Marvel Snap vs Pokemon TCG Pocket: Which Game is Better? (an honest comparison)

[@ninaisnoob]

Subscribe to my Pokemon Pocket channel www.youtube.com/@Pok%C3%A9Ninaa

[@adamn7777]

31st subscriber to pokenina

[@SyedSaqibShah-h1y]

Done I am number 71😅

[@JeffRivera]

The 1000 tokens for a duplicate card is the worst. Zabu was in the spotlight, and I pulled a duplicate Zabu base card for 1000 tokens. So not only did I not get the cool variant, I also traded a key for 1000 tokens. FEELS BAD, MAN.

[@Hithere-hb7tx]

At least it wasn’t back when you only got 100 credits. I got 100 credits for a galatus dupe before it was for tokens.

[@JC-gv9ik]

That sucks happens to me 2 they need to hurry and fix that at least make tokens 1500 or 2000 I wouldn't be that annoyed

[@MrHatato]

that's fucked

[@RickReasonnz]

Do you mean this week? So you could have pulled 2 Zabu's?? Oh geez...

[@aidenstumme]

Yep lol unlocked Elsa then immediately got her again from the random card 😅

[@BlackLotus2077]

Every time I get a worthless title or avatar in my collector’s reserve, I curse every person that made Snap

[@ninaisnoob]

Take a shot every time I say "serious cash" 💲💲💲!

[@danielfroeming321]

Thanks I died

[@theindustryspecialpodcast]

or pound, im jrunk

[@ninaisnoob]

@@danielfroeming321 F

[@Dellroth]

Thank you for the honest comparison Nina! I absolutely loved the video and you bring a great perspective with your time playing snap. I tried coming back to snap a couple months ago after not playing for 6 months and only lasted about a week. It feels so bad to constantly go up against cards you have no chance of acquiring in the near future as you go up the ladder. I'm really hoping Pocket adds a ladder quick which will really give folks a reason to say on the app outside of their 2 packs a day.

[@elvismoisesgalvezmartinez7588]

Cartas que no puedes conseguir? Jajajaja estos noobs hablan cada cosa

[@sunnymederental3703]

you get it and many others do too, but why would sd only cater to the like the small percentage that always play for dailies and such, makes no sense to make onboarding new players sooooooo hard and to alienate returning players, truly ridiculous decision making and a gong show of an org chart at hte op co.

[@DogginsFroggins]

The main thing I'm glad about is Pokemon pocket forces competition, so Snap can get their monetization in order. Im a newb to both and Snaps gameplay is the main key, but if it starts to drag I'm glad pocket is a viable alternative.

[@jahmurcy]

I've bought borders in cosmetics just to find a semi-useful way to use my gold, amazing video all FACTS!!!.

[@ninaisnoob]

I spent lots of gold on borders too, the cosmic ones are my faves!

[@vivapr6136]

As a former Pokemon TCG online player, I can assure you teading does not make it less expensive. Even if you have EX cards you want to trade of those are not meta cards people wont want them and they will be asking a lot for the ones that you want, the ones that are most coveted.

[@VGamer07]

I buy avatars to match the main cards in my decks. I have Chibi Alioth that I play with in 1 deck. So when I saw a Chibi Alioth avatar I bought it to match that specific deck I plat with.

[@ParkerH22]

Awesome video Nina! Great casting this last weekend. It was fun listening to you roast Dera 😂

[@fallguybuddy2654]

Thanks Nina for bringing us this comparison all the way from NZ. 😜

[@coolshirtkid]

i feel you so hard on the sunk-cost fallacy 😂 pretty much the only reason i still play snap at this point. i’m so tired of the hamster wheel money hole that it’s become, but i have every card and the gameplay, art, and universe are so good still

[@irnbru5496]

For Snap: Only avatar I ever considered buying was the "I got a rock" bundle and that was early on when I see the Monetisation being fair I dropped out for 2 months or so maybe not even that long but just scaled down and played less for a small time and now I feel like I can never get back into the Meta... They really need to change the system as its just not feeling good at all now

[@135bpmCoffee]

Such a fun video, thank uuuuuu. Hope pokemon will change SDs views of their player base to the better eventually. It never really „felt“ good to play Snap, meaning the most joy you feel is when you get internal revenge on your opponent or when it’s finally your turn to the get the combo of after 10 times failing in a row, which in both instances isn’t really a happy thing… idk, I think you know what kind of feeling I’m trying to describe. It doesn’t even feel good to spend money btw so I stopped a long time ago 😅 anywhosle, much love from sunny Berlin xx 🖤

[@luisd.gonzalez1215]

Cant wait for the worldwide release. Im not a big fan of competitive games, so pocket feels like a good alternative. Ill still play snap, but much less. Im f2p anyways, so im not missing that much

[@YoSaKiZ]

Well said Nina! Marvel SNAP became a Gacha game the moment they released spotlight caches. They even introduced gacha monetization aspects like the 30days gold and the double gold 1st time purchase. Ofc they are removing the later because as they said it was devastating for the game's economy, which is the wrong move. No idea who is responsible for those decisions but I have lost any little faith that I had for SD.

