it would be funny watching his jaw drop as a funny looking rock pokemon that looks like a crescent moon (Lunatone), gets 4 psychic energy on it in one turn, and him being like. WTF!? i thought you could only attach 1 energy per turn! i used to love the lunatone and solrock deck. but now i hate it, as its the deck everyone uses to ladder climb.
You can't really put in real money in. At least not in the normal way. If you buy a ptc pack in real life you get a code card for a free ingame pack. And this is the only way to pay. You can buy code cards of older expensions for 1 cent per code. And even the current expensions are only between 10-20 cent. If you buy them privately you sometimes only pay 5 cent for a meta pack. This means if you Invest something like 10€, you can actually get 200 packs for it. This is enough to trade for a smaller meta deck. In this video we only saw theme decks which are all super slow and have nothing to do with the real meta. Real decks are just 100x better and more fun to play. Theme decks are just boring and slow. Because you can't upgrade theme decks and you can only buy theme decks for f2p currency the opponent probably didn't payed anything. Plus he played the best theme deck, but I could already see, that he played super bad. A good player would have probably won this matchup on 99% of the time.
High level competitive decks don't have much (if any) rng. And that's counting card draws. There are so many tutor cards in this game it might as well eliminate card draw and just allow people to play any card from the deck.
Seeing Pokemon TCG is so nostalgic! I actually learned English as a kid just to play it and now I'm an English teacher, so I can safely say this game changed my life. It's lovely to see it again 💕
@@isoldmymumforrp5371 no, they had to do it for simplicity. If you put all of them into individual types in the card game they will have to balance all 18 types, each with their own mechanics, resistances, weaknesses, etc. If they want to print cards that supports one type, those cards will ignore the other 17 types, which in itself a set of separate problems.
if you wanted to be even more confused, it was announced at the start of the Pokemon sword and shield cards, that they were "DELETING" Fairy type! any and all existing Fairy type pokemon in the video games, are now Psychic type instead. But thats not all! Pokemon that are Ghost Type or Poison Type, that were once Psychic type, have now been moved to the Dark type. so Pokemon like Gengar and Crobat are dark types now in the TCG
People get shocked by effects like "draw 3" but drawing doesn't matter as much in Pokemon because searchers are plenty and most things you can do are hard capped to once per turn.
Hahaha, yeah I thought the same thing coming over from Hearthstone. "Draw 3 for free is so busted!" It's definitely moderated because you can only play one supporter for turn and there are many much stronger ones you can do for that one slot.
I haven't played ptcgo in a while. But a few years ago you had stuff like Shaymin or Lele. You literaly draw half your deck in one turn. I know those cards are out of rotation and I think they didn't added something that busted currently. But you are still able to draw a lot more than just a few cards per turn in ptcgo. That's the part I like about Ptcg to be fair. Obviously hand size is super important, but it's not as limited as in other games.
Awesome seeing this! I play Pokemon TCG irl (also go to tournaments and stuff) and I have to say that the meta you see at tournaments is a lot different than what you played in this video. You only saw lots of bulk and random cards which are unviable, so you haven't seen the actual game yet tbh ;P if you're interested you can check out vods of the world championships which just finished 2 weeks ago
If you're interested in playing some more I recommend Regigigas, as it's very cheap, very fun and actually also very good as it got 17th on the world championship. You can find the decklist that placed 17th on limitlesstcg for example
@@magicspoon2571 Definitely not tier 1 of course, but playable for sure. The guy who got 17th with it could have made top 8 if he didn't misplay in the last round btw
@@someindianguy4471 Wow dude chill out :( I just gave a suggestion for a fun budget deck if he ever decided to play this again. He has also done multiple yugioh videos so why not give it a shot? I don't see what's embarrassing about that
*I made a promise in chat.* Times Rarran mispronounced Pokémon names: 0:49 Rat-A-Tata 3:10 Rayachu 3:25 Rayachu 2 (Been that way for 20+ years, my dude.) 3:50 Rayachu 3 4:10 Rayachu 4 4:23 Electrobuzz 4:53 Electric Ball 6:43 Electric Ball 2 6:44 Electrobuzz 2 6:46 Pharrow 8:04 Rayachu 5 9:17 Volcanarona 13:06 Sparrow 13:08 Pharrow 2 15:40 Torandis 15:42 Toranduss 15:54 Galade 15:56 Toranduss 2 19:07 FurFeruo 19:08 Frouu? Mr. Rarran, judging by your most recent test scores, it looks like its back to rainbow coloured alphabet for you until your can read properly.
