Pokemon

[polar osprey]

so I'm never using it

[normal cave]

I got 2 event meowth I think

[polar osprey]

btw according to the leaks

this event has 2 parts

so we are probably getting more cosmetics next week

probably sleeves and shit

[normal cave]

Ah

The only ones that matter to me are the display cosmetics, since we get to farm likes off those

[cunning shard]

Probably would solo any deck

[normal cave]

Yeah

That's why I want it

Stupid aah stall card

[cunning shard]

I Stil have ptsd from the dmg counter distribution from ptcgo

Or the galarian weezing that's does 4 dmg counters per poison tick

[vagrant steppe]

Ayy got a Moltres ex and a dragonite from wonder pick

[normal cave]

Join the Dnite hivemind

[vagrant steppe]

We love losing from the start

[polar osprey]

btw zard has the best immersive art and it's not close

I want that shit so bad

[cunning shard]

Ah I got that 1

I want more full art trainers

Gib another erkika

[vagrant steppe]

Oh flair is lame as hell

[normal cave]

Turn 1 giovanni going first

Intimidation tactics

[signal raptor]

pog got a mewtwo ex

deck is now complete

[normal cave]

Time to farm Ws

[signal raptor]

if my draws are good

just had a hand of 2 garde, 1 jinx 1 potion and drew gio for turn

[normal cave]

Yeah mewtwo kinda loses to itself

[normal cave]

Aeri, why are you on Gio in the deck that deals 150?

What are you trying to one-shot? Dragonite?

Dnite is the only relevant 160 mon I can think of

[polar osprey]

if you are on jinx the deck probably isn't complete

[signal raptor]

I mean I see some lists with it in

[polar osprey]

giovanni can be relevant into zard exactly

[normal cave]

Zard is 160?

Thought it was 180

[polar osprey]

not for zard

is lets you ko charmander

lol

[normal cave]

Oh

[polar osprey]

but that's super niche

and needs them to open bad

[normal cave]

How are you getting mander out without sabrina

[vagrant steppe]

Lmao Sabrina is so good

[normal cave]

Ye, card is busted

[polar osprey]

again needs them to have a bad hand

and not see moltress for a while

[hasty anchor]

I'm a little bit sad that Chansey isn't as absurd as its Base Set counterpart

[vagrant steppe]

Had an Articuno deck bench their second Articuno (at 110 damage) to try and kill my Pikachu

[polar osprey]

sabrina is the single best card in the game rn imo

[vagrant steppe]

Just made them put the articuno back and lose

[hasty anchor]

Like, it had absurd HP and an attack that could practically knock out most anything. But it requiring a lot of setup to do was what held it back

[polar osprey]

and pairs well with the other broken card red card

[hasty anchor]

It was a cool card playing the video game adaptation of the TCG

https://serebii.net/card/base/003.shtml

[polar osprey]

for me the worst giovanni offenders are zard decks

and it's not close

I have to deal 210 damage you wouldn't get it

[hasty anchor]

I mean

If you decide to play a Charizard-based deck, you practically have to deal as much damage as you can in a single attack

You just have to

[normal cave]

Yeah, this game's chansey also has 120 hp

[polar osprey]

and the attack is completely different

3 energy for 60

which is complete ass

[hasty anchor]

But can it nearly KO itself to KO something else?

[polar osprey]

also no

the card would legit have been better if it just had scrunch

at least then it would fulfill its role as a tank

[hasty anchor]

...Admittedly it's one attack is pretty damaging, so that's fine, I guess

[polar osprey]

as it is chansey is completely outclassed by kan

[hasty anchor]

That's the odd thing about Chansey in the TCG

[polar osprey]

which has 100 hp and deals 30-60 damage with ONE energy

[hasty anchor]

In the games and anime, it's not a fighter; it would rather offer aid to the injured

But the TCG just makes it incredibly dangerous since the few attacks it can do are very powerful

[normal cave]

I wish I had kans

Snorlax would also work ig

But lax gets 2-shot by pika

[polar osprey]

kan ex is probably gonna be a menace with how good the base is in unite

[normal cave]

Pocket

[polar osprey]

btw

kan ex in the actual tcg

draws 3 cards

for 1 energy

[normal cave]

[polar osprey]

no way they add this abomination

so it's gonna be something different

[hasty anchor]

https://serebii.net/card/pokemongo/052.shtml

...I find this Blissey really funny though.

[normal cave]

Auto include in most decks

[hasty anchor]

Mostly cause what is going on in this card's artwork is exactly what players in GO tend to do with a Blissey: Cram it into a Gym and have it just facetank any challengers

[polar osprey]

yeah

[normal cave]

Duo blissey merry go round stall

Oh nvm 4 retreat cost

Her ass is NOT leaving the active slot

[hasty anchor]

Really, the TCG is pretty good about being consistent in what a mon does all across the game, so you rarely see strategies bounce all over the place for species

[polar osprey]

I don't have a kan wtf

what pack is it in

pika?

[normal cave]

Same

[polar osprey]

zard pack

ok so I just keep pulling

[hasty anchor]

Charizard has absurd numbers, both for its requirements to attack and the damage does. Joltik often has a lot of attacks and abilities related to swarming. If there's a Blastoise, it'll likely have abilities or attacks that relate to moving around energy... stuff like that

[normal cave]

If I'm pulling for Khang, I'd rather get weezing

[polar osprey]

I'm pulling for starmie

if I get a kan that's a bonus

[normal cave]

And I ain't pulling until new set drops

[polar osprey]

toise is just big numbers here also

does 160 damage

Idt anything moves energy around yet

btw if you don't attach an energy every turn it gets discarded

so something that messes with discarded energy is gonna come eventually

[hasty anchor]

Y'know I noticed

This Kangaskhan is one of those cards with artwork just being the Ken Sugimori art, but I don't think its artwork was ever used before in a card

[polar osprey]

I hope they delve into discarded energy pretty thoroughly

it would add another layer of technical play to the game

[normal cave]

