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- ↓ 4.10
- ꩜ 24.27
- ↑ 30.94
{C} → Life Drain
Flip a coin. If heads, put damage counters on the Defending Pokémon until it is 10 HP away from being Knocked Out.
{P}{P}{C} → Shadow Dance
Put 4 damage counters on your opponent’s Pokémon in any way you like. Then, switch Gengar with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
illus. Kagemaru Himeno · LV.39
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It hides in shadows. It is said that if Gengar is hiding, it cools that area by nearly 10 degrees F.
TheFlub
A reprint of this in this format with Fliptini, Dusknoir, and Catcher would be awesome.
coolestman22
Raticate, but that has low HP.
Mantidactyle
This is a Rare Stage 2 Pokémon with an attack from an Uncommon Stage 1 Pokémon (Kirlia RS 35).
That’s bad imo.
feyblade
Raticate BCR gets Life Drain without without the coin toss(which seriously augments its synergy with poison hypnotic beam), but its nearly defenseless before the third energy attachment.
tototavros
And…..now Raticate Break being an uncandyable stage 2 w/ that attack for [c][c] w/o a coin flip.
Blob Takeshi
You know this is an early dex entry, because they spell Gengar in all caps.