RE: Worst Pokemon Set?
^Its amazing how the worse sets of all time all won US nats/worlds. X_x
Okay, lets settle this. Power Keepers had blaziken, delcatty, gardy, raichu, machamp, slaking, lanturn, magneton, omistar, BF, steven's, absol ex, sally ex, skarmory ex, flareon*, vapereon*, and jolteon*. Holon Phantoms had flygon d, lati@s d, rayquaza d (idk trying to give HP a chance here), holon's casty, raichu, exegguator, holon adventuer, d rainbow, crawduant ex, mew ex, and gyrados*. I think I hit pretty much every poke and trainer from both sets that were played in decent numbers at one point or another. Now hwo do you determine a good set from bad? Number of playable cards and those cards populartiy. If thats the case, its a pretty good match. Obviously powers keepers has alot more palayble cards. Blaziken, delcatty, and gardy were huge back during RS. Catty is still popular. The only cards from HP that can compare to those cards popularity are raichu, casty, flygon, and eggs. Absol ex is also a popular card in several decks at one point an another, but not like others. Lanturn was such a common tech in ludicargo, which was a huge deck back when DX came out. Magneton was popular with stoise ex and gatr today. Latilock, mew ex, and crawduant ex compare to those (being very generous here). Raichu was a tech in a few delta decks for nats last year to beat emp, but since delta was dead at that time it wasn't played much. I would put gyrados* with that popularity. The PK *s are all very hot. Jolteon was a tech in bannette ex and is a tech in gyrados decks today. Flareon* was a possible tech for flaridos but wasn't played often. Vapereon* works well with walls (wailord anyone) and is an uncommon tech for magmortar decks. Onto trainers. Battle frontier and steven's definately outweigh the metagame difference adventuer had. Adventuer was just another draw card in the holon engine while steven's was just insane and battle frontier was the only way to shut down pidgeot, rock lock and dragtrode. Theres a few others I listed but they aren't popular enough to really give recognition to. IMO the worse set ever printed was neo 4. So few good pokes and all of them holos. X_x And horrible trainers.