There is nothing to complain about as far as the quality of this game or the format. It’s set up well and user friendly. The only thing I have a problem with is when you distribute damage counters on an I phone it’s REALLY easy to close the app accidentally, but that’s not pokemons fault. I keep seeing Many people complaining about things like coin flips and shuffles….it happens. It’s not the games fault you have bad luck. Yes it is possible to get heads 5 times in a row, yes it is possible to get no energy in your hand even if there’s 20 in your deck. Tell me you’ve never played a trading card game without telling me you’ve never played a trading card game. Yes they do patch the game when they have to fix something every couple weeks(it’s so you can keep playing😉) and when a new set is released they’ll do another one(that’s to add the new cards). Another complaint people commonly have is that a lot of people use the same decks, Ill explain how METAS work. I ask you this… If you see 3 knights fighting with normal full sized swords, are you going to rush in with a steak knife? No you won’t. You either grab a similar sword to what they’re using (this is META) or you attack from a distance. Pokemon can’t and won’t control what people do in thier game. This is and online version of a trading card game and plays well. That’s all

This is exactly what you’d expect from an online version of the playing card game. It’s very similar to TCG online. The issue is, however, that this game give you the option to transfer the account info from your TCG account over to this game, with the caveat that you the TCG account will be deactivated. This does not transfer any of your decks, cards, currency, etc, and start from square one on this game. Essentially you transfer the account and wipe all hard earned progress on the TCG just so you can use the same user name and the password for this platform instead. The second issue is that there are a whole host of banned cards and series. Don’t get me wrong, this balances the gameplay out a bit. But this sparks two other issues. Issue A: is that there are cards that are banned in the standard version and okay in the beta (and vis versa), B: there is no skill based matchmaking negating the balanced element of these bans, and C: this encourages meta gaming as I constantly play against similar decks. The final but easily improved issue is the less than random coin flip, but that can be patched. Overall it is a Pokémon card game and helps me get my fix for strategy based card games. I wholeheartedly recommend for people who are new to playing the card game online.

I love the gameplay and have only had slight bug issues but nothing game breaking or broken. I wish they would update these bugs a little quicker as it’s been a whole season and I have not seen some pretty minor but glaring issues fixed with retreating and not being able to select an energy type I want to discard to retreat. The one thing I miss from the old game is the tournament play. If they implemented more Pokémon League play, actually being able to host online tournaments or join online tournaments or the old tournaments they had in PTCG online where you would win a pack if you won 4 in a row that would be awesome. I think it would create at least 10x more engagement as well as a consistent player base. I find myself every season hovering at the top of the league but there’s no actual ranking compared to games like Hearthstone. I like online a lot more than physical cards because it allows for easier play more often but I miss the tournament and ranking aspect. Also adding old expansion tournaments or variants of tournaments (single prize card, specific expansion decks, etc) would be cool as well. Matchmaking time for me is almost always instant, I hope this wouldn’t affect if a tournament style was adapted.