Adrian V. Monin

@gobdokon @SmogonU Yeah it's showdown

@AdrianVMonin @SmogonU 6v6 doesnt exist in champions tho lol i guess its from showdown

And to shake things up a bit we'll take a look at our recent big release in Champions OU! Full usage stats here: smogon.com/stats/2026-04/…

@KazeTheShinobi @SmogonU They let it in since it's a new tier and it was pretty quickly banned

@SmogonU WTF IS MEGA LUCARIO DOING IN OU NOW WHAT HAPPENED?

@rberenr @SmogonU Most teams have a mega it's just that they have lower usage individually because they're all directly competing with each other. A majority of the high usage megas are new as well.

@SmogonU New megas are finally usable and nobody uses them

@KazeTheShinobi @SmogonU They let it in since it's a new tier and it was pretty quickly banned

@gobdokon @SmogonU Yeah 6v6 singles

@SmogonU Huh? Samurott in 4th? Ive literally NEVER seen one in game lol is this for singles?

@Ch0mp_Chomp_ Does Darkness energy matter for anything? If you're not playing Tirtouga I'd still use Water to bluff Tirtouga or maybe Lightning for the slim chance your opponent plays Levincia

No joke, this is a real deck once Pitch Black releases.

@2two10one5 @WolfeyGlick Calyrex-Shadow with Tera is the actual strongest singles mon of all time

@WolfeyGlick except for it won’t be cause you’re a vgc player so idk

Last September I set out to do something I knew would be nearly impossible - rank all 1025 Pokemon objectively. Now, after 6 months, 1123 Pokemon ranked, and nearly 11 hours of footage recorded (pre-edit), I am finally ready to unveil my findings to the world. Video tomorrow

@tepigteaparty @PJiggles_ Mundane objects aren't Normal-type

@PJiggles_ Normal Steel would be a Stapler or Nail Gun pokemon

Ranking of how much potential these have for cool designs

@SeyorTlacuache @Gaiastormtcg Also it's a 3-prizer, and it's comparable to a stage 2 since Floette + Tower + Ange is three cards

@Gaiastormtcg Medio ridículo comparar dos el floette mega con su estadio contra Mewtwo que es una sola carta, siguen siendo 100hp más sin el estadío y funciona perfecto para demostrar tu punto.

Hay una cosa que no entiendo de Pokémon y es el Power Creep "selectivo". Los multiple-prizers han doblado su vida pero los one-prizers se han quedado como estaban desde 2012. Que no digo que sea malo o bueno, solo me llama mucho la atención 🤨

@GodmasterBun @gearhartpkmn gah how dare you curse me with this knowledge

@gearhartpkmn This part always bothers me on the Scarlet Violet ex cards. Every ex has a slight gap on the left that looks offputting, especially on Stellar type cards

TCG Pocket 𑄺𝘟 template > Scarlet & Violet

@atrocityTCG see also: sol ring

I think it says A LOT about commander players that they want rhystic studies banned and jeweled lotus unbanned It speaks volumes of how the average commander deck is perceived as a fidget toy rather than part of a four player competition

@marshals2054 This notice is a flag for editors to get rid of the AI content. "Any such material should be removed"

I get that it's just saying it's important to verify the info or whatever but I'm just reading "this article has ai generated text which may as well be worthless"

@nixtoshi @gearhartpkmn @JJPM_YT It's cool that decks can't be fully item-reliant right now, that's the thing

@gearhartpkmn @JJPM_YT Is there an out to Budew? You have to build your entire deck around it. Decks that coudn't work around their item reliance are now obsolete. At least with Bannette you needed to setup first, or get lucky with Shuppet. Now an easy 0-cost attack shuts 20-30% of the opponent's deck

This is giving Mystic Mine in Yu-Gi-Oh!

@ChaoticMeatball Budew is much more fun than Gholdengo

Imagine being actively antagonized by the social media of the game you play because of a floodgate that makes the game utterly unfun...

@PokeDuelsTikTok good bait

as a TCG-only pokemon fan i find it really funny how most items in this game have no Video Game equivalent

@QuintonQinton_ @PaddyLegend16 @mirai_fanarts He predicted base ZA would, not the DLC. It didn't.

@PaddyLegend16 @mirai_fanarts This was mostly to set up the second halve of the tweet where he predicts that legends ZA DLC will have Z shaped mega evolutions,

Smth smth soldier fighting world war two 20+ years after it ended (Not even gonna qrt lol) but yeah dawg we get it

@PokeDuelsTikTok pokeduels posting real and factual information? how can this be

wait champions might make vgc bigger than tcg with the accessibility vgc now is like needing to be really good at cooking mama to play chess

@crimsonDstroyer @HiddenPowerPod also, Enamorus not being from Galar or SwSh

@HiddenPowerPod To be fair, gen 7's numbers are padded out by legendaries that evolve (Cosmog, Cosmoem, and Type:Null) and aren't really worth using in their unevolved forms, and gen 8/9's numbers are padded out by DLC legendaries.

Do you like how we've been getting more legendary Pokemon recently? or do you prefer a smaller amount? 💫

@CherryPixie3 @PokeDuelsTikTok Pokemon used to have some really cool set symbols, I loved when they would evoke a (usually legendary) Pokemon with simple shapes Top left: Roaring Skies; Mega Rayquaza Top right: Lost Thunder; Zeraora Bottom left: Fusion Strike; Dynamax Mew Bottom right: Lost Origin; Giratina

@PokeDuelsTikTok you know as a mtg person just seeing this is making me realise 1) wow the pokemon set logos are uh not particularly good imo and 2) thank god for set symbols. no offense, just interesting how the games differ in presentation

i thought this was ragebait but then i remembered collectors are just brain dead fake fans

@AraigneeDeGlass @Keldeo05 @killingkota A lot of things play with the discard but you only want specific cards there and there are much more controlled ways of accomplishing that

@Keldeo05 @killingkota Pokémon doesn't play with the discard pile?

worst card ever?? 😭😭