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Ability ⇢ Exploding Energy
Once during your turn, you may search your deck for up to 5 Basic {G} Energy cards and attach them to your Pokémon in any way you like. Then, shuffle your deck. If you searched your deck in this way, this Pokémon is Knocked Out.
{G}{G} → Guard Press : 120
During your opponent’s next turn, this Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
· Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
· Tera Pokémon ex rule: As long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks (both yours and your opponent’s).
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Exploding Energy can be read as a tweak on the old Electrode 𝒆𝒙’s Extra Energy Bomb, wherein you are KOing your own 2 prizer to attach 5 Energy cards to your Pokémon. In terms of power creep, we don’t expect anything huge here – Electrode GX is a retrain and it saw fit to port over the exact same power without any tweaks. There are some pros/cons here I think are worth going through, though;
1. Forretress 𝒆𝒙 is letting your search for Energy from your deck, Electrode 𝒆𝒙 is pulling from discard. (Forretress 𝒆𝒙 can help with setup in the early game, and Electrode 𝒆𝒙 could be able to as well if you play some cards with discard requirements, but it’s not as effortless, and you’re not deck-thinning.)
2. Forretress 𝒆𝒙 can attach cards to any Pokémon, Electrode 𝒆𝒙 would not allow attachments to the other multi-prizers of the era. Forretress 𝒆𝒙 is likely to help out a few multi-prizers with heavy Energy requirements, and in Expanded I wonder if you’ll see it enabling certain Tag Team’s GX attacks.
3. Forretress 𝒆𝒙 is limited to Basic {G} Energy, Electrode 𝒆𝒙 was able to attach *any* Energy. Particularly in Gen 3’s TCG we should bear in mind that Darkness and Metal were still limited to being available only as Special Energy cards, and though Gen 3 increased the number of Special Energy in circulation that had those types on hand, you had limited options for recovering those Energy once they were in the discard. Electrode 𝒆𝒙, therefore, was a (crucial?) component of a lot of decks of the era.
They’re different cards, but the similarity is intentional. Electrode 𝒆𝒙’s KO actually could work to your benefit in the Gen 3 meta, as being behind 2 prizes might allow the sudden activation of any Scramble Energy you had attached (and hey, why not use Electrode 𝒆𝒙 to attach them?). That the set with Forretress 𝒆𝒙 in it also has Reversal Energy in it is not a coincidence, as it’s replicating a similar dynamic, although neither Scramble nor Reversal work with multiprizers, and Forretress wouldn’t be able to attach them for you.