That'd be fun yeah

Omnomnom the energy in the discard

[polar osprey]

instead of always attaching the turn energy to random shit or it goes to the void where you can't interact with it

[normal cave]

Waterbox was one of my fave decks due to aqua patch

Aqua patch would probs break toise tho

[sonic inlet]

hi can you be my friend too

[cunning shard]

Lt. Surge does

[polar osprey]

my brain somehow just bundled surge and blaine together and assumed both just make the mons they play deal more damage

[cunning shard]

Magnetron generates energy so u can attach it to your raichu I think

[polar osprey]

yeah magneton is garde but bad

does the exact same thing but only to itself

[cunning shard]

Bring Giratina malamar

With spell tag

[polar osprey]

also needs 4 energy to deal 60 over garde needing 3 wtf

shit is just unplayable if you don't see surge

[cunning shard]

Well it's a stage 1 it attached 1 turn earlier

But it's just there for surge to fuel the Pokémon mentioned on it

[polar osprey]

ye

it's also 2 retreat cost omg

80 hp 60 damage 4 energy attack 2 retreat cost stage 1

for an ability that only works if you draw surge

this is gonna go in my top 10 worse pocket cards

[maiden flax]

https://fxtwitter.com/lincolnlm_/status/1850219713412153530?t=jydgKBI_SJhLtloOMMYyhg&s=19

[jovial cape]

lol why is it displayed like this? why not put the featured card in the center instead of the tiny corner

[cunning shard]

I put Erika in

[sonic inlet]

https://tenor.com/view/arknights-arknights-theresa-absolute-cinema-absolute-sinema-arknights-absolute-cinema-gif-5725006416369647831

[normal cave]

True

[signal raptor]

is there a good way to display decks

cause the decklist screen is so small

so if I take -1 gio -1 jynx what do I replace for them

[normal cave]

@polar osprey likes Meowth in his mewtwo lists

[vagrant steppe]

Yeah it's frustrating

[signal raptor]

do I just do meowth and another sabrina then

[normal cave]

Mewtwo garde is a combo deck with an energy acceleration engine. All it needs is to find the pieces on time. Meowth is a card draw engine.

[normal cave]

Sounds good to me

[cunning shard]

Oh shit omastar is actually brutal

[mighty storm]

20 percent shot at starmie ex

got the mawhile instead, oof

[obsidian juniper]

https://x.com/AsterShock/status/1852244316116209749

🖇 aster 🍃 (@AsterShock) on X

Twitter · Nov 1, 2024, 7:00 AM

[hasty anchor]

He's in the thunder dome now

[viral ingot]

I finally got the 2nd Starmie EX. I can finally be cool.

...Wait, I still need Misty, and she's not from the Charizard pack.

[hasty anchor]

ex stuff makes me wonder if they are open to remaking ex from the... uh, ex series

[pseudo goblet]

Honestly without Ash, Im more ‘forgetting’ Wobbufett exist

[hasty anchor]

It's sad how that is

The anime turned Wobbuffet from this weird loner-punching bag thing to... Wobbuffet.

[pseudo goblet]

Finally got a Meowth, not event card but its something

[normal cave]

[pseudo goblet]

Fought a Lv 6 with EX Articuno and won

[normal cave]

Nice

[signal raptor]

ok I have full weezing and mewtwo, think I can move on to the box with misty in now

unless there's anything else cool to grab from the mewtwo box?

[normal cave]

Idts

OH

Dragonite

If you want to play Dnite weezing stall

[pseudo goblet]

Got Normal Chansey

[normal cave]

But other than that, I think you have everything

[signal raptor]

awesome

I already have 1 dnite but I assume it plays 2

[normal cave]

Yeah it does. But, like, only if you want to play dnite. Misty is probs more important, and pulling new packs gets you more crafting points.

[signal raptor]

how tf are you meant to do some challenges anyway

beat a grass team with only fighting is sus

[pseudo goblet]

Noted 💀

[pseudo goblet]

Makes sense, they combined Rock and Ground types into Fighting

[normal cave]

It all depends on what cards you have and what deck you want to play

[hasty anchor]

I mean as long as they aren't making you win with only Metal types in your deck I think its fine

[normal cave]

I am guessing Aeri isn't gunning for a Dnite stall deck, since they didn't mention it

[mighty storm]

second gren

[normal cave]

Me and my Bisharp beat pulling up to the gym

[normal cave]

Oooh, nice. Good card.

[hasty anchor]

Oooh cool

[signal raptor]

yeah not really but I'm open to trying any deck in this game

[polar osprey]

you just reset until they brick but also weakness doesn't matter half as much in this game

[mighty storm]

only got the 1 frogadier though, only one of that line that I need a playset of

[normal cave]

Dnite is fun if you like stall. Apparently dnite weezing is great into mewtwo

[normal cave]

Is ok you can always craft it or pull it later

[signal raptor]

ah sure

yoo diglett pulled tf up

[pseudo goblet]

Congrats

[signal raptor]

I love that art lmao, little diglett society

[pseudo goblet]

F for the Diglett next to the number 20

[last musk]

The diglets planning their uprising

How did he even get there

[signal raptor]

diggin

[normal cave]

The earth is a 3 dimensional space

Probs came from a tunnel that came from our pov

[last musk]

This is untrue super paper mario propaganda

[polar osprey]

I have 170 hourglasses so far, saving for the upcoming mini pack already

the urge to do a 10 pull is strong

[normal cave]

Be strong brother, don't let it tempt you

I'm on 123

Gonna feel real good when the new pack rolls out, but for now there is no reason to pull

[signal raptor]

I should start saving now that I have playable decks

[normal cave]

Yes

[signal raptor]

from this moment on I will not roll

[pseudo goblet]

Damn, Im broke

[signal raptor]

(same)

[polar osprey]

you will roll

your daily rolls

[normal cave]

Zane you're like level 5. It's ok to be broke.

