After getting stale for a bit too lengthy for a launch month, Pokémon TCG Pocket has lastly launched a brand new occasion into its slightly echoey corridors—the Venusaur Drop Occasion. And oh wow, it comes with a winnable card that’ll go straight to the highest of your binder.
Very like the sooner Lapras Drop Occasion, the Venusaur model is a group of participant vs. CPU battles, during which the sport will play more and more extra highly effective builds of decks based mostly on the OG grass-type starter’s remaining evolution. Beating these beneficial properties you a clutch of awards, with further bonuses to unlock for those who re-battle every stage to finish particular missions.
And, very like the Lapras occasion, it’s slowed down by yet one more bullshit in-game foreign money limiting how a lot you may play it, within the type of “Occasion Stamina (Solo)“ hourglasses. Nonetheless, this trip it appears to be an terrible lot extra beneficiant with the prizes it provides, throwing out handfuls of the merchandise everybody really needs—Pack Hourglasses—together with Marvel Stamina, Shinedust, Store Tickets, and extra Occasion Hourglasses to allow you to hold enjoying. Oh, and most significantly, it’s far kinder with regards to handing out packs of the brand new Promo Pack A Sequence Vol. 2, in which you’ll pull a brand new set of stamped promo playing cards, together with a beautiful new Venusaur full-art illustrated by Kuroimori.
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It’s fairly rudimentary to finish a primary run by way of all 4 ranges. Not like the Lapras deck, Venusaur builds haven’t precisely entered the meta for good motive, and it’s hopelessly weak to a half-decent Hearth Sort construct. (When you’ve acquired the Charizard/Moltres deck constructed, you’ll hammer by way of it in minutes.) However that’s no unhealthy factor, given you’ll additionally get a complete of 20 Pack Hourglasses, that means you may tear open at the very least one further pack for the day, and 4 probabilities to open the one-card promo packs.
My son, who blitzed the occasion, was grimly unfortunate, though that serves him proper after he acquired a Lapras ex first pack within the earlier drop occasion. I, nevertheless, then made him livid by pulling the brand new Venusaur not simply in my first pack, however my second too! Haha, that that, ten-year-old.
You may then hold replaying the tiers, ending different duties like “Make your opponent’s Pokémon Asleep 1 time,” or “Win this battle by flip 12,” which is able to reward you Marvel Stamina and Occasion Hourglasses, and given the “Win 20 or extra battles” job on the highest tier, additionally provide you with a brand new grind till the occasion is over on December 13.
There are 5 playing cards to drag from the promo packs, every with artwork that’s not been in Pocket earlier than (though some acquainted from the real-world playing cards). There’s Haunter, Jigglypuff, Onix, Greninja, and that splendid Venusaur. It’s only a disgrace the latter is spoiled by having the large, ugly blue field obscuring the picture, madly overlapping the precise Venusaur itself. Dammit.
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