food-and-pet-pix

sure its fun enough

if you do it you should try the technique that polar posted

its mid

but if you ever want to kill some time and enjoy card collecting i think its pretty good

the dumbed down version of the card game is nice in some ways, but the fact that you are only playing for 3 points means you can just get steamrolled if you draw poorly at the start with no chance of recovery

and most of the EX cards are degenerate

I think they need to drop more trainer/item/etc cards in the mix

The actual TCG game has hundreds of them with different effects

we need the um

it would give more variety

the three strikes slowbro in the game

and I'd play it

tbh

Also make it so old amber or whatever it is does not give the enemy a point if they KO it

literally useless

its how you get aerodactyl on the field

Oh, I do not have that lol

the useless cards are pokedex and the scope because you only get 20 cards and your deck is weak if those fit in it

Pokedex has the niche use case of checking before you use a pokeball, since using a pokeball shuffles your deck

but that is about it

scope has the niche use case of being useful if you also run red card

the problem is, both of them require multiple items to be useful

instead of just being useful

Yeah if deck sizes were 40 cards, I think those would be better

red card is funny when it happens because since there are only 15 cards in the deck after the initial draw you probably get similar stuff back

actual tcg is 60 cards

I think they should have went for half

how many energies do TCG decks tend to run?

8-12

according to google

tcg also has stuff like double/triple energies

so you get higher return per card on those

those could come in later seasons

I doubt it, since there are no energy cards

maybe you could get a thing to double an energy

I kind of almost wish they just kept energy cards in, but made it so you have a seperate energy deck/hand

so you can choose what energies to draw from each turn

Looking at some of these comp TCG decks is interesting

World champ of 2023 for TCG ran his 60 card deck as 13 mons, 7 energy, and 40 trainer cards

yeah, trainer cards are really stupid good

and you really only need the minimum of pokemon since the bench exists

yea, i feel like despite the current lack of trainer cards it would be really easy to mill into your bench and evos otherwise

if we weren't limited to only 4 drawing cards I would have at least 50% trainer cards

oh i didnt know it was limited to 4

so its better to just run 40 trainers, with ones that let you just search your deck for your limited pokemon

there's only two in the game polar

you can only have 3 of one card

and there is literally only pokeball and prof oak in the game

is it not 2 per?

is it 2?

Either way

i thought it was two per

its super limited, hence why we need a huge trainer expansion

but if its only two in the game then i get it, i havent looked at many cards outside of the Pika pack

i just want a nice looking water deck and then ill quit forever

pokeball is one of the promo cards you buy in the shop

you also get one for free playing the tutorials

i was considering buying Oaks to make them shiny from shop

look at how absurd modern TCG is

this has more damage output than anything in Pocket, higher health than everything in pocket, an ability, and low retreat cost to boot

maybe im wrong, but its weakness is x2 instead of +20, so i guess bigger numbers in base tcg

that confirms to me that I wasn't misremembering weaknesses being more interesting than +20 for everything

I think real TCG also has resistances sometimes

One mechanic I think should be changed to make more varied gameplay is energy, instead of a random one a turn, you should have a separate energy hand. At the start of the game draw it 2 energies, and then 1 when your turn begins, and you can select from one of the 3 energies in your hand to play per turn. Makes two color decks way more reliable but keeps 3+ still a bit tough to play out.

And if you could do trainer cards around it like a energy hand reshuffle to sacrifice deck space in exchange for more reliability.

Because playing two color (colorless doesn't count) is basically unplayable compared to monocolor.

I'm seeing a ton of dragon decks online

don't know how they do against decks that have EXes though

I do not understand how people can be high level in this

I think I saw a level 30 at one point

you have to win hundreds of battles for that because you get pitiful experience for only wins

They did a soft launch in new Zealand a month ahead of global launch, people you see are people who used vpns to get in early.

that's still people no-lifeing this game for a month

You can easily get a level a day from like 2 hours of battling with a quick deck, also if you spend money (which I assume a lot of people do) pack opening gives crazy amounts of XP.

I guess so

forgot about that exp source

This makes the YT videos make more sense, i thought creators just got a few weeks early access

with a sample size of 1 it worked

its a strange gacha if there's an actual indicator