ETHAN YES IM WINNINGGGG
“Heat Wave Arena” Set Revealed Featuring Misty, Ethan, Cynthia, and Arven’s Pokemon!
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Doesn’t look like Misty's going to have the Poliwag line at all. There's two empty spots in the setlist between Misty's Psyduck and Misty's Magikarp, and Misty has Staryu and/or Starmie in pretty much every aspect of the franchise.
Either Cynthia's Garchomp SAR or Ethan's Ho-Oh SAR, EGAWA-chan needs to get her hands on those two!
I mean, normal Typhlosion has been gone for about as long as Meganium. Last appeared as a promo in 2019. It’s just the Hisuian Typhlosion that make it feel like we’ve gotten recently.
I do miss Meganium, but I also love Cyndaquil and its evolutions, so I’m not complaining.
i like it quite a bit, but i definitely think it's overrepresented.
Hrmmm both could be beautiful but I think I'd prefer to see a garchomp because Akira Egawa already illustrated ho oh V from silver tempestEither Cynthia's Garchomp SAR or Ethan's Ho-Oh SAR, EGAWA-chan needs to get her hands on those two!
Woops didn't even pick up on the available slots aspect. Wishful 4am thinking on my part (not that I would be opposed to a Starmie SIR!)
Ya for those that do glad it got an ex but to keep giving it more representation when there's popular Pokémon getting nothing is crazy. I also feel like making Ethan straight up Fire type was odd. I think they mostly wanted to give Ho-oh something with how big Lugia is
are they being threatened by someone to not do more than a few trainers for these sets??? is someone holding then hostage because they HATE trainer's Pokemon?? what is wrong with them....
it's definitely preferable for SOMEONE to have an actual color bias if they're gonna be as shy as they are about including type specialists in these. a character like gold/ethan has no real concrete theme to adhere to, so i'd much rather they go all in on this sort of thing here than make yet another rainbow theme for an otherwise directionless trainer. commit to something weird and unprecedented instead of not committing to anything at all. wonder if we'll also see entei or houndoom under his belt?
I mean, Volcarona V was solid. It was paired with Blacephalon from Unbroken Bonds during that set's final hour in Standard, and it was also a force to be reckoned with in Expanded.
I like Slugma and Magcargo. I just think they're neat. The idea of a slug and a snail Pokémon made of lava is just whimsical and fun and well-executed. Here's a video by someone else who feels the same way.
And I wouldn't say it's overrepresented. Since about fifth and sixth generation at least, Fire types tend to appear at least two or three times a generation due to how few Fire types there are, with most exceptions being legendaries, starters, regional variants and other alternate forms, which are usually subaverage, though Incineroar is average and, Charizard, Heatran, and Victini are above-average (Bruh, Victini appeared in SEVEN SETS last generation!). Unovan Darmanitan skipped gens 6 and 8, but this rule of thumb holds up pretty well.
This is Magcargo's third appearance of the generation. Which makes it all the more egregious that this is our first Johtonian Typhlosion in six years. If you wanna see overrepresented, Centiskorch got six appearances in gen 8, not counting reprints. Ninetales is also an outlier, but I'm guessing it's more popular than Centiskorch. Even more egregious is how many prints Exeggutor has gotten over the last couple of generations despite the sheer number of Grass, Bug, Psychic, Ghost and Fairy type Pokémon competing for those precious Grass- and Psychic type slots in sets, including--wait for it--Meganium.
(Yeah, I just grabbed https://pokemondb.net/type/fire and began looking up Pokémon names on p k m n c a r d s. I'm spelling it out because I assume the name is going to get changed to "google" even though poke beach hasn't had a card database since it got hacked. Note that I included non-Fire type cards for Fire type Pokémon.)
He's a changed monAftet the “Typhlosion lore leak” you can keep his cards
Ya I'm not saying they shouldn't have just didn't see it coming. I figured it would've been a multiple type deck if anything. Ho-oh could've been Colorless and attached any 2 basic energy to Ethan's Pokémon but ya I like that they picked a type and went with it.
I suppose an Ethan's Pichu is better than no Pichu.
So SV10 will have heat wave arena and the glory of team rocket combined.. Sounds more like Gym Challenge 2.0 than a rocket set what everyone is hyped about. I'm a big fan of Gym Challenge set
If they're going all fire for Ethan wouldn't Magby make more sense than Pichu? That would also leave them with only one more fire type Evolution line from Gen 2 being Houndoom. I actually wish instead of Magcargo they would've used Houndoom.
if the archetype is looking for "Ethan's" in the name and the baby pokemon has a 0-energy attack cost it could be literally anything, smoochum, tyrogue, igglybuff, and it wouldn't make that much of a difference.
This set looks fire. LOVE the fact it features the Cyndaquil-Typhlosion Evo line, Ethan, Ho-Oh and Sacred Ash as an Item Card. Gen2 and Gen 2 remake fans be in for treat with this one! Plus who doesn't love Misty and Cynthia!
No way of knowing just yet, as pichu and psyduck are possible as well
