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Rhyperior
(XY)
Yesterday’s card was a weak Pokémon with cheap attacks
that were better than they seem. Today’s is in complete
contrast to that: Rhyperior
is all about the big numbers. Unfortunately they don’t
do it much good and it is substantially less playable
than Gourgeist.
What do I mean by big numbers? Well 160 HP is impressive
even for a Stage 2; the retreat cost is huge; and Rock
Blast is one of those ‘flip for each Energy attached’
attacks that people like to mention when trying to work
out which Pokémon can do the most damage (not including
‘infinity’ flip attacks). Thing is that Fighting has no
real acceleration and committing huge resources to a
coin flip attack is not a smart play, so it’s just not a
very attractive attack to use in an actual game.
Rock Wrecker can boast a high damage output too at 130,
but even that isn’t as impressive as it sounds. The cost
of four Energy hurts, and the ‘no Weakness, no
Resistance’ clause is bad too as one of the main reasons
for playing a Fighting Pokémon at all is to hit popular
Fighting-Weak Pokémon like Darkrai
and Thundurus. Oh, and you
can’t use Rock Wrecker on consecutive turns either, just
to make the whole deal a little worse.
Note to card designers: Pokémon only need drawbacks to
balance them when they are good in the first place. That
doesn’t really apply to Rhyperior.
Rating
Modified: 1.5 (all talk and no action)
Limited: 1.5 (not worth the effort)
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