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Ledian HGSS
After all the excitement of getting to review some new
(and pretty good) Primes, we return to finish the week
with a couple of Grass Pokémon from HGSS.
The first, Ledian, is an 80 HP Stage 1, so it better be
offering something good if it wants to see play.
Fighting Resistance and free Retreat are a nice start,
and even the double Fire Weakness is not the worst at
the moment.
Ledian has no Powers or Bodies, but it does have two
attacks. The first, Quick Draw, does 10 damage for a
single Grass Energy and lets you draw three cards from
your deck. The damage isn’t anything more than a very
minor bonus, but the card drawing looks very nice at
first glance. However . . . setting up a low HP Stage 1
to draw cards with an attack is just not the way to go
in this fast and disruptive format. Just think about how
much better Furret SW is . . . for a NO Energy attack
you get to CHOOSE any two cards from your deck. Now try
and remember the last time you saw Furret SW being
played. I’ll give you a clue: it was right before
Claydol GE got released. (And that is not a coincidence.
Claydol and Uxie Power-based draw is just so much faster
and more efficient than wasting an attack).
Ledian does have another option in the shape of its
second attack, Swift. This is one of those attacks that
bypasses any Powers, Bodies, or effects that might stop
it, so it can hit Mr Mimes without needing three Energy
attached, and Donphan Prime’s PokeBody won’t reduce the
damage (for example). Unfortunately, it’s a pretty weak
attack, doing 40 damage for [C][C]. Not too bad in terms
of value, but still not much use when it comes to taking
Prizes.
Despite the description under the picture, Ledian is no
five star Pokémon in modified. It’s a low HP Pokémon
that only offers players an inferior draw option and an
underwhelming attack.
Rating
Modified: 1.5 (not completely worthless in itself, but
nowhere near tournament standard)
Limited: 3.25 (Different story here. Any draw is
invaluable in limited)
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