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Ora le 112 carte delle Ex
RossoFuoco & VerdeFoglia sono arrivate, č ora
di dare un "buon ritorno" a tanti dei nostri
Pokémon preferiti! Dalla
conchiglia Shellder a il mitico Charizard ex, ora
puoi usare molti piů preferiti negli scontri!
Alcuni di questi Pokémon portano gruppi di
nuove tecniche da usare nelle tue strategie.
Altri modificano le regole normali delle
Condizioni Speciali, e alcuni di essi hanno strane
ma utili strategie. Non sono ritornati ancora solo
i vecchi e classici
Pokémon, ma anche alcune classiche carte
Addestramento. Quali nuovi punti di forza hanno le
Ex RossoFuoco & VerdeFoglia hanno portato nel
GCC dei Pokémon?
I magnifici Tre
Tre tra i piů famosi Pokémon di fase 2 sono ora
Pokémon-ex! La loro stazza, potere, e abilitŕ possono
dominare le sorti della partita. Venusaur ex e Blastoise
ex sono ottimi per le battaglie 2 contro 2, e Charizard
ex non č giocabile in questo tipo di scontro. Uno si
essi sicuramente rispecchia il tuo stile di gioco!
Prendiamo atto dei loro pregi, gli attacchi di Venusaur
ex sono impressionanti. Il suo attacco Polline Rischio
puň Avvelenare, Bruciare e Confondere un avversario, e
il suo attacco Solaraggio puň fare 90 danni. Comunque,
il Poké-Power Trasporto d'Energia di Venusaur ex č il
piů utile pezzo del suo arsenale. Trasporto d'Energia
ti permette di spostare una Energia Erba da un tuo
Pokémon a un altro! Trasporto d'Energia ti dŕ la
flessibilitŕ di spostare una Energia Erba a un altro
che ne ha bisogno. Ti puoi sempre muovere tra le carte
Energia Speciali come l'Energia Doppia Arcobaleno o
Energia Multipla quando le regole della carta te lo
permettono!
Blastoise ex č simile a Venusaur ex nei suo attacchi e
nel suo versatile Poké-Power. L'attacco Super Mulinello
di Blastoise ex infligge 80 danni, e puoi anche privare
il Pokémon Difensore dalle sue carte Energia, cosě non
potrŕ contrattacare! Questo significa che il
Poké-Power Pioggia di Energia di Blastoise
ex ti permetterŕ di assegnare al tuo Pokémon molte
carte Energia base Acqua dalla tua mano in un turno, al
piccolo costo di qualche danno. Se abbini il tuo Blastoise ex
con carte come Ricerca di Energia o Cospiratore
del Team Magma/Idro, la tua mano potrŕ essere bella
piena di Energie velocemente. Il risultato sarŕ
spazzare via la squadra dell'avversario!
Charizard ex is one of the most powerful Pokémon cards
ever released! Charizard ex’s Burn Down attack does
200 damage, which is enough to Knock Out any Pokémon!
Even better, Burn Down ignores ANY and EVERY possible
defense that the Defending Pokémon has, whether it is a
Poké-Body, a Pokémon Tool like Buffer Piece, Metal
Energy, Resistance... ANYTHING! You can even Knock Out
Pokémon that are normally immune to attacks by Pokémon-ex,
such as Wobbuffet, Ninetales, and the new Dewgong. The
only way a Pokémon could reduce the damage would be if
its attack could put a damage-reducing effect on
Charizard ex, and no Pokémon like that is currently
available (and it probably wouldn’t have enough HP to
survive, anyway...). Burn Down does have one major
drawback: it requires you to discard five Energy
attached to Charizard ex. That’s not as bad as it
sounds, though: first of all, there are ways to attach
more than one Energy card to Charizard ex, such as
Venusaur ex or Blastoise ex. Second, Charizard ex has a
second attack, Slash, that does 50 damage, so you don’t
have to use Burn Down all the time.
Help Is On The Way!
There’s often strength in numbers, and with certain
Pokémon in EX FireRed & LeafGreen, having lots of
similar Pokémon can make your team stronger! With these
Pokémon, each one of your teammates can help the others.
If you’ve ever seen an angry hive of bees, you’ll
already recognize the value of multiple Beedrills.
Beedrill’s Link Needle attack does 50 damage, plus 30
more damage for each Beedrill in play (excluding the
attacker). If you manage to get four Beedrills in play,
a single Beedrill can do 140 damage for just three
Energy!
Victreebel can be extremely dangerous in a 2-on-2 battle.
If both of your Active Pokémon are Victreebel, your
opponent must place one damage counter on each of the
Defending Pokémon between each turn! And since
Victreebel’s attack prevents the target from
Retreating, your Victreebel can trap and eventually
Knock Out your opponent’s Pokémon!
