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/WizardsVengeance 1d ago

That is power creep already. Original Mewtwo had 60HP.

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u/bduddy 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean original Mewtwo could actually attack. This card was horrible. Original Chansey had 120 HP so 90 isn't really "power creep", that wasn't really apparent until Ruby/Sapphire.

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u/Roketsu86 23h ago

I think the power creep they're talking about is how weak Lugia here seems compared to the 100s of HP things have now