my favourite 6 year old playing my favourite franchise? couldn't get better

This would've been x100 times more funny if someone lend you their acc with a full meta deck 🤣 wanna see rarran do the shady dealings

I would be beyond tilted if I spent real money on this game, to lose to a hearthstone player who’s just really good at flipping coins

I love the camera angle at 8:12 Hoo wee. great cinematography

Best part of these videos is seeing rarran try his hardest to avoid reading….often at his peril

3:20 - it's Raichu cuz the kanji for Rai/Kaminari (雷) is thunder + the "chu" a rhyming pun with the thunder beast raiju (雷獣) in Japanese mythology.

People get shocked by effects like "draw 3" but drawing doesn't matter as much in Pokemon because searchers are plenty and most things you can do are hard capped to once per turn.

Seeing Pokemon TCG is so nostalgic! I actually learned English as a kid just to play it and now I'm an English teacher, so I can safely say this game changed my life. It's lovely to see it again 💕

Many types being fused into the same one in the TCG is so weird. Raichu being weak to the "fighting type" Sandshrew.

i feel like 'learning' the game with such jank cards is like learning a completely different game lmao

*I made a promise in chat.* Times Rarran mispronounced Pokémon names: 0:49 Rat-A-Tata 3:10 Rayachu 3:25 Rayachu 2 (Been that way for 20+ years, my dude.) 3:50 Rayachu 3 4:10 Rayachu 4 4:23 Electrobuzz 4:53 Electric Ball 6:43 Electric Ball 2 6:44 Electrobuzz 2 6:46 Pharrow 8:04 Rayachu 5 9:17 Volcanarona 13:06 Sparrow 13:08 Pharrow 2 15:40 Torandis 15:42 Toranduss 15:54 Galade 15:56 Toranduss 2 19:07 FurFeruo 19:08 Frouu? Mr. Rarran, judging by your most recent test scores, it looks like its back to rainbow coloured alphabet for you until your can read properly.

Awesome seeing this! I play Pokemon TCG irl (also go to tournaments and stuff) and I have to say that the meta you see at tournaments is a lot different than what you played in this video. You only saw lots of bulk and random cards which are unviable, so you haven't seen the actual game yet tbh ;P if you're interested you can check out vods of the world championships which just finished 2 weeks ago

My favorite thing about this game is that there's premade deck ranked (called theme deck), so you can just get a pack for 500 coins and play competitively. It's basically like if they had the prebuilt deck as a ranked format in hs, but you had like 3-5 decks per class. It can get quite samey to play for a long time, but it's great for beginners, and also you know the exact decklists, so you can play around much more easily, and you can know all your machups.

just wait til you see meta decks

Would love to see this continue as a mini series

I REALLY enjoy these videos where you play other card games, it’s super fun to watch a new person who understands card games play all these different games. I hope you revisit most of them once in a while. I actually watched the entire vod of your yugioh stream, was a fun time.

Normally there isn't as much RNG at least not in competitive decks

Im used to people out of the loop on pokemon to mispronounce some of the later gen mons but then homie hit us with the "Raiyaichu"

I cant wait for him to try Shadowverse, I think he will really enjoy it!

bro the meta has gone so crazy that this tutorial is just a different game

*Sees a picture of anything. Rarran: Omg an Exodia. It's like how Jacksepticeye calls everything a minecraft

Rarran pronouncing “rattata” as “rat a tat a” is peak 2001

I still remember being the one kid in the class that didn't have YGO or Pokémon cards but actually knew the rules. Good times, never had to spend any money yet always got play.

You should try the lunatone and solrock deck, super cheap, super funny because by turn two you can do 330 damage since you take energy from the graveyard and attach it to lunatone who does +30 damage for each energy attached. Pretty much you mill yourself and solrock will move the energy for free, to lunatone lol. Cost me like 3$ for a solid meta deck

Rarran quote of the day "Oh he put it in"

6:06 "50/50 you win the game or not" He doesn't know

That was great, could actually understand what was happening as a viewer who had never played. I'd love to see that again!

Bro this was so much fun to watch, I didnt get yugioh at all but this was so good because I could understand how ridiculous it is. Had me grinning for 22 minutes.