[@WhitieWu]

3:38 what you said here is absolutely true and one of the biggest reasons I stopped playing Snap.

[@kyanupryce]

Personally I’ve never been able to get into Pokémon but grew up with marvel so snap will always be on top for me but as a free to player it’s so damn long trying to keep up with some players that already have everything😂AND as someone that loves getting variants and cool splits the gold acquisition for free to play players is dogwater.

[@alphshift7857]

i really hope with the existance of pokemon pocket ccg marvel snap feels pressured to give us better monetization or card acquisition system, I don't mind if snap gets trashed and compared everywhere with pokemon pocket if it'll give pressure for the devs to ease up on the card acquisition

[@sirparish]

The pocket meta is one of the things that I hate the most about Snap and I don't feel like it gets much attention. As much as I enjoy some meta shifts, whenever a new card releases or when a card gets changed for the better it's very annoying to play with it. Either you play a lot of mirror matches, or you play with people trying to counter your new card deck, it's very unfun. As much as I like new additions, I think I'd enjoy them a lot more if all cards of a season were released together monthly, like an expansion, would take a lot more time for people to test new decks, the pocket metas wouldn't be so aggressive.

[@ninaisnoob]

I agree wholeheartedly. I make a youtube video for every new card and it's always a rush to get it out asap. It's a miserable experience playing the new card at release but it's something I have to do 😭

[@davecassell2817]

Great video 👌 2 years in on snap myself , season pass and the odd bundle but this is my last one I am done spending on it . Second dinner are greedy fucks 🤬 Even the 2 year anniversary stuff has been poor considering the money snap has generated.

[@JaysCashVault]

This video deserves a million views Nina

[@227happyboy]

I bought a Morph variant avatar (Looking Good Variant) because it was centered so well unlike most avatars. Like it was made to be an avatar.

[@jafethl.5181]

Thanks for talking and emphasize economy in MS, I know they have to make money, otherwise it wouldn't be free, but hopefully SDs can make it more accessible to people who only want to play for entertainment and sometimes spend money to get some variant, because yeah, if you stop playing, as it happened to me, you will feel like you can't get to date in cards since everytime they are realizing another one and when you spend an spotlight key you get a dup and trade it for only 1k tokens .-. Great video, keep going like that :D. P.S. I'll give it a chance to Pokemon

[@thasard]

I'm an avatar buyer, but only in the gold shop. I wish they were more freely provided because I think it gives the gameplay a little personality.

[@marvelnube]

While I love the honest comparison, I felt like that it's not fair for those who are not as lucky as you as that member of your community. Been playing Pocket everyday (getting the 2 packs + opening using hourglasses) and I only managed to get 1 immersive art Pikachu and 1 crown Pikachu (already considered myself lucky for these). Have been opening Mew and Charizard packs and still haven't got either immersive nor crowns 😅 And I really do think it's incredibly important to highlight that in the end games and devs need to make money. In Snap, aside from the spotlight caches, getting a card is guaranteed, whereas in Pocket you need to accumulate pack points to be able to trade it for the cards you want. That is Pocket's "spark system" similar in many gacha games. To get an immersive or crown is out of the question unless one's a whale. 😅 Plus opening packs only to get all commons or just 1 rare cards sucks a lot. Finally, about splitting and flaring. Everyone can split cards in Snap as long as we got the credits and boosters, whereas in Pocket we need dupes of the card. Couldn't imagine doing that for crown rares or immersive arts

[@feefore1605]

If the datamines are correct then tcg pocket will be getting a mini set dropping in December and a full set in January. So it might get a full set dropping every 3 or so months.

[@Antonychief7]

Perfect analysis and a great video ❤

[@parvusprinceps628]

I am watching but not playing SNAP anymore because I was out of the game for 3 months. Under this circumstances i cant start the game anymore although i like to watch you guys playing

[@ninaisnoob]

Maybe you can come back if they make the returning player experience better!

