I think they've been doing that since the beginning with mon designs, considering the pixel art for Red/Green mons were made first.
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That forked-tongued crystal energy shark-wolf is rad as hell and I want it.
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completing dexes in home is such a drag/annoying. you have to port it all over there, port it all back, I wish you could just link the games and the dex would see what you have in the games and complete it that way.
completing dexes in home is such a drag/annoying. you have to port it all over there, port it all back, I wish you could just link the games and the dex would see what you have in the games and complete it that way.
Oh, screw that. I already did a bunch of tradebacks to finish things out. Not to mention evolved forms of exclusives, etc.
My biggest struggle when I did this was porygon2, everytime I traded for one it was from the wrong game.
But it doesn't matter where you evolve it so transfer to Legends Arceus, evolve it yourself and dump it in home.
The needs to be from a specific region to get the reward is such a gross "gotta buy this game " even for Pokemon
I actually disagree with this. I think maintaining the incentive to complete the Dex for each game (region) instead of just autocompleting 70% of all future games by importing stuff from Home is a good thing. It annoyed me too initially, but I came around on it when I started filling the regional dexes out.
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There's a mobile game that just came out called Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, DeNa game with a gacha for the card packs
Stamina based but it's very polished and throws tons of packs at you early so it doesn't take long to reset and get a meta deck (Articuno or Mewtwo are the top tier)
I like this app a lot. It's fun to collect the cards, but I've always liked the card game itself and this is a fun way to play it. It's a little simplified from the normal game but I don't mind. I haven't tried versus play yet. I'm in the advanced level of the solo play and my crappy little base decks are not really cutting it. I have to get really lucky to win. Need more cards! Need better cards!
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The Starmie Articuno deck feels pretty dirty when Misty decides to flip heads on turn 1
Why yes I will take an immediate 80/90 damage and usually a KO which forces a concede more often than not
There's a mobile game that just came out called Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, DeNa game with a gacha for the card packs
Stamina based but it's very polished and throws tons of packs at you early so it doesn't take long to reset and get a meta deck (Articuno or Mewtwo are the top tier)
Anyway my code is 6136361915603462
I will say TCG Live uses the main TCG rules has no gacha and literally no micro transactions and a way to buy new singles so pulling doubles isn't a huge deal. You can buy the little QR code cards that come in boosters and whatnot but they're sold in bulk so you can get something like 30 packs for ten bucks from any card shop website and they give away boosters and stater decks in the season pass like candy I have like 6 decks I can rotate between and I've maybe paid 40 dollars in the six months I've been playing
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I've downloaded the new app a couple days ago, but I haven't really sat down to build a deck and stuff, just opened some packs and used the deck they give you for free against the AI.
Still, the game feels like they're definitely focusing on the collecting more than the playing itself, design wise. The battle mode feels almost like an afterthought in the game's interface, it's funny.
There's a mobile game that just came out called Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, DeNa game with a gacha for the card packs
Stamina based but it's very polished and throws tons of packs at you early so it doesn't take long to reset and get a meta deck (Articuno or Mewtwo are the top tier)
Anyway my code is 6136361915603462
I will say TCG Live uses the main TCG rules has no gacha and literally no micro transactions and a way to buy new singles so pulling doubles isn't a huge deal. You can buy the little QR code cards that come in boosters and whatnot but they're sold in bulk so you can get something like 30 packs for ten bucks from any card shop website and they give away boosters and stater decks in the season pass like candy I have like 6 decks I can rotate between and I've maybe paid 40 dollars in the six months I've been playing
I'd read that the app for TCGLive has a bunch of issues - and seeing the 2.2 stars average reviews on the google play store doesn't exactly fill one with confidence, admittedly?
It does have a few bugs but they update regularly and its pretty stable. The coin flips are definitely fucked but I never use those cards as a rule. Honestly the only real problem besides matchmaking is they give way to much cosmetic currency and not enough of the kind you buy cards with. You can get enough from dailies to pay for the premium pass but it's hard to grind for anything else unless you're good enough in ranked to get to the top level
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I just tried this the last couple of days. Got enough to put together a Blaine aggro deck and some solid baselines across the types that can build up towards real decks. have chipped into the highest level of AI battles and a couple random battles so far. The changes from the card game are nice and make it a really smooth experience.
I truly don’t get why the game is more interested in being a collector display shelf. Battles aren’t even on the Home Screen! It’s almost like they accidentally made a good card battler as an afterthought to a booster pack gambler
Opening a pack takes forever with multiple bespoke animations. I think I should have realized this when it didn’t let me battle until I hit lvl 3 from opening packs, but here we are.
The Starmie Articuno deck feels pretty dirty when Misty decides to flip heads on turn 1
Why yes I will take an immediate 80/90 damage and usually a KO which forces a concede more often than not
Good for farming exp
With the prevalence of Articuno decks I've been running a rush-down Pikachu EX deck and it's been very good so far. Also pretty effective against Mewtwo EX decks, since going fast lowers the chances of them getting the Gardevoir batteries up for Mewtwo.
