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Pokémon Power ⇢ Sneak Attack
When you play Dark Golbat from your hand, you may choose 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. If you do, Dark Golbat does 10 damage to that Pokémon. Apply Weakness and Resistance.
{G}{G} → Flitter
Choose 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. This attack does 20 damage to that Pokémon. Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack. (Any other effects that would happen after applying Weakness and Resistance still happen.)
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Sneaks up silently on its prey and attacks it from behind, sometimes killing it with one bite.
Adam Capriola
I never realized Crobat G was a throwback to this. Huh!
Blob Takeshi
So TR gave it to Cyrus?
TCG ONE
“Apply Weakness and Resistance.” Is that OK?
Adam Capriola
I think there was probably a mistranslation there. I think it’s supposed to read “Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack. (Any other effects still happen.)” Other effects would be stuff like Pokemon-Powers or attacks that affect damage.
inatspong
Judging from the lack of space after the period, I kind of assumed is was just a typo. Whoever was writing card text may not have been paying attention to what they were doing.
feyblade
Apparently-and I haven’t personally tested this, I was just told this by a friend- weakness and resistance ARE applied to this attack in the Japanese-only sequel to the gameboy game. It’s likely not a typo at all.
Adam Capriola
Weakness and Resistance are applied to the Bench? I could see it being applied to the Active possibly, but it is very rare to see Bench enforced Weakness/Resistance. This is one of the only cards I know of that does so:
HEZ
I was wondering when they were going to issue errata for Espeon but I guess it’s correct!
I saw this played on Saturday, deals with quite a few things like benched Fossil Muk and does a respectable 70-80 to Gardevoir and Gallade for just 1 Energy!
Adam Capriola
Yep, it’s definitely correct! Drifblim FB also has Shadow Ball (though it costs a couple more Energy and can only hit the Bench).
100000Volts
According to Bulbapedia, it suppose to say “Don’t apply weakness and resistance”.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Error_cards#Original_Series
Ambassador
Feyblade’s comment w/r/t how the Power functions in TCG 2 felt worth investigating. I can confirm Weakness and Resistance is NOT applied for this Power. For completeness, I trialled testing this for both the opponent’s Active Pokémon and their Benched Pokémon. It is absolutely a mistranslation.
TCG ONE
Considering Elekid N1, it may not be a typo at all.
Jack Stensrud
New deck idea: Dark Golbat/Vileplume/Devolution Spray/Base Set Porygon
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Sounds fun. It gets even better if Base Set Porygon is replaced with Cool Porygon.