Pokemon Home

Pokedex

Price Guide Set List

Message Board

Pokemon GO Tips

Pokemon News

Featured Articles

Trading Card Game
- Price Guide
- Price Guide
- Card of the Day
- Professional Grading
- Killer Deck Reports
- Deck Garage
- William Hung
- Jason Klaczynski
- Jeremy's Deck Garage
- Johnny Blaze's Banter
- TCG Strategies
- Rulings Help
- Apprentice & Patch
- Apprentice League
- Spoilers & Translations
- Official Rules
- Featured Event Reports
- Top of the World
- An X-Act Science
- Error Cards
- Printable Checklist
- Places to Play

Nintendo Tips
- Red/Blue
- Yellow
- Gold & Silver
- Crystal
- Ruby & Sapphire
- Fire Red & Leaf Green
- Emerald
- SNAP
- Pinball
- TCG cart
- Stadium
- PuPuzzle League
- Pinball: Ruby/Sapphire
- Pokemon Coliseum
- Pokemon Box
- Pokemon Channel

GameBoy Help
- ClownMasters Fixes
- Groudon's Den
- Pokemon of the Week

E-Card Reader FAQ's
- Expedition
- Aquapolis
- Skyridge
- Construction Action Function
- EON Ticket Manual

Deck Garage
- Pokemaster's Pit Stop
- Kyle's Garage
- Ghostly Gengar

Cartoon/Anime
- Episode Listing
- Character Bios
- Movies & Videos
- What's a Pokemon?
- Video List
- DVD List

