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I loved Pokemon TCG from Base Set through Diamond & Pearl. It's amazing that the game had no HP power creep until DP, and even then it wasn't that bad. Everything went to crap from Black & White onward, especially by Sun & Moon. What's the point of using evolution trees, a unique mechanic to this game, when you can just slap a 300 HP BEEG STOMPY out there and reduce the game from a 6v6 Pokemon battle to "who can KO BEEG STOMPIES twice?" I played in online tournaments and even won, but I quit the game years ago because of all the EX/GX/VZ/All-the-X whores. I miss the days when ex were moderately stronger at a cost for risk-reward factor and had, at most, 150 HP. Neo, the Ruby & Sapphire series, and DP were the most fun I ever had with the game.

WotC added a few cool things to Pokemon TCG, like the energy symbol stacking, the horizontal bottom card info, and especially the pack promo art diversity. But ultimately they screwed up more than they helped. Had I known as a kid that WotC was giving me less valuable packs, I'd have rioted for their immediate destruction. Also, the countless card translation errors are just embarrassing. Hire a Japanese-English translator, gimme a break. Good riddance, I say.

Also fun fact: the Metronome removing energy from Blaine's Charizard is also an instance of WOTC following their own rules incorrectly. In Magic, if a creature gains the ability of another creature that refers to itself, the copied ability refers to the creature that is copying, so that would work like Metronome was meant to

WHAT?! Wotc making a dingus out of a card game? Can't believe that, never would have seen that coming...

Still playing on gameboy gonna have to get the ganeshsrk😂 for them cards 😅

The Holon concept is incredibly beloved by me, I pinch my brow every time pokemon decides to introduce blase gimmicks like terastalization when delta species are RIGHT THERE. It would seriously add such a fun and interesting twist to the games.

I miss the og PTCGO... you were able to still use HGSS era decks, and I played with a feraligatr deck almost every day until it shut down </3 I was even able to take down powerful modern decks by building up Hypnos with sleep abilities, stacking energies on Exeggutors and Slowbros for multiplied attacks, and of course Feraligatr prime.

This is one of the best videos on Pokemon I have ever seen. Omg brings back SUCH nostalgia. I competed in a tournament in 1999 at age 11 and am just now picking up the game again 25 years later!

I much prefer your explanation of the Holon lore and how it's NOT connected to Mirage Forest

Is that A+down glitch also on gbc?

what's the music at 6:30 called I'v been looking for it my entire life

What's the name of the card in the thumbnail?

We need a Greek enspired region with delta species as the gimmick

22:45 I can't believe I didn't know some of these shortcuts

29:13 How does Gambler help counter the Barrier strategy? They get new cards, but Barrier is still in effect.

Sequel?!

What's the intro song?

Isn’t there a part 2 game that never came out in America?

Interesting video, the mistranslations and differences in rulings between the two versions is similar to how YGO OCG and TCG have different rulings even now. Though.. Bro's calling out the JP ads as weird when yall were obsessed with the Pokerap when that came out. It's the same thing just in Japanese-

this was fantastic, well done

I'm really enjoying the art inspired from Area Zero in these recent expansions, I wonder what they'll come up with when Legends Z-A comes out

Wonder if the legends ZA game will have inspiration from breakthrough

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The city with no map bears a very very strong resemblance to the city in the Latias Latios movie and its very cool to me

