Pokemon

[last musk]

All of us on this blessed launch day

[polar osprey]

zard will

the deck won't

moltress is like

wtf broken

[last musk]

https://tenor.com/view/idle-death-gamble-domain-expansion-jjk-gif-6491542548589389366

[golden lance]

Yea fair

[sonic inlet]

Oh wigglytuff EX is cringe

[golden lance]

But also moltres relies on coins

[polar osprey]

in fact the way this shit will probably age is gonna be the next pack having ho-oh ex

and then moltress is gonna let it go insane

[golden lance]

Yknow

Thinking of just trading for mewtwo pieces later

And just switch to zard for now

[polar osprey]

like

imagine if they add the rebirth ho-oh

that shits itself from the discard pile onto your bench and attaches up to 3 energies

[golden lance]

I dont think they will because gy interaction dorsnt even exists yet

[normal cave]

5th card from last

[golden lance]

Rebirth hooh was literally a decade ahead of its time

[sonic inlet]

????

This guy

Was against my arti at 60 LP

Uses sabrina

[polar osprey]

imagine a red button here

this is what I mean by the card goes insano into mewtwo

[sonic inlet]

3-0

Actual child

[polar osprey]

card shining yellow must click, tale as old as time

[golden lance]

Ngl red card is gonna be the biggest reason why basic spam will be the move down the line

More than it already is now

[sonic inlet]

I wished I could check decks

[polar osprey]

I think the first tier 0 this game is gonna have is gonna be the first deck with a ton of consistent energy gen teal mask style

[golden lance]

Anyway, how long until they print the obligatory "X damage times energy on the field", you think?

[polar osprey]

which is why I think moltress is gonna age the best

[sonic inlet]

Bc this guy was on wigglytuff snorlax with blastoise EX

[polar osprey]

snorlax is probably gonna be the biggest noob bait in this game

[sonic inlet]

They put snorlax in which let me set up everything bc the fucking thing needs 4 energy

[polar osprey]

bcs big number

snorlax is just a much worse stall engine than weezing

which needs yk

0 energy

[sonic inlet]

Yeah koga is obnoxious

[golden lance]

Ngl kinda want to build blaine

[polar osprey]

poison be upon thee

[golden lance]

Shit looks funny

[polar osprey]

IT DOES

it's the one deck that can optimally use giovanni

[sonic inlet]

What does blaine do again

[polar osprey]

+40 damage to mons blaine uses

[sonic inlet]

Something for rapidash ninetales and arcanine?

[golden lance]

+30 to your arcanine, rapidash, and magmar

[sonic inlet]

Oh

RIP ninetales lmao

[golden lance]

Sorry

Ninetales over arcanine

[sonic inlet]

Ok that makes more sense

Since arcanine has an EX and all

But yeah that's not bad

[normal cave]

I hit them with 2 this game already

Well, that game

Also, I hit 0 heads on Misty in the past 3 games

[golden lance]

Bro my dnite should apply for a stormtrooper

This is the 3rd time a mon lives by 10 hp now

[sonic inlet]

Both me and my opponent just hit tails first coin toss

On misty

[normal cave]

My dnites have been going sicko mode... when I manage to field them

My issue is drawing the evos

[sonic inlet]

That's any stage 2 mon rn tbf

[golden lance]

Dnite will be pretty nice once we get special energy ngl

[normal cave]

My noodles keep dying before they become dnite

I haven't lost a single game after fielding dnite, but I just can't draw it

And I can't get my cunos going either because misty whiffs

[golden lance]

Yea ngl

Misty dnite kinda sucks

Thinking of switching over to weezing stall

[normal cave]

I don't have weezing or muk

Otherwise I would

[sonic inlet]

Double squirtle opener

Where arti

Nvm found him

[normal cave]

Doesn't help that I get hands like these

[sonic inlet]

Oh it's brock

[normal cave]

This is every basic in my deck

And a pokeball

[golden lance]

Inb4 ball on the topdeck

[sonic inlet]

BRO RED CARDED ME INTO A MISTY LMAOO

[normal cave]

I died before I drew the second ball

[golden lance]

Hope we get a pokemon breeder/rare candy next set

I want to run pidgeot so bad

[sonic inlet]

Instant concede

This guy must have been so mad

[golden lance]

Then again, red card victim

... Unless it evolved from deck

[normal cave]

Ok I've calmed down

The misty dopamine train hit

Highrolled the wonder pick

[golden lance]

Ayy

[jovial cape]

release mawile support

what would a steel deck even be built around right now

is there anything

[hasty anchor]

Steelix and Kingambit would be something

[slim birch]

Oh man what pack had this

[hasty anchor]

Does make me wonder if the lower overall power curve of Pocket could see a return in a lot of strategies that were popular back in the day

[jovial cape]

kingambit is in? damn

[hasty anchor]

Nah

[jovial cape]

i have bisharp but assumed he wasnt

oh

Blocked.

[hasty anchor]

I mean, Bisharp is

[mighty storm]

melmetal

[hasty anchor]

It's just weirdly enough Kingambit isn't, and the chain sorta stops there with Bisharp

[jovial cape]

man i havent even played the game that thing is from

[hasty anchor]

The same artist for Bisharp in Pocket also did this art for Kingambit in the Scarlet/Violet set in the TCG

https://serebii.net/card/scarletviolet/134.shtml

There is a bit of a lack of steel Metal types so far though, so I imagine there will be more on the way

[normal cave]

Bisharp from what I can tell

Melmetal too ig

[jovial cape]

mega mawile ex please

[normal cave]

🙏

Mega maw is my favorite mega

[hasty anchor]

Given the power curve is very much not high, I definitely would like something like this

https://serebii.net/card/neogenesis/025.shtml

Except, maybe not on a basic. Weavile ex, I guess?

Also yeah, Mawile's cool

[normal cave]

Have you seen Pikachu EX?