I've been hard countering Mewtwo decks with my Charizard deck. It's basically Moltres Ex spamming the one energy coin flip move to funnel as much energy as possible to Charmander and Sizzlipede while working to get Charizard and Centiskorch online.
It's resistant to Sabrina shenanigans and if I can get six energy on Charizard it's game over with two back to back 200 damage moves. Nothing survives it and Charizard has so much HP there's almost no chance of taking him out before he pops off again.
The only downside is that if I can't get Charizard built up, or evolved, before Moltres dies then it's up to Centiskorch, and it can be killed by a lot of super moves including Mewtwo Ex's four energy nuke.
Man I have no idea how yall have actual decks already. I started on the first day too and I'm still on the basic sandslash deck they give you because I don't have the cards to build any full deck, I just changed a few cards with what little I got on Fighting type.
Personally I've been "buying" gold and using it on packs as well as doing all the solo battles for more blue hourglasses. Air quotes because I'm using my Google play points that've been gathering dust for years on coupons for the game.
I haven’t bought any gold but I did sign up for the premium two week free trial which allows me to open more packs. I will cancel before I have to pay. With all the hourglasses they throw at you in the beginning, you should be able to open enough packs to have a decent collection of cards. There are only 20 cards in a deck in this version of the game.
Go to the shop and spend some coupons on Prof Oak and potion cards etc.
Use the wonder thing to get cards from other people. This is slow to recharge but you might as well spend it. It’s also doing a promotion now for Meowth and Chancey cards which are not great but you can use them to fill up a deck if you need to.
I'm with @Drascin here. Granted I only started on Friday evening, but even spending a bunch of my hourglasses I still don't have enough of any cards for a deck besides the sandslash one it gave me. I have gotten 2 Dragonite cards, though, and they seem powerful enough that I might want to put together an Electric/Water deck that uses them. Alas, I only have one Dratini and no Dragonairs, and my Water and Electric cards are otherwise very lacking.
Definitely feels like the strategy here is to start with a bulky Pokemon with a cheap main attack (like Hitmonchan for example) as my lead, and use my bench to throw all my extra energy on a sweeper card (in my case Sandslash) once the enemy's softened up.
Personally I've been "buying" gold and using it on packs as well as doing all the solo battles for more blue hourglasses. Air quotes because I'm using my Google play points that've been gathering dust for years on coupons for the game.
I haven’t bought any gold but I did sign up for the premium two week free trial which allows me to open more packs. I will cancel before I have to pay. With all the hourglasses they throw at you in the beginning, you should be able to open enough packs to have a decent collection of cards. There are only 20 cards in a deck in this version of the game.
Go to the shop and spend some coupons on Prof Oak and potion cards etc.
Use the wonder thing to get cards from other people. This is slow to recharge but you might as well spend it. It’s also doing a promotion now for Meowth and Chancey cards which are not great but you can use them to fill up a deck if you need to.
I see. Yeah I haven't bought any gold and haven't used the premium thing, because the whole "here are two free weeks, but to access them you have to technically subscribe and if you forget to unsubscribe at least an entire day before the free trial finishes we'll automatically charge you ten bucks" felt scummy as shit so I backed out of the subscription process midway.
And yeah I've spent my hourglasses but I don't really have enough good cards of a single type to build much of a deck, feels like. Just a smattering of stuff every which way, a big shiny alakazam but no Kadabras, that kind of thing. Maybe filling out with enough trainer cards could patch the holes.
I'm with @Drascin here. Granted I only started on Friday evening, but even spending a bunch of my hourglasses I still don't have enough of any cards for a deck besides the sandslash one it gave me. I have gotten 2 Dragonite cards, though, and they seem powerful enough that I might want to put together an Electric/Water deck that uses them. Alas, I only have one Dratini and no Dragonairs, and my Water and Electric cards are otherwise very lacking.
Definitely feels like the strategy here is to start with a bulky Pokemon with a cheap main attack (like Hitmonchan for example) as my lead, and use my bench to throw all my extra energy on a sweeper card (in my case Sandslash) once the enemy's softened up.
My early strat has been to find the 2 stage evo with a 2 energy 70 dmg move of each type and build aggressive around them. A lot of the types have one, like sandslash in the fighting deck. From there it feels a bit random or needing to pick a direction with packs. I did craft a little but it feels kinda bad to use on anything but an EX. And I went for key trainers like Sabrina and Giovani in wonder picks and got lucky a few times. I had the whole Blaine deck except for 2 vulpix 1 ninetails pretty fast so I just crafted them.
I don't have all of the cards for the prebuilt Pikachu EX deck, but I feel like my version is pretty dang good. I haven't even looked at what the prebuilt looks like, but I should to compare what it's doing to what mine does.
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I guess the flamingo turned into Flamigo in gen 9, though sadly not as fabulous
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Legends Arceus required getting ride Pokemon for story progress, too.