[polar osprey]

and get your 5 daily shop tickets

[normal cave]

Yeah true

[polar osprey]

to get 66 extra hourglasses before the month ends

[pseudo goblet]

Im Double that number

[normal cave]

Oh

Man what exes do you have

[pseudo goblet]

Venusaur and Arcanine

[normal cave]

How much of each?

[normal cave]

Oh

Bro wtf you doing play venu stall

Venu is cracked

[pseudo goblet]

The fact that packs gave me two dupes

[polar osprey]

it's not really stall

it's just a normal tanky team

[pseudo goblet]

Im low on Bulba and Ivy

[normal cave]

You can play it as stall

[polar osprey]

have you been splonging in packs?

[normal cave]

I saw peeps on venu weeze

[normal cave]

Craft them

[polar osprey]

venu is from the mewtwo pack

and arcanine is from the zard one

are you splunging?

[pseudo goblet]

Pack point?

[pseudo goblet]

What that mean?

[polar osprey]

pulling on multiple packs at the same time

if you do that early on you will end up with fuck all

[normal cave]

Are you going crisscross with the packs zane?

[pseudo goblet]

Well its too late for me already isnt it lol

[polar osprey]

so you have?

[normal cave]

Seems like it

[pseudo goblet]

With all three packs, Mostly Mewtwo’s

[normal cave]

You gotta focus on only one

[pseudo goblet]

What can I say, I’d wanna get the starters

[normal cave]

You want to have a cohesive deck

Zane do you have kanga

[pseudo goblet]

Nope

I think

[normal cave]

Weezing?

[polar osprey]

well playing gives you almost nothing

[pseudo goblet]

Nada

[polar osprey]

so you can just keep pulling and not playing online

[pseudo goblet]

Nope

[normal cave]

Dnite with no stall tools

Ik you have only 1 moth

[polar osprey]

this is why people have been saying this game has a day 2 wall in the sub btw

they are all splunging so now they don't have any deck that works and have nothing to do in the game

bcs they can't play online

you are probably gonna have to play basic beatdown

bad basic beatdown

[normal cave]

Condemned to farfetch'd

[pseudo goblet]

If it helps, the percentage I did was 70% Mewtwo, 30% Pikachu and Charizard

[polar osprey]

holy splunging

[normal cave]

Yeah not great

Ok, show us your collection

We can build a deck

Not a good one, but a deck

Unless you can craft bulba/ivy and have erikas

[pseudo goblet]

I assume best show pic for grass types

[pseudo goblet]

Idk man, just feels like I have really bad luck

[polar osprey]

no

everything

not just the mons

and every mon

[pseudo goblet]

Okay then, pic spam time, one sec

[normal cave]

Yes please

[pseudo goblet]

Broke the limit

[polar osprey]

buy the items and just craft the fucking 1 of bulba and ivy

then you are gonna have to choose

[normal cave]

Yeah play venu liligant

[polar osprey]

between focusing in the zard pack for erika and egg ex

or in the mewtwo pack for weezing and koga

[pseudo goblet]

Speaking of, and known fact Ig, Lilligant is pretty good

[polar osprey]

weezing and koga are much better odds

[normal cave]

Venu lili is like passable ig?

[normal cave]

You have a koga already

[pseudo goblet]

Wheres craft??

[normal cave]

Hold on

Go to packs

[pseudo goblet]

Mhm

Pack point section?

[normal cave]

Ye

[pseudo goblet]

Ah kay lmao

[polar osprey]

zard ex pog

[pseudo goblet]

Give me your luck

[normal cave]

Damn okaaay, nice flex

[polar osprey]

may that come to my wonder pulls

[golden lance]

I keep flip flopping between "my collection is good" and "my collection sucks"

[polar osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1020096234968596531/1301526011740946464/full_art.jpg?ex=6726c64e&is=672574ce&hm=74d51a3856f058fe28cdc2b6025617e80dcbc8b8b11f63ca369686e2196684d9&

this is my full art collection

[normal cave]

Bro 225 points

[polar osprey]

there are some updates that aren't there

[normal cave]

Need's collection is broken

[golden lance]

My collection is ass

[pseudo goblet]

Yeah I have REALLY bad luck, compare to you all

[normal cave]

NEEDLE

[polar osprey]

that's just the full arts

[normal cave]

GET A MEOWTH BACKGROUND FOR THE COLLECTION

[polar osprey]

I did

that's from yesterday

no wait

2 days ago

[golden lance]

Btw

How often does the event wonder picks reset?

[polar osprey]

every 30 minutes

I have been farming hourglasses from it like crazy

[golden lance]

Is there a cap?

[polar osprey]

nope

[normal cave]

This is my full art collection

[golden lance]

Holy shit

[polar osprey]

did it like 20 times today already

[golden lance]

Terrible day to not bring my phone to work today

[normal cave]

It's longer for me

[polar osprey]

the free one is 30 minutes

the 2 hourglasses one is more

[normal cave]

Yes, the free one is longer for me

[polar osprey]

I already got a chansey and a meowth

[normal cave]

I put a timer and everything

[polar osprey]

and every shop item

[pseudo goblet]

Got the two frogs and updated my deck a little

[normal cave]

Okay

Show

[normal cave]

Zane nooooo

Too many basics/evo lines

[pseudo goblet]

Seems like Meowth is 30 and Chansey is 60 minutes

[normal cave]

When I said venu lili I meant ONLY venu lili

[pseudo goblet]

Oh more items??

[normal cave]

All the rest is good items

Yeee

[pseudo goblet]

Thought there would be a limit to items

[normal cave]

The game guarantees you start with at least 1 basic

[pseudo goblet]

Or ya know, 2-3 copies of each cards

[normal cave]

No. You can play a 19 item deck

Hell, some decks play 2 mons 18 items

[pseudo goblet]

Wtf

[normal cave]

You can only have 2 of each

[pseudo goblet]

Ah

[normal cave]

Okay so, you want 2 oak, 2 red card, 2 potion, 2 pokeball

Red card is insane in a slower deck like venu

[pseudo goblet]

Ill get more items later, this have to do for now

[polar osprey]

pokedex does actual nothing

[normal cave]

Oh and 2 x speed

[polar osprey]

you want x speed

[golden lance]

Need

I found the meta strat

Scoop on turn 0

And just farm likes that way

[polar osprey]

the like limit is 5 per day

[normal cave]

Your likes are capped tho

[polar osprey]

might as well play it out

[normal cave]

I'd run a giovanni over pokedex. Both are mediocre, but gio does a little bit more.

