Dear Pojo,
I knew I said I'd write up on Sabrina's Abra evolution line, but after
reading much, I found more interesting stuff to write about. Yes, four
things: Archetypes, Banning, How Sets affect the Archetypes, and of course,
how stadiums affect the Archetypes.
The six main Archetypes(five as I said in my Persian Strategy) are(well at
least in my area there famous)
1.Haymaker especially
2.Tuffstuff
3.Rain Dance is looking a bit down now with Lt.Surge
4.Stall
5.Hay Fever
6.Sponge
Sponge is started to grow, and yet, it's the same as stall, just with
lightning. Banning these decks is no problem for me, but to many others, it
affects everything. Hey,  be glad they didn't ban Computer Search here, too.
Cards that should be on the verge of ban are as follows:
1.Blastoise
2.Alakazam
3.Dark Vileplume(already?)
4.The Deadly Trio-Scyther,Chan,and Buzz
5.MP Mewtwo
6.Bill
Also, sets do affect these archetypes. Team Rocket's Mewtwo spells "B-Y-E
B-Y-E" to Haymakers. And that's a major effect. With Lt.Surge's
Electabuzz(foil) and Team Rocket's Zapdos soon to be on the charts, Rain
Dance isn't the one, and these electric pokemon just builds dams to block the
Rain. TuffStuff is now scared of Rocket's Chan, and the soon-to-be-popular
Brock's Dugtrio. Stall and Sponge will get the boot too.
Stadiums, believe it or not, do affect the way how Archetypes will finish the
game. A Pewter City Gym marks the end of Scyther's greatness, Cinnibar Island
Gym, soon to let Fire hit Water hard without recieving twice the damage,
Viridian Gym can heal pokemon as they evolve, and you get the point. No
Removal Gyms are bad too, for Haymakers, and so is Rocket's Training Gym.
Narrow Gym has no real affect on Wiggly, oh great, just ten less damage.
Bellsprout Temple Gym WILL spell the end of Tuffstuff for SURE, and Ecolo
Gym(something like that) completley helps No ER Gym on getting ER and SER
outta the way. Now, ER and SER are no more playable.
Archetypes, if banned, can make the game more creative. Now, everyone copies
off each other. Don't you have to agree, that beating the garbage out of your
opponent is more fun with Misty's Seadra then with Hitmonchan? Or do you
agree stalling with Soonasu(the guy from g/s that looks like he is going to
blow gas) then Alakazam?

Mew159@aol.com-Prof.Ed
P.S:Sabrina's Golduck does make Stall and Sponge a bit more enjoying though.