Hi, I've been a fan for a long time and have tried playing the games and cards. But now I'm in college, and with the new TCG Pocket game, I've been wondering if it is worth getting booster packs and collecting cards.

If so, what's a good start or advice I can have?

Thanks!

Btw I'm from the Philippines :)

Hey everyone, years ago I bought Pokémon Yellow on 3DS and started to play it just few days ago, my team is : Pikachu Charmeleon Ivysaur Nidorino Kadabra

My plan was to have Gengar after but I figured out i can only have him and Alakazam by trade which is impossible now.

So do you have any recommendations to swap for Kadabra and Haunter ?

i just want to watch and read or even play every single things of pokemon franchise, so there's pokemon series which is an anime version of pokemon follow a story of ash and liko there's pokemon movies , pokemon limited series , specials , trailers and commercials and music video. For manga there's pokemon adventure and for games there's pokemon games (E.g. pokemon red version). What i wanna know is there anything more that i've missed about pokemon other than what i have said before because i really want to finish pokemon franchise before i died

So I’m basically trying to get a really long break from games in general (or maybe forever) and wanted to settle with Current pokemon stuff (I’m still gonna consume pokemon media like crazy just won’t play anything anymore ) , basically catch everything I like and store it in pokemon home.

One of the things I’ve started to do is trying to get all legendaries I like , but now I have the dilemma of wether I should just stick to trades and finding people or just buy the dlc and catch the legendaries myself . Cause I have this weird bad habit of having multiple of each pokemon I like , (for example recently I bred a whole team of lucario with nearly perfect IVs) . Which makes it hard for legendaries cause I don’t know how many to collect of each legendary I like. (Like I’m stuck not knowing if two solgaleos are enough or if I should go for more) .

Do you think should I get the dlc for catching legendaries alone . Or do I just stick to what I have now and don’t bother with dlcs? Would appreciate any advice , It feels more of an impulse cause I considered getting Kirby and the forgotten land as my last game on holiday sale which is close to dlc’s price .

By the way, is swsh dlc better for collecting legendaries or sv?

Note: I have at least two of most legendaries I like already (which makes the whole box storage confusing ) , so it would be more of a matter of having legendaries caught by myself

I think this probably isn’t as big of a hot take as I think it might be but I see a lot of people say it’s worse than sword and shield which I think is completely wrong. Now I of course do not think the games are perfect, they are definitely not on the level of games like B/W or D/P l, but I do think they are extremely over hated. This might be a bit long so feel free to skip past this if you don’t feel like reading all this or just straight up go to the comments to say why I’m stupid.

The main complaint I see with the game is its awful optimization and graphics. Yes, the graphics are sloppy and the frames constantly dive when literally anything happens that is 100% true and valid for complaint. My issue is that this is one of the only criticisms I see for the game. I’m definitely living under a rock when it comes to the larger discussions of complaints for this game but in my opinion I think the main issues besides visuals and optimization are lack of customization, lack of world diversity, and the new pokemon designs. Other than that I think this game absolutely nails it. I think I’ll save the cons for discussion for anyone who would like to mention them or bring up other gripes they have with it for the comments so I’d like to talk about what I think the game does right.

First, I think the story is good. I like the setup of being a student at the academy and having to go on adventure that isn’t sparked by just “collect all the pokemon and become champion” even if admittedly that’s what it still winds around to technically. The dynamic you have with some of the characters around you is compelling because they are all going on the same journey as you to find their “treasure” for the schools treasure hunt. Nemona encourages you to go the normal victory road route of beating the gym leaders, the elite four, and the champion so that you can eventually fight her. Arven is looking for the herba mystica from the titan pokemon around the region. Penny wants you to help her defeat team star. These stories all kinda play at the same time so there’s no set order or path you have to take with each of them. Of course it is definitely gently implied by the level differences so it isn’t too free but it does give you a sense of choice when it comes to what you want to do to progress and when. All three of them I find rather charming and likable.

