Tangrowth · Legendary Treasures (LTR) #2

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   Warnock 2022

   (3 months ago)

   I think that Tangrowth has been in the final set of each and every generation?? https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Tangrowth_(TCG)
   1️⃣ Call of Legends, 2011
   2️⃣ Legendary Treasures, 2013
   3️⃣ Steam Siege, 2016*
   4️⃣ Cosmic Eclipse, 2019
   5️⃣ ???????, 2023 [final Gen 8 set]
   * I think that Evolutions was the final Gen 6 set, but it was only Kanto Pokemon; STS was the final “original” XY set.

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     AmbassadorWarnock 2022

     (3 months ago)

     It’s actually even more than just the last set of each generation; 3 of 4 Tangrowth’s first four appearances were in the last set of a given block.
     – Stormfront was the last set of the DP block.
     – Arceus was the last set of the DPt block.
     – Call of Legends was the last set of the HGSS block.

     I’m not really familiar enough with Generation 5 to know the separate blocks of that era (I assume there was ‘BW’ and then some kind of ‘BW Plasma’ era, but don’t know the start and stop points) so I’ll leave that for someone else, but some other Tangrowth continue this trend;
     · Ancient Origins Tangrowth appeared in the last set of the XY block – as opposed to XY BREAK (kind of lost in translation, but the JP TCG was more overt about XY BREAK as a separate block from XY).
     · You would be de facto correct about Evolutions Tangrowth. (Evolutions is weird. The JP set is basically considered as being an XY BREAK set, but at the same time a kind of ‘adjacent’/’sideset’ that isn’t *really* an XY BREAK set.)
     · n.b. Lost Thunder Tangrowth is probably a false positive. LOT is the last set before the group of sets that JP treated as the TAG TEAM block, but the card was sourced from a set earlier in the SM block, SM7b Fairy Rise. The TAG TEAM block doesn’t start until SM9, and the numbering convention gives away that Tangrowth didn’t show up until the last set of SM. It could be an EN-only iteration of it, but since the EN TCG didn’t clearly delineate TAG TEAM from SM – why didn’t they at least call them Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon sets, or something? – it’s kind of just.. nothing.

     Still, though, the overall trend and intention seems to be holding up. No idea if there’s anything about Tangrowth that in and of itself evokes a sense of closure or finality. I’ve always assumed they decided to run with a precedent they created by happenstance during DP.

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       TwylisAmbassador

       (3 months ago)

       Tangrowth certainly seems good at tying up loose ends c:

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