Much as the Gallade deck often seemed to surprise people who were unfamiliar with what 2 energy could do in the right hands, I’m having fun at the moment with a Barry deck using Snorlax and Brave Bird Staraptor (even with Barry, Heracross is not worth taking) which is all about smacking people for unexpected massive damage when they thought they were safe. It helps that Staraptor set up behind Snorlax is a solid enough base attack plan without any messing, so any Barry shenanigans are a bonus.
So, this is half-remembered so double-check the details if you want to really understand the mechanics, but the way the turn order system in Legends Arceus works is a kind of ATB mechanic, where each monster has a counter that counts down to zero, at which point it gets its turn. When you take an action, your ATB gets reset to some amount based on both the move you used (support-type moves like buffs and status effects are quicker, I believe) and the style; as you might expect, using something in Power Style gives you a higher ATB value than using it in regular style. But, counter-intuitively, using Agile Style doesn't reduce the ATB value you get set to relative to normal style, but instead increases the opponent's ATB value by a small amount. So if you use an Agile Style move to defeat the opponent's Pokemon, you don't gain any speed advantage relative to the next Pokemon to come in at all.
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got 4 wins legit, 5th win came from the guy never appearing and immediately got a "your opponent left" error message to clinch the 5/5. I will...take it.
I finally got the 5 wins last night. I had multiple instances of losing after 3 consecutive wins, but then yesterday I got 2 legitimate wins, 2 people apparently playing all-in Articuno and conceding as soon as they bricked on Misty, and 1 who quit before we even put down cards.
This challenge definitely needs work. It doesn't seem to encourage exciting games, and it seems like a bunch of people are optimizing out the fun of it.
I guess the choice in Random Match queues between Beginner and Experienced is irrelevant. I felt like playing a couple of matches and opted for Beginner, and I've run into nothing but Dialga/Arceus and other top tier meta decks.
I was feeling bad that I was bringing my Lucario/Rampardos deck at first, thinking I was going to make a bunch of 6-year-olds sad that their Pikachu/Charizard deck wasn't working, but I justified it telling myself that it's tuned for the specific meta of Arceus decks, and would be very bad against off-meta decks. But since I'm fighting top-tier decks every match, I no longer feel that way.
Last match I played was against Darkrai/Magnezone. He was building behind a Druddigon and had my Sudowoodo stonewalled, but I had Rampardos ready to swap in, and Sabrina to force him to choose whether to lose his Darkrai or his Magneton. Considering how often that deck used to give me fits, felt good to get that win.
Anyone know if there's any ranking/ELO/whatever involved in the Random Match matchmaking? I did anecdotally feel like I'd get a softball match after losing 3-4 consecutive matches while doing the 45 wins challenges.
My kid has several of the larger sets including the almost life-size Eevee and the life-size Pokédex. They are surprisingly really good! Lego has their work cut out from them to make comparable sets.
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there's a new pocket expansion landing on Thursday, which introduces shiny versions of some of the ex cards in the group. But the shiny version is its own rarity tier, so I would advise never ever thinking you're going to get one for any sort of reasonable price/free
I have pack hourglasses saved up for a 10-pull, will likely toss one of those at the new packs despite never getting anything good from 10-pulls. I'm mostly just excited that Varoom and Revavroom are being added. I love those stupid little gremlin cars.
TCGP: Does anyone know of the rarer varieties of cards count for set completion? Example: I'm still missing the 3-diamond Shaymin from Triumphant Light, but I do have the 1-star full art version. Likewise, I have a promo Raichu but not the regular one from the set. Will either of those count? I'm 4 cards away from finishing the set and I only have the points to buy 2.
For set completion, no.
For missions, sometimes yes.
For example, I'm missing the 3 diamond Dragonite, so my Genetic Apex set is not complete.
However, my Mew 151 quest still completed since I have the 1 star Dragonite.
