Josh Frink PTCG
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The ULTIMATE Guide to improve at the Pokemon TCG for FREE!
In today's video I go over a ton of Free Resources to improve at the pokemon tcg! Highlighting platforms and creators that give a ton of information, content and much more all for the amazing price of ZERO dollars! If you'd like to see more content like this, please let me know!
Find Me:
Twitter: Dreamjew
Coaching: metafy.gg/@josh-frink
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/josheewashie
Resources Covered in The Video:
limitlesstcg.com/
play.limitlesstcg.com/
www.trainingcourt.app/home
tcgmasters.net/
www.pokeduels.net/
UA-cam Creators:
@AzulGG
@OmniPoke
@jamesctcg
@CeliosNetwork
@CiaranTCG
@RahulReddy
Twitter:
poke_hive
Music: @GlitchxCity
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Відео

I Got FIRST PLACE in a HUGE Pokemon Tournament with GARDEVOIR EX!
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I was able to take first place in a 200 Person Online Tournament using my favorite deck, Gardevoir ex! The version of the deck I chose to pilot is the same list that Henry Chao created for the Louisville Regional Championships! Watch the Tournament Run! ua-cam.com/users/liveWSqYxbRMNm0?si=jLELTtMLxqqWwnNH Find Me: Twitter: Dreamjew Coaching: metafy.gg/@josh-frink Twitch: www.twitch....
The BEST DECKS for the Lille Regional Championships!
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With the Lille Regional Championships coming up this weekend, I figured it was high time for me to make a tier list video of my opinion on how the meta shakes out coming out of Louisville! Will Raging Bolt strike again? Is Lugia destined to the Bridesmaid position? Lets find out! Find me: Twitter: Dreamjew Coaching: metafy.gg/@josh-frink Twitch: www.twitch.tv/josheewashie Music: @Gl...
RAGING BOLT ex Finally WINS a Major Tournament! Louisville Regional First Place Deck!
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Raging Bolt has FINALLY won a Major event for the first time since it's release back in Twilight Masquerade. Caleb Gedemer, one of the best players in the history of the game, was able to win utilizing a very unique build of Raging Bolt, playing THREE Bravery Charm! Is this the best new way to play Raging Bolt ex? Find me: Twitter: x.com/Dreamjew Metafy: metafy.gg/@josh-frink Twitch: www.twitch...
Is Lost Box BACK? 2nd Place Louisville List!
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Michael Davidson was able to resurrect Lost Box from the dead this past weekend, piloting the deck to a 2nd place finish at the Louisville Regional Championships! Despite all odds (and the existence of Kyurem) Michael put up a fantastic performance with the deck! Find Me: Twitter: Dreamjew Coaching: metafy.gg/@josh-frink Twitch: www.twitch.tv/josheewashie Find Michael: Twitter: twit...
The BEST DECKS for the Louisville Regional Championships! Louisville Meta Tier List
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The Louisville Regional Championships are coming up this weekend (October 11th-13th) and today we're going to be breaking down all of the best plays going into the very first Stellar Crown event in North America! Find Me: Twitter: Dreamjew Coaching: metafy.gg/@josh-frink Twitch: www.twitch.tv/josheewashie Music: @GlitchxCity
TERAPAGOS EX Can't Stop WINNING Tournaments! Lima Special Event Winning Deck!
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Terapagos ex/Dusknoir has won yet another major tournament taking 1st Place at the Special Event in Lima, Peru! Giovanny Sasso was able to run back his 2nd place finish at the Joinville Regional Championships just last week! Is it safe to call this deck the BDIF yet? Find Me: Twitter: dreamjew Coaching: metafy.gg/@josh-frink Twitch: www.twitch.tv/josheewashie List: Pokémon: 22 4 Hoo...
This Pokemon Player Made HISTORY with DRAGAPULT ex!
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Ryuki Okada has made history this past weekend at the Dortmund Regionals, being the first Japanese player ever to receive an invitation to the Pokemon World Championships via a TCPI (Western) event! He did so with an incredibly cool and innovative Dragapult list! This is me attempting to play this absolutely masterful deck to the best of my abilities! If you're interested in learning more go an...
This Pokemon Player Won $14,000 With GHOLDENGO ex!
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Jelle van Kampen has been playing nothing but Gholdengo ex for over a year and has amassed an slew of incredible accomplishments! This past weekend at the Dortmund Regional Championships he was able to increase his total earnings with the deck to 14,000 Dollars! Find Me: Twitter: Dreamjew Coaching: metafy.gg/@josh-frink Twitch: www.twitch.tv/josheewashie Find Jelle: Twitter: @Kampen...
I Won a MASSIVE Pokemon Tournament with TERAPAGOS EX
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With the release of Pokemon TCG's latest expansion Stellar Crown, a whole slew of fun and new cards have been added to the game! Join me as I go over the BRAND NEW Terapagos ex Deck that I used to go Undefeated in a 350 Person Online Tournament! Find Me: Twitter: Dreamjew Coaching: metafy.gg/@josh-frink Twitch: www.twitch.tv/josheewashie Decklist: Pokémon: 24 3 Duskull SFA 18 1 Dusc...

