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{C} → Tongue Wrap : 10
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
{C}{C} → Supersonic
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.
illus. Mitsuhiro Arita · LV.26
Formats: Other: 1999–2001
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Its tongue can be extended like a chameleon’s. It leaves a stinging sensation when it licks enemies.
coolestman22
And you thought the gen 5 pokemon were bad.
Dark Kira
It’s funny how the first attack is almost always strictly better than the second one
SeanB1014
Lickitung has been my bro from the beginning.
Whirlpool
I hope she peels those bananas
before eating them!
John Jacobson
Most underrated basic of all time.
Charmaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dIl45lXB8 Well, here’s Lickitung’s life story, if anyone wants to hear jwittz tell the story about how Lickitung got the recognition it deserved.
(Though, to be fair, its play style IS a bit slow for the time limits many events used back then.)
Warnock 2022
This was the first ‘sonic’ move to cause confusion. Here are some variations on it:
Sabrina’s Venomoth has “Sonic Distortion”
Koga’s Crobat has “Sonic Scream”
T. Magma’s Lairon has “Land Sonic”
DF Vibrava has “Sonic Noise,” and
XY Trainer Kit Noivern has “Sonic Bazooka“
Charmaster
Interesting you mention Sabrina’s Venomoth, because it was one of the first cards printed after Japan’s Confusion errata that could inflict Confusion, and its significantly higher odds of landing Confusion reflect that. Yes, confused Pokémon used to straight-up attack themselves if you failed the confusion coin flip (https://jklaczpokemon.com/original-rules/#confused-attack)! For this reason, attacks that confused Pokémon generally cost two Energy and had a 50% chance of confusion, with the luxury of doing 10 damage in the process being reserved for ‘mons who payed two COLORED Energy. Contrast that to Sabrina’s Venomoth… sure, it’s a stage 1, but it only needs one Energy to do 10 damage and flip two coins for a 75% chance at confusion! AND it has free retreat!
Fortunately for post-nerf confusion (And confusion as the first international players knew it), the status condition was still far stronger than its modern day counterpart. If a confused Pokémon tried retreating, there was a 50% chance it would fail to retreat but still discard all Energy attached to it in the process! And while a confused Pokémon only did 20 damage to itself if it failed to attack, 20 damage was a quarter of most Pokémon’s HP in 1999! Oh, and Pokémon hit themselves for weakness and resistance with confusion damage, which is fine for Gligar but not so fun for Mewtwo (https://jklaczpokemon.com/pokemon-wotc-rules/).
Pidgeotto the master one
I was a bad player when a child, but one of the few things I can be proud is that I recognized this was a good card since that time