[hasty anchor]

I just wish it on its own was a whole lot better, since the power gap in its mega evolution is way, way higher than any else

[normal cave]

Basically that

[hasty anchor]

Oooh

[normal cave]

Also, probably the best deck in the format

[hasty anchor]

Oh wow, Pikachu ex does have something similar

Fittingly, of course!

[normal cave]

Pika/Zapdos

Deck just beats you up super fast

[hasty anchor]

Lightning decks do be like that

Bit bummed that Magnemite and Voltorb don't have the whole self-destruct thing they were known for back in the day

[normal cave]

Ye but they're as tanky as all the other decks. Just faster and hit about as hard

[hasty anchor]

https://serebii.net/tcgpocket/geneticapex/155.shtml

You mean to tell me you took the champ of beatdown in the day and did this to Hitmonchan

I mean, fair, Jab still does pretty good damage, but come on now.

[normal cave]

This would be... ok.

Pretty good even

[hasty anchor]

Yeah, I'm not giving it too much flak, since it's very cheap

But come on

Special Punch

This is just a regular boring punch

[normal cave]

A basic with 30 for a single energy is above curve

[hasty anchor]

Very much!

[normal cave]

Top it off with 1 retreat cost and 80 hp, and it becomes a splashable option in fighting decks.

[hasty anchor]

Soon as I get the phone situation sorted out with something that won't just quit on me if it boots an app up, I'll give these a play

Yeah, that's surprising, since I remember Hitmonchan normally having a cost of 2 for retreating

[normal cave]

Only problem is that Machamp falls off past turn 1

[hasty anchor]

Maybe

[normal cave]

By then you are evolving your mons or getting your big 2 energy attacks online

And 30 doesn't ohko many mons. It kos some, but not many.

[pseudo goblet]

@mighty storm @fading stratus FINALLY, Shiny Vulpix

I probably missed a few of them, apparently I cant judge shiny or not by tail color

[mighty storm]

Nice!

[young river]

https://www.pokemonmeta.com/

[signal raptor]

god I hate how duellinksmeta and the other -meta sites look

[normal cave]

This game is stupid

[last musk]

Damn going second in this game rocks

[normal cave]

Ye, you dictate the tempo

Tho some cards like misty and red card are broken going first

Misty is broken in any situation, but it enables donkticuno going first

Sixth sense aah card

[last musk]

Red card is just funny cause it absolutely fucks your opponent up

[mighty storm]

@pseudo goblet Can you check something for me real quick, assuming access to DLC mons via transfer. How many cats are available in scarlet?

[normal cave]

Red card is nuts

[pseudo goblet]

Okay 40+ Shiny Beldum definitely left a mental scar for me, lol

https://youtu.be/T-ZTctyxn1g?si=o_Qp5lWPpxRMeRbU

[normal cave]

The power disparity between the different items/supports is insane

You got shit like misty, red card, and sabrina, and then you got pokedex and giovanni

[pseudo goblet]

Include evos or just lines

[mighty storm]

Lines

[golden lance]

Why does pokedex not even let you stack?

[normal cave]

I used it alongside pokeball to shuffle my deck back when I had 1 cuno ex

Pokeball and pokedex both did nothing (I had only 1 mon in my deck), but together they made a slightly less shitty combo

[pseudo goblet]

Sprigatito, Shinx, Meowth, Eevee(?), Litleo, do yall count Sneasle as wezl+cat or just wezl, Chien Pao, Espurr, Litten

I probably did a bad job

[hasty anchor]

Zangoose is a cat

And a ferret

[mighty storm]

I'll count sneasle since bulbapedia says cat+weasel

[kind vortex]

ain't it a mongoose

[golden lance]

Btw shout outs to the dark type in pocket doing absolutely fuck all

[mighty storm]

Totally counts

[golden lance]

Despite being able to hit mewtwo for weakness

[pseudo goblet]

yeah I was gonna put Zangoose together with Sneasle

[polar osprey]

actual do nothing card it's insane

[polar osprey]

that's bcs every dark shit rn is focused on stall and poison

so the type advantage means fuck all since most of your damage comes from dot

[golden lance]

That's why we need to bring back the GOAT

ZOROARK GX

[polar osprey]

I think most of the current issues are gonna be fixed in the next set and the set after

this meta feels extremely curated

the top 4 decks are all also NPC decks you face

I think the next mini box is gonna bring the rest of the types to same level as the 4 main ones and then the main box in Feb is gonna powercreep everything

[golden lance]

Idt mono cuno was intentional bro

[polar osprey]

mono cuno is worse than the one with the starmie engine

it's just a stepping stone for that

[golden lance]

I guess

[polar osprey]

but I think the devs thought giovanni would be much better than he is

they not only removed the draw effect they also nerfed the damage

so the card is basically useless

[golden lance]

They literally grabbed plus power and made it a supporter

Without the part that made plus power good

[polar osprey]

but tbf

most of the playerbase

is also being fooled by it rn

[normal cave]

They nerfed my boi kukui

[polar osprey]

I see so much giovanni

and it never matters

[normal cave]

I have seen giovanni matter one time

[polar osprey]

bcs people don't realize the extra damage doesn't change anything if it doesn't move the turn clock forward

the worst offenders for me are mewtwo and zard decks playing it

I need to deal 210 damage

[golden lance]

Imagine if it buffed spread damage

[polar osprey]

if it wasn't active pokemon then it would be insane in articuno

also it's a fucking supporter

[normal cave]

They WHAT

[polar osprey]

you have to choose to use it over oak or sabrina or misty

[golden lance]

Hey need

[normal cave]

And in Dnite. 60 is a key threshold.

