Charity

Hiya.  It’s me Master 1080 again with another

strategy.  This one is about the card Charity.  I know

many of you know it is practically useless in the

trading card game but I’m here to tell about a few

weird situations in which this card maybe useful or at

least semi-useful.  This card lets you reduce the

amount of damage you deal to the defending Pokemon.

Also, it returns to your hand if the defending Pokemon

is not knocked out.  There’s not much else good about

the card but the nice picture of Erika.

1. Charity vs. Jungle Mr. Mime

Just reduce your damage to twenty damage then finish

it off the next turn.  Goop Gas Attack, Magby,

Igglybuff, Muk are better alternatives.

2. Charity vs. Rage

Use Charity to reduce the amount of damage you do to a

rage Pokemon, take Tauros for example, ensuring it

won’t harm you a lot.  Then finish it off the next

turn.

3. Charity vs. Gold Berry

Use Charity to reduce your damage to where the

defending Pokemon will have 30 damage on it.  Gold

Berry will not activate until the defending Pokemon

has at least 40 damage on it.  After that, knock out

the defending Pokemon on the next turn.  Sometimes

this won’t work if someone plays potion or another

healing trainer/energy since it gives their defending

Pokemon more remaining HP.  In some weird situations,

people will play Darkness or Rainbow Energy to

activate their own Gold Berry.

4. Charity + Poison

Poison is deadly if timed correctly.  The best

situation is when Poison knocks out the defending

Pokemon at the end of your opponent’s turn forcing

him/her to bring out a new active for you to beat up

on your turn.  Sometimes Poison doesn’t quite do that

because it may knock out the defending at the end of

your turn, letting your opponent bring out something

new to beat you up with.  There are only two ways to

fix the amount of damage you deal to benefit this

situation: reducing the amount of damage you deal

(Charity) or increasing the amount of damage you deal

(Pluspower/Darkness Energy).

5. Charity vs. Healing Trainers

Use Charity to reduce the amount of damage to where

your opponent will not use any healing trainer cards

on it.  Most people probably don’t want to waste a

Super Potion or Potion on a Pokemon with 10 damage on

it.  Surprise them later by dealing a lot of damage

very quickly, just barely knocking them out.  Your

opponent will regret not playing that healing trainer

card.  However, it is hard to predict when your

opponent does have a healing trainer or if he/she will

play it or not if he/she does have it.

6. Charity vs. No Energy Attached to Defending Pokemon

If an attack would knock out your opponent’s Pokemon

and you want to stall for one more turn, use Charity

to let your opponent’s defending Pokemon survive.

Make sure your opponent cannot do anything to you

because a well played Gust of Wind, Switch, Scoop Up,

etc. will absolutely ruin this.

This concludes my article.  I can’t think of any more

strange situations in which Charity would be useful.

Thanks for your time and to Pojo for posting this

article.

Responses to Master 1080 at the_master1080@yahoo.com/

__________________________________________________

Do You Yahoo!?

Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail