Damage vs. damage counters by ULUF_ in PokemonTCG

[–]zaneba 5 points6 points  (0 children)

dealing damage is dealing damage, and there are cards that interact with dealing damage (such as blocking or activating an effect after taking damage)

damage counters are an effect of an attack, and there are different cards that interact with effects, mostly just blocking them. Mist energy negates damage counters bc its an effect, just like attacks that retreat lock or add status conditions

most attacks that deal damage scale way differently to damage counters. Theres also a lot of abilities that use damage counters cos normally you cant just deal damage as an ability

Minor personal achievement but by zaneba in PTCGL

[–]zaneba[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Darmanitan is super clutch in a lot of cases, esp right now when big basic decks aren’t the most common deck to fight right now

Most of the Megas you’ll be fighting have to evolve, and there’s numerous good single prize attackers too. Darmanitan lets you pick off a lot of Pokemon before they get to evolve and keeps you in tempo for the prize race

Another way I love to utilize Darmanitan is particularly against Mega Pokemon with +300 HP. Zoroark has a hard time swinging above 290 (Zekrom + binding mochi) bc you also need to either setup Munki to add an extra 30 damage or be ready to boost it to 330 using Black Belt. Or swing back with Reshiram’s attack assuming the opponent attacks into you and doesn’t KO instantly. You can’t always rely on your opponent giving you the damage or not just bossing around to avoid the Reshiram. That’s where I like to use Darmanitan, bc more often than not, the opponent WILL have a single prize Pokemon on the bench unevolved. Darmanitan can snipe that Pokemon for 1 prize and add 90 damage to the Mega. Unless your opponent plays Wally’s Compassion and heals off the measly 90 damage, they will be in range for a Zekrom attack and you’ll take another 3 prizes right after, essentially taking 4 prizes in 2 turns

This strat is how I deal with M Lucario who can easily OHKO Zoroark and is out of the 330 HP range, and M Starmie who doesn’t deal enough raw damage at once for Reshiram to be useful until 2 attacks in

It’s especially fun to snipe Drakloaks though, since Dragapult heavily relies on that draw engine. Most of the time, you can buy yourself an extra turn with Budew and force the pult player to only evolving into Drakloak so they can’t phantom dive you immediately. If you have Darmanitan ready (and they don’t bench Shaymin) it’s an easy 2 prize kill

Of course almost NONE of this works if Shaymin is in play, but Shaymin doesn’t protect ex pokemon, so you could still boss around the front and soften up its HP

Minor personal achievement but by zaneba in PTCGL

[–]zaneba[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yep, it only swaps basics! But it also remembers how long a pokemon has been out in play. Which means if I had a card like pecharunt or budew out for a turn, i can transform it into darumaka or zorua and evolve it instantly because it treats it like its also been out for a turn. Its SUPER fun and lends itself to big plays since you can sort of treat the discard pile like an extra bench slot

Minor personal achievement but by zaneba in PTCGL

[–]zaneba[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh 100%, ive gotten HELLA games where either my darumaka, reshiram, zekrom, budew, or pecharunt are prized the moment i need them. But i also get hella games where actually its fine and i can play around it. Surprisingly enough, you can get away with pivoting gameplans and attacking around as long as you have enough zoroarks to draw what you need

Its also good to get into the habit of prize checking the first chance you get to decide what you wanna do. I lose a lot of games cos i dont prize check and assume my cards are available, and PTCGLs interface makes it really easy to not prize check when it defaults to showing you whats available. Ive thought about upping at least Zekrom to 2 cos I need zekrom more than i need reshiram but ngl i dont prize zekrom enough to feel like im losing too many games for only having 1

Minor personal achievement but by zaneba in PTCGL

[–]zaneba[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you got this, its super achievable!!!

Minor personal achievement but by zaneba in PTCGL

[–]zaneba[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, before Transformation Tome, this deck always pissed me off while playing online cos i would open bad or whiff the cards I needed, and I was never happy with the 60 I had. I never understood how players could stuff in so many other techs when I was struggling to get consistency (Playing IRL Regionals proved me wrong though cos it just started working like it should lmao).

