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Let's Play Pokemon TCG - Highest Risk Involves Papercuts! [003]
Part Three: Where the Hell is Nikki?
Last time on TCG, ourhero protagonist got his deck, fixed it up a bit more, and knocked around a girl in a card game.
Doesn't he feel special.
We join our protagonist in the lobby of the Grass Club. Where he has just made a very imbalanced trade.
Q. Doesn't Vileplume evolve from Oddish?
A. ...Yep. This girl does very weird trades, but if you have a spare Oddish it's still a Common for a Rare. It's not a Promo card or anything all that special, just a normal Vileplume.
This is Brittany. She is a Grass Club member in what I can assume is name only.
She gives the same story Heather did, that the Club Master is out and if you defeat them all yadda yadda.
Onward to the easiest supposedly legitimate duel ever.
Her deck is very aptly named. It's basically a mish-mash of a bunch of different types. Pretty much everything but Water, in fact.
Fortunately, while I was out grinding last time, I grabbed this guy, who, with a little stalling help from Lapras, rolled over her. (Anyone who knows Pokémon a little should notice something not quite right here...)
Amusing Highlight: Psychic types attacking themselves in confusion do double damage. I can only assume that this is because the game mods it as a base 20 damage attack at self, since Pluspower and such count toward confusion damage too.
Yeah, that one wasn't going any other way.
Maybe because your deck is made of fail and six different types.
She forks over Mystery packs when she loses, which contain a lot of the cards I normally use.
The Alakazam is nice, if not useful yet, but the real prize to me is this baby.
Double Colorless Energy is an odd duck. It follows some energy card rules, in that it provides energy, but you can only have four a deck, like everything else. It can be useful for quick power-ups, and it's really quite good.
This is Kristin. Kristin is special for one simple reason.
She is the only member of the Grass Club who uses actual Grass types. She's also probably the toughest one.
She's still not much of a challenge to me, honestly. I ran down hers with Squirtle/Wartortle after a run of luck. she can be pesky if she gets Lickitung out and gets to set up Vileplume, but she didn't with me.
Her boosters are Evolution, which are very useful at this stage in the game. For one thing, they contain Eevee.
Finally, sensing that I have bested all three of them now, she coughs up the location.
Note that she's not actually worried enough to do what I assume is her duty and go and get the Club Leader back. No flowers in the world require that close attention.
That's Ishihara's house. I haven't actually triggered him appearing yet. Oops.
So Nikki's the only one there. Could probably make a case for breaking and entering, if anyone on this island knew what a locked door was.
She seems surprised that she's expected to actually do her job.
Note that she's leaving a slightly shady-looking eleven year old in someone's house alone, a house which they both broke into. (If Ishihara's presence has been triggered, she thanks him for letting her look at his books before going. If it hasn't, it looks more than a little sketchy. It's nice to see they thought of both, though.)
Yes. I know. We met by both committing a felony, remember?
If I win, I'm so turning you in.
Six prizes doesn't actually make the duel last much longer.
'Power...' heh...we'll see about that.
Wait, what the hell?
Q. What the? You didn't take your Water deck apart, did you?
A. Nope! This is in one of our other deck slots. Before you get access to some of the more broken combos, challenging a Club Master without a type advantage is suicide--so I made a Fire deck. Everything Nikki fields is weak to it.
Alright. Prepare to have your mind blown (assuming you know Pokémon).
This is the one medium in which Flareon actually doesn't suck. At all.
In fact, Fire types in general don't suck even slightly.
Beyond that, they even kinda kick ass. A lot.
In fact, between Flareon and Charmeleon, AKA the worst Fire-type ever and a mediocre middle evolution, and a lot of Switching and retreating since Nikki keeps poisoning them, I rip apart Nikki's entire deck.
I only lost one Pokémon, a Jigglypuff I was only using to stall with sleep status anyway. (This is the start of the Flamethrower animation. You can see the little flames on Exeggutor.)
On the whole, for my first Leader match? Not bad. Not bad at all.
Look, I've got a long way to go before I start dealing with magic cards. [size=9]And don't think I've forgotten about that felony thing.[/size]
Ehh...uh. *cough* Bribes won't...ooh, shiny.
(So, I was mixed up about placement. Grass actually is the 'first' medal, not Rock, but I assure you that both leaders are equally pushovers.)
Nikki hands out Laboratory packs, which are largely useless to me.
Well, except for this guy, whose power is...kinda cool. Basically, he only has a 50/50 chance of being hit by any attack.
Mason's a little late on the draw on this one. Honestly, most of the packs he sends for the leaders don't do you much good, as you've generally fought them by then.
Now. Here's the Deck Save Machine.
The cursor's blinking thwarts my screencapping again...
The unaltered forms of the Starter decks, as Mason would give them to you, are already here. But you have 57 other spaces to save your own decks. I've never needed all of them. All the options are pretty self-explanatory.
I save both the current decks, since they're both pretty close to what their elemental decks will end up as.
Here's one of the auto deck machines based off the Clubs.
None of them work until you get the medals, AKA until after you don't care about them anymore.
The badges themselves do something here, not that it's anything useful.
You might notice the lack of Brittany's deck here, instead replaced by the Insect Collection and Jungle decks. This just supports the 'Grass Club member in name only' theory.
This is Nikki's deck, completely unaltered as far as I can tell. It's not a bad deck, really. In the hands of an actual player, it could do an awful lot of damage.