Nemona is framed to be this super talented trainer who arguably surpasses even the champion and simply enjoys fighting other strong trainers, so Pokémon’s version of Goku. She doesn’t come off as pushy like Barry sometimes would and certainly isn’t cocky or arrogant like Gary/Blue. She’s just kinda this really optimistic and outgoing person who genuinely just enjoys fighting, I think she’s fun to have around and makes for a great rival. Admittedly she isn’t nearly as fleshed out as the other 2 “rivals” but I think thats due to the fact that she doesn’t really need an arc cause she’s already at the end of her journey, she doesn’t need growth cause she’s someone who’s had her adventure and simply wants to fight someone else who has the experience she has had.

Arven is a student like you and seeks to find the herba mystical to help his Mabostiff, who was attacked by paradox pokemon. Early on in his story you learn that the professor is his mom/dad, which creates this immediate tension because he clearly doesn’t seem to like them very much. Later on you find out how they hardly even talk to him and he hasn’t seen them in years, which is why he wants to help his Mabostiff so badly because it’s the only family he has at this point. As you help him he opens up more about himself and his feelings about his parent as well as how much he cares about Mabostiff. Way later down the line you eventually make it to Area Zero and descend further and further down into the depths where you find the professor, only to be revealed that it isn’t the real professor but in fact a robot duplicate of them that was made to continue their research. This was honestly one of the biggest shocks in a pokemon game because the real professor isn’t missing or kidnapped or the usual fare for the types of games, the professor is dead; killed by their own discovery of the past/future paradox pokemon or more specifically the other versions of the legendary box art pokemon. I really love this reveal and the fight after because it shows that gamefreak is still willing to tell a dark and serious story, something I feel we haven’t gotten since the subjects talked about in X and Y. Arven is absolutely a new favorite character of mine and I think his arc throughout the story is a really beautiful way to show how easily children are affected by things like neglect and loss. I wish I could get more into detail but it’s been a while since I played the game so I’m sure I’ve forgotten more interesting or even incriminating things to tell how good/poor his writing and story are.

Finally is Penny. First of all, I think her design is adorable. The Eevee backpack, the goofy switch colored hair, the shut in nerd demeanor are all great character design in my opinion; nothing groundbreaking of course but I really enjoy it. Penny has probably one of the most realistic and relatable stories out of any Pokemon character. While under the identity of Cassiopeia, and of course with help from Clive, you are tasked with beating each boss of team star. As you defeat each member you slowly learn more and more about them and why they harass students and faculty and cause so much trouble for the school. It turns out that Team Star was created because of bullying, not to bully. The original five members along with their anonymous founder are students of the school who have been the subjects of harsh bullying, something the school and they themselves couldn’t/wouldn’t stop. They created the team because they figured together they would be able to protect each other from the bullies that hurt them, whether that be faculty or other students. It was so long ago that it eventually gets out of hand and now Clavell and other people at the academy believe them to be a group of bullies. Once you’ve defeated all 5 leaders you are told to meet Cassiopeia at the academy, who is revealed to not only be Penny, but that she is in fact the founder of team star. She wanted to bring team star down so that they wouldn’t be expelled as well as take the blame for forming their group in the first place. Over the course of the story Clavell discuss Clive learns more and more about about team star and how they in fact were victims of the bullying they faced at school as well as the schools complete blindness to the issue, which he feels partially responsible for. In the end Clavell shows mercy to the members and Penny and acknowledges that they too were victims and only were doing what they thought was right to protect themselves and the other bullied students, ultimately just giving them community service. I think this is an extremely great way to make a villain team that aren’t exactly world conquering evildoers, but aren’t a complete waste of story time and energy like team yell. Bullying is a very real issue in schools as well as schools unwillingness to hell victims of said bullying, going as far as to punish victims too. It’s a really touching story because you see how these kids ended becoming a family in their own way because of what they experienced, they were outcasts and all subject to their own trauma of being shunned and mistreated but found solace in each other and helping other victims too. It’s a road paved with good intentions sort of deal and I think they really did a good job with it yet I still see people say it’s a dumb plot or that team star is stupid. It’s literally children, it’s bullied children who had no other choice but to fight back and were punished for it. Plus team yell exists so I don’t wanna hear it. Rounding back to Penny though I think her arc of accepting responsibility for her actions of creating and abandoning team star out of guilt are well written, she isn’t breaking ground like Arven but she’s a really great character who definitely has the most relatable story.