[golden lance]

What do you think of 🅱️otion

[normal cave]

Potion fucks

[polar osprey]

I think I don't have enough good cards to be able to not play it

there aren't enough good items in the game for that yet

[golden lance]

Man only having 2 of each card makes the late game so weird

If you're playing stage 1/2s

[polar osprey]

sometimes it lets me chip with meow one more time before benching so that's nice

meow should probably be played in every shit with stage 2 tbh

it's so fucking good

it sucks into red card but it is what it is

[golden lance]

Bro everything sucks into red card

That's not like, pikachu

[polar osprey]

yeah

[golden lance]

Red card is kinda objectively the most degen card of the game

[polar osprey]

and it combos super well with what I believe is the best card in the game rn

sabrina

[golden lance]

Yea

[polar osprey]

you are forced to bench weak shit to keep the hand count down

then they plop sabrina

and you give them a free point

and lose a bunch of tempo

[golden lance]

Also sometimes you're forced to switch into a wall with 2 or 3 retreat cost

And lose tempo that way

It's crazy

[polar osprey]

yeah it's the best combo in the game rn

[golden lance]

I wish that koga worked for any mon

A-la scoop up

[polar osprey]

then it would be insane

I don't want pika to have a tool like that

[golden lance]

Make only for evo mons then idk

Or lock to darks

[polar osprey]

yeah I think you would have to evo lock it

otherwise it would make basic beatdown even more insane

[golden lance]

Yea

[polar osprey]

my pika is about to go down? scoop up, zapdos in, bench pika back with full hp

[golden lance]

Also really hoping next set has gy recycling

[normal cave]

Needle, you mentioned muk/dnite

[golden lance]

Even something like nightly garbage run

[normal cave]

Why muk over weezing?

[polar osprey]

Idt the next set will focus on gy

I think it will focus on consistency

[normal cave]

Weeze has 1 retreat cost vs muk's 3

[polar osprey]

and bringing the stage 2 decks to the same level as pika beatdown

I lowkey expect us to get great ball and like 3 other more specific ones

and then the ultra ball in the next main set

[golden lance]

You think we'll get breeder?

[polar osprey]

maybe

I really think it's gonna focus on consistency

and supporting the unsupported types

[polar osprey]

I sometimes change names around

it's supposed to be weezing

[golden lance]

Bro you know what would fuck?

[normal cave]

Ah oki

[polar osprey]

you don't even play any dark energies with it

[golden lance]

Special steel and dark energy

[polar osprey]

you just weezing poison and then bounce when it's about to die

[normal cave]

Gib special dragon energy I'm tired of lowrolling my energies

[golden lance]

TRUE

Give us DDE

[polar osprey]

I think they are gonna redo the energy system eventually

50/50 chance punishes multi type decks too hard

[golden lance]

Yea dragons are just unplayable

And dnite has 2 GOOD energy types

[polar osprey]

dragonite is playable but the entire deck is centered around it

[golden lance]

Imagine idfk, garchomp

That has to run fighting/grass

[normal cave]

Dnite is playable because draco meteor reads "win the game"

[golden lance]

(Except when it doesnt)

[normal cave]

When does it not?

[golden lance]

When i use it

It always leaves shit at 10 hp

[normal cave]

I've yet to lose a game where I got a draco meteor off

[normal cave]

Yeah it does do that, but everything dies next turn

[polar osprey]

you probably play 2 meowth in dnite

but then Idk how you fit potion

[normal cave]

And dnite is too fat

[golden lance]

I lost a game because draco failed to kill anything into misty whiffing

[polar osprey]

broken

stall is probably the way

for dnite

[normal cave]

I tried, but meowth eating an energy hurts so bad

[golden lance]

I swear bro shit's unbelieable

[normal cave]

Dnite has 0 energy acceleration for itself

[golden lance]

Bro dnite having 0 energy accel sucks so bad

[normal cave]

You can't be wasting energy on meowth

[polar osprey]

then only the misty build can play it

[normal cave]

I'd fucking love to run meowth

[normal cave]

Misty build also can't accelerate energy onto meowth or dnite

It just uses misty to turn its walls into threats sometimes

[golden lance]

Sometimes doing some heavy lifting here

[normal cave]

I mostly just use articuno as a 140 wall which, on rare occasions, wins the game on its own turn 1

[polar osprey]

btw

[hasty anchor]

A lot of trainer cards seem very underwhelming

[polar osprey]

the dkayed pocket server

has a channel dedicated to whales sharing their codes

so people can get their broken wonder packs

[hasty anchor]

...Which I guess is fine, since everything is pretty underwhelming, it balances out

[normal cave]

Owo

[polar osprey]

dkayed only considers whales people with over a 2k card collection

we are on day 2

so like

whales whales

leviathans

[hasty anchor]

...Except wow, Red Card looks super mean

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/sleep-gif-15583344

[hasty anchor]

There's supporter cards in the actual TCG that would be busted with this kind of effect

[normal cave]

Misty can potentially win the game on its own even in the tcg

[polar osprey]

the first mf I added was fucking level 34

from opening packs

I'm playing all day and I'm level 12

[normal cave]

Red Card is an actual tcg card iirc, and I think it got banned

[hasty anchor]

It's actually worse in the proper TCG

[polar osprey]

each pack is 25 xp and each battle 15

[hasty anchor]

https://www.serebii.net/card/megabattledeckmcharizardex/014.shtml

[polar osprey]

do the maths

[hasty anchor]

Yeah, it's forbidden and yet the actual thing is worse off lol

[normal cave]

I got to level 13 somehow

And I got 277 cards

[polar osprey]

2nd dude is fucking lv38

with over 6k cards

Poseidon himself

[hasty anchor]

I don't get why they couldn't just used Bill for the draw 2 thing instead of calling it Professor's Research. That's usually the one where you get rid of all cards and draw 7!

[normal cave]

On the one hand, I really don't want to join the dkayed server. On the other hand... is there even an other hand?

