Fun fact: Unlike with ex, EX, GX, V and so on, the LV.X on each Pokémon LV.X is NOT considered part of the card’s name. So Pokémon LV.X do count towards the playset limit of the Pokémon they’re supposed to Level Up from. That means you can only have like a 3/1, 2/2 or 1/3 ratio of Gardevoir and Gardevoir LV.X in your deck, for example. (Though, as discussed in the video: Arceus kinda breaks that rule)
That’s why I love lv x. It’s not just cram big hitters in your deck, it also requires a little bit of consideration while deck building, and that’s so cool to me
@@therealjeromeo4366 Though, that aspect of LV.X did keep a bunch of cards out of the meta, that otherwise would have seen plenty of play. Snorlax LV.X is one that comes to mind. Players of the current format do know and respect the Snorlax of Vivid Voltage with its Gourmandise Ability, and Snorlax LV.X more or less fulfils the same purpose with its Big Appetite Poké-Power. That Snorlax would definitely have seen plenty of meta success, if one could feasibly run more than two copies of it (though, the fact that Ultra Ball didn’t exist then, prolly didn’t help either).
@@DaneeBound Yeah, in those days, the best Pokemon search options were Communications and Luxury Ball. Luxury Ball is a card I'd love to see printed again because it feels like a prototype version of an ACE Spec, as it could search any non-LV. X, but only if you had no other copies in the discard
The LV. X and Break gimmicks are easily my favorite gimmicks in the TCG. These gimmicks build ontop of pre-existing cards and allowed you to combine the effects of the previous form to create some truly fascinating combinations. Something that we unfortunately never saw in similar evolution based gimmicks like Vmax and Mega Evolution.
Dialog G Lv. X was also a very good Lv. X as well. It's Poke Body nullified all other Poke Bodies except SP Pokemons', which countered a lot of strategies out there.
*DuelLogs gasp sound* I love Lv. X Pokémon! One of my favorite cards I have is a Lv. X Raichu I got when I was 10. And when the Celebrations set was in full swing, I bought a Celebrations Lv. X Garchomp off a friend. Both are safely sleeved on my wall.
I'm glad im seeing more Pokemon TCG videos come out today like the ones from almost a decade ago. But I do have to wonder if someone would do the TCG equivalent of "How good was this pokemon actually?" where one goes over all the stand out cards for a single pokemon and goes over their viability over the gens and formats and such.
My deck in the TCG has always focused around they synergy between Darkrai EX and LvX, turning every Dark Energy in my deck into a Special Darkness Energy that also lets every Pokémon I play retreat for free. One of my favorite plays was to combine it with Dusknoir (Boundaries Crossed), who could freely move damage counters around, making exact damage setups for a double Night Spear Knockout. Not to mention, sleep with only a 25% chance of waking up is great, but also adding a 25% chance of just Knocking Out the opponent between turns is funny as hell.
Top 10 Basics without a Rule Box Jirachi (Deoxys): Literally had to be nerfed TWICE, first as Team Up Jirachi, then as Celebrations Mew, just to get it to the point where it was actually balanced - and even Mew was STILL a great card. Uxie (Legends Awakened): Similar to Jirachi, Uxie had to be nerfed twice just to balance it. First as Shaymin EX, then as Crobat V. Crobat G: by far the best basic SP. Galarian Zigzagoon does the same thing now, but 10 damage was much more significant in 2009 than it is now. Lapras (Legend Maker): it's Lumineon V, but as a regular Pokémon. Hitmonchan/Electabuzz (Base): the OG beatsticks Zekrom/Reshiram (Black & White): the Hitmonchan & Electabuzz of 2011. Celebi Prime: technically, Primes didn't have Rule Boxes! Anyway, it was energy acceleration on a basic. Mewtwo (Movie Promo)/Rocket's Zapdos: the best beaters of the latter Gen 1 era.
These videos are incredibly interesting to watch! I really hope they make something like the Arceus archetype again, because that's just such a cool concept for a deck. Having a handful of variants to a single card as the bread and butter to your deck sounds super cool! Also as a side note, that background during the Uxie explanation was incredibly bright! Kind of hurt the eyes a little bit.
