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Pojo's Pokémon Card of the Day

 

 Scolipede

- XY

Date Reviewed:
April 14, 2014

Ratings & Reviews Summary

Standard: 1.50
Limited: 2.25

Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale.
1 being the worst. 
3 ... average.  
5 is the highest rating.

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Baby Mario
2010 UK National
Seniors
Champion

Scolipede (XY) 

Hello and welcome to the week on Pojo’s CotD. After a week of Items, it’s time to get back to looking at some of the Pokémon in the XY Set. 

We kick off with Scolipede, a Stage 2 with plenty of HP, but little else to offer. Random Peck might be cheap, but it’s also much too . . . well, random to be of much use as it relies on successful coin flips to do any significant damage. Meanwhile Poison Ring offers a bit more in the way of damage and also inflicts Poison and stops the Defending Pokémon from retreating next turn. There’s lots going on there, but it doesn’t add up to as much as you would think. Switching cards or Keldeo EX defeat the lock, Virizion EX can prevent the status, 70 damage isn’t very much, and the cost? It’s a prohibitive four Energy. 

Which all kind of leaves this card nowhere, really. It’s a resource-hungry Stage 2 that is outclassed by a ton of Basics, so it is never going to see play. 

Rating 

Modified: 1.5 (Poison + retreat lock is nice, but far too much trouble with this card)

Limited: 2.25 (lock works better here, but it’s still a lot of effort)


HEZ
Intro to
Unlimited 150

Scolipede.
Unlimited 150 review.
This new Scolipede follows card tradition of having a really high HP score and a bad, sluggish Retreat Cost… so the exact opposite of its in-game self then.
The 150HP is the standout part of this card, especially for a non-ex. Random Peck is cheap but unreliable, Poison Ring is ok but quite over-costed, it could have easily have been 3 energy. The best way to use it will be to Gust something big into the Active position for a 2 hit KO and like any Poisoning Pokémon, Virbank will always be useful.

All other Scolipede have had the same sort of template as this one, good HP but unimpressive attacks so it doesn’t really have any other versions to team up with for an impressive deck. Still, there’s much worse Pokémon you could use, if you really love Scolipede you could support it with some Energy acceleration like Gardevoir (Next Destinies) or go the tanking route with Alakazam (Base).

Rating: 2 (Good HP on all its versions is the only thing that makes this Pokémon stand out)


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