No sabrinas but 2 giovannis is ROUGH

Pokedex does nothing, and gio does ALMOST nothing

[pseudo goblet]

Why yall think I wanted to do other packs, the cards yall mention are in those lol

Trainers I mean

[normal cave]

You're gonna want to use shop tokens to buy a potion, a red card, an x speed

[polar osprey]

you want to get the cards from the pack you are pulling on first tho

[golden lance]

Ngl

I think trainers are fine to craft

[polar osprey]

tell that to my 6 sabrinas while trying to get the elusive starmie ex

[normal cave]

@pseudo goblet think of it like a yugioh deck. First get the engine cards, THEN the staples.

[polar osprey]

I'm telling y'all

I'm gonna get a crown/immersive zard before a starmie ex

watch

[normal cave]

You need to pick what engine you want

[pseudo goblet]

You didnt get the memo Im not that knowledgeable in ygo did you lol

I kinda get it ig

[polar osprey]

if you want sabrina you can pull in the zard pack over m2

then go for the egg erika build

[normal cave]

This is what a venu lili deck would look like

If you whiff the egg play lili

[polar osprey]

liligant is just a really bad moltress

so it works

[normal cave]

Yes

It's a shitmon, but a passable shitmon

[pseudo goblet]

Oh ex moltres?

[normal cave]

https://www.pokemon-zone.com/decks/venusaur-ex/ @pseudo goblet read this article

You can also go venu caterpie

Caterpie is meowth on drugs

Might be the best searcher in the game

[pseudo goblet]

Later, thanks lol

[normal cave]

But caterpie doesn't stall for shit, so you die to aggro

[hasty anchor]

I do like Venusaur.

Just a chill... uh, whatever its supposed to be

[normal cave]

Frogge

[golden lance]

Aight just 150 more exp and i level up

Noice

[normal cave]

Ayy

10 wins

You got this

[golden lance]

Nah, 6 packs so i dont have to play the game

[polar osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1301309841154899989/1302034893798117396/Screenshot_2024-10-30-12-27-10-08_f8da0d17f671966b9c609eafd0d5a812.jpg?ex=6726a5fd&is=6725547d&hm=009dff840d319de63d18bc64b302f7cbd39903c660248a4206a0f59f358db9c3&

[normal cave]

[polar osprey]

actual animal

[golden lance]

Wym?

[polar osprey]

181 wins

in 3 days

imagine how many games this dude played

[hasty anchor]

I love how there's a most damage dealt record

[polar osprey]

that's most damage dealt

he dealt 360 dmg in one swing

[golden lance]

Ah

[polar osprey]

also a super mega whale btw

has 2 of every immersive

gold pika and gold mewtwo

[golden lance]

You know what i think it was?

Zapdos ex + giovani on a lightning weak mon

[polar osprey]

playing with friends and swung with a alakazan into a billion energy mon?

[normal cave]

How

[normal cave]

Zapdos caps at 200

[golden lance]

Again, weakness + gio

80 per head

[normal cave]

Weakness is 20, gio is 10

[polar osprey]

alakazam deals 60 + 30 per energy in the opponents field

[normal cave]

Doesn't do 80 per head it does 50*4 then adds 20 and 10

[polar osprey]

that's actually very possible

into zard

it was probably that

[golden lance]

Are you sure?

[polar osprey]

zam swinging into a moltress that hit broken a couple of turns

[golden lance]

I hit an 180 with maro ex once

[normal cave]

I think so?

[polar osprey]

some energy in the bench and that's easily 360

[golden lance]

Because of gio

[normal cave]

Oh only gio?

...huh

If x damage cards let you double dip on weaknesses or gio...

[polar osprey]

but yeah bcs of the number I think it's zam

60 + 10 energy

[golden lance]

Could be

Actually ill test it

Couldve hit a weakness and im just misremebering

[normal cave]

Pika is 100 under gio and 110 under weakness

This I know for sure

Do coinflips work different?

[polar osprey]

yesterday a dude hit me with red card into oak into misty for 6 on cuno turn 2 and I was like why do I even play this game

[last musk]

No, coin flips are still +10 on final total with gio and +20 on final total with weakness

[golden lance]

On another note

This game has a hand size limit

[normal cave]

Misty is the least fun card in the game, both to play and to face

[last musk]

Misty is a card idk how got through the cracks

[polar osprey]

you say that with red card and sabrina right there?

or moltress

moltress is gonna be an issue eventually

an actual issue

[last musk]

Moltress eventually sure

Sabrina is fine I feel, adds actual needed depth

Red card should have a can't be used turn one restriction

[normal cave]

Sabrina and red card are at least fun to use. Misty sucks to use.

[polar osprey]

red card hurts a lot more late game wym

[normal cave]

Red card after you've used all your oaks is soul crushing

But it feels so good to resolve

Misty is just

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-gambling-gif-4822326163116896763

[last musk]

I mean I don't see it as an issue

[golden lance]

I think the main issue of card is that there's no way to stabilize after

Like, 2 oak, neat

[normal cave]

It fucks up slower decks

As in any deck not named pika

[last musk]

skill issue should be playing pika

[normal cave]

I mean true, pika is the best deck

[polar osprey]

if you don't see an issue with red card then Idk how to even start arguing here

do you think going second is broken?

[last musk]

It's a high tempo swing but I don't think its broken, getting to evolve first has it's perks too

[normal cave]

What deck do you play jot?

[last musk]

Pikachu zap

[golden lance]

What do you think of farfetch?

