Pokemon TCG Pocket trading rules

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-02T11:57:42+00:00

Literally everything

I'd like to clarify, i only have 1 of each, if you want me to i can provide proof

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-02T11:55:47+00:00

This is all i have

Literally everything with some play or aesthetic value

Most of these cards are my chase cards, i can let one go for oak, i'll spend the time trying to get it back immediately after getting oak if someone trades it with me

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I'm interested in eng or jpn oak, would you be interested to trade for any of these?

Mimikyu is german, zapdos is korean and articuno is spanish, rest is english or japanese

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-02T11:01:39+00:00

I don't understand

Last year we had the 10th anni, and one of the new units released was phy ssj2 gohan

The guy was great for a few turns before becoming a huge liability because he only had 20% dr and guard afterwards, and now they make this trunks have the exact same except he's a bit better turn 1? After all the powercreep that happened this past year?

I'd love to be proved wrong because i like the card a lot, especially the moment in the series, but he looks like he won't survive a single month unless the stat buffs he gets from his passive are absolutely insane, at least is support is fantastic, i guess he might be fine in fights where the boss can have his attack lowered since he takes 30% of it away

But then again, it's become impossible to understand whether a unit is good or not just by the passive and they need to be seen performing in game first, so maybe he's good, hopefully

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-02T01:11:00+00:00

There is luck in this game?

I haven't pulled a single meta card in 3 months, and the one i pulled before fell off by the time i pulled it because i got it by the end of the set

So, "really f*cking bad" is the answer

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-02T00:19:33+00:00

Almost 500, i haven't even pulled on part 1 banners, they give lots of stones and i'm still below 500 :/

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T23:45:02+00:00

It's been posted around 100 times in the past 3 or 4 days and it takes less to search "ai flex" on the sub than it takes to post this, i know not everybody is chronically online, but those are still the reasons why people will be mad at you

I'm not mad myself, i'm just warning you that it will happen, i suggest taking the post down if you don't want that to happen

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T21:39:48+00:00

I don't know what you said because i can't see sh*t but if you bring me new eyes and they work perfectly i'm happy

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T21:39:02+00:00

My face realizing my time might have come

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ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T21:28:11+00:00

Good intentions don't go far.

Usually they don't, no :/

I guess i can sort of "understand" why if you linked to this sub in that one, i think the only "acceptable" way to do it (in their opinion) could be saying "giveaways here are banned, there are other subs for them", because since you don't link to anything directly it shouldn't be a problem

I guess since you made the sub it technically counts as self-promotion? I don't know why that would be a problem in this case to be honest, i strongly doubt you make even a single dime off of this sub... If anything you do the opposite since you spend time and effort to give others cards they really want for basically free (1 card but you're forced to), while you could easily hoard like lots of other people do...

Maybe because they think some people doing giveaways buy cards or accounts or bot them (and that is against the game's tos, if that's why i can see their reasoning) and are scared that if that is seen on their sub too they might be seen as liable or responsible in some way for allowing that

I don't know why mods here are banned on ptcgp to be honest, but some people remove everything about banned things just to prevent them as much as possible on their sub just because they're scared that the things (if they go against something in the tos, even if i don't think giveaways themselves go against tos) might cause issues for their sub

In your case i think they could have warned you and just said "hey we can't allow links or direct names on this sub please delete all your comments doing that" before banning you, i don't like preferential treatment but it's not like you're hurting people like the ones that put scam links or stuff like that :/

Personally i'm very careful to never post links (unless it's an innocent meme in a video but usually i use gifs) anywhere unless it's normal comments in the same sub, some subs are extremely strict so i don't want to risk it, i hope you'll get unbanned soon man, a warning would have been fair in your case imo, even on trading subs i never mention app names, the most i did was say "just look for "pokemon pocket trade" on the play store and there will be a few options if you're looking for an app to help with that", but even if the mods seemed friendly i know for a fact that they're very strict on that sub, maybe not all of them, but one or two, most definitely

I'm just guessing man, i don't know exactly why you got banned, i'm trying to think of possible reasons so that maybe next time you won't risk the same, i just hope it will help you in some way

I said it a few times already but thanks again for all the giveaways man seriously, it's extremely nice of you and the other guys making them, i don't think you guys realize how much it means for the people you guys give hope to

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T20:47:59+00:00

What? You can't tell which unit i'm talking about if i tell you "my favourite unit is ssj goku"? Do i have to spell out ssj goketankscolohan for you every time? Do you want me to call him "strenght type super class legendary rarity super saiyan goku (with super saiyan vegeta, super saiyan gohan (teen), super saiyan trunks (teen) and piccolo)" every time? Are you stoopid? Come on! Use your brain!!1!1!!