oh what the hell i was just watching a jarvis dhar mann vid before this one, glad to run into you jarvis! your content is so much fun and relaxing, i love it :)
My favorite thing about this game is that there's premade deck ranked (called theme deck), so you can just get a pack for 500 coins and play competitively. It's basically like if they had the prebuilt deck as a ranked format in hs, but you had like 3-5 decks per class. It can get quite samey to play for a long time, but it's great for beginners, and also you know the exact decklists, so you can play around much more easily, and you can know all your machups.
While I totally agree with this, theme decks are not even comparable with the real meta. So you almost play a different game with those. The upcomming Live game get's rid of theme decks, but (at least in beta) they just give out meta decks to everyone. So everyone can just start once joining.
I REALLY enjoy these videos where you play other card games, it’s super fun to watch a new person who understands card games play all these different games. I hope you revisit most of them once in a while. I actually watched the entire vod of your yugioh stream, was a fun time.
I still remember being the one kid in the class that didn't have YGO or Pokémon cards but actually knew the rules. Good times, never had to spend any money yet always got play.
It's kinda crazy watching the old client and tutorials before they completely revamped everything. In the new one the tutorials are with like actual close to meta decks, and this is like decks with gnomish inventor and boulderfist ogre.
Bro this was so much fun to watch, I didnt get yugioh at all but this was so good because I could understand how ridiculous it is. Had me grinning for 22 minutes.
so a few notes about the online TCG system, the Que system tends to favor start decks/ tutorial decks (which is what your playing) in the same bracket. The tutorial decks unlock more cards as you get more wins with them in the story mode (it actually shows you how many you have to unlock when you hover over the deck when choosing it). this makes these decks better as you unlock the cards, the basic tutorial decks are actually super weak they are literally just meant to teach you the basics of the game and do not throw allot of complicated things at you. The story mode (this is where you will only face AI opponents with pre made decks) you can unlock packs and earn coins for purchases in the shop, You also gain coins by logging in every day and playing against real people. So you dont actually have to buy packs with real money to get them, you just use your in game currency. Obviously buying packs is how you build good decks (the decks you get in the tutorial and the starter decks are not good decks). If you know anyone that buys real world packs and does not play online, ask them for the code cards that come in the packs (ever single pack and structure deck, and box, and basically every TCG product on the shelf has these cards in them). The codes unlock packs in the online game for free just by entering the code (basically as a way of pokemon not making you buy something twice if you only play with physical cards).
You should try the lunatone and solrock deck, super cheap, super funny because by turn two you can do 330 damage since you take energy from the graveyard and attach it to lunatone who does +30 damage for each energy attached. Pretty much you mill yourself and solrock will move the energy for free, to lunatone lol. Cost me like 3$ for a solid meta deck
The only ever In Person TCG Tournament I went to was a Pokemon one... it was like 10 years ago now. Kinda nostalgic to see it being played, maybe I'll check it out again for a bit 🤔
Finally Rarran does a Pokemon TCG video!! Can't wait for the collab video to come out. Hope you finally got ahold of Tricky Gym for it. If not, I'm sure you got one of the many great content creators for the game. Also, I just wanna say after watching the video that only the janky, low quality cards have a lot of RNG. At the top competitive level decks are extremely consistent, and most of the RNG comes from what you draw and what's in your prize cards.
There's a randomizer for the Pokémon TCG GameBoy game that actually swaps moves and costs and stuff on the cards and the AI knows how to play with the altered cards somehow.
As someone who stopped playing HS because Blizz is getting greedier and greedier, I enjoy this kind of content and am glad you are exploring all these alternatives :D
Hey Rarran, loved seeing you play the Pokémon TCG. If you’re interested in playing proper Standard PVP, I can trade you a good deck. Standard PVP is way more fast-paced, skill-intensive and has a lot less coin flip cards 😂. Would love to see a video of you trying to learn a tier 1 Pokémon TCG deck.
Rarran, if you wanna play some more ptcgo I would be happy to give you some (meta and fun) decks via the trade feature, just hit me up! I would love to see my favorite hearthstone youtuber get into my favorite card game more!
