#and i'm imagining watching a pokemon card game tournament and i'm like 'hmm yeah i do imagine i'd need someone to narrate

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i understand why the characters in yu-gi-oh monologue abt what their cards do and shit now

#for various equally silly reasons i'm reading abt how to build a pokemon card deck for competitive play #and like. i fucking understand how these things work now. it's crazy. i'm not entirely sure how a game would flow #but i'm understanding the mechanics of how these things work now #and i'm imagining watching a pokemon card game tournament and i'm like 'hmm yeah i do imagine i'd need someone to narrate #what each of these cards lets me do when they're played assuming i'm not married to the game meta' #although i also kind of imagine that the sort of people who'd watch this stuff would know enough to not need it narrated #kind of like how i understand how the kits of most gnshn characters work on a basic level n i'm familiar enough w/the game n its meta #to be able to understand most kits just from reading abt them although ofc it's hard to know anything for certain #w/o playing for yourself to get a Feel for it since there can be fiddly nonsense not mentioned in print lol #but i know enough abt how the game works on a more basic/fundamental level that i can follow/recognize core strategies at a glance #the sort of fundamentals players draw upon to execute their plays n stuff. i imagine someone good enough at pokemon cards #would be familiar with these sorts of things to not need every word of every card narrated to them to know what's up #even if they don't have the text of each one memorized; it would be a simple elaboration from there anyway i imagine #it's kind of fun to see the same kind of advice repeated in this site on pkmn deck-building that friends and randos i let into my world #taught me when i was learning the basics of gnshn team building n investment priorities and whatnot #like 'build your deck around your main attacker; everything should synergize w/Them' #'oh so like picking a build/playstyle for your main dps and then building your supports to maximize the buffs on that' #'make sure you have enough energy cards in your deck but make sure to pay attn if they're too much or too little for your strategy' #'oh so like managing er requirements' and so on and so forth #tbh i just think it's neat how there seems to be universally applicable advice going in to teaching people strategy n stuff #i can totally understand why my high school physics teacher (the one who is now a verified twitch streamer) is so into gaming meta #limitations force compromises and since different people will decide how to compromise differently it breeds creative strategy #花話