Hariyama · Mega Evolution (MEG) #073

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   Whirlpool

   (5 months ago)

   Second card printed in 2025 having this exact same ability.

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     Suspiciously cheese shapedWhirlpool

     (5 months ago)

     Except, for some reason, this card’s wording is unnecessarily long when the wording of Hop’s Dubwool is sufficient. I really don’t like this new, longer wording that pokemon with abilities that activate under specific conditions have started using since Mega Evolution.

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       SquirchampionSuspiciously cheese shaped

       (5 months ago)

       The Japanese text across the cards is identical. The new English text is a better translation of the source text. Since omitting things from the localized text caused so many of the problems and a lot of English rulings that wouldn’t have needed to exist otherwise, it’s a much better direction to take with translation work.

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         Suspiciously cheese shapedSquirchampion

         (5 months ago)

         Oh, really? Well if that’s the case, then this actually makes a lot of sense. Though, to be honest, I still like the old wording for these types of abilities better… Actually, does anyone know what the direct translation of torrential pump ( https://pkmncards.com/card/wellspring-mask-ogerpon-ex-twilight-masquerade-twm-064/ ) would be? Because it just occurred to me that maybe it’s a bad translation’s fault that torrential pump seems to function so unintuitively (sparking crystal lets you use the effect by shuffling 2 energy)

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           SquirchampionSuspiciously cheese shaped

           (5 months ago)

           I don’t notice any nothing wrong with the translation of Torrential Pump – nothing sticks out – so my guess is there’s something that’s probably insufficient with Sparkling Crystal’s translation.

           The thing is Sparking Crystal’s translation looks okay, too. But I don’t think it is… on the Japanese end, there is a subtle difference between the language the Japanese rulebooks use when discussing what we’d understand as talking about an attack’s “Energy cost” (e.g. a printed WCC to use the attack) as compared to the text on Sparking Crystal, which reads something more like “Energy necessary for the purposes of using the attack”, phrasing inclusive of both cost and the additional requirements as with Torrential Pump. These aren’t literal translations but off the cuff suggestions.

           The English translation of Sparking Crystal can look, but it’s talking about an attack’s “cost”, which I think most if not all English players are going to understand as talking about the printed Energy cost, and only the printed Energy cost. So you have something which I’d guess WASN’T intuitive the first time Japanese players read it, but made perfect sense after the nuance in the text of their Sparking Crystal was explained to them, but I don’t know how to explain it in a way that makes sense to English players looking at the text of the Sparking Crystal we got.

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   Venomoth

   (5 months ago)

   Very odd Pokemon to have that ability

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