Your favorite pack is back edition>Friend ID Survey: https://forms.gle/AZyQQ2SfGeCKjXNh9>Friend ID Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DGhOfaMX6D_YUR-P39_OJdVmAl0uacohIRstE9oN9SQ/edit?usp=sharing>Tournament results/decklists: https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournaments/completed?game=POCKET>Deck Builder: https://my.limitlesstcg.com/builder>Datamines, etc.: https://ptcgp.raenonx.cc/>Luck calculator: https://porygonthree.github.io/ptcgp-luck-calculator/>Advanced card search: https://pocket.limitlesstcg.com/advanced>Everyday Wonders card list: https://www.pokemon-zone.com/sets/b3b//vp/ battle passwords to battle with other Anons (consider writing a post to recruit players)>/vp/‘s own meta (no random effects, no ex): vpnx>meta decks or high level play: vpmeta>/vp/ anything: vpPrevious Thread: >>59488467
I opened 110 packs. Got nothing.Still missing Lillie.
so this is 6000 hourglasses worth of deluxe pack lmao, how much is that with pokegold even, I'd say $3 well spentmissing the 2 oaks I redeemed and already traded to my main, I got the 2 lillies along the way
>>59507035Where did you buy account with 6k hourglasses?
Ok this is a meta where i skip top 10k, everything is just bench snipe slop im so fucking good on this.
>>59507035>5 shiny darkrai LmaoI got one each Lillie and oak, still need 90 pack points for 2500. Definitely never opening this garbage pack on my main.
>open 10 deluxe ex on my alt>FA Oak and the fucking rare candy crown even though I already have itWell at least it gave me some shinedust to trade it to my main so I can make decks with both FA oaks.
>>59506907>Since we're not doing a fucking thing about the SleepNIGGER onslaught, now you can just conSneed on sight without dropping Rank Points!
>Master League edition>>59507194Hahaha, I'm clappin'!
>>59506941>>59507035>>with deoxys set and deluxe 2 right around the cornerI'M GONNA DO IT, I'M GONNA PULL THE BECKETT 10 UMBREON CON SOMBRERO
>>59506907>deluxe pack comes back>opening it is pointless because i already have a set of oaks>going for more oaks is completely useless because trading them for anything is ripping yourself off and i might as well just go for the cards i want directlywhat a crock of shit
>>59507264Lucky, you are free
It's weird that Deluxe doesn't have Rainbows.I want Deluxe 2 to have FA Stadiums...
11 to go. Does anyone have extra Raichu they could spare? I'm trying to build a golden shrine to my favourite pokémon.
>>59507402I have TL Raichu you can have, FC?
>>595074109517860959605168Are you looking to get anything specific in return?
>>59507425I'm one Jirachi away from gold, any Magnezone, Scizor, barring any of those I'll take any rare in my displays that don't have the border on. Electrode pfp, sending.
>>59507430Aight, I have a spare Magnezone and Scizor.
>>59507437That'll do man, I'll take pretty much any steel type for the third copy.
>>59507444Sounds good. Ready when you are.
Ayup, sleepfagging AltariTards STILL deserve the rope*sips*
>>59507447Right on thanks, enjoy raichubro.
5 out of 6 done. Only 8 left!>>59507471Thank you, my dude. That was a huge help.
>>59507479I have extra copies of GA planeta pikachu too, if you want you can have one when I stop being a dustlet
>>59507484GA planeta pikachu? Which one is that?
>>59507495Straight junk tier 2*, probably not worth the 25k, but there's a bunch of other junk tiers I'd probably spend it for. About 10k short right now, some collection missions I'm only a pack point purchase or two away from though and deluxe is back.
>>59507506I don't think I have anything decent to trade for it, unfortunately.
>>59507518From your binders>PlanetaArticuno, Mewtwo>MegaBlastoise, Steelix>RRProbopass, Solgaleo, Dragonite>TrainersLiterally, anythingIf you have dupes of any of those, or if you're down to trade 1-ofs, looks like plenty my man. I have 3 copies that aren't going anywhere anytime soon lol
Man fuck this delux pack my WPs are all Delux packs now and I'm still missing three 4 diamond EXs and plenty of 3 diamond to complete thr Ray set. I don't give a shit about FA Oak. The fucking Oak you buy for tranny tickets in the shop does the exact same thing.
>>59507542I have 2 Calem, so I guess I can spare one.
Reminder that this is the last timer DX-A is available, so make sure to round up your pack points for whatever you want to use them for.
>>59507556I guess I did say literally anything huh... yeah that would work xD
>>59507570If you don't want it, it's perfectly fine. I don't wanna trade you something you don't really want.
>>59507573Searching a mega is pretty evergreen, I don't think it's a bad card. I just find the gen 6 protags fairly bland. Besides, they finally printed Metagross, barring RR Jirachi or some of the Hoenn girls I don't expect to need the dust anytime soon. It's a most generous offer that I'd happily accept.
>>59507585I don't really have anything else I can spare, so if you're ok with it, I'm down to trade. I have 948k dust and 2.1k trade hourglasses lol
>>59507612>literally anything huhThis was dramatic, Calem is a great pickup for pika, thank you. I'll send him your way when I'm all dusty.
>>59506907should I trade a lillie for a may or should I wait for deluxe ex 2? I already have Sabrina, Cyrus and the drawing gang
>>59507622Sounds good! And thank you for the 3 Raichu, once again.
>>59507632Totally dude, the collecting blows the battling out of the water imo. Really happy to help a bro get his bro.
>>59506386Just added you on my alt, pulled a shinygard you can have for free.
>>59507251>with deoxys setLolThere isn't going to be a deoxys setAnd if there is, he'll suck ballsNo way they make good use of Form Change
>>59507668Thanks bro, I just accepted a random, it must be you.
>>59507668Thanks again, man.
>GB4-UB1:Emboar+EnteiFucking dead in the water, even with Rainbow Cave Entei is more of a detriment if your name isn't Zard>UB1-UB2: Hydreigon+Mega SableyeStill going strong, Needle is beyond hilarious>UB2-UB3: Tyrantrum+RampardosAbsolutely LOVE this set's buffs to Fossil decks, Mime Jr. hasn't disappointed me yet>UB3-UB4: Dedenne+OricorioTried giving Traveling Merchant a shot & that was a mistake, actual waste of Dust lmao>UB4-MB: Mega VenusaurShit like Hoopa, Wallace, & Oricorio Sensu have made the earlygame a real crapshoot for whether or not you lose on the spot, but it seems like just more instawin buttons are on the horizon as Sleepfaggotry still rules the roostKill yourself DeNA
>>59507951You're welcome, I don't have the dust to trade it over to my main and I won't for some time trying to get all the waifus off it.
>>59507984Emboar is more of Moltres partner than an Entei partner.
I know this is exceedingly improbable, but has anyone gotten footage of someone winning with 14/3 points?>two points already won4 Mega Pokemon in opponent's active slot and bench all KOd at the same time due to effects of attacks (such as Draco Meteor etc)Or even just 12/3 points. I'm just fascinated by the very small possibility of that happening.
What do you even do with this
They somehow completely ruined ranked. The matchmaking is even more fucking blatant than it ever has been in making you lose over and over and over, but hey, you don't lose points anymore :^)
>>59507803Haywood?
