I think you're underestimating Palkia. It's an extremely powerful early wall that does 30 damage consistently on turn 1. It's basically super Kangaskhan that you can retreat once it's hp is low and charge in the back for a game finishing nuke. Even with just the 30 damage attack and 150 hp it'd be playable, the finisher is just the cherry on top!
Yea people don’t see its potential I feel that palkia/starmie/vaporeon will become a meta contender palkia can be out as a wall with pressure as you set up starmie then starmie hops in with its great damage and free retreat combined with vaporeon flexibility means palkia is always still a threat to finish the game off
@@jamesbryce8577 Agreed, seems like a good replacement for Articuno EX in Starmie decks. Being able to one shot is super helpful against super tanky pokemon with healing or damage reduction.
Hot take but I think everyone is assuming togekiss will be psychic type but I think it’ll be colorless. It would have great synergy with chomp if it’s true.
In one of the more recent TCG sets, togekiss was released as a psychic type with only colorless attacks so maybe it will be the same in pocket? That way it still works with chomp, but can also still have synergy with gaurd.
@@saul-goodman Mewtwo has like one optimal deck with minor variations here and there. Mewtwo, Gardevoir, and Mew are all you need, with a couple mythical slabs. Lol
@@TwinBladeFury I never seem to get the Gardevoirs that I need. I’ve tried experimenting with other psychic types to start the battle with, with minor success, but psychic types all need so much energy, it’s a huge handicap for them. I just got Mew EX from a rare pick the other day, the last Mythical Island I needed, so I was pretty happy about that, but Mew EX seems like it’s pretty viable with any type of deck.
@@zanna118I generally enjoy fighting MewTwo as Mew because not only do I get to use your attack on you, I don’t usually run psychic energy so it doesn’t cost me a penny.
@@zanna118 Mews Attack doesnt remove energies. If you copy Charizard Exs move for example, Charizard has to remove energies, while mew dont need to remove anything.
Wdym? Melmetal is def playable. Not meta but def playable. Dialga might make Melmetal meta. Imo, Dragons need more boost rn. Hopefully, Garchomp will be great and a dragon centered support card will also be a welcome addition.
I think Leafeon would benefit more from an aggro Grass deck, considering its low energy requirement and retreat cost. Like Exeggutor, you start leafeon, do your thing, retreat into Exeggutor and attack for a grand total of 130/170 dmg with only 3 energy (ignoring the 20 dmg from Eevee if you start 2nd). Then Erika + leaf to let EXeggutor deal and tank dmg and retreat again into Leafeon for 90 guaranteed dmg.
I am thinking of beedrill actually, would be a pretty good 160 damage combo with leafeon tanking early and aggros the enemy while getting beedrill done
@ Beedrill works as well, I thought about that but getting the 2 stages is always a hassle. Exeggutor can exert pressure since your second turn (it's actually good to start first with it, so you have an option for when you start first and one for when you start second in Leafeon).
The deck that’s on my radar is weezing. Gen 4 has 3 poison type users with one of them, toxicroak, being known in the main tcg for increasing poison counters. Additionally with all the darkrai stuff shown as well it feels safe to say that’s likely an ex and it’ll likely to have an attack or ability that uses sleep. Combined with weezing and koga dark types could finally leave rouge tier.
@@GudaGudaPaisen personally hoping it ends up being skuntank, the skuntank V from the sword and shield era is the highest rarity its ever gotten so id love for it to get an ex now
I think people aren't giving enough attention to Honchkrow. 50 damage to ANY pokemon is really good. It's the best we've seen out of Zebritska, Lumineon, Hitmonlee and Electabuzz (those types of pokemon), which are already pretty relevant in meta decks. Also, being able to attack the Active spot means you deal +20 to Psychic types, which will be massive against the n1 deck of Mewtwo, Mew & Gardevoir.
Honchkrow will always do 50 damage, super effective will not happen( wtf why does that work, why is it super efficient to active pokemon even when the move says do 50 damage, it's not a normal attack
A lot of the darkness-coloured cards we've had so far have been very poison type oriented (understandable given their abundance in gen 1) so it's exciting to see Honchkrow and hopefully other dark types to expand the variety of strategies! If we get some form of energy acceleration as well it would really open up the options
Dialga's Metallic Turbo is the best way to load up Mew-EX other than Gardevoir, whereas Palkia's Dimensional Storm is probably the best move to copy, especially since the drawback doesn't matter if the Mew-EX player doesn't run water energy.
Actually this could be wrong. I recently noticed that they patched Mew's Genome Hacking. If you copy Raichu you consume your psychic energy like Raichu would. This definitely wasn't the case when the miniset released. I'm sure this will apply to copying Palkia.
@MichelleSchonfelder-bf6mb that's not correct, because Raichu's effect states to discard *all* energies, and so Mew-EX can always fulfill this requirement. Charizard-EX, Mewtu-EX and Palkia-EX state to discard a number of *specific* energies. If Mew-EX has those specific energies attached, it will discard them as well, but otherwise it's still gonna use the move without paying the cost.
@@solidzackyou’re correct. I have a question about something though. Does “energy zone” mean you have to be running that energy in your deck? Say if Dialga’s attack was colourless, and you only ran grass energy in your deck, would Dialga’s attack give you the steel energy still?
@levipeterken4020 no. It gives you that energy regardless. You can use Brock in non-fighting decks, Misty in non-water decks, Magneton in a non-electric deck and copy Island Exeggcute's attack with Mew-EX in a non-grass deck and it still attaches the energy to your Pokémon.
Difficult to evolve kabutops tho There's no easy way to get dome fossil in your hand, and you need to still evolve twice I really like the card but fossil pokemon are always a bit awkward
@@Sock1122I could see a roark supporter who adds a fossil card to your hand as it's both his ace and his profession outside of being a gym leader (Byron could also count but roark is more connected to fossils as he also greets you in the underground where you find fossils) or they could add the underground expedition gear that does the same thing but it would be a little weird
It’s not meant to be your main attacker it’s a early game wall with late game finishing potential it’s 30 for 1 is strong pressure early and if you set up something like starmie behind it and have vaporeon support you have a very flexible deck that sets up fast with starmie but can move fluidly to have palkia as a finisher
Honestly lumineon and starmie look like the likely route for it. Free retreat pokemon that easy to set up with low costs and control the mid game that can widdle down a bench for Palkia final blow. The 30 dmg works well into pika (30+90=120) or mewtwo (30x2+9=150). It's a consistent strat and keeps pokemon count down for trainer card versatility.
