Same

I spent so many damn hours on the GBC game back in the day

same. It was weird that cards I brushed off as not being needed in decks I was making turned out to be some of the best cards in the game.

I still play it and find it hilarious how some mons like Kadabra is a better attacker than Alakazam, although Zam's ability makes up for the lack of damage

Yeah, Fossil Haunter with Transparency

I would agree, Haunter was always frustrating to oppose. Dragonite is too unreliable for me. Especially on the GBC game. I'd rather use Dragonair and consistently use hyper beam to remove an opponent s energy.

The AI in those games is surprisingly good. I've been replaying the fan-translated sequel lately.

​@greasygranpapy7529 the sequel is alot of fun. I love the Dark archetype in that game. Now I want to replay it lol.

In the GBC2 game I would use handrip Trainers and Scyther as a partner for Wiggly. Fight resist, free retreat and basic Energy + DCE just like Wiggly. Best part is that the Casino on Team GR island with the Coin Flip minigame can be savestated on a 3DS or emu so 9 heads, 1 tails makes it 3000 free Chips to buy Present Pack x3. They locked Jungle Scyther in Rocket pack but Present Packs contain 300+ cards from multiple sets which sidesteps the accesibility issue. Fun deck

Pokemon TCG For the GBA is the biggest reason we recognize all the OG cards. after that there hasn't been a virtualized Pokemon TCG (or at least an official one I'm aware of) until...gosh they JUST announced one, and even then it sounds like it plays like Yugioh's Master Duel where it's mostly PvP with you buying cards via a gacha system, but no story to learn about different decks or challenge NPCs to test your strategies.

Just checked it out, and it's in the play store, but the reviews aren't so kind rn​@@MarioMastar

Im old enough to have alot of the early set cards as a kid. I have a heavy nostalgic reaction to these cards lol

@@MarioMastar I looked it up, and it turns out the game is in the play store, already, but the reviews aren't so kind.

Well you better start...

I'm glad you enjoyed it

exactly, and also the type chart was pretty bad. I know that Psychic type also represented Ghost but considering there were only 3 Ghosts it didn't make much sense that Psychics were weak to themselves and all Normals resisted Psychic... Also flying type resisting rock type because it was fighting when Moltres or Articuno were 4x weak to rock...

I don't think WotC designed the cards, they just printed them. And it's worth considering the fact that the Pokemon TCG's English debut was happening around the same time as Urza's Saga. WotC wasn't exactly making the most balanced version of Magic at the time either.

@@DarkeLourd ah, okay. I always assumed that was the reason why the original run of the Pokémon TCG was so broken - that it was made by a company whose attentions were understandably elsewhere, on their own IPs. Especially since the WOTC era ended with the atrocious e-Reader era in which there were 3 sets in a row with essentially no playable cards... I figured the Pokémon company grabbed control out of desperation after that 😆

@@fulgenzio89 But this very much based on the view of the Gameboy games mechanics (like Articuno and Moltres being 4x rock weak). It's true that the anime also had general strength/weakness systems, but more based on nature and never as formulaic as the gameboy games. I really like that the card game had different mechanics and gave a different character and feel to the pokemon. I even think this was one of its biggest strengths: To make you see pokemon and types in a different and fresh light. Pokemon that sucked in the games could be strong here, and vice versa, while still maintaining the overall flavor of the pokemon. Other than that, pokemon tcg was always designed for kids and therefore never supposed to be really deep (e.g. coin flips instantly disqualify it for true competitiveness). For how simple the card game was designed, I think it's surprisingly fun and interactive.

Pretty sure he's done that already

Clefable is banned, also one of my EVIL decks. Only the OG player like myself, played Clefable again super strong pokemon with there 3 to 4 energy with only 1 energy metronoom attack and without discarding any side damaging effects. So strong and banned pokemon!

He's not on it. 😭

@@christianbell8347 Blastoise is number 2 here. Did you watch the same video?

@@azuredragoon2054 it's possible we watched a different video, yes.

How does cowardice work? Tantacool has a free retreat cost anyway so not sure how this power is used?

