After getting stale for a bit too lengthy for a launch month, Pokémon TCG Pocket has lastly launched a brand new occasion into its relatively 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 similar to the sooner Lapras Drop Occasion, the Venusaur model is a set of participant vs. CPU battles, through 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 additional bonuses to unlock if you happen to 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 forex 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 presents, throwing out handfuls of the merchandise everybody truly needs—Pack Hourglasses—together with Surprise Stamina, Shinedust, Store Tickets, and extra Occasion Hourglasses to allow you to hold enjoying. Oh, and most significantly, it’s far kinder relating to handing out packs of the brand new Promo Pack A Collection Vol. 2, in which you’ll be able to pull a brand new set of stamped promo playing cards, together with an exquisite new Venusaur full-art illustrated by Kuroimori.
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It’s fairly rudimentary to finish a primary run by all 4 ranges. In contrast to 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. (In case you’ve acquired the Charizard/Moltres deck constructed, you’ll hammer by it in minutes.) However that’s no unhealthy factor, given you’ll additionally get a complete of 20 Pack Hourglasses, which means you may tear open at the least one additional pack for the day, and 4 possibilities 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 possibly can 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 can reward you Surprise Stamina and Occasion Hourglasses, and given the “Win 20 or extra battles” job on the highest tier, additionally offer you 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 massive, ugly blue field obscuring the picture, madly overlapping the precise Venusaur itself. Dammit.
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