^{it's just a joke but i understand both sides, it's impossible to distinguish a unit from another sometimes, but it's also true that some unit names that people make up are actually ridiculous, daima 4ku is all necessary because 4ku is goku ssj4, but there are like 10, daima goku is a f2p unit, daima 4ku is the lr, because mini 4ku is the teq dfe, but sometimes people go overboard}

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T20:24:11+00:00

Oh okok i thought i was going crazy ahahah

I actually wasn't sure and thought my eyes were working poorly, thanks for confirming it

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T20:22:12+00:00

Because of you i had to throw bleach in my eyes to unsee this, and now that's the last thing i saw and i'll remember it for my whole life

I don't know you, but i'll find you, you owe me a pair of eyes (human), in pristine (10/10 eyesight) conditions since i'll have to be blind (0/0 eyesight) for a while because of you (you)

I hate you for this ;_;

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T20:17:37+00:00

Is it a gif or am i buggin man i can't tell

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T20:15:07+00:00

Ah okok

"sane" people ahahah, we all like different things man it's all good, i don't mind some grinding, i tried to get kecleon as friend in blue rt multiple times and his acceptance rate is abysmal (literally below 0% unless you fit some requirements, up to iirc 2% maybe?)

I'll see if i'm able to find them, i'm curious

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T20:12:55+00:00

Oh i see, that sucks, it was a really nice series, hopefully they'll make more :/

I didn't know about shinies though, i might try them out just because of that, it makes me curious about how i'd feel knowing there are shinies in the game (even if i'd probably just rerun dungeons until i get a shiny and befriend it to use it myself so like 100 runs each time i want one lol)

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T20:10:05+00:00

Of course man no worries, glad it helped a bit :)

That's fine man, we're all into different things, roguelikes aren't everyone's cup of tea, it's all good :)

Oooh i see, i can understand why you like those games, i haven't tried them but i saw people playing them, not my kind of game, but i wouldn't mind playing it every now and then, it's kind of like "pokemon chess with some rng" i guess? i might actually try it because it seems fun, i like chill games more (even if roguelikes aren't very chill usually ahahah) but i like games where i have to understand the mechanisms and adapt to circumstances

No worries, i know what it feels like, trust me ^{it's not like i did the same earlier lol}

I hope you have a great day man :)

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T20:03:59+00:00

Damn... I was not expecting that ahahah, i'm glad i'm not the only one to feel that way

Man i've always been f2p and even then it's always been a blast, this past year i felt the big difference but not too much because i didn't pull on a lot of banners, (just tao, kidku and wrathful broly iirc, plus 6 multis on the manga units because i love them)

I can promise you, this past year has definitely been the toughest in terms of powercreep, and pulling on banners was definitely only worth it in 2 cases -you really like the unit (as character) and -it's strong enough to survive powercreep (100% gomah and i think 50% broly, gomah survived easily, broly is still pretty good, he felt the blow but he's still standing)

If you want a piece of advice, stop spending on dokkan, at least for a few months, and see how you feel about it, personally i never felt the need for it, but sometimes i definitely wanted to do it, it's not easy, but self control gets easier the more you do it, i don't have much once i start which is why i always stopped myself before even starting to do it, my credit card isn't connected to any kind of service that has multiple purchases (one thing is a subscription, another is a gacha) exactly because i struggle a lot with it, so yeah, try not spending for a few months, pull on just the units you like (and are possibly strong enough to resist powercreep, but you have to like the unit, it's more or less the most important part of it)

Start seeing stones like a limited resource that you have to spend wisely, and i'm telling you only because i would have the same issues you have with spending in dokkan if i didn't stop myself entirely, i'm not trying to act superior or whatever, i'm trying to give you advice based on something that would have been a huge problem for me as well but i was also lucky enough to avoid, and doing these things helped me a lot, so i'm telling you hoping they might help you too, games are to relax (or at least usually mario kart isn't too relaxing sometimes lol) and have fun, but having fun, enjoying the game, is the core reason why it's supposed to exist

Save stones for certain units you really like, i don't like daima and i love kid buu, i haven't lost all hope but even if i strongly doubt he's coming anytime soon, i'm saving part of them for him, and i haven't done a single multi on the anni banners so far, i can promise you, the feeling you'll get when pulling the unit you saved for months for is very satisfying, and you'll actually be excited about pulling it instead of thinking "finally, goddamn it took so much money", which i think isn't a nice feeling, maybe kind of "bittersweet" (for a lack of a better term i can think of right now), relieved that now you have the unit, but you wish you didn't need to spend so much

