977You're wrong. It's not red card. Red card sends shit back to your deck. Persian sends it to the graveyard
>>57063989The game only auto adds the energy based on the attacks in your deck, so a colorless grass pokemon like this doesn't add grass energy. Even if it did add it you could remove it anyway like >>57063990 said
>>57063770So you need two cards to get one card in play and most decks will feature 2x so you're out 4/20 for a stage 1 that does 40 damage
>>57063986>20 decks can easily have their whole plan ruined by one lucky reapnot really. every deck runs 2 copies of cards and basically every meta deck worth it's salt has a back up pokemon if their primary doesn't work out. You would need to not get lucky once, but two or three times before your really putting the opponent in a hard spot. aerodactyl does almost the same thing and also lacks any real meta relevancy with how inherently shitty coinflips are
>>57063991>graveyard
People keep liking my showcase I don't think I even need friends I can go full sigma trainer
>>57063995I mean, kinda, but you also need to take into account the fact that this game emphasizes power play bottlenecks.>Stage 2 evolutions require an unavoidable 3 turns to hit the field>Crucial supporter cards are limited to once per turn.With the exception of turn 1 Misty, the emphasis on counterplay is substantial.
>>57064009doesn't work. I think you only get like or promoted for others to randomly see if you give out lots of likes
>>57064039I probably do give out a lot of likes because it's easy and I've already opened the app
PC bros, what emulator are you using? I know there were some issues for a while
How often do they dish out the free no-cost wonderpicks? I've just been autistically checking every hour or so
how's my Lightning decklist?2x Pikachu2x Raichu2x Voltorb2x Electrode1x Magnemite1x Magneton2x Pincurchin2x Pikachu EX2x Professor Oak2x Lt. Surge2x Poké Ball
>>57064053I like to have potions in my deck I might give up Pincurchin
>discard pile shows the energy from knocked out PokemonWe'll probably get energy retrieval effects in the future
I got 6 Venesaurs but only 1 Greninja lmao
>>57064052Whatever it is, seems to be nerfed from last time.
>>57064051There were no issues with the *emulators*, but rather with version 1.0.8. It had a memory leak that was occurring on Bluestacks, LDP, and MuMu. I'm using MuMu and it's fine. Whatever you do, don't use Bluestacks; that thing is a piece of shit. I liked LDP while I was using it (for other games), but I deleted all those programs when I quit gacha... then this game came out.
>>57062055Thanks for the list lmao it actually works I'll join you in ruining other people's streaks.
news today?
>>57064092No. If it didn't happen on reset, its NEVER EVER
It just hit me where the niche strategy has a home. Steel almost forces you to innovate due to the lack of representation. Misty is clearly not a win condition for the deck. But if you luck out, you now enable a fire assassin to work with steel's weakness. You can run this same logic replacing the Psyduck line with EX Starmie, at the cost of Staryu being useless.
>>57064052I think it used to be a refresh every hour but like the other anon said it looks like they nerfed it. I would check it out every 3 hours at best
call my dragonite luigi mangione the way he takes out these high value targets
No matter what Pokemon I put with Exeggutor, the only one that ever ends up dong anything is Exeggutor.
exeggutor ex just seems worse than marowak ex. I think being able to oneshot mewtwo ex is more valuable than guaranteed consistent 40 damage
>>57064112>exeggutor ex just seems worse than marowak exI think it's a significantly better Marowak EX.
Why are 2 stars so difficult to pull from packs? Their rates make no sense to me. At least the 3 star immersive has something more workable of a rate.
>>570640532 xspeed is better than having so many basics
>>57064115False simply because the mons weak to fighting are actually relevant.
>>57064119>FalseI have won so many more games with Exeggutor EX than with Marowak EX. The best part about Marowak EX is that you can run him with Primeape.
>>57064053>14 pokemon>9 basicsit's going to be a nightmare trying to find Pikachu EX in there as well as trying to evolve anything. I'd take out your electrode lines and replace with xspeeds and sabrinas
>>57064122>>57064053My first instinct is ditch the urchin and replace them with X Speed. I could be wrong though.
>>57064116I still haven't pulled a single Erika and the Primeape I wanted only started showing up in the packs after I successfully got my 2nd one from Wonder Pick
>>57063877how do you know hourglasses would be useable for new packs?