I remember Garchomp C Lv. X When I was in 5th grade, we would play during lunch breaks and one of the older kids had a Garchomp C Deck that he was wrecking everyone with. Imagine his face when I explained to him he can‘t evolve regular Garchomp into Garchomp C Lv. X (he didn‘t have Garchomp C) He never played with us again
Fun Fact! You can only Level up a pokemon in the Active Spot and not benched pokemon. These count like evolutions, so you can not Lv.X the same turn you place down the card (unless you play the later released Broken Space Time Stadium). These only count as 1 prize card for knock outs. Lv.X is not part of the name so these are counted together with the non Lv.X forms. My favourite era =)
Definitely my favorite mechanic, though the existence of SP Pokemon really make it hard for me to call it my favorite era. Between them, EXs and Vs I've gotten really sick of them turning evolutions into basic Pokemon just so they can arbitrarily speed up the game
@@munchrai6396 i really enjoyed the broken space time era =P it made evolving pokemon so fun. i agree, it kinda got weird with evolution pokemon being basic. mew&mewtwo tagteam basic and worth 3 prizes lol
My brother played competitively at this time in the TCG and I remember LuxChomp (luxray gl and garchomp c) deck being very expensive. Luxray and garchomp iirc were a few $100 for one. I think. It's been so long and my brother says that LuxChomp was his favorite deck that he ever played.
Played competitive/did well throughout this format, was pretty confused by the list. Especially Porygon Z and Magnezone, which were never viable, and regigigas which was an ok rogue deck for maybe one or two expansions. Promocroak made all 3 of those cards practically unusable. That being said, thank you for making these videos, it's nice to see throwbacks and it's pretty unique. I would go: 1. Luxray GL 2. Garchomp C 3. Dialga G 4. Uxie 5. Gengar 6. Mewtwo 7. Flygon 8. Gardevoir 9. Palkia G 10. Torterra
Best SP? Luxray. Best Level X? Also Luxray. Best Owner's Pokémon? You guessed it, Luxray! ...Although you could make an argument for Rocket's Zapdos or Brock's Ninetales.
@@coreylineberry8557 I used to think it wasn't that good, but then I used it in Legacy format (HGSS - BW) and it's much better than I thought. I would still put Mew, Yanmega, Magnezone, (and of course Celebi) over Donphan though. Edit: Forgot Typhlosion as well!
Yanmega was hands down the most succesful in earning CP, money and top 8 in events It was a very short period of time that celebi saw any play, even if it was absurdly good during that period of time
@@adamkarlb6329 It allows VirGenCel to setup turn 1 going 2nd and you can theoretically gust using plasma energy as your attachment using double Celebi or using Celebei, attach grass and use colress machine. Either way it was easy to setup a Genesect on turn 1. The fact you can OHKO any Pokemon in play on your first turn is what gives it the #1 spot. Obviously Genesect is the attacker alongside G Booster, but the combo wouldn't be as good if it weren't for Celebi.
@@MindofInstincts genesect ex and celebi prime never was in the standard format at the same time. Broken in Legacy? Yes. But side formats like Legacy is not relativly as important in these discussion as standard formats
I used Porygon Z Lv.X in my favourite tournament match ever... one that I lost. :D I was up against this epic Drapion Lv.X that made it to 2nd place in thta tournament. Next turn, I would have Level Upped my Active Porygon-Z (promo) to destroy almost every Special Energy my opponent had... in a deck that didn't really have energy besides Special Energy. My opponent managed to get triple poison flip heads using Drapion Lv.X's power, used Black Belt AND then Entei & Raikou Legends destroyed enough Pokemon at once to take rest of the prize cards. And that was my first round of the tournament. I lost the first 2 matches and won the last 4 so I didn't make the top cut but landed on a 12th place.
Darkrai lvl x, its dark void attack would on a coin flip instantly ko the target if it was a asleep and if it wasn't the attack would put them to sleep.
