Some of the star ratings you see on screen don't match what I verbally say, this is just me changing my mind while editing. The star rating you see on screen is my "definitive rating."
Exeggutor EX is not 1 star for sure. If you get it early it can just win you games. Sure it has its lows, a retreat cost of 3, but it does guaranteed 40 dmg and you only need 1 energy for its move. Furthermore, if you have Erika you can avoid getting 2HKOd and potentially attack 3 times with it. It is at least 3 stars.
Exeggutor EX at 1 star is CRAZY. It has won so much games for me. I'd say it's 4 stars but yeah at the very least it should be 3 stars. I don't understand how his thought process works when rating these cards...
Definitely a 3 Star at least. It’s only downside is the retreat. You get it running faster than Pikachu and Starmie, you just have to forget the retreat option with it.
I understand this is your personal opinion, and I do not mean to attack you in any shape or form. However, it does feel like a couple of ratings were given based on vibes and stats, and not on actual playtest. For example, the Koga+Weezing engine is so powerful in so many decks, like Alakazam, Arbok, Gengar, Weezing is a stat wall that for 0 cost will put pressure on your opponent as soon as it comes off, with a second Koffing on the bench you can heal your Weezing for free without giving your opponent a point by using Koga, and stall for an extra turn or two, because of the large HP pool. Another example would be the Pidgeot engine, which feels great to play on its own in many decks, especially in an Arbok deck. Just because the stats 'don't math', doesn't mean i actual playtest they are not good. Clefairy and Clefable in a Gengar deck for example feels amazing to play, a lot of aggro pressure from the start with a good attack and health, for a very low investment. Gengar EX is not a bad card by any means, the idea behind Gengar EX is that you play him as a 1of, with 2 regular Gengars, and you play the Gengar EX last. Because that deck is so energy efficient, your Gengar EX will be a trump card that will take care of cards like Mewtwo EX for example because it can tank the hit, and dish out 200 damage in 2 turns. Otherwise with the Gengar deck you have no win condition or outs in such cases. On the otherside, Dragonite while being somewhat strong, feels terrible to play due to so much things having to go right in order to win. You're reliant on draws, energy, and hitting the right enemies, while running an unplayable set of evolution. Not sure in which world Dragonair is a 4*, with a 3 energy cost and two different types of energy to deal 80 isn't great. In roughly 40 games of Dragonite I don't think I've attacked more than twice with Dragonair, as you want your Dragonite as healthy as possible for when he comes on the field, so he'd be benched every game. There are many other cards that, once you actually play with them yourself you get a better feel of how strong and consistent they are. And sure, most decks are draw dependent, and that could impact the consistency and perceived value of a stage 2 evolution, but just because not every evolution is a Starmie EX doesn't make the cards bad. Anyhow, appreciate the ranking and seeing what other's experience with the game is, maybe my experience is different to others because of the constant RNG variance, but imo some cards are heavily underrated and I recommend others to give them a chance for themselves too.
Same feeling, the rating is really problematic, after I watch the video until Blaine in around 14:00 and see it is so low rated, I decided to shut down the video
@@JonasChan-1990 Yes, that's another one that makes 0 sense. Blaine, Rapidash, Ninetales is such a good and consistent deck, that putting these cards anywhere but good and above makes no sense.
It's fine to disagree but I don't think it's fair to say Willow's ratings are based on vibes rather than playtest - they've been grinding pretty constantly since the game came out and have tried most things at this point.
@@regista4he admitted that he didn’t play some of the decks, and I am sure it’s not possible to have playtested all 200+ cards enough to have more insightful data. I am sure he played way more than I did for example, but obviously he didn’t play every single card. Overall it’s a good list but there are some glaring discrepancies and it’s to be expected in such a large list.