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @UndergroundVersa
    @UndergroundVersa 3 дні тому

    Is the article mentioned here worth the ~$130.. 900 yuan price tag

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 3 дні тому

      @@UndergroundVersa 980 Yen is like 6USD brother

    • @UndergroundVersa
      @UndergroundVersa 3 дні тому

      @@JoshFrinkPTCGsite says Chinese Yuan not yen.. but maybe my google translate wasn’t doing it correctly. lol. Thanks for letting me know.

  • @tackywacky99
    @tackywacky99 6 днів тому

    im so bad at playing this deck. i run through my deck all the time without doing anything. wasting resources

  • @Francescomiller992.
    @Francescomiller992. 6 днів тому

    if you make a video with the updated astral crown cards

  • @Francescomiller992.
    @Francescomiller992. 6 днів тому

    hello according to you dragapult - charizard with dasknoir and strong

  • @seanlee7054
    @seanlee7054 6 днів тому

    Is pokebeach a good paid app to have?

  • @therecklessroom
    @therecklessroom 9 днів тому

    this video is so lit and very helpful!!!!

  • @codyd7841
    @codyd7841 10 днів тому

    Great video easy sub

  • @tobormax
    @tobormax 10 днів тому

    Thanks for all the great advice. I have found watching your play has taught me a lot that I didn’t realize just practicing in a vacuum.

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 9 днів тому

      Thanks so much! My main goal as a creator is to help people grow as players so I'm happy to know I'm succeeding in that somewhat!

  • @brakfajnegonicku
    @brakfajnegonicku 10 днів тому

    How Klefki can turn off Fez? Fez draws cards after KO, Klefki needs to be Active Pokemon for it's ability to work, and I highly doubt anyone is taking KO with Klefki :D

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 9 днів тому

      its actually not that uncommon to be honest, especially against something like Raging Bolt which plays a lot of Bravery Charms

    • @brakfajnegonicku
      @brakfajnegonicku 9 днів тому

      @@JoshFrinkPTCG could you elaborate please?

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 9 днів тому

      @@brakfajnegonicku wdym? You hit a bolt or Ogerpon for enough to KO without charm or set it up with Munki and then you use joust to remove the charm and it dies

    • @brakfajnegonicku
      @brakfajnegonicku 9 днів тому

      @@JoshFrinkPTCG oh yea! I forgot about tool removal

  • @chillax9999
    @chillax9999 10 днів тому

    Amazing content, thank you! I was looking for the tcgmasters simulator site for too long! I would also recommend my.limitless site too to build or modify decks. (Also has tools like printing deck list for league challenges or proxy printing, importing deck list to ptcg live and playtesting)

  • @SpiritSquadMTG
    @SpiritSquadMTG 10 днів тому

    Oh, this is good! I just wrote a Magic article a bit ago basically complaining about how all of this info is really well known in Magic but not so much in Pokemon. Still wish more existed, but this is great.

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 10 днів тому

      Yeah we’re definitely more in the beginning stages of access to info, but the growth over the last few years has been crazy

  • @aurasphere87
    @aurasphere87 10 днів тому

    Thanks for the advice but I've already learned everything i will ever need to know from The J Wittz. I can't lose.

  • @TheJollyBlobster
    @TheJollyBlobster 10 днів тому

    What website would you recommend for looking at pokemon in the format? For example, if i were building a Sylveon ex deck and wanted to see the eevee's i have to choose from

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 10 днів тому

      If you go to Limitless under “tools” there is a deck builder feature where you can create lists for the standard format which should show you all of your options!

