Hitmonlee · Unseen Forces (UF) #25

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   feyblade

   (9 years ago)

   One has to wonder why they didn’t bother to explicitly state that Stages of Evolution impacts Stretch Kick. While stretch kick -does- say that it ‘does damage’ to a benched pokemon, the TCG has historically been very restrictive about allowing damage-increasing effects to affect bench-targeting moves. I can only imagine that a few arguments broke out over the ambiguity.

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     VMachadofeyblade

     (8 years ago)

     Think, in this case, the Stretch Kick attack deals 30 damage to any pokémon, despite it is benched or Active. But it still doesn’t apply weakness or resistance to benched ones.

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     tototavrosfeyblade

     (8 years ago)

     Different era, maybe?

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     Nosrednafeyblade

     (4 years ago)

     I know this is an old comment, but the Poke-Body says “Opponent’s Pokemon” not “Opponent’s Active Pokemon” which is the usual text. That’s how you know the bonus damage is applied to both Active and Benched

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       OtakuNosredna

       (4 years ago)

       Unfortunately, it isn’t that simple in this case, as we’re looking at older cards that used the rules of the time, not what we have now. We also need to consider what the Japanese version of the card says, because it is possible they just left out “Active”.

       I do not believe that is the case, though during the time this card was Standard Format-legal, there was a general understanding that nothing added to Bench-damage. However, when I went looking I could find no such ruling!

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         TgurneuOtaku

         (4 years ago)

         Looking at the japanese card (A google search for “サワムラー 070/106” should give it), and comparing it to Hariyama (Delta Species DS 44, “ハリテヤマ 055/086”) it’d seem the same words for referring to “Pokémon” (ポケモン) and “Active Pokémon” (バトルポケモン) was used as it’s being used today (reference for latter, Incineroar from Unbroken Bonds).

         So based on that it’d seem like all Pokémon from the era with the “Stages of Evolution” Poké-Body do indeed do 20 more damage to all Pokémon, not just the active (for reference, rest of the relevant sentence is on an identical format, only change is the keyword mentioned above and the damage amount depending on the card).

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   Blob Takeshi

   (7 years ago)

   First Hitmonlee since Expedition (12 sets ago)!

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