Discussion Yveltal (BRT) Viability?

[socery]

I've been looking around for rouges and stumbled on Yveltal Breakthrough. He has 130 hp, and a pretty good ability, fright night which says, "As long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, each Pokémon Tool card in play has no effect." This could be both an advantage and disadvantage. His attack, for a dark and two colorless hits for 60 to the active and sixty to the bench. I'm not sure how to best use this guy, but you could start simple with Yveltal-EX and some other attackers.

Thoughts?

 

[Yo-yos]

I always thought the ability should be from bench like banette, active just makes the card easy to counter.

 

[MarshalBry]

I always thought the ability should be from bench like banette, active just makes the card easy to counter.

Banette is an evolution though, Yveltal is just a basic. I'd agree it'd be nicer on the bench, but I think if it were a bench ability it'd be much less unnecessarily annoying on an evolution Pokemon.

 

[Dark Espeon]

I feel that Yveltal XY8 is a decent addition to Darkness decks. You can have it active in matches versus Mega Evolution decks to slow them down and hit the active and a chosen Pokémon Ex on the bench. For instance, this could be used to 2hko and active set up Pokémon in addition to a benched Shaymin Ex. Darkness does not have a real viable Mega Evolution at the moment. Therefore you can run Faded Town as a counter stadium that also assists the Mega Evolution hatred side theme of the deck. If it would also work from the bench it would also shut down your own Muscle Bands and Float Stones which would be terrible.

 

[Otaku]

The card caught my eye; the Ability only working while it is Active is a double-edged sword; on one hand it allows you to control when it is functioning but on the other it can allow your opponent to "turn it off" by simply using a Lysandre. While I don't believe they are on the same level, consider Wobbuffet (PHF) and how it has been used. Pitch-Black Spear... I can't decide whether it is kind of awesome, kind of awful or somewhere in between. Obviously 60 for three is terrible, but when the secondary effect kicks in, you're getting an effective 120 for three, albeit spread out between whatever is up front and a Benched Pokémon-EX. That can prep for some nice follow up KOs, or if Yveltal survives to attack twice, can take out a Benched Jirachi-EX or Shaymin-EX (ROS), assuming no healing.