The decks I see a lot of online are-

  • psychic
  • grass
  • fire
  • dragon

Every once in a while I run into someone with an electric build or something out of the ordinary but psychic has been dominant.

I’ve really been enjoying playing a Dark type deck online. The type advantage really dismantles the psychic decks and has been strong enough with the cards I have available to put up a good fight against everything else. It’s really been fun trying to plan out and streamline over the last few days of playing.

What have you been playing and seeing?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•3 days ago

    Offtopic, feel free to remove if you want:

    When I play the console games I imagine myself as a trainer or gym leader, and build a team that fits, even if it’s underpowered. In Pokemon Red (gameboy) my main was Dewgong because she was so pretty, so I built a water/ice team.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•3 days ago

      I also love

      fairy - beautifully alien

      fighting - inner calm, zen mode

      psychic - sleeping and teleportation

      dark - bad omens, Godzilla universe

      and it’s fun to ask AI to create pokémon that fit those themes:

      • @[email protected]OPM
        2•3 days ago

        it’s fun to ask AI to create

        This point gets lost so often in the AI hate.

        I’ll be the first to admit AI sucks ass in all kinds of different ways. However- Being able to enter a prompt and see something original (to my eyes, I’m not here to debate about AI) is freaking cool and can be very entertaining. I can’t say I love everything people come up with but I don’t have to either. It’s still cool to see what they can come up with!

        Thanks for sharing your thoughts and pics!

    • @[email protected]OPM
      1•3 days ago

      Offtopic, feel free to remove if you want

      Eh, it’s in the spirit of the games. Just because this community is named after one of the newer ones doesn’t mean other stuff isn’t welcome.

      When I play the console games I imagine myself as a trainer or gym leader, and build a team that fits, even if it’s underpowered.

      Similarly meta deck builds can be fun but there isn’t much diversity in them so they are very boring to me. I usually find an artwork I like or a type that has interesting pokemon to me and see what I can come up with. I’d rather lose trying to come up with something interesting to me than coin flip wins between a couple of standard builds.