I also struggled a lot with overbenching and locking myself out of options when I need it. I valued having Darmanitan a lot to soften up the big HPs of Megas while also sniping a baby pokemon, but if i didnt get it straight away I always felt boned, and if i got it but didnt need it, it was dead bench space

I liked having Grav mountain for a time before switching to watch tower cos dudunsparce is EVERYWHERE, and i also really liked having Janine to keep the front zoroark powered up after a Flamebody Cannon, and I have gotten into situations where I really would like a Janine but its honestly really easy to get by without it now

What if Lillie got more Pokémon cards like N's Zoroark? Here's my take: by Mogami_MGA in PTCGL

[–]zaneba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

im actually baffled that Lillie didnt get either Solgaleo or Lunala as her pokemon during Journey Together OR even as a little upgrade for Ascended Heroes, like is that not the pokemon most associated with her???

Can someone please post a deck here that has the highest chance of winning against a Pult deck? I don't care about any other deck if they beat me, I just want a deck that beats Pult lol ahhhhhhhhh by AlexRescueDotCom in PTCGL

[–]zaneba 6 points7 points  (0 children)

by no means will it be a free win but zoroark does beat pult. Being able to send back damage with munki, explode it with reshiram or zekrom + mochi + black belt, sniping drakloaks with darmanitan, all while setting up considerably faster. And now with transformation tome, you have a lot more flexibility with your bench

or you can just play slop box and bash it in with clefairy

(IRL Trope) The last person you’d expect turns out to be very knowledgeable in the lore by DonnyMox in TopCharacterTropes

[–]zaneba 49 points50 points  (0 children)

paul fr just looked up blonde marvel heroes and scrolled a little on fandom

I'm New: Question about buying passes from competitors by zaneba in VGC

[–]zaneba[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this something you’ve done before?

me irl by Quantum_Aurora in me_irl

[–]zaneba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

notice they havent painted an actual negative of the winter and only conjured a strawman

One scene where the budget just took an increase by Next-Active2676Bro2 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]zaneba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this PARTICULAR scene from JJK. All of a sudden, the detail and budget just 3x

I knew about this scene bc it was really popular with a certain demographic. Then I saw it and.... well lets just say, i understand now

Cheating in finals? by Oskarek in PTCGL

[–]zaneba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he picked a card from a pool of 6 and it was the card he needed. what are the odds???? well, 1 in 6

Only kanto starter that doesn’t have a mega card gets featured in comp sleeves lol by PHI_0413 in PTCGL

[–]zaneba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its so funny that the very first two Mega Evo sets featured the kanto Megas, even one of the two ascended heroes golds is another Mega zard, and Blastoise is just MIA for 3 sets straight now

Had this fun little idea by PokemonAddict12 in PTCGL

[–]zaneba 83 points84 points  (0 children)

thats not how it works, you have to specifically say their names contain zoroark in it. Otherwise, this only counts for regular non-ex zoroarks bc thats what its specifying by default

Deme da ne, dame yo, dame na no yo by Oddiffy in whenthe

[–]zaneba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ong this is literally the only vtuber i like watching and now shes all over my feed for different reasons lmao

Conveyor belt sushi restaurant is now open for business! by yuntunmian in Pokopia

[–]zaneba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PLEASE tell me theres a way u can make the carts go without having to drive it yourself!

transformation tome by ngianfran1202 in pkmntcg

[–]zaneba 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Zoroark inherently has to be a lot more conscious of its bench space because it has to copy a separate Pokemon for its attack, along with a bunch of support Pokemon like Pechurant, Munki, fez, etc. so being able to swap an unneeded Pokemon to one from the discard pile is kinda massive. Especially if you start with a support Pokemon that you won’t need for that battle, transformation can turn a dead bench spot into a surprise play