Blitzlekrieg Edition>I want to learn the game, where do I begin?Download PTCGL at https://tcg.pokemon.com/en-us/tcglThe game has a quick tutorial and a bunch of decent decks to get you started against other beginners or against the AI. Some of those decks are very close to meta too. You can also go to your local game store and see if people are playing Pokémon.>I know how to play, how do I make my own deck?You have a decent beginner's guide at https://www.justinbasil.com/guideThere's also the old /tcg/ guide at https://imgur.com/a/W4NkOu6After that, look up meta decks and try to reverse engineer them to see how things work.>Where to find meta decks?For big irl events, go to https://limitlesstcg.com/decksFor online events, go to https://play.limitlesstcg.com/decks?game=PTCGFor japanese events, go to https://pokecabook.com/archives/1417Previous thread: >>59356857Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA
A bit lost on what to do with Pultnoir, it can brick easily it seems, not sure if not having Rosa is a good idea
>>59372706Imagine being so retarded you can't success with the undisputed bdif
I, SISSYpult, JOBBER of the Pokemon TCG meta humbly kneel to:Lillie's Clefairy-dono, who humilliated me in front of millions, being included in most meta decks to fuck me silly repeatedly on stream, my one true love and my master.Fezandipiti-sama, who demolished my pathetic stage 1 pre evolution, allowing Lillie's Clefairy-dono to take the NAIC championship from me, despite me making up half of day 2 player rate.Crustle-sama, who cockblocked me so hard he made me feel like I was wearing a chastity cage when facing against him.Alakazam-sama, who completely OUTCLASSED me turning one of my biggest strenghts that is card draw into a buff to his MANLY POWERFUL HAND, raping my prostate so hard it made me tremble.MegaExcadrill-sama, who will easily manhandle me with his splendid BMD (BIG METAL DRILL) once pitch black arrives.Trevenant-sama, whose hour-long beatings gave me uncontrollable orgasms with his masterful use of tech against me allowing him to cuck me out of a second championship in a row.Slowking who'se incomparabily forceful seek inspiration attack crushed my ass-womb entirely to the point I cannot bear Lillie's Clefairy-dono's children anymore like I wished to.And finally, Dhelmise-sama, whose power I am scared of (Can't wait till I get my ass spread apart while the whole Ghost Veil archetype runs a train on me <3)
>Normal type>Will be cucked by watch tower>July 31st or Nov 6th for us>30th anniversary set releases before>The meta is probably not changing until Nov 6th if it even does
>>59372730It's dragon type.
>>59372730I though july was the release for the pocket set >>59372262
>>59372745The pocket one is. Ours isn't, you can see the white colorless backgroundUnless it's placeholder of course. You want it to be colorless instead or instead of saving us from dragapult it dies to it with clefairy as well. It'll never be meta as dragon. Lightning doesn't exist right now so that's the best weakness you can have in the game currently
>>59372730Proof they are reprinting DDE before next year
>>59372771Storm emeralda was always meant to release in july for JP. The 30th anni set is mid sept for everyone. Unlikely there's anything in august for JP since it's july 31st, at the end of the month.So it's Storm Emeralda > 30th anni > Lucario Z set for JPIt's Abyss Eye > 30th anni > Delta Reign for global Who knows if delta reign will merge with lucario Z set for global, since that being confirmed nov time is very very delayed
>>59372813November for delta reign really is so delayed actually. We're genuinely going to be a good 3 sets behind JP what the hell
>>59372804Yeah let's give Pult access to a playset of Neo Uppers and still have a slot for an Ace Spec, that's healthy design right?
>>59372913It will happen probably december so they can give us a little extra misery before killing dragapult like they did with gardevoir, they've just yet to print the next oppressive deck everyone will cry about yet
>>59372923Gardevoir wasn't nearly as cancerous as dragapult and I'm tired of seeing pulties pretending like it was.
>>59373049I don't play dragapult and I would much rather play vs it than Gardevoir
Why are pulties so dishonest? No deck hogged half the player representation last format. It was an actual fun meta to play in.
