Top 10 WORST Pokemon Card Sets! (2024) 

Battle Styles is amazing. Very underrated and over hated. Steam siege isn’t too bad either. Emerging Powers and Detective Pikachu on the other hand 😳

With all due respect, no one voted for Emerging Powers because it is not even worthy of a "worst set" vote. It is not worthy of a thought, it is not even worthy of my mention on this comment.

Battle styles is underrated, we will come back and laugh at it being one of the “worst”

😂 the Pokémon go set definitely belongs in the top 10 worst

I think battle styles, scarlet and violet base, and steam siege are just hated on for no reason I think they are all lower end sets but not at all top 10 worst sets. Steam siege being voted worst instead of emerging powers kinda proves my point

can you do top 10 most underrated sets for next video ???

Wow, battle styles and scarlet and violet base done so dirty with this list, can’t believe you would place them on here

Pokémon go feels like a Halloween set

I'm sorry but I'd rather have Shiny Gardevoir, Steelix, and break cards than several sets

I’m glad you got number 1 right. The base 2 slander is sacrilegious hahaha

I think Scarlett and Violet base is good for a starter gen set

Battle styles is a beautiful set, what because it doesn’t have $1000 overpriced Chase card in it, it’s shit? Battlestyles is the beginning of the alternate art era, extremely underrated.

Not gunna lie I saw battle styles and it brought me back into collecting Pokémon cards again because of the cool alternate card arts and battle style mechanic

Man, I fell out of the hobby of buying a lot of new sets upon release about 2 sets ago. I did get a couple of booster bundles from Temporal Forces just because. Prerelease sellers ruined the card market and by the time the official release drops; the most coveted cards drop in price seemingly overnight. The only good thing to come from this is that it’s easier for me to scoop up cards that I just want for my collection at great prices even if graded! At least I’m focusing more on selling what I already have instead of putting more money into these new sets.

Agreed.. Pokemon Go, Crimson Invasion, Steam Siege for sure haven't even heard of Emerging Powers 😅 Pokémon Go got us back into collecting though.

Sun and Moon.. the last time normal holo's were truly beautiful and it wasn't just about the chase.. fun fact is that the graded holo's actually have good value potential because of how undergraded and or difficult to grade they are in psa / cgc 10

Your take on Battle Styles is a big miss IMO. I'd rather have a booster box of that over Vivid Voltage. Also, what they are putting out with the new Scarlet and Violet sets are an abomination to Pokemon.

Any sets you guys hate send them to me I’ll appreciate them

I voted on that poll and I knew nothing about emerging powers and I can see why now. I've been out of the pokemon space for over 20yrs until obsidian flames came out. Love your informative video's and keep up all the hard work buddy. Much love from ILLINOIS my friend 👊👍🤙

I started getting into pokemon in the early sword and shield period so when i opened alot of the boxes on this list, i enjoyed myself to be honest but perhaps that was because i had nothing to compare it too hahaha. Its crazy to see how few pulls the earlier sword and shield sets

SV base should not be here, do you see the art works, battles styles should not be here as well.

I understand your criticism (and everyone else’s) towards Base Set 2, all fair points… It was one of my favourite sets as a child though, it holds a lot of nostalgia for me! Side point the reason Base Set 2 is what it is is because of WOTC and how they would ordinarily distribute MTG. Every year they would reprint the core set “Base Set” of cards to allow newcomers the ability to access the original cards and build themselves a deck. They where trialing this process with Pokémon… It was not well received! 😂

i think the new shrouded fable might be on top 3 now

You know what, yall keep hating on Steam Siege, its my favorite set of all time and I have been able to find it for fairly cheap so I wont even complain.

Anyone who likes Base Set 2 is lying to themselves. It’s a hideous set. Don’t let nostalgia fool you

Pokemon Go worse than Darkness Ablaze? are you high?!

Gotta disagree on SV Base set. Best base set in over a decade at least.

the ogerpon set might crack this list

Oh I love this idea. Here are my only critiques! Steam siege is bad but maybe #10 because a bunch of pokemon are shiny pokemon in the set (mega steelix, mega gardevoir, and Azumaril) and the secret rare alt art gardevoir is EPIC. The order mostly I agree with other than that. I will say that EX Power keepers, other than the gold stars, is fucking atrocious. Every artwork is basically Ken sugimori stock artwork. It’s a half baked set. Take a look!

