I Spent 10 Hours Playing The Pokemon TCG to Prove IT'S RIDICULOUS

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[@jammjar8838]

Fun fact, the pokemon card client is hated so much by the community that a third party team have started developing their own client for the competitive scene. (Its called twinleaf)

[@farmerash]

Yeah as someone who played a lot on the old client I agree that the new one is nowhere near as good. Not so much on the visual side, it's just slightly different, but I hate the fact that we traded a very good deck making tool for a barely functional one. And that we traded the PvE side of things that was great for figuring out your deck for pure PvP, and even on that front, we lost the tournaments which were a fun way to obtain new packs if you were good enough (and you didn't even need to make a custom deck, you could go into preconstructed tournaments too).

[@massimilianodelrosso5495]

*Oh, so it's like VGC*

[@Phoenix-ff4le]

@@farmerashI started playing PTCG a few weeks ago and I think the client and what it currently offers is great! Coming from Hearthstone and YGO, its a breath of fresh air. You get a handful cores for different decks for free. The battle pass gives meta relevant cards and rarity bumps. You can even test decks against the cpu before crafting them. I think some pve content and bug fixes are obviously needed, but I think the overall package is pretty decent.

[@celticspike2522]

I think it's severely lacking but I do give them props for the test deck feature. Every digital tcg needs that feature.

[@goncaloferreira6429]

@@farmerash we lost too much with the transition to live. And dont get me started on not having expanded....

[@Atrus159]

The thing that makes pokemon a lot different than Yugioh is that even though you can do so much crazy shit, it all has to filter through this bottleneck. You can still only attack once per turn, you can still only have one pokemon in the active spot no matter how much other stuff you do behind it, and you almost always have to kill at least two pokemon to win the game, which means even super crazy games still have to last a couple turns. IMO this gives pokemon a really unique feel, where you can draw and play a billion cards in a turn, but what you or your opponent actually *accomplishes* each turn is extremely limited and predictable

[@erenjager4698]

Yes I agree pokemon does have a unique feel in that way where the structure of the game makes it so that no matter how many cards you play you can't just instant kill your opponent and win in 1 blow.

[@randomguyontheinternet5030]

This... Just this. No matter how much crazy ass damage you can rack up for one turn, you're still either killing the pokemon or not, and killing one pokemon can be tough but doesnt end the game. You also need to power up things for attacks, and the more powerful trainers (supporters) are locked behind being once per turn, so you cant pump out 40 supporters that all say draw 3. You cant just set a pokemon down and attack. Rarely ever do they use free attacks unless the attack is locked behind being a Vstar ability (Vulpix Vstar) or some other condition (cramarant's attack being free with 4 in lost zone). Other things that attach energy past the once per turn require somewhat hefty conditions (mirage gate), or come at a cost (gardevoir ex) so that you cant pull out a turn one win against someone's squishy 60 hp comfey or something.

[@SackofDooDoo]

That "Bottleneck" analogue is pure gold - a fantastic way to help others visualize how the "craziness" can only go so far.

[@mrsquiddler]

this is why i stopped playing yugioh

[@bduddy55555]

I see Pokemon as almost more of a puzzle game. Each turn is a puzzle to sequence all your cards to get off the best attack possible, and maybe delay your opponent a bit in the process. And the game as a whole is a puzzle of putting together the proper turns to get to 6 prizes.

[@Divock]

"Pokemon makes a million dollars so they can probably afford voice acting right" This was the funniest thing in the video and it's not even close

[@spacestrikerarks-ashe2005]

True.. We really need VA in the main games lol.

[@e7193]

that’s not even what he says 😹😹

[@waifucards]

No one needs VA in Pokemon, so weird..

[@GujinGod]

yeah don't need decent graphics, 3d effects, proper sound design, or even a functional product in terms of minimal glitches and proper frame rate. pokemon fans will buy anything.@@waifucards

[@ChargeJN]

⁠@@waifucards*gestures towards Piers and Ryme*

[@TheAsianKid0372]

‘As someone who has played Pokemon their entire life,’ >doesn’t know what a Bibarel is 😂

[@matheuscordeiroKH]

if you play the first 3 gens all your life, you won't know what bibarel is, he didnt said he played all generations :p

[@garethm9523]

I love how Rarran only communicates in hearthstone terms. Hp being hero power and not health pool made me crack up.

[@Ninterd2]

Do you mean hit points? 😅

[@garethm9523]

@@Ninterd2 oh no, caught out by my own commenters hubris 🤣

[@VixYW]

@@Ninterd2 Wasn't it supposed to be health points?