  • @OmniPoke
    @OmniPoke 10 днів тому

    Thanks for the shout out! This is a very helpful video for aspiring competitors well done 👏🏻

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 10 днів тому

      Thank you so much! Love the content :)

  • @thadeusted6417
    @thadeusted6417 10 днів тому

    Is pidgeot control really B tier as i have seen pidgeot control gameplays and they really shut down most of the decks if u know what to do. Currently main zard ex , trying to go for pidgeot control or zard control deck. I just started 1 month+

  • @ChazBlanks
    @ChazBlanks 11 днів тому

    These are the kind of videos i love. Guides to make players better. Awesome video!

  • @jajaja93427
    @jajaja93427 11 днів тому

    Thank you so much! Very informative, very helpful piece of content you put out there. For starting players, it feels kinda hard to find the right resources without being linked to a random metafy instantly. Really appreciate your work!

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 10 днів тому

      @@jajaja93427 of course! I’m certainly an advocate for coaching as a coach myself, but there is certainly a time and a place to be recommending it

  • @Atheawesome45
    @Atheawesome45 11 днів тому

    Great content, I knew most of the resources but definitely added James Cox’s UA-cam channel. Keep up the great videos!

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 10 днів тому

      Thanks so much! James is an excellent players and creator you certainly won’t regret it

  • @hasany.9095
    @hasany.9095 11 днів тому

    awesome content, i'm sure your channel will be very big very soon - such high quality informations for people just starting out

  • @Naeryan94
    @Naeryan94 11 днів тому

    This video will help new players for years to come!

  • @ArthurLorensen
    @ArthurLorensen 11 днів тому

    This kinda content is gold

  • @bw2020
    @bw2020 12 днів тому

    I love this video, thank you so much. I used this deck at a local today and won 1 game against Raging Bolt, and lost to Regidrago and Charizard. Getting to Gardevoir was fast, but getting enough energy in discard was probably the biggest problem that I had. Would you say that you wait on evolving to Gardevoir until you feel like you either have enough energy in the discard/have enough ways to get cards there?

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 11 днів тому

      yes absolutely! No reason to put the liability in play unless you can utilize it. Against certain matchups though you kind of just need to get Gardevoir into play so your opponent doesn't remove all of your kirlias (Drago, Turtle, Palkia, etc.)

    • @bw2020
      @bw2020 11 днів тому

      @@JoshFrinkPTCG I’ve been trying Perfect Mixer as the ace spec to load the discard with energy quickly, at home it works against my wife’s deck (but granted she’s not that good haha). Curious to know what your thoughts on Perfect Mixer with HeadQuarters instead of Secret Box with Hill would be.

    • @platinumwaiter
      @platinumwaiter 6 днів тому

      Im not josh but it seems okay actually. It allows you to get a very consistent t2 300 with drifloon. This is kinda nice​@bw2020

  • @fumihiro8564
    @fumihiro8564 12 днів тому

    Any matchups where you'd favour going 2nd asides from Bolt?

    • @renewilksen4017
      @renewilksen4017 12 днів тому

      I play the slower stamp version but i like going first against Bolt because it gives the chance to put klefki and shut down their plays.

    • @fumihiro8564
      @fumihiro8564 12 днів тому

      @@renewilksen4017 Bolt can't really get much going on their first turn aside from Nest Ball, Ogerpons, Greninja and Pokestop. So not letting them attack from their turn 1 is big and gives u an enormous advantage in the prize trade

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 11 днів тому

      Generally speaking I'm choosing 2nd into Snorlax as well, but the deck doesn't really have enough arvens to sustainably choose second elsewhere

  • @mathiascs7271
    @mathiascs7271 12 днів тому

    16:33 What do you think about secret box for evo research and like vessel here ?

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 12 днів тому

      I think it’s a bit over aggressive, it costs a lot of resources and if I’m assuming my opponent is going to Greninja me anyways there’s no reason to over aggress. If I didn’t have candy in hand already then maybe I would have considered it a bit more!

    • @mathiascs7271
      @mathiascs7271 12 днів тому

      @@JoshFrinkPTCG that's fair thanks

  • @simplysaso
    @simplysaso 12 днів тому

    I understand all the reasons why Fez is good, but with all the kirlia draw power do you ever feel like Fez is a liability because it’s the only two prizer people can boss KO at the end? Otherwise it’s a 6 knockouts they have to take instead of 4-5.