[polar osprey]

he already took over pocket

made pocket meta and everything

started leaking for pocket over md

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus Im only at Dialga’s part and this is so interesting already https://youtu.be/qSSUvEEr7CY?si=4M8083br1-vIba3G

[normal cave]

[hasty anchor]

PRESSURE

It's workin' down on me

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/freddie-freddie-m-freddie-queen-queen-freddie-mercury-gif-24338860

I'm out of wonder pick energy anyways, and I'm saving up hourglasses for a 10 pull

[polar osprey]

if you did all the solo challenges that's a ton of xp

it's like 100 each

so that's why

[normal cave]

I did

[polar osprey]

yippe the omega whale added me right before my wonder picks expire

let's see what broken pack I get

[polar osprey]

@golden lance they are going full duel links with the event

it's gonna be a raid battle against a gym leader

PVE

you get exclusive promo cards

which are mostly reskins

[golden lance]

Neat

[fading stratus]

gj

[polar osprey]

except for 2 we know so far

lapras ex

we only have the normal one now

and jigglypuff with less HP but has sing as a 1 energy move

[normal cave]

[normal cave]

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

[polar osprey]

they scoop before dnite touches the field or something?

[golden lance]

Either that or consistency issues

[golden lance]

No scoop here tho

[mighty storm]

Hopefully this Samsung phone I found in my room (Cannot remember when/how we got it) works after we get a proper charger for it

It shall save me from the flickering mess of pocket if all goes well

[golden lance]

the app isnt heavy tho

its only half a gigabyte

[mighty storm]

Here is a small version of the flickering I've encountered

[polar osprey]

that's your gpu telling you its time has come not the game

[normal cave]

This

[mighty storm]

its only this game oddly enough

[polar osprey]

the game puts it in enough stress for it to start showing

but it should be getting worse over time

[mighty storm]

Plus DeNA doesn't like emulators from what I hear, so wouldnt be surprised if it's that

[normal cave]

I keep missing out on Dnite and I need to beat them down with Dragonair

[polar osprey]

oh that's on an emulator? the game is fucked on emulators lol

I thought that was native

btw as long as you are here

@golden lance the upcoming event is gonna have starmie ex and other water shit as part of its reward pool

rejoice

[golden lance]

IWAE

[polar osprey]

also full art misty as a possible pull from event packs

hmmmm

I wonder who is gonna be the raid boss

[mighty storm]

yeah, I need to get a phone. So that stuff like this doesn't happen

[golden lance]

Its a meowth themed event isnt it?

[polar osprey]

that's the one coming out tomorrow

I'm talking about the misty raid on the 5th

[mighty storm]

Misty Raid?

[golden lance]

yea we duel links now

[polar osprey]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PTCGP/comments/1gft9y3/lapras_drop_event_leaked/

an italian site leaked all of it

[golden lance]

oh shit alt sabrina

[polar osprey]

that's the deck the event boss uses

not the reward pool

but you get the new lapras EX

[golden lance]

ah

[polar osprey]

not obtainable in any other way

or alt greininja

and the aforementioned water shit

please build articuno the event

there's also the new mankey which is a boost for fighting decks

[golden lance]

need

[mighty storm]

So no Misty supporter drop?

[polar osprey]

30 damage 1 energy attack on a basic is really solid and primeape is pretty good

[mighty storm]

or Starmie?

[golden lance]

how long until we add skills to pocket?

[polar osprey]

no but

you can get

full art ex venu

and other exclusive alts

and new mons not obtainable anywhere else

[golden lance]

oh yea there's also a promo clefairy unobtainable ingame atm

[polar osprey]

it's gonna be there

chansey and meowth won't

they are for another event

same for magnemite and bulba

but the good ones will

[golden lance]

do we know how long events last?

[polar osprey]

let me check

2 weeks

[golden lance]

interesting

[polar osprey]

events are stamina regulated tho

you can't infinitely farm it for rewards

obviously

we are gonna get event hourglass

[golden lance]

oh boo

[polar osprey]

the most relevant thing here is mankey by far

basic with a 30 poke 1 energy attack

that damages itself by 10 points

which is important

bcs primeapes attack becomes a 100 2 energy attack if it has any damage counters

it makes primeape the clear optimal choice for marowak ex

[mighty storm]

yeah the promo is important for primeape

[mighty storm]

You could even say it's the PRIME choice for the deck

[polar osprey]

I have 2 full art cubones and ex marowaks

so I kinda really want to play this shit after the buffs

[mighty storm]

I have one ex maro and the primeapes ready, though right now I am focused on looking for starmie exs and mistys for starmie aggro

[hasty anchor]

Yeaaa Primeape

[mighty storm]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-primeape-cute-eyes-kawaii-okorizaru-gif-27180037

[golden lance]

I swear to god if misty flips tails on the first flip ONE MORE FUCKING TIME

[fading stratus]

are you playing articuno

lmao

[golden lance]

@polar osprey immersive rares and crown arts are guaranteed to never show up in a wonder pick, so god packs never show up lmao

[golden lance]

Both mono cuno and cuno dnite yea

[sterile verge]

Is it safe here are we done posting leaks

[mighty storm]

teraleak is over

[sterile verge]

Ok cool I can talk here again

[void herald]

it's not, they're still uncovering stuff

they just uncovered a list of rejected alolan forms earlier today

[hasty anchor]

Speaking of Mawile from earlier:

I'm a little bit bummed that it seems that the mega evolution thing is about as good as it'll get for Mawile. Doesn't seem it'd gain an evolution anytime soon.

Which is a shame cause the concept of this metal fairy with like, a gigantic snapping mouth at the back of its head is cool. Really wished it could evolve straight up, or just have a stat adjustment.

[mighty storm]

wait there is still more to the tera leak? wow

beta wishiwashi 😮

We were robbed of a ||dewgong|| form?

and a new water ||fossil, and multiple mimikyu's?|| ROBBED

@pseudo goblet crazy crossover thought that came to my mind. Ace Attorney's Herlock Sholmes with a Snom.

