Summary
- Misty in Pokemon TCG Pocket often yields inconsistent results due to coin flips
- Celebi ex's Powerful Bloom attack can be lethal with favorable coin results
- Community debates over coin flips & suggests avoiding RNG-dependent cards
A Pokemon TCG Pocket player tracked 299 coin tosses during matches and shared the result with the community. As with physical cards, Pokemon TCG Pocket has cards that depend on coin flips for their abilities to be used. However, as it is a digital version of Pokemon TCG, the coin flips are made by the game itself.
Because it involves a certain degree of RNG, some coin-flip cards quickly became famous. Possibly the most notable case is Misty, a Pokemon TCG Pocket card that relies on this mechanic to be effective. The card has gained fame for its inconsistent results, with players often being unlucky using Misty, while their opponents were luckier. Another equally well-known case is Celebi ex, whose Powerful Bloom attack can be even more lethal if the player gets enough heads after flipping a coin for each energy attached to the card.
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To shed more light on how this mechanic works, Redditor sawdomise tracked 299 coin flips. According to them, the data was taken from the last 100 Pokemon TCG Pocket matches they played, and of the total 299 throws, 52.8% were heads, while 47.2% were tails. In a second graph, they show that they got tails 64.2% of the time, while heads was the result 35.8% of the time. The third graph shows the coin flips made by their opponents and curiously shows inverted results with 66.7% heads and 33.3% tails.
Pokemon TCG Pocket Coin Flips Divide the Community
The comments section got into a heated debate about the data collected by the OP, raising theories about the coin flips made by the mobile game. One example presented by some comments was that players on a winning streak at a certain point would get bad flips with the system allegedly trying to break this streak. Other players theorized about the likelihood of the coin flips being “rigged” when F2P players face paying players, causing the former to have worse results to make them spend real money Pokemon TCG Pocket to get stronger cards.
While the Pokemon TCG Pocket community doesn't have an answer as to the real nature of how coin flips work, one comment suggested that players “stay away” from cards like Misty, Celebi ex, and Eevee. They argue that now the meta has plenty of decks that don't require coin flips to be effective. One hot pick is Darkrai ex, which together with Magnezone and Druddigon form one of the strongest Pokemon TCG Pocket decks currently in the game.
- Released
- October 30, 2024
- Developer(s)
- DeNA, Creatures Inc.
- Publisher(s)
- The Pokemon Company
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
- Yes
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