>still have 5 three diamonds left to complete the new set>DX pack dropped this morning (I completed it last time it was available)>now my wonder picks are filled with useless junk DX pack picks with high 3 stamina costs instead of [current pack] picks that could have some of the remaining 3 diamonds I needThanks DeNa
>>59508282Instead of just bitching you could have just asked for what you're missing, either here or trade apps or even lebbit
>>59508295I don't have shit for dupes to offer in return
>>59508302Why do retards are under the impression that you can only trade dupes?Even for 2* I often see imbeciles in here saying "I have no good dupes to give ):"How about trading something good, even if it's single copy? For fuck's sake.
>>59508348But... but... I've gotta catch em all...
>>59508348Because I want at least one of each diamond card. Full arts and shinies I'm less picky, like for example I don't give a shit about any full art humans so I'd trade those away with just one, but not the main 1-4 diamond part of the set.
Imagine collecting shinies like that shit is wack
I used to go after these glossy DX cards but lost interest after the gold bordered cards released
>>59508530>he doesn't have gold bordered foils
What's best emulator to run secondary account?
>>59506907>bought 10 deluxe packs>regretted it instantlyGot a Shiny Darkrai dupe, the gacha gods are mocking me.
>>59508758I opened 100 packs on an alt and all I got was a shiny Giratina.
Need: Cradily, Ogerpon, Kyogre, Luxray, Thundurus, Obstagoon, Metagross, Hydraple, RaticateHave: Accelgor, Mewtwo, Armaldo, Dragonite, NoivernCode:5931010787580823I have multiple copies of the 3Ds I listed and I also have from previous sets so just ask.
>>59508417>I don't give a shit about any full art humans so I'd trade those away with just oneYou got any of the Alola girls to trade away?
>play bee>go first>loseI love this game.
>>59508791Not him but I have a Mallow and an Acerola I don't care much for. If you are looking for either, what are you offering?
>>59509060RR and Planeta Mega Mawile, Planeta Mega camerupt, planeta mega kang, planeta iron bundle, Arven, Traveling Merchant, RR Wishiwashi, RR Slowbro, MarlonI have a couple others but these are the ones I'd trade first
Sleep Scam is not competitive guys. It always bottoms out in tournaments. So why are you so complaining about it? At this point? If you're still losing to sleep scam, you either aren't playing a good deck or I don't know what to say, you're just unlucky. Sleep scam is not competitive.
>>59509098Would you happen to have RR Crabominable, Bibarel, or Primarina? I'm not sure that Primarina would be fair but the other two are kind of shitty
Ice Pop is balanced because I always run out of time when I use it.
>>59508937That's most card games bro, frustrating as it is.
>>59509119tournaments and ranked are entirely different environments
>>59509121I have crab but if possible would prefer to use up dupes before singles. Why do you want him, just for the goofy art or for some mission?
>>59509256Are you playing Hydreigon?
>>59509382Close, Hoopa.
Huh, I never realized Red was applied before the Bounded Field multiplier. Having Oriocorio kill Houndoom still takes a while on auto though.
>>59509400I can't play that yet but generally speaking, when your countdown's about to hit twenty, it's time to let go
>>59509418It has no Sabrina or Cyrus, so you could run Greninja with it.
>>59509273But anyone can win with anything on ladder, guys. It just takes time. Sleep scam isn't consistent at all. So why get so upset about it? It's on you.
Ragebait so retarded it killed the threadGood job eceleb shill
Not sure if should be pleased or not that I have enough pity points for Oak now.
>>59509279I collect water types. "Water" to me includes anything tcgp considers water (like crab) and in-game water types tcgp considers as being some other type (like golisopod). Ideally I have a RR or planeta or even 1 star of pokemon that have them. My primarina, crab, and bibarel are quite sad in that I only have the most basic card representing them in the binder. Something like my glaceon is a step up from that - there are better ones out there, but at least I have a 1 star for it. Those 3 are the ones I'd like to upgrade the most
I got her...... now what........
>>59510297get another
>>59510314But why.....
>>59510337so you can have 2 to use when she becomes relevant again
>>59510342You reminded me I need the other 2 star one. And I pulled 2 3 star ones already.
Are the 24 hour WPs fucked because DX is out?
>>59510342>>59510314The immersive looks better
>>59510377Immersives don't match the rest of the trainers.
>>59510404And?Not everyone is an autistic child.
>>59510466If you want to be wrong, that's fine. No need to resort to name-calling.
Someone trade me something for the community week mission...5320653071299746
>>59510373Nevermind, just got one.
>miss an oak wpit hurts
>try to trade with people>offer a card that's on their wishlist>doesn't even bother to give me a card that's on my wishlist and expects me to accept their garbageFuck trading
>>59510997to be fair, they might not have it what really pisses me off is that i see their wp of a card i have on my wishlist but they act like they dont have it when i try to trade
>>59511007What really gets me is the inability to just tell people "I don't have what you want" aside from just refusing the trade, which is really a problem whenever I get offered 2 star cards and their wishlist is all things I don't have either.
>>59511021honestly i just want a way to see what cards they are missing without having to use share(since you cant check if they already got a share)better to offer a card they dont have then just to guess if you have none of their wishlist
Anyone have a 2* Wally? Got a Skyla for trade.
Returning player here: anyone got a Victini or two they don't need? I want to try Mega Houndoom, but don't want to go back and spend hourglasses on older boxes since I'm hoarding for the eventual BW one. Sadly, I don't have much to offer.
>>59511036sure, add me.9995927632797919
>>59511050>maractus4everFellow Maractus enjoyer
>>59511054heh, i wear my heart on my sleeve.anyway, shared you a victini. enjoy.
>>59511057Thanks, man. Praying that the BW set comes with a great Maractus card for the both of us.
>>59511060we can only hope.
actual worst card in the game besides crisis dive giratina
>>59511143bro your mudsdale?
>>59511028Trade should show you what the other party is missing, share should show you what is on the other party's wishlist.
>>59511030I got one on an alt7818226104928693
>>59511172Kek, mine's on an alt as well. Kek'd again for the name, mine's Deiform in case you have other requests queued up
>>59511180>Kek'd again for the nameI made it to open a bunch of SR packs back when that was new.
>>59511180I sent the request btw
>>59511143>>59511150It's certainly not good, but 100+ damage from non-EXs always tend to come with some sort of price or hoops to jump through. As far as drawbacks go, 10 damage to your bench is hardly anything even if it leaves you open to Cyrus. Or you Garganacl
>>59511198Accepted
>>59511150Jokes on you, I run this with Heavy Helmet to halve that recoil damage and decimate Pokeball rank.
>>59511204Incredible. Now I can be done with the set after I get a second Sharpedo.
>>59509119Ranked is rigged, tournaments are private matches that don't give you anything ingame so the game doesn't need to rig those.
>>59508781Still need all of these, adding Raichu to the cards on offer. Please, I just wanna finish this fucking set.
