Pokemon Cards are complicated, but what's more complicated is their strategies!

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Whether You're using a card deck which is resistence to your opponent or
weakness. It should'nt be that way. You need strategies to win. like: first paralize your oponent and... etr. So tell me, have you ever won a Pokemon Card game without using luck or cheats, just strategies.
After all that's the reason why the Pokemon Cards were made.:)
 
Well, I really hope that people have won a game without cheats...

But anyway, I do truly believe that it is impossible to have won a game without some luck on your side. Your strategy can only come from the cards that you draw, and drawing is almost completely luck.
So no, I've never won a game without luck, but I've never won a game without strategy, either.
 
I have not really played the game but have watched my friends play it but I don'y want to ruin my cards and I can't afford to replace my rares so I collect them instead but the game does look like fun though but not really played it except once or twice when I first got into pokemon on 12/16/99.:)
 
Whicker said:
and drawing is almost completely luck.
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That is only in a game with little draw power (e.g. Yugioh). In a Pokémon deck, you can have SO many Search and Draw cards, that it's not as much as luck, it's more a matter of how you use said draw cards. For example, a Mirror Match is likely decided by who uses their trainers best. What do you discard, what do you search for, what do you activate at what moment, etc etc. Sure, luck of the draw plays a part in this, but not as big of a role as in some other TCG's.
 
It's not wrong to care for your cards. But their is a way you can play and collect.for example, if you don't want to spoil the card, buy a hankerchief if your not sure of the card mat. And also buy plastic covers(clean ones) and slid the cards in one by one. And there, you can play. :)
 
Scipio said:
That is only in a game with little draw power (e.g. Yugioh). In a Pokémon deck, you can have SO many Search and Draw cards, that it's not as much as luck, it's more a matter of how you use said draw cards.
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>.<

yuou need Luck to get those Cards first, and then ytou need luck to be in the Deck.

Same as Wixcker here
 
Still, the luck factor is drastically decreased by having all these draw and search cards available.

For example, yesterday I faced a friend of mine who, just like me, has Fearow (D) in deck. We both have Spearow on the bench. Now he plays a Kingdra deck, I play Gardevoir. His turn, he plays PETM and fetches...Kingdra, uses Rare Candy on Horsea and you get the idea. I then play, and activate Holon Researcher, discard a card, and fetch...Fearow, with who I immediately search out Gardevoir.

See what I am aiming for? This example might be a tad extreme, but stuff like this make the difference. Discard Ralts or Gardevoir? Use TV Reporter or Holon Researcher? Do I fetch my Exeggutor or Raichu using Fearow? Stuff like that.
 
true, but to get those cards, its still the luck of drawing it at the right time. it all depends on Luck
 
Not All. One can never ban Luck. But Skill plays a bigger role in Pokemon TCG as most non-Pokemon players would like to admit. They don't want to admit it because in their games (Glares at Yugioh), Luck plays a way bigger factor.
 
Skill is needed to win. Strategy is needed to win. But so is Luck.if your playing a good match, its like: without Strategy, you'll wont win. Skill is Needed. But without Luck? tell me how you can win without Luck?
 
I've always used some sort of strategy. But luck is based on it too. Any deck CAN beat any deck, but it all really comes to luck.

Btw I hope noone's ever cheated. That's not right -_-.

Arcanine out.
 
Scipio said:
Still, the luck factor is drastically decreased by having all these draw and search cards available.
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Well obviously, but it certainly does not in any way take out the luck factor completely. You have already conceded this point. Therefore, my original point is still valid. I have no idea why you are trying to argue this.
 
I would have to say the winning ratio is about 70-80% skill and 30-20% luck which is pretty big, and I know it eems intimidating, but even with that, usually luck doesn't put you down that bad. Except when people I know have to start with Holon's magnemite/ holon's voltorb. Poor souls.
 
In other words, every knowledge you have of Pokemon and your mastery of it depends on the success you have on Pokemon TCG.
In other words, every knowledge you have of Pokemon and your mastery of it depends on the success you have on Pokemon TCG.
 
In the topic of luck, well let us dig deeper. What is luck but an abstract word? As the cards themselves are already in the order of which they are set. And in a since you have control over how the cards are set, how does luck benifit you, when you are the prospect of you own "luck"?
 
That's impossible! No one can win without luck. But what I'm saying here is'' have you won without luck?''

Wait a minute! Winning witout luck is luck itself! AAH! I'm so confused!
 
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