I'd say you're probably right. I doubt that they're trolling. Maybe just some unlikable personality traits - which is a completely normal thing in people who play card games. At this point, I'm probably done trying to help them. They have an extremely negative attitude that even I cannot handle conversing with - and I pride myself in being real helpful.
Thinking, playing, etc. like a champion.
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Here are some suggestiions.
Experience noted, find people to play that are ranked higher and better than you. Become friends with them, know them, your influences directly play a part in how you play. Champions and consistent top cut people hang out with others of the same caliber. Like fish swim together. Here comes the list as you requested.
1. Play someone better than you. Play them till your eyes bleed. Find out why you might lose to them.
2. Learn to body language. People use tell-tell signs when they are having issues with their deck exploit that.
3. Improve your instincts, you currently have an idea of what to do and how to play. To become better, you must retrain your instincts to feel like maybe you aren't making the right choice which might cause misplays.
4. Be methodical. Throughout the TCG eras there have been similar decks that associate themselves with play-styles(Trap,Balls to the Wall,Conservative,Teched), try out many decks see what works for you. The best players know every card and every counter expect that. This is a chess match treat it like that.
5. Know the strengths of each card, for example Juniper is a "staple supporter" in most cases, people have recognized the top cards in each format and why they should use them.
6. Do research. Be obsessed. Like looking at other people's decks and figuring out how their combos work. propokemon.com is a good start and sixprizes.com
7. Inventing rarely works. Yes we all like to think we can come up with the best hidden crap in the game. No. Take your research know the top tiers of decks and each tier. Each tier ties itself to feasibility, skill, and consistency above all else.
8.Take a top tier deck that you like and make it your own. Modify the lines, see what you don't have when you need it most.
9. Practice with extremely skilled people with the deck from all the above and you will see improvement given the investment. There are always cheap decks out there, though cheap being roughly give a moderate amounts of success. Skilled players are also masters MASTERS at trading or they have money. Top decks are expensive because they work and there is demand to be better thus card prices are controlled by the demand and tiers that they are placed in.
10. Being the best involves instinct and drive to be better, ultimately it will be up to you how you use these ideas that I have given you, as an example, I took and bought someone's top deck when I started playing and played them till i beat them, I ended up winning the Cities Championship that year, have fun, don't sweat being the best, because its about who you are with and what you can learn. This game is strict, fun, and have really good players for the most part in our ranks. How you improve each week determines imo how successful you are.
11. Self Control comes with instinctual challenges, by playing better people you can figure out misplays even if they don't seem like it, because they are one, two steps ahead of your thinking process.
12. Lastly by knowing these top decks which are made usually out of what is called a "Barebone" thus their mechanics are the same, hence the strongest cards and top decks all have predicatable moves with tech"surprises" splashed in. This denotes half of the playing style.
Open your mind, if you care too much about winning you will win little and lose hard. Caring too much causes anxiety driven rage which is a problem. Don't set the bar high for your self, find your middle ground, if you do 3-3 at tournaments, expect using that same deck you will hit around 40% w/l ratio.
You want to make friends....trade...trade for losses... sometimes. If they feel like they are a good person go ahead, pay it forward. Not ridiculusly, but a favor here and there creates opportunity for someone to like you. Best conversation starter "Do you got any trades?"
Experience noted, find people to play that are ranked higher and better than you. Become friends with them, know them, your influences directly play a part in how you play. Champions and consistent top cut people hang out with others of the same caliber. Like fish swim together. Here comes the list as you requested.
1. Play someone better than you. Play them till your eyes bleed. Find out why you might lose to them.
2. Learn to body language. People use tell-tell signs when they are having issues with their deck exploit that.
3. Improve your instincts, you currently have an idea of what to do and how to play. To become better, you must retrain your instincts to feel like maybe you aren't making the right choice which might cause misplays.
4. Be methodical. Throughout the TCG eras there have been similar decks that associate themselves with play-styles(Trap,Balls to the Wall,Conservative,Teched), try out many decks see what works for you. The best players know every card and every counter expect that. This is a chess match treat it like that.
5. Know the strengths of each card, for example Juniper is a "staple supporter" in most cases, people have recognized the top cards in each format and why they should use them.
6. Do research. Be obsessed. Like looking at other people's decks and figuring out how their combos work. propokemon.com is a good start and sixprizes.com
7. Inventing rarely works. Yes we all like to think we can come up with the best hidden crap in the game. No. Take your research know the top tiers of decks and each tier. Each tier ties itself to feasibility, skill, and consistency above all else.
