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The Flawed Game of Pok�mon Sabrina's Venomoth "The only flip you can rely on." 11.06.00
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Wow! This isn't bad. One energy for 10, and unlike almost everything we see that can confuse- this gives you two flips. This is a 75% chance of confusion. That is NICE. It's only one energy, compare that to attack like Lickitung's Supersonic! Two energy, no damage with 50% confusion. This is one energy, 10 damage, 75% confusion. Of course, Lickitung is basic and it's beauty is in Tongue Wrap, but that's just an example to show you how nice Sonic Distortion is. It is powerful against Pok�mon with higher retreat costs, like Electabuzz. It fails to retreat, it loses two energy! Ouch. It's worse for promo Mewtwo- a failed absorb or Psyburn is 40 to itself, not 20, as it's weak to it's own type. Venomoth runs into trouble VS Magmar, however, as it's weak to it, and it has the one retreat cost.
Like Dark Muk, the two things on this card go together well. After confusing, which shouldn't be hard to do, you can heal everything. Hopefully, confusion can buy you a few turns to do this. If you're afraid they can just Scoop Up or Switch, maybn you should Lass them before doing the Sonic Distortion, which i sbasically, a preparation for Healing Pollen.
Needing one grass and one psychic for two attacks? That's just crying out for a Rainbow energy, which works perfect with this card. If you're afraid of the removal, once again, Lass can help. The 10 it takes from Rainbow can always be healed with Healing Pollen, too.
Sabrina's ESP is always an option if you really need to confuse or remove 2 or 3 damage counters. You can attack multiple ESP, also, increasing your chances of getting what you need. Sabrina's ESP is better with Pollen Stench, Sonic Distortion shouldn't end up two tails much. Venonat This
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The weakness to fire can hurt sicne Magmar is still popular in tournament environment, and the resistance to fighting helps stop the still used Chan. The no retreat cost is always useful, and since there are so many different things to do when something is confused, like retreating and using Scyther's Swords Dance if they can't retreat, leaving their Pok�mon helpless, the free retreat is always useful. Will it be Good at the STS? Definitely!
Status effects mean more in this format, everyone knows why- there's
less Scoop Up and Switch, so it's harder to get around the confusion. This
card, unfortunately, seems great, but it's just too easy to work
around confusion. Venonat is very weak, with only 40 HP. Venonat being
weak does have a small impact on the rating of this card, too, as you
always need Venonat to use it. *thinks of Brock's Ninetales* Alright,
almost always. And Venomoth, with 60 HP, goes down to Wiggly and
Fossil Magmar pretty easily. I think this card deserves a 6.0.
The confusion
chances are it's best thing. ~
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of E-mails from people who read my "Pokemon: The Flawed
Game" article. I'm glad a lot of you agree, and see the flaws in
Pokemon, and all of you had some great ideas. Thanks to everyone who
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very
fragile. It's never safe on the bench! Like Venomoth, it has the two
energy requirements, and you don't want to Rainbow something with only
40 HP. Well, you don't want to fight with this thing much, but if you
have to, you can Poison Antennae or Removal Beam if you had too, but
you normally won't be able to get away with it.
