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Arceus – Fighting Type
We end the week with the last . . . and maybe the least
of the Basic Arceus.
All of the Arceus Basics have similar stats, but even
here, Fighting Arceus gets the worst of the deal. It has
the high Retreat cost of two, while only getting 80 HP.
Not bad, but still short of the 90 HP that the other two
Retreat cost Arceus get (the Grass, Metal, and Water
types). This shouldn’t matter too much, though, as
Arceus should almost always be Leveled Up if it is
active.
Arceus’s Break Ground attack, cost the expected three
Energy and deals out 60 damage, together with the big
downside of spreading 10 to your whole Bench. Clearly,
this is not an attack you will ever really want to use.
It lacks the superior damage of the Fire and Darkness
types, and doesn’t have any of the useful effects that
you gain from using the Water type or the Lightning
type, for example. On the contrary, the 10 spread damage
to your own Bench is terrible, and is far too much of a
cost for an attack that only does 60 for three Energy.
As far as typing is concerned, Fighting Arceus is less
useful here too. With the single exception of Luxray GL
LV X, there are very few Fighting Weak Pokémon that are
commonly played at the moment. You may see a few
Tyranitar, Ampharos, or Electivire decks around, but
generally they are quite rare and have other issues
besides Weakness. If you are really so worried by Luxray
that you feel you absolutely need a revenge killer in
your deck, then by all means include it. Otherwise, I
would say that this is one of those Arceus that you can
consider leaving out of the deck altogether so that you
can include more of the others.
Rating
Modified (Arceus deck): 2.5 (Luxray GL is the ONLY
reason to play this card)
Limited: 2 (decent HP, horrible attack. Nothing special
here)
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Fighting Arceus
Greetings everyone! Today's card up for review is the
Fighting type Arceus. This pokemon has 80 hp, and 2
retreat cost. There are a few options when dealing with
this card. One could have this Arceus on the bench with
the Oniscient Arceus active played on the opponents
weakness, and use Break Ground to hit the opponent for
60 plus weakness. Then to heal all of the bench, one
could have the grass Arceus on the bench and use the
Oniscient X Arceus to hit the opponent with Leaf Refresh
for 30+ weakness and take off three damage counters from
every bench Arceus that has been acumulating damage do
to the Fighting Arceus attack. This combo could work
very well, especially with an Expert belt attached to
Arceus X. 70-110 damage every turn with a 140 hp lv. X
that heals itself with Leaf Refresh every few turns
could be pretty good. Also, one could have the this
Arceus active with the 100 damage lv X played on it and
deal 100+ weakness if the opponent has a fighting weak
pokemon. Anyway, the Arceus is good, play it.
Modified: 3/5
Limited: 3/5
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