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We begin the week with Krookodile (Sun & Moon
85/149). For better or worse, folks, this is going
to be a heavily abridged review. Being a Darkness
Type doesn’t do much for Krookodile, and being a
Stage 2 is definitely a hurdle to overcome in the
contemporary game. The 150 HP is solid, the
Fighting Weakness can be deadly, the Psychic Resistance
handy, and the Retreat Cost of [CCC] a burden that most
decks will be able to manage. Its first attack is
“False Accusation” for [CC], which does 20 plus 20 per
card in your opponent’s hand. This looks good to
me; it can’t hit brilliant amounts without a careless
opponent, but it can hit some decent numbers for the
investment. Judge and Red Card can ensure
you hit for 100, while early game N will allow
you to do 140! These aren’t enough for OHKO’s,
which you need for the main attack of a Stage 2 (unless
it is a Bench-sitter). “Obsidian Fang” does 120 for
[DDC], plus it discards all Tools attached to your
opponent’s Active. Solid damage with a solid
effect… but not enough to justify running a Stage 2.
The good news? There are quite a few other
Krookodile cards in Expanded, so you might make use
of Krookodile (Sun & Moon 85/149).
The bad news? If they aren’t worse than today’s
version, they have the same problem; a good attack or
Ability, but the rest is mediocre. Perhaps there
is a combination deck built around them available,
but if you focus on Darkness Type support you’re
better off with one of the many other established
Darkness Type attackers. In fact, that holds true
even if we are talking Expanded and want a
Darkness/Fighting Type deck; even though the
Krookodile line has members of both Types, you’d be
better off combining Yveltal-EX with some of the
other strong Fighting Types. Go ahead and have fun
with it in Standard and Expanded play, but don’t expect
to tear up the tournament scene. If you can get
the entire line, it is quite nice for Limited play, but
that is less due to its specifics and just the nature of
having a Stage 2 up and running in this format.
Ratings
Standard:
1.75/5
Expanded:
1.5/5
Limited:
3.75/5
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Krookadile
(Sun & Moon, 85/149) a Stage 2 Pokemon with 150
HP has two attacks, False Accusation and
Obsidian Fang. We’ll focus more on False
Accusation, but I used Obsidian Fang a fair
number of times. False Accusation can hit
for quite a bit of damage – in one match against
Lapras GX (Sun & Moon, 35/149) I hit for 300
damage (I’m pretty sure my opponent was ignorant of the
parameters of False Accusation as he just kept
using Lapras’ Collect attack and stacking cards
in his hand). However, the average hand size is
only four cards, so the attack False Accusation
has a significant amount of inconsistency inherent to
its nature.
I have not seen Krookadile used even a single
time in the two months of play since SUM’s
release, and I couldn’t find many videos on it, so I
built the deck with four Unown (Ancient
Origins, 30/98) as the only other Pokemon outside of
a 4-2-4 line of Krookadile. I managed to
win only 3 out of 10 matches. I felt that it
provided a higher level of competition than some of the
other decks reviewed recently (Vikavolt (Sun &
Moon, 52/149) Dragonite (Sun & Moon,
96/149) and Gigalith (Sun & Moon, 71/149), but it
still falls short of even tier two status. I doubt
that you will win half of your matches with this deck in
the current meta. Your opponent will usually limit
their hand size to minimize the damage from False
Accusation, and Obsidian Fang’s four energy
cost for only 120 damage is less than desirable.
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