生活中很少有东西能让人们真正团结起来。当人们发现自己聚集在一个旗帜下时，这种团结往往源于1种2种情感。要么是极大的欣赏和爱，要么是巨大的仇恨和怨恨。过去一周，在 Pokemon TCG 和 Pokemon TCGO 社区中，出现了1种人们支持的运动。而这一次，它并不是出于欣赏和爱。

Across all of Pokemon TCG social media, people have been calling for Arceus, Dialga, & Palkia-GX (Pokemon code cards are in Cosmic Eclipse set) to be banned from the Standard Format. I’ve been playing since 2015, and ever since then on a regular basis I’ll find a post online almost weekly of someone complaining about how 1 card is too good, or this specific card invalidates another card that would otherwise be good.

I think ADP’s real power is amplified by the general speed and “turbo” nature of the Standard Format. With powerful draw based abilities like Crobat V’s (Pokemon TCG Codes are in Darkness Ablaze set) Dark Asset and Dedenne-GX’s Dedechange, players often find themselves seeing a large portion of their deck every turn. In order to keep up with your opponents pace, it almost isn’t even an option not to use these powerful support Pokemon.

ADP decks on online TCG decks can close out games in just 3 turns. Turn 1, Altered Creation is totally feasible with Metal Saucer and Energy Switch, turn 2 Ultimate Ray to KO a Dedenne-GX or a Crobat V, and then on the 3rd turn, close out the game with a Boss’s Orders (Pokemon TCG Online Codes are available in Trainers Toolkit) onto a 2nd one of these bench-sitting support Pokemon. And let’s be real, it really isn’t fun to lose like this! ADP decks can totally ignore whatever your actual strategy is, by gusting around your main attacker in the active spot and targeting a benched Pokemon that you felt forced to play in order to keep up. And even if you try and play around this strategy by not benching a Crobat V or Dedenne-GX, and well timed Mawile-GX (which most ADP lists are including currently) can ruin that plan.

Arceus, Dialga, & Palkia-GX is extremely strong, but do I think it is worthy of a ban in the standard format? Well sort of. I think a change of pace is certainly in order. 

我们在 Pokemon Video Game Championships（VGC）的朋友最近经历了一场独特的“轮换”，推出了排名战系列赛6。该系列赛与以往系列赛的格式相同，但删除了系列赛中最常用的 Pokemon 16。我很想看到类似的东西出现在 Pokemon 集换式卡牌游戏中。有很多独特的卡牌我很想尝试，但这些卡牌不仅被 ADP 所掩盖，而且被该格式中其他卡组和卡牌的总体速度所掩盖。 

目前，Pokemon TCG 大约每 3 个月就会发布一个新系列，为游戏引入新卡牌和策略。感觉总是发生同样的事情，前 1 或 2 个月人们喜欢玩游戏并试图找出哪些卡牌最强大，但随后格式开始在某种意义上让人感觉“已解决”，而在最后一个月左右，玩家失去兴趣并开始期待下一个系列。 

我很想看到 Pokemon 在最后一个月实施一些措施，取消一些最常用的卡牌的使用，但不是永久的，而是直到下一套卡牌发布。这将为实验留下很大的空间，并为新原型提供闪耀的机会，同时也让玩家对游戏保持兴趣，而不仅仅是期待新一套卡牌。我同意 ADP 非常强大，但我认为改变节奏才是大多数玩家真正想要的。我认为这个系统可以提供这一点。

Thank you for reading my article!
Chip Richey,
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