[last musk]

Fine? Nice attack, hp is a bit low, but ultimately fine

[normal cave]

Do you run it in your pika?

[last musk]

I don't run it cause Pikachu wants their bench all electric and anything that gets in the way of that feels bad

[golden lance]

Chat

I need to say something

I'M HIM

[normal cave]

The MANder

[polar osprey]

HIM

the zard pack has been a lot kinder to you bro

starmie ex, zard ex and now full art mander

[golden lance]

How does the sorting look chat?

[golden lance]

I think my luck just varies on a day to day basis tbh

[normal cave]

Gucci. Maybe swap FA dnite and regular dnite.

[last musk]

Idk how well this can be seen but this is what I'm on

I'm on one Pikachu because it's all I got

[normal cave]

Hmm, seems a little heavy on basics

[golden lance]

I think this looks better

[normal cave]

The more basics you have, the less good ones you open with

[last musk]

Issue is I need that bench filled

[normal cave]

You need SOME basics, but optimal pika is mostly items

[golden lance]

I mean

You only need 5 basics total really

[polar osprey]

isn't vanilla zapdos some dogshit?

[golden lance]

Yea its ass

[last musk]

Yeah but filler

[normal cave]

6-8 basics max is the standard

[polar osprey]

honestly

cut everything but the exes

[normal cave]

Pincurchin is a decent one

[polar osprey]

then add like

2 basic pika 2 raichu

[normal cave]

Mmm, that works

[golden lance]

The pika ex that hits for 30

[last musk]

Ain't got no raichu

[golden lance]

Lag ruined the timing, thanks discord

[polar osprey]

I'm assuming you only have 1 zebstrika and the basic btw

otherwise you just run 2-2 of those and cut the rest

that's probably the optimal pika build even

but with 2 ex pika ofc

zebstrika targets the bench which can be pretty important

[last musk]

?

[polar osprey]

you had 2? crazy

[golden lance]

Cut the pincurchin

[last musk]

For what

[normal cave]

Yeah this looks good

[polar osprey]

giovanni

[golden lance]

Hmm

[polar osprey]

he is actually good in pika

[golden lance]

Yea gio

[polar osprey]

especially with zebstrika

[normal cave]

Yeah probs gio

[polar osprey]

40 in the bench then 30

[normal cave]

The way the game works is that it guarantees you start with a basic

So the less basics you have, the higher the odds of seeing the good ones.

Most decks run like 4-5, pika runs more.

But you still want like 6, MAXIMUM 8

[last musk]

The issue with the pulls I got is that I'm spread incredibly thin

[normal cave]

Jot, did you pull from multiple different packs?

[last musk]

Yeah was trying to get a bit of each to see what I'd like but

Damn

[golden lance]

[normal cave]

Well, you are almost at the point of having the best deck in the game

Only missing one pika

So you're fine

[last musk]

Also doesn't help that my hits kept being dupes of art rares

[polar osprey]

2 immersives damn

lucky

[normal cave]

Yeah jots pulls were blessed fr

[golden lance]

Yea the pulls were cracked

Lmao

[last musk]

Aren't they only the second highest rarity?

[golden lance]

"only"

[normal cave]

Still insane

I got 1 and that's considered lucky

[last musk]

Honestly Im just happy with the full art zapdos

My favourite mon

[normal cave]

Good taste

Yeah, but all you need is 1 pika ex and you are ready for ladder release

You're probs even fine now

[polar osprey]

Ladder is probably coming out in Jan so no worry

key word probably

they might release it with the mini pack

[normal cave]

Bro I'm stuck playing pure gamba decks

I have dnite frosmoth, and cuno highroll

[golden lance]

Lowkey

Since there's no penalty for losing

I'm just straight up scooping if i dont see misty flipping heads t1 now

[normal cave]

I play it out because I wanna have fun

But if I wanna farm wins I should play cuno highroll and quit when I whiff

Could probs farm wins super fast if I tried using only donkticuno. Either win turn 1 or scoop

[golden lance]

@polar osprey you think 1 starmie cuno is better than 0 starmie cuno?

[normal cave]

I have 0

[pseudo goblet]

Oh wow we have 14 days to get the event chansey and Meowth, SV team take notes

[polar osprey]

honestly Idk but maybe

if you have greininja play that

[golden lance]

I dont

[pseudo goblet]

@polar osprey @normal cave what yall say I should now focus on, Mewtwo pack or save glass

[normal cave]

Yes, this is how you farm wins

[polar osprey]

m2 packs

[normal cave]

Not zard for erica/sabrina?

I guess you can try for weezing koga. That's a great engine.

Works in both dnite and venusaur

[slim birch]

wtf your pulls are better than mine

[last musk]

I am level 15

[slim birch]

All I got

Lv 10

[pseudo goblet]

@normal cave @polar osprey won against Mewtwo just now, ofc the mewtwo player name is Sephiroth

[last musk]

all I got
Gold zard

[golden lance]

said the dude with 2 immersives and 6 full arts

[last musk]

They got 10 full arts and gold zard

They pulled better than me lmao

[polar osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1020096234968596531/1301526011740946464/full_art.jpg?ex=6726c64e&is=672574ce&hm=74d51a3856f058fe28cdc2b6025617e80dcbc8b8b11f63ca369686e2196684d9&

I'm still winning

11 full arts, immersive and crown

[pseudo goblet]

Again, I have bad luck

Oh right I have two of those porygon

[polar osprey]

btw

you can get full art exes in wonder picks

just not immersives and crown rares

[slim birch]

Oh man I want that Dragonite so bad lol

[polar osprey]

same

everyone except me has it

he keeps dodging me in wonder picks

I only have 2 regular dnites

[normal cave]

I have won exactly 1 game of cuno donk in all this time

Coincidentally, that is the only game I rolled any number of heads on misty.

(I rolled 1)

This deck really does nothing if you don't get misty turn 1 and roll heads.

