Key Takeaways
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Players focus on Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket battles after launch.
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A single player dealt the game's maximum damage of 990 in a single round.
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The game seems to have a hard cap on the damage a Pokemon takes, maybe 999.
In the two weeks since launch, the focus in the Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket seems to have shifted from collecting to fighting. The game puts a very strict limit on how many times you can open packs and complete its amazing options but nothing about the number of battles you can do. So, with Lapras ex Event, players rush into competitive mode.
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With the game being so new, players are still figuring out the details and quirks of TCG Pocket's battle mechanics, the latest being that the game has the most damage you can do in one round.
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket's Damage Cap
Shared on Reddit, a player named Lonk_From_Hirool showed how they got the maximum damage possible in a single round-990.
The player's Alakazam is dealing with a Moltres breakdown that has 37 fire energy attached to it. The Moltres ex opponent sat on the bench, gathering energy from the other Moltres ex who used the power gathering move Inferno Dance.
While in most cases, having 37 energy in a Pokemon in the TCG is useless, in this case, it played into Lonk's hands. Alakazam's Psychic does 60 damage, plus 30 for all Energy associated with the opponent's Active Pokemon. Just 37 energy meant that Alakazam took 1,110 damage, added 60 bases to the attack, and Moltres ex should have hit 1,170. But actually it only hit a measly 990, which means the game has a hard cap on the amount of damage a Pokemon can take.
It is possible that this cap, found by Lonk, who must have played with himself to test his theory, sits at 999, but since the Pokemon resolves damage by ten, it is surrounded by That's 990.
It's useless information, because you'll probably never get it, but it's nice to know.
Enjoy the fun of collecting Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) cards with Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, an upcoming game for iOS and Android devices from Creatures Inc., the original creators of Pokémon TCG , and DeNA Co., Ltd.
In this game you can unlock two booster packs per day for free. You can collect digital cards featuring nostalgic artwork from the past as well as new cards that are exclusive to the Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket.
Watch out for the new “immersive cards”, which will make you feel like you jumped into the world of card illustration.