@crosscoss seems like the playerbase immediately zeroed in in EX decks being the most powerful thing you can do, so much so that they just stopped trying to find other sweet decks. There are a ton of sweet single prize decks, like alakazam, pidgeot arbok, or Blaine that people seem allergic to in favour of playing their ex decks or their dragonites
39:30 I think the golbat and mienshao line are kind of cool tech cards for decks that might have a glaring weakness to certain types. Like if your deck had a bad match up against Mewtwo then theoretically, you could throw zubat for 30 dmg + another 60 when he evolves while you get an energy set up on your backline. I'm not saying that's 100% what these are used for or that they're good at all, but in theory, I just like the idea of cards like this.
Nice exactly the type of vidéo I wanted to see ! Love your analysis even tho I don't agree with everything you defend your opinion a bit so I can see where you are coming from. Impatient to watch back on this vidéo 6 month from now xD
Would you be willing to evaluate cards that might be able to eventually evolve in the future as cards that can evolve? whenever you have a slow content day? I have been thinking about how many pokemon that currently can't but can evolve in the games/media feel underwhelming as they work now. Stuff like Porygon, Golbat, Onix, Magneton, Chansey, Rhyhorn, Seadra, etc. There are also some pokemon in this expansion that might get alternative cards as a stage 1 but I have no idea how to talk about the baby pokemon and I don't think there is a precedent to begin with.
What's most interesting to me about this and the comments is how much disagreement there still is, not just on individual cards but general deckbuilding principles in this game. Suggests the meta is still a long way from solved which is cool. I hope we get some form of stat tracker eventually which enables us to prove or disprove the opinions but for now it's fun to be able to have some healthy debate. Also very glad to have content that isn't just deck profiles or pack opening - it probably doesn't do as well on youtube but metagame and deck building discussion is much more interesting to me personally. Keep up the great content Willow.
13:16 I do have criticism here and I think it's important. I understand that this is already a long video and that you don't want to waste viewers' time, but saying that a card is good or bad without elaborating isn't helpful for new players in the long run. The time spent here alluding to a disagreement about the card couldve been used to briefly explain your thoughts on why you think its bad or why there is a disagreement to begin with among players. I really appreciate the content by the way. Fantastic work 👍
I agree with this criticism and I don’t think it’s the only instance of this in the video. For what it’s worth I’ll add my explanation here; Koga isn’t rewarding enough to keep up with what other decks are doing for less commitment both in terms of deck building and “tempo”.
great video! generally agree on the majority of the card evaluation however, i think you underrate handscope slightly, especially because it has value in basically every situation that redcard doesnt. handscope is pretty good early game when you have very little information on your opponent and enables you to commit to what would otherwise be higher risk plays, which is also a situation where redcard is a dead draw. handscope can also be used after redcard, doesnt have to be before, as it mitigates the "cost" of redcard eliminating any knowledge of your opponents hand upon use. really any position where you would have played differently if you had known your opponents hand ex ante, handscope is guaranteed value. i dont think handscope is an auto 2-of or anything, but similarly to redcard i think including 1 in a lot of decks with more trainer room, over cards like potion or gio, can be very worth it.
I agree with a lot of these but red card is a trap IMO. In a game where decks are so small, letting your opponent shuffle and draw 15% of their deck is terrible. In most pocket games players want to proactively play their good cards anyway so their hands will be mid. If they have a big hand its probably because they're bricking. Trying to snipe an evolution is too niche a case to be running it. To put it into perspective, pocket decks being a 3rd the size of the paper TCG, if this version of red card existed there it'd let your opponent shuffle and draw 9 cards and no one would ever play that card.
They would if their opponent had 18 cards in hand, which is the equivalent here. But I do agree it's a bit of a trap. I don't think it's bad mind you, but at the very most a 1 of (and that's because we just don't have that many other staple trainers)
@@CiciColino I think you could argue Sabrina is a staple trainer, which with research and pokeball brings your starting cards to 6. I'd also much rather play potion and x-speed over red card.
Just run more pokemon then. The only decks that are forced to run red card are the articuno + 18 trainer decks. Other decks should run at least 8 pokemon slots and don't need to run red card at all.
