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Winooooooooooo-naaaaaaaaaa~
What a nice gal. Winona here, as
you all know, hangs around the other Gen III Gym Leaders
and uses Flying-types - something featuring
predominantly in this set thanks to all the Colorless
support! That's interesting too, seeing as there are
several Pokemon that are Colorless that in the past have
not been, so it's pretty interesting overall.
And what better way to support
Colorless Pokemon than by having a means of getting them
to your hand? Welcome to Winona, who adds up to 3 of
them to hand. That's pretty scary when you get right
down to it - most of the other Leaders aimed to only add
1, but 3?! The first issue that comes up though is what
Colorless Pokemon would you add to your hand?
From earlier sets, there's not a
whole lot of great Colorless Pokemon - if anything,
they're underrepresented when it comes to support
considering they can fit into any deck! Not to mention
most of them these days have ended up as weak to
Fighting, which is still hanging around the format and
what-not. This set provides a lot of Colorless Pokemon
not only without that weakness but even that Resistance,
so they might make a little bit of a comeback with stuff
like Winona here.
Tornadus-EX could be a good
candidate for Expanded at least, but most of the time
you're aiming at stuff like Regigigas (PHF) or some kind
of Evolution, of which there's one particularly notable
one in this set...
Needless to say, Winona's gonna
probably see play in Colorless decks. Will said decks
ransack the tournaments of the world? Maybe. It depends
on how well they can deal with Seismitoad-EX and those
Fighting decks - never mind the Electric decks that may
arise to counter these decks.
Rating
Standard: 3/5 (she's good support,
I'd say, not necessarily spectacular if only because of
her partners...with one notable exception)
Expanded: 3/5 (more range for more
peeps to hang around, but still not that fantastic)
Limited: 4/5 (there's a lot of
Colorless folk hanging around this set, so having a
search option for them is nice - and let's face it,
you're still going to run them no matter what deck you
put together)
Arora Notealus: Elegant, graceful,
able to fly alongside Bird Pokemon...Winona apparently
can do that, she says so right at the start of her
fight. That or she can fuse with them, depending on how
you take "become one with them." Though now I've got the
image of her doing the Fusion Dance from DBZ with her
and a bird Pokemon of some sort, like Swellow. Or
Skarmory!
...why aren't human-Pokemon fusions
a thing?
Next Time: BEHOLD THE DESCENT OF
THE MIGHTIEST RAYQUAZA!!
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