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Poké-BODY ⇢ Pump Up
If your opponent has 3 or less Prize cards left, Drifblim FB gets +40 HP.
{P}{C}{C} → Shadow Ball
Choose 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon. This attack does 40 damage to that Pokémon. Apply Weakness and Resistance.
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Psykicked
Pump Up’s effect makes it sound like you’re pumping up Drifblim’s arrogance
Psykicked (Edited)
Misread. Pumped up with insecurity seems a bit strange though…
Bob
This grammar is incorrect. It should read “3 or fewer.”
Twylis
The decision to make Shadow Ball, which would later appear on Plasma Freeze Espeon (now able to target the active), one of the very few attacks to apply weakness/resistance to the bench is a very cool thematic decision. Long before Dragon existed in the TCG, Psychic was iconic in its tendency to be weak to itself, since the Psychic and Ghost types within it are both weak to Ghost in the main series (and Poison, which was included from gens 4 to 7, is weak to Psychic).
Shadow Ball is probably the most iconic Ghost-type attack by far, so it feels oddly appropriate that the type all about being weak to itself largely due to its Ghost aspect would also get one of the only bench-damaging attacks with this distinction. It’s essentially a sniping move specifically for killing other Psychics! And Fighting types too, I guess.
Now that Psychic is uniformly weak to Darkness instead, I’d be surprised to see Shadow Ball ever make a reappearance again. It lost its whole underlying reasoning with the gen 8 weakness overhaul.