@@jasonjarmoosh Of course, we agree on that part. I never said red card is better than any of those cards because it's clearly not. It's just not completely useless like a lot of people seem to say.
agreed, especially dont use red card on pikachu ex deck.. there is only 1 time i met player use it, and i got my hand pikachu ex by him using red card..
How can you mistake the KING for Krabby at 1:03:30. 😢 Either way great video. Thanks for putting all that work in for us - 1 hour video is craaaaazy. Your insight is always much appreciated. Even though I don´t agree with everything here, I think I have the same opinion on like 99% of the cards, so well done.
Gonna be the antimeta here... Have been playing decks without Red Card and my overall Win rate went up. Much can be said about that card, however, it not only is RNG but highly depends on you knowing EXACTLY what deck your opponent is using, otherwise, it can play against you instead of in your favor. Plus, Red card has to be played early, so, if you get Red Card late in the game, it is basically useless. It only counters Research and Pokeball, but really, no skilled trainer is going to just use those cards to keep their hands full after that, only Brick decks would, and nobody tries to play a brick deck. Replacing Red Card(s) for something more reliable like Potion(s), XSpeed(s) or a Trainer can, an trust me, will make you Win more. I would place 3 Stars on Red Card at low elo decks, and would be tempted to place only 2 Stars with high level decks and players.
Most of this is pretty on point, some of it is internally inconsistent(ie:Tentacruel is only 2 while other stage 1's with 70dmg/2energy and 90hp are 3, depending on big Misty payoffs is bad but the deck that just does that is good), and then some just seem incorrect, 1star ExeggutorEX being a major standout. That thing can be a menace as lead. Get's going right away doing really good damage for 1. 160hp plus Erika lets it tank for days. MewtwoEX gets 3 shot with just 1 heads. Most of the time it's down before the psydrive and you shrug off 50mg. It's also matches up well against StarmieEX, another big threat in the meta.
I disagree with dex being lower than hand scope, because it works well in zard decks. It has more value than hand scope, because almost every deck runs pokeball, but not all deck runs red card.
@@BlekPowers It does and it's extremely useful in solo pokemon decks like 2 Articunos with 18 trainers. Dex allows me to check if my top 3 cards have misty or not. If there isn't any I use pokeball to shuffle my deck which increases my chances of drawing it.
Yeah, Blaine is not a 2 star card lmao. Ninetales turn 2 120 damage to Pika EX is serious. Ninetales and Blaine should be like 4 stars tbh (Blaine maybe 3 right now with room to go up). Also Rapidash 1 for 70 with Blaine sometimes catches opponents off guard. The point is to never give the opponent a chance to setup with the Blaine deck which it does really well. You won't beat water but neither will Charizard so yeah. Also, Gren is at least 3 star imo because of Starmie EX which it supports nicely in the mid-late game if your opponent somehow survived Starmie EX early because it gives it that extra push of 20 and can cripple your opponent's bench too.
how do farfetch'd and doduo have the same ranking? If the reason Duduo has 3 is because it can evolve into dodrio, dodrio is a 2 star? How? Persian has bonus utility with Red Card also. idk.
Watching this is wondered, has ditto been tried in dragonite decks? Water and lightning are the most popular things right now, and we are mostly trying to stall anyway
This is a fun idea, but Dragonite decks already have a really high Pokemon count. So its a bit spooky to include new Pokemon, could be fun trying though.