>>59373154Joltiknox my beloved...
Gardevoir at it’s strongest was like 15% of the meta and people bitched and moaned lol
>>59373248garde was a very linear deck that was not interesting to play againstalso everyone just hates munkidori and it was one of the most egregious munkidori abusers
Gardevoir was a stronger deck than Dragapult currently is and was both simple to play and oppressive to play against because every good attacker was a single prize. The problem with Dragapult is that it's almost half of any given tournament so it's more obnoxious despite objectively being a worse deck because you feel exhausted playing against the same deck nonstop
>>59373401this
>>59373154grimmsnarl, zard, and gardevoir all played the same as dragapult does now so I don't see the issue
>>59373401>because you feel exhausted playing against the same deck nonstopThis thread's complaints about any BDIF always ends up being that it's "boring" to play against the same deck multiple times. I don't know how people here can stand to play games at all, because this is going to be the case no matter what kind of competitive game they play. Buy a kaleidoscope instead, you'll see something new every time.
>>59373483I agree with your post
>>59373483having a BDIF is inevitable nmwhaving a BDIF that shows up every second game because it's that far ahead of everything else just makes the game boring
>>59373611Stop playing then.
>Get the worst build and battle deck>Insta concede for 5 matches to claim my free shit>Don't touch the mode againWhat happened to the prerelease decks where you got 2 of the 4 "builds"? Now your deck is focused on just 1 mon instead of it being a random split of 2 of the pre-release mons
Why do so many people on Live load into Expanded with their plain ass Standard decks?
>>59373401>was both simple to playIt had the most skill expression out of any deck in that meta. If Gardevoir was simple then the rest of the decks were outright braindead.
>>59373712We are playing the pokemon trading card game
>>59373662New players faffing about and getting their cherry popped by Regidrago VStar
>Locals>Ethan’s Typhlosion/Ceruledge/Budew >Get the absolute SHIT kicked out of me for three rounds straight.>Final round is a bye.If I wanted to be fucked like this I’d have just hired a prostitute.
>>59373389big retard post
>>59373832She wasn't going to peg you like they did at locals.
>>59373832>Getting fucked in the ass by Ceruledge.I love my boy but he's so easy to curbstomp.
>5 minute PTCGL queues to go against pros at 1950 elokill me
>>59373995No no, E.T., Ceru, and Budew was the deck I was running. First deck was a mega froslass/Evolution Jammer bullshit fucking combo from hell that OTKO’d me. I forget the second round but the third one was some fucking combo with that Abra that shuffles itself back into the deck, some random bullshit I forget the name of, and mega Buneary’s first attack that gets a huge bonus if she’s swapped in that turn.
>>59374018What deck?
>>59374029That is not a deck anon. That is worse than slop. I have a friend who really likes ET too and tries to run crazy shit like ET Blaziken or ET Dusknoir and it just doesn't work.
>>59374067I realize that now. Thank you.
>Queue greninja>Suddenly everyone runs shaymin now??I only see psyduck normally who's even running shaymin? Greninja sucks and it's the only relevant bench sniper. Are people THAT afraid of slowking?
>>59374078No one is playing Shaymin with Greninja in mind. Slowking is a better deck that actually poses a threat, of course people will tech for it.
>>59374078over 20% of decks had some bench snipe bullshit, why wouldn't I throw in a shaymin when it's going to basically autowin me those matchups?
>>59374093(this doesn't include fez or it would literally be 100% of decks lol)
>>59374093Genuinely the only reason I swapped from Arboliva to Grimmsnarl was for Shaymin, but Grimmsnarl is already pretty fun so it wasn't that big of a loss, and since you run more damage manipulation it tends to be a more nuanced deck anyways.
thinking of adding tool scrapper to dragapult hammers, 4 hammers 1-1 dudunsparce 1 less poke pad to add 1 tool scrapper and keep the stadiums as is or remove dudunsparce line remove risky ruins add jamming tower and watchtower alongside handheld fan
>>59374753Back when hit and run decks worked.. and every deck didn't run 3-4 boss..