[pseudo goblet]

Im not a fan of Ace Attorney yet

[fading stratus]

just play a game or two

I've played like 2 games too

one where his friend gets convicted and another the little girl gets convicted

[slim birch]

2024 and not being an AA fan

[pseudo goblet]

Among many other franchises, yes

[sonic inlet]

Use misty on articuno turn 1

Get 4 heads

Instantly kill their bulbasaur and they scoop

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/Tsuku_neee/status/1851624618450170336?t=qztYXhEPAQPR0D-6nxm3sg&s=19

https://twitter.com/Tsuku_neee/status/1851640402119635107?t=UClmRnl8Gok1O-9o8vvxmQ&s=19

つくね (@Tsuku_neee) on X

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つくね (@Tsuku_neee) on X

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Twitter · Oct 30, 2024, 3:00 PM

@normal cave

https://twitter.com/tL2zyMo0jsU1lZi/status/1851891760122720652?t=bh00pLP9nNamJJJ4lRKq-Q&s=19

あいうえお (@tL2zyMo0jsU1lZi) on X

オオタチちゃんに甘いのあげようねぇ…

Twitter · Oct 31, 2024, 7:39 AM

[pseudo goblet]

So many wezl

Also

🤩

Lol, Idk if this is because of friend, or I just happen to saw Summer’s

https://tenor.com/view/dj-khaled-another-one-one-more-time-gif-4816107

[normal cave]

So many wezls

Love these

[cunning shard]

i got that immersive charizard

also need that eggecutor ex

[slim birch]

i cannot get a Dragonite for the life of me

[pseudo goblet]

Completed the line just now by getting Dragonair lol

[signal raptor]

how are y'all getting so many packs so fast

[pseudo goblet]

Complete the two beginners and advance mission, spending some hourglass

Oh yeah, 420 dmg!

[slim birch]

i got like 720 on one of Lickitungs move

have only rolled tails or 60 since

[pseudo goblet]

Oh wth they buffed it for Pocket

[cunning shard]

guess i have to standart exeggutor

[rocky glen]

Im really loving the art in this game. Definitely my new favorite TCG

[sonic inlet]

[cunning shard]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/867718398208245761/1215704983245430823/nonomiburger-1.gif

[fading stratus]

oh this is funny but I didnt get the reference

whats it referencing ducks

[fading stratus]

oh lmao

thanke ray

[polar osprey]

ok so

dkayed was accepting only some win streaks on his pokemon meta site

which was weird

so I decided to check the theory

and submit one myself

mf is only accepting lists for win streaks from people that pay for his "pro" membership

people are literally paying to have their lists in his site

@sonic inlet why can't we have a decent ptcg meta site?

[cunning shard]

money grubber being a money grubber

[sonic inlet]

My guy paywalls everything

You also have to pay to enter duel links meta

The server

[cunning shard]

the duel links meta is like the same 100 people everytime

[sonic inlet]

It's the only 100 people who pay to yap

[rocky glen]

Whats yalls go to pack to open? Mewtwo EX seems like the better one but don't want to just invest in one

[polar osprey]

charizard is the best one for its card quality

mewtwo ex second

pika is the worst deck for staples but pika itself is the deck to beat

mewtwo lets you build mewtwo ex, dragonite stall, marowak and articuno ex

[rocky glen]

Oh okay. I really gotta learn the TCG cause all of that flew over my head

[cunning shard]

i just play venasaur pile and win by trading dmg better

[sonic inlet]

Venusaur just tanks like crazy

[polar osprey]

zard lets you build zard ex, blaine, arcanine ex, exeggutor ex and has the best staples in the game

venu ex needs multiple packs

like misty gamba

[sonic inlet]

My favourite

[polar osprey]

you need venu from the mewtwo pack and exegg from the zard pack

if you want to make that I suggest starting with zard is exegg is a good deck by itself

[rocky glen]

Probably a dumb question but what about my boy Infernape

[polar osprey]

not in the game yet

zard also has erika which plant pile needs

[rocky glen]

Ah. Well I feel dumb

[sonic inlet]

We mostly only have kanto cards rn

The meta decks are all just from kanto

With some support mons like greninja and gardevoir

[polar osprey]

which are just the most popular non-kanto mons

[rocky glen]

Makes sense. I should've known that all the cards wouldn't have been released all at once

[polar osprey]

also

keep in mind

[sonic inlet]

Next pack is supposed to be Johto

[polar osprey]

according to the leaks

ranked is only coming with the next major pack update

not the mini one this next month

the major one in Jan

so I would go for overall card quality over gunning for the best deck

[sonic inlet]

Welp

Guess casual will have to do

At least you have time to build whatever deck you want meanwhile

[polar osprey]

yeah

people with pocket premium are gonna have 252 packs opened from their daily packs alone

[rocky glen]

That gives me enough time to learn the TCG at least

[polar osprey]

people without are gonna have 168

and that's if you hoard all of your hourglass to dump on the newest pack

which I might

[sonic inlet]

I'll save once I finally get my 2 frogadiers

[polar osprey]

(he is not saving)

[sonic inlet]

Since I already have everything else I want aside from starmie EX

[polar osprey]

misty event is gonna buff marowak ex a lot

[rocky glen]

How much experience do yall got with the TCG? All I've ever known is the VGC

[sonic inlet]

[polar osprey]

by letting primape become a 100 2 energy poke on evo

without ex

[polar osprey]

I fair bit thought I haven't played in years

however

this is quite different

you don't have prize cards which is the biggest snowball tool or energy cards

instead you get 1 energy every turn

which makes battery cards like misty, moltress ex and gardevoir super valuable

[rocky glen]

Hmm okay. Any tips you got will help alot

[polar osprey]

just pull and do the solo challenges

the game is pretty easy to learn

do the tutorials first for the item cards

and buy the missing ones with your store money

then dump all of your leftover money on hourglass packs

also

if you can

this is for everyone here actually

clean the shop today

it's resetting tomorrow

buy all the hourglass and wonder hourglass

[rocky glen]

Can do 🫡

Ooh shiny

[viral ingot]

Muh 10 pack pull highlights...am I cooked?

I guess I'm holing myself in Solo Battles to get as much gems hourglass as I can to pull for whatever is in the tourney top decks.

