Pokemon TCG Pocket Player Deals 840 Damage Via One Continuous Lick

Pokemon TCG Pocket has been out for a little over a week and the 30 million of us playing have already determined a few things during the game’s first ten days. For starters, we have collectively determined that getting heads in the coin toss and having to go first while battling is bad. However, flipping heads with a Lickitung as your active Pokemon once the battle has begun is very much a good thing.

For those who haven’t found the Lickitung card yet, or if you haven’t used it while battling, the Pokemon has a move called Continuous Lick. The move does exactly what it says on the tin, but only if you keep flipping heads. Every time you get heads, the move does 60 damage, and there’s no limit to how many coin flips you get, the flipping doesn’t end until you get a tails.

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The player base is split over whether the tactic actually works, though.

It’s a risk as that could mean you get tails on your first flip and the move does nothing. Or, as coupleofgaming’s Yaaya discovered, the gamble could pay off and you could end up landing what has to have been one of the most powerful moves yet during Pocket’s still-short history. While streaming a Pokemon Pocket battle, Yaaya hit not two, not three, but 14 heads in a row.

Pocket Player Deals 840 Damage With One Big Lick

So Many Heads In A Row, I Assumed The Game Had Broken

The streamer shared the clip on his and his partner’s Instagram page, their excitement building with each coin flip. Once the flipping had ended, after the 15th coin flip landed on tails, Lickitung hit the poor unsuspecting Fearow with its Continuous Lick, dealing 840 damage to send it packing. A move that, while incredible, might have felt a little wasted as since the Fearow was already down to 70 HP, a mere two heads in a row would have done the trick.

As for the likelihood of this happening, the odds of landing heads 14 times in a row are one in 16,384. Just in case you were wondering where all the heads are in the game and why you keep getting tails when trying to use moves that require landing heads to deal damage, it seems Yaaya has them all. This explains why I’m getting nothing but tails whenever I try to use Pinsir’s Double Horn.

While someone flipping 14 heads in a row and dealing 840 damage with a single lick definitely did happen, someone opening their pack wrong and accidentally slicing their virtual cards in half did not. That there’s a risk you can slice your cards in half was one of many urban myths about Pocket to surface during its first week, but it was one that was quickly disproven.

Experience 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 developers of the Pokémon TCG, and DeNA Co., Ltd.

Released

October 30, 2024