#dashingplays: pokemon

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Pokemon TCG Pocket is "balanced" around the fact that on the very first turn you can't apply energy to your pokemon - something you could do in the real TCG

but i put "balanced" in quotes because if your deck has a way of generating energy (now out of nowhere because there are no energy cards, just an energy deck) you 100% can attack on the first turn - a rule the real TCG doesn't allow you to do

and because the pokemon tcg has a Basic EX pokemon problem that can never go away because the cards are cool, if you have a deck that can do this and an extremely powerful Basic EX pokemon that you can guarantee in your hand, you can win first turn

which people have been doing, because you can make your deck guarantee you start with said pokemon, because your draws aren't completely random and there's no mulligan clause

the only "saving grace" is that this is a completely noncompetitive game where winning barely gets you anything, so there's no pressure when you lose to this, but it's frustrating nonetheless

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Cinemeowtic Pawrallels

y'all are really going to make me the first one to draw them together, huh

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see, this is what the rest of the dlc was missing: I actually care about these stupid kids

penny no

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This is the buffest woman Twitter can handle before getting scared

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evolve your fucking ursaring

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The devil was playing this deck

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LET'S GO, Just need the helix ones

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the ai in pokemon tcg pocket isn't perfect (I saw it return a perfectly good pokemon it could've kept out and won with), but it's funny that right now (at least the ai of the opponent), it's recognizing that if it damages my pokemon it'll just get stronger so it's just been avoiding attacking at all

it would've been easy to just have the ai always attack if able

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Oh yeah, if anyone's playing Pokemon Pocket, here's my friend code:

8733143436553408

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I do enjoy how the new pokemon mobile game's tutorial starts with "pokemon cards aren't just for collecting"

Like they're begging people to realize that it is in fact a card game

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If I had nickel for every time a game featuring music by Toby Fox had a boss battle where a stars were thrown at you and you had to win with the power of friendship, I'd have two nickels

Which isn't a lot, but it's funny that the second time is in Pokemon

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"GOD, how DARE gamefreak make you catch 200 pokemon before continuing with this quest"

*me going haha yippee while I catch random pokemon that weren't in the game*

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Why did this random team Rocket grunt have a Snorlax, poliwrath and gyarados on their team

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well

yeah

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What sucks about hunting the legendary beasts is that if you forget to immedietly go nearby when you first release them, it's basically completely rarndom where they'll show up before your're able to just check their spot in the pokedex, and even then it's slightly random where they'll go next on your way to where they were

And then in Crystal they decided, you know what, let's hide Ho-Oh behind this

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*loses to Claire's Kingdra once*

Fuck it

We Ball