[@TheBloodypimp]

@@VixYW health points but also hit points depending on the game you are referencing. :P

[@Mauvias92]

I had to rewind the video to make sure i heard him right 😂

[@__-be1gk]

"I didn't like Pokemon because there were too many coin flips" - Full Time Hearthstone Streamer

[@A.LeMayo]

kekw

[@ich3730]

Pokemon: Has some dogshit common that prevents attacks with a 50/50, never offended anyone, never saw play. Hearthstone: Has a legendary set-defining card named yogg-saron, decided high-stakes tournament with a literal roll of the dice, thousands of dollars lost because yogg rolled in opponents favor

[@waifucards]

Yeah exactly this

[@jagobot1487]

@@ich3730legit why me and my friends switched over to other TCGs, there was so much rng it just wasn’t fun

[@CallmeDou]

can confirm, me and my friend group all left the game at around demon hunter release, game is too much rng nowadays to feel a competitive sense of success.

[@MrGamerofmusic]

From my friends, that play Yugioh. The consensus they had, after playing Pokémon tcg. Was the fact that you can actually play your turn. Without being interrupted, to the point that your opponent gets to play a turns worth of effects on your turn! Granted, you can get shafted during your opponent’s turn. They can pull shenanigans that limit you by your turn. But they seemed to be relieved that they didn’t have to stop and let their opponent chain, negate and destroy everything on their side of the field on their turn!

[@jaeusa160]

Interaction has its ups and downs. Much like Hearthstone, this kind of situation can feel like 2 people playing Solitaire rather than against each other.

[@Terribadguy.]

Yeaa Yugioh is an awful game on almost every front but artwork. Every Yugioh deck is just a different flavor of Teferi control change my mind.

[@Terribadguy.]

@@jaeusa160 There is a limit to the amount of interaction I want in a card game though. Yugioh far exceeds that limit, among countless other issues. I think Magic has the best interaction ratio, though that doesn't mean it's perfect. Stealing the mechanics (instant, sorcery, split second) and renaming them Speed 1,2,3 was cute but it isn't implemented well at all. Bandai is just a goofy company man. It's so unbalanced they need specific ban list for different regions and every new set that comes out a huge number of cards are either banned or limited.

[@Ghorda9]

@@Terribadguy. the removal and counter effects in magic are too cheap and too powerful, playing against blue or black just feels awful

[@HunterX57]

The coin flipping in this game is unreasonable….. Meanwhile in Hearthstone: “Replace your entire deck with …..”

[@sergiodelatorre9127]

Watching rarran play other card games just showed me how easy is to play hearthstone it’s not even close to any other card game

[@pete5516]

Idk I would argue runeterra is as simple if not easier to understand than (modern) hearthstone. Other than that ye

[@Demahiyuri]

@@pete5516 I would say the fact you can interact on your opponents "turn" in Runeterra would make it more complicated than Hearthstone

[@grimdeth2197]

It's the smash bros of card games. (Easy, milk toast)

[@massimilianodelrosso5495]

@@pete5516 Runeterra is easy to learn but *very* hard to master. The spell mana, the myriad of bluffs you can do to make your opponent fell in a trap, how turns function... You're basically playing poker sometimes. Heartstone, on the other hand, is easy, yes, but sometimes tests that delicious skill of calculating probabilities with RNG cards, which i personally love.

[@oflgn6929]

​@@Demahiyuri I second this. Runeterra having a pass priority system makes it way more complicated (and unfortunately slower paced) than hearthstone. Thinking otherwise is just delusional

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Glad to see you tried this one after doing Yugioh! While Pokemon TCG Live is so bare-bones and not as functional as Master Duel, MTG Arena, or Hearthstone, it's still playable at the very least and gives a good platform with a generous economy for those who are interested in playing with those cards they keep ripping open. I'd also HIGHLY suggest trying the Pokemon TCG Game Boy Color game they just released on Nintendo Switch Online. It's limited to the first three sets of the game, but has gym progression with 8 badges, an Elite Four and Champion just like the mainline titles, and it's so much fun to play. Plus, the Base-Fossil format is a popular retro format in the PTCG space, and with NSO being online, you can play against other people without needing to use a lackluster third party simulator like TCGOne.

[@Jrpg_guy]

The worst thing is the old simulator was better then the new one xd

[@thebestlife1341]

No wany he said hero power 🤣🤣1:38

[@mrbrightside4u]

I wish the Digimon card game had good client. Would love to hear Rarran's thoughts on that game, especially the memory system.

[@djt08031996]

There's a Digimon tcg?