Here's my 12 worst: 12. Evolutions 11. Obsidian Flames 10. Shining Fates 9. SWSH base 8. Rebel Clash 7. B&W base 6. Steam Siege 5. GO 4. Darkness Ablaze 3 Crimson Invasion 2. Dragon Majesty 1. Emerging Powers I think B&W base and Dragon Majesty are sneaky bad, because I don't hear people mention them often when it comes to this discussion. B&W base is obviously better than Emerging Powers because it's full arts are Reshiram & Zekrom, but otherwise, it's doesn't have anything more to offer. And Dragon Majesty just seems so forgettable. I had bs2 ranked 15, s&m base 25, s&v base 27, battlestyles 30, and I wasn't even counting Detective Pikachu. I personally think s&m base is better then Burning Shadows, Celestial Storm, Ultra Prism, Guardians Rising or Forbidden Light.

I strongly dislike the Detective Pikachu set and it deserves to be on the worst, but if we got that Pikachu/Growlithe promo in English we would’ve had such a nice chase

Top 10 sets let’s goo!! Would you do any top 10 Japanese sets as well?

How is champions path not on here? I think that's a far worst set then the uper 5 you have

totally disagree with most of this, sorry. But that's opinions for you. My least favourite sets are Magma VS Aqua, Champions Path, Shiny Treasure.

Agree with most of this tbh, Battle styles and S&M base I really enjoyed though otherwise solid take

Idk how Black and White base set isn't here, that should be like number 2. It's better than Emerging Powers but there's still only 2 full arts and 1 secret rare.

That guzzlord gx crimson invasion had the vacuum power before gangarvmax

supprised none of the DP sets were on here

I actually really like thunderous and tornadus lol that being said this list is pretty fair.

Every scarlet and violet set should be on this list

Twilight masquerade. 😂

Bro SV base is waaay better than the first half of SwSh. Best base set in a decade

The list is spot on. My one unpopular opinion would be battle styles. Id take BS over VV.

XY Evolutions shouldn’t existed. Took value from Base Set 2 and laughed at it.

I would had champions path swap with battle styles

GO gets some undue hate imo. The radiant starters are unique renditions, and the FA Dragonite is gorgeous in person with those colors. Keep hating to keep the price down for me though :)

I have never like the speedy tyranitar, I don’t get the hype on it

Rebel clash has full art giovanni tho

When Top 10 Pokemon uploads, I click. Simple. 🤷‍♂️

Yeah Emerging is horrible lol I think I would put Vivid Voltage before putting in Battle Styles.

I’d switch Darkness Ablaze with Battle Styles, DA is definitely worse! I still think battle styles is underrated and will be out of the top 10 worst set list before Scarlet Violet era is over.

#1 is a funny way to spell Champions Path lol

Champions Path belongs here

darkness ablaze is my least favorite, don't even like the zard vmax, they used that same art on 2 other sets I mean come on, talk about making it undesirable.

You're sleeping on S&V base set

Scarlet and violet is the Best base set of all Time

This list is a joke if xy evolutions isnt on it 😭

Pokemon Go is the bane of my existence 💀

Now you need to do a top 10 best sets

I love pogo 😅 horrible set but i love it lol

Steam Siege aka. Meme Siege

rebel clash is soooooooo much better than darkness ablaze

Yes emerging powers was terrible lol

Emerging powers is horrrrible.

Obsidian Flames sucked. Very low pull rate.

Deff figured rebel trash that set is the worst set i ever seen

Nice info

Steam Siege is a great set.

How has this dude only got 28k subs? Top 5 PokeTuber for sure

Id rather open up some steam siege than Obsidian flames.,

Base Set 2 was one of the biggest buzzkills of my childhood. I still wouldn't want any of those cards in my collection.

This is a trash list. Where’s shining fates? It’s literally so bad. Way worse than scarlet and Violet base

Thanks you top 10 , this the type of video that’s I’m waiting for ❤❤❤🫡🫡

Couldn’t agree more about base 2. Total waste of time. Some of these sets stink for sure, but at least they’re new, different cards.

See I would say they are only bad from a collectable aspect. They were great for the TCG. Battlestyles was very popular in my area for deck building.