@ that’s just water as a whole though in most cases a early 2 or 3 head misty will win you the game not really specific to palkia yes palkia can one shot every basic Mon in the game but articuno can 2 shot most things honestly palkia does this strat worse than articuno does I think usually misty would be better used on your main attackers in most situations instead of praying for a 4 flip on palkia
@lukakarepa484 probably 1 palkia with vaporeon as a finisher to ko an ex out of nowhere 20 bench damage might even allow you to get 3 points in one turn
I still find it wild they printed a better Regirock EX... IN POCKET! For a game that's supposed to be kinda slow, this is gonna make Fighting types blaze through the HP of their opponents if they're able to quickly set up. We don't have the searchability of the deck like the actual game but PokeBall and Professor's Pot of Greed do a pretty good job of showing up those slots. I'm also hoping Garchomp ends up being good with Cynthia. Royal Blades was such a fun rogue deck when it was printed since all you needed was Fighting and Colorless on it instead of the Fighting and Water they usually put on that line. Looking forward to how things are shaken up here.
Both dragon cards so far (dragonite &druddigon) have had the same two energy typing that they do in the physical tcg. If the trend continues garchomp will have a water and fighting energy attack.
I hope they can do something to make Dragon pokemon more consistent In the regular TCG its fine because you know you are guaranteed to eventually pull your energy cards so long as you hang on For Pocket there's no guarantee you won't infinitely pull the same energy type. Maybe they could make an Item called "Dragon energy" or something where it provides an energy of any type to a Dragon card. If I had to take a guess, they're just gunna keep it as it is tho, highly randomised, which is a shame. Hope I'm wrong
I see palkia like the water Zapdos. Nice early attacker and body, and has a big hit if powered up. Also I'll be playing a dialga toolbox deck day one. Tauros, mew ex and maybe something else.
Honestly, if there is a tool that give even +10, it already arguably better than pika. Though comparison gets complicated with pokeballs searching basic
Oh its already stronger than pika. There's not many break points it misses that pika hits. Lilligant no longer dies to a giovanni Druddigon no longer dies to a Giovanni Pika can technically 2hko things with180hp. However both pidgeot and gyarados are weak anyway, venusaur tanks an heals to avoid a 2hko, so its only really zard, which generally was already getting run off the board before it got going by these types of decks anyway. Pachirisu in exchange is much easier to set up, and doesn't have to run benched liabilities, has more spare deck space, and is easier to find since your deck isn't flooded with pokemon.
@Siennarchist I wouldn't say it's necessarily easier to set it up Pikachu may require 3 benched pokemon (assuming ur going for its full power) but Pokeballs and loading your deck with basics can make this pretty reliable to achieve Finding a random tool in your deck with (presumably) no specific help in locating it could actually prove more difficult in practice ...Unless they release a bunch of tools and you can spam ur deck full of them that is 😄
@Sock1122 tested with physical playing cards as a substitute. Assuming 4 tool cards in deck, pachirisu is more consistent that pikachu in setting up when you start with it. Once you account for how pika is forced to play hands without pikachu where its a much worse deck, I can't see myself even playing pika as soon as a second tool card is printed (which will probably happen as soon as the new set releases, or in the next mini set if not)
My first thought with Lucario is how much of a problem it's going to turn Golem into. That thing already hits like a truck, but with two Lucarios, you're basically strapping rockets onto that truck. AND it's hard to kill on top of that. The only problem is with how long it takes to bring online. And if you have two Lucario's on your bench, that doesn't give you a ton of flexibility.
You're worrying about the wrong thing. Lucario is mostly worthless for golem decks. It's about the Mankys and Hitmonchans, and the Aerodactyls those are the ones you should be worrying about.
Cynthia seems completely nuts Lucario and Dialga are interesting, will be played for sure Palkia looks great but balanced to be honest. It's gonna be the one time burst to finish the match, requires some solid setup. Leafeon, Cresselia and Honch seem unplayable, to be honest, but you're right to mention about possibly adding the Honch to an Honch EX deck as a tech card. Pachirisu could be the new Pikachu ally but it will depend if the Poketools we get are any good.
Judging by cresselias artwork were probably getting a corresponding darkrai for it that finishes the moon and lake (I feel like a cress and darkrai ex is more likely than a honch ex but who knows)
There is a lot of interesting possibilities for tools which has me very excited for Pachirisu EX. Also Leafeon. If you get 2 leafeon with an energy each they can just cycle for their attacks by retreating. However if they end up having a tool that reduces retreat costs then Leafeon becomes a monster.
REMEMBER! Diamond and Pearl are notoriously low on fire Pokemon. The Water > Fire > Steel sequence is going to be extremely relevant in the new meta. That means that you're going to see a lot of Charizard to counter Dialga decks. At 150 water damage, Palkia can 1-shot Charizard (with Giovanni). Only Blastoise can do this currently, for a whopping five energy. It's possible Garchomp is also tuned to hit Charizard's 180 HP breakpoint, so I'm predicting 130 damage for three energy: fighting/dark/normal.
This is already looking insane just after five minutes of the video! Very well done! I'm so hyped for what comes next and here's hoping we get some more sweet Sinnoh 'mons. Putting most of my thoughts further below to prevent random spoilers on the video. By the way, I can see Garchomp being a Fighting type card due to it's Ground typing like Dugtrio and paired with Lucario and Cynthia I'm calling that it's gonna be META defining at this rate. We've been hoping for Fighting type to make a comeback and if Garchomp is fighting then it's finally here. Dialga's certainly going to be nuts for any upcoming steel types we might get and Palkia is gonna be nasty if you use it lategame and drag ALL of your water energies from Vaporeon onto it to just crush through almost everything all at once. Water Stall deck with Druddigon perhaps? Leafeon's gonna be a powerful burst damage user with the newer eevee and swap to a more powerful 'mon later on. As for Luxray, I AM ABSOLUTELY HYPED OUT OF MY MIND! Luxray is my favorite pokemon and I'm PRAYING for a LuxrayEX. Perhaps even with an ability that references it's powerful eyes that can see through walls. Perhaps something that lets it attack pokemon on the enemy bench or hand? Either way, This is looking to be a great expansion to the game.
Gible is a known dragon type tho. I imagine fighting water being the 2 types for garchomp like irl being a land (fighting) shark (fish goes in water). While not ruled out, there is already pachirisu for lightning ex so anymore is less likely.
Gible having a colorless energy is interesting, I understand Garchomp in the TCG is Water/fight energy but Gabite be great if it has two colorless and can pair well with Dialga. here’s hoping cuz I main anything Garchomp.
I think dialga hard replaces moltres/charizard and gardevoir/mewtwo decks because it does what they do but better. You don't have to worry about drawing the right cards to get to it because it's a basic unlike gardevoir and you don't have to worry about coin flips like moltres.