How is it that stage 1 cards in 2 stage evolutions with the EXACT same stats as Hitmonchan get 3 stars while Hitmonchan himself as a basic card only gets 2? I've liked him as a secondary basic in marowak decks. He's a great starting attacker while you prepare your marowak that only ever needs a single energy to guarantee a quick pop of damage to finish off mons you would rather not lose a coin flip to with Marowak. I feel like he at least earns 3 stars
Why is farfetch'd a 3 star? He has the same hp and retreat as baseline Pokémon but does twice the damage. I know you think it's overrated but it seems like it should be a cut above baseline just on math.
even more confusing he gave skiddo 4 stars and his is a 40 dmg is coin flip plus don't even think he read the text it sounds like the first time he's seeing it and he completely ignores the text under the damage lol 1:10:09
I agree from math alone his rating on cards is highly inconsistent. Also he doesn't consider the negative part of pokemon attacks like hitting self, discarding energy, etc as part of the rating, instead he focuses solely on the attack numbers, and even with that, it's still very inconsistent. I almost gave up halfway but keep listening till the end and was disappointed by how inconsistent the rating is till the end.
I'm a ways away from being able to play every deck but I agree with the majority of these takes. I don't think that red card is that great. I think that Pidgeot and Greninja could be a lot better than you give them credit for. I also think that exeggcutor is a solid grass type
Red Card is mid. The example you gave about having a read that they were stucked with evos in hand is not even a good example bcuz if they were bricked you were already in a good spot, and they still have 4 in whatever many cards left in their deck to draw the card(s) they needed. While the card also gets worse as the game goes on. The only good reason to play it currently is cuz there's not many good alternatives or to counter the 2 people playing Caterpie lol. So I would put in the same level as Pokedex and Hand Scope.
31:08 Huh you seem to have some mental disonence here. Your saying meltan is 5 star when it literally can't attack and it evolves into what you saying is a 2 star card (which your probably also wrong on). Obviously meltan quite bad if your going first cause you dont have any oportunity to use ammass. If you going second you get to amass on your first turn and then you evolve into melmetal on your second turn. Main point is you cant say a pokemon that has only 60 hp and cant attack is 5 stars if you saying what it evolves into is 2 stars it makes no sense.
Saying Koga is bad makes zero sense, he literally defines archetypes. The same with Blaine and Lilligant being bad? Also Exeggutor ex 1 star LMAO. No offense man but I have no idea where you are getting this information from, some of these are opinion but others are just incorrect.
Blaine is deceivingly good, both as its own deck and at being paired with other decks. It cooks Pikachu Ex for lunch, which turns out to be the best deck currently, and it also tends to be too fast for the Charizard deck. It struggles against the Water deck for obvious reasons. Also the fact that it doesn't rely on Ex pokémon means the opponent needs to ko three pokémon while you only need to ko two. Both Koga and Pidgeot are also being underrated here. Koga with Weezing is in every deck that takes time to set up, and Pidgeot has a strong matchup against a lot of decks. Meowth at 5 also seems exagerated. It messes with your Pokeballs, is often a free point for the opponent, and decks are so small that Oak + Pokéballs often thin the deck enough that you often end up finding what you need.
there's almost no card game where additional card draw is bad. I'm surprised its considered "meta defining" given it's limitations but it's definitely not a terrible card.
Meowth has an insane opportunity cost It eats up pokeball and your 100 percent starting hand basic chances and makes your win conditions harder to find In order to circumvent that you need to sacrifice an energy attach in a game where going second for an energy attach is usually game winning. After drawing you're committing to giving up a point, giving up an x speed, while also not getting red carded to gain any value at all
Why would you play a card like meowth over a card like x speed, like potion, like giovanni, like sabrina, like red card When his benefits are conditional and his opportunity cost is insane
Some of the star ratings you see on screen don't match what I verbally say, this is just me changing my mind while editing. The star rating you see on screen is my "definitive rating."
Exeggutor EX is not 1 star for sure. If you get it early it can just win you games. Sure it has its lows, a retreat cost of 3, but it does guaranteed 40 dmg and you only need 1 energy for its move. Furthermore, if you have Erika you can avoid getting 2HKOd and potentially attack 3 times with it. It is at least 3 stars.
And at 160HP it doesn't get one-shot by Mewtwo.
@@CiciColino Yup, also a good point.
Exeggutor EX at 1 star is CRAZY. It has won so much games for me. I'd say it's 4 stars but yeah at the very least it should be 3 stars. I don't understand how his thought process works when rating these cards...
