love the video. The one deck im looking to play is the Lapras, Blastoise deck. I like the mechanic where I attack more based on the water energy attached.
I think you're massively overvalueing the damage attacks on small basics. In the base game (which to be fair is significantly different) these types of carda are utterly unuseable. I think that something with utility (meowth, vulpix, abra, etc.) is almost always going to be better. I think how good a basic is is waaay more determined by retreat cost and health. Water shuriken greninja, for example, can kill tynamo or magikarp in 2 turns. It kills dratini, for example, in 4 turns. This is even more relevant in pocket, since that represents a full THIRD of the points needed to win. For a pokemon whose job is to evolve, not getting stuck in the way of other pokemon and not being a liability that the opponent can exploit is FAR more useful than what the attack does, unless it does something very useful. This particularly applies to how tynamo isn't a benefit to play, its a liability, whilst vulpix totally is great, since an inconsistent one turn walling attack is useful in an emergency 10% of the time, and can be ignored 90% of the time. Vulpix, meowth, meltan, and dratini all look like good basics that you would want to play.
Great job with the vid. I like how you separated the cards and judged them in different ways. Just a note on Articuno, since you are interested in building Greninja, I think the two will pair well together. Hopefully there is water energy acceleration, to ramp up your Articuno quickly while you build up Greninja, and start doing 30 dmg to all your opponents benched pokemon per turn.
I think Rapidash might be a *little* better than what you've rated it. Specifically because it is a decent turn 2 option for decks that end up going first and can evolve, but only have 1 energy. That 100 health is pretty beefy for that early in the game, and if you happen to combo it with Blaine, you're dealing 70 (or 90 weakness) damage on turn 2. The Blaine/Moltres deck actually seems like it will synergize really well and bring together a bunch of cards that would be 1-2 stars lower by themselves. But when supporting each other, they form a viable, and maybe even a competitive deck. I might be biased, though, since I'm going to reroll for a Blaine deck because Ninetales has been my favorite Pokemon for 26 years. And I'm determined to make her work come hell or high water
I think you over look 1 thing with Blastoise yes he need two 2 shot everything other ex pokemon but he gets his main attack one enegery sooner and there not lot of cards that added energies. So for Venusaur versus Blastoise for example Blastoise gets first attack no matter what if Venusaur still doesn't have that 4th energy Blastoise wins with the Venusaur barely hurting him
if water has one or two more decent cards that let you damage bench i think articuno ex does get better. at that point, you arnt hoping his effect works out, you are building a full deck around distributing damage across their active and bench slots and bringing out the birb as cleanup. interested to see the ramp options the 'extra energy' theme implies, if you can get birb to 3 energy for blizzard the turn it drops that would be big
A lot of the big basics listed can evolve! Are the evos deconfirmed, was this a guess, or an oversight? I think Blissey is pretty likely since it was Gen 2 and these seem heavily weighted for early generations.
love the video. The one deck im looking to play is the Lapras, Blastoise deck. I like the mechanic where I attack more based on the water energy attached.
Basically the dollar store Chien-Pao deck
@@_shadiness yes, but chien pao discards the energy. that does not happen here 😇
@@TCGTimepocketEven if it did, you're guaranteed to get one water energy every turn.
Thanks for this video Willow, I was actually looking for a video like this!
vulpix is not that bad. he doesn't do damage but if you are against a wall he may be able to buy you a turn, which other baseline attackers can't do
I think you're massively overvalueing the damage attacks on small basics. In the base game (which to be fair is significantly different) these types of carda are utterly unuseable. I think that something with utility (meowth, vulpix, abra, etc.) is almost always going to be better. I think how good a basic is is waaay more determined by retreat cost and health.
Water shuriken greninja, for example, can kill tynamo or magikarp in 2 turns. It kills dratini, for example, in 4 turns. This is even more relevant in pocket, since that represents a full THIRD of the points needed to win. For a pokemon whose job is to evolve, not getting stuck in the way of other pokemon and not being a liability that the opponent can exploit is FAR more useful than what the attack does, unless it does something very useful.
This particularly applies to how tynamo isn't a benefit to play, its a liability, whilst vulpix totally is great, since an inconsistent one turn walling attack is useful in an emergency 10% of the time, and can be ignored 90% of the time.
Vulpix, meowth, meltan, and dratini all look like good basics that you would want to play.
Thanks for the video! Really hope the gameplay has adequate depth and ranked mode is implemented not too long after launch.
Great job with the vid. I like how you separated the cards and judged them in different ways. Just a note on Articuno, since you are interested in building Greninja, I think the two will pair well together. Hopefully there is water energy acceleration, to ramp up your Articuno quickly while you build up Greninja, and start doing 30 dmg to all your opponents benched pokemon per turn.
already reviewing?? let's go!!
Depending on how many Pokémon can hit the bench for damage, the higher hp basics might be better just based solely off that.
I think Rapidash might be a *little* better than what you've rated it. Specifically because it is a decent turn 2 option for decks that end up going first and can evolve, but only have 1 energy. That 100 health is pretty beefy for that early in the game, and if you happen to combo it with Blaine, you're dealing 70 (or 90 weakness) damage on turn 2.
The Blaine/Moltres deck actually seems like it will synergize really well and bring together a bunch of cards that would be 1-2 stars lower by themselves. But when supporting each other, they form a viable, and maybe even a competitive deck.
I might be biased, though, since I'm going to reroll for a Blaine deck because Ninetales has been my favorite Pokemon for 26 years. And I'm determined to make her work come hell or high water
Nice to see you posting videos again, still miss dcdf.
Me too buddy :(
@@WillowCCG Do you know if they have any plans to revive dcdf anytime in the future?
Didn't Dellroth already make a video on this Genetic Apex analysis you made?
I think you over look 1 thing with Blastoise yes he need two 2 shot everything other ex pokemon but he gets his main attack one enegery sooner and there not lot of cards that added energies. So for Venusaur versus Blastoise for example Blastoise gets first attack no matter what if Venusaur still doesn't have that 4th energy Blastoise wins with the Venusaur barely hurting him
if water has one or two more decent cards that let you damage bench i think articuno ex does get better. at that point, you arnt hoping his effect works out, you are building a full deck around distributing damage across their active and bench slots and bringing out the birb as cleanup. interested to see the ramp options the 'extra energy' theme implies, if you can get birb to 3 energy for blizzard the turn it drops that would be big
will you make a video about pikachu decklist, if so what would it be?
A lot of the big basics listed can evolve! Are the evos deconfirmed, was this a guess, or an oversight? I think Blissey is pretty likely since it was Gen 2 and these seem heavily weighted for early generations.
Primeape evolves too!
Update: they've all been deconfirmed lol
How do you make purchases in the Google store because it says not able to purchase in you country
Waiting for the updated version
the game launched on new zeland, looking for gameplay video
I play Charizard/Moltres and the only deck that consistently beats me online is Pikachu deck and i have like 20+ games 15+ wins
Isn't electrabuzz an evolving basic
Looks like we are starting off with WotC levels from the OG days before HP and attack starts hitting to the 200 and 300s.
They did my boy Snorlax dirty 😭 I just want him to be barely viable.
Not balanced, pass on this slot machine simulator app.