I hate this game now

[pseudo goblet]

Dena game players be like

[normal cave]

Yeah I'll just not play ladder and just do my dailies

[golden lance]

Kinda sucks that there one (1) consistent deck in the whole format

[normal cave]

I love dnite, but dnite frosmoth feels so, so bad to play

Not dnites fault, frosmoth and misty are just too much gamba for my taste

[pseudo goblet]

Consider the jellyfish

[normal cave]

No

[polar osprey]

people in the pocket community are calling for a misty ban already btw

[pseudo goblet]

[polar osprey]

js

[normal cave]

Misty is banworthy imo. Not because it is meta warping, but because it is pure toxic

[pseudo goblet]

Bruial you have Venusaur?

[normal cave]

It contributes nothing good to the game

[normal cave]

No

I'd play venu if I could

I am 1 venu off venusaur, 1 mewtwo off mewtwo garde

[pseudo goblet]

I just realize I opened nearly 30 packs of mewtwo and I got no cards of the mon itself…

Why not just call it the Venusaur pack

[normal cave]

I am so, so close to having good decks, but I'm always just a tiny bit off

I am tempted to 10 pull mewtwo again, but I need to save for the mini set. I just need to use my dailies on mewtwo

Which sucks because I have p much all the commons and rares from that set, so I get no crafting points

I am missing 4 1-2 square cards. That's it.

Meanwhile...

[pseudo goblet]

Devilish voice* use your hourglasses~

[normal cave]

Yeah my pulls were kinda ass

[normal cave]

Nah

Man, I haven't even been splunging, I'm just almost at many mewtwo pack decks, but not quite there.

[slim birch]

Oh yay

[normal cave]

[pseudo goblet]

EVENT MEOWTH BABY

That is most definitely Team Rocket’s Meowth

[hasty anchor]

Nah

Meowth can't fight, this one's too good at it

It's really cause he never learned how to use Pay Day, all that standing (at first, but that ended up being something all Meowth can do) and speaking took up all that learning that usually went to throwing coins

Speaking of Meowth, Team Rocket's Meowth, specifically has a few cards of its own in the TCG!

https://pkmncards.com/card/team-rockets-meowth-wizards-black-star-promos-18/

[slim birch]

[pseudo goblet]

Is it just me, or does the event the event wonderpick only give each person 1 copy of cards

Trying to see why I my wonderpick takes a long time to show up again, Im missing event chansey

So like, Im guessing the rotation for the cards is going on- game just doesnt show the ones you already got

[pseudo goblet]

Okay~ Apparently Pocket’s daily reset is the same time as Masters, 35 minutes ago from this message

I think

Also one of my friend have Weezing

Its Sephiroth

[slim birch]

Yeah it kicks you out to main menu at that time I found out

[pseudo goblet]

As if Im not STRESS enough with Masters Daily task already

Now theres two of them

[normal cave]

I mean, if you insist

I now have 2 chansey. All event, 0 regular

[normal cave]

Tbf pockets daily tasks are easy

[sterile verge]

@pseudo goblet according to silvally's concept art it was based on a rider

[pseudo goblet]

Indeed

[pseudo goblet]

Show

[pseudo goblet]

I dont have it

[normal cave]

I might play chansey just because I am sick of frosmoth

It's not good, but it's much less coinflips

So tired of hitting tails on misty or opponent waking up turn 1

[pseudo goblet]

Ig it IS a masked creature

https://tenor.com/view/kamen-rider-x-jin-keisuke-x-rider-transform-kamen-rider-gif-17739450

[pseudo goblet]

@golden lance How much more interesting would Hibiki if he can change forms using the disc animals

Also, Something Something Shinkenger disks

Excluding ||Armed|| Hibiki

[pseudo goblet]

Second normal Meowth

[pseudo goblet]

Wait… Im dumb, Silvally is base on he who on the path Heaven himself

https://tenor.com/view/cast-off-gif-18437334

[fading stratus]

zane did you catch shiny kyogre

[pseudo goblet]

Join us in Pocket cult

[fading stratus]

no

[pseudo goblet]

[fading stratus]

[pseudo goblet]

Also job is still working around Deepavali, waiting on customer being less demanding

[fading stratus]

its tomorrow for y'all too?

well its 5 days but I meant the final day

[pseudo goblet]

Technically last Thursday

For reference, my coworker took about 7-10 days off(including the one holiday) since Tuesday

[pseudo goblet]

@normal cave https://vxtwitter.com/jedis_tm/status/1852035356801085939?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

Apparently you’d wanna check the packs side with wriggle

Probably less RNG from how I do it, spin the roulette

[slim birch]

https://tenor.com/view/ken-jeong-cant-see-this-funny-gif-14446155

[pseudo goblet]

Intentionally let my opponent kill Ivysaur and Lilligant so Venusaur can grow in power

[outer eagle]

oh good another one for rillaboom to not win

[fading stratus]

[maiden flax]

Add me 6538612310731615

[cunning shard]

omarstar is actually scary

[swift jasper]

Amogus my beloved...

[rocky glen]

Volcarona, lets go!

[rocky glen]

For the daily gifts what does the bronze gift box give you? I clicked on it to see if something different would happen but can't tell if it did anything

[pseudo goblet]

Even in Pocket, mirror match 🤦‍♂️

[cunning shard]

first one to attack and have more healing cards wins

[maiden flax]

Want to face me?

[pseudo goblet]

Sure

[maiden flax]

7r0a2q

[pseudo goblet]

Ay lol

Well shit

[maiden flax]

oh god

i really need to draw my blastoise now

[pseudo goblet]

I feel bad now

[maiden flax]

hmmm

welp there goes my out lol

gg

[pseudo goblet]

Its decided isnt it lol

[maiden flax]

i dont know why but every game i seem to draw both my x speeds in the first 2 turns

[pseudo goblet]

Gg

[maiden flax]

best of 3?

same code

[pseudo goblet]

Thats the third Misty I encountered today and I won odds all of them

[pseudo goblet]

In about 20 mins

[maiden flax]

i built this deck but it's incomplete

[pseudo goblet]

Apparently Im the rival in this situation

[fading stratus]

did you 4-0 metrona yet

[pseudo goblet]

The match or the scores?

