I completely agree, the fact that they all work together within themselves is really cool and it also allows normal Pokémon to have some of the spotlight too, as long as they don't take up and of the SIR slots, I really don't mind
Metagross from Battle Partners!
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idk what to tell you but erika having a jigglypuff, clefable, and dragonair fits the character a lot more than her having a shiftry, abomasnow, or cradily. canon legitimately does not matter because what is canon is often worse and more nonsensical than what isn't.
from the looks of things currently, this is going to turn out to be totally untrue. unless they're just pretending to have shown their whole hand, with the number of featured trainers in this set, we're likely to have ample room for at least two more well-supported archetypes assuming they received equal set space to the ones we know we're getting already.
moreover, even lightly-interconnected "pack filler" is better than generic and disconnected pack filler. you aren't getting fewer weak cards that won't see play because of their "right decision" to do this, you're just making sure you get fewer interesting cards in total out of essentially fear that cards you weren't going to play anyway aren't going to be good enough if they have a trainer's name in front of them. in reality, having a trainer's name in front of this metagross line is probably the only thing that could ever make these cards playable, because it would tie them to something else in the set. (do note that i have a pretty sane definition of "playable" to mean "someone might ever want to try using this" and not to describe competitive tournament-winning viability)
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But they should. Steven's Metagtoss would be cash money
Also remember that this was 1998 when we had the anime and 151 pokemon
Nah I disagree. I know a lot of fans cry out for non typing gyms for example and want a theme rather. I personally hate that idea because there simply are pokemon that fit more themes that other, there will always be pokemon that will feel like a "stretch" to fit a theme. If 90% of the trainers in the universe feel an affinity for a type like that is all Idk I like it and prefer it that way. I just like the concept of types in pokemon and for each to have a strong unique identity; through gyms, trainers, moves, etc. If you have outliers like Oleana, Flint and many more thats fine but I prefer the "rule" to be what it is rn
I don’t understand why the designers are so averse to making a good Metagross which benefits from Metal Maker. If this were a Metal-type it might be a fun rogue deck, but we’re not allowed to have fun apparently
The problem is that almost all the revealed cards that don't have a trainer are explicitly Pokemon that are well-known for being a specific trainer's ace/popular Pokemon. It's dumb. Of all the 1,000+ Pokemon they could choose,it feels pretty absent-minded to do this more than once, no?
Awesome! I haven't seen them as Psychic types since Generation V.
Yeah, i guess is because i love the nonsensical pairings, they are a sort of a "canon" way to discover different dimensions of the characters we love beyond of what is shown in the games. Bulk cards with partners would be VERY different than this garbage.