God, Pocket Monster Hunter would be FUCKING SICK.
Anyhow, non-leak related, completing the Paldea, Kitakami, and Blueberry dexes in Home now rewards a shiny Meloetta. This marks the first time it can be obtained legitimately. According to the link, more rewards are going to be added for completing other dexes. I'm guessing Shiny Manaphy for Sinnoh and Hisui, and shiny Keldeo for Galar, IoA, and TCT.
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Oh, screw that. I already did a bunch of tradebacks to finish things out. Not to mention evolved forms of exclusives, etc.
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...also evolve another Porygon2, because some genius decided a double trade evo was a good idea.
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But it doesn't matter where you evolve it so transfer to Legends Arceus, evolve it yourself and dump it in home.
I actually disagree with this. I think maintaining the incentive to complete the Dex for each game (region) instead of just autocompleting 70% of all future games by importing stuff from Home is a good thing. It annoyed me too initially, but I came around on it when I started filling the regional dexes out.
Stamina based but it's very polished and throws tons of packs at you early so it doesn't take long to reset and get a meta deck (Articuno or Mewtwo are the top tier)
Anyway my code is 6136361915603462
I have a bunch of Japanese language cards now
I just pulled this cool card:
I like this app a lot. It's fun to collect the cards, but I've always liked the card game itself and this is a fun way to play it. It's a little simplified from the normal game but I don't mind. I haven't tried versus play yet. I'm in the advanced level of the solo play and my crappy little base decks are not really cutting it. I have to get really lucky to win. Need more cards! Need better cards!
Why yes I will take an immediate 80/90 damage and usually a KO which forces a concede more often than not
Good for farming exp
pokemon pocket fc for when trading opens up.
I will say TCG Live uses the main TCG rules has no gacha and literally no micro transactions and a way to buy new singles so pulling doubles isn't a huge deal. You can buy the little QR code cards that come in boosters and whatnot but they're sold in bulk so you can get something like 30 packs for ten bucks from any card shop website and they give away boosters and stater decks in the season pass like candy I have like 6 decks I can rotate between and I've maybe paid 40 dollars in the six months I've been playing
Still, the game feels like they're definitely focusing on the collecting more than the playing itself, design wise. The battle mode feels almost like an afterthought in the game's interface, it's funny.
I'd read that the app for TCGLive has a bunch of issues - and seeing the 2.2 stars average reviews on the google play store doesn't exactly fill one with confidence, admittedly?
I truly don’t get why the game is more interested in being a collector display shelf. Battles aren’t even on the Home Screen! It’s almost like they accidentally made a good card battler as an afterthought to a booster pack gambler
Opening a pack takes forever with multiple bespoke animations. I think I should have realized this when it didn’t let me battle until I hit lvl 3 from opening packs, but here we are.
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With the prevalence of Articuno decks I've been running a rush-down Pikachu EX deck and it's been very good so far. Also pretty effective against Mewtwo EX decks, since going fast lowers the chances of them getting the Gardevoir batteries up for Mewtwo.
It's resistant to Sabrina shenanigans and if I can get six energy on Charizard it's game over with two back to back 200 damage moves. Nothing survives it and Charizard has so much HP there's almost no chance of taking him out before he pops off again.
The only downside is that if I can't get Charizard built up, or evolved, before Moltres dies then it's up to Centiskorch, and it can be killed by a lot of super moves including Mewtwo Ex's four energy nuke.
Go to the shop and spend some coupons on Prof Oak and potion cards etc.
Use the wonder thing to get cards from other people. This is slow to recharge but you might as well spend it. It’s also doing a promotion now for Meowth and Chancey cards which are not great but you can use them to fill up a deck if you need to.
Definitely feels like the strategy here is to start with a bulky Pokemon with a cheap main attack (like Hitmonchan for example) as my lead, and use my bench to throw all my extra energy on a sweeper card (in my case Sandslash) once the enemy's softened up.
I see. Yeah I haven't bought any gold and haven't used the premium thing, because the whole "here are two free weeks, but to access them you have to technically subscribe and if you forget to unsubscribe at least an entire day before the free trial finishes we'll automatically charge you ten bucks" felt scummy as shit so I backed out of the subscription process midway.
And yeah I've spent my hourglasses but I don't really have enough good cards of a single type to build much of a deck, feels like. Just a smattering of stuff every which way, a big shiny alakazam but no Kadabras, that kind of thing. Maybe filling out with enough trainer cards could patch the holes.
My early strat has been to find the 2 stage evo with a 2 energy 70 dmg move of each type and build aggressive around them. A lot of the types have one, like sandslash in the fighting deck. From there it feels a bit random or needing to pick a direction with packs. I did craft a little but it feels kinda bad to use on anything but an EX. And I went for key trainers like Sabrina and Giovani in wonder picks and got lucky a few times. I had the whole Blaine deck except for 2 vulpix 1 ninetails pretty fast so I just crafted them.