Next if not already done try turbo pokemon, these are the closest thing to an actual successor to lvx as turbo pokemon also keep most of their prior Form
This video should have been called the top 10 most succesfull lv x cards of all time The best lv.x cards? Those are cards that should be viable in the most amount of formats in the history of the game. (adjusting numbers to the era.) Here you are saying that a team up pidgeotto that need the active spot to evolve is better than empoleon lv.x. A card that i taking away 2 cards each turn and have a semi useful if not a bit expensive attack. Then we also have leafeon LV.x with a great body, dusknoir can be a very devastating stadium if left unchecked (it is also Pokémon recovery). Floatsel GL is very efficent etc.
In all three (I think) channels about card games that this person runs "best" always means "seen the most in the competitive scene / won the most tournaments". You want a different list and that`s cool, you can send it as an idea or make a video yourself, but arguing over semantics is not the best idea.
Porygon Lv. X would still be terrifying today. Mode Crash would be quite the potent method of disruption.
Lugia Vstar: 🙁☹️😣😖😢
"Would" ?
@@akiradkcn would because its not legal, so it isn't
@@ShinkuDragon oooh
Fun fact: Unlike with ex, EX, GX, V and so on, the LV.X on each Pokémon LV.X is NOT considered part of the card’s name.
So Pokémon LV.X do count towards the playset limit of the Pokémon they’re supposed to Level Up from.
That means you can only have like a 3/1, 2/2 or 1/3 ratio of Gardevoir and Gardevoir LV.X in your deck, for example.
(Though, as discussed in the video: Arceus kinda breaks that rule)
That’s why I love lv x. It’s not just cram big hitters in your deck, it also requires a little bit of consideration while deck building, and that’s so cool to me
@@therealjeromeo4366 Though, that aspect of LV.X did keep a bunch of cards out of the meta, that otherwise would have seen plenty of play. Snorlax LV.X is one that comes to mind. Players of the current format do know and respect the Snorlax of Vivid Voltage with its Gourmandise Ability, and Snorlax LV.X more or less fulfils the same purpose with its Big Appetite Poké-Power. That Snorlax would definitely have seen plenty of meta success, if one could feasibly run more than two copies of it (though, the fact that Ultra Ball didn’t exist then, prolly didn’t help either).
@@DaneeBound Yeah, in those days, the best Pokemon search options were Communications and Luxury Ball. Luxury Ball is a card I'd love to see printed again because it feels like a prototype version of an ACE Spec, as it could search any non-LV. X, but only if you had no other copies in the discard
The LV. X and Break gimmicks are easily my favorite gimmicks in the TCG. These gimmicks build ontop of pre-existing cards and allowed you to combine the effects of the previous form to create some truly fascinating combinations. Something that we unfortunately never saw in similar evolution based gimmicks like Vmax and Mega Evolution.
Dialog G Lv. X was also a very good Lv. X as well. It's Poke Body nullified all other Poke Bodies except SP Pokemons', which countered a lot of strategies out there.
I thought for sure that card would make it to the list.
Dialga def should have made it. Literally won Nats in 2010, and was part of the Worlds 2010 LuxChomp list.
*DuelLogs gasp sound* I love Lv. X Pokémon! One of my favorite cards I have is a Lv. X Raichu I got when I was 10. And when the Celebrations set was in full swing, I bought a Celebrations Lv. X Garchomp off a friend. Both are safely sleeved on my wall.
I'm glad im seeing more Pokemon TCG videos come out today like the ones from almost a decade ago. But I do have to wonder if someone would do the TCG equivalent of "How good was this pokemon actually?" where one goes over all the stand out cards for a single pokemon and goes over their viability over the gens and formats and such.
DP/HGSS is my favorite format ever. this video was so much fun!
2010 World Championship and MD-CoL are both great retro format ts to play. So many variations!
My deck in the TCG has always focused around they synergy between Darkrai EX and LvX, turning every Dark Energy in my deck into a Special Darkness Energy that also lets every Pokémon I play retreat for free. One of my favorite plays was to combine it with Dusknoir (Boundaries Crossed), who could freely move damage counters around, making exact damage setups for a double Night Spear Knockout.
Not to mention, sleep with only a 25% chance of waking up is great, but also adding a 25% chance of just Knocking Out the opponent between turns is funny as hell.