It's been toned down a bit now that the strongest trainer cards got changed to supporters and only one supporter can be played per turn. You can't play 4 oaks and 4 bills to draw your entire deck on turn 1 anymore.
Also Theme decks, we saw here, are just boring in comparison to real meta. It's not even slightly comparable. Theme decks are slow and you basically do nothing. While every turn is just full of stuff in meta.
I would love to suggest two video ideas after seeing this: - Guessing if a ptcg card is meta or not. There are so many good and bad cards, this could be really fun. - Playing with a real meta deck. Theme decks are just not fun compared to real meta imo. It's a totally different game.
You can't actually put money into PTCGO, the closest you can get to spending money on it is buying pack codes from third party sites or buying physical card packs, pack codes can give you packs that you can trade on the trading post but the trading post isn't a very reliable place to get cards you want because there are a ton of people who try to offer cards for way more than they're worth. It's really hard to get into if you weren't already buying physical packs and have a stockpile of code cards. Coins are easy enough to get just play the game and get wins and you'll get coins, packs you buy with in game coins are not tradable however so it's best for a beginner to buy a theme deck to start off and then start spending your coins on packs (the theme decks I recommend are the Charizard deck and the Soaring Storm deck (the Dragonite deck you played against)).
AAAHHH!!! The stream I've been waiting for Rarran to do for so long and because I was in the middle of a move I didn't even know it had happened until this video popped up. Oh well: even if it wasn't live; I can still enjoy the brilliance~ Now all that's left is to wait for the inevitable "Hearthstone Player guesses how good Pokemon Cards are" vid
Someone really needed to tell him this isn't a tempo game, so card draw is generally less valuable than in Hearthstone (still valuable, but tutor effects are so common and easy, it's devalued)
I think it's more fun when you understand the games better. Not the TCG itself, just watching you play them is more fun when you understand them better.
Pokémon TGC feels weird because is like the only big TGC on the market that takes almost nothing from MTG. Even the concept of cards as a resource works kind of different between lands and energy.
Rarran doesn't know about sableye and the overeager pokemon power. Overeager made it so that you always go first. So what people did was use sable eye and then use a combination of trainers to draw and burn their opponents bench. The only counter was to use spirit tomb which had a pokemon power that stopped players from using trainer cards. During the time sableye was legal 90% of decks were either sableye or spiritomb. It was such a problem the Pokemon Company emergency banned sableye mid tournament season.
The deck Rarran was using is so bad compared to the 2 decks he was facing against. Getting a conceding opponent in the second game was so lucky, and I still can’t fathom how his first opponent managed to deck themselves out before winning.
9:31 It's not the easiest, the dailies don't give you too much gold and completing them can be really time-consuming (the worst one is knocking out 16 pokemon using a specific type, also there are more powerful pokemon cards, which give you 2/3 price cards when knocked out, making this quest even harder to complete). It gets much easier though if you play irl, as the products come with the code cards, that allow you to get packs/promos/theme decks for free in PTCGO.
This was never how I played it 😂,I just summoned my mega rayquaza ex,my mega charizard ex,and primal groudon on the first turn and mowed down all my friends
"flip a coin draw 3 cards, what is this card design, 50-50 you win the game?" I'm sure you realize now how funny that statement is if you've read any of the supporter cards that are actually being played xD
I used to play tutorial in 2001. Because a had a cd with tutorial only. Looks like it’s time to play it again. But I’m afraid there are a lot of pockemons I don’t know 😔
Pokémon is unironically the best tcg - a $20 deck has a good chance of winning against top tier meta decks. Rng is almost never used once you get to higher level decks, they just put those in the tutorial since its the easiest thing to understand
RNG card draw is the worst considering there have been cards in PKMN TCG that allow you to shuffle your hand and draw 8 and you even showcase a supporter that allows you to draw 7 or 4 if you fail and while not AS good it's not BAD.
RNG is one of the things that keeps Pokemon franchise from having truly competitive games. After all, you can be the best player ever and lose everything just by getting Paralyzed in first round with 10% chance attack.
i quit hearthstone because of the absurd amount of rng, but this, this is on a completely other level! who thought it was a good idea to put "flip a coin" on every card!? i was actually tempted to try it out at the beginning of the video but now imma stay faaar away :P i have to say that i love the fact that the cards actually look like cards in this game, unlike most digital card games
For what it's worth, there's virtually no coin flipping in "real" decks. "Real" decks are also a wild ride. When both players are constantly drawing cards and attaching multiple energy per turn, it's not uncommon for games to turn into a battle of who managed their resources better. It's like in anime, where two characters are fighting with huge energy attacks and such, then by the end of the flight they're both exhausted and swinging at each other with normal punches trying to scrape together just enough power to stay standing. That's what Pokemon turns into sometimes.
