Tyranitar

All right, let's see.

What's the final evolution of Larvitar? Armaldo, Tyranitar that looks just like Larvitar, or Dragonite?

[laughs] I think it's Tyranitar.

Okay, trainers.

If you chose Tyranitar you were right.

Yay.

Yay.

I love the line.

I think it's a very beautiful line of this s- uh, 'cause you have, like, Tyranitar, you have, which is not a Dragon type but similar, where you have this s- it's like a reptilian but also goes through a very insect-like change-

Yeah

... where it's Larvitar, like larva, but it looks like a reptile.

Then Pupitar, like a, the cocoon of many pupa or invertebrates, and finally turns into Tyranitar, which is so cool.

Thinking about my answer to that, I can't think of, like, a specific animal off the top of my head that, like, I...

And I, I'm not calling myself some big animal expert, but I'm just saying-

It's...

You're only saying that because y- because you had, like, your f- your level 45 Tyranitar sitting around.

I have, like-

You're like, "Eventually"

...

I have, like, four Tyranitar sitting at level 45.

[laughs]

Okay.

We don't know what stage these guys are at.

Maybe Larvitar could be a full Tyranitar now.

No, it's just Larvitar.

They said that.

Otherwise, they would have said Tyranitar.

Why didn't they say Mudkip then?

No, I'm saying, like, you can not evolve the Pokemon.

But you just

The set had Gold Star Groudon, Kyogre, Metagross.

It had Eeveelution EX cards with Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Tyranitar, Umbria, The Ditto Bulbasaur was just a simple uncommon.

Kids were not pulling this thing in 05 and carefully placing it into magnetic holders while calculating the long-term population growth.

They were just trying to hit that gold star.

All right, next one coming up.

We have Iron Thorns is based on Tyranitar.

He's rock electric and essentially a futuristic robot Tyranitar.

Very Mechagodzilla looking.

Check him out.

cool.

He looks like Mechagodzilla.

He looks like Tyranitar.

You guys also gave me a ton of work this week.

We have listener predictions, somebody calling me out for repeatedly talking about Tyranitar 2.2.2, an international request for one of the new Mewtwo promos, a really good question about choosing modern PSA 10s for the long haul, and an older Charizard email that has become much more interesting with time.

So before we start putting any cards on trial, let's hear where you guys planted your flags.

Let's dive into this week's Community Corner.

And one current chase that might eventually make us look back and ask, what the hell were we thinking? And apparently, that was all the permission listener Josh needed.

He started out by telling me that Groudon should have been mentioned earlier.

last week, and then he called me out for talking about Tyranitar 222 for the second time.

And his advice was basically just, go ahead and buy it, man.

the metrics that we've used

so far the one thing that scarlet and violet is going to obviously have over a lot of the sword and shield is one better pull rates and two lots of absolutely beautiful illustration cards and that i think is what really elevates scarlet and violet and it's going to be interesting how they do we do actually compare the scarlet and violet sets to the sword and shield because yes the the the The Tyranitar card blows any of these out of the water, in my opinion.

I think it's right at the top.

But then after that, you don't have too much more.

And ones that stick out to me are the Paladine Tauros, the Sudowoodo as well.

Just, you know, just the ones that don't really stand out to many.

Obviously, you've got the Tyranitar, you've got the Marrow, the Raiachu, obviously.

is going to be one of the bigger hits.