[@mrbrightside4u]

@@djt08031996 There's multiple, actually. The current one is insanely cool, one of my favorites. And I'm not even a Digimon fan.

[@_iamelu_]

there was a fanmade one at the beginning of the game's lifespan but bandai shut it down and claimed they were working on their own. 3 years later...

[@AcroxShadow]

​@@djt08031996Yeah. It's really good, actually, and fairly easy to pick up.

[@JosephAGregory]

​​@@_iamelu_ The digimon TCG has been out for a long while now. The rebooted one came out like 2-3 years ago.

[@ForTheWinTCG]

It's really cool to see the perspective of a new player getting into the pokemon tcg

[@kakashihatake-pn4jn]

I left yugioh forever and started playing pokemon. I think It’s better! Konami or whatever the responsible site is, ruined yugioh with the link summoning and ridiculous pay to win. Also through out the years we are used to one of the best anime art styles (yugioh 1,2,3) then they brought yuma and the sevens series plus as I said the link summoning. Thanks to all of that I left yugioh

[@bhupendragurram3026]

wait no way i love blastoise too

[@Matti_Mattsen]

Can't wait for you to learn about Gym Leader Challenge. Aka Pokemon Commander. No ex, no v star, just good old single prize pokemon. Its such a fun format

[@Scoitol]

but unfortunately impossible to play without buying cards and finding peoples to play against

[@TheGreenYoutuber]

@@Scoitolit’s not that hard

[@TheGreenYoutuber]

@@Scoitol any game is impossible without buying cards and everyone at local pokemon leagues play GLC

[@Scoitol]

@@TheGreenKZbinr litterally not true, you can play standart without buying cards in ptcgl, and even at local pokemon leagues it'es hard to find, at least for me I tried every league near me and none played glc

[@TheGreenYoutuber]

@@Scoitol you don’t buy cards in ptcgl and every league I go to plays GLC

[@MikeMozzaro]

I'm just so ecstatic that Rarran gave PTCG another chance. When he did it the first time; I felt so bad that he was playing with the old decks and thought that was the experience. Live may not be the best designed client out there, not by a long shot; but the fact that it gives you the proper experience of playing the game to the max is its true strength.

[@TheArcv2]

They definitely fixed the new card acquisition problems from the last client

[@TheJadeFist]

10:30 You automatically mulligan if you can't play a basic pokemon in your opening hand, since having no pokemon on board means you automatically lose. The mulligan doesn't penalize you though, its just you draw a different starting hand and shuffle. This way you can actually start the game. You can also take advantage of it in deck building, since you mulligan till you have some pokemon in your hand, so you can have a lower ratio of pokemon to trainer cards than you would normally think to draw them as if it were another card game.

[@kylespevak6781]

Lame game when:

[@TheJadeFist]

@@kylespevak6781 Something wrong with a mulligan? I would argue that there should be optional mulligan cause even if you get a single pokemon in your opening hand, you might not be able to do anything with it or have any extra on the bench.

[@kylespevak6781]

@@TheJadeFist When a game has a rule to shuffle your useless hand for a new one, it's bad. Try Yu-Gi-Oh

[@TheJadeFist]

@@kylespevak6781 I think pretty much every card game like these should have a mulligan rule of some kind. It's just never fun for either player if one of them has a brick hand. Runeterra you can pick cards in your hand to send back to your deck and redraw that many cards at the start of the game. I think that's probably the best way about it, so you have a better chance for your deck to do the thing you build it to do, and just to make game play more consistent. You can't say it's unfair either because if both player can do it.

[@kylespevak6781]

@@TheJadeFist Nope. Brick hand = bad deck building.

[@TramRide]

The battlepass is part of the tutorial, because it's not possible to spend real money on the game. It's not actually advertising micro transactions at all

[@satibel]

pokemon is all about getting one pokemon that can roflstomp their whole team, which is the same way the video game works, so it's fairly consistent.

[@jplawrence3]

Pokémon is about switching 30 times and by turn 45 you’ve chipped away at your checks enough to sweep

[@ayngrand3212]

@@jplawrence3 Ever heard of this thing called VGC?

[@mattmanncan]

OU is more fun though

[@alexspeedwagon3701]

@@mattmanncan I love not attacking too!!!!!!!

[@mattmanncan]

@@alexspeedwagon3701 VGC is more toxic for that anyway, between spore, fake out, protect etc....

[@gnomeking1225]

my favorite content you make is when you try out the other cards games and rate keep it up rarran glad youre having fun

[@justinvarieur4411]

Got me into the game too! Super fun so far at least in lower levels and there’s tons to do. Glad you had fun as well

[@lordvizer7398]

If he was getting annoyed from that I can't imagine what his reaction be to lost box.