[polar osprey]

bruh people in the sub are complaining about farfetch ain't no way

[rocky glen]

Bruh, I'm so jealous

[sterile verge]

I've gotten two bulbasaur art cards

And that's it

[polar osprey]

LMAOOOOO

got 2 dnites from 2 wonder picks in a row

I can finally play this shit

[sonic inlet]

Time to play stall

[polar osprey]

broooo

I'm missing fucking koffing

ain't no way

[sonic inlet]

God I hate pinsir

Played him early game

Kept missing both coin tosses

[sonic inlet]

It really comes with being a dkayed fan

[polar osprey]

this is my full art collection so far

[sonic inlet]

FINALLY

It's not even from the pack

[polar osprey]

wonder picks? they have been amazing for me at snipping missing cards

[sonic inlet]

Yeah

[polar osprey]

I just need someone to pull some starmie ex so I can leech it off of them

[sonic inlet]

I certainly tried

[polar osprey]

if any of y'all pull one ping me we are becoming friends

[pseudo goblet]

They freaking added another gimmick???

SuperAwakening, seems like its just extra ability once unit maxed move levels

[sonic inlet]

Sigma suit

[pseudo goblet]

Thank god it ain't another nuke-attack gimmick

[normal cave]

Fuck yeah, I cleaned the shop and am just waiting like an idiot

[pseudo goblet]

noted

[normal cave]

Bro Farfetch'd will fuck you UP, that duck got hands

Yeah but farfetch'd stops working once decks get their wincons online. It's fine vs a slow deck like dnite, but still falls off once dragonair hits the field.

[sonic inlet]

Idek what it does

[normal cave]

60 hp, 40 damage for 1 colorless energy. That's it.

Oh and 1 retreat cost

It's just a generic beatdown tool that is not good in the best beatdown deck

[pseudo goblet]

I just got my second dragonite 😅

[normal cave]

[pseudo goblet]

GIOVANNI

PORYGON AGAIN?!?!

[normal cave]

What dnite deck are you gonna run? Weezing or Articuno?

[normal cave]

Nice! Giovanni is a bad card, but people love it

[pseudo goblet]

wait srsly??? fooled by the hype

[cunning shard]

It'd okay depends on deck Pikachu decks usually play it for the 100 dmg vs some base or stage ones

[normal cave]

If it helps you hit certain thresholds sure

But it usually doesn't

[sterile verge]

Wrong giovanni card

[pseudo goblet]

I need good cards, I got destroyed by Intermediate level

[sterile verge]

The actual tcg had a broken giovanni

[vagrant steppe]

Guess I'm playing Pikachu

[cunning shard]

The last Giovanni played switched both players Pokémon I think by choice

[normal cave]

Cursed to play the best deck

[pseudo goblet]

Ig I should invest more into fire deck- ooooh Meltan

[signal raptor]

oh my pokemon pocket friends btw 9090140423897860

[normal cave]

Yoink

[cunning shard]

Stell probably playable with johto stuff

Dark and steel don't really have any support cards right now

[vagrant steppe]

GUESS IM PLAYING PIKACHU

This is actually EX #3

But I guess it's a sign

[pseudo goblet]

oooh snom card

Exeggutor too

[signal raptor]

god I wish I could get more mewtwo cards

[normal cave]

[signal raptor]

I'm pigeonholed into opening the mewtwo pack but the packs aren't giving me what I want smh

[normal cave]

Snom is good kid

I'm playing Dnite Frosmoth now

[pseudo goblet]

Bruxish wth lol

[normal cave]

Bruxish is unfortunate

[warm sky]

Wait so is pocket actually good?

[normal cave]

Yes

[pseudo goblet]

Oooh

[warm sky]

Shit, might try it next week or something

[vagrant steppe]

This looks alright for now?

I obviously need another raichu and Zapdos EX

[normal cave]

Idk about rai in the deck, but seems okay

[vagrant steppe]

But is this the right idea?

I've seen most lists on 2 as a "he's fine" option

[normal cave]

The idea is basic pokemon beatdown

You want to turbosmorc them with 90 damage pika or 100 damage zapdos

Heliolisk seems out of place

They run electrode and magneton as evos

I think raichu is fine here as a finisher

[vagrant steppe]

Yeah true, I can swap them for electrode then

I did pull a full art electrode

After I pull another Zapdos, should I switch packs

[pseudo goblet]

Finally making progress… just had to roll for the match AI didn’t start with Bulbasaur

And not having Grass as secondary type in deck

[normal cave]

Bro Frosmoth bought me like 6 turns off one sleep

New goated stall card

And again

@pseudo goblet @polar osprey @golden lance you guys got to try frosmoth dnite, it's cracked

[golden lance]

I will if i hit the 20% on wonder pick

Only have 1 moth

[normal cave]

🙏

[golden lance]

I missed

[normal cave]

Yeah I had to grind wonder picks to get moths

Meanwhile I have 5 snoms

Frosmoth is so hard to pull

[pseudo goblet]

Something like this?

How did I end up with 2 set of dratini line

[normal cave]

Sec lemme get my list

[pseudo goblet]

Testing it with Fire intermediate

[pseudo goblet]

THE FUCK IS THIS HAND

[golden lance]

3 lightning energy in a row

Sure looks like dragonite

[normal cave]

[fading stratus]

vroken hand

[golden lance]

Ok chat

[fading stratus]

no

[pseudo goblet]

Jigglypuff is pummeling Articuno, what is this world

[fading stratus]

the answer is no choccy

[golden lance]

I have 1 of literally everything in the mewtwo pack except cuno and dnite

[pseudo goblet]

Thank god, Poke Ball saves the day

[golden lance]

Do i keep opening mewtwo or switch to zard?

