1/29 - COTD - Tropius (EX: Dragon Frontiers)

[Gokey Shuckle]

Rate & Review.

Thanks to Water Pokemon Master from www.pokebeach.com for the scan.

I might start and EX series themed month or week until the first scans of Power Keepers are revealed.

 

[QFred]

This card, if constantly handed and benched turn after turn, disrupts Tyranitar ex!

I like the attack, it can virtually do infinite damage... But it gets too expensive to make Tropius do a decent ammount of damage...

 

[Cipher 2008]

^ Not really, a couple of Boost Energy and Holon Energy and you're talking 80+ damage.

 

[Jaimes]

^ Not really, a couple of Boost Energy and Holon Energy and you're talking 80+ damage.

Holon Energy must return an energy back to a hand (and it's highly ER2able) so only provides a 1 energy attachment per turn.
Boost energy is discarded after use and can't be attached to basics. ;)

Eitherway, Grind isn't a good attack. It's an expensive attack, requiring a [M] but also does 10x for the energy. Nowhere near as good as some other 'Grind's in comparison (Dark TTar basically). Doing 30 for 3 Energy isn't good, to do a large amount of damage means lots of energy, but this is slow to attach, despite Tropius having a nice HP and [M] benefits.

It's only ever used for Tropical Heal, 1 is often teched in where the Metagame is heavy with the new exs or for removing status conditions - thanks to many trainer cards, it is easy to get out.

Stats are good - but not a card that should be over relied on for attacking.

5/10

 

[~Solarys~]

I'd rather play this card as a trainer than as a Pokemon...

Whenever your other pkmn get marked with random markers, put down one of these and scoop it up isn't such a bad idea.

However, it's attack is so not an attack... Although it can do inf damage but it's basic requirement is a M energy, which you can only have 4 in a deck, and its base damage is only 10x not 20x like the usual energy spammers (Crawdaunt ex, Dusclops ex, etc.)... If you really want to put all 4 M's onto him to tank/stall in early game, then go for it, but I must say it's such a wastage of M energy, because they can serve their purpose much better on other cards... (It won't be such a bad attack if it were D type instead.)

HP is not bad for a basic, and only 1 RC, but its R weakness and no F resistance are major cripplers...

5.5/10 - Great power, but useless attack - better served as a utility card.

 

[Geometric-sama]

It's a pity that this is pretty much the only SW/Imprison counter at the moment. As a Pokémon it's fairly useless and it makes a terrible starter if you happen to get it as that. I might tech it in if Gardy gets really popular in the local metagame, but I'd rather avoid it. Hopefully we'll get something else to counter SW/I soon (they're just broken x_x).