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- ↓ 0.38
- ꩜ 1.74
- ↑ 34.16
{C}{C} → Overrun : 20
Does 10 damage to 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
{R}{C}{C}{C} → Combustion : 40
illus. Atsuko Nishida
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Its proud and regal appearance has captured the hearts of people since long ago.
Akane
This. Thing. Is. So. Amazingly. Broken.
Except it’s somehow so bad it’s broken.
Adam Capriola
This is like the Hummer of Pokemon cards.
Anonymous
Ummmmmmm……………………………………… Shouldn’t Arcanine have 100+ HP, and maybe (is this too much to ask for) a good attack?
Arcanine is another one of those cool Stage One pokemon that never gets a good card, Arcanine RR was as close as it got.
feyblade
This was probably printed to be a basically strictly-worse version of Arcanine G. Overrun does 20 +10 a turn before Arcanine G pulls off 40+20, and Combustion winds up being a way for it to kind of sort of “catch up” by doing 40 damage per turn at turn 4.
It lacks the ability of Arcanine G, it has an inferior retreat cost,and it has less HP. It lacks the ridiculous support that pokemon SP received. It’s gimped as-is, but, for a more common pokemon, this is sadly to be expected.
They just forgot one thing: Arcanine G is an unevolved pokemon! Ridiculous
linkinboss
even growlithe from HGSS is a better card altogether
Quarter-Turn
Ooooo, this really is bad.
Mantidactyle
This is easily in the Top 10 of the worst cards ever printed
linkin.boss
it would be seriously fun to do the whole top 10
Ziggmiceter
How does this even have 3.33? Most generic commons are better than this…
EDIT: Fixed the rating.
Walrusaurus
The saddest part is if this was released in Base Set, it would still be terrible.
linkinboss
This card was released in a starter deck in japan… I’m not surprised it has simplistic effect, but for god sake, 4 energies to do 40 damage is ridiculous. It’s not worth even for trying to use it in the Pokemon Rumble TCG game