I always laugh when people say if I'm being honest randomly. It's like what did you think about lying about it or something

so a few notes about the online TCG system, the Que system tends to favor start decks/ tutorial decks (which is what your playing) in the same bracket. The tutorial decks unlock more cards as you get more wins with them in the story mode (it actually shows you how many you have to unlock when you hover over the deck when choosing it). this makes these decks better as you unlock the cards, the basic tutorial decks are actually super weak they are literally just meant to teach you the basics of the game and do not throw allot of complicated things at you. The story mode (this is where you will only face AI opponents with pre made decks) you can unlock packs and earn coins for purchases in the shop, You also gain coins by logging in every day and playing against real people. So you dont actually have to buy packs with real money to get them, you just use your in game currency. Obviously buying packs is how you build good decks (the decks you get in the tutorial and the starter decks are not good decks). If you know anyone that buys real world packs and does not play online, ask them for the code cards that come in the packs (ever single pack and structure deck, and box, and basically every TCG product on the shelf has these cards in them). The codes unlock packs in the online game for free just by entering the code (basically as a way of pokemon not making you buy something twice if you only play with physical cards).

"there's RNG in this" lol pokemon in general is the physical manifestation of RNG

Finally Rarran does a Pokemon TCG video!! Can't wait for the collab video to come out. Hope you finally got ahold of Tricky Gym for it. If not, I'm sure you got one of the many great content creators for the game. Also, I just wanna say after watching the video that only the janky, low quality cards have a lot of RNG. At the top competitive level decks are extremely consistent, and most of the RNG comes from what you draw and what's in your prize cards.

I want this seiries for all the card games (watched the yugioh one) keep the content up

The only ever In Person TCG Tournament I went to was a Pokemon one... it was like 10 years ago now. Kinda nostalgic to see it being played, maybe I'll check it out again for a bit 🤔

"i'm just sitting here watching my opponent get all these microadvantages, and I can't even interact with them!" THIS IS POKEMON TCG in a NUTSHELL

The pokemon tcg is the 'good MTG clone' to yugioh's 'hellishly bad MTG clone'

It's kinda crazy watching the old client and tutorials before they completely revamped everything. In the new one the tutorials are with like actual close to meta decks, and this is like decks with gnomish inventor and boulderfist ogre.

Hey Rarran, loved seeing you play the Pokémon TCG. If you’re interested in playing proper Standard PVP, I can trade you a good deck. Standard PVP is way more fast-paced, skill-intensive and has a lot less coin flip cards 😂. Would love to see a video of you trying to learn a tier 1 Pokémon TCG deck.

OH MY GOD THE MOMENT WE ALL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

The visuals look like it comes from a children's flash game site.

"i had a lot of valuable cards and they were given away" as a person who cracked a foil charizard in the 90's i feel this one hard

That actually made me want to play. Looks fun

Pokémon isn’t very deep but it’s fun. Super easy to teach someone how to play also. The amount of card draw is insane compared to HS and MTG.

There's a randomizer for the Pokémon TCG GameBoy game that actually swaps moves and costs and stuff on the cards and the AI knows how to play with the altered cards somehow.

Rarran, if you wanna play some more ptcgo I would be happy to give you some (meta and fun) decks via the trade feature, just hit me up! I would love to see my favorite hearthstone youtuber get into my favorite card game more!

Now I just need to see him read Gennesect V.

My favourite part is when an hearthstone player sais other game aren't interactive

Games a turbo format where most of the best decks throughout years use big basic pokemon worth multiple prizes.

I would love to suggest two video ideas after seeing this: - Guessing if a ptcg card is meta or not. There are so many good and bad cards, this could be really fun. - Playing with a real meta deck. Theme decks are just not fun compared to real meta imo. It's a totally different game.

As someone who stopped playing HS because Blizz is getting greedier and greedier, I enjoy this kind of content and am glad you are exploring all these alternatives :D

Im actually internation 2. Place and national First Player. But its like 11 Years ago. Still proud.

AAAHHH!!! The stream I've been waiting for Rarran to do for so long and because I was in the middle of a move I didn't even know it had happened until this video popped up. Oh well: even if it wasn't live; I can still enjoy the brilliance~ Now all that's left is to wait for the inevitable "Hearthstone Player guesses how good Pokemon Cards are" vid

Here to see the 5 year old play, a 5 year old's game

I'd love to watch you try and play more pokemon tcg in the future

You should try Gwent and Storybook Brawl, is a nice auto-chess game with a fairy tales setting

8:12 great cut lol

"flip a coin draw 3 cards, what is this card design, 50-50 you win the game?" I'm sure you realize now how funny that statement is if you've read any of the supporter cards that are actually being played xD

"When I was younger" Him still being 5

we need you to cross over with pokemon TCG player

Try watching a few competitive matches to see what a game without coin flips is like xD