The Starter Deck in TCGO are such a terrible example of the Game, there's not really that many coin flips in like the Meta, or even a lot of the More recent Theme Decks
my favourite 6 year old playing my favourite franchise? couldn't get better
The FBI will watch you with great attention.
6? He had a birthday since this video?
I love the camera angle at 8:12
Hoo wee. great cinematography
This would've been x100 times more funny if someone lend you their acc with a full meta deck 🤣 wanna see rarran do the shady dealings
Shady dealings. Radiant Greninja existing. Palkia being the best attacker in the game right now.
show him a singular turn of dialga vstar or arc intel and see if he can figure it out lmao
Would love to see his reaction to Mew Vmax with 4 Genesect on board.
it would be funny watching his jaw drop as a funny looking rock pokemon that looks like a crescent moon (Lunatone), gets 4 psychic energy on it in one turn, and him being like. WTF!? i thought you could only attach 1 energy per turn!
i used to love the lunatone and solrock deck. but now i hate it, as its the deck everyone uses to ladder climb.
I would be beyond tilted if I spent real money on this game, to lose to a hearthstone player who’s just really good at flipping coins
You can't really put in real money in. At least not in the normal way.
If you buy a ptc pack in real life you get a code card for a free ingame pack. And this is the only way to pay.
You can buy code cards of older expensions for 1 cent per code. And even the current expensions are only between 10-20 cent. If you buy them privately you sometimes only pay 5 cent for a meta pack.
This means if you Invest something like 10€, you can actually get 200 packs for it. This is enough to trade for a smaller meta deck.
In this video we only saw theme decks which are all super slow and have nothing to do with the real meta.
Real decks are just 100x better and more fun to play. Theme decks are just boring and slow.
Because you can't upgrade theme decks and you can only buy theme decks for f2p currency the opponent probably didn't payed anything.
Plus he played the best theme deck, but I could already see, that he played super bad. A good player would have probably won this matchup on 99% of the time.
High level competitive decks don't have much (if any) rng. And that's counting card draws. There are so many tutor cards in this game it might as well eliminate card draw and just allow people to play any card from the deck.
good thing that didn't happen then
3:20 - it's Raichu cuz the kanji for Rai/Kaminari (雷) is thunder + the "chu" a rhyming pun with the thunder beast raiju (雷獣) in Japanese mythology.
Best part of these videos is seeing rarran try his hardest to avoid reading….often at his peril
Seeing Pokemon TCG is so nostalgic! I actually learned English as a kid just to play it and now I'm an English teacher, so I can safely say this game changed my life. It's lovely to see it again 💕
Many types being fused into the same one in the TCG is so weird. Raichu being weak to the "fighting type" Sandshrew.
Yup but they had too for simplicity
@@elvenatheart982 They didnt had to for simplicity, those fighting types are simply rock and GROUND TYPE which is effective to thunder
Fr ice and water being the same is seriously annoying bc ice and water have like opposite type charts
@@isoldmymumforrp5371 no, they had to do it for simplicity. If you put all of them into individual types in the card game they will have to balance all 18 types, each with their own mechanics, resistances, weaknesses, etc. If they want to print cards that supports one type, those cards will ignore the other 17 types, which in itself a set of separate problems.
if you wanted to be even more confused, it was announced at the start of the Pokemon sword and shield cards, that they were "DELETING" Fairy type! any and all existing Fairy type pokemon in the video games, are now Psychic type instead. But thats not all! Pokemon that are Ghost Type or Poison Type, that were once Psychic type, have now been moved to the Dark type. so Pokemon like Gengar and Crobat are dark types now in the TCG
People get shocked by effects like "draw 3" but drawing doesn't matter as much in Pokemon because searchers are plenty and most things you can do are hard capped to once per turn.
Omg Hop is free “Draw3 cards?” That’s busted!
Meanwhile: Shady dealings. Shady dealings. Scoop up. Shady dealings.