The only question is, is there a good metal pokemon at the upcoming set? Melmetal is nice, I'll admit, and there are some pretty strong normals like Pidgeot and Wigg EX, but rn they don't have the damage that Mew2 and Zard EX can deal to otk almost everything in front of them. Don't forget that Dialga needs 2 metal energy to use the first attack so you can't just splash it at literally any deck unlike Mew EX and Exeggutor without getting yourself screwed by energy roll
It doesn't "hard replace" anything; it only works for Metal and Colorless decks and requires two energy for its attack, whereas Moltres requires one and Gard doesn't require any. Considering that, you need to use it twice to more than break even on the energy charge unless there's something like a Metal version of Vaporeon that lets you move energy around, and charging beyond twice feels like overkill unless there's some Pokemon coming out that are huge energy hogs Idk I'm willing to be proven wrong but I feel like Dialga is being seriously overhyped at this point, it's not awful but I don't think it's as good as people are making it out to be
I like Electric type decks, and wanna use Pachirisu ex as soons as the expansion is live. I'm not familiar with Tools, but you said it: In a way, it guarantees a good damage better than Pikachu ex can. I was tryng a variant of the Pikachu ex deck with Jolteon for a while. It seemed worth it. But, I had some matches where I had to put Pikachu ex in play before I got a chance to evolve my Eevee, so I was "stuck" with a 60 damage attack for a couple of turns.
Ah thats awesome, I have been really enjoying playing pidgeot EX with zebstrika in lightning lately - brought that to ursis tournament - and also ran 1x dedenne that I loved, but my last pokemon 1x chatot felt so underwhelming, and I got really nothing Else in that slot i was excited about - This pachirisu feels like a perfect fit, able to play as a tank early, and as a second attacker depending on if There are tools fitting for that deck!
I feel like Dialga EX, Mew EX and Melmetal could work super well together. And while I'd love for Garchomp to stay fully colorless, I think it'll end up requiring Fighting and something else, ideally Metal or maybe Dark.
Fun fact: Leafeon's total text was already revealed other trailers (like the italian one), so we already knew it wasn't able to attack the turn after the attack 🥶
Hey I thought of something about the Lucario card. Medicham and hitmontop are on the card. Wouldn't that be a good reason for them to be cards in the packs. Every single card in the game doesn't have a Pokemon on it that's not already in the game. So I think it gives me enough reason to believe that meditite medicham and hitmontop are going to be cards in the game? I could be wrong but I just think it's weird that they're there.
Kind of wish Lucario was +30 but didn't stack. It will be interesting to see new fighting types introduced in this set to see more Lucario synergy. I think it would be great to see a strong 110 DMG Pokemon, for the 130 HP breakpoint, with Giovanni for 140 HP, and then the 2nd Lucario to then hit 150 HP.
Garchomp is probably gonna be a 130+ DMG card to be able to take out the likes of Gyarados and Charizard at that 180 HP with Cynthia. That or they go down to 100 DMG with cheaper energy costs for the 150 DMG breakpoint with Cynthia, but that doesn't seem like a very Garchomp thing to do.
Kabutops hadn't occurred to me as a lucario pairing, but I would love that, the heal was something I really liked but didn't feel impactful enough to compete with the more meta fighting decks.
Just wanted to say that it's plausible that dialga and palkia could be boosted by the presence of their specifics tools (Adamant/lustrous Orb) which could like increase the damage on Dialga and reduce the discard cost on Palkia's second attack, for example.
random question, if lucario is on and hitmonlee attacks a bench pokemon, the active takes 20 damage? edit: I also think lucario shouldn't be weak to psychic but weak to fire, because he is part steel which resists psychic
I want to know if your 1st Space time smack down pack choice will have a deterministic reward like how picking Mewtwo always meant you got Full art Bulbasaur and Marowak EX.
ok so Palkia is definitely interesting... definitely op but with some caveats... some say Misty can solve Palkia's caveats and that is true but the issue i find with Palkia is... Misty herself... i mean she's called "Miss-ty" for a reason 😅🤣
I'm personally thinking Dialga and Golem would be amazing 3 colourless is great with metal energy, and Brock means I don't have to run fighting energy. I'd probably run another metal pokemon to reduce the chance of starting with Geodude. Logically I think there might be an Ex for Cresselia.
I really hope they add the level ball item card so it makes it easier to get second stage Pokémon and make them easier to play cause right now 1 stage Pokémon have a huge advantage
an electric pokemon that can move 1 tool from one of your pokemon to another think would be rly cool as a concept maybe possible since its not op (depends on the tools they make tho)
The strength of Palkia will be that it can come in late game, one shot a Mewtwo or almost anything else with any chip damage while picking up a point or two off the bench. Any early game talk about him is ridiculous. 1of.
Not a fan of Palkia, but I won't deny it has huge potential... The main downside is the discard, but it will likely get support, just like the other cover pokémon got. Plus, they seem to be moving in a discard direction with water (look at Gyarados EX as well). Going to be a very bold prediction here, but: Empoleon will have an ability that negates discarding of energy by ally pokémon. And even if it doesn't happen, it's basically a Zapdos... Deals more damage and is bulkier, but relies a lot more on X Speed/Leaf. It'll still see play.
Swanna will be finally amazing - super useful for Steel decks with Dialga EX. It will counter fire decks and do 90 damage to them (100 with giovanni) OHKO'ing all of the Blaine pets. As for Emploleon - hear me out. What if because it being half steel type it will use only colorless energy like Piplup just so it could be used togather with Dialga EX with only steel energy in the deck? That would be so cool.
It'd be a little weird but they could make it where the sinnoh starters use their secondary type for their final stages (metal for empoleon and fighting for the other two but with turwtig having 80 hp for a basic that evolves twice it definitely seems like they are staying to their main types as leaf is also the bulky type so far)
I'm 100% SURE Creselia will have an EX. With creselia having such a MID card and it being a legendary, it reminds me of the MID cards of the legendary birds which also have an EX. No shot they'll leave creselia the way it is
Palkia is gonna be annoying,it is not bad at all.... people are always so lucky with Misty when i go against water decks....they can literally use its second attack in the second turn....and since it will one shot most pokemon anyway,it doesn't need to be used more than twice in one game (especially with greninja or Lumi,or even Articuno ex)
282 tickets, 395 hourglasses. You need 210 tickets per month to max out on the pack hourglasses so I've been battling like no one's business to max them out as you can only earn 150-155 per month without event rewards
Regarding cress and healing.. i agree, healing is too slow. Not proactive. golem and mr.mime defense raises are more interesting. Arguably, melmetal defense ability may be better
So pachrisu is extremly underwhelming, the only thing he has above pikachu is that u can run more types, but u cant even make it dual energy bc pachririsu has 2 lightning, so yeah its not good at all
Put palkia in the active spot, use it as a wall and maybe slash a little, pull it back with leaf. Start building another water type (maybe articuno or staryu), then pull that back and put palkia back in. And use vaporeon to transfer the energy back to palkia as a game closer.
