“Space-Time Smackdown” Set Releasing on January 29th for “Pocket,” Trading Details Revealed!

[paulitics532]

I disagree honestly. Palkia unlike Gyarados hits 150 naturally without gio and sets up for spread, which works well with gren and sets up your next KO pretty easily, and that's without knowing anything else in the set which I would agree there's a chance the two legendaries get their orbs.

Palkia's attack is good, but you need to discard 3 water energy. You're probably only using that attack once. Sometimes that's enough, but there are many times when they just bring in a second ex from the bench after you take down their first, and greninja cant chip away at their bench fast enough for you to take that last point. Gyarados ex can tank nearly any attack they use and ohko every relevant threat with its attack + greninja's chip. Palkia's 150 hp means it can be ohko'd by Mewtwo when Gyarados can't, and I think that matters a lot. Additionally, Gyarados ex can sometimes discard an energy from the benched pokemon theyre charging up, which can very easily steal games that were otherwise lost. Imo, Palkia is pretty heavily outclassed unless it gets good support in the set.

 

[ApricornNut]

Do you smell what the Brock is cooking?

FINALLY, the Brock HAS COME BACK to the BACK!!

 

[Arai]

Palkia's attack is good, but you need to discard 3 water energy. You're probably only using that attack once. Sometimes that's enough, but there are many times when they just bring in a second ex from the bench after you take down their first, and greninja cant chip away at their bench fast enough for you to take that last point. Gyarados ex can tank nearly any attack they use and ohko every relevant threat with its attack + greninja's chip. Palkia's 150 hp means it can be ohko'd by Mewtwo when Gyarados can't, and I think that matters a lot. Additionally, Gyarados ex can sometimes discard an energy from the benched pokemon theyre charging up, which can very easily steal games that were otherwise lost. Imo, Palkia is pretty heavily outclassed unless it gets good support in the set.

Well, it trades the higher hp for higher damage numbers, at the cost of discarding energy which is definitely a massive downside that makes it unlikely to be used often, but it doesn’t need to. Now, I think its a bit hard to say how it will perform without knowing over 160 of the cards but it already does things gyarados can’t with a cost. I think it’ll be interesting either way because I can’t imagine that one of the main cards won’t get any new support.