Black Kyurem EX Plasma Gale Discussion

MountainDrew

MountainDrew

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Hey pokebeachers. I wanted to know what you guys thoughts are on Black Kyurem EX that is coming out in Plasma Gale. I think its the best EX in the set and I was wondering what you guys thought also.
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Black Kyurem-EX – Dragon – HP180
Basic Pokemon

[C][C][C] Slash: 60 damage.
[W][W][L][C] Black Ballista: 200 damage. Discard 3 Energy attached to this Pokemon.

Weakness: Dragon (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 3
EX)
 
Best EX's? Heck, it's probably one of the best cards in the set.

Straight up 200 damage is mental, especially when Blastoise can accelerate to it easily. It also helps solve Blastoise's Mewtwo problem because Mewtwo has a hard time hitting this for a lot of damage. The main issue I see with it is making Blastoise more inconsistent because you have to replace some of your Water Energy with Lighting. Overall though, I can see this becoming a major part of the format. Definitely the best EX of the set (Lugia, unfortunately, despite all the hype, isn't very good.)
 
I'm not sure if you could use this as a main attacker in Blastoise, but I could definitely see it as a late-game finisher. It might open the doors for Blend energy WLFM, plus some Pokemon like Terrakion to be put into the deck.
 
All this guy needs to do is attack 3 times on an ex and you win. If this guy really becomes a beast and tool scrapper is less played do you guys think Crystal Wall will be played over other apecs.
 
DirtyDan said:
All this guy needs to do is attack 3 times on an ex and you win.
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The issue is that it's not as easy as it looks to stream 3 energy a turn, and that they can catcher something on your bench and force you to retreat to it, making it harder to keep going.

I've done a bit of testing with this and it's a nice attacker at really any point in the game, although it does shine as a late game finisher.
 
DirtyDan said:
All this guy needs to do is attack 3 times on an ex and you win.
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Well yeah. But there's also the factor of making sure you're attacking an EX, Hammers getting rid of your lightning energy, and people Catchering your Blastoise and or Keldeo and making you need more energy to Black Ballista, and N's that pretty much shut you down.

It's the Emboar syndrome, it looks good, but then you have so little energy on the field and you get N'd, and then you lose. Honestly, using this guy isn't too much better then Rayquaza/Emboar, the only huge difference is having waters for Keldeo EX. Don't get me wrong, BK/Blastoise is definitely better then RayBoar, but they have the same basic flaws.
 
The deck would still be based around Keldeo EX, BKEX would be more of a secondary attacker.
 
Blah said:
The deck would still be based around Keldeo EX, BKEX would be more of a secondary attacker.
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Yeah, that's what I expect to be the best version, but you probably aren't going to get 3 EX KO's with BKEX, which was what DirtyDan was saying.
 
Black Kyurem EX is really Blastoise's answer to the Mewtwo wars. After discarding the 3 energy to attack, opposing Mewtwo would need 8 energy to get the knockout on BKEX instead of the 3 it would need to return a KO. Basically, Blastoise no longer plays Mewtwo, it should play BKEX as the OHKOer.
 
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