Prime Catcher, Master Ball, Hero's Cape, Neo Upper Energy and now those two.Did they reveal any ace specs other than prime catcher yet
Prime Catcher, Master Ball, Hero's Cape, Neo Upper Energy and now those two.Did they reveal any ace specs other than prime catcher yet
this was already clear as they both come from their decks released in Japan.Kinda wish we'd gotten a koraidon and miraidon tera dragon ex but the paradox cards are sick. Kinda wish they'd keep doing pokemon with their normal types as the tera but these mixed up ones make sense. Overall looking like a pretty sick set
Can’t complain about the raichu’sDo we get a new raichu, sableye every other set????
One funky usecase of Relicanth is that it lets Giratina VStar attack with Shred instead of Lost Impact. The other is that it lets Farigiraf use the Girafarig attack. Otherwise, yeah, not much to do.Metagross is not great, but Metang is a different story. It's similar to Magnezone from Astral Radiance, but a Stage 1 so better.
Raichu could be interesting. Needs more spread options to be good though.
Similar to its VGC counterpart, Wugtrio continues to disappoint.
Gengar is very interesting. Discarding energy is one thing, but no deck other than maybe Roaring Moon plays anything to counteract that effect. The ability doesn't stop Charizard or Mirage Gate or really any major form of energy acceleration, but it's still so cool to see it do what it do.
Shiftry is kinda meh. Not much use to having the first attack, sure it slows down evolution decks, but by the time you can get off that attack, everything that it's good into they're off to the races.
Don't be fooled by Feraligatr. it may seem really good on the surface, hitting for 280 ideally, but fact that it's a stage 2, can't attack multiple turns in a row, and damages itself in order to deal that big damage is enough in my mind to steer away from it.
Whimsicott has some interesting use cases. There aren't many grass types that are any good right now, despite being the simple counter to Charizard, so there aren't many good uses for healing a Grass type, but there's still more to be seen and we could get an absolutely nuts Grass deck.
Relicanth is not good right now. As far as I am aware, there are no cards with pre-evolutions that have insane attacks, so there's no real use case for it.
Incineroar seems absolutely nuts to me. It has the same effect as Trashalanche Garbodor on the brain in that your opponent won't want to bench Pokemon in order to keep that attack cost high, but what good is not having benched Pokemon if you need them in order to run efficiently? It also deals non-insignificant damage with the 240+Burn, technically dealing 260, 280 on a prayer of no switch-out and a tails.
Farigiraf is a gnarly one as well. You could hypothetically accelerate the 3 energy via Gardevoir ex while it's still a Girafarig, evolve, then start to wallop. It isn't the best attacker in the world, but stopping damage from these big Rule Box paradox Pokemon could be useful.
Roaring Moon and Koraidon make me want to believe that Ancient Box will be a thing, but only 10 extra per Ancient card isn't enough, and Koraidon only deals a max of 180. With other Ancients, it could work, but those alone aren't doing it favors.
The rest of the single prize Paradoxes don't feel like they got much going for them.
Order Box seems like a really good way to end Turn 1. Simply get 2 dead cards when you feel like your opponent wants to Iono turn 2.
Hand Clippers is another nice Hand Lock addition.
Emergency Board is nice, only a real decent thing against Tsareena ex, and we all know how mediocre that turned out to be.
Bianca leads me to believe the game designers are thinking Tsareena is going to be nuts at rotation. It's not, we still have a happy and healthy Charizard.
Eri, despite me not thinking that's that character's name in the game (I could be completely wrong), is more Hand Lock. Stall decks are eating good tonight.
Drum and Bot aren't that good. Play Prime Catcher.
Ik prime catcher is just absurdly broken, but would the future ace spec be useful at all in a future deck instead?Metagross is not great, but Metang is a different story. It's similar to Magnezone from Astral Radiance, but a Stage 1 so better.
Raichu could be interesting. Needs more spread options to be good though.
Similar to its VGC counterpart, Wugtrio continues to disappoint.
Gengar is very interesting. Discarding energy is one thing, but no deck other than maybe Roaring Moon plays anything to counteract that effect. The ability doesn't stop Charizard or Mirage Gate or really any major form of energy acceleration, but it's still so cool to see it do what it do.
Shiftry is kinda meh. Not much use to having the first attack, sure it slows down evolution decks, but by the time you can get off that attack, everything that it's good into they're off to the races.
Don't be fooled by Feraligatr. it may seem really good on the surface, hitting for 280 ideally, but fact that it's a stage 2, can't attack multiple turns in a row, and damages itself in order to deal that big damage is enough in my mind to steer away from it.
Whimsicott has some interesting use cases. There aren't many grass types that are any good right now, despite being the simple counter to Charizard, so there aren't many good uses for healing a Grass type, but there's still more to be seen and we could get an absolutely nuts Grass deck.
Relicanth is not good right now. As far as I am aware, there are no cards with pre-evolutions that have insane attacks, so there's no real use case for it.
Incineroar seems absolutely nuts to me. It has the same effect as Trashalanche Garbodor on the brain in that your opponent won't want to bench Pokemon in order to keep that attack cost high, but what good is not having benched Pokemon if you need them in order to run efficiently? It also deals non-insignificant damage with the 240+Burn, technically dealing 260, 280 on a prayer of no switch-out and a tails.
Farigiraf is a gnarly one as well. You could hypothetically accelerate the 3 energy via Gardevoir ex while it's still a Girafarig, evolve, then start to wallop. It isn't the best attacker in the world, but stopping damage from these big Rule Box paradox Pokemon could be useful.
Roaring Moon and Koraidon make me want to believe that Ancient Box will be a thing, but only 10 extra per Ancient card isn't enough, and Koraidon only deals a max of 180. With other Ancients, it could work, but those alone aren't doing it favors.
The rest of the single prize Paradoxes don't feel like they got much going for them.
Order Box seems like a really good way to end Turn 1. Simply get 2 dead cards when you feel like your opponent wants to Iono turn 2.
Hand Clippers is another nice Hand Lock addition.
Emergency Board is nice, only a real decent thing against Tsareena ex, and we all know how mediocre that turned out to be.
Bianca leads me to believe the game designers are thinking Tsareena is going to be nuts at rotation. It's not, we still have a happy and healthy Charizard.
Eri, despite me not thinking that's that character's name in the game (I could be completely wrong), is more Hand Lock. Stall decks are eating good tonight.
Drum and Bot aren't that good. Play Prime Catcher.
Ik prime catcher is just absurdly broken, but would the future ace spec be useful at all in a future deck instead?
Drum and Bot aren't that good. Play Prime Catcher.
That Future Ace Spec is completely busted. The only Future Pokemon that might not prefer it over Prime Catcher is Iron Hands, since you wanna gust to keep taking 2 prizes each turn, and you already have Electric Generator + Double Turbo Energy anyways to charge up Iron Hands.Ik prime catcher is just absurdly broken, but would the future ace spec be useful at all in a future deck instead?
I just want to point out that, while a practical way of using Relicanth for versatility, the only matchup where Giratina would want to switch back and forth from Shred to another attack is the one matchup where you also ironically wouldn't want to put down Relicanth: Stall. You also now have the card stuck in your deck for every other matchup. Neat idea, but I don't think Giratina ultimately gets benefit from this.One funky usecase of Relicanth is that it lets Giratina VStar attack with Shred instead of Lost Impact.