Top 10 Basics without a Rule Box
Jirachi (Deoxys): Literally had to be nerfed TWICE, first as Team Up Jirachi, then as Celebrations Mew, just to get it to the point where it was actually balanced - and even Mew was STILL a great card.
Uxie (Legends Awakened): Similar to Jirachi, Uxie had to be nerfed twice just to balance it. First as Shaymin EX, then as Crobat V.
Crobat G: by far the best basic SP. Galarian Zigzagoon does the same thing now, but 10 damage was much more significant in 2009 than it is now.
Lapras (Legend Maker): it's Lumineon V, but as a regular Pokémon.
Hitmonchan/Electabuzz (Base): the OG beatsticks
Zekrom/Reshiram (Black & White): the Hitmonchan & Electabuzz of 2011.
Celebi Prime: technically, Primes didn't have Rule Boxes! Anyway, it was energy acceleration on a basic.
Mewtwo (Movie Promo)/Rocket's Zapdos: the best beaters of the latter Gen 1 era.
Plus Shaymin EX is banned for bringing too much consistency. Uxie's probably number 1 because of that
would love to see a top ten BREAK pokemon. Used to play in the 2016 era and these were a fun mechanic
Top 5 off the top of my head are Greninja, Trevenant, Xerneas, Yveltal, and Zoroark
@@advente_ Yeah the break cards had high highs and low lows. Also a top mega evolution cards would be cool
These videos are incredibly interesting to watch! I really hope they make something like the Arceus archetype again, because that's just such a cool concept for a deck. Having a handful of variants to a single card as the bread and butter to your deck sounds super cool!
Also as a side note, that background during the Uxie explanation was incredibly bright! Kind of hurt the eyes a little bit.
Would a video covering "The Best card in each season" be a good Idea? I think it would be interesting
Magnezone SF5 searched for Pokémon, not energy. I've loved Magnezone ever since this era.
I miss LvX's so hard!
Darkrai Lv X. was my ace as a kid, and so I hold a special place for it in my heart
I remember Garchomp C Lv. X
When I was in 5th grade, we would play during lunch breaks and one of the older kids had a Garchomp C Deck that he was wrecking everyone with.
Imagine his face when I explained to him he can‘t evolve regular Garchomp into Garchomp C Lv. X (he didn‘t have Garchomp C)
He never played with us again
The top 5 are fine, But Porygon and Arceus seem like odd picks when things like Dialga G, Palkia G, Blaziken FB, or Mewtwo didn't make the list.
Fun Fact! You can only Level up a pokemon in the Active Spot and not benched pokemon. These count like evolutions, so you can not Lv.X the same turn you place down the card (unless you play the later released Broken Space Time Stadium). These only count as 1 prize card for knock outs. Lv.X is not part of the name so these are counted together with the non Lv.X forms. My favourite era =)
Definitely my favorite mechanic, though the existence of SP Pokemon really make it hard for me to call it my favorite era. Between them, EXs and Vs I've gotten really sick of them turning evolutions into basic Pokemon just so they can arbitrarily speed up the game
@@munchrai6396 i really enjoyed the broken space time era =P it made evolving pokemon so fun. i agree, it kinda got weird with evolution pokemon being basic. mew&mewtwo tagteam basic and worth 3 prizes lol
Flygon Lv X is actually one of the sickest designs.
My brother played competitively at this time in the TCG and I remember LuxChomp (luxray gl and garchomp c) deck being very expensive. Luxray and garchomp iirc were a few $100 for one. I think. It's been so long and my brother says that LuxChomp was his favorite deck that he ever played.
Old Pokémon cards hit differently.
Waiting patiently for b&w series ex . Those cards were amazing and i have fond memories with team plasma card
Love this format in this era of Pokémon it was consistent and not to fast
Yo! Fainting Spell Gengar! Man I loved using that card as a kid
YES! The cool cat topped a Pokémon list!
