Pojo,

Australia is a great country to live in but the one thing that REALLY annoys
me is that about 80% of the pokemaniacs down here know zilch about trading
and the stratagy behind the game.

First trading. Okay the main problem here is that people ethier expect to
much or to little for their trades and unfortunatly it's often to much. For
example I watched person A offer a handful of cards inculeding Ninetails,
Hitmon, Gyrados and a bunch of other great cards I would have killed for and
person B said no. Do you know what person A was trying to get, a VENUSAUR! I
mean flamin cripes if someone offer you about ten of the best holo's (not
including Charizard but we'll get to him later) for one measly Venusaur
hands up those who whould say no(and no, B didn't need it for a deck. This
is because those 80% who don't know the strats and stuff think to make a
deck you have 1 charmander, 1 Charmeloen, 4 Charizards and 54 fire NRG)go
jump in a lake!

This brings me directly to Charizard. If you thourght up there was a bad
deal well listen to this, acording to a Pokemon "Expert" at my school
charizard is worth I can't remember the exact list he\she gave but it
icluded about 3 blastoise, 4 Venusaur and 6 Gyrodos. Ohh yes you can tell
he\she is an "expert" at the matter, NOT!!!!

The second most common type of trade is the "Ohh please come and scew me out
of my cards" trade. Someone traded a blastoise for a water energy just
because he was getting another one that arvo. What a !@#$%^%@#% !@#$%^#!!!
As if. Didn't he stop to think that blastoise might be worth just a bit more
than an energy. Like 100 times more.

The third type of trade is the rarest one I see. The fair trade. At my
school I've made about 40 trades, 32 times its been the rip off trades, 6
times its been the rip me off trades and 2 yes 2 times its been the fair
trades.

And now for the stratgy bit.

Which of these is the better poke mon Electabuzz or Electrode, the average
"expert" from my school would say "Electrode, cause he's got a 50 attack and
has a poke mon power". Yes, we all agree with that. NOT!

All you Aussies who are in the 20% of smart pokemon players I'm not taking
out on you I'm taking it out on the 80% who's brains are ful of cotton wool,
so if you want to E-mail me saying how dare I write such stuff don't send it
to me send it to thoughs 80%.

The person who's deck I based my last artical on is a bloke called doctor
Andrew from pokeschool.com.Orange Oreo (I hope thats how you spell
it!)E-mailed me saying that he desined a deck like mine. It just goes to
show that great minds think alike!

Comments and support can be sent to merryfred@hotmail.com trash and flames
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Fred The Merry
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