Author Topic: Why Trainers? batman6458 Member Member # 146220 posted June 27, 2003 02:22 PM            Today as i read the many articles on how to help your deck i find people cut down on energies to make way for trainers and i think WHY? Now i know trainers can be very usefull but i also know you can never win a single battle without enough pokemon and energys. For Example what good is a professoroak if your new hand will be cluttered with trainers anyway? -------------------- SKATE OR DIE! From: maryland | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged yoshi1001 Member # 825 posted June 27, 2003 02:34 PM             Basically, trainers let you manipulate the playing field so that you can carry out your plans. The reason there are so many is that you need to keep things to your advantage with draw power and manipulation. -------------------- Visit Pokéwatch! Listen to PIRN, the Pokémon Internet Radio Network. We have interviews with Master Trainer Mike, Kierin Chase, and more, as well as your favorite Pokémon music! PIRN: The number 1 Pokémon Internet Radio Station! PIRN: The Magazine PIRN Message Boards GCAbGEbGF AIM: yoshi1001 From: Janesville, Wisconsin | Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged IPGeek21 Member # 184 posted June 27, 2003 02:47 PM             The game is about Speed & disruption... sure you need pokemon and energy BUT if you do not have the PROPER cards to GET the RIGHT pokemon and required energy... YOU MAY LOSE. THere is NO use waiting for ONE card each in a 60 card deck... instead POKEMON has been blessed with AMAZING draw power (from Oaks, Elms, COpycats, CPU Search, Cleffa) to get the cards you need. THEN there are those cards to manipulate you opponent's active pokemon, energy distribution, etc (it depends whether modifed or unlimited) I have played with as few as 7 pokemon and as few as 7-9 energy, just call me InSaNe -------------------- Drafts bring out the BEST of the WORST cards in Pokemon *TC Member/WizpogMOD_Squad/Master_Prof* +GodFather to an Angel:RIP-Paloma Geronimo -=-=-=-=-=- TheCompendium Team Random Proud bro of SSJ3DVP11 ipgeek21.com SHUT UP & DO something about it From: The here, BUT WHERE shall we go? | Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged ukpokemonpro Member # 518 posted June 27, 2003 02:57 PM             Ahhh the heady days of InSaNItY decks ... I had 8 pokes in mine prolly too many really... -------------------- ukpokemonpro "a meaningless title is just that ... meaningless" "London Super Battlezone 2003" quote the judge... 'only joking' on misreported match results: DQ Yep its that serious! 14,000 deck boxes yeah we'll take all of them .... what have I done! Find the Pokemon League and Tournaments in Kent at:The Gamers Guild From: Gillingham, Kent, UK | Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged qmech99 Member Member # 123578 posted June 28, 2003 01:37 PM            Imagine a deck with no Trainers. As you can only have four copies of a card in your deck, you would have very little control over what cards are in your hand at any one time, severely hampering the strategy aspect of the game and making it vastly more luck based. For example, if a Raindance deck doesn't get a Blastoise quickly, it's screwed, as you then have no way of meeting your excruciatingly high energy costs. The only viable deck option in an environment with no Trainers would be a mono-colour, low Energy cost BBP deck using only Basic Energy. If that was all anyone played, the game would not be very fun. In short, trainers are what allow more complex strategies to develop, decreasing the 'Why can't I draw what I want?' factor. -------------------- Don't look at me like that! You asked for help,and I've been honest... Pikachu's Beach: 5499 From: UK - Derbyshire | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged pokeyugifreak Member Member # 146225 posted June 28, 2003 07:55 PM             i agree with him/her energys are more valuable than trainers without energy no one can attack yes having some such as bill and oak is good but 30 trainers is way to much in my opinion -------------------- were down but were not up From: c | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Maverick Hunter Zero Member # 6223 posted June 28, 2003 08:12 PM             Then you're radically misinformed or underinformed. If I'm almost guaranteed to always have card drawing trainers, I can in essence get WHAT I want WHEN I want. I can get out that blastoise and few water basics second turn, and via oaks/elms/whatever, I can keep a steady supply of water coming. Way back when, Haymakers THRIVED on card drawing. MANY a first turn battle was decided that way. Player one flips a hitmonchan first turn, opponent pulls an electabuzz, it would usually over. Oak/Bill/CPU a fighting energy and 3 Pluspower. And that was because they usually ran ten or fewer fighting energy for the Hitmonchan. Even now, whichever deck is faster has an INCREDIBLE advantage. With 3 Cleffa/Elm/Oak's Research/Copycat/whatever, it doesn't matter if you don't have energy, you can GET IT. Works the same way with Pokemon, and you still have enough copies of each that you don't run out far too quickly. -------------------- http://www.mhzs-lair.com AIM: MasterHunterZero [email protected] http://mhz.deviantart.com It's not cowardly to run. It's futile. kachu Pika piii Kaa pi pikachu? From: The strange, frightening world known as "SoCali" | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged NoPoke Member # 42315 posted June 28, 2003 11:27 PM             An ideal trainer engine converts your deck from a heap of cards that you have to take in sequence to a resource where you get to pick and choose the cards you want from that deck in an order determined by you. As a consequence you gain speed and reliability. Both key requirements in an effective deck. -------------------- ======================================== 'Good News' or 'Bad News' but NOT NO NEWS some people brag about their tournament results, me I'm gonna brag??? about what players have managed to get past me LOL -------Hoodwinked---(things I won't get wrong again...)------ 'legal stalling' : game loss at least 'only joking' on misreported match results: DQ Yep its that serious! The prize swap penalty as it applies to shuffling. From: Crawley England | Registered: Sep 2001  |  IP: Logged pokeyugifreak Member Member # 146225 posted June 29, 2003 05:31 PM             yes you can get what you need faster but with only 6or7 energy means decking out faster to get them i know how trainers like that work i played with a rain dance deck forever bet now i learned there are other ways than loads of trainers -------------------- were down but were not up From: c | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged

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