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This new Pokédex entry doesn't retcon anything. Hisuian Voltorb doesn't exist in any other region, and if people barely know about other regions at all, why would a Poké Ball company in Kanto or any other region know what a Voltorb is? A few could've hitched a ride on a boat at some point across...

Vitality Band and Zigzagoon by the time the other VMAXs rotate (most of which are far superior to Aggron), and getting 5 energies on an Aggron is just not feasible without some major boost to energy acceleration in the format. Kingler could be an interesting gimmick but likely won't see play...

This is potentially fantastic news. I believe this means we now know 2/3 of the VMAXs from Brilliant Stars (Kingler and Aggron), and both of them are bad. F-Block could finally be the end of good 3-prizers.

A small correction, but TPCi has nothing to do with card design. Creatures Inc. in Japan designs all the cards.

As of Brilliant Stars, yes.

Team Yell's Cheer is insane for control decks.

"The mechanic was reintroduced in 2018’s Forbidden Light and Lost Thunder sets" I believe the Lost Zone was reintroduced with Ultra Prism in early 2018 with Prism Stars and then 2019's Lost Thunder reintroduced it with normal cards.

We knew the SwSh era would continue as soon as we saw the Arceus V promo a couple months ago.

I believe it would increase the average number of turn by 2-3, which is enough to be a significant difference. 1HKO decks like Rayquaza VMAX require those extra turns to setup, and everything else could swap between damaged attackers to push the time up to that limit. No flip Hammer would...

It is an oversimplification if we want to completely fix the format, but that's unachievable without removing 3-prizers from the game. Slowing the game down by only a few turns has the effect of making it 1.5x+ longer which means ~1.5x the room for skill expression. Increasing a game from 10...

I agree 3-prizers are the larger cause, but the ultimate problem is that the game is too fast which was Xander's point. Removing gust would slow down the game.

I am not sure if links are allowed on here so I don't know if this will post, but here is a Twitter thread by Xander Pero on the negative effects of rapid formats and why making the game slower would improve it. He was discussing fast games as a result of 3-prizers, but in our current format...

So you dislike more skill-based games? Most games in this format are decided by the player who wins the coinflip, lengthening the games by removing gust will add actual depth and decision making.

It doesn't matter if it was the modern era or not, what's worked in the past can work again. And I agree, manipulating the prize trade still exists, but without gust it plays a significantly larger part of the game which is what we should be hoping for.

Being able to control prize trades is strategy. You can control your opponent's prize trade, and your opponent can control yours. There have been many formats in the game's history with none or very limited gust, and there's plenty of strategy in all of them because of that reason. And I'm...

Custom Catcher was bad when Guzma was in format regardless of the fact that it has a single use effect. Custom Catcher and Cross Switcher are almost strictly worse than Supporter gust, but that's a good thing for the game because the cost of giving up your supporter for the turn isn't high right...

Why do we need to be gusting out opponent's Pokémon to take KOs? Not having gust would increase the length of games which is something we absolutely need right now. Eventually your opponent will run out of things they can hide behind. Sniping decks could get around it, and 1HKO decks could take...

Not too bad, it's thank goodness they didn't update the legality. Both cards are widely disliked by competitive players. I personally think Marnie is a brilliantly designed card but it has a ton of issues in a format where the game most often ends between turn 4 and 6.

It's actually way better that this is a Basic and not a Stage 1 because of Quick Ball. It wouldn't be nearly as easy to find if it were an evolution.

A Heart Gold Soul Silver block did happen. It wouldn't be unprecedented for a mini-block to happen again.