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Coming to you live from Pokemon Stadium, it's aroramage
back again with a new dazzling card sure to bring
spectators to the seats! Watch as she gracefully leaps
onto the stage! Then back to her Trainer! Then back onto
the stage! Then back to her Trainer again! This is the
essentials of what our friend Lopunny does. Both of her
attacks are jumping-themed, no doubt to compliment her
bunny attributes, but are they worth it?
Lopunny's first jumping ability is her Ability, Big
Jump, which allows the player to return Lopunny and all
cards attached to her back to the player's hand. Now
knowing today's meta it's doubtful this effect would
activate while Lopunny's the Active Pokemon - she'd be
long gone before her effect would activate - but that's
not to say it's not possible. Perhaps you need to
rearrange the energy off of Lopunny onto another Pokemon
like Black Kyurem-EX or Yveltal-EX or Mewtwo-EX - kinda
see where I'm going with this? The idea of rearranging
Lopunny's energy around could make for an interesting
play, and if Lopunny comes back home while she's Active,
it's like a free switch.
The biggest question that comes up after that is, "Why
would Lopunny have Energy in the first place?" And
that's where we look at her next big leap into the fray:
the Sitdown Bounce. It's a lot of investment at 3
Energy, but it deals a solid 80 damage! The only catch:
Lopunny has a 50% chance of not getting back up on the
next turn. So you can see what the designers were going
for: attack with Lopunny for heavy damage and then
bounce her back to your hand if she can't attack,
swapping in for a new attacker!
The thing is, in this format, that 50% chance becomes
close to 100%, since there's no chance Lopunny will
survive beyond the turn she's out. She's better off
hopping around in casual play than tournament play, that
much is for sure. Still, she could be a fun card to play
with, though I doubt denying 1 KO from your opponent is
worth it to change up your deck to try and fit her in.
Rating
Modified: 2/5 (this just isn't her playground)
Limited: 2.5/5 (in a format where every Prize counts,
she's going to play a somewhat bigger role)
Arora Notealus: "Extremely cautious, it quickly bounds
off when it senses danger." ...okay, now they're not
even trying to disguise it.
Next Time: DON'T TOUCH IT
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