2 oaks2 gold rare candies0 dollars spent on this game
why is mumuplayer automatically trying to install stupid fucking anime games as if using chinese spyware to open fake pokemon cards wasnt humiliating enough
>>59511524>he didn't block the telemetry
I opened over 120 pack using gold and got FA lugia, bunch of shiny Giratinas and Darkrais, another immersive pikachu and second crown Rare candy
>>59511528spoonfeed me
>game has been out since 2024Is it too late for me to get into?
>>59511836not if you buy one of those accounts with 7000 hourglasses ready to go, if you start from scratch you will probably drop the game in less than a month like everyone else because this game's player retention sucks, lol
>>59508781have most of these, can share themadd me5365009910351405
>>59511964>paying scammers>giving your CC data to shady sites>all for pokemon badly balanced jpgs2INT
>>59512437>scammersnot a scam, just the auto-battling script without having to set it up yourself
>>59512168Added, thanks in advance bro. If you need anything traded or shared just say the word and if I have it I'll send it over.>>59510288Based autistic collector. If you want crab for Mallow then tell me and I send the code, crab's on an alt
>>59512684Sure, happy to trade Mallow away9029397507319890
a quick kekkommendation for those of y'all tryna climb
>>59511143couldn't have been worse than the other groudon, right?
>>59512884What a piece of shit
>>59509119is this sarcasm? It shows a 52% winrate for sleep shit which is incredible
>>59512905He's shitposting and larping as the streamer in his picture who I'm guessing spouts braindead shit like that on his stream. Regardless of whether it's consistent or not, it's just toxic gameplay design regardless.
>>59513052Its pocketmads, his videos are good but yes he downplays sleep shit alot. The game has gotten really aggressive and more random than ever.
>>59513076It's cause he knows deep down that sleep fuckign ruined the game and if the game has no more players then he has no more viewership. So he needs to try gaslighting instead.
>>59512905>Winning barely over 1.01 is good
>>59513370The game is just a coinflip simulator...so yea.
>>59513370Yes? Thats how statistics in competitive games work. Fucking retard
>>59513370Post your win ratio.
>>59513376>>59513381>>59513412Man, that fucking sucks. I can play absolutely awfully, and never win a game. Or I can play as good as one possibly can, and just barely, almost imperceptibly, win slightly more than I lose. There should be a state that I can reach that allows me to win at least 70% of the time. Or else what the fuck is the point?
>>59513462No, there is no way to win 70% of the time. Especially with how the matchmaking system blatantly sets you up for losses if you're winning too often. You're more likely to bump into decks that hard counter yours, or get the worst bricks imaginable when you're winning too much. That's not even accounting for the inherent randomness of the game, which means even if you're technically a more skilled player than your opponent, it's useless if they get godhand at the start and you have nothing useful after drawing half your deck. If you want a game that rewards skill more, this isn't the game for you. I'd probably say most card games aren't made for that, but this one in particular is so heavily reliant on coinflips that literally the first interaction you have with your opponent before even seeing their energy type is a fucking coinflip to determine who gets the energy advantage at the start. Play a fighting game if you want pure skill to be rewarded with hard win rate.
what you get from deluxe so far?i only got fa eevee ex so far
>>59513462Sleep decks emphasize why this isn't possible, which is part of why they're so hated. It doesn't matter how good you are. It doesn't matter how good your deck is. When you're up against sleep slop, you're at the mercy of coinflips every turn. Flip tails and you just don't get to fucking play the game. I had a game earlier today where I was literally locked for 10 turns in a row, TEN, and couldn't wake up. My opponent was in a stalemate, being a fucking M.Venusaur against Oricirio that had heal support from Soothing Shore ensuring the poison could literally never kill it. And yet I couldn't wake up for TEN turns. Most decks, there's nothing you can do against that. I only managed because Venusaur isn't truly a sleepslop deck but just has sleep as a side-tool in its arsenal. But decks that lock you asleep from the very start make the game into a literal 50/50 no matter what you do. Even if you have proper sleep counters in your deck, those could be sitting at the bottom handed to you long after the game is decided.
Why are plebbitards and poketradetards so fixated with MSharpedo?It's incredibly mediocre, MGallade might actually be better
>>59513485nothing but DUST
>winrate is 41% on rankedyikes, looks like no top 10k for me this season. Im able to get it more often than not, but idk how you play this dumb ass game anymore. It feels like more and more threats are coming around, yet im expected to still work with the tiny 20 card deck limit. Sleep is still broken, oricorio exists, lucky ice pop high rolls, and my least favorite easy bench snipe access. I think my biggest gripe with pocket is the point system, every game is just leading to a cyrus play. Infact it feels like thats how 90% of victories are achieved, this card seriously needed a bigger requirement to activate in hindsight. Best and most mandatory card ever printed.
>>59513679adding onto this, i really hate seeing so many cards have such easy access to bench snipe. Stuff like Hoopa ex is just broken man i cant stand it, one energy to damage the active and set up a cyrus win later??? It doesnt maoe any sense. Hitmonchan ex is 130 HEALTH for 50 only to the active, and it doesnt do super effective damage either??? lmfao its so stupid. This game actively hates decks that actually to spend time hitting the active spot.
>>59512693Sent friend req
>>59513830Sent Mallow. Thanks!
>>59513684Imagine complaining about a card that gets completely shut down by a buttplug
:C
Does the official tcg group typings just like pocket? I think pocket has it perfect. Group fairy with psychic. Group poison with dark. No dragon type, just dual energies for high risk/high reward mons.
I haven't played since the solgaleo update because I was tired of turn two solgaleo completely wiping the board for almost zero cost (yet people claimed wasn't that impressive)Anyways, would it be too much work to try and jump back into the game as a f2p?
>>59513973It's the same but it went through changes to reach the current stateFairy was its own typing a while back before getting merged into Psychic and Poison's jumped around from Grass to Psychic to Darkness
>>59513973I find it interesting each rpg type is still represented through unique weakness'. I'm not sure I do prefer it, variety being the fun of these games, but it all works out pretty uniformly.
>need only 20 points to finally reach master ball>hoopa>hoopa>hoopa>"fine I will change to vespiqueen">bricked hand against fire deck x4Fuck the algorithm of this shitty game
>>59514008>Collected all cards necessary for assembling multiple top 5 decks in the monthly meta>Not capping out at the max reward rank in an hour or two after ranking down was removed from the gameMassive luck issue
>>59513973Yes, but the paper game has resistances as well.
>>59513860Baby pokemon are pieces of shit the moment they run into a card that does damage. You can just retreat and cleanse fhe effect.
>>59514148Hoopa has a double retreat cost, you're not running away and attacking with something else easily. Bonsly is just there as a secondary layer of protection on your first two turns while you build up Lucario.Bonsly completely shuts down hoopa and at best the hoopa player goes second and they have darkrai+needle to deal with Bonsly, but that's fine since you didn't take damage on riolu turn 2, you're safe from getting cyrus'd turn 4 and you forced the hoopa player to place energy on darkrai instead of anything else. Riolu can even sit in front of hoopa and smack it for 40, putting it within range of arena or korina you're next turn and there just isn't a way for most hoopa decks to deal 60 damage when hoopa doesn't have any energy on it and it's in the active. Yes, like all babies, their value plummets after the first turn, but that first turn save is often all you need to stabilize and flip the match up into a positive one for you.