Yu-Gi-Oh rush duel draw 5 every turn
Hahaha, yeah I thought the same thing coming over from Hearthstone. "Draw 3 for free is so busted!" It's definitely moderated because you can only play one supporter for turn and there are many much stronger ones you can do for that one slot.
@@totakekeslider3835 „draw 3“ is bad when the opportunity cost is „Discard your hand, draw 7“
I haven't played ptcgo in a while. But a few years ago you had stuff like Shaymin or Lele. You literaly draw half your deck in one turn. I know those cards are out of rotation and I think they didn't added something that busted currently. But you are still able to draw a lot more than just a few cards per turn in ptcgo.
That's the part I like about Ptcg to be fair. Obviously hand size is super important, but it's not as limited as in other games.
i feel like 'learning' the game with such jank cards is like learning a completely different game lmao
Awesome seeing this! I play Pokemon TCG irl (also go to tournaments and stuff) and I have to say that the meta you see at tournaments is a lot different than what you played in this video. You only saw lots of bulk and random cards which are unviable, so you haven't seen the actual game yet tbh ;P if you're interested you can check out vods of the world championships which just finished 2 weeks ago
If you're interested in playing some more I recommend Regigigas, as it's very cheap, very fun and actually also very good as it got 17th on the world championship. You can find the decklist that placed 17th on limitlesstcg for example
@@JorisMKW gigas good KEKW
@@magicspoon2571 Definitely not tier 1 of course, but playable for sure. The guy who got 17th with it could have made top 8 if he didn't misplay in the last round btw
Bro stop ur embarrassing urself and he played this just to post the video...
@@someindianguy4471 Wow dude chill out :( I just gave a suggestion for a fun budget deck if he ever decided to play this again. He has also done multiple yugioh videos so why not give it a shot? I don't see what's embarrassing about that
*I made a promise in chat.*
Times Rarran mispronounced Pokémon names:
0:49 Rat-A-Tata
3:10 Rayachu
3:25 Rayachu 2 (Been that way for 20+ years, my dude.)
3:50 Rayachu 3
4:10 Rayachu 4
4:23 Electrobuzz
4:53 Electric Ball
6:43 Electric Ball 2
6:44 Electrobuzz 2
6:46 Pharrow
8:04 Rayachu 5
9:17 Volcanarona
13:06 Sparrow
13:08 Pharrow 2
15:40 Torandis
15:42 Toranduss
15:54 Galade
15:56 Toranduss 2
19:07 FurFeruo
19:08 Frouu?
Mr. Rarran, judging by your most recent test scores, it looks like its back to rainbow coloured alphabet for you until your can read properly.
just wait til you see meta decks
Lol I feel like a paparazzi right now.
Love to both your content ✌🏻
What the heck you're here too? Love your vids btw
oh what the hell i was just watching a jarvis dhar mann vid before this one, glad to run into you jarvis! your content is so much fun and relaxing, i love it :)
Would love to see this continue as a mini series
Same! 😆 This video in particular was so much fun!
My favorite thing about this game is that there's premade deck ranked (called theme deck), so you can just get a pack for 500 coins and play competitively.
It's basically like if they had the prebuilt deck as a ranked format in hs, but you had like 3-5 decks per class.
It can get quite samey to play for a long time, but it's great for beginners, and also you know the exact decklists, so you can play around much more easily, and you can know all your machups.
While I totally agree with this, theme decks are not even comparable with the real meta.
So you almost play a different game with those.
The upcomming Live game get's rid of theme decks, but (at least in beta) they just give out meta decks to everyone.
So everyone can just start once joining.
@@_skorme That's too bad, I really like the theme decks gameplay.
I REALLY enjoy these videos where you play other card games, it’s super fun to watch a new person who understands card games play all these different games. I hope you revisit most of them once in a while. I actually watched the entire vod of your yugioh stream, was a fun time.
Normally there isn't as much RNG at least not in competitive decks
Also at least imo the tutorial REALLY sucks, the cards are all way too old ~10 years
@@maaxk1237 The Tutorial for the new PTGO Live client is much better: all the practice decks are from the last 2 years.
@@MikeMozzaro That will change in couple of years.
bro the meta has gone so crazy that this tutorial is just a different game
Im used to people out of the loop on pokemon to mispronounce some of the later gen mons but then homie hit us with the "Raiyaichu"
I still remember being the one kid in the class that didn't have YGO or Pokémon cards but actually knew the rules.
Good times, never had to spend any money yet always got play.
