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I believe that Japan is still using Ruby and Saphire on as their format. Thats a very very big card pool.

I'm kind of puzzled as to why they would stay with the old cards whilst we feel the need to keep dropping sets.

Doesn't our moving format mean that with some of the PCL counter cards missing our format is inherently less stable and prone to a power deck dominating????

Do the Japanese card sets exhibit power inflation to keep the demand for the newest cards up?

Just exactly when and how does Japan change format? [History lesson please]
 
to put it simply, it...really doesn't change. i think it pretty much flows with the video games. when diamond and pearl cards are released, i have a feeling that their format MIGHT change to diamond/pearl-on.

this basically means that japan really only has two weeks to practice with our format before worlds--they are at a HEAVY disadvantage. i mean, yamato used LBS in the grinder and didn't even bother to put wartortle in the deck. last year, medicham and rocklock were the two most popular decks at worlds, and the japanese simply laughed at medicham and underestimated it.

its funny how the most powerful ex's that we use here (blastoise, medicham, banette, flareon, etc) are all available in japanese half/quarter-decks that you can pick up at a japanese 7-11 for 10 bucks at most.
 
Benlugia said:
its funny how the most powerful ex's that we use here (blastoise, medicham, banette, flareon, etc) are all available in japanese half/quarter-decks that you can pick up at a japanese 7-11 for 10 bucks at most.
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Funny? No. Discouraging is the word, especially for people like me, an old player trying to come back to the game who likes the new format a lot.

The set rotation is a double-edged sword, on the one hand we get a refreshing and constantly changing metagame, on the other hand the rotation is used to artifically raise the prices on modified-legal cards and staples, and you might find that the shiny deck you stomped people with a year ago completely falls apart due to the new format and you have to make a COMPLETELY NEW DECK. From SCRATCH. Argh.

EDIT: Yeah, this is slightly off-topic
 
I still don't understand why POP doesn't make R/S on the format here. If we have to have this funky Battle Road thing like Japan, at least we should be allowed to use our older cards too.
 
I actually think that we should have two different formats one that uses cards from r/s on and then the format that we have now which rotates every season. this actually matches what most other card games do, instead of older cards just going into the waste basket they actually have a use for them. But you also on the other side one card doesn't just dominate one format forever, which would happen in the japanese format. You have the best of both worlds
 
ok think about it this way we have the cards that are legiul for worlds and they are playing deck that are not and they have to change there deck to be legil to play at worlds and that makes it harder for them to play a deck that they used to play.
 
M_Liesik said that next year the entire world would be under the same Modified format, except Japan.
http://pokegym.net/forums/showpost.php?p=579992&postcount=42
Houou_10 said:
you might find that the shiny deck you stomped people with a year ago completely falls apart due to the new format and you have to make a COMPLETELY NEW DECK. From SCRATCH. Argh.
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You are not alone.
http://pokegym.net/forums/showthread.php?t=22709
Please notice that there are good reasons for Modified to exist.
http://www.pojo.com/Pokemon/FeaturedWriters/pokepop/2005/10-27.shtml
 
PCL releases cards every few sets that try to nerf older decks and trainer engines (Dunsparce LM for example) that have little effect when printed in our rotating format.

It's interesting to note the continued successes of decks like Magma in the japanese 'format', I guess it can be attributed to their consistency in a wide open metagame.
 
I think it's sily that our formt is so drastically different from Japan's. We're tryingso hard to sync up with japan's rules and gameplay procedure, but POP's business incentive has stopped them from even considering switching to japan's format =/ bleh.
 
If PUi changes the format = to japan,i will play pokemo again,i just love

BAR
LBS
mewtrick
dragtrode

yeah memories.......
 
It is obvious isn't it people buy lots of cards
Pokemon makes money
Sets get rotated out
people buy new sets
Pokemon gets more money
 
Well, in Japan they apparently keep on buying new sets even though they have access to cards back to R/S. I mean, new decks are easily able to compete against their older counterparts.
 
The fact that they can use old sets all the way back to RS doesn't make them buy less cards. The players here buy lots of Furthest Ends all the time, it seems to be a big seller. And that's simply because it's a great set. Almost all decks played here consist of 80 % or more cards from the three newest expansion or so. Whenever old cards are used, they're just used for backup for new ones, like Delcatty RS who is put into the Delcatty ex deck. There are some exceptions, like Nidoqueen RG and Dark Tyranitar from TR (see my metagame topic), but for most players, new cards are what they want to play.

Also, each new expansion has cards that counters old strategies. Dunsparce LM like somebody here mentioned is a good example. Since Japan has such a big card pool, they also get all kinds of combos we can never get. Delcatty ex and Delcatty RS is one example, another is Ampharos d + Pidgeot RG + Pidgeot d. Look at the three cards and you'll understand the genious of it at once. In that deck, you can Quicksearch AND stop other Quicksearches at the same time. :D We'll never get to use that combo.
 
Ancient Pokemon Trainer said:
A Japanese person at worlds was using Dunsparce in a Vileplume deck.
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Yeah, I know who your refering to. After playing me (I played ludi/Plusles) he swapped out his sparces for Plusle. that was nice and evend the odds sorta.
 
Do you think that this year’s World Championship was power deck dominated? I don't. I think it was a very diverse format.

It seems to me that a larger card pool would lend itself to more powerful combos and therefore more power dominant decks ruling. A more diverse metta game should keep things balanced though.
So,

a large card pool = more powerful decks + more diverse metta game, and

a smaller card pool = fewer powerful decks + less diverse metta game.

As long as both PCL and PUI control what cards are in each metta game (pay particular attention to POP Promos) they should be able to keep both formats balanced.
 
ninetales1234 - That Pojo article you posted claims there is no 4 same name card limit in Limited. Is it this used anywhere??

I like the set rotation because it means its feasible to know all the cards - when someone plays a Skitty, I know there are 3 possible Delcatty. In RS-On there are 6 possibles, and that's much harder. 1200 cards, minus the repeats, is manageable. Of course, having a bunch of useless cards isn't so fun.
MG
 
money! Except some people want you to think they are doing this so its more competitive and want you create better decks with new cards
 
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