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boss on bat, catcher on rat, game over. tag teams were so miserable

Double battle format should be a thing and these should have been fusions of 2 single GX versions of the cards

Having very limited knowledge of pokemon tcg, i really feel like these should not have been "Basic" pokemon. They should be treated like a 3rd evolution where they could only be played when the primary pokemon was fully evolved. So you need to play a bulbasaur, then evolve it to Ivysaur, then Venusaur first. Then you can "Tag Team" it. That's the only thing that makes sense to me.

My lgs actually ran Japanese language pokemon tournaments where you could use the japanese cards if you had the Scryre magazine translation of the card on hand to show your opponent. The day before I played in one I had gotten the Misty starter deck. Misty's Tears made quite an effect on the room lol. Maybe her distracting my opponents was what helped me win that tournament that day.

I remember when the biggest draw engines were the Claydol with Cosmic Power and Uxie with Set Up! The Genesect V draw engine makes those two look like amateurs!! O_O Drawing about 20 cards in a single turn is INSANE!!

Fun video! I wanted to punch you every time you said lightning type though LMAO. Ive never heard someone call it that.

That Kyogre card is one of the most broken things I have ever seen

I had no context, but started playing online tcg right before that Lugia meta came about and it made me quit. Good to know I wasn't entirely just a wuss

I've only played during Tag team format so I don't really know how bad it was, but I enjoyed the format.

HELL YEAH SILENT HILL MUSIC

I misread your channel name as ButtsPLUG 😭

Wanna know what else is massive?

Nothing beats an opening hand Exodia.

Idk how close pokemon pocket is to the tcg cards today . But it seems like exs got a lot weaker now a days compared to tag team era no?

Played TCGO from the B/W expansion onwards up until Tag Team dropped, after that most of my decks I had for years got power crept, becoming useless and leaving me with nothing. Recently got into TCG Live and I'm so fucking happy the guys fixed this bs. Always hate when the creators feel they need to top themselves every time creating an inferior product because of it

Tag teams were exactly what pushed me out of competitive pokemon tcg. I feel vindicated that I wasn't the only one who burnt out fighting the same few decks over and over again.

Pokémon TCG fans: *are having the worst time of their life due to new cards with crazy gimmicks* 💀 Me: *just likes collecting them because the cool artwork* 😨

Celisaur had more HP than you would realise, the attack from zorark doing 100 dmg in reality doing 40, An attack that would take 3 hits to KO with no healing would instead take 7 hits, so instead of it having 330 hp it'd be more like it having 700 hp in this scenario

I'm sorry, 4 Guzzlords, and *56 ENERGIES!?* That is so mind bogglingly stupid that i almost ran out of air in my lungs when I heard it.

I never had an issue with the tag teams. Maybe i was oblivious at the time but i loved them, not because they were strong but because they were cool. I got more worried with each set past unbroken bonds and expecially Cosmic Eclipse, due to the triple tag teams, but at the same time I really enjoyed playing with Greninja Zoroark, Latios Latias, i tried to make a lucametal deck work but misread the tool card and realised it was only for 1 turn

dang and i thought they screwed mtg and yugioh players. these are just game ruining

Way back in the Rocket Era, i had a Rocket Mewtwo/Sabrina's Alakazam deck that only dealt in trainer cards and damage redirection. Only way i could lose, was if all 4 of my Gambles were in my prizes, which were how i reshuffled my hand into my deck not to mill. 15 minute turns, full of coin tosses (irrelevant with coin control toss) and energy drains/gust of winds. I never lost a game. 😂

Tag teams are so cool… but god they’re so broken like none of them are bad

I quit 100,000% because a fucking Jolteon with Pin Missle takes off 40 x 4 damage which if you dont do the math that's almost 200 dmg for only 2 crappy energies

This game sounds miserable

No Mawile in the video RIP

i do want to make a correction. Tropical Beach is not banned in the expanded format.

This is why I find the tcg really confusing, there are lots of different cards and mechanics to catch up on. I know the standard format changes often, so there are less niche cards to worry about, but it’s still a seemingly very complex game

9:38 fomr

Mary's impulse could also, in theory, deck you out... causing you to lose should you flip 24 times in a row heads

ADP did nothing wrong. 😂

Where is Grimer?

I still don’t understand why you’d get mad over a card game.

I kinda wish I went with the Mew VMax instead of sticking to Gardevoir.

Rough....big shame considering how much fun early sun and moon was, I reall miss the days of Podgarb and Decidueye

Great video. As said in the teams are really cool for anything outside of gameplay. Great art interesting attacks etc. Unfortunately it compounded alot of the issues present in modern ptcg with even faster bulkier and more impactful basics.

Mew VMax is a nightmare that will keep haunting me forever.

I just .. I just can't comprehend the video in its entirety. I want to, but I am 25mins in and I want to see what made people quit. Meta deck after meta deck, can I get a cumulative picture of how this affects the narrative? I want the story you can build with your own perspective.

I actually stopped playing whenn ADP zacian was the best deck by far. the final blow. just came back a few months earlier. much much better now

I love how random a lot of the Tag Teams are. Like, why is Machamp hanging out with Marshadow? Or Garchomp and Giratina?

Yup. I quit for half a decade after Tag Team came out lol

One cute thing about tag teams is that some of them just have the iconic moves of one of the Pokémon, for example buzzmosa just having jet punch or umbreon darkrai having night spear

Someone please tell me the music at the start 🙏

Meanwhile Pokemon TCG Pocket players cry at the sight of Mewtwo EX

Yo tag team made me quit too ! I still haven't played again irl I played online for a while but vmax was almost just as bad so I just quit playing all together. I only collect now and still make decks and collect decks too just no tag team at all .

The more I look back on this period of the game, the more glad I am that I stopped playing.

Venusaur is always winning. Even in Pocket, the only thing that *_can_* OHKO it is Charizard. Nothing else can and you better hope they're only running Erika/Gardenia and Potions, because that pushes Venusaur EX from 190 HP to 330 EHP. Once some more Stage 2 Support is added (Ultraball and/or Pokemon Breeder), Venusaur can possibly get stronger, allowing it to more reliably get Butterfree in play, having the same Heal 20 Power as Shaymin, pushing Venusaur to, EHP 350+.

i hate ADP so bad, that card was the reason for me to stop playing ptcg, that meta was so boring to play

This is a good story, but you shouldn't have said that you were cheating, completely made me think you were talking about a different story I hadn't heard of before

Yo!!! I'm a huge fan of your channel, I just recently found you and I've been binging all your vids constantly, if I had only one recommendation for the channel, I'd say to keep switching up the thumbnail style!! I like what you use but scrolling through all of your videos it definitely looks a little samey, I think that more variety could help you find more viewers fast!! This video is a good step I already noticed you have a different one so keep it up! Love your videos dude! Your knowledge and expertise in this niche makes for the most informative and entertaining PTCG history!