That brings me to my next topic of the music. Oh my god the music. This is probably my favorite soundtrack in the series which is saying something when you have B/W, R/S, and D/P as competition. I think the shift pokemon music is taking to a lot more heavy/dubstep? sounds along with really utilizing multiple instruments in a track, like as many as they can realistically fit in, is great. Team Star literally has the best set of songs out of any villain team and it isn’t close, the grunts have a themes that sounds like it should be for a boss (if you don’t beat them before it picks up), the boss theme has literally one the greatest guitar sections I have ever heard in a song almost reminiscent of adventure era sonic or dragon ball games, and Penny’s theme is super heavy and fun especially considering it was made for this small introvert who likes eevees. Also the fact that Giacomo canonically made these songs and that they actually are playing while you fight them is genius? Also I appreciate that they are taking not only different routes with the music, but becoming very open to collaborations with songs. Toby Fox returning for this game is absolutely incredible and the song he helped compose for the final boss is one of the best songs in Pokemon hands down. The motifs used like the Tera battle theme are perfect and the song of course has its own “yeah this is Toby Fox” section. The rest of the music is great too especially once you get to the dlc where they make numerous callbacks to Unova.

Finally I just wanna say that I think the overworld despite lacking lots of variety has a great layout. I love the giant lake and the bamboo forest, I just wish they optimized the game better so we can truly appreciate the scale and pieces. Area Zero is great as well because it’s so otherworldly and mysterious but I can’t say I adore the very bottom.

I wish I had more to say in detail about these things but I am not a game designer or composer so they aren’t my strong suit, but I’d definitely like to hear anyones thoughts and wether you agree and disagree and why. I don’t want to argue of course and I have to be clear I don’t think this is the greatest Pokemon game ever made nor do I think your favorite is invalid, I just think this game got way more hate then it deserved because I think compared to sword and shield, this and legends arceus were huge steps forward.

Basically, I'd absolutely love to hear your own headcannons and the likes for some Slice of Life stuff in the Pokémonworld!!

How would certain aspects of day to day life look like? Any specific headcannons for specific Pokémon? At what places and jobs would you maybe expect to see which Pokémon? What possible simple situations and scenes could you imagine for some Pokémon Slice of Life? How would you like to live and what kind of usual life things would you love to do in the Pokémonworld, outside of becoming a Pokémontrainer or something like that?

I've always really loved the Worldbuilding of Pokémon, and I've always loved to imagine what a normal and simple life would look like in the Pokémonworld. Like, just imagine simple things, also things like caring for your Pokémon, taking them out for walks, playing with them, etc. Just. Pokémon Slice of Life Headcannons.. 🫶

If there are any in the comments that I find particularly interesting, in any way, I might even draw it!! :>

I might be crazy, but I remember when I was younger I used to repeatedly listen to this song whose video was just an image of chikorita. I can’t remember what it was for the life of me, but I just remembered that it exists and it’s been driving me crazy.

i am looking for ocean region scatterbugs in pokemon go to finish my collection! i send and open gifts daily! i have tried all options and reddit is my last resort lol, please help me if you can, i just want to complete this collection so i never have to pin a gift again lol

For context of where I am, I just cleared slowpoke well. I have caught every mon obtainable in this version so far, even the fished ones. Currently my team is a lvl 14 quilava, lvl 13 rocky, lvl 12 spearow, lvl 13 mareep, lvl 12 gastly and I'm training up a magikarp. My main focus is maximizing type coverage. I've heard a lot of talk about crobat being a great flying type, so I could replace spearow with a zubat and due to typing I would want to replace gastly as well which I think I would replace with a heracross. But the main thing, is magikarp. I just caught a slowpoke (and I think the slowbro evo is better but I'm not sure so I'd be willing to hear an argument for either side) and I'm wondering what the best mon for water type coverage would be particularly between gyrados and slowpoke. I'm debating between them since they have dual type from the jump and would be in either case not conflicting with any other team members in typing. Also, assuming trading is not an issue, is steelix good enough to warrant keeping rocky around full time since I've heard you can get a metal coat somewhat early to evolve it.

