Cynthia’s Garchomp ex and More from “Heat Wave Arena” Revealed!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onFeb 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM · 74 Comments

New Cynthia’s Pokemon from Heat Wave Arena were revealed seconds ago at Japan’s Champions League Fukuoka tournament! Thanks goes to JustInBasil for the translations!

Cynthia’s Roselia – Grass – HP70
Basic Pokemon

[C] Spike Sting: 20 damage.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Cynthia’s Roserade – Grass – HP130
Stage 1 – Evolves from Cynthia’s Roselia

Ability: Glory Cheer
Your Cynthia’s Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

[G][C][C] Leaf Steps: 80 damage.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Cynthia’s Gible – Fighting – HP70
Basic Pokemon

[F] Rock Hurl: 20 damage. This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Resistance.

Weakness: Grass (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Cynthia’s Gabite – Fighting – HP100
Stage 1 – Evolves from Cynthia’s Gible

Ability: Champion’s Call
Once during your turn, you may search your deck for a Cynthia’s Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.

[F] Dragon Slice: 40 damage.

Weakness: Grass (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Cynthia’s Garchomp ex – Fighting – HP330
Stage 2 – Evolves from Cynthia’s Gabite

[F] Corkscrew Dive: 100 damage. You may draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand.

[F][F] Dragon Blaster: 260 damage. Discard all Energy from this Pokémon.

When your Pokemon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Grass (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Cynthia’s Spiritomb – Darkness – HP70
Basic Pokemon

[C] Raging Curse: 10x damage. This attack does 10 damage for each damage counter on your Benched Cynthia’s Pokémon. This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Weakness.

Weakness: Grass (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Cynthia’s Power Weight – Trainer
Pokemon Tool

The Cynthia’s Pokémon this card is attached to gets +70 HP.

You may attach any number of Pokémon Tools to your Pokémon during your turn. You may attach only 1 Pokémon Tool to each Pokémon, and it stays attached.

Heat Wave Arena will release on March 14th in Japan. Its cards will become part of our Destined Rivals set in May.

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I am beyond excited for this Archetype!! I love Garchomp and this one is looking pretty good. We got basicly dragon call Gabite from BW Era for Pokemon search, Roserade bringing garchomps attack from 260- to 290 that power weight giving it essentially 400 Hp! and that spiritomb having a colorless attack cost means it is good as a one prize attacker for the deck. This Cynthia deck will probably be my main deck when this archetype releases.
 
Looks like a very solid deck in itself:
- useful Stage 1 ability, very important in the current meta
- stackable attack boost
- big HP boost with a single tool
- free retreat cost
- easy way to punish opponents that can't deal 400 damage at once with Spiritomb
 
TCG pocket slaying with the art and physical cards got the most boring art to date. Looks like giratina V AR from lost origin will be the peak of the physical TCG side.
 
... Okay. So Cynthia Box is usable immediately

1. Roserade boosts the crap out of Garchomp.
2. This Garchomp ex is honestly kind of okay on its own but.
3. The tool is straight up busted. 400 HP Garchomp ex without an ACE SPEC.
4. She has her own Balloon Blast.

Literally use Tera Garchomp to reaccelerate to Cynthia's Garchomp since they both have FREE RETREAT.
 
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