Nidoqueen and Nidoking prove that families can work very
well together. Nidoqueen reduces the Retreat Cost of
Nidoran (male), Nidoran (female), Nidorino, Nidoking,
and Nidorina to zero, so you can easily swap out your
injured Pokémon for fresh ones. Nidoking increases the
damage of attacks by Nidoran (male), Nidoran (female),
Nidorino, Nidorina, and Nidoqueen by 10. Furthermore,
Nidoqueen’s Power Lariat does 40 damage plus 10 more
damage for each Evolved Pokémon in play, including
itself, and Nidorina has the ability to pull two
Evolution cards out of your deck each turn, so Nidoqueen
is strongest when her family backs her up! And strong
she is... she can do up to 100 damage for just three
Energy!
Searching For The Answer
EX FireRed & LeafGreen provides your Pokémon with
improved ways to get all of the cards you need out of
your deck and into your hand.
With Exeggutor’s Psychic Exchange attack, you can
shuffle your hand into your deck and draw eight cards.
When you get to draw that many cards, the odds of
getting a card you need are really high.
Nidoran (female) and Nidorina speed up your evolution
lines, especially for Stage 2 Pokémon. Nidoran (female)
lets you reveal your deck and take the first Basic Pokémon.
Nidorina lets you search your deck for two Evolution
cards. Nidorina’s talent is helpful on its own, but
when used to augment Nidoqueen’s Power Lariat attack,
is invaluable!
Paras and Parasect may replace Dunsparce as the most
popular way to fill your Bench with Basic Pokémon.
Paras lets you search your deck for two Basic Pokémon
and put them onto your Bench. When Paras evolves to
Parasect, Parasect’s Energy Powder attack lets you
search your deck for two basic Energy cards and attach
them to your Pokémon (excluding Pokémon-ex) in any way
you like. Not only does this triple the speed at which
you attach Energy, but you can get around the Pokémon-ex
restriction in different ways. For example, you can
attach the Energy to Pokémon before evolving that Pokémon
to its Pokémon-ex form, or you can just use Venusaur ex
to move the Energy if it’s Grass Energy.
Pidgeot can guarantee that you get a card that you need
each turn! That’s because Pidgeot’s Quick Search Poké-Power
lets you search your deck for any single card. A player
with a solid strategy and a deck with Pidgeot will have
little trouble executing the strategy. For example,
Pidgeot helps out a Blastoise ex deck by allowing you to
get a Team Magma/Aqua Conspirator each turn. Pidgeot
improves a Metagross deck by pulling out a Metal Energy
card each turn. Pidgeot also allows you to build fun and
crazy decks that would normally be considered insane to
play. You could build, say, a deck with all nine types
of Pokémon and four types of Stage 2 Pokémon, and you
still may be able to use that deck effectively!
“Special” Special Conditions
Some of the Pokémon from EX FireRed & LeafGreen
change the normal rules for Special Conditions. Even the
strongest, most powerful Pokémon can now be Knocked Out
by a clever player that uses Special Conditions to their
fullest potential.
Snorlax makes itself Asleep with its Collapse attack.
Yes, that is very odd, but very desirable as well. When
Snorlax is Asleep, its Rest Up Poké-Body heals Snorlax
of two damage counters between each turn! This ability
makes Snorlax an excellent Pokémon for stalling tactics.
Also, Snorlax’s Roll Over attack does only 30 damage
when Snorlax is awake, but 60 damage when Snorlax is
Asleep! You’ll probably want to use Relicanth (EX
Hidden Legends) with Snorlax to improve your odds of
keeping Snorlax Asleep.
Hypno’s Poké-Body is almost the mirror of Snorlax’s.
When Hypno is the Active Pokémon, all Pokémon that are
Asleep gain two damage counters between each turn. In a
2-on-2 battle, Hypno and either Altaria (EX Dragon) or
Wigglytuff ex (EX Hidden Legends) are a powerful team.
Since Altaria and Wigglytuff ex make both of your
opponent’s Active Pokémon Asleep and do 30 damage to
the Defending Pokémon, they are able to massive amounts
of damage to both Active Pokémon.
Rapidash makes everybody fear fire, because Rapidash’s
Poké-Body forces players to put four damage counters,
instead of two, on Burned Pokémon if they fail their
coin flips between each turn. And since Rapidash has the
ability to Burn its opponents, unlucky Pokémon could be
Knocked Out in just one or two turns! Combine Rapidash
with Growlithe and Arcanine (EX Sandstorm) for even more
effect, since any Pokémon that damages Growlithe or
Arcanine becomes Burned.
With the increased power of Special Conditions, it’s
nice that some Pokémon have new ways of curing them.
Wigglytuff lets you remove one Special Condition from
one of your Active Pokémon per turn. Haunter lets you
make one of your Active Pokémon Confused, which sounds
strange at first, but it does mean that you can now do
something with a Pokémon that was Asleep or Paralyzed.
Dodrio reduces the Retreat Cost of Active Pokémon by
two, so Retreating becomes much easier (even Charizard
ex can Retreat for free!).
Guest Starring...