Pip lup is a sneaky good card for a basic! Don’t sleep on that heal so many basics do 20 and your basically keeping your health full while waiting for prin pulp etc and saving a potion for other pokemon
If you have a 60hp basic in the active spot it will be either one-shot by the most common stage 1 pokémon or simply stare at a defenseless wall doing nothing. I don't think it will be that good
I can see marowak getting some love with the lucario as a quick beatdown standard 14 card list but the remaining 6 can be pivoted and from the lucario art it means we might get medicham and hitmontop in the set also 2 cubone 2 marowak ex 1 marowak 1 marshadow 2 riolu 2 lucario 2 pokeball 2 researcher
My favorite two pokemon of all time are Gallade and Togekiss, so hearing that one of them is coming already, AND it is one of the coveted "Trainer Supported" cards with the GOAT Cynthia being the supporter of choice? Wake me up I most be dreaming If a Gallade is in this set too...maaaan
I forget how many absolutely awesome Pokémon designs came from Sinnoh I’m genuinely so excited for these Pokémon to drop P.S. I wonder if we’ll get a new animated Pokémon art
Great breakdown as always! I love that full art Cynthia! My guess for Garchomps attack would be Dual Chop and it’d work like Marrowak EX but only 50-60 dmg per heads and I think Togekiss will be Draining Kiss where it’ll do like 40 dmg but can heal for the amount of dmg it does
I don't think there is any shot Garchomp will have colorless only attacks. It has always been water/fighting energy in the standard TCG and I think this one will follow suit.
I think you're underestimating Palkia. It's an extremely powerful early wall that does 30 damage consistently on turn 1. It's basically super Kangaskhan that you can retreat once it's hp is low and charge in the back for a game finishing nuke. Even with just the 30 damage attack and 150 hp it'd be playable, the finisher is just the cherry on top!
Yea people don’t see its potential I feel that palkia/starmie/vaporeon will become a meta contender palkia can be out as a wall with pressure as you set up starmie then starmie hops in with its great damage and free retreat combined with vaporeon flexibility means palkia is always still a threat to finish the game off
Also, it will be great to pair with Greninja and Lumineon. Sniping the bench while you power up your Palkia to set up a sweep sounds amazing to me
Palkia is mid at best kid
@@jamesbryce8577 Agreed, seems like a good replacement for Articuno EX in Starmie decks. Being able to one shot is super helpful against super tanky pokemon with healing or damage reduction.
@@steveshin820 Palkie ex would get ran over by Galvantula.
Could be interesting if Prinplup stays colorless attacks and goes metal for Empoleon.
That was my thought as well. I’d think it be cool to switch typings upon evolving
Hot take but I think everyone is assuming togekiss will be psychic type but I think it’ll be colorless. It would have great synergy with chomp if it’s true.
Colorless would make sense so you can make a Cynthia deck just like ya can make a Blaine deck.
In one of the more recent TCG sets, togekiss was released as a psychic type with only colorless attacks so maybe it will be the same in pocket? That way it still works with chomp, but can also still have synergy with gaurd.
I could be wrong ofc we dont know a thing, but even if it would make sense, Colorless kiss and Garchomp sound so OP.
Back in the day colorless togekiss magmortar deck was broken
2 stage 2 attackers isnt good synergy lol
Based on the regular tcg precedent, Garchomp usually takes fighting and water energy.
Was looking around for this, if that's the case it might slot right into a fighting box deck
Garchomp will most likely require fighting energy on at least one move.
One thing that I find very interesting about the Lucario art is that it shows Hitmontop and Medicham. Sneaky spoilers maybe?
@@codyouellette6936 and what’s that fox Pokémon down there too?
@@Patcypritty Mienshao i believe
@@Patcypritty That's Mienshao, already a card!
Mienshao: plays despacito.
Mewtwo watching Lucario bring fighting decks to the forefront of the meta - "Its free real-estate"
Mewtwo is actually not too difficult to play around with a fighting deck because he already oneshots most of the meta anyways.
I haven’t had much luck with Mewtwo decks. I can’t pin down a good deck around him. I think there’s just not enough cards in the game in general
@@saul-goodman Mewtwo has like one optimal deck with minor variations here and there. Mewtwo, Gardevoir, and Mew are all you need, with a couple mythical slabs. Lol
Always fun to Strike mewtwo with fighting down or punish them with mew
@@TwinBladeFury I never seem to get the Gardevoirs that I need. I’ve tried experimenting with other psychic types to start the battle with, with minor success, but psychic types all need so much energy, it’s a huge handicap for them. I just got Mew EX from a rare pick the other day, the last Mythical Island I needed, so I was pretty happy about that, but Mew EX seems like it’s pretty viable with any type of deck.
Mew EX is gonna be eating with all these crazy abilities it can copy.
@@Pun116 palkia move removes water energy and if you have psychic one on Mew, well... No energy removed.
@@zanna118 I wonder if Mew can use that attack then.
@@zanna118 genome hacking works for charizard move without removing energy, therefore making it a perfect counter. Same goes for Palkia
@@zanna118I generally enjoy fighting MewTwo as Mew because not only do I get to use your attack on you, I don’t usually run psychic energy so it doesn’t cost me a penny.
@@zanna118 Mews Attack doesnt remove energies. If you copy Charizard Exs move for example, Charizard has to remove energies, while mew dont need to remove anything.
I honestly think I am most excited for a metal deck that is actually playable and fun.
Dialga is crazy and turns on some big hitters
2x melmetal + 2x greninja + mew ex is a nasty deck i've been terrorizing the emblem event with. i think i have won something like 15 of 17 matches.
Melmetal with Druddigon is good now actually. Just not top tier but it will definitely win you games in the random matches.
I’m exciting for fighting & steel decks
Wdym? Melmetal is def playable. Not meta but def playable. Dialga might make Melmetal meta. Imo, Dragons need more boost rn. Hopefully, Garchomp will be great and a dragon centered support card will also be a welcome addition.
I think Leafeon would benefit more from an aggro Grass deck, considering its low energy requirement and retreat cost. Like Exeggutor, you start leafeon, do your thing, retreat into Exeggutor and attack for a grand total of 130/170 dmg with only 3 energy (ignoring the 20 dmg from Eevee if you start 2nd). Then Erika + leaf to let EXeggutor deal and tank dmg and retreat again into Leafeon for 90 guaranteed dmg.
