Gary_Oaks_Raticate
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Hi Pokegym,
I've developed a formula, and plugged it into excel to give a mostly objective value rating to all Pokemon cards. I say mostly objective, because some criteria, attack text, or pokepower/ability text for example needs to be read and interpreted subjectively, as it is not numerical and objective, like all other aspects of the cards.
The criteria that goes into the whole formula at different weights is as follows...
-HP
- Weakness, and which type
- Resistance, and which type
- Retreat Cost
- Stage of Evolution
- Attack Cost
- Attack text, including being able to inflict special condition(s).
- And pokepower/ability text
As you will see the type of the Pokemon itself is not listed, because I think it is subjective, or arbitrary to say one is "best, and similarly one is "worst". On a related note, the weakness and resistance formulas were altered by looking at the "what won battle road's posts", and making it so that the pokemon with resistance to the more successful pokemon get weighted slightly higher, and likewise with weakness and slightly lower,
I don't pretend that this going to change the game for anyone, or that it will even affect anyone's view of a single card. What it can be really useful for is when just looking at two cards and wondering if you should play X vs. Y. This formula can tell you that the difference in value of the cards may not be as close as the eye shows.
If anyone has any questions, or comments about this I would be ecstatic to hear them.
Here are three sample Poke-metric scores.
- Zekrom BW= 22.867
- Bearctic EP= 19.348
- Togekiss UD= 14.604
And before you ask, yes, of course I will plug any card anybody wants into the formula.
Thanks for reading.
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I've developed a formula, and plugged it into excel to give a mostly objective value rating to all Pokemon cards. I say mostly objective, because some criteria, attack text, or pokepower/ability text for example needs to be read and interpreted subjectively, as it is not numerical and objective, like all other aspects of the cards.
The criteria that goes into the whole formula at different weights is as follows...
-HP
- Weakness, and which type
- Resistance, and which type
- Retreat Cost
- Stage of Evolution
- Attack Cost
- Attack text, including being able to inflict special condition(s).
- And pokepower/ability text
As you will see the type of the Pokemon itself is not listed, because I think it is subjective, or arbitrary to say one is "best, and similarly one is "worst". On a related note, the weakness and resistance formulas were altered by looking at the "what won battle road's posts", and making it so that the pokemon with resistance to the more successful pokemon get weighted slightly higher, and likewise with weakness and slightly lower,
I don't pretend that this going to change the game for anyone, or that it will even affect anyone's view of a single card. What it can be really useful for is when just looking at two cards and wondering if you should play X vs. Y. This formula can tell you that the difference in value of the cards may not be as close as the eye shows.
If anyone has any questions, or comments about this I would be ecstatic to hear them.
Here are three sample Poke-metric scores.
- Zekrom BW= 22.867
- Bearctic EP= 19.348
- Togekiss UD= 14.604
And before you ask, yes, of course I will plug any card anybody wants into the formula.
Thanks for reading.
THIS POST HAS RECEIVED GURU POINTS! ( click here to discover why ) - GuRu SQuaD
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