Now I’d estimate to be about 50/50, half of people being pro-first and half being pro-second. But in an attempt to compensate, they can once again draw a card at the beginning of their turn. Now the player going first can’t play any Supporters, Stadiums, OR trainers during his first turn. Most people agree it’s still slightly better to go first.Ī few years later, with the release of the Diamond/Pearl set, Pokémon announces a new set of rules. After this, people start discussing whether it’s better to go first or second. PUI announces that the player going first can no longer play Supporters on the first turn. Now it’s a few weeks before the 2004 Pokémon World Championships. It’s not like getting an extra random card at the beginning of the game would help that much anyway. So now that player can’t draw a card at the beginning of his first turn. Pokémon in Japan decides that the player going first has too much of an advantage.
He could do anything that the player going second could do.įast forward to the Ruby/Sapphire set. Since the beginning of Base Set up until the release of Ruby/Sapphire, there were no restrictions placed on the player going first. This is the question that has people have been pondering since the dawn of time (ok, maybe only a couple years).