>>59514191Bonsly is good for a MU, doesnt stop hoopa ex from being a broken piece of shit. Making me run bonsly feels cucked
Yes sure motherfucker, you're going to put a riolu on the active spot, then proceed to miraculously find both darkrais, your igglybuff and a fucking x speed in the FIRST FUCKING TURN while I can't even find a SINGLE BASIC, SURE
Sleep slop would be much better balanced if Darkrai's effect worked as you'd intuitively think it did; only pinging AFTER the sleepcheck. It'd still be an annoying archetype to play against, but it at least adds fucking risk/reward tradeoff to the card that makes sense. Sleep has been a part of the game from the start, Igglybuff was one of the shittiest baby pokemon alongslide smoochum on release. The only reason sleep is so oppressive now is because Darkrai just gives free fucking damage, the sleep ends up being a cherry on top. Like imagine if Lucario's +20 damage effect was given to Riolu instead, and you could just plop Tyrogue down for fucking 60 damage from a lucky first draw, before your opponent can even place a single fucking energy. It's obvious why that's retardedly broken, but they fucking added it anyway (trading 10 damage for a fucking coinflip, which is even stronger...)If they just made Darkrai work as anyone with a brain would have designed it, sleep would still be annoying to deal with but at least have a proper risk/retard ratio. Flipping heads means all Igglybuff did was 10 damage that turn, and Darkrais are taking precious bench space for a 50/50 CHANCE of damaging you instead of guarantee. As it is now, Darkrai is in the Greninja category of being poorly designed cards who are only powerful because they have unrestricted access to deal consistent damage every fucking turn passively at zero cost. Hell, even making an energy requirement on Dakrai to trigger the effect would have gone a long way too. Anything other than "lol just place the card down :)">>59513684Agree, I ranted before on this >>59498697Decks just don't have enough space to deal with all the shit in meta right now. On one hand, that sounds good; a varied metagame with tons of options! Except decks are so restricted that it doesn't feel satisfying to deal with them all. Give us 25 or 30 as an optional cap. It'd hurt consistency but give more options, good tradeoff imo.
>>59514236Now that we have stadiums, copycat, good tools, etc. It only makes sense to bump the deck cap. Copycat alone is almost mandatory to run 2 of in most decks nowadays. Now the new field cards feel like they require 2 as well, since running 1 copy means your opponent running 2 will just delete yours completely. Or at least a blower to destroy a field. Fields are getting more relevant and I can see them printing very broken ones in the not so distant future. Say hello to Metal type actually getting a buff via each Metal energy counting as 2 or something via field effect.
>>59514263>Hail field card that's literally Flygon's ability, but Water types are unaffected>Fire types always inflict burns>Electric types generate a energy at the start of your turn>Colorless types become super effective against every other type>Pokemon with the name "Greninja" may activate their abilities twice per turnWhat other broken fields can we create?
>>59514280That one from regular TCG that makes you flip twice for sleep.
>>59514236Just put this fucking card into the game already
>>59514311The problem with a card like this is that An Igglybuff can still scam you out of 50 damage before you're even allowed to play the game.
>>59514236Darkrai's ability would have to be completely changed to mirror meloetta's ability, that's the only way for it to trigger "after sleep checks"All checkup abilities from pokemon trigger first and resolve before status conditions, to have Darkrai ping at the end of the turn but after sleep would require a fundamental change in how the game operates.
>>59514375Respectfully, the game fundamentally operates as if a literal retard made it. The whole "checkup" phase is sloppy as shit and ultimately adds a bunch of undocumented gaps to just get resolved in a very un-intuitive manner. YuGiOh may be a mess in terms of most cards requiring you to read a novel to know what the fuck they do, but at least it's all clearly documented and not "whoops, this happens in this order cause...just cause, okay, doesn't matter if the rulebook has ZERO mention of this, a fucking judge ruled it this way irl at some tourney so we just do that lol"It's also not even hard to implement, you're making it out to be way more complicated than it is. Change the wording to at the START of a turn rather than the END. There, it's just fuckin fixed. Your coin flip during checkup determines whether or not you get ping damage. It even works for transitioning into your opponent's turn.
I just despite bench damage. Its so easy to access and everything can do it, and the methods to protect against it was awful.
>>59513830Thanks again! I'm happy to be rid of Mallow and my binders look a little better
>>59514488>NOOOOO I SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUILD UP MY WINCON WITH NO WAYS TO COUNTER!Now, there should be more bench sniping if anything.
>>59514638more bench sniping devalues Mega's which is a good thing.
How the fuck do these Mega Altaria decks ALWAYS start or draw into Iggly and 2 Darkrai? What the actual fuck is going on?
>>59514726Game's rigged. If you're winning too much, it just gives perfect hands to your opponent.
>>59514728I haven't been winning much at all, that's the thing. I started off the season with a 30% win-rate because I couldn't draw another Basic to save my life. Doesn't help that almost everyone manages to shit out a Mega on their second turn.I just feel like my account has a bad seed.
>>59514638nta but while I think bench sniping is a valuable mechanic to have in the game (I even main a sniping deck), I think it has become a bit too easy to access and the counters for it aren't reliable enough to run. Poncho is a really strange item in that you should probably see more of it in this meta, but chances are you won't draw it turn 1 which often makes it too late by the time you get it. Plus it's worthless if your opponent ISN'T running a sniper, which is a big issue when our deck slots are so damn limited that even 1 wasted card is highly detrimental to your chances of winning. Let alone running 2 of these in your deck...Having more deckspace would alleviate a lot of frustrations. It'll undoubtedly add some new ones, but I think it'll overall be better for the meta if everyone had extra breathing room to properly add more counter options in their decks. If it's optional, it has the benefit of giving extra flexibility in exchange for less consistency. That feels like it's healthier in general for the game. Let's be honest, the game is not in a healthy state. In either the battle or collection aspect of it. Bench sniping is a bit overtuned at the moment, even if it's a necessary component of the game to prevent the scenario you're pointing out.
>>59514740I heard there's a way to re-seed your account, bro. Come over to my house. There's a "seed transfer" method I read about online, I can give you my seed and you'll have much better luck.
>>59514753>t.
>>59514753You're not going to molest me, right?
>>5951428020 damage for placing a Pokemon on the field
what basics should I pair with my primarina deck?
>>59515101>Cyrus Bog
Oh, I finally got something cool from a deluxe pack.
>>59515454Damn, remember when this shit was meta?
>>59513485Second gold rare candySecond FA Lugia exBunch of shiny darkrais and giratinasAnother immersive Pikachu exand FA Mew ex from wp
Ranked is so shit, I can't even bother going to MB even if you can't lose points
The most fun games is when shit duels in the active spot. Why is it bad to power up an end game threat in the back while its ok to just bench snipe all day and not interact ever?
feels impossible to trade for Skyla, doesn't help that i didn't get anything from the new pack, not even immersive Fug
should I reinstall? IS the game gud now?
>>59515720I got mine for a Wallace I WP'dI've got no real practical use for Skyla other than binder/display piece though, but I wasn't using Wallace either
>>59515720you should pretty easily be able to get it for anything from the new pack when it dropsit's just in that weird space of being an objectively useless card but still a new waifu so people will keep hedging for high tier cards until the new toys drop
>>59515758To be fair Elesa wasn't as sought after as Skyla, thought they were just about in the same tier or whateverHell, even back in the days Whitney didn't get much attention either despite being a fan favourite, not sure why everyone seem particularly hell bent on getting Skyla other than >big tits
>>59513485I did a single 10-pull on the first day and got Lugia.