[@parvusprinceps628]

⁠@@ninaisnoob you will inform us about it 😅

[@ROFLWAFFLELAWL4]

In the end it comes down to what game I have more fun in during the time I'm using the restroom lol. I've played Pocket TCG as well and although the quality is pretty high up there, the actual gameplay portion isn't really too exciting. I don't get the same itch as I do in Snap where I want to try out a new deck or play. A new combo that sounds good in my head (usually absolute crap in practice lol). I didn't really get that same itch with Pocket TCG. It felt like 70-80% card collection and the actual battle feels like just a little bonus. Definitely hope they expand on that more than on people spending money on packs but so-far every single mobile Pokemon has had some kind of paywall. PoketTCG didn't look too bad, so I hope it stays the way it is. That said I've played Snap since launch and kept playing. A new player? As you said in the video I don't know how well that experience is going to be. There's no good catch up mechanic. Snap should offer some small boost for getting Series 3 complete like either 12000 tokens, 8 keys, or your choice of 2 Series 5 cards. Something. I don't feel like anyone absolutely MUST own every single card in the game but it is true that the acquisition in Snap is abysmal if you aren't in a higher CL and even then you still have to take your pick of the month. As we get more and more cards release as Series 5 it just makes it increasingly difficult to compete in the meta, especially if they aren't doing anything about improving acquisition. Definitely excited for more competition though. Hopefully it's large enough in the space to get SD to rethink some of their business strategies.

[@JeremyTepper]

I bought the Dan Hipp Helicarrier avatar because it's so cute!

[@ninaisnoob]

ok that one i can understand

[@sunnymederental3703]

been playing since beta on pocket, been playing two accounts since launch on marvel snap, my honest opinion is that there will be more players playing pocket and content and twitch creators will realize that and follow the money leaving brode and sd devs to rejuggle this economy, i think 5 - 8 dollar bundles are going to be rampant. once people realize that pocket has no location balogne and way less toxic without the emoting that might be the more chill game to play. hopefully new cards will come out in pocket to keep the chase alive. take care.

[@nuruhu5122]

I finished series 3 at 4600 CL. I can only imagine those that are joining the game now. And there will be drops in December that will make it even longer. They are not paying attention to what is happening.

[@RickReasonnz]

The fact that there is NO catch-up mechanic aside from whipping out your credit card is severely telling. Wouldn't hurt them to offer low CL players additional Collectors Tokens to get them up to speed. I started just after launch, and I cannot imagine starting afresh now.

[@nuruhu5122]

@@RickReasonnz the one thing I know I needed was more tokens but a better idea would be a series 3 vault in which once players have enough tokens, they could buy the Series 3 cards they want directly and not wait for it to show up in the shop or have to wait for the RNG of opening a cache to get it. That coupled with more tokens would help them tremendously because they would have unlocked series 4 and 5 cards as well. It’s a frustrating grind and I know that once there is a catch-up mechanic they will keep more players.

[@RickReasonnz]

@@nuruhu5122 Hm. Series 3 Vault would be useful. Even a random 3 they don't have per week at maybe 500, 1000... and while they're at it, they could reduce the Colllectors Tokens required for S4 and 5! For a casual player jeeeeez it takes so long to amass enough for a card. 2500/5000 would be nice.

[@jrocthewarlock5659]

You unlocked the entire card base in Pokémon in 3 days? That is a massive L for me.

[@RickReasonnz]

Yeah. I want CCGs to have good acquisition, but if you can get em all easily, then it really does take some shine away from it.

[@RickReasonnz]

Couldn't deal with Pokemon. Took a hour of opening stupid amounts of packs to even get to see what the gameplay was like and boy, what a complete letdown. As deep as a puddle.

[@canespady]

Appreciate you calling out the Hela Decks. F@$king hate Hela decks. Destroy too. F@$king smooth brain decks. One time I played 5 striaght hela decks. I just closed app for the day.

[@SuperExtrovert]

Please turn you attention to move decks. Thank you!!!

[@canespady]

@SuperExtrovert yeah but even move decks take some thought process with limited space.

[@RickReasonnz]

Destroy's okay. Especially when you interrupt them for an insta retreat. But I've been saying Hela is the worse designed card in Snap for AGEES before everyone else jumped aboard the hate train. Love spamming emotes to a losing Hela loser.

[@adrenalmoon787]

Card acquisition is way better in pocket. F2P since soft launch and have a good amount of chase cards and competitive decks built. Gameplay is way worse though. Lack of unique animations, turns take to long, and Misty can end the game turn 1.