Definitely a 3 Star at least.
It’s only downside is the retreat.
You get it running faster than Pikachu and Starmie, you just have to forget the retreat option with it.
Exeggutor does not retreat
I understand this is your personal opinion, and I do not mean to attack you in any shape or form.
However, it does feel like a couple of ratings were given based on vibes and stats, and not on actual playtest.
For example, the Koga+Weezing engine is so powerful in so many decks, like Alakazam, Arbok, Gengar, Weezing is a stat wall that for 0 cost will put pressure on your opponent as soon as it comes off, with a second Koffing on the bench you can heal your Weezing for free without giving your opponent a point by using Koga, and stall for an extra turn or two, because of the large HP pool.
Another example would be the Pidgeot engine, which feels great to play on its own in many decks, especially in an Arbok deck. Just because the stats 'don't math', doesn't mean i actual playtest they are not good.
Clefairy and Clefable in a Gengar deck for example feels amazing to play, a lot of aggro pressure from the start with a good attack and health, for a very low investment.
Gengar EX is not a bad card by any means, the idea behind Gengar EX is that you play him as a 1of, with 2 regular Gengars, and you play the Gengar EX last. Because that deck is so energy efficient, your Gengar EX will be a trump card that will take care of cards like Mewtwo EX for example because it can tank the hit, and dish out 200 damage in 2 turns. Otherwise with the Gengar deck you have no win condition or outs in such cases.
On the otherside, Dragonite while being somewhat strong, feels terrible to play due to so much things having to go right in order to win. You're reliant on draws, energy, and hitting the right enemies, while running an unplayable set of evolution. Not sure in which world Dragonair is a 4*, with a 3 energy cost and two different types of energy to deal 80 isn't great. In roughly 40 games of Dragonite I don't think I've attacked more than twice with Dragonair, as you want your Dragonite as healthy as possible for when he comes on the field, so he'd be benched every game.
There are many other cards that, once you actually play with them yourself you get a better feel of how strong and consistent they are.
And sure, most decks are draw dependent, and that could impact the consistency and perceived value of a stage 2 evolution, but just because not every evolution is a Starmie EX doesn't make the cards bad.
Anyhow, appreciate the ranking and seeing what other's experience with the game is, maybe my experience is different to others because of the constant RNG variance, but imo some cards are heavily underrated and I recommend others to give them a chance for themselves too.
Same feeling, the rating is really problematic, after I watch the video until Blaine in around 14:00 and see it is so low rated, I decided to shut down the video
@@JonasChan-1990 Yes, that's another one that makes 0 sense. Blaine, Rapidash, Ninetales is such a good and consistent deck, that putting these cards anywhere but good and above makes no sense.
It's fine to disagree but I don't think it's fair to say Willow's ratings are based on vibes rather than playtest - they've been grinding pretty constantly since the game came out and have tried most things at this point.
@@regista4he admitted that he didn’t play some of the decks, and I am sure it’s not possible to have playtested all 200+ cards enough to have more insightful data.
I am sure he played way more than I did for example, but obviously he didn’t play every single card.
Overall it’s a good list but there are some glaring discrepancies and it’s to be expected in such a large list.
@crosscoss seems like the playerbase immediately zeroed in in EX decks being the most powerful thing you can do, so much so that they just stopped trying to find other sweet decks. There are a ton of sweet single prize decks, like alakazam, pidgeot arbok, or Blaine that people seem allergic to in favour of playing their ex decks or their dragonites
39:30 I think the golbat and mienshao line are kind of cool tech cards for decks that might have a glaring weakness to certain types. Like if your deck had a bad match up against Mewtwo then theoretically, you could throw zubat for 30 dmg + another 60 when he evolves while you get an energy set up on your backline. I'm not saying that's 100% what these are used for or that they're good at all, but in theory, I just like the idea of cards like this.