the 3d graphics of those old sky ridge commercials are better than s/v imo lol

damn i can already tell this is gonna b a cool video, well done

PLS TELL ME THE MUSIC AT 39:00 I AM BEG

I commented one year ago but now I'm back because my opinions have changed. I think the perfect way to fix the Pokemon TCG types is to have as many types as you want BUT to streamline the ENERGIES. The game should only have 6 different kinds of Energies max, plus colourless. Get rid of Fairy, Steel, and Darkness Energies altogether. Psychic Energies - used for Psychic, Ghost, Dark, and Fairy Types Fighting Energies - used for Rock, Ground, Steel, and Fighting types Grass Energies - used for Grass, Bug, and Poison types Water Energies - used for Water and Ice types Fire Energies - used for Fire and some Dragon types Lightning Energies - used for Electric and some Dragon types Colorless Energies - used for Normal and Flying types This removes the awkwardness of having Dark being weak to Grass, Fire being weak to Ice, Lightning being weak to Fighting, etc. You could maybe even streamline some of the types a little bit, like combining Rock and Ground into an Earth type or Dark and Ghost into a Darkness type. With more types to play with, a Pokemon card could even have two simultaneous weaknesses and two simultaneous Resistances, leading to more diverse gameplay. The only problem would be Lightning, which only has 1 weakness in the video games.

subscribed! great vibes

49:46 what about the radiant/pokekyun collection? :( the unique blurbs replacing the dex entries were my favorite part aside from the unique holofoil prints

17:48 wait EN ver omg

Anything Pokemon from the 90's makes me wanna cry. I'm not even a huge fan, but i was a 90's kid and the nostalgia hurts soooo bad. Kids today don't know what love from a developer is. They get treated like trash now. creators used to love thier audience back. Now they love money. 💔

I know a lot of players love the TCG but imo the fact that Pokemon are not typed correctly makes the card game dull and unplayable. Barely any dual typing. Rock and ground are fighting, lmao. Each card has their own weaknesses which don't even match the actual Pokemon. If it wasn't for the brand and neat art this would be probably one of the most forgettable card games. Pokemon and RPGs in general are already borderline card games. They should just cut this oddity and port the game to card format. Draw cards as moves or something.

Dragon types were colourless for the first 5 sets of the Black and White era, it wasn't until Dragons Exalted that they introduced dragon types, which is why stuff like Haxorus and Druddigon were colorless while dual types like Hydreigon and Kyurem were their secondary types.

Putting a theorist cap, did the Holon Tower cause Pokemon's primary type to become their tera type?

Really good video, thanks for summarizing that all. It was amazing to see. Especially the Holon and the Parallel World stuff from X and Y. I base a lot of my characters around Holon so it felt special to see it explained this way.

Did this guy AI generate his voice. He talks like hes writing in monospace font 💀

Fantastic video! So much incredible detail

So Imposter Oak shows up in the manga, and I think the chapter he shows up in came out in early to mid 1998 (cant quite pin down what month) Between that and the card game and Pokemon 2 getting delayed its fun to see how two Pokemon mediums both had the idea to cameo evil professor oak and didnt have anywhere to go with it but knew not to make a huge deal out it because it seems unclear where the game may be going with the idea

I want to add that Power Spots are a "real" thing. As in, it's not a concept made for these cards. Power Spots are places believed to contain sacred power and oftentimes special healing properties, much like the website describes. Places like Stonehenge are believed to be power spots by some people. Some also relate them to Leylines and such. Stonjourner, the pokémon based on Stonehenge, has an ability called Power Spot for the same reason. I just thought it was neat that they implemented that in the lore of these cards.

This was amazing please more! I come back weekly to check for new posts. More Deep Dive Lore would be awesome with a focus on specific sets.⭐️✨

Kinda sucks that they just tossed all lore out in these newer sets. XY had a decent amount of it and Sun and moon had a little bit but correct me if I’m wrong there isn’t much lore in anything since… at least not sets centralized around the lore (locations)

truly a Delta seeker

My dream that will never happen is for Pokémon TCG Pocket to remake some of the old amazing cards like Seeker and the Holon cards as the immersive cards....

Bro i 100% thought the title was yugioh card lore and so when i skipped through half the video to see it was all pokemon i was like wtf this should just be called pokemom card lore lol

One of my fav videos, good work bro

Holon is deeply intwined with deoxys. The triangles, mutated dna, and the fact that in ORAS, the event in which you catch deoxys is called the DELTA episode. Idk. Probably alot more to it

this deserves way more attention, this is great. i knew *none* of this despite being into pokemon lore for over a decade

i love trading cards too man

amazing