    • @mathiascs7271
      @mathiascs7271 12 днів тому

      In games you can keep kirlias on the bench fez is less useful but it's really tough to do so in the current format so fez in an extra draw engine that allows you to draw cards when you need to dig deeper or you don't have access to kirlia. Also is less a liability whe you have 3 charms you can attach to make it really tough to KO

    • @simplysaso
      @simplysaso 12 днів тому

      @@mathiascs7271 I guess I’m just scarred by raging bolt Pokemon catcher for the win lol

    • @mathiascs7271
      @mathiascs7271 12 днів тому

      @@simplysaso I mean, Raging bolt doesn't pressure your board too much so you probably won't need to bench it in this matchup

    • @simplysaso
      @simplysaso 12 днів тому

      @@mathiascs7271 ah that just clicked for me. The idea of only benching it for match up’s I know can’t one hit KO it with a charm or no charm and not Benching it in matchups I know can’t KO like bolt. That’s the ticket

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 12 днів тому

      @@simplysasoright, basically against bolt you’re also up trading anyways (trading 1 prizers for 2 prizers) so the threat that they present is pretty low overall

  • @justplaythegame3110
    @justplaythegame3110 13 днів тому

    Thinking of including Manaphy?

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 12 днів тому

      You definitely can! It's good against Drago and Palkia but I don't think it really fixes either of them specifically, so it's up to you if its worth while

    • @drtslash
      @drtslash 12 днів тому

      @justplaythegame3110 dont know if you seen it, but rowan stavenow has a very good interview with henry chao in his channel where henry talks about manaphy in this list. worth checking out if you like this style of gardy

    • @pancake8188
      @pancake8188 12 днів тому

      Henry recommends against it!

  • @th3otherAJ
    @th3otherAJ 13 днів тому

    What’s the sequence for getting the 330 with drifloon/charm/hill?

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 12 днів тому

      Psychic embrace 5 to drifloon, moonlit hill puts drifloon down to 70, then you psychic embrace 2 more to put you at 110 damage

  • @milavt8143
    @milavt8143 13 днів тому

    On the last game against chari dragapult couldnt you use munkidori, turo and then night stretcher for the dark energy to win? you can KO anything they have in bench with Gardy instead of just atacking the charmander

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 13 днів тому

      @@milavt8143 yeah I could’ve, this video took me 4 hours to film so at that point all spirit had left my body

    • @milavt8143
      @milavt8143 13 днів тому

      @@JoshFrinkPTCG Understandable, Munkidori plus turo is one of my favorite plays because I feel so big brained when I do it lol

    • @milavt8143
      @milavt8143 13 днів тому

      @@JoshFrinkPTCG btw thanks a lot of this video! I am trying to learn to play this variant of Gardevoir and is kinda hard to me because I am used to play really slow with 2 Munkis and just spreading damage

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 13 днів тому

      @@milavt8143 Oh I'm 100% the same way, transitioning to turbo gardy from standard Gardy has been a journey haha

  • @alllivesmatter627
    @alllivesmatter627 14 днів тому

    You should never use the PokéStop. Most decks are not set up to use PokéStop and I have noticed that usually over 80% of time you lose cards that you do not want to lose.

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 14 днів тому

      This is pretty bad advice. You should 100% use Pokestop in positions where you have no other option, if you're going to lose anyways you may as well take the small % chance of getting bailed out.

  • @alllivesmatter627
    @alllivesmatter627 14 днів тому

    Lugia is definitely a starter deck. If you’re playing Pokémon for the first time, this is one of the easiest decks to play. There’s not much strategy or thought that goes into it. I like something this much more challenging like control or stall. With it, you have to think a turn or two ahead Versus something like Lugia is pretty simple to play. There’s hardly any challenge to it or thinking whatsoever. A five year-old child could play Lugia. 45:05 that was a bad play on their part. They bench locked their self to where they can only get one chops out. That was an absolute stupid play. That was pretty awesome on your side. You only had to knock two of them out. You destroyed them. And you did get extremely lucky top decking the boss.

