I love all the live action Paraspectre bits!

Dang bro, can I send you a hug after that ending 😭

5:30 I think "psychic is weak to psychic in this TCG" is because ghost types are also part of the psychic type in the TCG Neat challenge and Dewgong was really good alongside Lapras and Articuno. Even Jynx was pretty useful fairly often. Cloyster was the only dud, but at least even it had a chance to shine. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

That ending hit me right in the social anxiety. The cat and dog are good friends though.

Got some solace knowing the ending was made up, but if you’re ever feeling down, just know that I’ve really been enjoying your videos and sending positivity and happiness your way! Happy holidays!

That storyline of your friends ditching you is sad....

Why'd you have to make me cry with that ending man

Your friends didn’t make it! Noooooooooooooooooo I would have come to visit outside at least Cute dog btw

I'd love to see this game using only Vulpix and Ninetales cards.

4:49 I think they gave it a weakness to psychic since psychic is the same as ghost and they intended for psychic types to be weak to ghost but messed that up.

Merry Christmas, Paraspectre. I hope you have a better Christmas than the one you depicted, and that it was put on. Nobody should be alone on Christmas.

"Makes Energy Search finally a good card to have" It's deck thinner. Just as good as a regular energy but things your deck twice as much and ups your ratios and odds for pulling better cards that actually do stuff instead of just an energy card. Sure you have to shuffle the deck which resets the odds but there is a lot of searching and shuffling and card draw in this game so thinning out energies while not gimping yourself on total amount of energies

Commenting for the algorithm but also that ending was heartbreaking

That ending was so sad :,(

Love this challenge. I know these TCG challenges have to suck, but they’re so entertaining.

This was so fun to watch! Ahh omg that ending hurt my soul, even if it was fake. I so would have came over for a holiday dinner. Not just saying that cause I'm a subscriber. You genuinely seem like a really cool dude. Also it's hilarious that your clock said 8:13 cause that's my birthday

ICE ❄

Watched it the whole way through, loved your challenge and house, glad you've picked up the support and fanbase you solely deserve. Have a great Christmas and enjoy future success

Oh heck yes, I am so ready for a new special to enjoy this year!

Loved the intro, brought back old school vibes!!! Hated the ending, brought back old school memories 😭😭

Is it really that strange for psychic to be weak against itself in this game? Ghost is under the same energy, and because psychics were only able to be countered, reliably, by other psychic types it really fits as far as I am concerned. That is just my opinion though.

I know I make up over 0.1% of the views for this video. I keep trying to watch this at night and keep falling asleep before the end. Fml. I'll keep on trying, I swear, love these vids! Edit: lmao, fell asleep again

I think they made psychic weak to psychic because in gen 1 tcg ghosts were also psychic type and despite poor programming meaning it didn't actually go that way. ghosts being strong against psychic was commonly accepted

Listened to lots of your tcg play throughs while at work :) thanks for the entertainment! I work in a laboratory so I have lots of downtime while sample incubations are going.

I think Psychic being weak to Psychic is because Ghost type in the Games is super effective , also in the anime Ghosts are supposed to be good against Psychic

Kid me an current adult me never understood why cloyster had 50 HP. Like bro its a defense shell. What gives.

Merry christmas Paraspectre!! And happy ice types to you!!

I think Psychic being weak to Psychic is in part due to the fact that Ghost is Psychic in the TCG and Psychic was supposed to be weak to Ghost.

Paraspectre: Hey, this challenge is actually being super easy so far, and very fun! Steve: *how cute*

24:55 - you got flexed on

Wasn't ghost represented by the psychic card, and psychic is weak to ghost

That ending was so sad

Poison challenge: You can only deal damage with poison or attacks that (can) inflict poison.

Just when I needed it. Thanks, Paraspectre.

Can't wait for the legendary birds deck challenge. Sure you'll have to cheat to get the deck but only having high cost cards could be brutal

I saw you upload. I will admit I was going to postpone it but seeing the video is only ice types I decided to watch immediately. Ice is favorite type, I make a monotype team and run the games with them actually... I don't let Lorelei tho :P

Use only kangaskhans

Imakuni? Deck has got to be the next challenge lol

Man the end of the video make me sad 😭

I love this series and your video style! Thanks for the Christmas present!

This was a super cool challenge! I loved seeing you be able to use a variety of Pokémon. I think it would be cool to see you us Pokémon only different types. It would make how much energy you have a challenge.

Merry Christmas Paraspectre! This was a fun theme team battle and that Parasect on your Christmas tree was perfect.

Havent even watched yet but love it already. Love watching this game and your channel

With Mysterious Fossils being a constant presence, doing Team Fossil might be fun. Not sure what to do about needing some actual Basic Pokemon in the deck though. I don't think there's any that search out Trainer cards or anything. On the other hand, I guess TCG2 forced gimmicks might be less obnoxious if that was also done.

Great vid! I loved the live action bits. Sorry if the end was based off of real life events :(

The pokemon tcg videogame is my most favourite game in terms of how fun it is to me. I completed it dozens of times, but there were no challenge videos on it until yours. Thank you! You inspired me to do runs with pikachu/raichu only, and mew and mewtwo only. I had so much fun with them! Jungle pikachu and raichu are beasts. The last one was extremely difficult, as only mewtwo's blastburn attack can deal damage to colourless cards, and its only 10 due to resistances. I even bought a physical copy of a translated version of Here Comes Team Rocket, because your videos gave me the idea to look for roms that have been put on cartridges. Thank you! I love watching your videos. I hope that you have a great Christmas and New Years!

