This Strategy will work best in the next
season of the Pokémon Trading Card Game Tour. Some of you might know that
there is a special challenge issued by WotC. It says "Damage from your
Pokémon is cut in half, rounded down. (For example, if your Pokémon normally
does 50 damage, it now does 20 damage instead.)" So, when you play a Challenge
battle during Season 3, your Pokémon will do half damage. But remember: The
trainer you are battling will not be playing under the Gym Trainer Challenge
rules, so your Pokémon will be taking full damage from all of your opponent's
attacks.
This Strategy majorly favors the trainer
not playing the challenge. Let's say you are fighting sneasle with erika's
ivysaur, your opponent has a full bench,sneasle has 4 Dark energies, and your
opponent gets all heads on his or her flips. That equals 160
damage. After Ivysaurs power the total damage is 80, and after the
challenge the total damage is 40. If you throw in some Metal Energy that
reduces the damage even more, and don't forget about defenders. To counter
the bad side of Ivysaur's power you can throw in Elekid. Elekid's power
is not an attack. So Ivysaur's power doesn't effect
elekid.
Here is Erika's Ivysaur card.
Name: Erika's
Ivysaur
Type: Stage 1 -- Evolves
from Erika's Bulbasaur
Card #: card
41/132
Rarity:
Uncommon
Color:
Grass
HP: 60
HP
Weakness: R
Resistance:
none
Retreat: 2
Pokemon #:
2
Species:
Seed
Level:
22
Power: "Relaxing
Scent"
As long as Erika's Ivysaur is your Active Pokemon, whenever
an
attack (even your own) does damage to any Pokemon (after
applying
Weakness and Resistance), that attack only does half the
damage
to that Pokemon (rounded up to the nearest 10). (Any
other
effects of attacks still happen.) This power stops working
while
Erika's Ivysaur is Asleep, Confused, or
Paralyzed.
Attack: [GGG] Double Razor
Leaf
(40x)
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 40 damage times the number
of
heads.
Comments, Questions (Especially ones about my
sanity)