Funnily enough both of those Pokémon have had decent runs in the TCG: Sigilyph was a popular anti-EX tech back in the late BLW-era and Xatu currently has a print that, at least functionally, has the same Ability as Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX does and was used as an Energy accelerator in Dragapult ex decks until Crispin was printed.
I tried using this thing in the Battle Tree in Gen 7. Not that good, unfortunately, but it does have potential. Never really used it in XY.
(and being real, TPC would probably release it in an unplayable state anyways like SV)
Remember a time when new pocketmons games were good?
Current cards are so overpowered compared to how it was in the '90s. It's like 1 energy for an attack of 50, and HP commonly far over 120 (120 was the limit and extreme HP).
I've never really played the Pokemon TCG, but I've found it funny how blatant it is with the powercreep. Every TCG suffers from powercreep to some extent, but it's usually more subtle with stuff having better effects for less cost or comboing off each other better, or what have you. With Pokemon it's literally just bigger numbers. Old cards literally can't compete because their numbers are like 1/4 of what modern cards have. It's like the opposite of Yu-Gi-Oh! where Konami has managed to keep numbers about the same since the mid-2000s, but card effects have turned into novels that prevent your opponent from playing the game at all.
Staryu in Base Set:
Slap 20
Swift 30 (always works, no Weakness and Resistance effect)
I've been replaying and finishing Pokemon TCG 2 for GBC, and man, sometimes I forget how kino this game is. This replaythrough made me realize that this is definetly my favorite spinoff of the entire series.
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My favorite thing about it is how much content you can experience even after postgame, especially the ghost masters (pic related).
I went with the "Do the Wave" Wigglytuff deck for most of my play time, but I also had to switch my deck a few times to counter some opponents, which is something that I feel a lot of "TCG videogames" don't do. Kinda wish we had another Pokemon TCG RPG... but then again, having another entry with the current rules and cards would be very
Soundtrack is still very high quality like TCG 1, so that's also nice.
To be fair, for a long time on the English side of the TCG the dominant deck was based on Pokemon like hitmonchan that were basic but able to be efficient damage dealers. It wasn’t until slowing was released with that mistranslation that the deck finally got knocked out.Staryu in Base Set:
40 HP,
Staryu in "Paldean Fates":
60 HP,
What lunacy is he speaking
Really good idea to offer early-game options for the types that you didn't pick as your starter.
Cultural osmosis as a little kid. All just stuff from a distance, through glimpses in the news or stories from other kids.
Empoleon. I love penguins, and my sort-of reintroduction to the series in Gen 4 with Piplup left a huge impression on me.
BossManGecko says "always gamba." Beat those Rattata rats, and fuck the riggers at the Celadon Game Corner.
From my searching, it seems to be "lul" because apparently it's Dutch for dick.
Eyyy nice, I will warn you though and say that your early game will be a bit rough compared to the previous game, but once you get the ball rolling, the difficutly will become smooth-sail and fun to traverse. It will be more challenging than the first game though, since you won't exactly be able to solo the entire thing with Electabuzz + Hitmochan (still pretty strong strategy eitherway).
That guy is already annoying to deal with in the older GB TCG vidya.
I used to hate that until seismatoad EX made the game miserable and there were games determined by who could get to mewtwo EX first.
