As the present Pokemon TCG Pocket meta continues to shake out, gamers are shortly determining which decks, playing cards, and methods are highly effective, that are secure, and that are…wildly inconsistent. And there’s one card that everybody appears to agree they hate, whether or not they’re utilizing it or dealing with an opponent with it: Misty.
Misty is a Supporter card, primarily a kind of card that may be performed as soon as per flip to offer your self an advantageous impact. Misty is explicitly designed to be used in decks that includes water-type Pokemon, and comes with the next impact: “Choose one in every of your water-type Pokemon, and flip a coin till you get tails. For every hads, take a water-type Energy out of your Energy Zone and fix it to that Pokemon.”
Pokemon want vitality to make use of assaults on opponents, however sometimes you possibly can solely connect one vitality to 1 Pokemon per flip. So the thought behind Misty is to shortly energy up a single water-type Pokemon so it might use an Energy-intensive assault straight away, slightly than having to attend two, three, 4, or extra turns to blast away.
Unfortunately, Misty’s efficacy relies upon solely on coin flips, that means she will both be utterly ineffective (in case you flip tails straight away) or so overpowered as to be ridiculous (in case you flip extra heads than you want). So after all, people who find themselves utilizing Misty of their decks are complaining about continually flipping tails straight away, and people who find themselves dealing with Misty are posting…properly, this:
The frustrations with Misty’s luck-heavy potential are leading to loads of discussions as as to if or not the cardboard design must be modified. Those discussions have only increased with the discharge of a particular occasion within the recreation that includes water-type Pokemon, the place gamers can battle an AI utilizing a deck containing Misty and some Pokemon that may completely destroy an opponent on flip one with fortunate coin flips.
On the Pokemon TCG Pocket subreddit, a number of users have made suggestions for a way she will be improved, similar to limiting the full variety of coin flips or putting restrictions on how vitality is distributed. The greatest problem gamers are citing aside from her luck-heavy mechanic is that if a Misty-user will get luck and draws her turn one, they will then use her to potentially attack their opponent on turn one. Typically, gamers are usually not capable of assault on the primary flip because of the recreation prohibiting attaching an vitality on flip one, a equity mechanic supposed to make sure going second is not an enormous drawback. But a fortunate Misty draw, a fortunate Misty flip, and an Articuno EX is a recipe for disaster.
The downside is so dangerous that some gamers are speculating her coin flips are rigged or bugged indirectly. Others are simply memeing their approach by means of it, stating that usually, Misty customers will simply concede the game instantly after taking part in her and flipping a single tails first attempt.
It stays to be seen whether or not or not Misty will probably be nerfed, buffed, or adjusted in another approach in response to the participant frustration along with her mechanic. But if the devs do resolve to tweak her, the subreddit is totally full of concepts.
Meanwhile, gamers are filling up their decks not with Misty, however with Farfetch’d, and the 2 dominant meta decks proper now are largely centered round Charizard and Mewtwo. But in case you’re making an attempt to construct a aggressive deck that makes use of uncommon playing cards, do not be fooled by rumors you possibly can affect what you pull from booster packs. Like Misty, it is all simply dumb luck.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can discover her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a narrative tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