[normal cave]

[normal cave]

I think zard to get crafting points and sabrinas

[golden lance]

Ye

Did craft 1 sabrina already tho

[normal cave]

Get another

[golden lance]

Have enough points to craft a second one too

[pseudo goblet]

4 eletric energy later, finally, a water orb

[mighty storm]

It is because friend yeah

[golden lance]

Bro i wish i could target a non water mon with misty so bad

On another note

[normal cave]

Saaaame

[golden lance]

You can give a like to someone's binders daily

[pseudo goblet]

Enemy send out charmander as last, dragonite COULDVE end the game, but I wanna secure the quest reward, retreat into Frosmoth+Giovanni and won

Didnt even get the reward since it was only one KO, they need 2

[golden lance]

Holo collection is going well, all things considered

[vagrant steppe]

Yeah turns out this Pikachu deck is broken

Unless they can set up on Mewtwo first, I just win

[normal cave]

Yup yup

[vagrant steppe]

Blessed with RNG to get to play the deck of all time

Although it feels like shit when the starting hand is Voltorb, 2 Sabrina, 2 red card

[sonic inlet]

Pikachu has the advantage on being the one deck that can't brick rn

[vagrant steppe]

Tell that to 1 Voltorb no other basics

[sonic inlet]

Since it just goes pikachu + 3 random electrics in the bench and explodes the opponent with 90 damage right away

[sonic inlet]

No zapdos?

[vagrant steppe]

I've only got 1 Zapdos EX

[sonic inlet]

Ouch

[vagrant steppe]

1 regular Zapdos too but that card looks garbage

[sonic inlet]

But tbf the deck is just 2 pikachu 2 zapdos

You don’t really need anything else

[sonic inlet]

Eh it can be a random guy

[vagrant steppe]

Yeah I guess I can run it

[pseudo goblet]

@hasty anchor https://x.com/atelierrhyme/status/1851640955209986555?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

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#バシャーモ #Blaziken

Twitter · Oct 30, 2024, 3:03 PM

[cunning shard]

Trust in kangashkhan starter 1 energy for a potential turn 1 knock out is crazy

[hasty anchor]

It actually looks really good on Blaziken, woah

[young river]

Forgot to share this

[normal cave]

Preeeeetyyyyyy

Love that card

[cunning shard]

ah btw u can probably ignore stuff like dkayed website and just go to limitless since they been like the go to website for pokemon players to check out decks

the website also shows upcoming tournaments if you are interested in that stuff

https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournaments/?game=pocket

[normal cave]

Deck section is currently empty

But ty, glad there's a better alternative than stinky dkayed

[pseudo goblet]

Wtf why is Seaking stat so op- balanced just behind a coin toss

[normal cave]

Because coin toss

[pseudo goblet]

Seaking got tails 3 in a row

Fourth the charm

[cunning shard]

ypu can check tournament results for pocket and get decklists shown

[pseudo goblet]

Im gonna see a lot of this arent I

[cunning shard]

https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/little-legends-league-2/player/rarepls click on playername then decklist

[slim birch]

i cannot pull dnite for the life of me let alone that nice art

[pseudo goblet]

So I cant do shit for the next 3 turn

[viral ingot]

Another 10 packs and my only highlight:

[slim birch]

GOAT shit

[cunning shard]

complaints to ducky

[pseudo goblet]

IVYSAUR, FINALLY I CAN PLAY VENUSAUR

[normal cave]

Why are these all singleton?

Was it a singleton tourney, or is singleton the optimal strat for pocket?

These decks look ass

[pseudo goblet]

Dominated

[golden lance]

Damn yall are getting highlights every 10 pulls?

[normal cave]

This is more common

[cunning shard]

Probably was u have to scoop down to find more tournaments and lists

https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/670f5a88e1a875097763ba8d/standings

[polar osprey]

just red carded a dnite player with a 6 card hand

feels good

it was turn 4 also

he resolved oak twice

[golden lance]

Need

For mono cuno

X speed or old amber/mysterious fossil?

[normal cave]

[normal cave]

Both X Speed and Old Amber

But Amber>speed I'd say

[golden lance]

I mean you only have so much deck space

[normal cave]

How are you running out of deck space

I need to run filler to meet deck space requirement in mono cuno

If you have deck space issues go X Speed ig

[golden lance]

Rn my 18 trainers are
2 ball 2 oak 2 misty 2 red card 2 giovanni 2 spyglass 2 amber 1 sabrina 1 dex

[normal cave]

Ball is ass

[golden lance]

2 potion

[polar osprey]

I might lose this shit after the red card

bcs the mf hit misty for 6

[normal cave]

Dex is also ass

[polar osprey]

and I lost 3 sleep tosses in a row

so they took out mew x

[golden lance]

Yea but x speed aint much better

[normal cave]

Wait they are also on dnite moth?

[polar osprey]

ye

[normal cave]

Moth is so toxic

[polar osprey]

if my second mewtwo gets sleeped to death I'm gonna mald

[golden lance]

Man i need a weezing

[polar osprey]

won the toss pog

[golden lance]

Misty is literally shortening my life span

[polar osprey]

they were on farfetch and shit

thank God

[golden lance]

Bro colorless cards are literally so free

Not a single good one in there

[normal cave]

Deserved loss

[polar osprey]

actually

I really like meowth

in mewtwo

you don't have energy problems you just need to get online asap

[golden lance]

Meow is fine™️

[normal cave]

Fetch'd has only been holding decks back from what I've seen

[polar osprey]

he is basically upstart goblin if your deck doesn't have energy issues

he gets replaced the second we get more good cards

[normal cave]

Dnite is a stall deck, Fetch'd is stupid in there

[golden lance]

I think fetch is just deck filler tbh

Since the starter deck gives it to you for free

[normal cave]

It's probably fine in fire aggro

[golden lance]

So its just there until you pull better stuff

[polar osprey]

nah

the sub is saying shit like

fetch beats pika

bcs you pressure it

[normal cave]

Wh

[golden lance]

Naaaaaaah

[normal cave]

Fetch'd is ass

[polar osprey]

they were legit complaining about it

[golden lance]

Skill issue

Legit

[normal cave]

Are they all on like

[golden lance]

They're probably on like

[normal cave]

Dnite Charizard

[golden lance]

Electrode and raichu

[normal cave]

Electrode is like fine because 0 retreat cost

It's just a worse copy of x speed

[polar osprey]

I wasn't joking

[normal cave]

Holy fuck they really are malding over fetch'd

[golden lance]

Bro

If your gameplan is going 1-2 and spending your supporter on giovanni

Reroll, that account has nothing good in it

[polar osprey]

they are saying farfetch should go on every deck

their gameplan is fishing for early points while the opponent builds a genki-dama in their bench

[normal cave]

Bro fetchd is so ass in pika

[golden lance]

Today i will sacrifice tempo to deal 40 damage with my first energy

[normal cave]

Fetch'd is only passable vs a slow deck like Dnite, and even then it isn't good enough to win.