[@venus7795]

Yup that deck is awful to play against. It is just your opponent going auto pilot by counting cards and having extremely long turns

[@lordvizer7398]

@@venus7795 Couldn't have said it better myself. At least we have that new jiraichi card coming out in the November set that will hopefully take lost box out of the meta for good.

[@grandcetus300]

no skill deck

[@ihaveanamewow1983]

@@grandcetus300it requires a bit of skill depending on what they are playing but it is very very annoying sometimes and just gatekeeps a whole bunch of cards

[@ihaveanamewow1983]

Thank god we have cards like iono for that tho

[@Xidar]

Dude I love your videos, been watching you for quite some time now (definetly one of my fav content creators for Hearthstone) ! I believe I played most card games. Played Hearthstone for years, recently I got kinda sick of it (still playing twist since I find it interesting having a change in the meta every 30 days). When I started playing Runeterra you were uploading content with @Snnuy, so I went and followed him, started watching his videos and it helped me a lot in terms of knowing what decks to craft. Now that I kinda abandoned both games (still open Hearthstone every other day to complete DQs and WQs) and started playing Pokémon TCGL again I see your PTCGL videos on my feed! It's like you always upload content that is useful to me no matter the game I'm playing 😂 Keep it up Rarran, as I said in the beginning, I love your videos. Even when the meta (in HS) is boring and stagnant, you still manage to create some quality content! Cheers from Brazil, mate! PS: Unfortunately Pokémon TCGL has some issues when comparing to HS and LoR. Besides what you said about the game having no log of what happened, there's no API in this game, which make 3rd party apps, such as Decktracker, impossible. Not to mention the bugs that seems to not be on the devs priority list. Anyway, I hope you had fun playing it!

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

>Hearthstone player >Doesn't like coin flips I find that amusing. I haven't even seen Pokemon cards since gradeschool, but the power creep looks real. Biggest health pool I remember then was 120, now they are up to 280, quite the jump.

[@CountFab]

What's insane for me is that there are still attacks that can do that amount of damage. I remember playing around 2010, and there were less one turn kills for pokemon, with less chance of locking out the opponent.

[@ta13s93]

310

[@ivana.3162]

Coin flips are exactly made for that. Make you rage quit. Adds dynamic to the game. There are multiple strategies that speaks to different people which makes it so that more people plays the game. Also reading cards actually helps, to some deck building and finding combos are actually half of the fun.

[@michaeld8705]

This video took me back to my middle school days when we all barely knew how to play the game

[@DragoRaRaRa]

The game is super easy to understand and the decks super easy to customize. The thing that bugs me the most about this guy trying new card games is his refusal to check is inventory and try to figure out how to make a better deck. Like literally just switch the charazard cards from the archinine deck with the Ex cards it gave you and add draw cards and your set for a WHILE.

[@NLambo88]

If there is 1 thing this client does better than the previous is that it’s a lot more newcomers friendly.

[@pwnagecakes8934]

Bruh I just started to watch this, and this was fire. I dont even play this game. You just are a fun content creator and fire edits.. positive outlook, love it man.

[@TheJadeFist]

Having recently dabbled, the Electric starting deck is probably the best and easiest to use, it has that Raikou and Pachirisu both deal damage based on the number of benched pokemon, and the deck has trainers card to attach extra energy, so you can start out right away doing big damage on the first turn you can attack and the Zerora is a free retreat pokemon so he can be sacrifice to stall for turns if you have to. You can literally start pumping out 200 damage from the start if you get a good starting hand.

[@e7193]

it’s definitely not the best starting deck

[@zeromus6460]

Big thumbs-up for using the Professor Rowan theme in your intro. One of the best Pokémon themes, and very fitting for the scene ~ You still eat glue for a living though

[@massimilianodelrosso5495]

Hard to say, since as now it has some problems in common with Yu-Gi-Oh, like the extreme velocity of games, which sometimes are reduced to whoever sets up the board in the first turn or two, while being more balanced (but here too, some cards are too good and too splashable). Maybe when Battle VIP Pass will be out it'll have a shot, with slower and less explosive games, but we'll also have to see how the removal of Path to the Peak will change the meta. Rn, bricking against someone with a good hand can really bring you down in a couple of turns at best, some games are basically decided turn 1, especially against super fast decks like Miraidon or Mew VMax. But the card game perse surely is a good one, it has personality (i mean, it's Pokémon, on that side is the only game that can defeat even MTG), really low costs (the world champion deck can be made with something like 65$), and it's fun and deep enough to play. As for now, i'd say that with a good app on PC and smartphone could surely fit into the top 3, but we need TPC to do something they clearly don't, *care for their video games.*

[@paul13731]

Isn't the fact that the game has a huge market for collectors? Might be the only card game where it seems like there are just as many if not more people buying cards simply for the sake of having them, not actually playing the game. Not sure how many players there are compared to collectors since i only recently got into this tcg, but could this fact hold back the actual game?

