Kyle "Pooka" Suchevich's Contributions

[asdjklghty]

Does anyone feel like he was a great addition to the TPCi team? Could the decision to reprint Level Ball, have GPF help Grass Stage 2 decks compete with EXs (at least in theory) and other recent stuff be the result of Pooka's suggestions? He works in the "r&d" part of TPCi.

 

[Otaku]

Does anyone feel like he was a great addition to the TPCi team? Could the decision to reprint Level Ball, have GPF help Grass Stage 2 decks compete with EXs (at least in theory) and other recent stuff be the result of Pooka's suggestions? He works in the "r&d" part of TPCi.

If he contributed to this, I suspect it would be quite small; as far as I can tell, TPCi doesn't get to make most of these decisions, rather the-powers-that-be in Japan do.

 

[TheStrictNein]

If he contributed to this, I suspect it would be quite small; as far as I can tell, TPCi doesn't get to make most of these decisions, rather the-powers-that-be in Japan do.

The Pokemon Laboratory in Japan still design every single card released. I severely doubt Pooka has any say in what they do.

 

[crann777]

As others have said, TPCi really doesn't have much input to what Japan does (who frankly don't playtest new sets much, if at all). Besides, from what I know from other TCGs, a set is usually finalized and to the printers 3-6 months in advance, so I doubt he could flip an entire expansion in a couple of weeks.

Based on his title though I have a feeling he is more involved in the Play! side of things rather than production.

 

[TokenDuelist]

As others have said, TPCi really doesn't have much input to what Japan does (who frankly don't playtest new sets much, if at all). Besides, from what I know from other TCGs, a set is usually finalized and to the printers 3-6 months in advance, so I doubt he could flip an entire expansion in a couple of weeks.

Based on his title though I have a feeling he is more involved in the Play! side of things rather than production.

This is how I saw it too. Here's hoping he could convince them to give us better League prize support.

 

[Maximinn]

It would be great if he could do an article or a video showing what it is he actually does since so many people are interested in him specifically.

I'm not saying they show us all their in-development secrets and ideas but a little behind the scenes feature would be so cool. Here's my office, here's what I do in an average day, here's the kind of things we work on the decisions we make, etc. No actual specifics just a general look at the life of a TPCi employee. Video game companies do that kind of thing all the time.