Okay, everyone, I'm writing this to clear up the blastoise vs. venusaur articles. These are the reasons why some people think venusaur is better: 1: They don't have blastoise and have like 3 venusaurs and nobody will trade them blastoise so they get jealous of the people that have blastoise. 2: They don't see behind the card text. They think venusaur is better because of lower retreat and energy costs. People, you gotta read their pokemon powers. It takes venusaur up to turn 4 to get powered, blastoise can be fully powered on turn two, KOing any bulbasaur, ivysaur, or possibly any venusaur that might be waiting to get energy. SO WHAT IF VENUSAUR HAS ENERGY TRANS. That pokemon power is not that good compared to blastoise's. Blastoise's retreat is no problem because he can rain dance it all back. 3: They simply like venusaur better because it shows up on the TV show and blastoise doesn't. Okay, AND DO NOT SEND ME HATE MAIL, if you do I will just not respond. Thanx! Griffin Branham branfam@gte.net Until next time...