Keep grindin my man, you're gonna blow up come launch
bro has been going crazy on the videos. I know he's gonna pop off in views when the game goes global
Nice exactly the type of vidéo I wanted to see !
Love your analysis even tho I don't agree with everything you defend your opinion a bit so I can see where you are coming from.
Impatient to watch back on this vidéo 6 month from now xD
Would you be willing to evaluate cards that might be able to eventually evolve in the future as cards that can evolve? whenever you have a slow content day?
I have been thinking about how many pokemon that currently can't but can evolve in the games/media feel underwhelming as they work now.
Stuff like Porygon, Golbat, Onix, Magneton, Chansey, Rhyhorn, Seadra, etc.
There are also some pokemon in this expansion that might get alternative cards as a stage 1 but I have no idea how to talk about the baby pokemon and I don't think there is a precedent to begin with.
What's most interesting to me about this and the comments is how much disagreement there still is, not just on individual cards but general deckbuilding principles in this game. Suggests the meta is still a long way from solved which is cool. I hope we get some form of stat tracker eventually which enables us to prove or disprove the opinions but for now it's fun to be able to have some healthy debate.
Also very glad to have content that isn't just deck profiles or pack opening - it probably doesn't do as well on youtube but metagame and deck building discussion is much more interesting to me personally. Keep up the great content Willow.
13:16 I do have criticism here and I think it's important. I understand that this is already a long video and that you don't want to waste viewers' time, but saying that a card is good or bad without elaborating isn't helpful for new players in the long run. The time spent here alluding to a disagreement about the card couldve been used to briefly explain your thoughts on why you think its bad or why there is a disagreement to begin with among players.
I really appreciate the content by the way. Fantastic work 👍
I agree with this criticism and I don’t think it’s the only instance of this in the video.
For what it’s worth I’ll add my explanation here; Koga isn’t rewarding enough to keep up with what other decks are doing for less commitment both in terms of deck building and “tempo”.
great video! generally agree on the majority of the card evaluation
however, i think you underrate handscope slightly, especially because it has value in basically every situation that redcard doesnt. handscope is pretty good early game when you have very little information on your opponent and enables you to commit to what would otherwise be higher risk plays, which is also a situation where redcard is a dead draw. handscope can also be used after redcard, doesnt have to be before, as it mitigates the "cost" of redcard eliminating any knowledge of your opponents hand upon use. really any position where you would have played differently if you had known your opponents hand ex ante, handscope is guaranteed value. i dont think handscope is an auto 2-of or anything, but similarly to redcard i think including 1 in a lot of decks with more trainer room, over cards like potion or gio, can be very worth it.
I agree with a lot of these but red card is a trap IMO. In a game where decks are so small, letting your opponent shuffle and draw 15% of their deck is terrible.
In most pocket games players want to proactively play their good cards anyway so their hands will be mid. If they have a big hand its probably because they're bricking. Trying to snipe an evolution is too niche a case to be running it.
To put it into perspective, pocket decks being a 3rd the size of the paper TCG, if this version of red card existed there it'd let your opponent shuffle and draw 9 cards and no one would ever play that card.
They would if their opponent had 18 cards in hand, which is the equivalent here.
But I do agree it's a bit of a trap. I don't think it's bad mind you, but at the very most a 1 of (and that's because we just don't have that many other staple trainers)
@@CiciColino I think you could argue Sabrina is a staple trainer, which with research and pokeball brings your starting cards to 6. I'd also much rather play potion and x-speed over red card.
Just run more pokemon then. The only decks that are forced to run red card are the articuno + 18 trainer decks. Other decks should run at least 8 pokemon slots and don't need to run red card at all.
@@jasonjarmoosh Of course, we agree on that part. I never said red card is better than any of those cards because it's clearly not. It's just not completely useless like a lot of people seem to say.
agreed, especially dont use red card on pikachu ex deck.. there is only 1 time i met player use it, and i got my hand pikachu ex by him using red card..