I have a ton of packs that I have been buying over the last couple of months and now that I look at them I never can find time to start opening because I’m old with young kids lol. I was thinking is there a way to use the packs to make content and if so any ideas. I’m not hip to the way some ppl do it by flipping the cards around to the back side or nothing like that. I’m open to ideas but when I say I have a lot I have hundreds of packs to open including boxes.

Im an MTG player who is interested in learning how to play the Pokemon TCG. I downloaded this app because i was curious about the game and i've been playing pokemon games for 20+ years.

Does anyone have tips for newbies with no pokemon tcg experience that just got the Pocket TCG app?

Thanks in advance

Whether it’s a newer Pokemon or just one you slept on and now that you’ve tried using it, you find that you love it?

For me it’s Applin and it’s evolved forms. Cutest little grass/dragon in the franchise. It’s a must have on my team when I play Sword and Scarlet.

Considering how common Rotom has become in Pokémon by being a sort of electronic assistant, it made me think about Porygon. Porygon would have filled that role just as well, maybe even better as it is already made up of code, but due to the now banned episode of the anime Nintendo and the Pokémon company were too afraid to bring our polygon duck back to take the role, so decided to use / created Rotom to fill the whole "Pokémon as personal AI assistant" role.

Hello, most people will have no idea what this thread is talking about, but if you do, please give your input in the comments.

Anyways, this 13 year old game has certain medals that can be unlocked on the status screen for completing the browser, finishing all quests, and doing the multiplayer arceus missions and such. It appears there is a slot for a fifth medal.

I've searched the internet and have found some decade old threads talking about this but none have seemed to find the fifth medal. To my knowledge the other pokemon rangers games had five in total.

Multiple people on these threads have done literally everything possible in this game and have yet to find anything about. Here is a link to the mentioned forum post. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/986141-pokemon-ranger-guardian-signs/56806131

As I said before, if you have even maybe played through the game before, try to think of something else.

- IVs (Individual Values) are removed.
- Pokémons start off with 10 EVs while they're level 1, and they gain 5 EVs per level.
- Through a new system called "Effort Meter", you can change how many EVs you give to every stat any time outside battle.
- Effort Meter is a bar graph for every individual Pokémon that shows how many EVs are given to the six stats. (Atk, Def, HP, SpA, SpD, Spe)
- Paralysis halves the victim's Spe, and the victim is unable to use a move on the first turn they're taken out.
- Sleep makes the victim fall asleep for 2 turns.
- Freeze Stuns the victim for 1 turn, and the next attack the victim is hit with will deal double damage.

Hey y'all! I'm trying to brainstorm gift ideas for this Christmas. For reference, my boyfriend's little brother is 7, I'm 21, my bf is 22, we've been dating for about a year. I'm just looking to get his little brother something cool but not super extravagant. Also, I have yet to meet his little brother (bf's family lives in another state and I've only met his mom when she's visited in our state), so I don't think my bf's little brother will care much about it being from me, it'll mostly be his mom that gets the biggest impression from it.

I don't know ANYTHING about Pokemon so I'm so lost on what to get, and I don't want to just go get some random stuff from target because that feels lazy and insincere (I'll get some card packs obv but I'm talking the main gift). I was thinking maybe finding some cool vintage stuff on eBay (?) but I wouldn't really know what to look for. For anyone who was into Pokemon as a kid or has kids/nices/nephews that are into Pokemon now, what should I get!?

New to the Pokémon world. Came across 20 packs of 151 for 150(7.50 a pack). Current tcg medium is 9.10 but has been slowly climbing. With the expected reprint coming in February, would you consider this a good investment? Reprint is only for a premium collection box as of now so maybe it won’t flood the market too much. Any recommendations or opinions on holding 151

The other day after years of trying and failing I finally evolved Eevee into Umbreon and when I put a post up about it on FB someone called me stupid for not knowing about dusk stones when in all honesty I didn't know they existed (despite my playing since HGSS)!!! When I explained that I had learning difficulties they refused to back down is this rude or ignorance on the other person's behalf?