>>59374868Remember when we were like one or two sets away from having Boss Orders rotating out of the format? I remember. I even bought a couple prime catchers in anticipation.
i wonder if we will get a "fates" set in the mega era, maybe 2027?
>>59375651yes obviouslywe have the same 4-5 "filler" sets every era alongside the "real" sets
>collector shit setno, fuck off
>>59375622Imagine how fun this meta would've been without universal gust around..
lol amazing
>>59375651>>59375832There's plenty of time for the usual shiny holiday special set even with the 30th anni happening.Should be plenty of time to cover all the mega evolutions too. Assuming gen10 is oct/nov 2027. Otherwise they'll have to speed up the mega releases, or we might end up with some not getting cards again like abomasnow and lopunny from before
>>59377494i fear pocket will become the graveyard for the pokemon that didn't get a mega during their day. We still have plenty of base game and dlc megas, but it seems they insist on only 4 megas per set
>>59377517The global sets lately have been the sole JP ones, without them being merged. And JP has stalled releases for 2 months, so we're going to get another single small JP set with abyss eye. Delta reign might be storm emerald+the next jp set merged to become a large set. Since delta reign is in november for us.
>>59373049Garde was bad, dont get me wrong. But yes, its worse now.Pre-rotation there were Garde, Gholdengo, Raging Bolt and Dragapult. Now its only Pult.
>>59377704honestly i would rather have this format than the last one explicitly because i fucking hated playing against gholengo. i'm glad that gay ass deck is gone
>>59377707we all are anon. but at least it wasnt a single fucking deck molding the entire meta by itself
>>59377707As a froslass/munkidori chad I loved playing against dengo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1Rm1XcUClY>Saar made $13,000 from playing Pokemon this year.
>>59378618That's not a lot of money...
>>59378651traveling costs a lot of money and you will be spending majority of your cash prizing on it.
When are they supposed to start revealing storm esmerelda? next week?
Excadrillbros..... I thought we were gonna save the meta -ACK
>>59379556Grimmsnarl back just like I said baybee
>Turns your fun rogue deck into cancerT-thanks....
got first place with my silly starmie deck today :)
>>59379556I am so happy the silly little anchor is saving the meta.
>>59379787post it
>>59379803scoop up saved my ass twice
>>59379818Why play this over Grimmsnarl outside of the weakness being nonexistent in current meta?
>>59379734In practice this didn't actually add much to slowking. You just bridge the gap from 250 to 300, there's hardly any mons in that range. Just zoroarkTHIS broken piece of shit is what put it over the top. >Yeah let's give psychic two free nest balls on a special energy>Oh dark special energy? Make it immune ot bench dmg, but only the mon it's attached to lol>lol water can get a status immunity special energy>fire can get a nerfed version of the one it had before which nobody used
>>59379827It bridges the gap from 280 to 230 which is huge but yeah, telepathic really is overtuned. Hope we don't get an actual psychic cancer that will take over for a couple years, all the ingredients are getting there.
>>59379827>In practice this didn't actually add much to slowking. You just bridge the gap from 250 to 300, there's hardly any mons in that range....And with Bangle, what does that hit? What's that one really big deck with the =<330 HP attacker, anon?
>>59379822starmie is faster and i love to imagine goofy goober playes whenever i evolved into it
>>59379836>telepathic energy>psychic patch>mystery gardenIt really has the potential to explode at any point with a good psychic monZoroark could hold a dark weakness one down but if it's a fairy type we're screwed. Metang, archaludon are rotating next year. Zacian is still here but wont hit hard enough on a stage2 or mega. Stevens metagross might become the only "usable" metal deck then. Thankfully there's only magearna and altaria left as fairy-psychic candidate megas
>>59379880I assume it's faster yeah but Grimmsnarl still has consistent turn 2 attacks with petrel and the stadium both as a 4 of with 2-3 candies in it, I just think 120+50 is kind of shitty compared to 180+30. I should play the deck some more but I'm probably biased since I love Grimmsnarl