>>59515720I got one from this thread just the other day. I sent a Wally for it.
Raichubro I'm going to hold off on the pika/Calem for now, getting the sense something worth the dust is coming soon. If you find something better for the Calem in the meantime go for it man.
why is this considered a good card? I dont get it
>>59515841It's not.
>>59515841It was good back in the earliest 2024 metaBulky for its time, poison without needing to attack and recoverable with Koga
>>59515841lived everything that wasn't called Charizard or Mewtwo (and they both needed 4 energy without acceleration/rare candy, further compounded by oak being the literal only draw card) and then bouncing back to the hand with Koga meant you often just scored points faster than your opponent could, if a big threat came in you could just sabrina and lock it with arbok
>>59516008Arbok was fine but it saw the most play in Dragonite. His best home was in Articuno and no one ever noticed.
>>59506907Green needs to be given a trainer card like the real TCG for me to care about this game.
>>59514513>be rid of Damn what'd she do to you?Also I noticed you have RR Wailord as a wishlist card, I do have it and could be willing to trade depending on the offer.
>everyone bitching about how ranked is riggedI guess it's rigged for me then right now
Anyone want a free Professor? Or whatever else from DX you want I guess?I don't have the dust on my main to bother with trading a 3rd copy of Oak to trade it away
>>59516981Sure, 7457953884386472
>>59516981Me please, I haven't pulled one yet and it goes in a binder I'm working on.
>>59516992Dammit lol enjoy you fucking fastfag
>>59516992Assuming you want Oak, added you>>59516994sorry bro, 30 seconds late :(
>>59516992Sorry, Oak would be great and you're gigabased for offering
>>59517001They're 6 bucks for a playset on ebay, not the end of the world. Idek what binder I'd delete to make it anyway
>>59517002My main only has 70k dust, it's just not worth doing the double trade. And this account is dead weight now so may as well just trade off what's on it to those who want.
>>59517004Some people balk at paying, and I get it. I just got lucky and pulled an Oak and Lillie when cracking packs towards the 2500 needed to buy two oaks. I debated snagging a Lusamine...but eh? Might regret it later on if ultrabeasts get super meta
>>59517012If you need daily 4 diamond shares to help with dust, feel free to add me to your main, it's the least I can do. Thanks so much based altgawd I'll remember you everytime I use it in game.
>>59517036I'm missing a ton of 3d and 4d from the new set yet, i'll do that, thank you.
Which ones of these are "worth" the most and most "worthless" for trading?
>>59517140probably Wally>Sightseer>M Venu (because emblem)>RRs>Iris>the rest
>>59514740I finished the season with a barely above 40% winrate and it went as low as low 30%. They changed the matchmaking algorithm.
Why does this game feel so demoralizing? I feel like the point system is so fucked. Cyrus having such easy requirements makes it be the gameplan for 90% of decks. All these “tanky” pokemon end up not being very good at all. Hoopa ex is good because it deals so much damage, the hp number is just annoying nice bonus.
>>59517209Its because you have no time to recover from bricks or a bad hand due to the fast nature and low point system of the game. God forbid you play a deck that has a mega in it, leading with it is so bad (mega absol). Cyrus is necessary but also annoying, the requirements are so effortless since everyone has access to bench snipe.
>>59517209>>59517221The new Luxray seems like a bandaid where a reversal win might be possible, but nowhere near good enough.
>>59517221This. The game has gotten way too fast for its own good.
>>59516310I pulled her from wp (using a rewind watch) intending to trade her, but never had any interest. I'll see if you are around the thread when this pack ends and maybe we can make another trade. I want to give 24 hour wp and daily packs a chance to save me dust. I've only pulled RR swanna in this pack with tons of water RRs. I have also pulled RR typlosion twice, RR metagross, and RR vespiquen. No RR wps hit. Ree
>>59517262Pocket suffers big time from a “i didnt get to play the game” feeling. Its too fast, points to win are low, and copy cat enabled every deck to be able to draw half the deck on turn 3-4. Granted if it wasnt for copy cat, suicune would dominate the game probably.
>>59517209Hoopa doesn't deal enough damage on its own, and 150 HP really isn't anything special. Hoopa is good because of the support behind it, if you don't land your needle and follow up with a darkrai for the extra damage or immediately start building your sableye/Absol or drop into hydregion you're often left just watching your opponent shrug off your 30 damage pings.
>>59517332Rare Candy is what really shifted this game into overdrive. That's when you became able to do 120+ damage from just 2 energy and with really good consistency. Suicune pushed that even further by making it a basic, letting you draw, and punishing the opponent for playing anything on the bench. You could get away with way more back in the times of Darktina or Dialga/Arceus.
>>59517004>he's STILL shilling for chickbotted accountsFuck off paycuck, seriously, it's embarrassing.
>>59517313Sure, I check the threads every now and then so I'll keep an eye out
>>59517332I just don't think they're ever going to slow it down or give us more cards for our deck, it's a simple fast game that got solved fast and in a very simple way. Hell, they basically threw in the towel with the removal of points loss. I don't think tpc seriously cares about pocket's financial well-being anymore to give it any huge attention garnering updates.
>>59517209>Get opponent down to kill range HP after a well played match>They coinflip to full health with Lucky Ice pops despite how unlikely it is to get so many heads in a row uninterrupted >Lose because "heads I win, tails you lose" ends up being the real deciding factor
>>59517332Coupled with how fucking slow the game is to actually start...going from end game screen to the lobby into queue takes way too fucking long. The game's coding is so fucking unoptimized and such a piece of shit that you can't interrupt a function for surrendering, so often times you hit surrender to hurry to the next fucking match; but no, you have to wait for the animation of all their fucking cards being drawn from the copycat or something and then a brief pause for the game to realize what you did, and then it finally gives the forfeit screen. Little things like that add up. I still dunno how games in the current day don't realize people just want a "quick queue to next match" button or some shit to skip all the retarded menus. Just take me to the next game, this one is over, don't make me waste 2 minutes to get into another match that gets decided in the first fucking 10 seconds cause they Iggly Darkrai Darkrai'd into my fucking Chingling brick. I guess what I'm saying is that the core gameplay is so fucking fast that it doesn't feel satisfying, and the fucking stuff in between gameplay is so slow that it makes you feel like you're largely wasting time. Game is truly optimized like dogshit and I have no clue why when all the graphics are so fucking simple.
>>59517550Lucky ice pop was devestatingly bad for this game. Part of why hoopa ex is so strong is because it runs 2 of them and can turn any match into a win.