New set is out. Once again I open 20 packs on the first day, and once again I got nothing good. Though I also don't feel like I have a grasp on what the meta cards will be this set, so I guess I can't be sure.
I've opened 10 packs and managed to get 2 Giratina EX, one full art. Not sure how to use them yet, but I'm having a play with a few other Psychic staples to see what works.
For big hits, I got a Shiny Weedle, a Giratina EX, x2 Wugtrio EX, and a full art Wugtrio. If there's 4 weeks until the next set, I'll open 64 more packs, which should clear all the 2-4 diamond cards I'm missing while I build up another stock of hourglasses for the next set.
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Ranked mode has launched, and in the starting ranks is obvious bots with decks seemingly designed to make sure they couldn’t accidentally win if the human player lay down and did nothing. Like these poor robo-guys deserve an encouraging pat on the head if they manage to get the right energy on the right Pokémon to even get a single attack off.
This is the most fucking stupid thing ever from Reddit yet it has somehow found a weird weak point in my brain and reduced me to genuine tears of laughter. Still makes me giggle just thinking about it. I think it’s his poor bemused expression.
This is the most fucking stupid thing ever from Reddit yet it has somehow found a weird weak point in my brain and reduced me to genuine tears of laughter. Still makes me giggle just thinking about it. I think it’s his poor bemused expression.
I used points and the free ex deck to get two copies of giratina, and it’s definitely a good deck. There’s an anti-Tina deck being formed that uses meowscarade that is pretty effective, since most people are running with Red, which only effects ex Pokémon. I need to think about some kind of counter to it, other than having a perfect draw with druddigon and rockey helmet.
The thing that makes the Giratina deck so appealing/attractive to play is that it’s one of the few decks where going on turn 1 can feel totally great and not a penalty. You have to draw a Tina on your first draw obviously, or have card draw in your hands, but at least when you see the coin flip heads you’re not going well now I’m at a massive disadvantage.
I’m just got to Great Ball 4 and won the first match against a meowscarade deck, but I think I’ll probably stop when/if I get to ultra. The grind just seems Too Real at that point. You don’t get points for win streaks after that and you lose more points for losing.
My biggest win streak so far is 14 but that ain’t gonna happen in the higher tiers.
I haven't been particularly lucky with pulls in the new set, but I did get a couple Meowscarada, and I still have the deck choice ticket thing. I'm just trying to think what to pair with Meowscarada. I've seen some decklists that pair it with Leafeon, which could work for me. I could also run the version with Carnivine and Arceus, I just have to pack points a Red or two.
Also, just pulled the Crown Rare Pokeball, so I guess I have to edit all of my decks now.
Edit: Meowscarada deck is very good, fought and destroyed my first Giratina/Darkrai deck. Feels very nice.
I spent my free EX deck token on the Beedrill EX deck. It had two cards I was missing, getting me closer to Shining Revelry base completion. Only missing two 2-diamonds (Pachirisu, Team Rocket Grunt), one 3-diamond (Pawmot), and 3 EXs (Lucario EX, Paldean Clodsire EX, and Tinkaton EX).
Of course, I'm missing a lot of second copies of cards, but I'm not really all that worried. Hopefully I'll open doubles waiting for the next set or I'll just pick them up via trading later.
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I'm jealous! I only just got a single shiny Pokemon yesterday (Dondozo). It was part of my pack pull streak, I told myself I was gonna open packs until I didn't get anything new, and I had a good five packs in a row with new things. Finally got a single Wugtrio EX, and I've been wanting to try a Wugtrio deck for awhile. A quickly ramp-able mini-Dragonite sounds hilarious, and with some luck it can also just not care about Druddigon being a huge pile of spiny jerk in the active spot.
Congrats! Although I'm not sure if I like the art for that Biblically Accurate Wigglytuff
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Tonight, for the first time in my life, I came across a random shiny Pokemon. I was looking for a Sandy Shocks and a shiny Gogoat spawned. Too scared to use any moves on it, I just threw Ultra Balls until I fished out a critical capture. Moved it to Home right away.