I am thinking of beedrill actually, would be a pretty good 160 damage combo with leafeon tanking early and aggros the enemy while getting beedrill done
@ Beedrill works as well, I thought about that but getting the 2 stages is always a hassle. Exeggutor can exert pressure since your second turn (it's actually good to start first with it, so you have an option for when you start first and one for when you start second in Leafeon).
"Bye-Sharp" is crazy tho. Pawn, Bishop, King lol
Lol wow thank you for putting that together for me 😅
Speaking of that, where's Kingambit :(
As someone who calls it also as Bye sharp, thanks 😅😆
I've always pronounced it as bih-sharp, but it never clicked to me that they were chess pieces 😭
I am ashamed as a Unova stan, thank you for that 🙏
@@Cowdurpy Kingambit didn't clue you in on the chess reference eh?
The deck that’s on my radar is weezing. Gen 4 has 3 poison type users with one of them, toxicroak, being known in the main tcg for increasing poison counters. Additionally with all the darkrai stuff shown as well it feels safe to say that’s likely an ex and it’ll likely to have an attack or ability that uses sleep. Combined with weezing and koga dark types could finally leave rouge tier.
saaaaame. soooo excited for the dark reveals.
Toxicroak was my main during platinum playthru and I’m expecting big stuff from it,
@@GudaGudaPaisen personally hoping it ends up being skuntank, the skuntank V from the sword and shield era is the highest rarity its ever gotten so id love for it to get an ex now
I think people aren't giving enough attention to Honchkrow. 50 damage to ANY pokemon is really good. It's the best we've seen out of Zebritska, Lumineon, Hitmonlee and Electabuzz (those types of pokemon), which are already pretty relevant in meta decks.
Also, being able to attack the Active spot means you deal +20 to Psychic types, which will be massive against the n1 deck of Mewtwo, Mew & Gardevoir.
Honchkrow will always do 50 damage, super effective will not happen( wtf why does that work, why is it super efficient to active pokemon even when the move says do 50 damage, it's not a normal attack
A lot of the darkness-coloured cards we've had so far have been very poison type oriented (understandable given their abundance in gen 1) so it's exciting to see Honchkrow and hopefully other dark types to expand the variety of strategies! If we get some form of energy acceleration as well it would really open up the options
@@TheMysticRabbit0wnzu lmao the edit
The single gen 4 mon i am most hyped for is PorygonZ, while also being curious about what they do with Rotom.
I want a rotom for each appliance
I hate the word moms lol
@@lile4life713moms
@@lile4life713it's such nerd cringe
Dialga's Metallic Turbo is the best way to load up Mew-EX other than Gardevoir, whereas Palkia's Dimensional Storm is probably the best move to copy, especially since the drawback doesn't matter if the Mew-EX player doesn't run water energy.
Yeah mew ex just solos palkia and dialga can gear up your mewtwo in 1 turn (next turn you equip mew and have 3)
Actually this could be wrong. I recently noticed that they patched Mew's Genome Hacking. If you copy Raichu you consume your psychic energy like Raichu would. This definitely wasn't the case when the miniset released. I'm sure this will apply to copying Palkia.
@MichelleSchonfelder-bf6mb that's not correct, because Raichu's effect states to discard *all* energies, and so Mew-EX can always fulfill this requirement. Charizard-EX, Mewtu-EX and Palkia-EX state to discard a number of *specific* energies. If Mew-EX has those specific energies attached, it will discard them as well, but otherwise it's still gonna use the move without paying the cost.
@@solidzackyou’re correct. I have a question about something though. Does “energy zone” mean you have to be running that energy in your deck? Say if Dialga’s attack was colourless, and you only ran grass energy in your deck, would Dialga’s attack give you the steel energy still?
@levipeterken4020 no. It gives you that energy regardless. You can use Brock in non-fighting decks, Misty in non-water decks, Magneton in a non-electric deck and copy Island Exeggcute's attack with Mew-EX in a non-grass deck and it still attaches the energy to your Pokémon.
Holy good call on kabutops + lucario im trying that day 1
@blaym4271 this will be the fighting rush of greninja with the dmg on active for sure, just hopefully we get a good basic fighting as well for a wall
Difficult to evolve kabutops tho
There's no easy way to get dome fossil in your hand, and you need to still evolve twice
I really like the card but fossil pokemon are always a bit awkward
@@Sock1122I could see a roark supporter who adds a fossil card to your hand as it's both his ace and his profession outside of being a gym leader (Byron could also count but roark is more connected to fossils as he also greets you in the underground where you find fossils) or they could add the underground expedition gear that does the same thing but it would be a little weird
Lucario is actually, out of all the revealed ones, the card im most excited about.
Agh luxray ex is a must come on Pokémon
I get the feeling Palkia will be played 1st move if possible and just manually powered up. It'll be an annoying rng menace with misty
It’s not meant to be your main attacker it’s a early game wall with late game finishing potential it’s 30 for 1 is strong pressure early and if you set up something like starmie behind it and have vaporeon support you have a very flexible deck that sets up fast with starmie but can move fluidly to have palkia as a finisher
@@jamesbryce8577 You're completely right. But the misty's will give it potential to get a random instant win. It's going to be annoying to deal with.
Honestly lumineon and starmie look like the likely route for it. Free retreat pokemon that easy to set up with low costs and control the mid game that can widdle down a bench for Palkia final blow. The 30 dmg works well into pika (30+90=120) or mewtwo (30x2+9=150). It's a consistent strat and keeps pokemon count down for trainer card versatility.
@ that’s just water as a whole though in most cases a early 2 or 3 head misty will win you the game not really specific to palkia yes palkia can one shot every basic Mon in the game but articuno can 2 shot most things honestly palkia does this strat worse than articuno does I think usually misty would be better used on your main attackers in most situations instead of praying for a 4 flip on palkia
@lukakarepa484 probably 1 palkia with vaporeon as a finisher to ko an ex out of nowhere
20 bench damage might even allow you to get 3 points in one turn
I still find it wild they printed a better Regirock EX... IN POCKET! For a game that's supposed to be kinda slow, this is gonna make Fighting types blaze through the HP of their opponents if they're able to quickly set up. We don't have the searchability of the deck like the actual game but PokeBall and Professor's Pot of Greed do a pretty good job of showing up those slots.
I'm also hoping Garchomp ends up being good with Cynthia. Royal Blades was such a fun rogue deck when it was printed since all you needed was Fighting and Colorless on it instead of the Fighting and Water they usually put on that line. Looking forward to how things are shaken up here.