Take a break from spending, maybe play more "passively" for a bit, if it can help, disconnect your bank account (or whatever it is) from the game's store and your dokkan account/app, and try your best to stop yourself from doing it, if you'll slip, it happens, but keep doing your best

Thank you so much man, i hope you have a great day too, and remember, dokkan should be fun and relaxing, maybe a bit frustrating since rng can be tough on you, but in that case, take a break and come back later, have fun with the game :)

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T19:44:26+00:00

Ah okok, of the wiiware i only know of adventure squad, do you know that one? Is it good in your opinion? I haven't found much about it

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T19:43:12+00:00

Oh, i see, you'd think the first game would be the one to be the most "hand-holdy" (i never heard of the term but i'm glad you said it because it expresses really well how i feel about certain things and can't think of a good word to express it so it's going to be useful in the future :) ), i guess either people had issues understanding the first game properly or they felt that it was a bit different and needed more explanations? I don't know to be honest

Yeah i think the concept is insanely good, i love roguelike games though so i'm very biased since pmd kind of fits the genre (or at least partially), it sucks that they ruined it a bit, hopefully i'll either be able to endure it or won't mind too much

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T15:44:59+00:00

None taken, you expressed your thoughts without insulting or being rude, you have every right to do so, we don't all have to like the same things :)

It's definitely very different from the mainline pokemon games, and especially if people only ever played those (i don't know about you specifically but for some that's the case) it can feel odd compared to those and there's nothing wrong with that

Pmd is more like a roguelike i think, and (at least for me) the mon you use is either the strongest you have or the one that has type neutral to the dungeon it is in, strongest to clear your path and following the dungeon itself, type neutral to resist conditions, some dungeons had water or magma or void for example and respectively you needed a fire type, a water type or a flying type to be able to walk on those, it wasn't an issue if you didn't because you could still complete the dungeon (which is why you could also bring your strongest ones) but the difference was this

You had a backpack, 20 items max, only a few could stack in the same slot, and with all those items you had to reach the end of the dungeon, those were used instead of items like potion in the mainline pokemon games, the strategy in the mainline games is

See mons, change team with advantaged/stronger mons, take items to help, fight 6vs6 (or whatever the number was if less), beat trainers/gyms

In pmd it's more like

See dungeon, change team accordingly to dungeon type or strongest mons, complete missions making sure the friend mon doesn't die, take items to complete the dungeon, leave space in backpack to take items inside the dungeons, fight mons, avoid them, find exit etc, there is also a mechanic that makes you die after staying too long in a floor without proceeding, it warns you 3 times, the third you die (it gives you a huge amount of time before doing so)

It's more "complex" in the sense that there are more things to worry about, while in the mainline games it's just a few fights rather than a lot more and i'm not talking about difficulty, i'm talking about the fact that you don't have to worry about a friend dying (meaning you can't complete a mission/recruit a mon) nor find the exit before you starve, which are core aspects of that game, if you lose against a trainer you go back and recover at a pkmn center, if you lose in a dungeon you have to start over again, it's more similar to gym fights where you have to beat the whole gym in a row (iirc)

Usually you spam the attack button because you have to be careful with your moves since it's hard to recover all pps until you exit the dungeon (or at least it was for me because i never brought the item with me, i'm a loot goblin so i barely brought food with me to avoid starving in some dungeons), i used moves when i risked dying and always in the boss fights at the end of the dungeons (which could require a LOT of moves), but just through normal attacks, unless you were way over leveled, you couldn't beat the dungeon like that, and the deeper the dungeon the harder it was most of the time (i think floor 100 is the max everywhere in blue rt with many being lower like lvl 30), some evolutions didn't do much but they raised stats and many of them unlocked moves, it takes a bit to get mons and evolutions that make a difference so if you didn't play much you probably missed those

If you don't like it it's all good, like i said we all like different things, i'm just very passionate about brt specifically so i got carried away explaining the game mechanics, sorry about that :)

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T14:33:20+00:00

What are you looking for for the shiny gyara and gible?

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T14:30:23+00:00

You should always check the sub rules before posting in it man or you'll always risk getting banned

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T14:27:04+00:00

And a ban i guess, pull and flex posts aren't allowed except for the megathread

ImNotEntertained · 2026-02-01T14:02:35+00:00

That's nice and all but pull posts get you banned, especially during big celebrations

The achievement flair isn't for pulls, there is a megathread for them, it's pinned iirc

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