Played competitive/did well throughout this format, was pretty confused by the list. Especially Porygon Z and Magnezone, which were never viable, and regigigas which was an ok rogue deck for maybe one or two expansions. Promocroak made all 3 of those cards practically unusable. That being said, thank you for making these videos, it's nice to see throwbacks and it's pretty unique. I would go:
1. Luxray GL
2. Garchomp C
3. Dialga G
4. Uxie
5. Gengar
6. Mewtwo
7. Flygon
8. Gardevoir
9. Palkia G
10. Torterra
I like how Lv x and BREAK pokemon are similar
Best SP? Luxray.
Best Level X? Also Luxray.
Best Owner's Pokémon? You guessed it, Luxray! ...Although you could make an argument for Rocket's Zapdos or Brock's Ninetales.
as a player that ran magnezone lvX + prime with raichu prime i can tell you this i fucking love sniping even more so on them water decks.
Would love to see Top 10 best Prime Pokemon!
Celebi Prime is #1 IMO! :)
I feel like Donphan Prime might get the edge.
@@coreylineberry8557 I used to think it wasn't that good, but then I used it in Legacy format (HGSS - BW) and it's much better than I thought.
I would still put Mew, Yanmega, Magnezone, (and of course Celebi) over Donphan though.
Edit: Forgot Typhlosion as well!
Yanmega was hands down the most succesful in earning CP, money and top 8 in events
It was a very short period of time that celebi saw any play, even if it was absurdly good during that period of time
@@adamkarlb6329 It allows VirGenCel to setup turn 1 going 2nd and you can theoretically gust using plasma energy as your attachment using double Celebi or using Celebei, attach grass and use colress machine. Either way it was easy to setup a Genesect on turn 1. The fact you can OHKO any Pokemon in play on your first turn is what gives it the #1 spot. Obviously Genesect is the attacker alongside G Booster, but the combo wouldn't be as good if it weren't for Celebi.
@@MindofInstincts genesect ex and celebi prime never was in the standard format at the same time. Broken in Legacy? Yes. But side formats like Legacy is not relativly as important in these discussion as standard formats
I used Porygon Z Lv.X in my favourite tournament match ever... one that I lost. :D I was up against this epic Drapion Lv.X that made it to 2nd place in thta tournament. Next turn, I would have Level Upped my Active Porygon-Z (promo) to destroy almost every Special Energy my opponent had... in a deck that didn't really have energy besides Special Energy. My opponent managed to get triple poison flip heads using Drapion Lv.X's power, used Black Belt AND then Entei & Raikou Legends destroyed enough Pokemon at once to take rest of the prize cards.
And that was my first round of the tournament. I lost the first 2 matches and won the last 4 so I didn't make the top cut but landed on a 12th place.
Darkrai lvl x, its dark void attack would on a coin flip instantly ko the target if it was a asleep and if it wasn't the attack would put them to sleep.
Finally...regigigas is good at being a pokemon!
Set up Uxie would just get banned in today's meta. There's already precedent in Shaymin EX, and Uxie's even better
Might the guardevoir be one of the earliest pokemon with a hard once per turn ability?
@@Chiffonaise okay interesting that it was used more in the past than later on, pretty pretty cool info.
I don't think PZ and Magnezone are good enough to make the list - Mewtwo amd Dusknoir would be my replacement picks
Im still taking Uxie lv.x over luxray lv.x but thats all i would change
to mirror a sentiment show in this comment section, would love to see top 10 Pokémon Prime
Zacian lv. X is pretty good I think
Next if not already done try turbo pokemon, these are the closest thing to an actual successor to lvx as turbo pokemon also keep most of their prior Form
“archetype” 😂
This video should have been called the top 10 most succesfull lv x cards of all time
The best lv.x cards? Those are cards that should be viable in the most amount of formats in the history of the game. (adjusting numbers to the era.) Here you are saying that a team up pidgeotto that need the active spot to evolve is better than empoleon lv.x.
A card that i taking away 2 cards each turn and have a semi useful if not a bit expensive attack.
Then we also have leafeon LV.x with a great body, dusknoir can be a very devastating stadium if left unchecked (it is also Pokémon recovery). Floatsel GL is very efficent etc.
In all three (I think) channels about card games that this person runs "best" always means "seen the most in the competitive scene / won the most tournaments". You want a different list and that`s cool, you can send it as an idea or make a video yourself, but arguing over semantics is not the best idea.
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