Both dragon cards so far (dragonite &druddigon) have had the same two energy typing that they do in the physical tcg. If the trend continues garchomp will have a water and fighting energy attack.
I hope they can do something to make Dragon pokemon more consistent
In the regular TCG its fine because you know you are guaranteed to eventually pull your energy cards so long as you hang on
For Pocket there's no guarantee you won't infinitely pull the same energy type.
Maybe they could make an Item called "Dragon energy" or something where it provides an energy of any type to a Dragon card.
If I had to take a guess, they're just gunna keep it as it is tho, highly randomised, which is a shame. Hope I'm wrong
so far they feel balanced around the random tbh, powerful effects but no guarantee @Sock1122
@@Sock1122 best solution be Lance and Claire and Drake, dragon type supporter cards
@@GudaGudaPaisen were those already part of the regular TCG?
If so, what did they do, do you know?
@Sock1122 Claire and drake aren't as far as I know but lance is and he searches dragon Pokémon and adds them to your hand
I see palkia like the water Zapdos. Nice early attacker and body, and has a big hit if powered up. Also I'll be playing a dialga toolbox deck day one. Tauros, mew ex and maybe something else.
Likitung for laughs 30x per head flipped, powered up in 1 from dialga
I hope to get Cynthia 2 star.
Honestly, if there is a tool that give even +10, it already arguably better than pika. Though comparison gets complicated with pokeballs searching basic
My guess is it'll be an HP tool like Hero's Cape
We'll have to see.
Oh its already stronger than pika. There's not many break points it misses that pika hits.
Lilligant no longer dies to a giovanni
Druddigon no longer dies to a Giovanni
Pika can technically 2hko things with180hp. However both pidgeot and gyarados are weak anyway, venusaur tanks an heals to avoid a 2hko, so its only really zard, which generally was already getting run off the board before it got going by these types of decks anyway.
Pachirisu in exchange is much easier to set up, and doesn't have to run benched liabilities, has more spare deck space, and is easier to find since your deck isn't flooded with pokemon.
@Siennarchist I wouldn't say it's necessarily easier to set it up
Pikachu may require 3 benched pokemon (assuming ur going for its full power) but Pokeballs and loading your deck with basics can make this pretty reliable to achieve
Finding a random tool in your deck with (presumably) no specific help in locating it could actually prove more difficult in practice
...Unless they release a bunch of tools and you can spam ur deck full of them that is 😄
@Sock1122 tested with physical playing cards as a substitute. Assuming 4 tool cards in deck, pachirisu is more consistent that pikachu in setting up when you start with it. Once you account for how pika is forced to play hands without pikachu where its a much worse deck, I can't see myself even playing pika as soon as a second tool card is printed (which will probably happen as soon as the new set releases, or in the next mini set if not)
The argument doesnt really make sense, even if pachrisu has a tool card that gives +10 dmg, pikachu can use the same thing and do more dmg
My first thought with Lucario is how much of a problem it's going to turn Golem into. That thing already hits like a truck, but with two Lucarios, you're basically strapping rockets onto that truck. AND it's hard to kill on top of that.
The only problem is with how long it takes to bring online. And if you have two Lucario's on your bench, that doesn't give you a ton of flexibility.
Yeah could be danggie
now brock is elite 4🫡
You're worrying about the wrong thing. Lucario is mostly worthless for golem decks. It's about the Mankys and Hitmonchans, and the Aerodactyls those are the ones you should be worrying about.
Brock: Let me introduce myself
@@TheShapingSickness Hitmonchan won't get powered up though by Lucario
Honchcrow allows you to attack the active pokemon as well, lumineon doesn't.
just like Zebstrika but with only 20 less damage at 30
Garchomp will probably need water and fighting energy - this is what it needs in physical Pokémon cards
Cynthia seems completely nuts
Lucario and Dialga are interesting, will be played for sure
Palkia looks great but balanced to be honest. It's gonna be the one time burst to finish the match, requires some solid setup.
Leafeon, Cresselia and Honch seem unplayable, to be honest, but you're right to mention about possibly adding the Honch to an Honch EX deck as a tech card.
Pachirisu could be the new Pikachu ally but it will depend if the Poketools we get are any good.
Judging by cresselias artwork were probably getting a corresponding darkrai for it that finishes the moon and lake (I feel like a cress and darkrai ex is more likely than a honch ex but who knows)
There is a lot of interesting possibilities for tools which has me very excited for Pachirisu EX. Also Leafeon. If you get 2 leafeon with an energy each they can just cycle for their attacks by retreating. However if they end up having a tool that reduces retreat costs then Leafeon becomes a monster.
Every time you say, "We did it," gets me every time. 😂😂😂 👏🏻
REMEMBER! Diamond and Pearl are notoriously low on fire Pokemon.
The Water > Fire > Steel sequence is going to be extremely relevant in the new meta.
That means that you're going to see a lot of Charizard to counter Dialga decks.
At 150 water damage, Palkia can 1-shot Charizard (with Giovanni). Only Blastoise can do this currently, for a whopping five energy.
It's possible Garchomp is also tuned to hit Charizard's 180 HP breakpoint, so I'm predicting 130 damage for three energy: fighting/dark/normal.
Garchomp is USUALLY Water/Fighting energy wise in the main tcg, BUT sometimes it's Fighting and Double Colorless
With tools, do you think there will be a card to put the tool back in a deck or be discarded from a pokemon? For yourself and/or for the opponent?
This is already looking insane just after five minutes of the video! Very well done! I'm so hyped for what comes next and here's hoping we get some more sweet Sinnoh 'mons. Putting most of my thoughts further below to prevent random spoilers on the video.
By the way, I can see Garchomp being a Fighting type card due to it's Ground typing like Dugtrio and paired with Lucario and Cynthia I'm calling that it's gonna be META defining at this rate. We've been hoping for Fighting type to make a comeback and if Garchomp is fighting then it's finally here. Dialga's certainly going to be nuts for any upcoming steel types we might get and Palkia is gonna be nasty if you use it lategame and drag ALL of your water energies from Vaporeon onto it to just crush through almost everything all at once. Water Stall deck with Druddigon perhaps? Leafeon's gonna be a powerful burst damage user with the newer eevee and swap to a more powerful 'mon later on. As for Luxray, I AM ABSOLUTELY HYPED OUT OF MY MIND! Luxray is my favorite pokemon and I'm PRAYING for a LuxrayEX. Perhaps even with an ability that references it's powerful eyes that can see through walls. Perhaps something that lets it attack pokemon on the enemy bench or hand? Either way, This is looking to be a great expansion to the game.
