u/Better_Armadillo8703

A few days ago i made this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pkmntcg/s/PFrvcT0cuj

First of all i wanna thank everyone and say that this is probably the nicest community i've ever interacted with.

I was asking about possible decks with single prize, single color and base pokemon only; the idea is to just place down the mon, attach the fewest energy possible and attack immediately for consistent damage.

I got a lot of good answers, so i tested some of your decks and wanna share my thoughts. I'm not gonna quote anyone in here but if you recognize your own decklist feel free to comment!

- Okidogi: possibly the overall best. As a lucario player i am already familiar with lunar cycle, but this is somehow even faster than lucario with higher burst damage, while also being single prize. It's not exactly a "single color" in the sense that okidogi needs a dark energy to function, but special energies do the job well enough. Amazing, will probably be my new main deck

- Ursaluna without okidogi: more of the same but honestly worse than okidogi. I didn't enjoy it too much, relying on ursaluna can slow down the game. I guess it's technically closer to what i was asking since you actually just need fighting energy, but it's lackluster

- Honchkrow: very satisfying but not my thing. On paper it's sort of similar to what i was asking since it's single prize, although technically it's not base pokemon and the energy color is hard to define since it uses only special energy. The issue is that it ends up playing almost in an opposite way to what i was asking, you need big swings of damage with trainer cards and all that. It's a really interesting playstyle and kinda reminded me of gholdengo or bolt in my limited playtime with those

- Alakazam: technically not exactly what i asked for since you need to evolve basically all of your pokemon, but it's an amazing deck, possibly the strongest i have played in this testing. I enjoy okidogi more because it starts attacking quicker, but this is the kind of consistency i was looking for. Close second to okidogi

- Mega floette: honestly not a big fan. This one has everything except the single prize, with a bunch of ex cards and a mega, but they are at least base mons. What i didn't like is that you start pretty slow and start flooding the board with mons and energies only in the mid game. I don't wanna call it slow because in the grand scheme of things it's actually quite fast, but i find it easy to lose before i even start to do my thing. If i have to risk a 3 prize i'd rather play my lucario

- Tauros: funnily enough the only truly perfect deck for what i was asking. Everything is base, single prize and works with a single type of energy. It does a surprising amount of damage for only one energy once you have a few tauros on the board, and the bunch of power premium pro and similar cards do a lot of heavy lifting. However it's objectively the worst deck of all these, basically if you don't have the stadium in your opening hand you never start your game. I also found it to be probably the only deck to be really weak into pult out of all these, which is never a good look. I guess if you don't accept at least one tradeoff between having to evolve your mons, having multiple energy colors, and being multi prize, you end up with something which is just not powerful enough like tauros. Makes sense but i'm happy to have tested it

Thanks for every input on the previous post and looking forward to new discussions! It's been a blast playing the game and interacting here. If you have more suggestions knowing what i'm looking for, i'm open to trying new lists. Okidogi it is for now

Hey there, this is very specific and i'm pretty new so i'm sorry if it's a dumb question. Since i've started playing, i've seen that the most powerful attacks will naturally come from mons that have various tradeoffs, like: being a phase 2, giving multiple prizes, requiring many energies and sometimes different colors, and discarding energies. I'm more about doing consistent damage with less drawbacks, so i've been advised to play lucario and so far it's cool. I like that it's only a phase 1, requires 1 or 2 energy to attack and the energy is only one color, but of course you gotta be wary of losing your lucario because it gives a whopping 3 prizes. I learned about festival lead, which seems to be something i could like, but i was wondering if there's a decent option for something even more extreme: a single prize with only a single color energy and basic mons. Basically you just draw basic mons, swarm the board with it and attack consistently without caring if one is taken out. I realize this may not be very meta and will be worse than the lucario i'm playing now, but i'm playing for fun anyway

I'm an engineering msc student and i have taken a very basic quantum course, basically just the derivation of the schrodinger equation and the time solution vs space solution (i think). I know for a fact that, unlike say in EM fields where we use complex numbers just for convenience and then always take the real part at the end of every proof, quantum actually needs complex numbers to work. This always kinda bugged me but the layman explanation was that unitary complex numbers (or any isomorphic thing like idk SO2 matrices i guess) are able to change their phase while keeping the amplitude at 1, and this is necessarily what needs to happen because amplitude means probability (squared) and so it has to equal 1. Now, i'm finally taking systems theory & control theory and what i just find out is that marginal stability is exactly the same thing. For a system to be marginally stable you need to have the real part of the eigenvalues exactly equal to 0, which means you need complex numbers, and the result is that such a system will keep oscillating forever, ie only changing their phase and never dampening their amplitude. Is this not exactly what a quantum system is doing? Or what am i missing?

Hi, i'm practicing for a local and i'm having a good time with the rain team that cut the grand champions festival:

https://pokepast.es/d466236588ebde30

My only issue is that i actually never bring my mega, which is venusaur. Most gameplans seem better off with either sableye or pelipper for rain/support, and the 3 big hitters.

So my question is: i've seen many variations of this rain core with a different mega, including scovillain, dragonite, and scizor. So why venusaur? What does it do? Would i be better off with a different mega?

Thx