Many thanks

Hello. My son (11) has recently gotten into Pokémon. Are there books on how to make decks and strategy in général ? I don’t know much about it but thought it could be a good gift. I know there’s a lot of stuff online but I’m a book person, as is my son. Any help would be appreciated !

you see I’m planning on directing a pokemon movie in the future and I’m wondering on who would wanna voice some of the characters? In your opinion who would be a good fit for the film? Bryan Tyree Henry, Dan green, Julian Dennison, who would you wanna see in this film? Or I could see who auditions but what do you think?

Comment your favorite pokemon and I, a guy with absolutely no authority on the matter, will rate them based on my personal biases. There is no system other than how I personally feel about them. By commenting you are putting your pride and joy up to my scrutiny. You have no reason to request my judgement, but ask yourselves: Can you really resist? 👀

EDIT: I'm adding a dupes clause, meaning going forward I won't rate the same mon twice. If I don't respond to you, I will probably have rated it somewhere else once I get through them all.

Every day I will be doing a new poll with the three starter pokemon from each tradition. The winners of gens 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9 will then compete for who gets in the finale. The final three will then compete and figure out the fan favorite starter. This poll will last for 24 hours and the winner will also be announced in the next poll. This will last 11 more days, and we are starting with Gen 1 today.

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Personally my favorite is the beast. It’s just absolutely insane looking.for actual use though I have to say the quick ball. It’s just so easy to use and great way to catch pokemon. my favorite gimmick for a Pokeball is the repeat ball it’s just a weird choice but overall pretty cool. What’s your favorite?

Full details are right in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AS8Pnmrn_jEz0NChspG96rdKN0KkeQK8htuf8hrahZM/edit?usp=sharing

The lyrics ABSOLUTELY have rough edges, but I'm happy to just share them for casual perusal purposes. I did set it so that anybody can comment, because these lyrics are basically a work-in-progress, and I wanna hear what people think about them.

Hey, I got the Hokusai Great Wave puzzle a while ago and just found that I'm missing a single piece of the puzzle. My girlfriend and I are looking to frame the puzzle and we obviously can't without that piece. Does anyone know who the manufacturer of it is or who I could contact to attain a copy of the missing piece? Thanks!

Well I am an avid pokemon player from back in the days. Played them all, collected them all, trained them all. You name it. But there was one factor that pushed me away from pokemon is how crazy cheating can be and it gets out of hands. Last game I played was Sword and people still using cheats. I am not sure how it is now with the Scarlet and Violet version. Pokemon Bank seems to not do much with the anti cheating. If people still cheat, then ill stay away then.

I was watching WolfyVGC's video about Zacian and started having a thought, would Zacian be as impactful if it was Stee/Fighting and Zamazenta got the Steel/Fairy typing instead. Steel/Fairy can work both offensively and defensively whereas Steel/Fighting works mostly offensively but mediocre in defensively.

Though I suppose if they HAD done that, they would've given Zacian Close Combat which would've been scarier than sacred sword.

What do you guys think?

Greetings everyone, after years of having it I'm finally actually trying to complete PokéPark 2 (I'm 17 and it's still my favorite videogame ever), sorta trying to do a 100% completion even if there isn't any true way to reach that, so I'm just planning to get every single Kecleon achievement since I've already befriended each Pokémon. And that's the issue; I befriended every single Pokémon, all 192 of them, yet the "play tag with every Pokémon who wants to" or whatever medal isn't there. How's that even possible? If I befriended everyone it means that should be done already... ...Right?

Well, maybe I'm going crazy, but I was wondering if I'm not the only one who remembers this?

At the time when Pokémon Black and White were the most recent generation of Pokémon, they usually showed the anime of the new generation, and in one of these episodes of Pokémon BW a girl commented to Ash and his friends that her Brother followed the same path as Ash, of becoming a trainer, and in the girl's flashbacks, it clearly showed Blue Pikachu on the boy's shoulder, I wanted to know if this scene really existed, or if it's really something that almost no one remembers, not to mention researching "Blue Pikachu" doesn't help much, due to Maril

Or am I just learning this for the first time after 20+ years? I've been calling them the dark and electric types for my whole life and now this app is telling me they're the darkness and lightning types. Has this always been true?? There's no way. Is this just a TCG thing?