Gible is a known dragon type tho. I imagine fighting water being the 2 types for garchomp like irl being a land (fighting) shark (fish goes in water).
While not ruled out, there is already pachirisu for lightning ex so anymore is less likely.
Gible having a colorless energy is interesting, I understand Garchomp in the TCG is Water/fight energy but Gabite be great if it has two colorless and can pair well with Dialga. here’s hoping cuz I main anything Garchomp.
Excited about the cards we don’t know yet, might be some hidden jewels there 👏🏼
I think dialga hard replaces moltres/charizard and gardevoir/mewtwo decks because it does what they do but better. You don't have to worry about drawing the right cards to get to it because it's a basic unlike gardevoir and you don't have to worry about coin flips like moltres.
Yeah i like dialga, reminiscent of mult, but better, it takes care of colorless requirments for your field, and deals 30 while it's at it
The only question is, is there a good metal pokemon at the upcoming set? Melmetal is nice, I'll admit, and there are some pretty strong normals like Pidgeot and Wigg EX, but rn they don't have the damage that Mew2 and Zard EX can deal to otk almost everything in front of them.
Don't forget that Dialga needs 2 metal energy to use the first attack so you can't just splash it at literally any deck unlike Mew EX and Exeggutor without getting yourself screwed by energy roll
It doesn't "hard replace" anything; it only works for Metal and Colorless decks and requires two energy for its attack, whereas Moltres requires one and Gard doesn't require any. Considering that, you need to use it twice to more than break even on the energy charge unless there's something like a Metal version of Vaporeon that lets you move energy around, and charging beyond twice feels like overkill unless there's some Pokemon coming out that are huge energy hogs
Idk I'm willing to be proven wrong but I feel like Dialga is being seriously overhyped at this point, it's not awful but I don't think it's as good as people are making it out to be
@@franzise3605mew instantly powering up after a budding is pretty good and it can revenge kill palkia
@ But the thing is you need to put two energy on Dialga in order to put two on Mew, why not just put the energy on Mew instead?
I like Electric type decks, and wanna use Pachirisu ex as soons as the expansion is live. I'm not familiar with Tools, but you said it: In a way, it guarantees a good damage better than Pikachu ex can. I was tryng a variant of the Pikachu ex deck with Jolteon for a while. It seemed worth it. But, I had some matches where I had to put Pikachu ex in play before I got a chance to evolve my Eevee, so I was "stuck" with a 60 damage attack for a couple of turns.
Ah thats awesome, I have been really enjoying playing pidgeot EX with zebstrika in lightning lately - brought that to ursis tournament - and also ran 1x dedenne that I loved, but my last pokemon 1x chatot felt so underwhelming, and I got really nothing Else in that slot i was excited about - This pachirisu feels like a perfect fit, able to play as a tank early, and as a second attacker depending on if There are tools fitting for that deck!
I feel like Dialga EX, Mew EX and Melmetal could work super well together. And while I'd love for Garchomp to stay fully colorless, I think it'll end up requiring Fighting and something else, ideally Metal or maybe Dark.
It uses water alongside fighting in the tcg so probably that since both druddigon and dragonite have their tcg energy types as well
Fun fact: Leafeon's total text was already revealed other trailers (like the italian one), so we already knew it wasn't able to attack the turn after the attack 🥶
Hey I thought of something about the Lucario card. Medicham and hitmontop are on the card. Wouldn't that be a good reason for them to be cards in the packs. Every single card in the game doesn't have a Pokemon on it that's not already in the game. So I think it gives me enough reason to believe that meditite medicham and hitmontop are going to be cards in the game? I could be wrong but I just think it's weird that they're there.
What format is your tourney with Jeff? Would like to enter but having trouble
I like Lucario with Hitmonchan. Super easy to setup and just deals tons of damage if you go first.
The Cynthia deck is exciting to me. Also, electric toolbox deck with Pachirisu.
Kind of wish Lucario was +30 but didn't stack. It will be interesting to see new fighting types introduced in this set to see more Lucario synergy. I think it would be great to see a strong 110 DMG Pokemon, for the 130 HP breakpoint, with Giovanni for 140 HP, and then the 2nd Lucario to then hit 150 HP.
For me Palkia’s slash for 30 is going to make it an early game terror. You can 2 turn most basics and 3 turn for lots of 1st stages
Garchomp is probably gonna be a 130+ DMG card to be able to take out the likes of Gyarados and Charizard at that 180 HP with Cynthia. That or they go down to 100 DMG with cheaper energy costs for the 150 DMG breakpoint with Cynthia, but that doesn't seem like a very Garchomp thing to do.
Following dragonite and druddigon's route, I'm almost be sure that garchomp will need water and fighting energy to attack, as their tcg counterparts
I’m assuming lucario ability would boost his own attack so really his submarine blow does 60? 40 seems really low
The way it’s worded means it does boost its own attack. It also means another Lucario would boost it too (it should stack)
A lot of garchomps need colorless and fighting energy. He could pair well with some of the low energy big hitters we have
Kabutops hadn't occurred to me as a lucario pairing, but I would love that, the heal was something I really liked but didn't feel impactful enough to compete with the more meta fighting decks.
Just wanted to say that it's plausible that dialga and palkia could be boosted by the presence of their specifics tools (Adamant/lustrous Orb) which could like increase the damage on Dialga and reduce the discard cost on Palkia's second attack, for example.
random question, if lucario is on and hitmonlee attacks a bench pokemon, the active takes 20 damage?
edit: I also think lucario shouldn't be weak to psychic but weak to fire, because he is part steel which resists psychic
I'm just happy to be here bc I love sinnoh!! going to be using pack stamina like crazy
I find pokemon that are not colorless, but have colorless attacks so interesting.
Did the math a couple days ago and Kabutops can heal 160 in a single turn (40 is from potions)
I want to know if your 1st Space time smack down pack choice will have a deterministic reward like how picking Mewtwo always meant you got Full art Bulbasaur and Marowak EX.
mysti is still a problem xD nice line to end xD and yes bc i allways screw at 1st or 2nd throw XD madness
Super pumped for this set - see you trainers out there!
ok so Palkia is definitely interesting... definitely op but with some caveats... some say Misty can solve Palkia's caveats and that is true but the issue i find with Palkia is... Misty herself... i mean she's called "Miss-ty" for a reason 😅🤣
I cant wait for darkrai!!! DARKRAI EX lets gooo!! I can only hope!!!
I'm personally thinking Dialga and Golem would be amazing 3 colourless is great with metal energy, and Brock means I don't have to run fighting energy. I'd probably run another metal pokemon to reduce the chance of starting with Geodude.