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Much as the Gallade deck often seemed to surprise people who were unfamiliar with what 2 energy could do in the right hands, I’m having fun at the moment with a Barry deck using Snorlax and Brave Bird Staraptor (even with Barry, Heracross is not worth taking) which is all about smacking people for unexpected massive damage when they thought they were safe. It helps that Staraptor set up behind Snorlax is a solid enough base attack plan without any messing, so any Barry shenanigans are a bonus.
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I finally got the 5 wins last night. I had multiple instances of losing after 3 consecutive wins, but then yesterday I got 2 legitimate wins, 2 people apparently playing all-in Articuno and conceding as soon as they bricked on Misty, and 1 who quit before we even put down cards.
This challenge definitely needs work. It doesn't seem to encourage exciting games, and it seems like a bunch of people are optimizing out the fun of it.
I guess the choice in Random Match queues between Beginner and Experienced is irrelevant. I felt like playing a couple of matches and opted for Beginner, and I've run into nothing but Dialga/Arceus and other top tier meta decks.
I was feeling bad that I was bringing my Lucario/Rampardos deck at first, thinking I was going to make a bunch of 6-year-olds sad that their Pikachu/Charizard deck wasn't working, but I justified it telling myself that it's tuned for the specific meta of Arceus decks, and would be very bad against off-meta decks. But since I'm fighting top-tier decks every match, I no longer feel that way.
Last match I played was against Darkrai/Magnezone. He was building behind a Druddigon and had my Sudowoodo stonewalled, but I had Rampardos ready to swap in, and Sabrina to force him to choose whether to lose his Darkrai or his Magneton. Considering how often that deck used to give me fits, felt good to get that win.
Anyone know if there's any ranking/ELO/whatever involved in the Random Match matchmaking? I did anecdotally feel like I'd get a softball match after losing 3-4 consecutive matches while doing the 45 wins challenges.
My kid has several of the larger sets including the almost life-size Eevee and the life-size Pokédex. They are surprisingly really good! Lego has their work cut out from them to make comparable sets.
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For missions, sometimes yes.
For example, I'm missing the 3 diamond Dragonite, so my Genetic Apex set is not complete.
However, my Mew 151 quest still completed since I have the 1 star Dragonite.
However, I have recovered, and just finished all the new battle tasks, woo. I now have 550 shop tokens I can't spend on anything!
For big hits, I got a Shiny Weedle, a Giratina EX, x2 Wugtrio EX, and a full art Wugtrio. If there's 4 weeks until the next set, I'll open 64 more packs, which should clear all the 2-4 diamond cards I'm missing while I build up another stock of hourglasses for the next set.
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Ranked mode has launched, and in the starting ranks is obvious bots with decks seemingly designed to make sure they couldn’t accidentally win if the human player lay down and did nothing. Like these poor robo-guys deserve an encouraging pat on the head if they manage to get the right energy on the right Pokémon to even get a single attack off.
I appear to have that same weak point.
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I’m just got to Great Ball 4 and won the first match against a meowscarade deck, but I think I’ll probably stop when/if I get to ultra. The grind just seems Too Real at that point. You don’t get points for win streaks after that and you lose more points for losing.
My biggest win streak so far is 14 but that ain’t gonna happen in the higher tiers.
Also, just pulled the Crown Rare Pokeball, so I guess I have to edit all of my decks now.
Edit: Meowscarada deck is very good, fought and destroyed my first Giratina/Darkrai deck. Feels very nice.
Of course, I'm missing a lot of second copies of cards, but I'm not really all that worried. Hopefully I'll open doubles waiting for the next set or I'll just pick them up via trading later.
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Congrats! Although I'm not sure if I like the art for that Biblically Accurate Wigglytuff
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