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Draw 2 cards. As long as Buck’s Training is next to your Active Pokémon, each of your Active Pokémon’s attacks does 10 more damage to the Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
· Supporter rule: You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card.
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coolestman22
Buck’s Training vs. Bill
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……………………
Krisi92
Bill used some PlusPower on himself, and now he looks like this. He doesn’t look that much stronger, to be fair. Also, their names both start with B, and are both 4 letters long. Aaand… the only vowel in their names is the second letter, and the last two letters make the same sound. There’s no doubt that they are the same people.
Blob Takeshi
Or at the very least, related.
CrimsonRedneck
Buck to Bill: Outta my way, I got this.
Professor Kukui to Buck: Hold my beer.
Maybe in another eight or nine years power creep will give us a draw two supporter with pluspower x3. Of course by then the average basic will have 300+ hp so the difference won’t matter at all.
Otaku
1) Yes, I liked the joke. ;)
2) I believe the game actually needs HP scores to ramp up for a variety of reasons, but WITHOUT damage output scaling to match (or exceed) it.
3) To be fair, Bill originally released as a “normal Trainer”, a.k.a. an Item. It might be a staple if it released as such now. He didn’t get turned into a Supporter until his third re-release!
4) The one who really got robbed is Giovanni’s Scheme (XY – BREAKthrough 138/162, 162/162). It isn’t as good as Professor Kukui most of the time, as you have to choose between drawing until you have five cards in hand OR getting that +20 to damage. Still, it saw a little success in competitive play… until about a year later when Professor Kukui showed us how to do it right. XD
5) Bill HAS been shown up with most of his other cards. Bill’s Teleporter saw little to no use because it released when Professor Elm was the main draw Trainer in decks… but Roller Skates, which is the same thing BUT drawing one card less, has had a tiny, tiny bit of successful use. If it sounds like I’m splitting hairs, the next one is Mail From Bill and that’s… the original Bicycle, which was a great card in several decks during its heyday. Bill’s Maintenance was part of the first wave of Supporters released and… it was iffy even back then. Shuffling a card away should have made it at least equal to stuff like Juggler and TV Reporter (released a few months and then a few MORE months after it), but the former let you discard more to draw more (even if both discards had to be Energy) while the latter drew the same amount BUT had you discard AFTER drawing. Professor Oak’s Visit should have had a pic of Professor Oak rolling his eyes at Bill, as it did the job RIGHT by moving the “shuffle a card into your deck” clause to AFTER the “draw three”.
Nos
Is this the only supporter card that cares whether or not it’s “in play” for a continuous effect? Back before BW supporter cards stayed on the field until the end of turn.
I can’t think of any interactions with supporters for this to even matter, Tropical Tidal Wave can’t hit your supporter. But there probably was design space for interactions had they left the rule in place.