[polar osprey]

they are saying it makes you GAIN tempo

[normal cave]

Dnite just sacks 2 shitmons to fetch'd and then wipes you in one attack

[golden lance]

Wydm you sack?

[polar osprey]

zard just walls you forever with moltress

[golden lance]

Cuno ex eats 3 hits

[normal cave]

Moth eats 3

[polar osprey]

keep hitting them with that leek while moltress generates up to 3 energies every turn bro

[golden lance]

"but you can use sabrina bro"

Like legit, wtf does fetch do against zapdos?

[polar osprey]

they are now arguing which is the better universal staple

fetch or kanga

[golden lance]

Its not even good in the pika mu

[polar osprey]

insane

kan is like a lot better btw

people just don't know bcs they only have fetch

[golden lance]

Kan is legitimaly fine

[polar osprey]

kan is 100 hp and his 1 energy attack is x2 30 with a toss

[golden lance]

Its just mini maro ex

[polar osprey]

it's like better fetch in every way

[normal cave]

Kang has a fat retreat cost tho

[polar osprey]

if you are throwing shit like that you are trying to stall

and sacrificing it to the Gods

[normal cave]

Yeah, but even in stall I want to be able to get out of there

[polar osprey]

which is why the weezing engine or the frostmoth engine beat both by a mile

[golden lance]

Need when you do think they'll try to make hard stall viable?

Like, the heinous shit

[polar osprey]

these people are gonna go feral when they see a weezing deck for the first time

[golden lance]

Alakazam + chansey + pokecenter type beat

[polar osprey]

oh

definitely

[golden lance]

I swear as soon as we get more than 4 abilities in the game they'll print a skill drain mon

Tale as old as time

[polar osprey]

I'm expecting that by at least 2026

[golden lance]

26 is generous

[polar osprey]

could see 25 also

but the release schedule for this is slower than dl

[golden lance]

Bro dl releases a new set every 2 weeks now

Shit is literally impossible to keep up with

[polar osprey]

2 weeks is actually the standard for new japanese gacha

it's really jarring

[golden lance]

Btw remember how drem tickets were like

A 3 per year thing?

We get one basically every 2 months now

[polar osprey]

that's good tho

[golden lance]

Yea its nice

Was considering legit just grabbing an entire infinitrack core

But figure they'll just reprint everything if it becomes good again

[polar osprey]

why tf was my versus record wiped out

wtffff

I was editing my profiled and it wiped out my record

[cunning shard]

khan is good in dnite since it can wall easily 2-3 hits for each copy u have while it has a low energy cost attack to poke for dnite to finish

[polar osprey]

no legit

wtf happened

where are all my wins

gonna try restarting the game

[cunning shard]

u give khan a potion and it can eat 3 mew wx attacks

[polar osprey]

ok this is some insane bug

[golden lance]

Oh yea forgot to mention

[cunning shard]

and for no reason khan can highroll and straight up knock out base one prizers

[golden lance]

Yesterday they didnt give me the shop tickets you get with an like after a match

[polar osprey]

I need to farm shop tickets to clean my shop btw

but no one gives me a thanks

probably bcs I'm using "evil meta" to beat them or whatever

[golden lance]

So my inbox had 20 ish notifs with nothing attached

[cunning shard]

do you keep playing cards when u just have to hit a the attack buttom to win

[golden lance]

I get a thanks for most of my games

Some friend requests too

[polar osprey]

no lol

I get nothing

probably bcs I'm playing a fully blinged out mewtwo deck

even full art meowth

they are probably thinking I'm a whale

[golden lance]

Are you in beginner or the expert ladder?

[polar osprey]

expert ofc

have yet to lose

or get a thanks

[golden lance]

I think its that

Beginner queue is just more friendly

[polar osprey]

won't I just steamroll the beginner ladder?

[golden lance]

Nah

Most people there are smurfing

Most of my games are against zard, pika, and mewtwo

[polar osprey]

mirror pog

we both started with meowth

he has min rarity

[vagrant steppe]

Wait is there a ladder now?

[golden lance]

No

[vagrant steppe]

I thought it was just games

[polar osprey]

bro choccy

my opponent has a 8 card hand

I have a red card

I'm not getting a thanks this game

[golden lance]

Inb4 they drak oak ball their evo

[polar osprey]

they red carded me

while I had 3

drew me gard

lmao

[golden lance]

Sick

[polar osprey]

yeah he is getting cooked

[golden lance]

Need

[polar osprey]

see?

[golden lance]

Do i craft weez or do i save for a venu ex?

[polar osprey]

no thanks again

save for venu unless you are not pulling on the mewtwo pack anymore

[golden lance]

I'm not

[polar osprey]

I'm like

7 games in

without a thanks

[golden lance]

Gonna get the garde and mew ex by trading

[polar osprey]

this was a fucking mirror

[golden lance]

Oh yea btw

[polar osprey]

and they didn't give me a thanks

[golden lance]

You think its worth dusting shit for the cosmetic upgrade?

[polar osprey]

save it until the trading

btw

I'm like

99% sure

[golden lance]

I dusted 2 of a single prize gengar for the mission

[polar osprey]

the mysterious ticket we get

is what's needed for trading

and we are gonna like 1 per day or something

[golden lance]

Rip my plans of reopening my cartel

You probably do some stuff with enough alts tho

[polar osprey]

if you get a leftover starmie ex I give you my mewtwo ex