Dear Pojo Readers,
I've decided to write another article on Pojo, since I've
received lots of letters telling me to write another article. I usually
like writing an article about cards that people don't usually talk about, so
I've decided to talk about te Victreebel family.
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Basic Pokemon: Bellsprout
40 HP
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[P] Vine Whip
10
[P] Call for Family Search
your deck for a Basic
pokemon named
Bellsprout and put it into your
Bench. Shuffle
your deck afterward (You can't use
this attack if your
Bench is full).
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Weakness: [Fire] Resistance
[None] Retreat Cost [C]
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Stage 1 Pokemon: Weepinbell
70 HP
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[P] Poisonpowder Flip a
coin. If heads, the Defending
10
Pokemon is now Poisoned.
[PP] Razor Leaf 30
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Weakness: [Fire] Resistance [None]
Retreat Cost [C]
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Stage 2 Pokemon: Victreebel
80 HP
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[P] Lure If your opponent
has any Benched Pokemon,
Choose 1 of them and switch
it with his or her Active
Pokemon.
[PP] Acid Flip a
coin. If heads, the Defending
20
pokemon can't
retreat during your opponent's
next turn.
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Weakness: [Fire] Resistance [None]
Retreat Cost [CC]
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Here are my reasons for saying why the Victreebel family is
pretty good:
1. Fight back against pokemon that are super
effective against yours.
Now, from reading many letters about Victreebel and the other
evolutions, I've heard many complaints about how this pokemon sucks.
However, most of these people have this pokemon wrong. The point of the
Victreebel family is to fight against the opponent's weakness, not to go out
there and fight against any type. Victreebel is great to defend your own
pokemon. 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.
2. Low energy requirements.
When I see 2 type decks, I usually notice that one type is
bigger than the other, and that the smaller type is super effective against
the larger type's weakness (ex. Electric/Psychic. ELectric's weakness is
ground/fighting, fighting's weakness is psychic). This family is perfect
for this type of deck. Look at Bellsprout. 10 damage for only 1
energy? That seems normal. How about Weepinbell? 30 damage
for 2 energies? That's great! And Victreebel... 20 damage for 2
energies with a chance for holding a pokemon from retreating? Even
better! With energy requirements so low, you won't have to worry
about your counterattacking pokemon taking too much valuable space for your
main team of pokemon. If you had a standard type family set up for you
deck, all you would need is 3 Bellsprout, 2 Weepinbell, and 1 Victreebel and 6
plant energy! You can use the other extra space to build up your other
main type. This is very good, since I noticed that the smaller defending
type in a 2 type deck usually weighs down the larger, more powerful type.
3. All pokemon in this family are efficient.
Each one of these pokemon can help defend your team.
Bellsprout can help you get more bellsprout to fight against the opponent's
pokemon that are super effective against yours. Weepinell can do lots of
damage with only 2 energy. Victreebel can take out pokemon that you want
taken out, and you can keep them fighting by Acid's effect. Also, these
pokemon have no problem against energy removal decks. All of these
pokemon can attack with one energy, and the stage 1 and stage 2 can attack
pretty well with 2 energies.
4. Great for multi-type decks.
With its low energy requirements, you won't have to worry about
these pokemon taking up too much space in your multi-type deck. It can
fight efficiently and quickly with only a few energy. Perfect for decks
w/ 2-4 types (Yes, I have made a 4 type deck. It's lots of fun :)
).
Personally, I would use only Bellsprout and Weepinbell as
defense in my two-type decks. Victreebel would probably be only used for
backup. Using bellsprout and Weepinbell is great because they both
require low energy, low retreat cost, easy to get (common and uncommon), and
they won't take up lots of space in a deck, but they'll still be powerful (4
Bellsprout, 3 Weepinbell, 8 Plant energy--only 15 card slots taken up.
45 cards can be used to focus on your main team). So there. I
proved that the Victreebel family isn't as bad as it seems. Try using it
in your deck.
SOhp101
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