Erika’s Kindness · Gym Challenge (G2) #103

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   feyblade

   (12 years ago)

   This is about as effective as a gold potion in trans damage decks, a prospect that was surely horrifying at the time. The drawback is severely mitigated by the fact that your enemy will most likely not have his damage spread out all over the place.

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   Henry VIII

   (3 years ago)

   I love the redundancy in these old cards. “If a Pokemon has just 1 damage counter, remove it.” Lol. Why the need to be so specific??

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     AmbassadorHenry VIII

     (2 years ago)

     It seems redundant now, but it’s a fair question when the game was getting going – “What if one of the Pokémon does not have 2 damage counters? Does being unable to fulfill the conditions of the card in full mean I can play the card but the effect fails, or does it mean I cannot play the card at all, or…?” It’s par for the course for me to point out differences in the JP>EN translation, and here the JP card does *not* have the “If a Pokemon has just 1 damage counter…” clarification, but it might’ve been a question that JP players asked often enough PCL might’ve passed a note along to WOTC to consider adding it to the card when they translated it.

     I’ve seen this sort of thing come up across translations over the years – most additions strike me as betraying a lack of confidence in the English playerbase and/or trying to fix legacy discrepancies in translation, but sometimes it seems motivated by something they might’ve liked to add to the JP card in hindsight, and the EN edition might as well add it. The most recent example I’ve come across is CRE Spiritomb – the EN adds a clarification regarding the function of Ghostly Cries the JP print did not, and it happens to correspond to a Q&A about that attack on pokemon-card.com.

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   Strč prst skrz krk

   (2 years ago)

   Let’s be honest: that Growlithe is probably still getting wet.

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