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Pokémon Power ⇢ Damage Swap
As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may move 1 damage counter from 1 of your Pokémon to another as long as you don’t Knock Out that Pokémon. This power can’t be used if Alakazam is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
{P}{P}{P} → Confuse Ray : 30
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.
illus. Ken Sugimori · LV.42
Formats: Other: 1999–2001
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Its brain can outperform a supercomputer. Its intelligence quotient is said to be 5000.
Kristóf
I always hated when this guy met Chansey and Scoop Up. Oh god why.
Curtis
I didn’t mind so much that the damage was leaving play. What annoyed me against that deck was that damn Mr Mime.
Curtis
I always found it interesting that all of the early Psychic types were weak to psychic in the TCG since the beginning, even though in Gen 1, bug was psychic’s only weakness, which has always been represented by grass in the TCG. It makes since today, sense Ghost is one of psychic’s weaknesses and the ghost type is psychic in the TCG.
tototavros
Actually, wasn’t Psychic weak to Psychic in Gen 1?
Aalacer Alarcón Cervero
No, it wasnt. Psychic was only weak to bug since ghost didnt even affect them. This was a bit messed up, I think they early knew about those changes in gen 2 refering to ghost type.
Celestent
Actually guys, the wikia says this:
‘Psychic-type Pokémon had virtually no match because their moves were resisted only by other Psychic types and their only weakness was to the Bug type, of which there were only three damaging moves: Leech Life, Pin Missile, and Twineedle. Additionally, most of the Pokémon that learned these moves were part Poison and therefore weak to Psychic moves. Ghost-type moves were also completely ineffective against Psychic types instead of being super-effective, due to what may be a programming bug’.
So yeah, Psychic types were only weak to bug. It’s kind of weird.
Harvstar
I wonder why this was?
Harvstar
I mean, how did they mess that up?
AlcreMina
A long time ago when I was little, my parents got me a Pokemon book, Pojo’s Unofficial Big Book of Pokemon. It mostly covers all of the cards released at the time, that being somewhere in 2000, I believe. Probably the most interesting part to me is that for every card, the author gave their very brief thoughts on a card, along with a 1-5 rating. They did this for every card up through Team Rocket. Based on how the book is written, it seems like Fossil was a very recent release, and Team Rocket hadn’t received an official translation by WotC yet. Nonetheless, for the latter set, it seems like the author may have translated the cards themselves to review them, which causes some amusing inaccurate comments on some of them.
Yesterday I was back over my parents’ house and remembered this book. Curious about if it was still there, I managed to dig it out from the depths of my closet.
So! I thought I’d share those little reviews here on each of the cards, because that sounds like a neat little thing to share. Just seems like a neat little thing to share, both as an interesting little piece of the past, and probably to give us a bit of a laugh. Either way, I’ll quote the review and even give the number rating on each card, up through Team Rocket. Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did!
“Rating: 4.5
Try to keep Alakazam on the bench to take advantage of its awesome Pokemon Power.” – Pojo’s Unofficial Big Book of Pokemon, ~2000