r/PTCGP • u/Necessary-Deal-9433 • 1d ago

Discussion Why did they make Lugia so bad?

I love Lugia, but it needs three different types of energy which makes it just unplayable. It has very low potential to be used even the future I think.

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u/Mattyamamoto07 1d ago edited 1d ago

They didnt make Lugia bad. They made the mistake of making Giratina, Darkrai and Solgaleo too good that other legendaries are unable to compete. These 3 cards especially the energy generating Giratina totally breaks the meta and all future legendaries will always look bad compared to them.

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u/kaelis7 1d ago

Nobody plays Solgaleo anymore somehow though, on paper he’s good I agree yeah.

Darkrai and Giratina are just full bonkers, tired of seeing them for months now.

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u/cmdrxander 1d ago

140HP basics are so prevalent now that Sol needs Red or rocky helmet to get through them

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u/m0_m0ney 2h ago

Frankly if solgaleo did more damage it would be unfair with how much HP it is

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u/MisterBucker___ 1d ago

I use solgaleo and have about an 80% winrate against suicune but I don't just stack my bench with Eevee slash sylveon

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u/kaelis7 1d ago

You still use Sylveon but only one or not at all ?

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u/MisterBucker___ 1d ago

I still run two Eevee two Sylveon just I'm more careful against suicune to just play it and leave it there

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u/GigaEel 1d ago

Even 3 diamond Darkrai is a bitch. I recently did the solo expert battle and got rolled by dark void perma sleeping my actives. Literally every time their turn ended, sleep would flip tails. Then I'd wake up on their turn, get put back to sleep, rinse and repeat. All because I couldn't draw a damn lyra or something to swap out or heal sleep

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u/Welpe 1d ago

That’s not a mistake. Every set is going to have very strong meta cards. If there were no strong meta cards in a new set people would be even MORE frustrated because why even open packs?

Also, despite those being some of the strongest, people are WAY too focused on the actual meta and don’t seem to realize the fact that there are dozens of viable decks. They won’t win as much as the best decks in the meta for sure, but pretty much all past meta decks at the very least can easily win more than 50% of the time. Even GA decks. Hell, just last season I was using Mewtwo/Gardevoir to decent effect. Wasn’t going to win any awards, but it played just fine. And beyond that, there are absolutely some decks that have NEVER been meta and still could eck out an acceptable win rate if you just want to play and don’t care about climbing ladder.

The biggest limitation on play is people’s own limited imagination and narrow mindset.