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Cat Meeting (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL Anime Card; "Cat Meeting" Ability)
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Gold Coins for Cats (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL Anime Card; "Gold Coins for Meowth" Attack)
I'm taking some major liberties with this one. This is the first time I'm taking references from something other than Pokémon, this time being Yu-Gi-Oh, and Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL. Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL was the fourth anime arc for the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game and featured a character by the name of Cathy Katherine. As her name implies, she dresses like a catgirl and can communicate with cats. So, obviously Meowth is "the cat's meow" in this situation! Meowth's Ability is a reference to an anime-exclusive card that allowed swarming of Cathy's "Cat Girl" monsters when activated; but the Ability here is more streamlined. It then allows you to then place them all down at once instead of one per turn.
Now onto the two attacks; "Golden Coins for Cats" is a slightly altered version of another anime-exclusive card called "Gold Coins for Cats". Meowth, as a species are known to covet and collect Gold Coins that they find around, and the Counters add a fun little luck gimmick to this Pokémon card. What's more luck-based than coin flips? Gold Coins for Cats allows per one attack, a reset of a single coin flip. (Also, slight of hand; I went with a max of 7 Counters. Lucky 7 amirite?) I only went with once per attack, instead of once per coin flip; as I thought the latter would make the attack too broken; especially considering we're dealing with a Basic Pokémon here. A Basic Pokémon that could possibly deal 140 damage per attack before any buffs. "Beckoning Paw" is the main attacking move for this card. Meowth is based off the Maneki-neko, and using the good luck charms in the Gold Coin Counters, launches the gold coins at its foe. It can constantly recycle its Counters with its first attack; as with each heads flipped, a Counter gets removed. Couple this attack with Gold Coins for Cats; and you could be well on your way to a
purr-fect victory!
Also; I took a major liberty with the Pokédex flavor. Instead of being a normal Dex entry; the entry is written from Cathy's perspective. About how she was an outcast, and the only ones she seemed to know that understood her where the cats she hung around with. However, she became friends with ZEXAL's main protagonist and his friends and wasn't so alone in the world as she first thought.
I wonder if I'm actually going to be scrutinized because I went with a Yu-Gi-Oh! reference this time...XD