I was looking through the strategy arrticles today and say some different letters comparing chansey and kangaskhan. Some articles said that chansey was better, while others said that kangaskhan was better. I myself would like to compare them both. Now, both of them have a weakness to fighting and resistance to psychic. Chansey does double-edge for 80 and does 80 to himself, kangaskhan's attack reads: flip 4 coins, this attack does 20 damage times the number of heads. So kangaskhan can do 80 damage too but he usually does 40 or 60, the good thing is that he does no damage to himself. The real difference is their first attack. Chansey has scrunch, you flip a coin and blah blah blah(you all know what it does), kangaskhan has fetch, it lets you draw a card and it is only for one energy! Somebody said that the game is about getting prizes and doing damage and all that bull. Well, mister expert(the guy who wrote that article), what if you had no energy in your hand and kangaskhan only had three on him. Well, energy takes up most of the about 1/2 or 1/3 of teh room in your deck so chanses are that you draw an energy. Chansey's scrunch might prevent all damage next turn but effects still happen--YEAH, that's really cool(a bit of sarcasm). Kangaskhan has 90 hp and chansey has 120, so what, kangaskhan has better attacks. Kangaskhan has retreat of 3 instead of 1 for chansey. The reason for this is that chansey is for stalling while you build up your other pokemon so he needs low retreat so he can come back without losing mass energy. Kangaskhan is more powerfull and is made to attack not stall, so his retreat can be high(kangsakhan could stall though). So, in my opinion, I think kangaskhan is a better card for the time being(notice how I said better CARD, not attacker, defender, or staller).
 
Griffin Branham
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