...but I think mine is far superior.
Next Update: We break the hell out of some Rocks. Literally.
Last time on TCG, our
Doesn't he feel special.
We join our protagonist in the lobby of the Grass Club. Where he has just made a very imbalanced trade.
Q. Doesn't Vileplume evolve from Oddish?
A. ...Yep. This girl does very weird trades, but if you have a spare Oddish it's still a Common for a Rare. It's not a Promo card or anything all that special, just a normal Vileplume.
This is Brittany. She is a Grass Club member in what I can assume is name only.
She gives the same story Heather did, that the Club Master is out and if you defeat them all yadda yadda.
Onward to the easiest supposedly legitimate duel ever.
Her deck is very aptly named. It's basically a mish-mash of a bunch of different types. Pretty much everything but Water, in fact.
Fortunately, while I was out grinding last time, I grabbed this guy, who, with a little stalling help from Lapras, rolled over her. (Anyone who knows Pokémon a little should notice something not quite right here...)
Amusing Highlight: Psychic types attacking themselves in confusion do double damage. I can only assume that this is because the game mods it as a base 20 damage attack at self, since Pluspower and such count toward confusion damage too.
Yeah, that one wasn't going any other way.
Maybe because your deck is made of fail and six different types.
She forks over Mystery packs when she loses, which contain a lot of the cards I normally use.
The Alakazam is nice, if not useful yet, but the real prize to me is this baby.
Double Colorless Energy is an odd duck. It follows some energy card rules, in that it provides energy, but you can only have four a deck, like everything else. It can be useful for quick power-ups, and it's really quite good.
This is Kristin. Kristin is special for one simple reason.
She is the only member of the Grass Club who uses actual Grass types. She's also probably the toughest one.
She's still not much of a challenge to me, honestly. I ran down hers with Squirtle/Wartortle after a run of luck. she can be pesky if she gets Lickitung out and gets to set up Vileplume, but she didn't with me.
Her boosters are Evolution, which are very useful at this stage in the game. For one thing, they contain Eevee.
Finally, sensing that I have bested all three of them now, she coughs up the location.
Note that she's not actually worried enough to do what I assume is her duty and go and get the Club Leader back. No flowers in the world require that close attention.
That's Ishihara's house. I haven't actually triggered him appearing yet. Oops.
So Nikki's the only one there. Could probably make a case for breaking and entering, if anyone on this island knew what a locked door was.
She seems surprised that she's expected to actually do her job.
Note that she's leaving a slightly shady-looking eleven year old in someone's house alone, a house which they both broke into. (If Ishihara's presence has been triggered, she thanks him for letting her look at his books before going. If it hasn't, it looks more than a little sketchy. It's nice to see they thought of both, though.)
Yes. I know. We met by both committing a felony, remember?
If I win, I'm so turning you in.
Six prizes doesn't actually make the duel last much longer.
'Power...' heh...we'll see about that.
Wait, what the hell?
Q. What the? You didn't take your Water deck apart, did you?
A. Nope! This is in one of our other deck slots. Before you get access to some of the more broken combos, challenging a Club Master without a type advantage is suicide--so I made a Fire deck. Everything Nikki fields is weak to it.
Alright. Prepare to have your mind blown (assuming you know Pokémon).
This is the one medium in which Flareon actually doesn't suck. At all.
In fact, Fire types in general don't suck even slightly.
Beyond that, they even kinda kick ass. A lot.
In fact, between Flareon and Charmeleon, AKA the worst Fire-type ever and a mediocre middle evolution, and a lot of Switching and retreating since Nikki keeps poisoning them, I rip apart Nikki's entire deck.
I only lost one Pokémon, a Jigglypuff I was only using to stall with sleep status anyway. (This is the start of the Flamethrower animation. You can see the little flames on Exeggutor.)
On the whole, for my first Leader match? Not bad. Not bad at all.
Look, I've got a long way to go before I start dealing with magic cards. [size=9]And don't think I've forgotten about that felony thing.[/size]
Ehh...uh. *cough* Bribes won't...ooh, shiny.
(So, I was mixed up about placement. Grass actually is the 'first' medal, not Rock, but I assure you that both leaders are equally pushovers.)
Nikki hands out Laboratory packs, which are largely useless to me.
Well, except for this guy, whose power is...kinda cool. Basically, he only has a 50/50 chance of being hit by any attack.
Mason's a little late on the draw on this one. Honestly, most of the packs he sends for the leaders don't do you much good, as you've generally fought them by then.
Now. Here's the Deck Save Machine.
The cursor's blinking thwarts my screencapping again...
The unaltered forms of the Starter decks, as Mason would give them to you, are already here. But you have 57 other spaces to save your own decks. I've never needed all of them. All the options are pretty self-explanatory.
I save both the current decks, since they're both pretty close to what their elemental decks will end up as.
Here's one of the auto deck machines based off the Clubs.
None of them work until you get the medals, AKA until after you don't care about them anymore.
The badges themselves do something here, not that it's anything useful.
You might notice the lack of Brittany's deck here, instead replaced by the Insect Collection and Jungle decks. This just supports the 'Grass Club member in name only' theory.
This is Nikki's deck, completely unaltered as far as I can tell. It's not a bad deck, really. In the hands of an actual player, it could do an awful lot of damage.
...but I think mine is far superior.
Next Update: We break the hell out of some Rocks. Literally.