>>57064099It all sounded so dysfunctional until you cooked. I've seen much worse.
>>57064124When you have that many pokemon you're going to lose a bunch of games because you>have a shit start due to getting a weak basic in your opening hand>never find your evolutions>have a bricked hand full of evolutions you can't useMost "comp" Pika EX decks have a much shorter list of mons which increases your chance of finding your EXs in your opening hand or in your pokeballs
>>57064053I replaced Pincurchin with X-Speed
>>57064116I have 2 Crowns, 15 Immersives, 3 Rainbow 2*s, 11 PLANETA 2*s, and 2 FA Supporters (double fucking Blaine). The pull rate on the Rainbow 2*s is atrocious, they genuinely seem more rare than Immersives, which I thought would be the hardest cards to pull bar Crowns. I really how this is something they address going forward. I would complain about it by sending a message to the devs, but I don't want to brick my account. >>57064126>and the Primeape I wanted only started showing up in the packs after I successfully got my 2nd one from Wonder PickThey need to address this too. While completing my pokedex, way too often would I be cucked from getting new cards from packs, and they would magically start showing up in packs casually after I got my 1st or 2nd from Wonder Pick. Maybe I should just write a letter to the devs.
>>57063721How many packs does that equate to?
FA Oak when
>>57064143Honestly, probably the mini set, right?
I still don't have a single promo Venusaur lmao
>>57064147I only have 1 but it cost me 15 or so hourglasses.
WHERE THE F*CK ARE THE NEW CARDS???
>finally got two promo magnemites and bulbasaurs >can stop spending 2 fucking wonderpicks on chansey bullshit
>>5706409990dmg (counting the weakness) is not gonna wipe most fire types. I'd say use starmie or gtfo. Even greninja would be better I think even if its stage 2.
>>57064107Lmao based
>>57064166You're not wrong, but also, Psyduck > Staryu > Froakie > Frogadier.Either way I have yet to pull a single EX Starmie, and messing around with stage 2s in a Melmetal deck would more likely make the deck less straightforward in a bad way.
>>57064137I use this but zebs because I only have 1 voltorb
>>57064158retard.
>>57063781You're not alone, m8.
I HATE PULLING CHARMANDER DEAD LAST FROM THE PILEI HATE PULLING RALTS DEAD LAST FROM THE PILEI HATE PULLING MACHOP DEAD LAST FROM THE PILEI HATE PULLING BULBASAUR DEAD LAST FROM THE PILEI HATE PULLING DRATINI DEAD LAST FROM THE PILEI HATE PULLING FROAKIE DEAD LAST FROM THE PILE
>the kanji of the year is announced. It's kin (Gold)https://x.com/poke_times/status/1867139835808407966Gen 2 set next
>>57064241Tech in 1 Porygon. He's a pseudo draw 2 if you spot something you don't need and then use a pokeball.
>>57064259its kino
>>57064259lugiabros...
>>57064066Pokemon tool cards are also as they're an option in the filters.
>>57064259Feraligatr, my beloved.I really hope they make it not shit
is this some psyop where every faggot talks about>this deck performed well in the tournamentbut those """""""""tournaments""""""" are nowhere near to be found?
>>57064268I wonder what they'll even put on tools for Pocket since something as minor as +10 dmg is locked to a supporter.
>>57064137Is the electrode variation better than the zebstrika one?I think the latter is better to snipe benched Pokemon with low HP
>>57064297https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournaments/?game=pocketEveryone should know by now to check limitlesstcg for tournament results. But for every 1 rogue deck that performs well in a tournament there are 1000 Pika and Mewtwo decks that get the same or better results. The meta is beyond solved and anyone thinking some mystic sleeper deck exists is huffing the industrial grade copium.
>>57064359Zebstrika, Electrode, and Raichu variants all have their advantages/disadvantages and all have good tournament results. Zebstrika performs slightly better than the others.
>>57064099>>57064166>>57064200The fact that this is compatible with No-EX format is part what makes this scary. I only ever ran colorless support for a steel deck, where your choices are shitmons or walls with shitty attack/retreat costs. The fact that only Melmetal has a retreat cost higher than 1 is what saves this idea more than anything else.
>>57064297And the tournament site doesn't give the full deck info so lol
