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Soooooo what can be said about
Vikavolt-GX now? He's got charge elements, he's got a
lot of damage output, but is he worth the Stage 2 like
his Sun and Moon cousin debatably is?
Well with an attack like Charge
Beam, it's a good start. For 1-for-50, he's putting out
a good bit of damage, and he gets to attach an Energy
card from your discard to himself. That means he can get
to his Super Zap Cannon attack faster, and considering
it's 4-Energy, it's gonna take at least another turn to
get it going. For that 4 Energy, though, he does 180
damage and gets to discard 2 Energy again. You can see
where this is going.
In fact, with Charge Beam, Vikavolt-GX
has an abusable combination. Turn 1, you use Charge Beam
to get a second Energy on him. Next turn, attach DCE to
him to get right to Super Zap Cannon and finish off
whatever your opponent played, detaching the DCE for the
attack. Then on your next turn, you can use Charge Beam
AGAIN to attach that DCE from the discard and unleash
Super Zap Cannon on your next turn again! That said,
this is a 2-turn combination, and while it is
repeatable, what isn't repeatable is the successive
damage you take. Eventually, he'll lose all 240 HP, but
ideally you'll have set yourself up well enough to be
ahead of the opponent.
And what better way to set yourself
up against the opponent than with Gigatron GX? With that
attack, you instantly deal out 60 damage to all your
opponent's Benched Pokemon. That can easily wipe out
several small Pokemon - makes for a good combination
with Target Whistle in Expanded if you can get a Basic
evolving Pokemon out of your opponent's discard - and it
sets you up for future turns to one-shot most anything
in the game. Not too shabby at all...but it does cost 4
Energy.
If you build around Vikavolt-GX,
I'd say the best thing to do is to keep him alive for as
long as you can so you can secure that loop. I wouldn't
really bother with Gigatron GX - sure, it's powerful,
but it's also you setting up for future turns, which if
you don't have another Vikavolt-GX ready to roll, you're
not gonna be able to make it work. Or at least, have
ANOTHER attacker to capitalize on it - like, say, Tapu
Koko-GX? Surely something can work with that all in
mind...
Rating
Standard: 3/5 (pretty powerful in
his own right, though)
Expanded: 3/5 (just suffers from
the same problems any Stage 2 has)
Limited: 1/5 (...like needing those
previous Stages to get on the field)
Arora Notealus: He may be a little
slow, but there are ways to power him up faster than
Charge Beam, like with Vikavolt from Sun&Moon. The
problem is that you'd have to run them in even amounts
so you can have Vikavolt show up as often as Vikavolt-GX,
all the while managing it around your Charjabugs and
Grubbins for evolution purposes.
Next Time: And if you need
something to heal him fast, considering this handy Item!
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