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*Denotes a change starting in the Sword & Shield era. Thus, the era’s type breakdowns will be like so: Game Type The interview also confirmed that Fairy Pokemon (as Psychic cards) will have a Metal Weakness. Perhaps pure Dragons like Druddigon will be Colorless cards like in previous generations? All Dragon-type Pokemon in the Sword & Shield era so far have been represented as their other typing (Rayquaza is a Colorless card to represents its Dragon/ Flying typing and Dragapult is Psychic to represent its Dragon/ Ghost type). Creatures may have removed it in an effort to consolidate the types.įurthermore, most Dragon Pokemon are dual-typed only 12 are pure Dragon-type. Since Dragon’s only Weakness was literally deleted, and Creatures wants to focus on five main Weaknesses, Dragon also doesn’t have reason to exist under this system. Dragon is even less relevant than Fairy when it comes to Weakness because nothing is weak to Dragon and its only Weakness is Fairy. You may have noticed Dragon cards have been missing since the era started (although there is no official word they’re gone yet). Keeping them Psychic would mean many more Psychic cards with a Darkness weakness, creating a sixth main Weakness. This is also why Poison Pokemon were moved to the Darkness type, so they could have one of the five Weaknesses (Fighting). This simplifies the game by eliminating a fringe type that only one type used and that only one other type was weak to. Moving Fairy to Psychic allows Creatures to use an established type that other Pokemon share. This is also why Fairy was removed: only the Dragon-type was weak to it, making it too specific to exist. It also made it harder for players to build decks to counter others since there were so many different Weaknesses. In previous generations the variety of Weaknesses was much greater, which made the Weakness mechanic less relevant. 49 of the 62 Pokemon in VMAX Rising have Weaknesses to one of them (80%). We can already see this in the first Sword & Shield set: 137 of the 155 Pokemon are weak to one of those five types (88%). Ice, Dragon, and Fairy-type attacks are extremely powerful, dealing twice as much damage (x2) as purely Dragon-type Pokemon, and they are frequently effective against Dragon-type. This means most cards in this generation should be weak to one of those five types. Since both Flying-type Pokemon and Dragon-type Pokemon are Ice-weak, Ice attacks do up to four times more regular damage against Dragonite. In other words, Creatures wants players to have an easier time hitting for Weakness by simplifying the number of them. In the interview, Creatures stated it wants to focus on five Weakness types: Grass, Fire, Water, Lightning, and Fighting.
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It appears the TCG is being rebalanced to focus on Weakness. My friend Joshua Yehl at IGN has conducted an e-mail interview with Creatures to discuss the new changes to the Sword & Shield TCG.
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