[@massimilianodelrosso5495]

@@paul13731 i don't know, since the game is actually really cheap if you play on low rarity (compared to Yu-Gi-Oh and *especially* Magic), while collectors usually go for the highest ones. That said, having so much collectors and yet being so low on players pretty much shows how iconic the franchise is, how beautiful some cards are (especially fullarts ofc), and how bad TPC is at advertising it lmao

[@michaelh.1484]

@@paul13731 A lot of people love buying the boosters and cracking packs. It comes down to which comes first? Game or collectible? Pokemon kind of sadly ends up in that category of collectible first game second. As opposed to the other 2, Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh. There are people who play Pokemon for sure. Local game stores near me have events where people come to play Pokemon. But it's no where near as big as say Friday Night Magic or Saturday Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments. Half of the issue boils down to that one quote from the movie Field of Dreams in regards to the Pokemon TCG. "If you build it, they will come."

[@Arcavi0us]

@@paul13731 collectors make up a larger percentage of the PTCG scene than actual competitive players

[@mopsik56]

High velosity of games is not a problem but just a specific thing about the game. Some players like fast, combo oriented games like Yugioh, others slow, more control oriented games like Magic, HS. If you don't like high speed of games, then this game is just not for you, that doesn't mean it's a problem for everyone playing it.

[@dzang6250]

5:53 ah yes the mario kart lick

[@humourlessjester3584]

In the nitpick about type match ups, I found this out while irl deck building but you have to be on the look out for cards that require colorless energy for their moves. It allows your deck to be more diverse in its typing and avoids the problem of being hard countered by a type advantage.

[@T1redRn]

I’ve been playing the tcg for 6 years and the thing I like about the new client is that for a new player like yourself it gives you actually good decks that you can play semi competitively as opposed to the other client that gave you 1 bad deck and that’s it

[@dr.mewnetwork6031]

2:29 Pokemon Game NPC: You can use as many items as want! Rarran: (Has Flashbacks to the first yugioh video!) OMG?!

[@KraylebStudios]

This is inspiring me to continue designing my card game

[@lakersdakid8711]

woah, that sounds cool

[@KraylebStudios]

@@lakersdakid8711 it is, but I've made it way overcomplicated with evolutions and consuming energy cards XD

[@davidiswhat]

Rip, this online TCG used to have actual TRADING between players in the past.

[@cryogenical_]

I mean, it was pretty terrible. You'd have offers up of 4 of your vs seeker for a completely useless skarmory EX. It was clearly used by kids or people intending to scam kids.

[@Damini368]

@@cryogenical_So assign points to each rarity and points for how frequently a given card is used, and forbid trades asking for cards worth more or less points. Force people to make trade offers of roughly equal value

[@davidiswhat]

@@cryogenical_ On the flip side, you can make a tier 1-2 deck out of $20 of codes if you knew how to trade. You could then get tradable packs and build a collection where you aren't even bothered by rotation since you can trade your standard cards beforehand. I'll take the cons that came with the trading system.

[@Damini368]

Alternatively have a singles shop, assign point values to each rarity, and let the players trade in cards for points, and points for cards. If everyone does trades through the server then nobody can cheat each other.

[@firasatha2916]

thank god they get rid of trading. i tried it back to do training to prep for some regional and bought 100 pack for to create arceus goodra (back on lor set). but i need to invest so many hour into teading just to make sure i can get the deck with the amount of code that i have. now i can put that 100 packs and get any meta deck instantly

[@stephensummers1958]

I started playing 4 months ago. BEST thing ever! I play at a league in real life now. It so much fun!!

[@jacobgonzales2780]

Ronald Reagan finally learned how to read more than one sentence of card text -applause-

[@vibinwithchacha3329]

This game is much better than the last because when starting they give you a full list of starting decks that are actually good and viable, even if they could be slightly better with some upgrades.

[@Grant849]

Him getting raticated was funny AF lol

[@razorsharpplays2619]

I play a modified version of the Origins Dialga deck and it is actually fun af. If you play it right, it can beat almost all the decks (can't beat the Roaring Moon or Charizard decks consistently) and you can really cook with it at times, even if it seems like you are going to lose.

