Pokemon Cards KEEP GETTING BIGGER (VMAX)

there's already a new pokemon TCG card with the most HP of all time let's talk about it [Music] hey pokemon fans I'm back with a quick little update to what was surprisingly one of our most popular videos in 2019 in general we followed the history of the Pokemon trading card games 20-year career and logged all of the moments when a Pokemon card became the new title holder for pokemon card with the most HP if we follow just the right half of our study which talks about all cards in general we found that pokemon have only claimed that top spot just a handful of times Charizard and chancy tifr to 1999 wailord-ex snags it in 2003 mega venusaur IX finally and briefly takes the title in 2014 a new mega wale or DX retook it in 2015 and then whale Lord and Magikarp GX took the top spot with tag teams just this year they've been teasing about an upcoming card with even more HP since this world championships but now that the new Pokemon sword and shield TCG set has dropped in Japan we now know that the new sixth ever record holder for most HP goes to a Pokemon even bigger than the one that they previewed here pokemons big new TCG mechanic for this generation is V&V maxing basically the regular Pokemon V give up to prize cards similar to G X and E X cards before it and your Pokemon V cards can wait v cards seriously they are called their V cards I know this name probably came from Japan first and they had no idea about the English slang for V card but man that is unfortunate anyways the Pokemon V can essentially evolve into a form called v-max which gives up three prized cards similar to the more recent tag-team cards so I guess it makes sense dynamaxx Singh is all about giving your Pokemon bigger HP in the video games so it isn't that shocking that V maxing and the TCG gives you more HP to but even still it blows my mind what kind of numbers you can find on a pokemon card these days even little looking Pokemon like more pea now tie that record for 300 v-max Lapras has 320 and the new heavyweight pokemon champion of the world is v-max Snorlax with 340 HP now those are some big chunks is chunk I like like how mold of the fungus are fungi okay I just want to pause real quick and talk about something completely unrelated that surprised me about the new sword and shield set poison types are now represented by the dark energy group because it would be a nightmare to play the trading card game with 18 unique colors of mana the Pokemon card game has multiple types assigned to single colors for example this fist symbol for fighting energy is typically used for fighting pokemon rock pokémon and ground-type pokémon in the games but the poison type has now been used with grass energy starting with the base set psychic energy starting with Diamond of pearl and now this is the third time they've changed their mind on this with the dark energy in sword and shield that's a fun little TCG records that will likely never be beaten again okay back to our scheduled big HP content like I mentioned maybe Dyna maxing giving more HP to pokemon cards isn't that shocking but it is shocking from a game design perspective how rapidly pokemon card numbers have ballooned as of late after the first time pokemon HP spiked with exas in 2003 the maximum HP on a pokemon didn't move for over ten years now all of a sudden it's like boom-boom-boom we've jumped nearly 150 past that over the last five years things are getting big and they're getting big fast it's actually pretty ridiculous when you consider these pokemon alongside the cards that were released for the base side of the game in the West in 1999 the absolute strongest attack you could do in the base set was 100 damage which came with ridiculous drawbacks like discarding all your energy or punching yourself in the face you're all out guns blazing suicide strike strongest attack back then couldn't even hit this big boy for one third of his maximum HP sure the big cards these days are giving up three times the prize cards but they are well over three times as powerful this might be a fun topic to cover in a future video but it's also interesting to look at things like attack power creep and Pokemon as well back in the first formats of Pokemon Wigglytuff was considered one of the only competitively viable evolution cards because of its powerful do the wave attack allowing you to deal an efficient 60 damage for three colorless energy if you had a full bench vMac Snorlax is in many ways identical to Wigglytuff first stage evolution three colorless energy attack and max damage with the full bench the difference is that Snorlax is max damage with five Pokemon on the bench hits for 210 it's been a lot of fun looking at all the ways that the Pokemon TCG continues to change even though I don't compete in the game like I used to it's still a game that I really enjoy collecting playing and studying especially each time a new generation rolls around I'm not sure which Pokemon will become our newest HP champ but I know one thing for sure based in the past you can never count Wailord out wait is that Wailord scaling and sword and shield never mind his reign is over before I go today I want to give you guys a quick reminder for an awesome Pokemon themed live event that's coming up this weekend I'll be helping host polka thon this weekend a massive charity event featuring tons of great Pokemon creators Pokemon games crazy competitions and support for an outstanding charity with Direct Relief the event is going to be hosted on my twitch channel at twitch.tv slash the J wits and you can follow the event schedule and learn more about the event at pokey thon net I am pumped to play so many awesome games for such an awesome cause and I hope to see you guys there and help make it something special as always thank you for watching today's video and I'll see you guys this weekend at polka thon [Music]

Channel: TheJWittz

Views: 413,797

Rating: 4.9336748 out of 5

Keywords: Pokemon, Pokemon TCG, Pokemon card, trading card game, HP, strongest, charizard, Sword, Shield, Nintendo Switch, Pokemon Sword and shield, Pokemon V, Pokemon VMAX, Gigantamax, Dynamax, galar, gen 8, pack, power creep, lost thunder, unified minds, unbroken bonds, team up, release date

Id: rUfPtO318ac

Length: 6min 22sec (382 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 05 2019