I cant wait for him to try Shadowverse, I think he will really enjoy it!
Oh no
@@plantszzzzzz4703 shadow verse is goddamn popular in jp they have like 20m$ monthly revenue my friends
It's kinda crazy watching the old client and tutorials before they completely revamped everything. In the new one the tutorials are with like actual close to meta decks, and this is like decks with gnomish inventor and boulderfist ogre.
i prefer the older client introduction. i miss ptcgo with the daily rewards for logging in. ptcl has like nothing
That was great, could actually understand what was happening as a viewer who had never played. I'd love to see that again!
Bro this was so much fun to watch, I didnt get yugioh at all but this was so good because I could understand how ridiculous it is. Had me grinning for 22 minutes.
Yugioh is genuinely aggravating and chaotic. Pokémon is wayyy more relaxed even just to watch
@@bronsonluks795 Agreed.
so a few notes about the online TCG system, the Que system tends to favor start decks/ tutorial decks (which is what your playing) in the same bracket.
The tutorial decks unlock more cards as you get more wins with them in the story mode (it actually shows you how many you have to unlock when you hover over the deck when choosing it). this makes these decks better as you unlock the cards, the basic tutorial decks are actually super weak they are literally just meant to teach you the basics of the game and do not throw allot of complicated things at you.
The story mode (this is where you will only face AI opponents with pre made decks) you can unlock packs and earn coins for purchases in the shop, You also gain coins by logging in every day and playing against real people. So you dont actually have to buy packs with real money to get them, you just use your in game currency. Obviously buying packs is how you build good decks (the decks you get in the tutorial and the starter decks are not good decks).
If you know anyone that buys real world packs and does not play online, ask them for the code cards that come in the packs (ever single pack and structure deck, and box, and basically every TCG product on the shelf has these cards in them). The codes unlock packs in the online game for free just by entering the code (basically as a way of pokemon not making you buy something twice if you only play with physical cards).
You should try the lunatone and solrock deck, super cheap, super funny because by turn two you can do 330 damage since you take energy from the graveyard and attach it to lunatone who does +30 damage for each energy attached. Pretty much you mill yourself and solrock will move the energy for free, to lunatone lol. Cost me like 3$ for a solid meta deck
You should play it against a Galarian Weezing deck with the Neutralizing Gas ability that shuts down all abilities
The only ever In Person TCG Tournament I went to was a Pokemon one... it was like 10 years ago now. Kinda nostalgic to see it being played, maybe I'll check it out again for a bit 🤔
Rarran pronouncing “rattata” as “rat a tat a” is peak 2001
*Sees a picture of anything.
Rarran: Omg an Exodia.
It's like how Jacksepticeye calls everything a minecraft
Finally Rarran does a Pokemon TCG video!! Can't wait for the collab video to come out. Hope you finally got ahold of Tricky Gym for it. If not, I'm sure you got one of the many great content creators for the game. Also, I just wanna say after watching the video that only the janky, low quality cards have a lot of RNG. At the top competitive level decks are extremely consistent, and most of the RNG comes from what you draw and what's in your prize cards.
„Only the janky, low quality cards have a lot of RNG“ don’t forget about Cram-O-Matic, which might as well be described as „Coinflip: Win the game“
@@Janders797 True. I guess Mew is a pretty RNG-heavy deck, but Cram isn't the end-all-be-all card in the deck.
There's a randomizer for the Pokémon TCG GameBoy game that actually swaps moves and costs and stuff on the cards and the AI knows how to play with the altered cards somehow.
"i had a lot of valuable cards and they were given away" as a person who cracked a foil charizard in the 90's i feel this one hard
Rarran quote of the day "Oh he put it in"
That actually made me want to play. Looks fun
I want this seiries for all the card games (watched the yugioh one) keep the content up
6:06 "50/50 you win the game or not"
He doesn't know
As someone who stopped playing HS because Blizz is getting greedier and greedier, I enjoy this kind of content and am glad you are exploring all these alternatives :D
I always laugh when people say if I'm being honest randomly. It's like what did you think about lying about it or something
Hey Rarran, loved seeing you play the Pokémon TCG. If you’re interested in playing proper Standard PVP, I can trade you a good deck. Standard
PVP is way more fast-paced, skill-intensive and has a lot less coin flip cards 😂. Would love to see a video of you trying to learn a tier 1 Pokémon TCG deck.