You can't actually put money into PTCGO, the closest you can get to spending money on it is buying pack codes from third party sites or buying physical card packs, pack codes can give you packs that you can trade on the trading post but the trading post isn't a very reliable place to get cards you want because there are a ton of people who try to offer cards for way more than they're worth. It's really hard to get into if you weren't already buying physical packs and have a stockpile of code cards. Coins are easy enough to get just play the game and get wins and you'll get coins, packs you buy with in game coins are not tradable however so it's best for a beginner to buy a theme deck to start off and then start spending your coins on packs (the theme decks I recommend are the Charizard deck and the Soaring Storm deck (the Dragonite deck you played against)).

As both a Hearthstone and Pokemon player, this is hilarious

Would be awesome to see you play Cardfight!! Vanguard Zero (Mobile) or Cardfight Vanguard Dear Days (Switch + Steam) when it comes out in November

I legit would love to see you play 3v3 Pokemon comps. Any of the 3d games that exists.

Raiachu

I wonder if he tried Keyforge. That game is sick

How about gwent as next Card Game, that would be awesome

I think it's more fun when you understand the games better. Not the TCG itself, just watching you play them is more fun when you understand them better.

I used to play tutorial in 2001. Because a had a cd with tutorial only. Looks like it’s time to play it again. But I’m afraid there are a lot of pockemons I don’t know 😔

Someone really needed to tell him this isn't a tempo game, so card draw is generally less valuable than in Hearthstone (still valuable, but tutor effects are so common and easy, it's devalued)

Please have a Pokemon TCG Streamer for a guessing of HS Cards and you guessing pokemon cards

Rarran doesn't know about sableye and the overeager pokemon power. Overeager made it so that you always go first. So what people did was use sable eye and then use a combination of trainers to draw and burn their opponents bench. The only counter was to use spirit tomb which had a pokemon power that stopped players from using trainer cards. During the time sableye was legal 90% of decks were either sableye or spiritomb. It was such a problem the Pokemon Company emergency banned sableye mid tournament season.

Best wrong names ever

Rest in peace PTCGO

Pokémon TGC feels weird because is like the only big TGC on the market that takes almost nothing from MTG. Even the concept of cards as a resource works kind of different between lands and energy.

Ok that wasnt that bad Hes lucky he didnt stumble apon only V max pokemons type of guy XD

Finally!! He's trying pokemon!

I got filled just hearing you say the difference between richu and riachu

lol, I tried out the tcg for the first time a few days ago too. The amount of coin flipping is veeeery annoying.

I need more of this :D

Very nice vid!!! I'd be interested to see you try Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel:)

The deck Rarran was using is so bad compared to the 2 decks he was facing against. Getting a conceding opponent in the second game was so lucky, and I still can’t fathom how his first opponent managed to deck themselves out before winning.

Rarran try the DDD challenge... Dust Devil Dream...

It would be great to see you do a collab with TrickyGym for more Pokémon Tcg stuff

Man, something about the artwork and UI in this makes it look like some kind of unofficial fangame

It would be nice to see you guessing if a pokemon card is good or not

Yes. The bad part it's that you don't interact in you opponent turn

"WTF coin flips?" Pokemon TCG is nothing but coin flips. There's a reason precons come with plastic coins.

This was never how I played it 😂,I just summoned my mega rayquaza ex,my mega charizard ex,and primal groudon on the first turn and mowed down all my friends

9:31 It's not the easiest, the dailies don't give you too much gold and completing them can be really time-consuming (the worst one is knocking out 16 pokemon using a specific type, also there are more powerful pokemon cards, which give you 2/3 price cards when knocked out, making this quest even harder to complete). It gets much easier though if you play irl, as the products come with the code cards, that allow you to get packs/promos/theme decks for free in PTCGO.

"ratatata" LOL

RNG is one of the things that keeps Pokemon franchise from having truly competitive games. After all, you can be the best player ever and lose everything just by getting Paralyzed in first round with 10% chance attack.

This TCG is awesome. However, this game gives you the worst decks to start off with and you’ll roll 9 tails in a row more often than it should.

love the 8:12 close shot

he called tornadus torandus ;-;

Its big spearow(stephenplays fans will know)

Why doesn't the game come with 3D pokemon models ? they could just grab them from all the pokemon games these days, literally free feature to make the game 100x cooler

Will you ever do one with Shadowverse?

Also Pokemon card game is one of the Big 3 card Games

Getting angry about Japanese phonetics...lol