[@sigmundphelps7959]

I buy the avatars but only the Spider-man avatars cuz I love Spider-man and he’s my favorite superhero! Most of the time tho i don’t buy the avatars or variants in the item shop. Though I do spend my gold on specific borders for the cards i actually use in snap or have a lot splits for. Though i guess it doesn’t really count if Im only buying all the stuff for Spiderman. 😂

[@Joenah5]

The biggest issue with Snap is the card acquisition. As someone who only started playing a couple months ago the game feels like unless you started playing at the beginning you’re a second class citizen. It’s actively hostile to new players (once you’re out of pool 2). I really hope their plans fix it, and soon.

[@abe443]

The only way I would spend gold on avatars would be if they were animated

[@adamn7777]

Definitely gonna check out pokemon pocket when it comes out globally. I've seen enough positive reviews of it from people I trust. As for snap I stopped playing before the sebastian shaw season because I was so fed up with both their unwillingness to meaningfully nerf Loki and whatever scam they were trying to pull on players that month (they don't do it every month but at the time it really felt like every few months they were trying some other get rich quick scheme to screw players). At this point I am so far removed from the game that I doubt I'd ever go back because I'm over a year behind on cards and can't play anything competitive anymore. Frequent balance changes are great but the clunkiness of the card acquisition model means if a card isn't perfectly balanced on release there's gonna be angry players if it's too good then players that can't get it are angry and players that bought it only for it to be severely nerfed are angry but if a card is too weak then the players that got it on release are angry because they wasted a key on junk and when it gets buffed players that didn't get it and now can't are angry.

[@Nathan-pm8mh]

It’s the RNG, adding unpredictability that makes SNAP a better game.

[@clemonsjovan]

I started day 1 stopped playing until recently, last month to be exact, I don’t have all the cards by any means I’m missing so many series 3 it’s not even funny, but with that said I did hit infinite the last two seasons 100p f2p so idk seems alright to me. I wish I could play more deck types but I’m slowly collecting its nice

[@leoc5416]

video watched :nodders:

[@CarlosPieri]

great video, Nina!

[@rajansharma7832]

I played Pokemon pocket but i feel it a bit complicated, can you please make a tutorial for it ❤

[@ninaisnoob]

Working on it!

[@ninaisnoob]

I’ll upload it to the Pokémon channel tho

[@evieshmeeps]

Your face is hyper rare! (and i mean like, your face has a rare beauty unseen outside of a full art Eevee card)

[@SyedSaqibShah-h1y]

Hi nina. Also nickelodeon introducing a new game nickelodeon card clash. I wish that you made a video about this game also.

[@ninaisnoob]

Ohh I know nothing about Nickelodeon though. Does the game look promising?

[@SyedSaqibShah-h1y]

@ninaisnoob Nickelodeon Card Clash seems promising because it combines familiar Nickelodeon characters with a fun, strategic card-battling system. If it offers good balance and regular updates, it could have strong appeal. Though we can do pre-registration.

[@ninaisnoob]

@@SyedSaqibShah-h1y I had a look at their website and I don't recognise most characters unfortunately. But if the game is good I'm willing to give it a try!

[@luisg3369]

Marvel Snap card aquisition is a 1 out of 10

[@ninaisnoob]

Early game card acquisition is pretty nice tbf

[@NeroTheMana]

I would hope Marvel Snap would be bettet Pocket atm just because Pokemon isn't even out yet and Snap has a 2 year! 🤣 That said....crazy Snap still doesn't have boards to get and Pocket is starting with them.

[@RickReasonnz]

The board situation is so laughable. Most every CCG has fancy boards. It's just a background, how hard could it be to implement?

[@RyuIce]

DD: i buy avatars but only Daredevil. i am a Daredevil completist. that's all the reason i have.

[@whenjenn]

damn girly did research with those graphs

[@jonathanstorms4530]

I can't stand getting that "free and fair" commercial. It just annoys me on how much it does not represent the current state of the game

[@azncarnage]

wouldnt event play snap or pocket if Legends of Runterra still had full support =( RIP LOR

[@RickReasonnz]

I feel the same about Gwent

[@hioo3453]

Last months in Snap have become increasingly frustrating for me, I can't wait for Pocket to be launched globally. And I hope competition will bring improvements in Snap too

[@Mydogatemycomment]

The real question is if all the Marvel characters fought all the Pokemon who would win I know Marvel fanboys are gonna be like, "intergalactic beings who can move faster than the speed of light and eat whole galaxies" but how are they gonna deal with PIKACHU Anyway I'm waiting for the release of Pokemon TCG, I didnt move to NZ. It seems like a really simple tempo game. Much easier than something like Hearthstone or LoR I think we won't truly know Pokemon Pockets real potential until we see some more cards. Then we can dive deep and maybe it wont be such a simple tempo game where blowouts happen often and draw dependency seems to be a big deal Thanks for the upload as always. Now I'll watch the video now that I got my opinion out there for the internet

[@ninaisnoob]

I'm glad your dog didn't eat this comment!