Pretty sure he can just get Pokemon TCG Live. I don't think there's a single coin flip in any of the starter decks.
@@MikeMozzaro Live sucks though.
8:12 great cut lol
"i'm just sitting here watching my opponent get all these microadvantages, and I can't even interact with them!" THIS IS POKEMON TCG in a NUTSHELL
LOL
Rarran, if you wanna play some more ptcgo I would be happy to give you some (meta and fun) decks via the trade feature, just hit me up! I would love to see my favorite hearthstone youtuber get into my favorite card game more!
Pokémon isn’t very deep but it’s fun. Super easy to teach someone how to play also. The amount of card draw is insane compared to HS and MTG.
It's been toned down a bit now that the strongest trainer cards got changed to supporters and only one supporter can be played per turn. You can't play 4 oaks and 4 bills to draw your entire deck on turn 1 anymore.
Also Theme decks, we saw here, are just boring in comparison to real meta.
It's not even slightly comparable.
Theme decks are slow and you basically do nothing. While every turn is just full of stuff in meta.
I would love to suggest two video ideas after seeing this:
- Guessing if a ptcg card is meta or not. There are so many good and bad cards, this could be really fun.
- Playing with a real meta deck. Theme decks are just not fun compared to real meta imo. It's a totally different game.
I'd love to watch you try and play more pokemon tcg in the future
Im actually internation 2. Place and national First Player.
But its like 11 Years ago. Still proud.
Games a turbo format where most of the best decks throughout years use big basic pokemon worth multiple prizes.
As both a Hearthstone and Pokemon player, this is hilarious
"there's RNG in this" lol pokemon in general is the physical manifestation of RNG
You can't actually put money into PTCGO, the closest you can get to spending money on it is buying pack codes from third party sites or buying physical card packs, pack codes can give you packs that you can trade on the trading post but the trading post isn't a very reliable place to get cards you want because there are a ton of people who try to offer cards for way more than they're worth.
It's really hard to get into if you weren't already buying physical packs and have a stockpile of code cards. Coins are easy enough to get just play the game and get wins and you'll get coins, packs you buy with in game coins are not tradable however so it's best for a beginner to buy a theme deck to start off and then start spending your coins on packs (the theme decks I recommend are the Charizard deck and the Soaring Storm deck (the Dragonite deck you played against)).
Now I just need to see him read Gennesect V.
AAAHHH!!! The stream I've been waiting for Rarran to do for so long and because I was in the middle of a move I didn't even know it had happened until this video popped up.
Oh well: even if it wasn't live; I can still enjoy the brilliance~
Now all that's left is to wait for the inevitable "Hearthstone Player guesses how good Pokemon Cards are" vid
The pokemon tcg is the 'good MTG clone' to yugioh's 'hellishly bad MTG clone'
Someone really needed to tell him this isn't a tempo game, so card draw is generally less valuable than in Hearthstone (still valuable, but tutor effects are so common and easy, it's devalued)
The visuals look like it comes from a children's flash game site.
I think it's more fun when you understand the games better.
Not the TCG itself, just watching you play them is more fun when you understand them better.
Here to see the 5 year old play, a 5 year old's game
OH MY GOD THE MOMENT WE ALL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR
Try watching a few competitive matches to see what a game without coin flips is like xD
How about gwent as next Card Game, that would be awesome
its coming
I legit would love to see you play 3v3 Pokemon comps. Any of the 3d games that exists.
we need you to cross over with pokemon TCG player
Pokémon TGC feels weird because is like the only big TGC on the market that takes almost nothing from MTG. Even the concept of cards as a resource works kind of different between lands and energy.
"When I was younger"
Him still being 5
You should try Gwent and Storybook Brawl, is a nice auto-chess game with a fairy tales setting
Raiachu
Rarran doesn't know about sableye and the overeager pokemon power. Overeager made it so that you always go first. So what people did was use sable eye and then use a combination of trainers to draw and burn their opponents bench. The only counter was to use spirit tomb which had a pokemon power that stopped players from using trainer cards. During the time sableye was legal 90% of decks were either sableye or spiritomb. It was such a problem the Pokemon Company emergency banned sableye mid tournament season.
My favourite part is when an hearthstone player sais other game aren't interactive
The deck Rarran was using is so bad compared to the 2 decks he was facing against. Getting a conceding opponent in the second game was so lucky, and I still can’t fathom how his first opponent managed to deck themselves out before winning.
