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The 4 Best Decks To Dominate In Pokémon TCG Pocket
12.11.2024
As Pokémon TCG Pocket completes its second week since launch, players have found the game’s grooves and solid patterns have begun to develop. Core to these are four specific decks that are dominating in online battles, forming a meta that looks unlikely to shift until January’s delivery of a whole...
The Highest Value Pokémon TCG Cards In Stellar Crown
7.11.2024
Stellar Crown felt like a return to form for the Pokémon TCG, after a fair few sets that have had disappointing pull rates—albeit this time by being an incredibly small set, with many fewer cards to collect. Now, on the verge of the next set Surging Sparks’ release, it’s a good moment to look...
The Best-Selling, Most Expensive Cards In Pokémon TCG Set 151
24.10.2023
Special Pokémon TCG set Pokémon 151 has been in the wild for about a month now, meaning people have had time to get over the initial fervour, and the best cards have risen to the surface. A smaller set to collect, but with an ongoing release schedule for new products, this return to the series’...
The Pokémon Anime’s Spookiest Episode Aired 25 Years Ago Today
2.10.2023
The Pokémon franchise doesn’t scare me that often. Sure, when I see Pikachu take a hard hit in a battle, I’m scared for his health. When Giratina shows up to fight my beaten-down team at the end of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, that’s also terrifying because I’m running low on Pokémon to fight back....
10 Things You Should Never Say To A Pokémon Fan
7.8.2023
Pokémon fans come in all shapes and sizes. There are the competitive sickos, the shiny hunters, or the lore nerds that just want to learn more about Game Freak’s world with each game. On top of that, there’s anime watchers, card game collectors, Pokémon Go players whose biggest touchstone with...
Gorgeous New Game Is Like Dark Souls But Way More Chill
25.4.2023
The most important hurdle every character-action game has to clear is to make me feel like I’m improving as a gamer in the skill-based hack-and-slash department. Sometimes clearing that hurdle means giving me a time-stopping dodge ability to pummel frozen enemies, or a plethora of otherworldly...
We May Know What Pokémon Will Return In Scarlet And Violet’s DLC
21.4.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are still getting updates ahead of the Switch RPGs two-part Hidden Treasure of Paldea DLC, and while we don’t know much about what both chapters will entail, we might have an idea of what Pokémon will be added when the DLC is released later this year.Read more
Every Pokémon Card I've Gotten From My Local Weed Shop, Ranked
20.4.2023
I’m not exactly up to speed on laws governing the sale of marijuana here in New York, but as a way of circumventing certain restrictions, there are some shops here where, rather than buying weed, you’re “technically” buying something else and getting some weed, gratis, with your purchase. This...
The Best Pokémon Cards Art Sets That Tell Amazing Stories
8.3.2023
The majority of Pokémon cards are primarily functional. Designed to be played in the table-top game, the small illustration on a card helps to distinguish it, with far more space given to the details of its attacks, HP, restrictions, and retreat costs. Then there are the special cards,...
The First Pokémon Season Without Ash Gets First Real Trailer
3.3.2023
Man, Ash and Pikachu are really leaving the Pokémon anime pretty soon, huh? With every farewell episode that airs in Japan and every new piece of information on the new animated series that comes out, the departure of the show’s long-time protagonists feels more and more real. If you were having...
Ash And Pikachu’s Final Pokémon Episode Will Bring Back Gary (And Your Tears)
2.3.2023
The Pokémon anime is wrapping up Ash and Pikachu’s 25-year-long story with a series of farewell episodes, and in each of them, the duo has been revisiting old friends from across the Pokémon world. However, it sounds like the final episode before the show hands off the torch to new protagonists...
Absurd NFT Project Just Got Taken To Court By Pokémon
22.12.2022
The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) works pretty hard to keep its monsters in their proper pens, fervently stamping out any attempts to use pocket beasties without a licensing agreement in place. Just a few months ago, we saw the company going after six Chinese firms that had crossed the line...
The Best Way To Get Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s Only Cinderace
19.12.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Charizard tera raid event has concluded, and Game Freak has already announced what’s next: Cinderace. The Galar fire-type starter is not typically available in these games, and as such, will only be available through this raid. If the Charizard raid is any indication...
You Only Have A Few Days To Catch Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Only Charizard: Here's How
13.12.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is bringing back its limited-time Charizard the Unrivaled tera raid this week on December 16. The event will last until December 18, and it’s the only way for players to catch the iconic dragon in these games as of this writing. So if you want to add Charizard to your...
Welp, Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Players Found A Way To Kiss Their Monsters
28.11.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet may be plagued by a bevy of technical exploits and glitches, but fans of the monster-collecting RPG are still enjoying Paldea’s open world. You can hang out with your monsters in a variety of ways across the new region,, including having a picnic. Some players, however...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Villains Are The Bad School Kids, New Switch Hardware Coming
7.9.2022
Two professors. A true open-world. Legendary Pokémon that can turn into freakin’ motorcycles. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are incrementally shaping up to be some of the most intriguing role-playing games of the fall. Today, the Pokémon Company made that even more clear with a new trailer that...
Everything We Know About Gyms In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
3.8.2022
Today’s Pokémon Presents revealed more details about how the gym system inRead more
What We Know About Pokémon Scarlet And Violet's Starters
27.2.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Gen 9 starters have been revealed and they include a cat, a baby croc, and a duck. Do you have a favorite? I certainly do and it’s not my usual type. Read more
These Pokémon Keycaps Have Won My Heart
3.1.2022
I’m looking down at my spacebar in absolute shame. It’s just plain white. And yet, it could be the absolutely beautiful work of keycap maker, Hirosart, containing a diorama of Pokémon in their natural setting.Read more
Official Trailer Asks, What If Pokémon Legends: Arceus Was A Horror Movie?
19.10.2021
It’s fair to say that the world of Pokémon rarely ventures into territories that might be considered “adult.” This most family friendly of franchises works extremely hard to ensure, no matter how large the grown-up interest, it’s always open and welcoming to children. And then, today they released...