>>59517694hoopa's best deck is hoopa greninja though and that deck has zero space for ice pops
>>59518000Doesn't really matter what the "best" variant is (I've actually yet to encounter Greninja version, and honestly feel like it sounds much more prone to bricking?)The point is really that Hoopa sits in active as a fat ass HP wall that has strong early game pressure. And it's frustrating when you play around it successfully and get him on the ropes in KO range or something, and he just fucking heals back to full in a single turn because of fucking ice pops out of the ass. Or even worse, every turn you deal damage to it...and it fucking flips heads every time to reverse what you just fucking did. It makes it feel like you're straight up not playing the fucking game since even if you're properly facing it head to head to outdamage it, you get fucked over because it has TWO icepops that will just asspull it back to square 1.So same argument as "sleep isn't that powerful" really. It doesn't matter if it's not the strongest or most consistent. What matters is how fucking unsatisfying it feels to lose against since it gets rid of all the shittly layers of abstraction this game has and bottles it down to its bare essential mechanic of "flip a coin to win or lose." I actually refuse to ever put Ice Pop in my decks regardless of how much I may be hampering my own win ratio by doing so. It just doesn't feel good or sportsmanlike to be on the winning side of those coinflips either. Like my opponent outplays my ass, it doesn't feel nice to win just cause I hail marry coinflipped myself back in the game.It just makes it feel like we shouldn't have bothered queing up in the first place' the game should have just assigned a winner and loser the moment we fucking matched up if it was just going to arbitrarily decide to let me asspull like that based on "50/50" chance. We all know this shit is not 50/50, I wouldn't even be surprised if it was dynamically calculated based on a number of factors in and out of game including the win ratios of both players. But I digress.
>>59518017>fat ass HP wall>150hp>basically completely shut down by Bonslylol?
>>59517209>ai duels will just rig it to brick you and give them yugioh protagonist luck>multiplayer duels is all cookie cutter vs cookie cutter and 9 out of 10 times will just pair you with a 100% counter to your deck and also brick you>ruler of the skies has the worst fucking pull rates ever concieved and they needed to do a deluxe pack rerun to get players back inthis game is hopeless
>>59518017i honestly don't see what's so "unsatisfying" about hoopa compared to existing cards like hitmontopcan you elaborate
>>59518040150HP is a lot for the start of the game, that's the point of the card. It's an early game bully that can transition into a mid-game bully with 3 energies. Its weakness is supposed to be that as an early game bully, you take it out before it can transition to mid-game bully and your opponent loses 2 points as a result. It has 2 retreat cost to emphasize that - once it's in active it's committed to stay there usually.Except Ice Pop takes that weakness away since it can heal up early game damage and transition into late game bully. 150 HP sucks when you already have your team up and ready to destroy it, but the point of Hoopa is to cripple your early game buildup with constant pressure and displacement.>shut down by BonslyThis is the "just run Ogrepon" of this season. Fuck off with "this specific counter that bricks you in every single other matchup." At least Bonsly doesn't give 2 points when it dies though. The only dekcs that run it are decks that seem specifically geared for countering, and even then it's a retarded idea half the time because Darkrai pint + needle oneshots Bonsly anyway. You just delay Hoopa for a single turn.Also keep in mind Hoopa decks run exclusively EX mon, so the combined bulk of all the mons does a lot of heavy lifting. When you have two lucky ice pops, that makes for a lot of HP to recover in an asspull comeback. Hoopa ends games early, not late. It only needs to eat that early game pea-shooter damage to do its job.>>59518032Hitmontop healing to full off an ice-pop doesn't matter, it doesn't turn into a 3 energy 100 damage attacker in 2 turns nor is it even worth saving given its only job is to tag for Lucario and it's just a single point (nay as well be 0 points because Lucario is the only point that matters).The unsatisfying part of my post was regarding HP recovery from dual ice pops, which Lucario decks don't tend to run. It's more egregious in a deck where the point is high HP basics who widdle you down.
>>59517694The idea behind megas was supposed to be risky as hell since you lose if they go down. But that idea goes out the fucking window when they can heal their huge ass HP pool to full in a single turn just with coinflips. It's such a retarded card. Only an actual paint chip eating glue sniffing rat fucking downs syndrome faggot would think that card was a good idea to add.>Bro, it's just copying the exact card from the irl gameThe irl game that has higher HP pools, larger deck sizes, more points, and more options in general? The one that has real physics and real unriggable probability on the 50/50 flip, meaning the person using it will almost certainly fail by the 3rd toss? How's that rat pussy feel, down's syndrome faggot?
>>59518017>>59518064buddy if you're crashing out this hard about ice pop and poopa maybe try playing a deck that can just one shot the thing? vespiquen, lucario, and sceptile are right there.
Whoa, Deluxe is back? Time for me to open 0 packs of it for the second time and get annoyed because it reduces my chances of getting new cards in wonder picks.
>>59518270The faggot just wants to complain about things.
>>59518277deluxe is worth spending all your daily packs on for the dust alone
Does anyone have FA Mewtwo or Arceus from Deluxe ex? and what do you want for it?
tempted whale on deluxe ex because i'm retarded
>>59518341If nobody gets you in the next 8 hours I'm pretty sure my alt has both of them, you'd be welcome to have them. I'm at work right now though so you'll have to wait
>>59518064I'm a hoopa player, but you're an even bigger faggot than I am. Hoopa is good, I won't pretend otherwise, most of the decks I face are other variants of hoopa and friends and then it's just grindy back and forth until one side gains the advantage.But you know who beats me every time? Entei/Zard, ANY fucking grass deck (except the retarded dustox one,) mega steelix, fucking wailord. Lucario is generally a losing match up for me since I can't out run lucarios damage and bonsly is a hard fucking wall to the deck, and altaniggers are 50/50 if they land their sleep they'll win and if they don't I win. >This is the "just run Ogrepon" of this season. Fuck off with "this specific counter that bricks you in every single other matchupIf you're not going to adapt to the meta then why bother playing at all? Every single meta in every single game has you adapting and putting "niche" cards that are bad otherwise in your deck or sideboard just to stop whatever meta threat is running around. Why would it be any different here?
>>59518341What do you have?
>>59518405Bunch of chink fa cards, few full arts from deluxe ex and few from RotS. But I'm going to work so tommorow
>>59518376What do you need? Were you around for its other two runs? Dex 2 is right around the corner.
>>59517036Thanks bro, literally the last card I needed to finish that set.
>>59506907The back is ba-aa-ack
Ok, I'm back. I need one Arceus or Mewtwo from Deluxe Ex because have enough points for Oaks. My fc 0531037326680501I have chinese account with these FA:Chinese:MistyWiggly RRRedClodsire RRWugtrio FAStokezard FALyraIndeedee RRDragalge FAIndeedee FAMega Garde FAEnglish from Deluxe exLugiaEeeveeSolgaleoMewPikachuHo-ohCharizardBuzzwoleEnglish from RotSMega Gallade RRVespiquen FAAnyone Interested?
We need this in pocket.
>>59518915Update:-Mega Gallade RR-chink Red+Alolan Dugtrio FA+Swanna FA+Hitmonchan FA
next pack is Team Rocket themed. Wonder what trainers will be since there are Giovanni and TR grunts cards already
News btw.https://x.com/PokemonTCGP/status/2090136715973304403
will we get Rocket mons?
Nonzero chance of me getting my #1. She had a starter deck in the actual TCG like 20 years ago.
Yup, Nidoking EX.
Make it happen, Dena.
