Besides the fact that I'm a raichu collector, and get excited over every new raichu, I think this one actually has some promise. It may not look like much, but it is a good card when you consider the deck as a whole.
In order to make raichu work well, you need 5 energy in your hand the turn you play it. One to attach, and 4 to voltage shoot. Thats the ideal. The problem is, I can almost never get that to work. So I knock out something piddly with voltage shoot, and then burst ball their active, so I can at least get two knockouts. Which sets me back three turns on energy. SV raichu gives you an alternative which does 80 damage spread with no discard. And it doesn't make you lose a precious energy off of your active raichu like split ball.
One of the nicest things about Gigashock is that it overcomes one of the bigger problems with Raichu's snipe attack; its inability to do anything other than 80 or 160 snipe. You can now take out Uxie X, or all of the pixies while Snowpoint is in play (which it always seems to be). Since almost all decks have pixies or claydol, it means you can just about always get a free KO. Lastly, Gigashock + voltage shoot allows you to hit that critical 140 damage on their active easily, which lets you take out nearly any pokemon. And while only discarding 2 energy.
So what do you guys think? Am I overreacting?
In order to make raichu work well, you need 5 energy in your hand the turn you play it. One to attach, and 4 to voltage shoot. Thats the ideal. The problem is, I can almost never get that to work. So I knock out something piddly with voltage shoot, and then burst ball their active, so I can at least get two knockouts. Which sets me back three turns on energy. SV raichu gives you an alternative which does 80 damage spread with no discard. And it doesn't make you lose a precious energy off of your active raichu like split ball.
One of the nicest things about Gigashock is that it overcomes one of the bigger problems with Raichu's snipe attack; its inability to do anything other than 80 or 160 snipe. You can now take out Uxie X, or all of the pixies while Snowpoint is in play (which it always seems to be). Since almost all decks have pixies or claydol, it means you can just about always get a free KO. Lastly, Gigashock + voltage shoot allows you to hit that critical 140 damage on their active easily, which lets you take out nearly any pokemon. And while only discarding 2 energy.
So what do you guys think? Am I overreacting?
