Dustox ex · Legend Maker (LM) #86

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   feyblade

   (12 years ago)

   “It shrouded itself with safeguard!”

   This line just has too many “ifs” to be something that’s truly powerful. IF they attack this as a wurmple and fail to KO it, Silver Wind will be buffed up. IF you get a head on the coins toss as cascoon, you can attack for 70 on turn 2. IF they are relying on an evolved pokemon EX, this will shut them down. If the stars align right, you are pushing out 90 damage (from their two turn transitions worth of poison damage and silver wind) and blocking out their attacks.
   If any link in this chain is broken, you’re looking at a dead wurmple, a virtually useless cascoon (seriously..nothing but ** for 20? What?), or an underwhelming EX pokemon that deals good damage on turn 3 before yielding 2 prize cards and putting you at a disadvantage.
   It’s an exciting card to field and it’s not a bad line, but it’s just not the best pokemon to use

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   Richard Rich

   (2 years ago)

   A moth so powerful it had to be nerfed with TWO weaknesses…

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   Crystal

   (2 years ago)

   Is this 3D CG or “2D” artwork? Before you answer it’s 2D, note that almost every other Pokémon-ex Arita was credited for appears to be 3D CG artwork. Tyranitar 𝒆𝒙 is another one I’m not confident on. (If this is 2D artwork, I’d feel pretty confident suggesting this was originally a one-prizer whose HP got buffed so as to add another Pokémon-ex to the set, it doesn’t seem like a very good two-prizer at all..)

   https://pkmncards.com/?s=is%3Aex-%E2%86%93+%40mitsuhiro-arita

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     TwylisCrystal

     (2 years ago)

     I’d say they’re both pretty definitively 3D, just with a lot of shading effects that create a 2D aesthetic. I suspect Arita might actually use 3D models he creates as an aid when doing his 2D art, given his level of detail and complexity while still being very “clean” and unstylized

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