Ok, listen to this:
"For example, if you have a fire pokemon (Charmander) against a water pokemon with a plant weakness (omanyte), the Victreebel family is great to fight back."

   This is an excerpt from the last strategy. And he just listed the main problem right there:
The oooooonly time this family comes in handy is when the opponent has a weakness!
The energy to damage ratios are way, way too low. Bellsprout sucks the worst, and you have to start off with him. He has a pathetic attack. It costs one COLORED energy to do ten damage! Thanks to the energy efficency for attacks article Hitmonlee from Pokeschool figured up, we know that each colored energy requirement is worth about 15 damage, and each colorless energy requirement is 10. Bellsprout just doesn't cut it.

    But wait! you say. Weepinbell makes up for it! He does thirty damage for two grass energy. I'll agree that it's an efficient attack, but it's not worth going through Bellsprout and Weepinbell to do thirty damage when I could just play Scyther.

    And then there's the black sheep of the family, Victreebel. A stage two evolution, incapable of doing more than twenty damage, the only frill being the possible inability of the defending Pokemon to retreat.

Simply magnificent.

Cards like these are why people start to play Haymaker...

 

                                                                                                                                            Jesse "The Jesse" Jamison

 

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