How can you mistake the KING for Krabby at 1:03:30. 😢
Either way great video. Thanks for putting all that work in for us - 1 hour video is craaaaazy. Your insight is always much appreciated.
Even though I don´t agree with everything here, I think I have the same opinion on like 99% of the cards, so well done.
kingler and krabby being swapped kills me 😭
Gonna be the antimeta here...
Have been playing decks without Red Card and my overall Win rate went up.
Much can be said about that card, however, it not only is RNG but highly depends on you knowing EXACTLY what deck your opponent is using, otherwise, it can play against you instead of in your favor. Plus, Red card has to be played early, so, if you get Red Card late in the game, it is basically useless.
It only counters Research and Pokeball, but really, no skilled trainer is going to just use those cards to keep their hands full after that, only Brick decks would, and nobody tries to play a brick deck.
Replacing Red Card(s) for something more reliable like Potion(s), XSpeed(s) or a Trainer can, an trust me, will make you Win more.
I would place 3 Stars on Red Card at low elo decks, and would be tempted to place only 2 Stars with high level decks and players.
True. I also think handscope shouldn't be higher than dex, but same tier.
I see Red Card as a tech against Stage 2 decks, but I agree that it is lower priority than potion etc.
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Most of this is pretty on point, some of it is internally inconsistent(ie:Tentacruel is only 2 while other stage 1's with 70dmg/2energy and 90hp are 3, depending on big Misty payoffs is bad but the deck that just does that is good), and then some just seem incorrect, 1star ExeggutorEX being a major standout. That thing can be a menace as lead. Get's going right away doing really good damage for 1. 160hp plus Erika lets it tank for days. MewtwoEX gets 3 shot with just 1 heads. Most of the time it's down before the psydrive and you shrug off 50mg. It's also matches up well against StarmieEX, another big threat in the meta.
I disagree with dex being lower than hand scope, because it works well in zard decks. It has more value than hand scope, because almost every deck runs pokeball, but not all deck runs red card.
Dex doesn't interact with pokeball at all
@@BlekPowers dex let's u see if ur Evo is there. If not, use PokeBall to reshuffle
@@BlekPowers It does and it's extremely useful in solo pokemon decks like 2 Articunos with 18 trainers. Dex allows me to check if my top 3 cards have misty or not. If there isn't any I use pokeball to shuffle my deck which increases my chances of drawing it.
Yeah, Blaine is not a 2 star card lmao. Ninetales turn 2 120 damage to Pika EX is serious. Ninetales and Blaine should be like 4 stars tbh (Blaine maybe 3 right now with room to go up). Also Rapidash 1 for 70 with Blaine sometimes catches opponents off guard. The point is to never give the opponent a chance to setup with the Blaine deck which it does really well. You won't beat water but neither will Charizard so yeah. Also, Gren is at least 3 star imo because of Starmie EX which it supports nicely in the mid-late game if your opponent somehow survived Starmie EX early because it gives it that extra push of 20 and can cripple your opponent's bench too.
The way you say kards with the k.. accent definitely tells me we love Pokemon anywhere
how do farfetch'd and doduo have the same ranking? If the reason Duduo has 3 is because it can evolve into dodrio, dodrio is a 2 star? How?
Persian has bonus utility with Red Card also. idk.
Watching this is wondered, has ditto been tried in dragonite decks? Water and lightning are the most popular things right now, and we are mostly trying to stall anyway
This is a fun idea, but Dragonite decks already have a really high Pokemon count. So its a bit spooky to include new Pokemon, could be fun trying though.
How is it that stage 1 cards in 2 stage evolutions with the EXACT same stats as Hitmonchan get 3 stars while Hitmonchan himself as a basic card only gets 2? I've liked him as a secondary basic in marowak decks. He's a great starting attacker while you prepare your marowak that only ever needs a single energy to guarantee a quick pop of damage to finish off mons you would rather not lose a coin flip to with Marowak. I feel like he at least earns 3 stars
You are great man! 👍🏼
Why is farfetch'd a 3 star? He has the same hp and retreat as baseline Pokémon but does twice the damage. I know you think it's overrated but it seems like it should be a cut above baseline just on math.