[@korutodark7855]

Yeah it feels similar to yugioh itself cause you may play all of your cards in a turn except on a little restrictions. You can also overkill your opponent. And make shortcuts on evolving your pokemon. (special summoning in yugioh.) But pokemon is a bit slow unlike yugioh today. Those "EX" cards makes it fast a bit. And restrictions on this game makes sense. If you are wondering, pokemon don't have "extra deck" thing but they have also summoning methods like in yugioh.(evolve, mega,terra,gigantamax,etc.)

[@ElEheyeh]

If you want a really good experience you need to build a custom deck. Just take a bit to look through the current format cards, pick 1 or 2 heavy hitting pokemon, preferably of different types, as your mains and a handful of pokemon that will support them, usually through abilities. Than you need to look through the trainers and select a good few, i usually run around 25 to 30 trainers, but I also use energy burn decks, so most are for getting back energies to reuse. lastly the amount of energies you should use varies, like I said, I use a deck that focuses on drawing multiple cards a turn to get energies for my main pokemons attack, so I run around 15 to 18 depending on the second typing i use

[@Evan-mt7bc]

Pokemon TCG is marketed at actual 4 year olds but designed for PHD certified Rocket Engineers.

[@ImPatrickStarl]

Dude you are too funny, id love to see you do more pokemon tcg videos.

[@recusantvessel]

Been playing since the Black and White days Definitely recommend it to anyone who likes solitaire! Not joking

[@Monkchelle_Kongbama]

sable donk

[@ValunarTonix]

They already played it but imo the ultimate solitaire game is modern Yu-Gi-Oh if you have zero hand traps

[@defectivesickle5643]

@@ValunarTonix Idt even that. In Yugioh you still have to do stuff on the opponents turn

[@itsfort2098]

Nah, you gotta go back to early days before Neo (gen 2) came out. That was true Solitaire gaming.

[@massimilianodelrosso5495]

@@defectivesickle5643 ... look?

[@althuror3108]

would love to see more of these!

[@schmelzwah]

I think a big difference between Yugioh and Pokemon is in consequences. Both of them are going to super combo and then do a big attack. With Yugioh though that one attack can just be the end of the game. While with pokemon you do all those big attacks and big plays to just get 1 maybe 2 prize cards. The games not over your opponent now gets to do all those combo things too. The back and forth is what makes it more fun and interesting than Yugioh while the card draw and tutors and combos are still just as intricate.

[@owlson2527]

Loved this vid!

[@biohazzardchair]

Just started watching your content from the yugioh video. You’re really selling the simplicity of hearthstone.

[@dellstudio10]

Been playing and collecting in all aspects of Pokémon since it came to the states way back in the late 90’s and have never got bored with it. Always have the new sets pre ordered the moment they are available. Just a fun franchise all around.

[@jitox]

It was really nice. Just deck a lil bti to get the baxcalibur version of your palkia and you are gonna do amazing, i play that locally, and you need just a couple of cheap cards you alredy have the core

[@chrishusted9296]

I actually just helped a kid build chien pao bax from his chien pao ex deck. It's not perfect, he's missing a bunch of cards but he's gonna start taking some games.

[@kencyrus4398]

10:45 Rarran experiencing PTSD from Yu-Gi-Oh

[@unowno123]

3:10 he's got a mean grindset, He got them 12 wins in heroic brawl

[@privatepengu]

16:00 i can't believe you didn't include the 7 heads in a row!

[@s4ad0wpi]

You should try Shadowverse! (It plays VERY Similarly to Hearthstone, apart from individual mechanics)

[@GrimslyRyuzaki]

weeb game

[@s4ad0wpi]

@@GrimslyRyuzaki Yes... your point?

[@grit1]

@@GrimslyRyuzaki Magic is a westaboo game, so what?

[@4GRJ]

​@@GrimslyRyuzakiyou're not going to believe this... Pokemon also falls under that category

[@GrimslyRyuzaki]

@@4GRJ pokemon isn't anime girls, sorry bud. Cope

[@Gapb_TheRealOneTho]

9:30 That's literally every mobile game ever. They give you enough gems for one pack and you think "nice I can save up for the 10pack discount" and then they force you to buy a single one.

[@Booksforthewin]

I can’t wait to watch and then it’s just one game against Lost Box for 10 hours.