8.Take a top tier deck that you like and make it your own. Modify the lines, see what you don't have when you need it most.
9. Practice with extremely skilled people with the deck from all the above and you will see improvement given the investment. There are always cheap decks out there, though cheap being roughly give a moderate amounts of success. Skilled players are also masters MASTERS at trading or they have money. Top decks are expensive because they work and there is demand to be better thus card prices are controlled by the demand and tiers that they are placed in.
10. Being the best involves instinct and drive to be better, ultimately it will be up to you how you use these ideas that I have given you, as an example, I took and bought someone's top deck when I started playing and played them till i beat them, I ended up winning the Cities Championship that year, have fun, don't sweat being the best, because its about who you are with and what you can learn. This game is strict, fun, and have really good players for the most part in our ranks. How you improve each week determines imo how successful you are.
11. Self Control comes with instinctual challenges, by playing better people you can figure out misplays even if they don't seem like it, because they are one, two steps ahead of your thinking process.
12. Lastly by knowing these top decks which are made usually out of what is called a "Barebone" thus their mechanics are the same, hence the strongest cards and top decks all have predicatable moves with tech"surprises" splashed in. This denotes half of the playing style.
Open your mind, if you care too much about winning you will win little and lose hard. Caring too much causes anxiety driven rage which is a problem. Don't set the bar high for your self, find your middle ground, if you do 3-3 at tournaments, expect using that same deck you will hit around 40% w/l ratio.
You want to make friends....trade...trade for losses... sometimes. If they feel like they are a good person go ahead, pay it forward. Not ridiculusly, but a favor here and there creates opportunity for someone to like you. Best conversation starter "Do you got any trades?"
It actually helps me a lot too!I recently quit a lot of other games I was playing, I felt like they where taking time away from playing pokemon tcg and a few other things so I quit them, but there is one thing I will take from them into playing pokemon much more competitively, its the knowledge of understanding the flow of the game or the flow of the battle, knowledge is power.
Shadow-Bario
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If you wanna be/think/play like a champion.. Youre gonna need to learn to lose. Cause no one wins every single game. Everyone loses. You need to know the metagame in and out. Every deck.. how they play... whats in each deck, and what their strengths are and as well as their weaknesses. You gotta know the mental game and how to read your opponent. You opponent gives away physical signs on how well the game is going that people dont pick up on.
Its not easy.. but with work, practice and time anyone can get there.
Its not easy.. but with work, practice and time anyone can get there.
Croatian_Nidoking
New Member
That's exactly what I need to know right now. How exactly does one learn how to build a halfway decent deck from scratch so as to minimize the amount of practice needed to hone it?
And as for "not being able to remember", I can remember what's in decks just fine (long-term/encyclopedic memory), it's just that I can't remember what/how many cards get played when in the heat of battle (short-term/working memory). Is there any way I can hone that?
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Well, first step would be taking notes during the battle, then eventually working more in the head and less on the paper as you become more comfortable with it.
Shadow-Bario
New Member
This thread is just funny now. I went and reread the whole thing. If you really are serious about getting better, pm me ur facebook or skype or something and I'll personally train you up online myself. I have an open schedule and have been playing for 10+ years. Holla at me
ArcticPhoenix46
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You are allowed to view their discard pile at any point in the game
During my prerelease last Saturday, I ran a Yveltal/Dunsparce/Tauros deck.
I felt confident in round 1, as I steamrolled my opponent with a T2 Yveltal.
Next round I drew into double Dunsparce but he had a pokemon that could heal 10 damage from his pokemon.
I lost.
I believe if I was more confident and trusted my deck and believed in the cards, I would be able to overturn that unlucky start, but I wasn't able to.
I was sweating and really shaky the whole game and even after a Great Ball, i dropped some of my cards while shuffling because I couldn't handle the pressure.
How do I handle these situations? I want to be a player others fear when they see me at a prerelease or draft type setting.
I felt confident in round 1, as I steamrolled my opponent with a T2 Yveltal.
Next round I drew into double Dunsparce but he had a pokemon that could heal 10 damage from his pokemon.
I lost.
I believe if I was more confident and trusted my deck and believed in the cards, I would be able to overturn that unlucky start, but I wasn't able to.
I was sweating and really shaky the whole game and even after a Great Ball, i dropped some of my cards while shuffling because I couldn't handle the pressure.
How do I handle these situations? I want to be a player others fear when they see me at a prerelease or draft type setting.
Shadow-Bario
New Member
Im writing an article on this topic on my blog. Check it out. if between that and all these post you still dont know how to do it.. hey.. I dont know how else I can help.