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Machoke (Stormfront SF 41)
Machoke — 80 HP — [F]
Stage 1 — Evolves from Machop
[F] Steady Punch: 20+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage.
[F][C] Brick Break: 30
This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Resistance, Poké-Powers, Poké-Bodies, or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon.
weakness: [P]+20
resistance:
retreat: 2
Illus. Sachiko Adachi
Stormfront — 41/100 — Uncommon
Machoke’s boundless power is very dangerous, so it wears a belt that suppresses its energy.
feyblade
I guess the theory they were operating under was that it’s ok to give a pokemon a relatively weak mid stage if they gave it a patently absurd stage 2 form.