Key Takeaways
- Players can get Shop Tickets by thanking opponents after battles in Pokemon TCG Pocket.
- A dedicated “Thanks” private lobby ensures players can quickly get thanked after battles.
- Creating private battle formats also helps players combat the dominance of certain cards in the meta.
Thanking players is one of Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’s biggest early gripes. Following battles, players have the opportunity to thank their opponent, giving them a Shop Ticket in the process. These tickets can then be spent on items like Wonder Hourglasses and Pack Hourglasses.
But, while thanking should be the norm, seeing as it’s only an additional press of the screen, it doesn’t seem to be happening as much as it should.
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Some players have figured out a way to send two shop tickets after a battle, doing their part for the cause, but another found that players are less likely to thank you if they lose against you. It’s a complete lottery as to whether you’ll get zero, one, or two tickets after each match-up.
In an attempt to avoid a reliance on coming up against a friendly player, the Pokemon TCG Pocket community has created a dedicated lobby for giving out thanks.
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’s ‘Thanks’ Lobby
In Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, you can get a total of five Shop Tickets a day from players thanking you. In theory, this should mean you only need to do five battles, but that so often isn’t the case, with players likely to thank you between 50 and 80 percent of the time.
To combat this issue, players have created the “Thanks” private lobby. As shared by YamaKasin on Reddit, the aim is to simply join a battle, concede, and thank your opponent, gifting them a Shop Ticket in the process.
The specific lobbies can be found by selecting Versus Battle Private Match and typing in the password “THANKS”.
It’s another example of the Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket community coming together to use private lobbies to shape the game.
With the meta dominated by a few cards like Mewtwo ex, Pikachu ex, Charizard ex, and Starmie ex, players have created a range of different private battle formats to circumnavigate this.
By typing in the following codes, you’ll be able to join a variety of different battle types:
- NOEX – Decks cannot contain cards with ex in the name
- ONES – Decks cannot contain duplicate cards and must contain 20 uniquely named cards.
- ONESNOX – As above, except excluding ex cards
- TRINERGY – Deck must generate three different energy types and contain one Pokemon of each energy
- BINERGY – As above, except with two energy types instead of three
- 1NERGY – As above, except with one energy type instead of two or three
- BASIC – Decks can only run basic Pokemon, excluding ex cards.
- 2TAGE – Decks can only run basic Pokemon with no two-stage evolution
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.
In this game, you will be able to open two booster packs every day at no cost. You can collect digital cards featuring nostalgic artwork from the past as well as brand-new cards that are exclusive to Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket.
Be on the lookout for new “immersive cards,” which will make you feel as though you’ve leapt into the world of the card’s illustration.