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 14 днів тому

      I agree Lugia is pretty easy haha

    • @BigMatt85
      @BigMatt85 14 днів тому

      @@alllivesmatter627 top decking what you need every time is the most powerful skill 😂

  • @alllivesmatter627
    @alllivesmatter627 14 днів тому

    33:00 you absolutely should have bossed up the bonnet. If he couldn’t poison, then there was no way for him to knock you out. 41:20 I wouldn’t say they’re much better than you. It’s the fact they’re having a much better draw than you are.

  • @drtslash
    @drtslash 15 днів тому

    lugia's strongest hater 😅

  • @BigMatt85
    @BigMatt85 15 днів тому

    Lugia ❤

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 14 днів тому

      >:(

    • @BigMatt85
      @BigMatt85 14 днів тому

      After watching the whole stream I don’t think I want to play Lugia ever again 😂

  • @dido5835
    @dido5835 16 днів тому

    Seeing a stall concede just put a smile on my face❤learned something today, great strategy!

  • @NyanBites
    @NyanBites 17 днів тому

    was it a bug on research or something?

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 15 днів тому

      It's a bug with Area Zero, sometimes the game just doesn't give you that card specifically when you draw it

  • @alllivesmatter627
    @alllivesmatter627 18 днів тому

    It would be nice if you moved your video feed to either the top left or bottom left so you can see how many cards you have left. 1:46:25 you could’ve won that turn if you had been putting damage on the 60 HP on the bench.

  • @alllivesmatter627
    @alllivesmatter627 18 днів тому

    Eri would’ve helped you against lost box

  • @jakee.austin1012
    @jakee.austin1012 19 днів тому

    Not having Banette Gardy on the list though 😮 I think it's a solid B tier pick in my opinion

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 15 днів тому

      I agree, Banette Gardevoir is a solid deck, I just hadn't played any games with it, so didn't feel confident with ranking it somewhere

  • @hasany.9095
    @hasany.9095 20 днів тому

    I really appreciate the frequency of your videos, you have a very objective take on things and I feel like there are not that many professional pokemon tcg channels. I just started playing the game a few weeks ago and really enjoy your videos. Keep up!

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 15 днів тому

      Thank you so much! I really appreciate that :)

  • @BigMatt85
    @BigMatt85 20 днів тому

    Maybe I just have to keep playing Bolt 🥲

  • @kraye0789
    @kraye0789 22 дні тому

    Great stuff, hope to see more stuff like this!

  • @firstklassgaming9481
    @firstklassgaming9481 22 дні тому

    On ur second turn wouldnt it better to use ultra ball for another noctowl then use quick search

  • @JoshFrinkPTCG
    @JoshFrinkPTCG 22 дні тому

    Gonna beat the comments here and say in the Regidrago game I had the opportunity to Pal Pad back my Colress's Experiment to prevent my opponent from being able to use Kyurem's attack. I don't know what I was thinking haha

    • @willowvitton
      @willowvitton 21 день тому

      I fell called out (I was about to comment that lol)

  • @therecklessroom
    @therecklessroom 22 дні тому

    my goat!

  • @ArthurLorensen
    @ArthurLorensen 23 дні тому

    Man I'm so happy to see my lost box getting a last dance before rotation, but still a lost cause against regidrago rigth?

  • @KURWAMACJAPIERD0LE
    @KURWAMACJAPIERD0LE 23 дні тому

    Do you ever start Terapagos when you also have noctowl/fan rotom? Or is it better to play safe and bench something else and then get around it with switch/prime catcher?

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 12 днів тому

      generally speaking you want to start your 1 prizers if you don't know the matchup. If you do know the matchup and it's one where you're not going to be punished for starting turtle, then you can!

  • @cristianivancidguerra1005
    @cristianivancidguerra1005 24 дні тому

    I just started playing Pokémon a few weeks ago and you became my favorite source of content. It would be great to have a video on strategies against this deck. I chose raging bolt and roaring moon ex as my decks and terapagos is giving me some issues with its versatility. Great vid!

    • @JoshFrinkPTCG
      @JoshFrinkPTCG 24 дні тому

      Hey thank you so much that means a lot to me! Im intending to do a video on the Bolt list that won Louisville and I'll try and talk about the matchup into turtles there

  • @devanshchowdhury5635
    @devanshchowdhury5635 27 днів тому

    is lost box not used as of now?

  • @xeous1209
    @xeous1209 27 днів тому

    I hope raging bolt champion

  • @dudeicantdrinkmilk
    @dudeicantdrinkmilk 27 днів тому

    Go MIRAIDON EX!!!