Misty- Genetic Apex
Date Reviewed: January 9, 2025
Ratings Summary:
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is horrible. 3 is average. 5 is great.
Reviews Below:
Otaku
The third best Trainer of Genetic Apex is Misty (Genetic Apex 220/228, 267/228)! She’s a Trainer-Supporter that has you select one of your (W) Pokémon in play, then flip a coin until you get “tails”. For each “heads”, you get to attach a (W) Energy from the Energy Zone and attach it to the selected Pokémon. This does not use up your manual Energy attachment for the turn.
Misty does not care about the Energy displayed (or available) in your Energy Zone. Misty can always attach a (W) Energy per “heads” you flip, and it won’t use up or change this or the next turn’s Energy. If you go first and use Misty, you can attack so long as you flip enough “heads” so that Misty attaches enough Energy to meet the (W) attacker’s Energy requirements.
I briefly mentioned in our recent Poké Ball review that the original Poké Ball rarely saw competitive success because it was “tails fails”. Misty avoids this fate because of the potential payout and the better decks running her can still put up a decent fight when one or both copies of Misty fail, show up late, etc.
Looking at even the remotely competitive decks that run Misty, I’m seeing strategies that can succeed even when both copies of Misty fail (or are bottom decked). There will still be games where Misty failing will assure your defeat. It is just that it will be in addition to other factors, and/or whatever card you would have run instead of Misty would not have won you more games overall.
Common partners for Misty include (but are not Limited to):
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Articuno ex (Genetic Apex 084/226, 258/226, 275/228)
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Gyarados ex (Mythical Island 018/068, 76/068)
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Starmie ex (Genetic Apex 076/226, 257/226)
Each of these have their own pros and cons, which we’ll discuss when we they get their own reviews.
No surprise, there was a card name “Misty” in the full TCG, and once again, she’s nothing like the Pocket version. Misty (Gym Heroes 18/132, 102/132) is yet another that functions as an Item because she predates Supporters. Per the original Misty’s card text, you have to discard two other cards from your hand in order to play her. The payout is doing an extra 20 damage to your opponent’s Active this turn if the attack is from a Misty’s Pokémon.
Would the old Misty have been better in Pocket? No, we have no “Misty’s Pokémon”! I don’t think they’d allow it to work as an Item, either, given no Items increase your attack’s damage for the turn but Blaine (Genetic Apex 221/228, 268/228) and Giovanni (Genetic Apex 223/228, 270/228) can. The former adds 30 but only for cards named “Magmar”, “Ninetales”, or “Rapidash”, while Giovanni works for any Pokémon that can already attack and do damage, but just adds 10. A hypothetical new Misty based on the old Misty probably would have just been Blaine, but for two or three (W) Pokémon associated with Misty.
Ratings: 3.5/5
I’m worried I’m rating Misty a little on the high side, because she’d be significantly worse without the right (W) Pokémon to make use of the Energy and to not be terrible when Misty doesn’t deliver. At the same time, even without the three I listed above, she’s got plenty of options.
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