Pokemon TCG Pocket Player deals 840 damage with 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 in the first ten days of the game. For starters, we've collectively determined that getting heads on a coin toss and going first during a fight is a bad thing. However, turning heads with Lickitung as your active Pokemon once the battle starts is pretty cool.

Lickitung Card If you haven't discovered the card yet, or if you haven't used it in battle, Pokemon have a move called Continuous Lick. The trick does what it says on the tin, but only if you keep turning your head. Every time you get heads, the move does 60 damage, and there's no limit to how many coins you flip, flipping doesn't end until you get tails.

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The player base is divided on whether the strategy actually works, though.

This is a risk because it means you will get tails on your first flip and the move will do nothing. Or, as Yaya of Jodi Gaming found out, the gamble can pay off and you can end up landing one of the most powerful moves in pocket's still short history. While streaming Pokemon Pocket Battle, Yaya 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 was broken

The streamer shared the clip on his and his partner's Instagram page, their excitement building with each coin flip. After the flipping was finished, after the 15th coin was flipped, Likitung hit the poor unsuspecting Fiero with his continuous lick, dealing 840 damage to send it packing. A move that, while incredible, may have felt a little wasted as the Fiero was already down to 70 HP, with only two heads in a row doing the trick.

For the odds of this happening, the odds of a head landing 14 times in a row is one in 16,384. If 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 looks like Yaaya has them all. This explains why when I try to use Pinsir's double horn I get nothing but tails.

Just when someone had flipped 14 heads in a row and dealt 840 damage in a single lick, someone opened their pack wrong and accidentally cut their virtual cards in half. You risk cutting your cards in half The pocket was one of many urban myths to surface in its first week, but it was one that was quickly debunked.

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October 30, 2024