I'm free (of course crown rare candy and Oak x2)
oink, oink
>>59519195There's still the Rocket admins
>>59519234I don't understand why people ask for floodgates, there's always only two possible scenarios with them, they're either too niche to do anything meaningful or tier 0 cancer that make the game even worseA good game is one where both players have interaction and there's at least the illusion that both can change the tides of the gameWhich can't happen here because the game is garbage at a mechanical level
>>59519195might be the first instance of a reused character on a supporter.
>>59519264Penny and Iono were reused in Paldean wonders
>>59518270>>59518399Woah, lots of projection going on here. Maybe get Hoopa's dick out of your mouth? Never said I struggle against it nor was I complaining about it being OP. Someone asked why it's strong, I elaborated.>If you're not going to adapt to the meta then why bother playing at all? There's frankly not enough deckspace to warrant niche counters. In a better designed game, sure. In this piece of shit, most decks have wiggle room consisting of "do I use Sabrina, or Cyrus?" other than the core cards they need to just function.
>>59519285Those were just reprints.
>>59519297>There's frankly not enough deckspace to warrant niche countersHe says while all the top players in ranked are using bonsly and capes.I've seen bonsly in shit tons of decks, and a fuck ton of players are using capes to protect their shit. Clearly you're just shit.
>>59519196Waluigi!?
I think the issue with this game is>fuck, i lead with this dead weight pokemon that will take damage and just lose to cyrus later >oh fuck i didnt draw my poncho in time and will lose to cyrus later>oh fuck retreating this pokemon is useless since 99% of decks play 1 copy of cyrus but i still have to try anyway because maybe they didnt draw itYou see how almost every lose con boils down to cyrus? Its always been my big issue with pocket. The requirement is so easy for an effect so powerful. There’s hardly any counter play to this>marsWas amazing back then but we ran out of deck space for hand disruption. >vespiqueenone of the few cards that can remove its own damaged ex pokemon and not lose to cyrus>healingBench damage is freakishly high and most “heal all your pokemon” cards dont outpace bench snipers.
>>59519408such retarded reductionist thinking,
>>59519215Am I allowed hope?
>>59519351I'm in top 500, retard.
>>59519215Jessie sexo
>>59519456Yes, designing your entire game around 2 cards (Cyrus, Greninja) is terrible reductionist thinking! Very good anon!
poketrade is so shit bros, i can't trade for anything because everyone wants oak and cyrus and copycat even for the shittiest cards. team rocket pack sounds neat but i'm gonna save all my hourglasses for deluxe 2 in hopes of stained glass Mega Gardevoir being in it, didn't manage to get my boy Rayquaza portal due to garbage luck
>>59519639Pokehub is miles better.
>>59519196Aether Foundation employee?
>>59519639Ask about trades here.
>start caterpie vs shuckle ex going first>gets 2 coin flips i die>next match go against hitmontop mega lucario going first>have both metapod in starting hand so no free evo>get butterfree and no other basics, pokeballs, forests, or oaks>he gets full bench and mega luc turn 2ok
I remember Team Rocket cards from the GBC game (the sequel) as the "flip coins to do something majorly powerful or fuck your own pussy with a cactus" archetype...With low HP, they tended to be glass cannons. Are they like that in the real TCG? Not looking forward to this expansion if it's just going to introduce more high rolling coinflip slop that will lose you the match on turn 1 because Team Rocket's Meowth EX flipped 4 heads with its ability so does 80 damage to your entire bench or some retarded shit.
>>59519639It really is.What are you looking for?
>>59519705Or, I guess they were called "Dark" Pokemon, but they had the Team Rocket R on them so I assume later down the line they just made them Team Rocket Pokemon instead of Dark Pokemon.
>>59519259 Abilities are the number 1 problem with this game, and what allow it to have such little interaction.
>>59519760What kind of special retard are you?
>>59519771All of the best decks are carried by cards with really good abilities.
>>59519774No they're not? What fucking abilities do you think are carrying the top tier decks?
>>59519805LucarioDarkrai for Hoopa decksDragonairGreninjaSuicune and BaxcaliburDarkrai for Altaria decksEnteiHydreigonMagneton and Miraidon
>>59519811>lucario>abilityLmao get a load of this dumb nigger >darkrai exAnnoying but not carried at all, the deck functions fine without ever drawing darkrai sometimes. Not carried>Darkrai for Altaria decksThe only valid point, but half the altanigger decks went back to running babyshit anyways, they'd just pivot out of sleep and back into that. >the restNot even close to top tier meta.
>>59519583nta but greninja isnt meta atm, most decks arent playing it. Frog is still broken, just isnt the flavor of the month as hoopa decimates decks with low hp actives which greninja tries to do. But yes, every single gameplan revolves around damaging a pokemon and cyrus it back in later.
>>59519822STS Lucario, dumbass.Hoopa doesn't do enough damage on its own without Darkrai on the bench chipping away at the active.>Not even close to top tier meta.I just went with the top 15 decks by usage. Mot of them even have a >50% win rate.
>>59519823Yes it is. Currently Hoopa is sucking the frog dick all over Masterball. Oricorio Greninja is also making a comeback with that healing water field. Altaria started running it again as well alongside the new Psychic Oricorio since you can mill your own deck and Hiking Path helps you run through it faster. Those who haven't dropped M.Sceptile in favor of Vespiqueen seem to have moved on from Butterfree and just use Greninja now.Greninja is still one of the best cards in the game and sees a lot of use, just you'll only really see it in higher tier decks since it requires a but more planning to use considering its mostly splashed into non-water decks.
>>59519823Shit's so bad that when I was in a brief Pokemon Champions stint I kept subconsciously thinking that the opponent could drag out my damaged switched out Pokemon in the back with Cyrus there too
>>59519933lmao okay but this would be a pretty based ability for a Pokemon to have desu.
Haven't seen this guy's animations in a while, turns out he moved to Champions lmao
>>59519828Unbelievable how double Magnezone deck has the highest win rate, even Poopa is slightly lowerBased
Team Rocket Grunt reprint incoming
>>59520016>Weakness: Anal +20
Ever since 2-star trades opened up the moment I hit 25k shinedust I'd immediately use it up but I've run out of stuff that I want to trade for at this point
>>59519811And oricorio, fuck than card
>>59519195>>59519196neat. hoping for a jesse and james for my rocket binder
>>59520061>Moltres>Gimmighul?
>>59520096>Gimmighulwhy would team rocket want a pokemon that makes money
>>59519980Most TCGP artists I've seen have transitioned to Champions. We're the only retards still playing this lousy piece of shit. The only reason I haven't moved onto Champions myself is because I know that game is going to hold my time captive so fucking hard that I will have 0 motivation to do anything productive in my free time. So I stick to this shit, because I can casually just fuck around with it on the toilet or something for my dailies and not bother with it the rest of the day. Plus I'd almost certainly spend real money on the fucking season passes or whatever scam microtransaction shit Champions has in place. I have zero temptation to ever pull my wallet out for this slop. Been free to play since day 1, with the exception of 1 month I accidentally paid for when my free premium trial expired.My experience with this game is so bad that it's actively preventing me from trying out other Pokemon related products, and that's a good thing. For me, not for TCP.
