ok base set charizard and recycle energy one of the coolest combosi think. now base set charizard can do some major damage but it takes a lot to power him up after you kept discarding 2 fire energy a turn. yes i know with his pokemon power makes any energy card attached to it turn to fire energy at any time during your turn before you attack. now after that that energy is gone any ways the same as with the fire energy so a lot of people that use charizard in there in deck use energy retrivals to get those discard energy back or now with the edtion of neo genius super energy retrivals. but both make you discard cards and thats not good. so some used double corlerless energy in there deck but the energy retrivals only let you take back basic energy cards and were double colorless is not a basic energy card i don't belive you can retrive them back and the odds of getting all the double colorless once it's used charizard will have a hard time getting powerd up again to attack it would take 4 turns. so thats were recycle energy comes in. energy removals are compleatly useless agaisnt them becuse when there discarded they go back to the owners hand even if the guy is knocked out it goes back to your hand that's cool so you can put 4 recycle and 4 double colorless in the deck and power charizard up in 2 turns insted of 4 and if you want to get back you double energy use energy charge. you have to flip a coin but you can get any energy back.
 
ps. the recyle energy can make up a number of combos and it can help you when you need it for example it is good with dittos and clefables and wigglytuff also helps you retreat  and when you don't want to discard a energy from one of your best pokemon if recycle energy is attached to then it goes back to your hand this combo with super energy removal work bes if you did not already play a energy because you can play it from your hand as soon as you get it back.
 
thanks for reading this
Rambo
 
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