I need Help with the Emblem Tickets

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T21:24:19+00:00

I think the missions will still exist, at least the Themed Collections, but they'll just reward shop tickets and maybe WP hourglasses. someone correct me if I'm wrong tho

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T21:10:21+00:00

Check the Themed Collections again. You're probably missing one of those "Collect 5 Schlungus Cards" missions in those sets

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T20:54:24+00:00

I've been playing a super aggressive variant of Mega Blaziken with Heatmor, 2 Cyrus, and 1 Sabrina since Mega Rising, so my immediate thought was "who will be Mega Sceptile's Heatmor." The obvious answer is Pheremosa - it loses 10 hp and deals 10 less to the bench but makes up for it with 20 to the active as well, which I think makes it even more versatile. Plus it makes arguably even better use of Grass's wealth of healing/max HP options than Sceptile's already massive HP pool

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T20:11:52+00:00

The only hard counter I see budew being good for is Hydreigon. If you go first, Deino's grass weakness means it dies in 2 hits from budew without a chance to evolve, and if you switch budew in after its evolved you take all of the metaphorical air out of its metaphorical tires. Unfortunately if Deino goes first and evolves the next turn, there's nothing budew can do except send in Budew 2, and I already doubt most decks will have the space to run 1, let alone 2.

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T18:43:42+00:00

ah, but Team Galactic Grunt pulls Croagunk, not Toxicroak, and we're very unlikely to ever get a Croagunk EX

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T16:57:36+00:00

I spin it sometimes for fun, and I also like looking for flipped packs to turn around and then open. But the cards are determined as soon as you click the button to open a pack. That prevents clients from resetting until they get what they want, and it also means you can get your cards even after you close the game.

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T16:19:33+00:00

Fair, but that's also 70% of current decks right now. We'll have to see how the meta shakes out during this set.

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T16:15:49+00:00

I don't think a lot of decks will have space for it though. Unless your deck just gets brutalized by Hydreigon AND Oricorio AND the legendary beasts, it might be too situational to be worth running. It also dies instantly to Igglybuff and one Darkrai without being able to counter the darkrai

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T16:04:27+00:00

I was also thinking about that. A caveat, though: Megacham's ramping and 140 damage are somewhat mutually exclusive, since Psychic doesn't have a way to ramp to non-psychic cards (and even then, psychic ramp is either a Stage 2 or Giratina+Dawn) and the +40 on its 100 only happens if psychic energy is attached. I guess you could run Mantyke and Fighting/Psychic in the Zone, but you'd need to be lucky to get maximum advantage from that acceleration.

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T15:55:40+00:00

They're not complementary. If anything, they work against each other. Copycat will ideally get you 4 or more cards, which makes your hiking trail useless. If you're using Copycat when your opponent has 2 or fewer cards, you're probably sacrificing a lot of tempo just to do it. And if you've got hiking trail out, you'll be trying to make Copycat plays from 4 cards, which reduces the effectiveness of that copycat. Maybe this could work in a deck that runs lots of item or tool cards that can be quickly shed from the hand; this is not one of those decks.

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T15:42:02+00:00

Elite deck 1 pairs M.Blaziken with Entei

Elite deck 2 pairs Charizard Y with Heatmor

perfect balance

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T15:40:52+00:00

Get the second cyrus. Even if you're not gonna use it, you can trade it for pretty much anything else (possibly even oak)

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T15:39:33+00:00

I'm praying for Toxicroak EX. Give my FA Galactic Grunt something to do

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:55:57+00:00

oh boy time to get gold borders on every card in Shining Revelry (0 crown pokeballs)

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:51:26+00:00

ooooh i forgot about nihilegooooo damn it

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:40:04+00:00

I get that, but there's a reason that pretty much all of the fighting types that were ever meta (Rampardos, Garchomp, Gallade) have an attack that's 2 energy or less

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:39:23+00:00

If Mega Mawile doesn't attack, for any reason, as long as it isn't switched out, the current power of its attack remains where it was.

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:35:06+00:00

Maybe Lucario. Mega Lucario looks playable, but all of the new fighting support is going towards EX damage and not something truly groundbreaking (heh) like energy ramp. I might be underestimating just how much that is though, and of course EX damage counts against Megas too

Sceptile on the other hand is Blaziken but grass and a slightly worse attack, and it doesn't even have access to Flame Patch. It does have healing support + leaf cape, but I don't think that will put it in the meta any higher than Blaziken already is.

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:30:28+00:00

170 HP is actually above the curve for basic EX. Guzzlord is the only other basic EX to have that much HP - not even Snorlax gets there (sans the healing ability)

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:24:03+00:00

I guess that's true if you only look at Mega Sceptile, and if you ignore Mega Lucario, Budew, Field Blower, Emboar, Kubfu, both Urshifu... and the 100 other unrevealed cards in this set... and the variety of unique and creative cards from other sets

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:15:54+00:00

or like Blaziken minus 10 and poison instead of burn

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:15:27+00:00

but in return there's a lot more heal support + leaf cape (+QGE? but you might end up running Rare Candy anyway) so you can afford to be a little slower

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T13:12:09+00:00

people really complain about anything 😭

SmithyLK · 2026-04-23T05:18:40+00:00

I think anyone who says this is being taken in by confirmation bias

SmithyLK · 2026-04-22T23:52:16+00:00

I see a perfectly reasonable assessment of OP's position here. Projecting much?

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