>>59520016GOD I WANT TO SPREAD HER LEGS INTO THE R SHAPE AND STUFF HER ASS WITH SO MUCH CUM IT FLOWS OUT OF HER NOSTRILS
>>59520061This is a really cool binder, Anon. Legitimately thanks for sharing this. Love what you did with Red at the bottom, assembling his team against them.
>>59520179If you have HOME and a Pokemon Switch game then there's nothing to worry about in Pokemon Champions. The only real issue microtransaction wise is how little box space you have ingame, so if you have a mainline game to store everything then that's not a problem aside from the constant transfers back and forth. The real issue with Champions is the complete dripfeed pace of content, they've been handily killing any momentum the game had by never releasing anything new. I've never seen a "gacha" this devoid of updates
>>59520185Thanks anon glad you enjoy it, its not perfect but it has the best cards I had to pick from for the theme. Hopefully more 1* come out and I can make it a little better. 5x more FA TRG and a rainbow Snorlax would be good too
>>59519900I have not seen a single greninja/hoopa deck in MB or even during the climb up.>>59519828>50% win rateYeah no shit faggot, everything about pocket is designed to be a coinflip based gameplay.
>>59520372Almost as if winning or losing the first coinflip has a huge impact on the outcome of the match (if you win, you lose)
>>59520387Not really Anon, going first or second really doesn't matter as much, especially depending on decks.It's more pockets 20 card deck size coupled with the extreme amount of card draw and a combo based gameplay. Most games are decided turn one whether you brick your hand or not. Then after each player's first turn you get a feel for if your opponent bricked or not and then usually whoever bricked harder loses unless there's some extreme type matchup loss in play. Games not bricked on turn one are decided by the start of your third turn. You either drew what you needed, or your opponent did, and the game quickly ends after that.
>>59520409Yugioh Duel Links prior to all the bullshit skills was still fairly slow-ish since despite the 20 card decks since there were no generic draw power cards like Pot of Greed
>>59520409Being down one energy especially when shit that bypasses the initial coinflip loss restrictions like Wallace is just too punishing. Sure bricking exists but if you're on an at least 3 winstreak, the game will force brick your deck anyway.
>>59520417>the game will force brick your deck anyway.This is just false>>59520411Pocket used to be slower before copycat, back when exeggutor and stokezard were the main decks. Rare candy, megas not needing the full evo line or ending your turn when played, copycat, and just a generic lower energy requirement have all pushed the game towards a hyper offense style of gameplay.
>>59520431I somehow managed a 10-win streak with Mega Blaziken deck and after 3 wins, my rare candies and copycats/prof research were glued to the bottom of my deck every single match and only won thanks to castform being castform. You lose once you can blame it on bad luck, but when you somehow win and it keeps happening, that's not bad luck, that's a pattern.
>>59520440That's just random anon. You're seeing patterns as a coping mechanism because you're just an insufferable faggot
>>59520446No it's not random, it's a mobile game, it's never random with these fucking things.
>>59520417There are many decks now that prefer going first, but those are all low-cost evolution decks.
>opponent has armaldo ready>have protective poncho in hand>put poncho on the Pokemon targeted by the ability on the bench>still gets KO'dRiiiiight.
>>59520496It doesn't do damage, it just kills.
>>59520452Evo decksIgglybuffEven Mlucario doesn't mind going first if it drops a bonsly first turn to negate all early game damage. Baxcune doesn't mind going first or secondEnteizard is the same wayEven decks that want the energy don't mind going first just so you can be the first to copycat and dump your hand to fuck over your opponents copycat. >>59520450>reeeeeeeeeFuck off faggot
>>59520520Doesn't poncho block Raging Bolt's instakill though? It's the same, yet Armaldo's goes through?
>>59520524Bolt kills active.
>>59520526Right. So Armaldo's pretty based and there's basically no counter, if he snipes the mega it's over.Shame that even with the new pad item fossils are still kinda cucked
>>59520529It kills the mega if you don't move it to the active spot at the end of your turn. I've only seen it played with galarian corsola to try and get a free point from it since it discards all energy after attacking.
>>59519760Same kind of person that has a meltdown when they get to face a legendary pokémon in vgc/singles
>>59520544You're still playing the game against legendaries in the video games. Shit like Igglybuff/Darkrai is non-interactive by design. If you don't flip the coin correctly, you don't get a turn.
New set name: Team Rocket AmbitionDrop event: Team Rocket's LaprasWP event: Mewostic & Fennekin
>>59520573Can't wait for this new potential mon to die instantly against M-Lucario>>59520576Stealing an energy sounds strong, until you remember it's a stage 2 that only deals 60 damage
>>59520573Meme card>Lapras getting cucked with being event shite againFor FUCK's sake.>>59520576Annoying ability
>>59520573Cards revealed before the trailer?
>>59520585Orbeetle would have been devastating like a year ago, but everything attacks for 2 energy now that it's not a big deal in the slightest.
>>59520573you just KNOW the AI battle against this thing is going to be bullshit>>59520576annoying as fuck ability balanced by being a 3 card combo that doesn't really do anything lategamecrazy turn 3 highroll potential though. hard to tell if this is worth running without seeing the rocket support cards
Perfect with 2 Dustoxes
>>59520640You just need to shove two stage 2 cards in your deck and pray your weezing that has less HP than the genetic apex one doesn't fold to anything until you get those 3 energies
>>59520640>>59520643Where are you getting these? Are you doing the datamining?
>>59520643what the fuck... they can't just release the counter to this set's own feature archetype...
>tinkatroon againI'm gonna fucking lose it.
>>59520653>team rocket's item puts an item from your opponent's discard pile into your handOkay that's pretty strong, you could fetch rare candies, ice pops or poke balls to unbrick your hand
Amazing Rotom ex support, specially considering current Rotom decks play useless items
>>59520653>opponent attacks costs 2 extra colorless energies and has 2 extra retreat costTinkaton might be fun to use now.
>>59520659>steels ur rara candi>steels ur ice popnothing personnel
>>59520653The art of the cards with the grunts are super damn cute, do these exist in physical form or are they exclusive?
This is cancer
>>59520573I always brick with reveal 4 cards cards, they look consistent at first glance because of 15 cards decks, but they fucking aren't, unless you're my opponent of course
>no jessieMy hourglasses are safe. However, I am sad.
>>59520664Your paypig gold cards are mine now
New Giovanni seems like it would work really well with Suicune or Heliolisk decks.
>>59520676>more coinflip shitlmaoconfusion is permanent until switched out too, so double up with igglybuff
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to the Quagsire anon here, thanks for the Hoopa trade.
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>>59520689Ehh this is essentially a variation of Pokeflute in use case
>>59520697Not exactly. If your opponent is purposely holding back basics to prevent bench sniping, or because he has something like Miraidon in hand, you can force it out early.
>>59520700Ah right it's a middle finger to MiraidonHand knowledge too, but that hasn't been very useful in this game with how small deck size is so the opponent's going to draw that Cyrus anyway later if it's not already in their hand
>>59520711Your opponent will draw exactly what he needs the turn after if he didn't have anything when you looked. I can see it being particularly useful in decks that run Hitmonlee, Hoopa, or Heliolisk and probably nowhere else. MAYBE the new Hypno, but I can't see him getting much use in the first place.