Featured Articles

Pojo's Toy Box

Books & Videos

Downloads

Advertise With Us
- Sponsors
- Links

Chat

About Us
Contact Us

Pojo's Pokemon Card of the Day

Otaku	I'll be reviewing again as soon as my classes get caught up
~R Pac~	Hey all, Today's card is Meganium from EX Unseen Forces Wow, what a terrible card. Maybe it's not the worst card ever, but it takes far too much to make this thing work in unlimited. You need to basically run a berry deck to get those pesky little damage counters off between turns. You could use gold berry to do 100 to the opponent (90 if he survives), 90 with sitrus berry (80 if he survives), 80 with berry (70 if he survives), or you could just do 60 (50 if he survives) without taking any damage. Perhaps with base set Alakazam you could make a healing deck by spreading out all the counters on your turn and evaporate all of them by the time it's your opponents turn... but thats just crazy talk. You dont run two evolution lines in unlimited ESPECIALLY two stage 2s. But it would be fun to see it work :). Overall, this card just doesnt cut anything. You just dont heal your opponents Pokes. period. Unlimited Rating 1/5 ~R Pac~ Zennium66@aol.com
Imperial Stingmon	ImperialStingmon here with a card from my second favorite type, grass. This card is Meganium from Unseen Forces. Here's what this grassy guy does. Poke-Body: Healing Aroma: As long as Meganium is your Active Pokemon, remove 1 damage counter from each Pokemon (excluding Pokemon-ex) (both yours and your opponent's) between turns. GGC: Bouncy Move: 50+: You may put up to five damage counters on Meganium. If you do, this attack does 50 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter you put on Meganium this way. W:Fire R:Water RC: CCC Hp: 100 Stage 2, evolves from Bayleef Uh huh. This version of Meganium is okay, but there are better ones. Bouncy Move is a decent attack and it's the effect that really hurts it. It's an effect you're only gonna pull off once, because if you're opponent is smart he'll use the damage that you put on Meganium as a stairstep to its death. The only way to save it would be through the use of any healing berry. The berry + the poke-body might be enough to save your butt and if you can combo it properly Meganium has a fighting chance. Unlimited: 3/5 Way too much fire here however, with the berries available in past sets it could be much worse. Limited: 4/5 A little better here, but again fire poses a problem especially with the self damage. Draft: 4/5 Hard to get the whole line but if you can Meganium can squash the competition flat.
Kevin89	Meganium UF Unlimited: this card is pretty good here, with gold berry it can do 100 damage, and on your opponent's turn it doesn't have damage! the body heals both your and your opponent's active pokemon, but the good thing is meganium is made to OHKO pokemon, and therefore your opponent will not really benefit from this power, unless he flips heads on focus band, in that case, meganium's poke-body is bad. The tools from Neo Genesis seem really good to play with this card. meganium is also pretty vulnerable to ER since it has only 1 attack. 3/5 Modified: I think this card is awesome here, you can attach sitrus berry to it, so when you max up the attack damage, you can heal up to 40 damage it did to itself. Meganium is also a grass type, which is useful because nidoqueen is played a lot (at least in my area), but you dont want to run into scizor ex decks if you play this card. Meganium doesn't one hit KO most of the other pokemon, and thats not too good, since meganium is pretty vulnerable with only a 100 HP. Use DRE to speed things up, and this card will be a pretty decent attacker. 3.5/5 Limited: if you can draft a meganium line, you really should go for it, you might be able to draft one or two sitrus berry too, that would be awesome. the great thing about meganium is that you can choose how much damage you need to do to one hit KO your opponents pokemon, thats really, really useful, and everytime your opponent stalls or cant attack, meganium heals itself again! meganium also resists water, which is a good thing of course, but I dont like its fire weakness, since there are pretty much fire pokemon in this set =( 4.5/5
wierdofur	Laughs at self. I sent in a brief version of this same review for my application for the CotD Reviewer's position. Ahh, such a lethal little pet. *Rubs hands manically* Meganium (Unseen Forces #9) Type: Grass Not bad, but Fire is their natural enemy, and Fire appears often... HP: 100 Adverage for his Stage of evolution. Stage of Evolution: Stage 2 Can be hard to get out, but not as much so in a well-built deck. Rare candy is a real plus for him. PokeBody/PokePower: Healing Aroma "As long as Meganium is your Active Pokemon, remove 1 damage counter from each Pokemon (Excluding Pokemon-ex) (both yours and your opponent's) between turns." Attacks: GGC Bouncy Move 50+ "You may put up to 5 damage counters on Meganium. If you do, this attack does 50 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter you put on Meganium in this way." Weakness: Fire This hurts... alot. fire is a very popular type to use, and you're sure to face several fire decks in competative play. Use weakness prevention effects, or suffer. Resistance: Water I haven't seen alot of Water decks in my area, but there's always a Water fan out there to swamp with your Grass-types. Retreat Cost: CCC Heavy, use Swith or another free-retreat effect... Rarity: Rare A bit hard to get. (Unless you like theme decks) The Positive: Meganium is the mass-damage player's new best friend. He can topple most other Stage 2 Pokemon out there,as well as most Stage 1s, and outright destroy any Basic Pokemon out there that lacks protection from evolved Pokemon. With proper healing effects, you can keep him around for several turns. Meganium is well worth building a deck around, and may very well become the new favorite among the tournament-oriented crowd. I admit to being biased as He's my personal favorite Pokemon, and My main deck focuses on him along with Parasect (FireRedLeafGreen) and Bellossom (Hidden Legends). The Negative: He can be a real heavy-hitter; but with a weakness to Fire types, he can be knocked out rather easily. Add in the fact that he hurts himself to do that extra damage, and that Fire is a favorite type of Pokemon, and they'll BBQ him in no time. Cards to protect against weakness can be a big help. Healing is almost a necessity for keeping Meganium in play, and while it is possible to keep him going, he can still be wiped out by a careful opponent. The more he uses his extra damage, the weaker he gets. Lastly, since his heal all pokemon of 1 damage effect is mandatory while he's active, your opponent can switch off a really weakened Pokemon, and just let Meganium slowly heal them up for a renewed assault. Effects that remove evoled Pokemon from the stack can be devastating. Meganium should be used a an emergency powerhouse when needed, or heavily supported to keep him alive. Modified: He's Legal here, and well worth using, IMO. Ok, I'm biased... He's my personal favorite, dispite his drawbacks. Use him for emergency power, or as a worthy centerpiece to your deck. 4.5/5.0 Unlimited: Free to use here as well, and there's lots more support available for him in this format. All the same applies here as in Modified, but there's more to work with here, so he fairs even better. 5.0/5.0 Limited: It can be difficult to use him here, and you need both Chikorita, and either Bayleef or Rare Candy to even get him into play. This really hurts his usability. Grab him only if you are very lucky and manage to get the other cards needed to get him out. If you can use him though... I think you'll place rather high in the final rankings, if your luck holds out, that is... 2.5/5.0
Tom	Today we got Meganium, number 2 of the 3 "Starting" Pokemon we are looking at this week. Let's break him down and see how good of a card he is. shall we? HP: 100 isn't too bad for a Stage 2 Pokemon, so he can last a little bit. Poke-Body: Healing Aroma is an interesting body as it removes 1 damage counter from each Pokemon between turns, including your opponent's. while this can be helpful (especially with the Bouncy Move attack), it can come back and harm you a little considering it can also heal your opponent's Pokemon. Be wary when using Meganium in that regard. Bouncy Move (GGC): While I like a bit of diversity on the attacks of the Pokemon I use, Bouncy Move isn't a bad attack at all. In fact if you can pull it off, you can pull off a OTKO with this attack. Basicly you can put up to 5 damage counters on Meganium to increase his attack by 10 for each damage counter you put on him in this way. The bad part is that unless you have ways to remove the counters quickly from Meganium, this is a one time use attack. You can't use the counters from the previous time to increase his attack this time. You have to place fresh counters on him to do it again. As mentioned above, Healing Aroma can help soften the blow, and using something like Sitrus Berry can also help too. Unfortunatly there is a great risk of having Meganium KO'ed right after the attack if you decide to increase it, so use caution if you do. Weakness: Fire. Standard for most Grass type Pokemon Resitance: Water. Again, fairly standard. Retreat Cost: (CCC). The retreat cost is something to be desired for, but again, standard for most Stage 2 Pokemon Overall: Meganium can be a useful Pokemon to have, unfortunatly his Bouncy Move can come back and haunt you quickly. As such, I wouldn't recomend him in most Grass type decks unless you plan on making a deck specificly for him. Unlimited: 1/5 Not too good here Modified: 3/5 Decent Pokemon, but his attack can potentialy do more harm than good. Limted: 3.5/5 Slightly better here.