[@Mio_Takahashi_]

“The fact that you can negate all my damage with a coin flip is bad game design. But I’m sure the best decks don’t use that.” Vietnam flashbacks to when balloon pikachu won tournaments because it had a 50% chance to take no damage for the next turn every time you attacked

[@TheJadeFist]

12:10 aw man you should have tutored the Bidoof to hopefly get to next turn Bibarel, you needed card draw so badly, and the Bidoof prevents damage your bench

[@louiscarruth1802]

Loved the video! More poke'content please

[@stephensummers1958]

Dude wtf! You pulled so many good cards out of that... way better luck than me and I've opened WAY too many!

[@tempire3523]

Having played much much Yu Gi Oh yes it is and i love it. It is ridiculous you can do so much and still you play more than 3 turns. Yes sometimes your set up suck so much you know you lost however the reverse feels incredible.

[@MrGshinobi]

"as someone who's played pokemon their entire life" and then proceeds to not know most of the pokemon shown in the game past gen 1

[@costelinha1867]

"Wouldn't moltres eat wooper for dinner" Pokemon challengers in regular games beating the entire game with just a Magikarp: "You really don't know much about pokemon, do you?"

[@zeleros4027]

After seeing more and more online card games, it makes me appreciate how "slow" the hearthstone client is. Effects happen slow enough so that I can actually understand what in the world is even happening. I also never thought I'd appreciate the side bar with past plays more.

[@Redotwo42]

fun watch! i might play pokemon also. mtg arena got me bored

[@DinoBat]

I remember really liking ptcg when i played it online 5 or so years ago, but ended up quitting after a few months because the UI for ptcgo was awful. Looks like I should get back into it.

[@kingjezza6567]

I have played and enjoyed the Pokemon TCG BUT it's main flaw is if you draw absolute garbage ie, only draw 1 basic Pokemon, no energy thus can't attack and your opponent draws the perfect hand, they stomp you.... you lose in a turn or two... Other games don't quite end up like that.... Yes, Im aware other TCG's can end quick but usually you can at least defend yourself.

[@GameNinjas]

26:25 the fact he missing key cards for this water deck is crazy 🤣

[@bastawros99]

More pokemon tcg content please!

[@Bloodshark123]

Of the three big card games, I definitely rank them as Magic first, Pokemon second, and Yugioh as a number yet undiscovered by science. Pokemon is a game that's actually simple enough for kids to play but isn't boring for adults. My major problem with it is there's all these ultra-powerful basic Pokemon that are already better than the ones you need to evolve to. What is the point in building my Charmander into a Charizard when my opponent can just slam down an even more powerful Charizard on turn one and do 300 damage?

[@massimilianodelrosso5495]

Evolve decks are problematic by default. When you could evolve mons you just placed they were too op, with the turn limitation they're too slow... At least, a lot of evolved non-special-ruled Pokémon has a lot of great abilities which can't be shut down atm, like Baxcalibur. They're slow, but also harder to interact with, when for Ex, V, and Radiants you can slam a Path to the Peak and block their strongest assets the majority of times. To see evolve decks thrive again (given that Gardevoir *is* one of the strongest) the game needs to slow down a little imho, and with cards like VIP Pass (which benefits *immensely* basic mons) it'll be hard. Luckily, it'll be removed pretty soon, since the rotation should happen in 6-7 months. Also, f*ck Yu-Gi-Oh, lmao

[@cryogenical_]

They solved a lot of problems with evolutions when they moved away from the XY idea of EXs all being basics, but you're right that it's silly that there's basic cards that are just flat out better than stage 2 EXs. Still, because the game leans towards being deterministic at the higher end of deckbuilding it doesn't end up being a major issue imo.

[@mingus2439]

@@massimilianodelrosso5495 bro calling path to the peak interaction is crazy

[@massimilianodelrosso5495]

@@mingus2439 of course it's made for preventing interactions (duh, is a floodgate...) but considering how many ways you have to shut it down (other Stadiums, PidgeotEX, Worker, Lost Vacuum, and so on) even on cards that doesn't even serve to that specific purpose (and the ones made for it like Pumpkaboo), it's a balanced one to keep the meta healthier by slowing down games. If you want solitaire and *bad* floodgates, go playing Yu-gi-oh, i'm sure you'll love to see Vanity's Emptiness or Imperial Order.

[@PhtevenPineapple]

rarran the kind of dude to play with an unplugged controller and be happy

[@theratmaid]

Is pokemon the best tcg? Maybe, but it is definitely the best product. Cards are cheap, constant reprints, and full tournament viable decks for retail sale at 25$. You cannot compare the price of entry of pokemon compared to other tcgs.

[@adellongino9413]

Digimon is also pretty cheap

[@garethm9523]

Waiting for Rarran to change the games name to PokéMinions

[@JealotGaming]

Rainman when a card game isn't literally reskinned hearthstone be like:

[@illdoittomorrow2368]

"This could use some voice acting. I think pokemon makes enough money." We've tried to tell them for years.