Logically I think there might be an Ex for Cresselia.
I really hope they add the level ball item card so it makes it easier to get second stage Pokémon and make them easier to play cause right now 1 stage Pokémon have a huge advantage
Gen 1 and 4 are my favorite gens (Gen 1 for the anime and Gen 4 for the games). So the fact they’re skipping Johto and Hoenn is interesting.
Im excited for Lucario, Garchomp and Leafeon so far.
I’m assuming we’ll be getting the full sinnoh dex in this set since we got full kanto in GA
Garchomp will need multiple energy Types. Nearly every dragon since gen 3 had it
I think They really missed the opportunity to give pachirisu the ability to survive the draco meteor.
an electric pokemon that can move 1 tool from one of your pokemon to another think would be rly cool as a concept maybe possible since its not op (depends on the tools they make tho)
The strength of Palkia will be that it can come in late game, one shot a Mewtwo or almost anything else with any chip damage while picking up a point or two off the bench. Any early game talk about him is ridiculous. 1of.
Not a fan of Palkia, but I won't deny it has huge potential... The main downside is the discard, but it will likely get support, just like the other cover pokémon got. Plus, they seem to be moving in a discard direction with water (look at Gyarados EX as well). Going to be a very bold prediction here, but: Empoleon will have an ability that negates discarding of energy by ally pokémon.
And even if it doesn't happen, it's basically a Zapdos... Deals more damage and is bulkier, but relies a lot more on X Speed/Leaf. It'll still see play.
I wonder if Porygon2 and Porygon-Z will be in too? 🤔
Garchomp and togekiss are truly MASSIVE choices
Palkia-melmetal decks gonna be INSAANEE!
Dialga* (metal). Palkia is the water one.
Gen 4 has - Magnezone - Electivire - Magmotar - Glaceon -Rhyperior and so much more!! this will definitely shake up the game! if all added.
Swanna will be finally amazing - super useful for Steel decks with Dialga EX. It will counter fire decks and do 90 damage to them (100 with giovanni) OHKO'ing all of the Blaine pets.
As for Emploleon - hear me out. What if because it being half steel type it will use only colorless energy like Piplup just so it could be used togather with Dialga EX with only steel energy in the deck? That would be so cool.
It'd be a little weird but they could make it where the sinnoh starters use their secondary type for their final stages (metal for empoleon and fighting for the other two but with turwtig having 80 hp for a basic that evolves twice it definitely seems like they are staying to their main types as leaf is also the bulky type so far)
I would like to see more pokeballs and professors.
The mandatory Pokeball - Professor Oak requirement is becoming stale.
Cant forget tools on the way. Might get some heavy support for palkia through that, maybe a tool that has a discard less energy effect
I'm 100% SURE Creselia will have an EX. With creselia having such a MID card and it being a legendary, it reminds me of the MID cards of the legendary birds which also have an EX. No shot they'll leave creselia the way it is
Palkia is gonna be annoying,it is not bad at all.... people are always so lucky with Misty when i go against water decks....they can literally use its second attack in the second turn....and since it will one shot most pokemon anyway,it doesn't need to be used more than twice in one game (especially with greninja or Lumi,or even Articuno ex)
I have 100 shop tickets and 255 hour glasses saved up!!! SO EXCITED 😆
How many do you have saved?
147 as of now ❤❤
282 tickets, 395 hourglasses.
You need 210 tickets per month to max out on the pack hourglasses so I've been battling like no one's business to max them out as you can only earn 150-155 per month without event rewards
Cant wait for all your new meta team deck vids! Woo
Regarding cress and healing.. i agree, healing is too slow. Not proactive.
golem and mr.mime defense raises are more interesting. Arguably, melmetal defense ability may be better
Lucario would bring the non-EX Machamp deck up to the damage done by Machamp EX. Might be a nice boost and required 3 pokemon to be knocked out.
Calling it now. Dialga ex to power up magnetzone. Running single type energy deck. Magneton self supplying lightning energy.
Normally it would be very unlikely in this game for them to have a switch in energy type but yeah magezone is one of the few where it would work.
So pachrisu is extremly underwhelming, the only thing he has above pikachu is that u can run more types, but u cant even make it dual energy bc pachririsu has 2 lightning, so yeah its not good at all
Put palkia in the active spot, use it as a wall and maybe slash a little, pull it back with leaf. Start building another water type (maybe articuno or staryu), then pull that back and put palkia back in. And use vaporeon to transfer the energy back to palkia as a game closer.
I am more curious about the tools we will get bet one of them will be leftovers or something hp based
Pip lup is a sneaky good card for a basic! Don’t sleep on that heal so many basics do 20 and your basically keeping your health full while waiting for prin pulp etc and saving a potion for other pokemon
If you have a 60hp basic in the active spot it will be either one-shot by the most common stage 1 pokémon or simply stare at a defenseless wall doing nothing. I don't think it will be that good
4:20 given other Garchomp cards, it likely will have to use Fighting energies, and maybe also Water energies
I can see marowak getting some love with the lucario as a quick beatdown standard 14 card list but the remaining 6 can be pivoted and from the lucario art it means we might get medicham and hitmontop in the set also
2 cubone
2 marowak ex
1 marowak
1 marshadow
2 riolu
2 lucario
2 pokeball
2 researcher
My favorite two pokemon of all time are Gallade and Togekiss, so hearing that one of them is coming already, AND it is one of the coveted "Trainer Supported" cards with the GOAT Cynthia being the supporter of choice?
Wake me up I most be dreaming
If a Gallade is in this set too...maaaan
I forget how many absolutely awesome Pokémon designs came from Sinnoh I’m genuinely so excited for these Pokémon to drop
P.S. I wonder if we’ll get a new animated Pokémon art
Great breakdown as always! I love that full art Cynthia! My guess for Garchomps attack would be Dual Chop and it’d work like Marrowak EX but only 50-60 dmg per heads and I think Togekiss will be Draining Kiss where it’ll do like 40 dmg but can heal for the amount of dmg it does
Maybe but Dual Chop is more like a Haxorus thing
My guess would be garchomp will just use colourless and fighting energy since it’s a dragon ground type in main series
Nice touch with the rainbow border around you. Will we get a crown rare version?😅
Hunchcrow and Pokeflute will be played massively
I don't think there is any shot Garchomp will have colorless only attacks. It has always been water/fighting energy in the standard TCG and I think this one will follow suit.
Mew EX is currently one of the best target to ramp with Dialga EX.
praying theres no 3rd pack stuff, I wanna run a dusknoir deck so bad, my favorite boys finally here (hopefully)