Would be awesome to see you play Cardfight!! Vanguard Zero (Mobile) or Cardfight Vanguard Dear Days (Switch + Steam) when it comes out in November
Please have a Pokemon TCG Streamer for a guessing of HS Cards and you guessing pokemon cards
Man, something about the artwork and UI in this makes it look like some kind of unofficial fangame
9:31 It's not the easiest, the dailies don't give you too much gold and completing them can be really time-consuming (the worst one is knocking out 16 pokemon using a specific type, also there are more powerful pokemon cards, which give you 2/3 price cards when knocked out, making this quest even harder to complete). It gets much easier though if you play irl, as the products come with the code cards, that allow you to get packs/promos/theme decks for free in PTCGO.
I wonder if he tried Keyforge. That game is sick
This was never how I played it 😂,I just summoned my mega rayquaza ex,my mega charizard ex,and primal groudon on the first turn and mowed down all my friends
"flip a coin draw 3 cards, what is this card design, 50-50 you win the game?" I'm sure you realize now how funny that statement is if you've read any of the supporter cards that are actually being played xD
Yes. The bad part it's that you don't interact in you opponent turn
I need more of this :D
It would be great to see you do a collab with TrickyGym for more Pokémon Tcg stuff
This TCG is awesome. However, this game gives you the worst decks to start off with and you’ll roll 9 tails in a row more often than it should.
It would be nice to see you guessing if a pokemon card is good or not
Very nice vid!!! I'd be interested to see you try Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel:)
lol, I tried out the tcg for the first time a few days ago too. The amount of coin flipping is veeeery annoying.
love the 8:12 close shot
Finally!! He's trying pokemon!
I used to play tutorial in 2001. Because a had a cd with tutorial only. Looks like it’s time to play it again. But I’m afraid there are a lot of pockemons I don’t know 😔
Pokémon is unironically the best tcg - a $20 deck has a good chance of winning against top tier meta decks. Rng is almost never used once you get to higher level decks, they just put those in the tutorial since its the easiest thing to understand
RNG card draw is the worst considering there have been cards in PKMN TCG that allow you to shuffle your hand and draw 8 and you even showcase a supporter that allows you to draw 7 or 4 if you fail and while not AS good it's not BAD.
I got filled just hearing you say the difference between richu and riachu
Rarran try the DDD challenge... Dust Devil Dream...
You should play inscription.
No wonder why most people only collect this pokemon cards and don't play them.
RNG is one of the things that keeps Pokemon franchise from having truly competitive games.
After all, you can be the best player ever and lose everything just by getting Paralyzed in first round with 10% chance attack.
Also Pokemon card game is one of the Big 3 card Games
"WTF coin flips?" Pokemon TCG is nothing but coin flips. There's a reason precons come with plastic coins.
Will you ever do one with Shadowverse?
he called tornadus torandus ;-;
Ok that wasnt that bad
Hes lucky he didnt stumble apon only V max pokemons type of guy XD
Cripes: I remember stumbling on a Vmax with a starter deck.
That was a confusing and not fun battle XD
ptcgo has no sense of ladder based matchmaking
like if you’re a beginner they can and will throw players with fully packed VMax decks at you
Its big spearow(stephenplays fans will know)
i quit hearthstone because of the absurd amount of rng, but this, this is on a completely other level! who thought it was a good idea to put "flip a coin" on every card!? i was actually tempted to try it out at the beginning of the video but now imma stay faaar away :P i have to say that i love the fact that the cards actually look like cards in this game, unlike most digital card games
For what it's worth, there's virtually no coin flipping in "real" decks.
"Real" decks are also a wild ride. When both players are constantly drawing cards and attaching multiple energy per turn, it's not uncommon for games to turn into a battle of who managed their resources better. It's like in anime, where two characters are fighting with huge energy attacks and such, then by the end of the flight they're both exhausted and swinging at each other with normal punches trying to scrape together just enough power to stay standing. That's what Pokemon turns into sometimes.
The Starter Deck in TCGO are such a terrible example of the Game, there's not really that many coin flips in like the Meta, or even a lot of the More recent Theme Decks
On cards that are actually good you have way less coin flips, because they just get to do things that bad cards need to flip heads for for free.
I mean roller skates saw some play very fringe tho.other than that yea nothing with the conflip.also timer ball but not while it was standard