Electabuzz,Rocket Zapdos,ot the rare Pikechy,butbeing weak to grass is a big draw back.the two Neo sets have delivered a bunch of good green beast dangerous to little Larvatar:Neo Oddish[with Absorb] and Chikorita[with Razor Leaf] both can do a quick 20 damage,worth 40 against Larvitar for a knock out!Best to evolve Larvitar to Pupitar as soon as possible.

Although Pupitar is also weak to grass attacks,its 70hp will hop it hold out longer, and it has two very good attacks.Its first attack,Skull Bash,does 20 damage[for two colorless energies].Even better is Pupitar's Dust Devil attack, which does 10 damage to each non-fighting pokemon in play.Since this includes you own pokemon,use it with care and wait until your opponent gas filled gis or ger Bench with non-fighting pokemon for its best effect.Like Larvitar, you will want to evolve your beast int its gihgest form, the real deal, Tyranitar.

At 100hp,Tyranitar is truly one of the seriows new "big boys" of pokemon.Suddenly turning into a Dark pokemon, Tyranitar loses Larvitar's and Pupitar's weakness to grass - and gains resistance to Psychic attacks.It's frist attack, Slam, costs three of any color enerhy and requires yo to flip two coins:the attack does 30 damahe times the number of geads.Since Tyranitar is a Dark pokemon ,each Darkness enerhy you use adds 10 damage.If it's your lucky day and you get three heads with nothing but Darkness enerhy attached, that's a whopping 120 damage in one attack!As if that isn't devastating enough'Tyranitar's second attack gets even worse:Trample does a base damage of 50 to the defending pokemon, then you must flip a coin for each benched pokemon in play[both yours and your opponent's].The angry Amor pokemon does 30 damage to each bench pokemon for each heads coin flip.Keeping your own bench small is one way to limit the damage this attack can do to your own team.Also,try to deep an Unown D tucked away on you bench, since it's "Darkness" pokemon power reduces by 30 any damage done to your pokemon by darkness attacks.And don't forget the additional effect of those Darkness enerhies rquird for Tyranitar's Trample attack: they will icrease th base damage to 70, and raise the damage done to each benched pokemon to 50.One successful Trample attack can actually knock our you opponent's entire team[as well as your own],so trample with care!

Since Tyranitar depends on Darkness energies to power up its best attacks, include Staduim Trainer cards like Ecogym or No Removal Gym to preserve your precious special energy cards.And don't forget our Breeder to speed up Larvitar's evolution to Tyranitar and pokemon Trader to exchange unneeded pokemon from you hand for that Tyranitar buried in you deck.