[@wombleking]

"The best part about Item Cards is you can use as many Items on your turn as you wish. Oh God, it's Yu-Gi-Oh"

[@xakannax]

seems like the coin flip stuff should feel right at home since most of modern hearthstone is pure RNG luck on discover/random effects into bs cards from other classes or perfect answers

[@ireland5040]

2:50 is something every pokemon fan has been saying for the last 15 years lol

[@frickadillar]

Cool to see Macho Man Rarrandy Savage branch out even more

[@derslek]

I don't even like Pokémon but Rarran is just so entertaining

[@satibel]

imo the best thing about pokemon is the preconstructed (theme decks) games. you just need to get a 20-30 bucks deck and you're done.

[@chanonsornnin950]

Everyone from tcg community holding up a sign: you can only enjoy card games if you read. Tcg boomer: Rarran would be very disappointed if he could read.

[@blackmagick77]

Just get the tournament decks. They're not legal to play at an actual tournament but it's like 20$ for a deck that topped a tournament recently. It's a lot of fun with friends

[@elvenatheart982]

Ma man got an alternate art Kyurem on Stream? Fml his luck is amazing

[@Connowot387]

I’m a retired TCG player, because I stopped in 2020 when IT happened. My favorite archetype was Night March, and it is still my favorite.

[@roberthorn9915]

I will say the top tire decks in Pokemon tend to not use Pokemon that have coin flip abilities because of how easy it is to get around them with cards like bosses orders, ryme, custom cather ect witch lets you switch your opponents active pokemon with one from thier bench

[@terryshort1359]

Just wanna say, I was the "Eggcellent match" gal that you conceded on. Yes, it'sa me, Iteration13. I about pissed myself when I saw I was in your video. I just found your channel today! Literally have seen two of your videos and I end up being in one. WEIRD. Anyway, you'll be hearing from my lawyers, who will collect my royalties. JK, just stoked to see myself in a vid, even if it's just my PTCG avatar lol. Seriously was having a bad day, but now I can flex my incredible internet fame (another joke), really brightened my day (genuine).

[@petersmythe6462]

I feel like monochromatic decks are extremely vulnerable to getting hard-countered . Like I feel like if I am gonna do fire I also want electric so if the opponent is all water I can still play strong cards against them.

[@averageyoutubeenjoyer9175]

It has been a long time since I played the Pokemon TCG, too bad TGC Live doesn't allow certain cards into the standard format yet. I used to love messing with people using the Alolan Exeggutor V and Voltage Beat Rillaboom. It is like a double sided blade; it is either your opponent that suffers or you are the one suffering. But when you get the setup, it's game over already. (In other words, if Rarran though Ambipom from Pokemon GO sets were bad, he hadn't seen how BS an Alolan Exeggutor is)

[@MrGliscor_]

You should try it the Digimon card game there's only the tutorial app but I think it's pretty good I play a lot of different card games

[@gregoryseraphin1426]

“Ive played pokemon my whole life […] what’s a Bibarel?!”

[@popelipo6281]

Rarran got super lucky that his client actually worked, over 8 months and I still cant get the game to run on pc properly, search cards bugging out, matches freezing, opponents avatar not showing up and the list goes on

[@Spectre2893]

The vast majority of top decks don't use coin flips, and when they do it's nothing too annoying or game-altering (Lugia Vstar with Capturing Aroma, and Mew Vamx with Cram-o-Matic)

[@jrsmith1013]

These are great videos! Id recomend legends of runeterra next. The difficulty curve on it is the best I've seen in a card game

[@ajkcool]

Apparently he did and chat was so obnoxious he's never gonna play it again

[@celticspike2522]

Yeah runeterra is fantastic. Don't know it's not more popular

[@santipenalver3136]

Yeah, the thing about runaterra is why would I play that over MTG

[@Vearru]

As someone who recently had my first experience playing the Pokémon tcg on the switch’s virtual console for the game boy with the old Pokémon tcg game seeing the difference here is insane. I honestly think I would prefer the original Pokémon tcg, with professor oak and item finder all the shenanigans that can be pulled with that.

[@warnado5007]

the game is so much more beginner friendly. Back when I started playing in black and whites time you couldnt even play standard unless you invest around 40$ to buy packs so you could trade for essential cards and create a deck that can actually win. Unlike other card games this game offers you much more skill expression and deck control. It is far from balanced though.

[@Oceane1803]

Play the TCG games on the GBC too, that would be nice.