Brock’s Golbat · Gym Heroes (G1) #39

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   Blob Takeshi

   (8 years ago)

   Golbat looks sad. D:

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     Blob TakeshiBlob Takeshi

     (6 years ago)

     Oh, I worked out why… Brock’s Zubat gets a rare but Brock’s Golbat didn’t.

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   Charmaster

   (1 month ago)

   Jason Klaczynski made a full-blown spread deck featuring this card for Prop 15/3, which aims to use Brock’s Mankey’s Taunt and Super Energy Removal (and perhaps The Rocket’s Training Gym and/or Erika’s Perfume) to trap something in the active so you could spread damage with Spiral Dive and keep the poor active Pokémon alive with Fossil Gengar’s Curse so it couldn’t escape. He initially thought it was one of the top decks in the format, but it’s put up mid results at his events, whereas he got second place in an 18 player event with a Slowpoke Control list that uses the same locking strategy and then just tries to recover Energy Removals with Scavenge (It’s a bit more flexible than that, but that’s one win-condition).
   The Brock’s Zubat line is still solid, though. Brock’s Zubat with Alert is great, especially when you have the Dodrio line to sponge damage and keep retreating back into Brock’s Zubat with, so if you’re already running Zubat, you can run one or two Golbat to fix bad math. I’m even experimenting with running it with Dark Raichu, since it can complement your spread strategy and hit Brock’s Sandslash for weakness with Dive.
   https://jklaczpokemon.com/prop-15-3/
   https://retrotcgs.com/2025/02/09/prop-15-3-deck-diary-brocks-sandslash/

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