Gooper Blooper: let me look at one and see if I can figure out why
Jumpropeman: look at that MONSTER
Gooper Blooper: Well, if you need to stall against an opponent who can't fight back because they can't set up, that's pretty good, but one attack from just about anything kills it
Jumpropeman: the official pokemon website even made a page explaining it
Jumpropeman: i guess unless you also face a budew, you can set up your own crazy item strategies while the opponent is forced to just attack the little guy. 1 prize is a small price for getting something huge online
Gooper Blooper: "How do you counter Budew?"
Gooper Blooper: imagine the intense budew-v-budew lulls
Gooper Blooper: these thumbnails are spectacular
Gooper Blooper: another video description tells me that this is Budew's first card in 16 years
Jumpropeman: THREAT OR SAVIOR
Gooper Blooper: it was gathering power all this time
Jumpropeman: the funny thing is, it's so dominant, it might not be the last
Jumpropeman: apparently Tapu Lele was such an important card it gets thrown into sets now and then as a secret rare to pay tribute
Gooper Blooper: I know a lot of baby Pokemon took extended breaks from the TCG because they didn't know what to do with them
Jumpropeman: budew and cleffa show they are too powerful...
Gooper Blooper: Budew must have been caught up in that, made worse by being such an overlooked pogey, but... seriously, nothing for BDSP or Legends Arceus?
Gooper Blooper: found some guy's blogpost listing the top six best cards from the new set, and Budew is #1, but look who they picked for #2
Jumpropeman: THE BOY
Gooper Blooper: if your opponent DARES terastallize
Gooper Blooper: eat fuckin' three hundred and thirty damage
Jumpropeman: i love that the tcg can give underpowered pokemon their days in the sun
Jumpropeman: not sure if its outdated info but, looks like the highest natural hp in tcg is 340
Gooper Blooper attaches a single PlusPower
Jumpropeman: work your way up to this bad boy
Jumpropeman: then Regigigas smashes you to shards
Draco: Dang. 340 HP? That's almost enough to survive Base Set Charizard.
Gooper Blooper: 120 damage for one energy
Jumpropeman: at some point the card game realized getting a third evolution on the field can be pretty difficult so the energy costs went down for them
Jumpropeman: although that tyranitar's also ex tera so its even more overtuned
Jumpropeman: not sure if its outdated info but, looks like the highest natural hp in tcg is 340
Gooper Blooper attaches a single PlusPower
Jumpropeman: work your way up to this bad boy
Jumpropeman: then Regigigas smashes you to shards
Draco: Dang. 340 HP? That's almost enough to survive Base Set Charizard.
Gooper Blooper: 120 damage for one energy
Jumpropeman: at some point the card game realized getting a third evolution on the field can be pretty difficult so the energy costs went down for them
Jumpropeman: although that tyranitar's also ex tera so its even more overtuned
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Jumpropeman: on pokemon presents, I was pretty excited when the mobile games were going by so quickly, leaving extra time for... announcing latin american spanish for like three minutes
Harpnaomi: yeah that was weird but i ain't gonna complain
Jumpropeman: its good, but it was part of me realizing how weird it is that pokemon presents has buttoned up businessmen talk so much
Jumpropeman: you'd think it would have a more kid-friendly energy or something
Harpnaomi: channeling their Larry energy
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Harpnaomi: drg: anniversary event is live!
Draco: ROCK AND STONE
Jumpropeman: what's it entail
Harpnaomi: had to quit partway through a mining mission because i did not see any fucking morkite
Harpnaomi: do mission, get cool hat and materials
Harpnaomi: its a 4 mission assignment
Harpnaomi: also the pilot lost the fucking trophies again because OF COURSE
Harpnaomi: i want to see mission control fistfight the pilot
Jumpropeman: this guy
Jumpropeman: he doesn't know what a lock is
Harpnaomi: inb4 i make a plot about this guy
Harpnaomi: "help me collect all the trophies i dropped and i'll give you this jiggy"
Harpnaomi: oh god i found my mayplot already huh.
Jumpropeman: that's a real collectathon
Jumpropeman: collect thing to collect things
Harpnaomi: i have a cooler better idea for a mayplot than that but hey, nobody has a rule against having TWO mayplots
Draco: And then Cagliostro offers up a Jiggy to fight her...and nobody fights her.
Harpnaomi: only way you'll get someone to fight you is for you to be in the brawl
Harpnaomi: and even then...
Jumpropeman: everyone runs when they see cagliostro
Jumpropeman: turns out, it's never been about morals. She just has BO
Draco: Le gasp
Harpnaomi: shtinky