Some of the Pokémon in EX FireRed & LeafGreen
aren’t easily classified in any particular group, but
they still deserve a special mention.
Primeape let you try a comical, yet powerful, new tactic.
Primeape can throw Pokémon Tools and Ancient Technical
Machines at its opponents, doing 30 damage for each of
those that you discard from your hand. Imagine a
Charizard ex getting Knocked Out by a flurry of Oran
Berries and Lum Berries! Or a Hitmonchan ex getting
Knocked Out by Balloon Berries!
Caterpie has the Signs of Evolution ability, so you can
evolve Caterpie to Metapod and Butterfree fast! Once you
have Butterfree in play, its Poké-Body can heal one
damage counter from each of your Pokémon between turns
if Butterfree is an Active Pokémon. Butterfree has no
Retreat Cost, so any Pokémon that is healing on the
Bench can get back into the action easily. Butterfree
has 100 HP, so it can remain an Active Pokémon for
quite a while.
Like the earlier Electrode (EX Hidden Legends),
Electrode ex can blow itself up! However, when Electrode
ex explodes, it doesn’t Knock Out the Defending Pokémon.
You may ask why you’d want to Knock Out one of your
own Pokémon-ex, giving your opponent two Prizes... well,
when Electrode ex explodes, you may take five Energy
cards from your discard pile and attach them to your Pokémon
in any way you want, excluding Pokémon-ex (and you
still have to follow the printed rules of Special Energy
cards, so you can’t, for example, attach Team Magma
Energy to a Team Aqua Pokémon). Those five Energy cards
could be invaluable to you:
- You could attach two Energy cards to a Voltorb and
three more Energy cards to itself or your other Pokémon,
then evolve that Voltorb to another Electrode ex. It
could attack for a minimum of 30 damage, plus 20
more damage for any Energy that you choose to
discard from your Pokémon when it attacks; in
effect, you would get a huge damage boost!
- You could put five Energy cards on Exeggutor and
have the potential to do 200 damage, depending on
your luck with the coin flips.
- You could retrieve four Dark Energy cards and one
Water Energy card, and then attach it to Team
Aqua’s Walrein (EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua) so it
can do at least 100 damage per turn.
- You could retrieve four Metal Energy cards and one
other Energy card, and then attach it to Aggron (EX
Ruby & Sapphire) so its Double Lariat attack can
do up to 140 damage and so damage done to it is
reduced by 40.
Because of the damage boosts and other benefits that
Electrode ex can provide, it can be well worth the
two-prize sacrifice if it is used well. You may lose two
prizes, but your surviving, powered-up Pokémon may be
able to defeat your opponent’s entire team thanks to
Electrode ex’s Poké-Power!
Trainers: Old and New
EX FireRed & LeafGreen contains the biggest set of
Trainer cards since EX Ruby & Sapphire. Although
there are a couple of new Trainers, many of the others
are old favorites that make a return to the EX series.
Bill’s Maintenance and Professor Oak’s Research are
back to help you find the cards you need from your deck.
Bill’s Maintenance lets you shuffle one card into your
deck so you can draw three cards. Professor Oak’s
Research lets you shuffle your entire hand into your
deck so you can draw five cards. These two cards are
great for those times when you have a terrible hand and
you need to draw more cards right away.
Super Scoop Up returns as well to provide much-needed
healing power to Pokémon-ex. Like Mr. Briney’s
Compassion (EX Dragon), Super Scoop Up lets you put all
of the cards attached to a chosen Pokémon into your
hand. The good news: it can be used on Pokémon-ex! The
bad news: you have to get a heads on a coin flip... but
if you’re lucky, it’s worth it. You can create super
combos: for example, you can scoop up a Blastoise ex,
and then use the Blastoise ex card to evolve a Wartortle
that is already in play, and finally, use Energy Rain to
reattach all of the Energy that the original Blastoise
ex had!
VS Seeker lets you move a Supporter card from your
discard pile back into your hand. VS Seeker greatly
improves your flexibility, as you can reuse cards like
Wally’s Training (EX Sandstorm), Mr. Briney’s
Compassion, or Lady Outing (EX Ruby & Sapphire)
whenever it is necessary. Since VS Seeker is not a
Supporter card, you can use the retrieved Supporter card
afterward!
PokéDex Handy 909 lets you reorganize the top six cards
of your deck in any order. By itself, PokéDex Handy 909
is not that powerful, but when used with other cards,
it’s amazing! You can use it with TV Reporter (EX
Dragon) or Delcatty (EX Ruby & Sapphire) to draw the
cards you want. You can use it with Energy Recycle
System (EX Dragon) and Team Magma’s Houndoom to decide
whether you should use Magma Spurt. You can use it with
Walrein (EX Hidden Legends) to get your Energy cards
onto your Pokémon faster. There are plenty of other,
even more powerful possibilities!
Creato da Carl Chavez
Traduzione a cura di: PokéFox, Webmaster Sito Pokémon GCC Italia
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