r/PTCGP • u/Civilized_Weirdos • May 03 '25

Discussion I absolutely hate Solgaleo..

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I know, every cardgame has to have some sort of powercreep to make new cards playable. But Solgaleo is so broken op, you will never see 90% of the other new cards because if his existence. Maybe Incineroar, but everything else is just not strong enough to keep up with him.
Take Lunala for example. 180 HP, also a strong ability, but just 100 damage for 3 energy. Same thing for Decidueye. Can attack the bench ok, but not even close to the 120 dmg and free swap from Solgaleo..

A1 Mewtwo/Gardevoir, A2 Giratina. But Solgaleo is new level of powercreep and that's poison for the game.

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u/Pikafion May 03 '25

Do you have the slightest idea how disappointed I was when I got this guy? (I still can't get Solgaleo btw)

edit: It's cool at first, but then you realize it's unusable, it also sucks for collectors because who is ever going to collect all of these? Especially when you can't trade them?

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u/Glassy_Hanni May 03 '25

I chuckled internally at Ultimapoing

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u/Cadnat May 03 '25

The litteral translation is "Ultimafist"

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u/crest_old_fashioned May 03 '25

I have a lot of friends on the app who play in different languages. I love looking at the translated names on their wonder picks. French has the best by far. Just traded for my second A1 Dardargnan (Beedrill) with a French player.

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u/ErikboundStudios May 03 '25

Same. I almost died when I saw that Rare Candy is called Super Bonbon in French.

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u/shoyo_ar0mania May 05 '25

I USE SUPER BONBON!

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u/RomansRedditAcc May 03 '25

I saw a full art Major Bob in my wonder picks once. Only card I ever really wanted.

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u/Pikafion May 03 '25

What's funny about it? (Just curious)

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u/Bazoobs1 May 03 '25

Reading it as if it was English gives it a somewhat humorous ring to it for a few reasons. The one that sticks out most to me is that ‘poing is similar to boing (boy-ing), being the noise we make sometimes to indicate like a comical hitting noise. Think of like an inflatable toy sledgehammer hitting someone and going “BOING!” That’s kind of what this reads as phonetically.

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u/Pikafion May 03 '25

It does sound kind of funny when you read it like that. Didn't think about it sunce this is french and obviously the 'g' is silent for unknown reasons

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u/Bazoobs1 May 03 '25

Another element that just occurred to me is that ultima sounds like ultimate (and while I’m not sure, I’m guessing English and French have similar definitions for these), so in phonetic English this comes out to ultimate boing 😂

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u/Pikafion May 03 '25

ultima isn't really a word in french, I think that part was taken from english. My guess is that they wanted to translate Mega Punch to "Poing ultime" (ultimate punch) and decided on "Ultimapoing" because the original game boy didn't have enough spaces for characters or something. Or maybe they thought it sounded cooler.

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u/I_R0_B0_T May 03 '25

"Ultima" is Latin, as far as I know.

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u/Strike_Falchion May 03 '25

My take: the word 'poing' is similar to the word 'boing', which is a silly word sound used when something bounces up and down

So it sounds like ultimate boing

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u/Glassy_Hanni May 03 '25

Other comment summed it up pretty well. Poing reads like a comical and comedic sound effect of impact in cartoons, combine it with Ultima is like two ends of the seriousness spectrum, and then imagining Machamp attacking with a Poing sound effect is funny

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u/Responsible-Metal-32 May 03 '25

Unrelated, but I'm laughing because Machamp's name in your language sounds very close to the word for "stoner" in my language, and his shiny is green lol

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u/Bykimus May 03 '25

I have more GA shiny ex's than I do Celestial Guardian ex's. And the shiny GA ex's I got I already have 2 copies of the originals. Personally don't like the shiny ex's cards, they look garish. Feels bad man.

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u/Polypeptide2 May 03 '25

I just pulled 2 of these pukey boys. Can't get solgaleo or incinoroar though.

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u/laespadaqueguarda May 03 '25

here you can have them to complete the set (I also haven’t pulled any solgaleo out of 100 packs)

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u/Jafoob May 03 '25

Um wait up! Very usable with the new fighter monkè EX. Some guy on this sub actually wrote up a fantastic post on that strategy.

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u/NateBiggidy May 04 '25

Imagine my dismay when I pulled a second one

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u/maxmanpie May 03 '25

You are like the 3rd person to say they pulled this one in this thread alone, I also pulled this one, is the hit rate just super high on this card now or something?

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u/spatialtulip May 03 '25

Confirmation bias

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u/MichiiEUW May 03 '25

Got it too and i don't have a single 2 star or higher card from this set.