Not yet

@maiden flax you wanna try different deck?

[maiden flax]

i only have the 1

[pseudo goblet]

Hmm

Fr tho how yall lv up so FAST

[maiden flax]

did you do all the solo battles?

[pseudo goblet]

I am trying

[maiden flax]

i finished them all except the extra quests

[pseudo goblet]

Alright, second match?

[maiden flax]

one moment in the middle of a battle

[pseudo goblet]

Same decks? Also kay

[maiden flax]

sure

[signal raptor]

how is weezing meant to be played

[maiden flax]

press poison, and go into someone else

[signal raptor]

do you play it with muk>

[maiden flax]

that's a good one to do it with yes, but you can also use them generically

[signal raptor]

sure sure

[cunning shard]

u can play muk but wouldnt play more than 1 muk line

[maiden flax]

make a room?

[pseudo goblet]

Same code

[cunning shard]

generally you mostly try to switch between arbok and weezing muk for a high dmg nuke which is hard enough to fuel

like u will never be in a position where u can koga muk

u go first u try to start koffing u go 2nd u start ekans

[maiden flax]

okay ready

[pseudo goblet]

dang second again

welp, Im dead

[fading stratus]

zane got second in a game between 2 players

[maiden flax]

gg

[pseudo goblet]

yup

turn 1-2 death

[maiden flax]

did you manage to take a screenshot of that lol

[pseudo goblet]

shit I didnt 😂

[maiden flax]

so zane only opened one basic, i used misty on ex articuno, which hit 3 times and one shot the 1 mon

[pseudo goblet]

1v1 now

second again

This is familiar

Thats one of her out

[maiden flax]

misty sometimes decides a game out of the gate, sometimes she does very literally nothing

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/peace-sign-peace-peace-out-victory-hand-victory-sign-gif-17526166217394996009

The devils back

[maiden flax]

i didnt draw the tortle

[pseudo goblet]

watch you get wartortle that draw

oh guess not

[maiden flax]

nah i got blastoise ex again

[pseudo goblet]

Mhm lol

These coin flips 🙂

Cmon Venusaur, go wild

[maiden flax]

my next two draws can decide how this ends

[pseudo goblet]

shit lol

[maiden flax]

nvm

i think im dead

[pseudo goblet]

thank god

[maiden flax]

the last 3 cards are gyarados, x speed and prof oak

in the deck

i mean

[pseudo goblet]

Oh right EX death = 2 points

[maiden flax]

yup

[pseudo goblet]

point that decide all

I lost

[maiden flax]

oh

no erika?

[pseudo goblet]

No lol

[maiden flax]

ah lol

gg

[pseudo goblet]

red card helped you there lol

[maiden flax]

i mean

the last card was prof oak lol

[pseudo goblet]

gg

[maiden flax]

gg

[pseudo goblet]

Frame perfect

[maiden flax]

Mine

[pseudo goblet]

now searching which pack Erika is in lmao

Zard pack, welp

[fading stratus]

wow playing articuno ftk

[pseudo goblet]

huh, Master challenge AI is dumb

They literally have Venusaur with 4 energy, send Kang instead

[sterile verge]

WHAT

I GOT THIS OUT OF THE CHARIZARD PACK TOO

[pseudo goblet]

WHAT

[pseudo goblet]

FRIEND ME, NOW

[sterile verge]

Send code

[pseudo goblet]

No u

Oh wait Gold cards cant be wonder pick huh

[sterile verge]

2449548492196180

[sterile verge]

They can't???

Glad I got it normally then

[pseudo goblet]

I think you re the first person here to get gold card

[mighty storm]

20 percent shot

[pseudo goblet]

Yo @normal cave @polar osprey Help this lucky girl

[mighty storm]

oh I dont have the stamina left

[sterile verge]

[pseudo goblet]

Wonder hourglass

[sterile verge]

Ohhh

[pseudo goblet]

You dont wanna end up like me, going through different packs

[sterile verge]

Wait what?

[sterile verge]

I don't get it

[pseudo goblet]

You might wanna let those two make deck for you

[sterile verge]

Ohhh

[normal cave]

You caught me just as I woke up from a nap

[pseudo goblet]

Girl only has 61 cards, I checked lol

one of those is a gold card

[normal cave]

Okay @sterile verge what you want to do os to pick a deck you want, and then pull only from the pack that gives that deck

[pseudo goblet]

WDYM SOLO CAN DO SHIT LIKE ARTICUNO+MISTY

[normal cave]

https://www.pokemon-zone.com/decks/ here you have a list of popular decks

[pseudo goblet]

Instant lost avoided but DAMN

hand so bad I concede anyway

[golden lance]

Misty moment

[fading stratus]

lol

you should get tails on your first try

[golden lance]

I did that the past 8 times, thanks

Man idk how needle does it

I can literally ftk people and still get thanked post match

[fading stratus]

built different

[golden lance]

Ok we're back to schedule now

[normal cave]

[golden lance]

Its a wonder pick brui

I got the pidgeotto

[pseudo goblet]

Solo defeated ✊

https://tenor.com/view/tempting-kelsey-grammer-frasier-crane-frasier-thinking-about-it-gif-5880743700277266866

New pack when?

[mighty storm]

quick level up and 1 wonder pick later, LETS GO

[last musk]

THEY LET HIM BE A LITTLE GUY AGAIN

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/disintegrate-gif-22469816

At least pidgeotto is part of a playable package...