[@DeVinaire357]

Still not available in the US yet😮‍💨

[@DjBaejay]

thank you card game mommy

[@JamestheKilljoy]

If the actual game was worth playing, Pokemon Pocket would be good competition. As is, it's UnoTCG. Zero skill, nothing interesting to talk about. Play cards you draw until you win 😴

[@lilwumbo]

Only avatar i bought was the uatu dog variant

[@r.i.pstill16]

We are calling this unbalanced mess of no animation a 6/10??? Ugh I dont like snap for so many reason but i would chose that over everything this pokemon game is. They had everything ready just copy paste from irl and put it into the game ans yet it looks so bad. UI is baffling, half the time i dont know how to find what and where i can look for what i miss and what i have. The hype over this game cuz its a pokemon game but the game is beyond bad. Snap is far from a good game with those bad and greedy devs but its 5x better than pokemon

[@jeffsenecal4168]

Pokémon cant gatekeep the cards from toy.. its a new game.. they need to be able to let you get the cards to play.. Soo.. look how much Pokémon has made... there the most expensive cards you can get.. soo how that look for the future of monetization. Why is it ok for Poket to be given a brake cause its soo new, but no brake for Snap for being old.

[@Serik4005]

Best TCG is Gwent!! Try it please!!

[@ninaisnoob]

Isn’t Gwent dead? 😭

[@Serik4005]

@@ninaisnoobyes😢

[@hiitseggs]

NINA IS SO SMART AND NICE AND PRETTY AND KNOWS SO MUCH WOW 10/10 WOULD SUBSCRIBED AND LIKE AGAIN

[@ninaisnoob]

NO U

[@gregod6648]

All these Marvel fanboys talking so much shit about so much stuf they don't know about......"pokemon is simple", its set ONE, do you expect them to go crazy and not hold back any mechanics for future expansions ?? "Trading is gonna suck" how could you possibly know ?? Go on people, keep spending tons of money on a game you will probably NEVER have the cards

[@CrescentTheWolf]

😍

[@ManOlantern12]

It isn't even close: Snap is a vastly superior game Gameplay is the true separator here SD also is among the top tier as far as balance change cadence and overall game balance are concerned. You can search the gaming world far and wide and not find teams as effective as SD in those areas. Your RNG argument for Snap doesn't make any sense to me.

[@nightow1139]

Correction was

[@kimchikidbear]

Snap sucks in everything but art and gameplay. Their acquisition of cards sucks horribly. The past way to get cards, on the CL, was great but I can see why it could fail. This way turns Ben Brode into a liar but I accept it because I love the variants so much

[@ManOlantern12]

@@kimchikidbear : Gameplay is why people play games. So Snap sucks apart from the whole game part? Lol... Pocket is literally a dumbed down version of a children's card game. TCG online already exists. This is a pure cash grab, hence the insane monetization off the rip

[@nightow1139]

@@kimchikidbear crazy thing is this game has so much potential it wasn't till I realized that it just became harder to acquire the cards there was even one time where I had to end up using four keys just to get a card I wanted that week and I would save my keys I would have tried to obtain cards every week

[@ManOlantern12]

@@nightow1139 : Still the best online trading card game. There isn't even a close second

[@teofalleiro]

if marvel snap is a 3/10 in card acquisition pocket should be a 4 or 5 max the pack system is terrible and from what trading was like in other pokemon games no way it will be as good as you are expecting.

[@DuckTheHeel]

Pokémon just doesn’t look as fun gameplay wise.

[@theindustryspecialpodcast]

wth is a pound tho?

[@ninaisnoob]

it's British currency 😭😭😭

[@SaifulIslam-dy4di]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@antoinedesainteuxpery]

I love you

[@luiscontreras5206]

This game is trash

[@ninaisnoob]

That's not a very nice thing to say

[@davecassell2817]

Great video 👌 2 years in on snap myself , season pass and the odd bundle but this is my last one I am done spending on it . Second dinner are greedy fucks 🤬 Even the 2 year anniversary stuff has been poor considering the money snap has generated.