Berry · Neo Genesis (N1) #99

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   Ambassador

   (3 years ago)

   Yousuke Hirata was credited with 3D Pokémon design for Pokémon Stadium 2, as well as design credits for Super Smash Bros. Melee. As with a lot of the other artists credited alongside CR CG gangs, I’m not sure whether he was HAL or Creatures staff, but CR CG gangs being a CG group within Creatures suggests he was a member of, well, Creatures.

   Other than that there’s not a lot of information about him out there, and because he appears to share his name with a fictional manga and anime character from an unrelated series that debuted in 2015, it’s not easy for a non-fluent Japanese speaker like myself to parse through search results, but it does appear that a vast majority of CG artwork in the TCG has been done by members of Creatures, Inc. up to the present day.

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   AS

   (1 year ago)

   I feel insane reading the wording of this card. I played actively during the Neo era and still can’t figure out why it has almost the same effect written twice. Was poison that big of a deal?

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     CharmasterAS

     (1 year ago)

     Poison shouldn’t even make any difference. “At any time between turns” LITERALLY means “At any time between turns”… before or after poison damage! (Funny enough, I was never placed in a situation where I had to ask myself this question, so I didn’t realize this fact until Whimsicast mentioned it in one of his videos.)

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       TwylisCharmaster

       (1 year ago)

       Poison can make a difference in some cases. Scenario:
       – You have a 30 HP Diglett in play.
       – Your opponent attacked with Poison Powder, poisoning the Diglett.
       – Diglett takes 10 damage between turns from poison.
       – During your turn, you attach a Rainbow Energy to Diglett (placing an additional 10 damage) and attack, ending your turn.
       – Diglett has 20 damage. Between turns, two things can happen. If poison damage happens first, Diglett faints. If you choose to activate the Berry first, however, Diglett survives.

       It’s worth noting Berry can’t activate at any time during your turn, and its activation isn’t optional at the beginning of turns – if there’s 20 damage at the beginning of the turn, Berry activates, intentionally or not. Between turns, though, it’s at the player’s discretion – likely because there’s not a set order or operations for between-turn events.

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         TwylisTwylis

         (1 year ago)

         Another quirky scenario is if the Diglett is both poisoned and burned. If the burn damage is dealt first, Diglett can heal it off with Berry and then survive the poison damage, but if poison damage is dealt first followed by burn damage, the Diglett just faints.

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   GeneralTeng09

   (1 year ago)

   And at the end of each turn, if there are at least 2 damage counters on the Pokémon Berry is attached to, remove 2 of them and discard Berry.

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