No koffing or weezing, but now I have 2 FA Dnites

[normal cave]

Needle has 2 gold mewtwo iirc

[fading stratus]

@pseudo goblet your fav charizard made topcuts and went undefeated day 1

dude just clicked heat wave in sun and he won

[normal cave]

Skillful gameplay

[fading stratus]

very skillful

[normal cave]

Unironically skillful if they went undefeated

[fading stratus]

this was the team

[normal cave]

Big pog

So they either sweep with zard or with ursa

[fading stratus]

yeah

its tailroom

or well sunroom

[normal cave]

Speed control

Jumpluff my beloved. Prototype Whimsicott

[fading stratus]

jumpluff is the sun setter most of the time

over torkoal

among the 2 feature matches this team had Idt I saw a single torkoal

[normal cave]

Icic

Gets to override peli

[fading stratus]

yeah

[last musk]

If you told me this was a comp team 5 years ago I would've called you insane

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/spcrashworks/status/1849829555319791726/photo/1

spcrash (@spcrashworks) on X

Fighting Sneasler on practically every Pokémon VGC team sure is fun, right? #pokemon

Twitter · Oct 25, 2024, 3:05 PM

[normal cave]

My girl is DOMINATING

[outer eagle]

5 years ago was 2019 and by that point this team aside from Luna seems pretty basic for a Sun Team

[fading stratus]

2019 sun teams were like

groudon venesaur

[golden lance]

Man i just want pocket to have more cards

The generic trainer pool is just sabrina oak and ball

Everything not called pika is bricky as shit

[normal cave]

And red card

[golden lance]

Yea that too

[normal cave]

But ye format is kinda stale

There is one consistent deck and then everything else

Card pool is far too small, samey, and uneven in terms of power to have many interesting decks

[golden lance]

It just sucks that everything that's not an ex mon does no damage

Or dnite which might as well be exodia in terms of pulling it off

[normal cave]

Weezing/arbok kinda works

[hasty anchor]

I feel like most the fun is just in collecting cards, really.

[normal cave]

But ye 90% of the meta needs ex, with only koga, blaine, and dnite being exceptions

...well, maybe 70% of the meta needs ex then, cause there are like 10 decks tops

[maiden flax]

@pseudo goblet https://twitter.com/teto_t3/status/1852753037410107598?t=GOhVzZiJhY_NdBCLPRbMLA&s=19

舘津テト (@teto_t3) on X

あのさぁ（せっかくのゴッドパックなのになんかこう…なんというか…こう…）

Twitter · Nov 2, 2024, 4:42 PM

[normal cave]

[outer eagle]

me when restriced formats

[normal cave]

Pack blessed by the gods

[warm sky]

@normal cave oh yeah so fun leak thing, we found a doc mentioning how each of the gen 1-7 pokémon has their height mentioned, as expected

noodle

[normal cave]

me trying to collect various cards
his fat, fuzzy ass pulling up to my packs again

[hasty anchor]

I see this as a win. Dubwool's nice

Love the funny sheep

[normal cave]

I like dubwool. But I also like other pokemon

[normal cave]

[hasty anchor]

Yeah, I can get the frustration

[warm sky]

Weavile is 1.1 meter with the hair lmao

[normal cave]

Short king

[hasty anchor]

Sentret tall

Also man, there's so much GIFs on Furret but Sentret just gets sorta left behind

[cunning shard]

Yep not so much into battling because strategys are not to interesting right now so I wait

[normal cave]

Dnite is hella fun

But I haven't pulled any weezings so I am stuck playing frosmoth misty. And that is painfully coinflip dependent.

[jovial cape]

how does the chansey pick work? my gf has gotten it multiple times a day and I haven't gotten it once

[normal cave]

Idfk. I rarely get it

It's inconsistent times for me

Also, the fact that it costs two stamina is frustrating

[pseudo goblet]

They better make free range trade then

[pseudo goblet]

[pseudo goblet]

THIS ACTUALLY WORKS?!?

[normal cave]

It does ye, but not every pack set has a bent one

[pseudo goblet]

Dwa the time, I slept but woken back up by my gaming discord group chat

[normal cave]

Bro go back to sleep

Open your bent pack and go sleep

[pseudo goblet]

My turn to use this lol

[normal cave]

[pseudo goblet]

I can fall asleep on the weirdest conditions man

[normal cave]

Same

[pseudo goblet]

Constant loud voices(fr the group chat was LOUD when I woke up), and lights are on

[last musk]

It doesn't, its confirmation bias

I have tested it, there are indeed packs that are wrinkled that are duds

[normal cave]

I once fell asleep in a driving APC (think a tank but without the cannon)

[pseudo goblet]

Tf lol

[normal cave]

Those shits are so loud you need an internal comm system and sound-isolating headphones just to talk to the guy next to you

[normal cave]

Ah, damn

[pseudo goblet]

Still better than just randomly spinning lol

[normal cave]

Yeah

[pseudo goblet]

How did I won from a match which

I have clear type disadvantage
Apparently 90% of my evo are in the last 5 cards
Bulbasaur manage to get a kill on Ninetales

Feels like my opponent had the same evos problem

[golden lance]

There's both a blastoise ex and a mewtwo ex in my wonder pick

I can only choose one

What do i get

[polar osprey]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PTCGP/comments/1gi0url/first_week_metagame_breakdown_november_1_500/

and people in the sub are asking for fucking misty and mewtwo hits

first big pocket tournament

mewtwo had more entries than pika

pika had 50% top cut rep

and also won the entire thing

[golden lance]

Or both if i use all my gold

[polar osprey]

btoise probably

the pika pack is ass compared to the other 2

all it has is misty btoise and the pika stuff

you already have misty

get btoise and you won't have any reason to pull there anymore

[golden lance]

Also ngl, considering just splurging my pack hourglasses

Idt the mini is gonna be that good

[polar osprey]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PTCGP/comments/1ghx9mj/average_beginner_pvp_experience/

legit all the sub does is complain about mewtwo

when pika is far and beyond the best deck

[golden lance]

thinking about it

[polar osprey]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PTCGP/comments/1ghwh90/doubleedged_sword/

[golden lance]

what is gold even good for?

[polar osprey]

they also love to talk about how bad red card is

to open packs with instead of hourglass

or get cosmetics

[golden lance]

yea, but like