Hop’s Zacian ex, Mamoswine ex, and More from “Battle Partners” Revealed!

To all the people who said Bellibolt didn't have anything to attach and attack with, enter Voltorb. Also assuming all of the damage modifiers are in place, Hop's Zacian deals 420 damage on 3 metal energy. Not easily doable but you can slim down on 2 Lax or the stadium. Exchange Ticket might be an interesting way of snagging prizes. If you're at 3 prizes, Ciphermaniac and Academy at Night are enough to put 3 dead cards in the prizes and have your entire deck full of useful cards. Mamoswine is a unique little guy, but I see getting enough Stage 2s on board with TM Evolution and Rare Candy being doable, but not reasonable. Meowscarada's bad, next topic. Honestly Borck is so bad, if I wanted double basic snagging I'd play Buddy Buddy Poffin, and if I wanted evolution snagging I'd play Jacq. Banished to the GLC mines with you.
 
Well, obviously the other 2 sir are Zoroark and Clefairy. What makes me happy is to finally have a Brock card again, even if it's just an FA.
 
jdubs4lief said:
Mamoswine is a unique little guy, but I see getting enough Stage 2s on board with TM Evolution and Rare Candy being doable, but not reasonable.
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I figured it out. Pidgeot is a no brainer, slap Garchomp ex in there as a form of energy acceleration, can use Chomp's Tera for Area Zero, Charizard because funny, all of a sudden we got an interestingly unique deck with POKEMON SEARCH AS AN ABILITY
 
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To all the people who said Bellibolt didn't have anything to attach and attack with, enter Voltorb. Also assuming all of the damage modifiers are in place, Hop's Zacian deals 420 damage on 3 metal energy. Not easily doable but you can slim down on 2 Lax or the stadium. Exchange Ticket might be an interesting way of snagging prizes. If you're at 3 prizes, Ciphermaniac and Academy at Night are enough to put 3 dead cards in the prizes and have your entire deck full of useful cards. Mamoswine is a unique little guy, but I see getting enough Stage 2s on board with TM Evolution and Rare Candy being doable, but not reasonable. Meowscarada's bad, next topic. Honestly Borck is so bad, if I wanted double basic snagging I'd play Buddy Buddy Poffin, and if I wanted evolution snagging I'd play Jacq. Banished to the GLC mines with you.
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snorlax doesn't stack, it's 330 damage
 
jdubs4lief said:
I figured it out. Pidgeot is a no brainer, slap Garchomp ex in there as a form of energy acceleration, can use Chomp's Tera for Area Zero, Charizard because funny, all of a sudden we got an interestingly unique deck with POKEMON SEARCH AS AN ABILITY
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Luxray with Swelling Flash -
Once during your turn, if this Pokémon is in your hand and you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, you may put this Pokémon onto your Bench.
 
Okay, so.
1. we have a Stage 2 support that rivals Pidgeot AND deals insane damage in evolution decks.
2. we have a Dubwool that is a Noctowl but a guster.
3. we have a very worthy replacement for H. Heavy Ball.
4. we have a supporter that is essentially Battle VIP Pass but balanced.

Next year is looking fire ngl
 
I like how Hop's pokemon are all about scaling with pokemon and items, the set is looking very promising with all the trainer's pokemon looking viable in an archetype to some extent!
 
It's underwhelming for me so far. But they can still reveal better things towards the end. It's 100 cards + SRs. And even then, they can build up on the concept in the next sets, if they decided to only have 4 trainers here.
 
MagnaDrake said:
Oh wait that Mamoswine looks decent. Master Ball each turn and doesnt have a hard OPT limit. Could a stage 2 box deck work with this?
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As sad as it is to say, Mamoswine will likely never see competitive play unless they, A. Print some actually good energy acceleration for Fighting energy beyond Koraidon ex (and Neo Upper in Mamo’s case) because the type has no support, and B. Print a Stage 2 Pokemon with an ability like “If you put this Pokemon from your deck into your hand using an Ability, you may put this onto your Bench from your hand”, or maybe a Ditto Prism Star-like card that actually lets you evolve with Rare Candy (please bring Ditto Prism Star back!). It’s sad that deck space issues and energy problems hold back this card so much, but I’m sure it will be a fun casual deck. Maybe with Blaziken ex, Pidgeot ex, and Quaquaval it would be a hilarious bricky mess
 
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Zacian really isn’t going to be that threatening imo. Times are different than when we had Zacian V, and this lad while strong is definitely not THE strongest you can do with that much metal acc. I mean, he looks bland in comparison to your casual Chien-Pao.

Mamoswine is most probably WAY too slow (and deckbuilding restricted), but it’s cool. Sadly I just don’t see it working.

Dubwool is fire, I like broken supporter effects on S1s. It feels good for the game, reminds me of SM design philosophy.

Brock is no Roseanne’s Research, but I like it anyways. Probably too weak for play (Arven grabbing Trolley is just stronger), but a cool design anyways.

Why is Meowscarada the weakest of S1 starters? ;_; Why doesn’t it synergize with her ex version? Just why? ;.;
 
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