@@van_lichenstein8171 damage swap is a deck based on moving damage counters around to prevent Knockouts or to keep more favorable pokemon healthy. Tentacool has the Cowardice ability. During a turn where Tentacool isnt put into play, you can return it to your hand. This clears all the damage counters on it. You just put it down, and next turn you can return it to the hand. Since Tentacool has 30 HP, it can hold 2 damage counters. If you properly bench it and get it ready, each copy can heal up to 40 HP. It can be very useful against nearly every deck, even Energy Absorption if you use Mr. Mime. Combined with Mr. Mime's invisible barrier ability, you can heal Mr. Mime for free every turn since it can only ever take 20 HP of damage at once.

@@van_lichenstein8171 cowardice lets you load damage counters on it on the bench, then return it to the hand, which removes them from the board. If you have a couple of them you can recover 20-40 HP per copy of Tentacool every turn.

@@exeledusprince9165 oh ok! Thanks for the info! I’ll add him to my team next game for a test run!

And then I came to a haymaker deck with electrobuz and Scyther within.............😅

@@yingmustang67 you know it was a struggle. But there were some wins if i got ahead early game.

@@Hayato0373 I know it was then a struggle and the one who beat me was one my best friends and still to day after 25 years, we starting to play the new pokemon TCG.

You can emulate Pokemon TCG 2 for the gbc! It's a japan only release that's fan translated that can be good to experience early team rocket format

Energy Removal the Trainer card is much more efficent to use. That and Super Energy Removal due to Rain Dance Blastoise. The need for Golduck and Poliwrath's Energy denial attacks are made redundant. Better to use Trainers to remove Energies and use Waters to do big damage.

The cost for Golduck’s Hyper Beam means that it’s always going to take three turns to set it up, which is a pretty big downside. No chance of cheating the cost early like Dragonair who can get its Hyper Beam set up in just two turns with Double Colorless Energy. I also feel like Golduck is a little overshadowed by Psyduck since Headache turning off the most power card type in WOTC era PTCG is huge.

Opposite

As much as I love it, it's not that amazing, considering you have to discard 2 energy cards for it to attack, and there aren't many ways to quickly attach energy to it. Yeah, it's a very iconic card, but it's not as powerful as many people think it is

Unfortunately for Charizard, its attack was rather slow - discarding 2 energies in order to use - and also wouldn't KO the ever present Chansey without two PlusPower. Zard can't really compete.

@@0znerEighthIt's the Rampardos theorem where in a turn based game, overkill is just wasted damage. Most of the best pokemon only needed to deal around 70 damage, and if lower, the range was 40-60 to 2hit KO most pokemon. 60 being the sweet spot. Any more than 80 was just icing on the cake but often came with large costs. In Charizard's case, it effectively has a worse version of Truant as the fastest way to power it up is 2 double colorless energies, so that's one 100 damage attack every 3 turns.... a worse rate than just sticking to a 40 damage attack 3 times or about as good as a 30 damage attack with poison 3 turns in a row. So yeah...mathematically, Charizard's kind of worse than Charmeleon. It also has no synergy with other pokemon since the only Pokemon powers that can move energy cards do so with thier own type, so no Venusaur stuff to have a pool of grass energies to give Charizard fodder (not that it'd be good to waste 4 turns of energy for 100 damage), and Blastoise can't help Charizard stack unlimited water energies cause it only affects water types (and again...wasting 4 energies per attack is a huge waste since again, a 40 damage move every turn outpaces it without a downside). Charizard can probably finish a game with a big play though, but it might as well end the game with Explosion like Chansey does.

Base set Charizard is extremely weak unfortunately. Sure it picks up one hit kills but needing to eat 2 energies on a 4 energy attack while energy removal is at 4 in every deck is... bad. Not even mentioning how slow stage 2s are in general. It's ok because TCPi has overcompensated since

it was too inconsistent to be viable, Raindance totally shuts down the deck because you can hit for 1 hit kos

Base set Charizard was always BAD. In gameplay. Its only worth money due to its iconic status

It doesn't circumvent the once per turn energy limit with its ability like the other starter stage 2s so it was slow in a type meant to be hyper aggro

You can partner Jungle Scyther with it. Both synergize with any Basic Energy attach + DCE. In this case, Grass. Scyther covers the Fighting issue and has Free Retreat.

@@RinaShinomiyaVal i know but that doesnt change the fact that hitmonchan plus gust of wind is a one shot, plus you can just revenge kill it either way

You can always hit the gear icon and change the playback speed to 0.75x.

@@cadekachelmeier7251 Thank you! I didn't know this feature :)