Recent content by JakeTheGearHeart

Your claim was that Colorless Pokémon are prevented from seeing success because of a lack of Energy acceleration. My claim is that is not the reason why they aren't seeing more play, and to prove it a counterexample is all that is necessary. Pikachu ex is one of the best decks without Energy...

You didn't answer the question that was asked here. You give examples of cases where Misty and other acceleration would be obviously be used if they could be, but that has no relevance on how the game would be different if they were removed. Are you arguing that the game would be better if all...

Powering up a Tauros behind a Weezing or any other wall is not difficult. Pikachu ex can't even 1HKO it, and Blue can counteract Giovanni. If Colorless Pokémon were only held back by lacking Energy acceleration, how is it that Magneton-less lightning decks are among the most played and most...

1. Tauros is very good, you do not need Energy acceleration to power it up, there is plenty of time in the matchups it's meant for. 2. Energy acceleration is not at all "pointlessly Type-gated." If it weren't, that would severely limit the game-designers ability to print Colorless Pokémon in...

1st Puzzle: - Poffin for another Duskull - Quick Search for DTE to attach to the Benched Terapagos - Boss KO Dusclops Briar + Cursed Blast + Counter/Prime Catcher wins next turn. They can do some combination of: bump your Stadium, disrupt your hand, and Defiance Band KO Pidgeot to give...

Would English not be more likely to copy exactly what happened this year? Triplet Beat released before the English Scarlet & Violet base set released.

I do agree this wording would be better. Maybe make it "Your opponent's Active Pokémon switches out to the bench." so it's a bit clearer to new players who have never read an effect like this before what switching out means.

Marowak FCO says it prevents all effects done to its owner by attacks. If the old English translation is read literally, the effect is on your opponent, which is not what's happening. The new English translation makes it clear that there is no effect whatsoever on your opponent, it's only on the...

Marowak FCO says it prevents all effects done to its owner by attacks. If the old English translation is read literally, the effect is on your opponent, which is not what's happening. The new English translation makes it clear that there is no effect whatsoever on your opponent, it's only on the...

That's why they changed it! That wording was misleading.

"Your opponent switches out their Active Pokémon" would not be accurate to the effect. That would suggest the effect is on your opponent while the effect is on the Pokémon. This difference matters in the case of Marowak FCO.

The Battle Styles and VSTAR trailers can also be included as evidence of what we might see. It's reasonable to assume some version of these trailers would've been shown at Worlds had it happened.

All of Japan's sets fell one month behind starting with Single Strike Master/Rapid Strike Master (Battle Styles), so it's unsurprising that the Scarlet & Violet base set will release in January. Since the start of Sun & Moon, the first main set to increment the Regulation Marks (the set that...

Heatran VMAX is bad, thank goodness! VMAXs begone!

Tag Bolt was the only Japanese set which contained Tag Teams and not regular GXs. So far there have been two Japanese sets with VSTARs and not VMAXs. So it wasn't a bad bet to assume VMAXs were gone.