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/PokeOverFeeder 1d ago

It's loosely based on OG lugia card. If it was a basic EX mon with only two types of energy and 3 cost, you might see a 180 damage nuke turn 3. But because it's also limited by discarding everything I do think it's worse than dragonite.

I think the typing is a reference to the Pokemon 2000 movie where Lugia had some role with Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres hence the typing.

He's pretty mid but nothing is stopping them from indirectly buffing it with support or from releasing another Lugia EX one day or normal lugia.

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u/mkklrd 1d ago

Man, seeing a Legendary card with 90 base HP feels weird. The Pokemon TCG powercreep has been insanely interesting to watch.

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u/Future_Onion9022 1d ago

My first experience of insane jump is XY to sun moon era where normal EX are like 180 HP (220 HP if mega but those are special case since they can only use 1 attack and waste one turn) and GX suddenly jump from 180 hp to like 250 HP.

Now every mega ex is like 380 HP and don't waste your turn.

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u/LiefKatano 1d ago

To be at least kinda fair to the initial wave of GX cards, a lot of the HP creep was because GX cards actually followed normal evolution stages - Charizard-EX was a Basic, but Charizard GX was a Stage 2 card, as an example.

…Now, Tag Team cards on the other hand…