There's a baseline for Pokémon that can evolve and another one for those that can't
even more confusing he gave skiddo 4 stars and his is a 40 dmg is coin flip plus don't even think he read the text it sounds like the first time he's seeing it and he completely ignores the text under the damage lol 1:10:09
I agree from math alone his rating on cards is highly inconsistent. Also he doesn't consider the negative part of pokemon attacks like hitting self, discarding energy, etc as part of the rating, instead he focuses solely on the attack numbers, and even with that, it's still very inconsistent. I almost gave up halfway but keep listening till the end and was disappointed by how inconsistent the rating is till the end.
I'm a ways away from being able to play every deck but I agree with the majority of these takes. I don't think that red card is that great. I think that Pidgeot and Greninja could be a lot better than you give them credit for. I also think that exeggcutor is a solid grass type
Pidgeot 2 stars and Dragonite 4 stars is an absolute take 🤣
Brock/Blaine/Surge should target any card of their type, they are too restricted compared to the other supporters.
Red Card is mid. The example you gave about having a read that they were stucked with evos in hand is not even a good example bcuz if they were bricked you were already in a good spot, and they still have 4 in whatever many cards left in their deck to draw the card(s) they needed. While the card also gets worse as the game goes on. The only good reason to play it currently is cuz there's not many good alternatives or to counter the 2 people playing Caterpie lol. So I would put in the same level as Pokedex and Hand Scope.
31:08 Huh you seem to have some mental disonence here. Your saying meltan is 5 star when it literally can't attack and it evolves into what you saying is a 2 star card (which your probably also wrong on). Obviously meltan quite bad if your going first cause you dont have any oportunity to use ammass.
If you going second you get to amass on your first turn and then you evolve into melmetal on your second turn.
Main point is you cant say a pokemon that has only 60 hp and cant attack is 5 stars if you saying what it evolves into is 2 stars it makes no sense.
Saying Koga is bad makes zero sense, he literally defines archetypes. The same with Blaine and Lilligant being bad? Also Exeggutor ex 1 star LMAO.
No offense man but I have no idea where you are getting this information from, some of these are opinion but others are just incorrect.
Blaine is deceivingly good, both as its own deck and at being paired with other decks. It cooks Pikachu Ex for lunch, which turns out to be the best deck currently, and it also tends to be too fast for the Charizard deck. It struggles against the Water deck for obvious reasons. Also the fact that it doesn't rely on Ex pokémon means the opponent needs to ko three pokémon while you only need to ko two. Both Koga and Pidgeot are also being underrated here. Koga with Weezing is in every deck that takes time to set up, and Pidgeot has a strong matchup against a lot of decks. Meowth at 5 also seems exagerated. It messes with your Pokeballs, is often a free point for the opponent, and decks are so small that Oak + Pokéballs often thin the deck enough that you often end up finding what you need.
17:57 Aerodactil is actually ok, paired with dragonite shows his true colours.
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Meowth 5 star is crazy that card is terrible
Does damage while milling and colorless? How's that terrible?
@@F0XD1Efree point to oppent, and gives oppenent time to ramp up with m2 or zard
there's almost no card game where additional card draw is bad. I'm surprised its considered "meta defining" given it's limitations but it's definitely not a terrible card.
Meowth has an insane opportunity cost
It eats up pokeball and your 100 percent starting hand basic chances and makes your win conditions harder to find
In order to circumvent that you need to sacrifice an energy attach in a game where going second for an energy attach is usually game winning.
After drawing you're committing to giving up a point, giving up an x speed, while also not getting red carded to gain any value at all
Why would you play a card like meowth over a card like x speed, like potion, like giovanni, like sabrina, like red card
When his benefits are conditional and his opportunity cost is insane