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Druddigon
(Plasma Storm)
Dragon Types in Pokémon can usually be relied on to look
pretty cool. Even the ones who don’t actually look much
like Dragons (*looks at Altaria
and Flygon*), but I’ve never
really like Druddigon. Maybe
it’s the chunkiness, or the random primary colour
scheme.
Anyhoo,
in terms of the card up for review today,
Druddigon is a Dragon Type
Team Plasma Basic. Dragon Typing is pretty good (only
Weak to its own Type, which also means it can be used to
counter them), and being a Plasma Pokémon gives it
access to some support. 110 HP isn’t terrible I guess,
but pretty much all the heavy-hitters in the current
format will have some way of KOing
it with one attack, even if they need some assistance
from Hypnotoxic Laser to do
it. Retreat cost of one? I’ll take that.
Druddigon
comes with two attacks, the first is Guard Press which
costs two Energy of any Colour and does a mere 20 damage
to the defending Pokémon. True, it does also reduce the
damage taken by Druddigon on
the next turn by 20, but this usually won’t be enough to
save it from a KO and, even if it did, the amount of
damage it is inflicting is negligible. Maybe it would
buy you a turn to set up
Druddigon’s second attack, but that hardly seems
worth the effort.
That’s because Dragon Claw does 90 points of
vanilluxe damage for the big
cost of two Fire, a Water,
and a Colourless Energy. That is a
really
awkward cost and is pretty much only manageable in a
deck using Emboar BLW which
can accelerate the Fire Energy while the Water is
attached manually. Why you would use this over the
non-EX Rayquaza is beyond me
though: Shred is a better and cheaper attack than Dragon
Claw, and the card has the same Typing and better HP
than Druddigon.
With Little Rayquaza readily
available thanks to Dragon Vault, I don’t really see a
place for Druddigon, even as
a tech in a deck that can deal with the Energy cost.
Rating
Modified: 1.5 (outclassed by other Dragon Types)
Limited: 3 (solid high HP Basic)
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