Hisuian Arcanine · Lost Origin (LOR) #TG08

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   Jiří z Poděbrad

   (3 years ago)

   Over on BRS Empoleon someone posted a strategy for discarding your hand to maximum effect. I’d only add that some useful new item cards have come out since then, like Lost Vacuum and Panic Mask.

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   Ambassador

   (3 years ago)

   I made a larger comment here that seems to have vanished into the ether (too long? hit a censorship flag? random glitch? dunno) but the original name of Very Vulnerable is はっぽうやぶれ – I’m not really contesting the translation, it’s a paraphrase of the idea but not unfair – and はっぽうやぶれ [“Happo Yabure”, you’ll get hits if you Google it!] seems like a historically significant term that relates to Japan’s foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s.

   It’d be like if Hisuian Goodra had an attack called “Iron Curtain” or Hisuian Avalugg had an attack called “Cold War”. It could arguably just be a ‘coincidence’, but they’d appear to be historical references on Pokémon that are themselves meant to be ‘historical references’ in the context of the franchise’s story. It’s at least a little suspicious.

   Not entirely sure, though. “Happo Yabure” might also be a ninjutsu term, and that would correlate it to ASR Hisuian Growlithe’s “Defensive Posture” or ぼうぎょしせい, which I could readily see being a martial arts term.

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3. 

   Burma

   (1 week ago)

   A similar attack appeared on Lost Thunder Granbull, and recently on Pitch Black Slowbro. Seems like an archetype that pops up every few years.

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