Love these videos man. So fun

Hoooo boy! Happy holidays! What a treat!

A teaser at the end?? :o happy holidays Para! Glad to have found your videos and enjoy them throughout the second half of this year

Fun fact, Dewgong is actually used in TCG speedruns. Raichu, Dugtrio, and Scyther are also crucial to the runs.

i would say the shellder and seel are fair game as they do evovle into ice

Great video, this is how to do a Christmas special!

That was cold

I love these pokemon TCG challenges!

Funny story about that banned christmas pokemon episode. It wasn't banned in canada cause I remember watching it and to this day it feels like a fever dream.

From around 5 minutes in where you talk about a made up psychic vs psychic weakness- Ghost is purple too in the card game, and psychic is supposed to be weak to that

Great content, I lol’d at this several times. Magikarp run would be pretty epic

I'm trying to come up with challenge ideas to try (or that would make interesting videos). A stall only deck would be interesting, but the video of that would take SO LONG to make... A game where you don't use any normal attacks could be cool. Or even harder, where you don't deal direct damage with any attacks, but that would probably be just a poison run. Maybe a playthrough where you use only the resisted Pokemon at each club, or where you only use Pokemon weak to the main type of each club. Maybe a playthrough where after each card pack is earned you have to swap out a card in your deck with a new one you just acquired, but you can only beat each other trainer once, so you have a limited number of upgrades. A Wigglytuff deck would probably be pretty easy but still fun.

Ha I just looked you up and you just uploaded!

Before I knew about competitive decks, dewgong was my favourite tcg card as a kid because it had such great attacks and HP, glad to see it being shown here.

Can't wait for the next one bro.

Should invite mattress next time, he never lets you down!

I have made a mill deck in this game that I never lost with. Basically revolved around abusing mr mime, chansey, and alakazam while also using imposter oak and gambler to make sure I didn't deck out. fun to play but man it takes forever to get all those cards

Finally a video for me

Attempt #5 was epic 😆 that Zapdos. Thinking of doing any new challenges? Also i thought Matthew was gonna show at the end.

Energy search takes 2 cards from your deck pool (itself and an energy) meaning you have a higher chance of drawing what you need

Thanks for doing all these wacky challenges 🙃

Thank you for the video.

Eyyyyyy nice change in the intro! Ho Ho Ho!

I also love mamoswine

This deck reminds me of what I built in the game on my first playthrough and yeah I was not surprised how easy it was. Started with squirtle and friends where I quickly learned the might of dewgong, then took out basically everything except it. Shit load of trainer cards to make a hyper rush Rain Dance with Blastoise and suddenly Blastoise Dewgong and Articuno have max water energy all in a single turn or two and my deck is down to 10 cards after going hard on 2- oaks just to fill my.hand with water energies. It's honestly a blast to get rain dance off and just pour water over everyone but even ifnyou dont get it off Dewgong and Articuno jisy do ludicrous amounts of damage so easy with the paralysis chance too it is OP OP

Cloyster gang Cloyster gang

I think the reason Psychic is weak to Psychic is because Ghost types are also Psychic in the TCG, Psychic type is weak to Ghost, and the only Ghost types back then were also weak to Psychic. Plus, Ghost is weak to Ghost anyway.

I’m curious if your willing to do a challenge of Eeveelutions and/or Fossil Only Pokémon? Maybe both together for a GR playthrough?

Awwwww shiiit here I am watching legit look forward to any TCG related things hahahahah Dude maybe the next challenge is to channel your inner Pikachu hahahah I would like to see a Pikachu only run OR Make a challenge where you can't use attacking moves eh?????? (Knock out by confusion/poison)

Nice video.

Psychic types in the cardgame are weak to psychic cause it includes ghost type.

Damn dem ice types

A Christmas special!? That ending dude, is this because I called your last video comfy? Lol

Ngl if I had no one over for christmas thatd be the actual dream

Have you ever done a Fossil Pokémon only playthrough?

Magmarmy is such a good joke skdjdhfbgbh

Freeue from Gen 1 :O

Challenges don't have to be insanely difficult to be enjoyable :)

DUDE, WAS THAT SOME WEGGIES!?

Did you change the thumbnail for this? :0

interesting challenge, i did something similar and just ended up relying on dewgo--- only one of each species? shellder and seel can't attack? well... this will be pretty fascinating

Pikachu and Raichu would be cool.

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Holy shit I was not expecting that ending and it hit me like a tonne of bricks. In the UK at the moment we're averaging around 90k new cases of COVID a day and I'm currently waiting to find out if I'll be able to see my family for Christmas (and see my dad for the first time since 2019). I know it was acted but it felt extremely real, and very familiar.

Have you ever ran a meditate deck?

Have you heard about Spellfire? A new TCG which will release next year with App support where you can level your cards :) What do you think about that? Will other TCG/CCGs adapt?

Man I wish that Dugtrio had some big beautiful blonde hair

Magmarmy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

i agree magmar and horsea are awful to go against. however i'd also like to put Grimer from tcg2 in the running for most annoying card. one grass to poison two to paralyze. so fucking annoyyyyyyyyyyyyyying

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!

Huh I got a playback error on this video and I haven’t seen one of those in years

Looking at some of these old TCG cards, it's neat to see moves that'll eventually be adapted into the games. Like Freeze Dry.

40:52 as a Washington football fan, I'm triggered! Grr.

How about a starters only for new year? :D