Grass fan here. First time????
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Hoopa, garchomp, tsareena, toxtricity, froslass
Ya Grass gets shafted too.i just see no reason why all types shouldn't be at least somewhat balanced but Grass, Fighting, and Metal seem to get forgotten. Goldengo ex is going to greatly help Metal so I can't really say that as much but Grass and Fighting for sure get way less love than the other types. At least Grass got Gardenia's Vigor and the Rillaboom that attaches Energy from Deck. Granted it got no good Pokémon to use them on but still. Fighting got Gutsy Pickaxe. It's sad.
Spinda will be crazy fun to play against meta junkies. ??? Both players flipping a million coins.
All of them except Mewtwo and Skeledirge.
Catch me flipping coins for my porygon-z and reversal energy to hit 280
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No, no, no. Fighting types still don't have good Energy Acceleration. Do not bring up a basic that ends your turn and a Stage 2, as a form of excuse!!
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And so? Garde has Zacian. Zacian can sweep with 4 energy. Easily counterable ability. Also, as what the cringe boi said on X, "It's weak to Iron Hands." As long as Hands got 4 energy, it'll be a Turn 2 sweep.
Bounsweet/Steenee/Tsareena ex (Ice) - works with Spirit Mask as a pseudo-immunity but not enough for quick KOs as it needs more help. 2/2/4
Vannilite/Vannilish/Vanniluxe - ability that can be easily countered. 3/3/2
Toxel/Toxtricity ex (Ground) - a way to deal with Hands. 3/3-4
Nacli/Naclstack/Garganacl - Stage 2, don't like it. Coalossal situation. Fighting types still don't have Energy acceleration. 3/3/3
Spinda - barely situational, barely even see success. 2
Porygon/Porygon2/Porygon-Z - what for? You still can' t hit weakness. It takes 8 to KO a Basic ex, which is embarassing considering your bulk. 2/2/2-3
As a Metal enjoyer I can’t agree, Metal ain’t forgotten, it got phases I would say and usually is a good deck. Right now you can play Zacian V, Dialga Vstar, Magnezone that search for energy, both Revavroom ex and Revavroom that draw cards, Copperajah ex is decent, Corviknight Vmax etc. Yes new format took some cards that made metal decks strong and it’s not good enough to be meta, but they are still playable.
Brute Bonnet + Sneasler, but at that point might as well play A raticate.
The reveal stream for these cards implied playing meowscarada with Tsareena, I don't know how you would possibly fit all of that into 1 deck though.
At least until it rotates, we can use Radiant Sneasler with some consistent form of non-attack Poison like from Clodsire ex. Doesn't seem very viable though.
If you find a way to switch that Pokémon to the bench (maybe rope or GO venusaur) you could use meowscarada for the 30 final health. As a meowscarada player, I can't wait to try it out.
Dont forget Claydol that lets u attach 1 Fighting Energy from the discard if you don't have a supporter in your discard pile ?. This is what I'm always saying Fighting energy acceleration feels so scuffed.
Spinda: Staggered Foot > Tangled Feet, an ability in the Pokemon games that boosts evasiveness when confused; the confusion damage prevention on a coin flip is meant to simulate this.
1. Its not really good in a standard setting, as always, but definitely a welcome addition in GLC as a redundancy option for Coalossal.
2. Its mostly because of their identity. Fighting type hits hard with relatively low maintenance (most of the time), so their identity's biggest downside is that they don't (or can't) have a reliable energy accelerator outside of trainer cards.
Although I guess 'identity' by now shouldnt really matter because nearly all type in the TCG has received some sort of Rain Dance-like ability, with the sole exclusion of Fighting. I'd love to have it one day.
You can also use Palafin/Marowak to get a double-KO. Or Decidueye ex, but that's a bit rich.
Both Grass and Metal has had decent, if not strong, energy accelerants in the form of Metal Links Bronzong, Magnetic Circuit Magnezone, Voltage Beat Rillaboom (and Strong Charge Vikavolt), etc. Currently they have Giga Magnet Magnezone and Spring Bloom Cherrim too, though definitely not as impactful as Baxcalibur right now.
The types has phases where it goes up and down in the bar of energy acceleration, but Fighting is the only one that has been stuck at the bottom.
edit: On that note, I strongly believe they cant print a Metal Rain Dance as long as Dialga VStar is in rotation. God knows the horror it can conjure...
I love the Nacli art that references sailing stones. It's always fun to see how creative the artists get with Pokémon.