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Lt. Surge’s Spearow · Gym Heroes (G1) #52

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Lt. Surge’s Spearow · 30 HP · {C}
Pokémon (Spearow) › Basic : Evolves into Lt. Surge’s Fearow · is: Lt. Surge’s

{C} → Drill Peck : 20

weak: {L}×2 | resist: {F}-30 | retreat: 0
illus. Ken Sugimori · LV.8
Gym › Gym Heroes (G1) › #52/132 : Uncommon · ↘ Aug 14, 2000
Formats: Other: 1999–2001 · Modified: 2002
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Rating

Overall: 61.90% (13 wins, 8 losses)

Within Set & Formats:

  • Gym Heroes: n/a (0 wins, 0 losses)
  • BS-on (1999–2001): 50% (1 win, 1 loss)
  • RO-on (Modified 2002): 100% (1 win, 0 losses)

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  1. Ambassador

    (2 years ago)

    Despite appearing to be a strictly worse card than the other Lt. Surge’s Spearow;
    [1] 20 for {C} is often better than Whirlwind for {C}
    [2] There’s something I remember recently reading about this card being decent bait to kill Fossil Ditto. The idea would be to get even a single 10 damage count on Ditto, and then switch this card in, attack it, and it dies. Other cards with 30 HP, 20-for-a-single-Energy, and free Retreat Cost¹ that would be relevant to the era in question include, but may not be limited to, Base Set Rattata, Base Set Abra², WBSP11 Eevee, SI Mew³, and N2 Hoppip⁴.

    ¹ Not necessary for the sake of being a cheap Ditto killer, but it helps.
    ² Abra is only doing 10 damage, but Ditto will copy Abra’s weakness to {P}, meaning Psyshock will effectively do 20.
    ³ It’s doing it as an effect so it’s a bit dicey, but given Ditto will be copying said Mew, who doesn’t have any protections against it, you should be fine.
    ⁴ There seems to actually be only so many cards subsequent that satisfy this criteria, which is a bit surprising, but || hp:30 text:”20″ rc:0 || might have some gaps I’m overlooking (e.g. Base Set Abra wasn’t caught in this search).

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