I hope people understand what I'm trying to say because I'm not good at
expressing myself.  First, I want to talk about two trainers, they are
recycle and energy charge.  Why do people want to play energy charge?
Personally I think recycle is better.  I think they should try not using
energy charge and put some recycle into their deck.  Why?  Both cards need
to flip a coin.  Energy charge is bad because only 2 energy cards can be
chosen if heads, then you have to SHUFFLE BACK.  On the other hand recycle
can be used to recycle ANY card and put it on top of your deck.  That means
your next turn is definitely the card you want.  Bill may be used to draw
that card right away.  Besides, recycle is only a common card.  If a dark
energy is in the discard pile, use recycle and bill and get it back right
away.

Next one is about energy removal & super ER.  Why do people say energy
removal is not popular anymore?  Is it because of ecogym and no removal
gym?  If no one play energys removal, what's the point of playing ecogym
and no removal gym?  Ecogym mostly is used when your opponent play ER and
SER.  If you play ecogym and your opponent does not play ER in his/her
deck, ecogym will be very useless.  Ecogym works when a pokemon has an
attack that works like ER, but they mostly are weak and rarely played.  ER
and SER can also hold off your opponent 1 or more turns from attacking even
though ecogym is in play.  Sometimes, it may take a few turns to build up a
dark pokemon because of the difficulty of getting a darck energy.  If ER is
played, it will take more turns to build up sneasel, even ecogym is here.
In the meantime, sneasel can be knocked out.  It is more benefit to put ER
& SER in a deck rather than Ecogym because most of the time ER can be used
anytime in any deck.  If you play ecogym, it does not only benefit
yourself, ecogym may also benefit your opponent.

Pikachu@canwetalk.com
Tai