Manectric (Dragons Exalted DRX 43)

Text // Rating: 80% // Proxies // Rulings // Discussion: 7

Manectric – Lightning – 90 HP
Stage 1 – Evolves from Electrike

[L] Energy Crush: 20× damage. Does 20 damage times the amount of Energy attached to all of your opponent’s Pokémon.

[L][C][C] Flash Impact: 80 damage. Does 20 damage to 1 of your Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Weakness: Fighting ×2
Resistance: none
Retreat Cost: 0

Illus. Naoyo Kimura
Dragons Exalted – 43/124 – Rare

It discharged electricity from its mane. It creates a thundercloud overhead to drop lightning bolts.

Adam Capriola

Who rated this so high?
- mantidactyle
  
  I just did several ratings to decrease its rating, but got it paired against a lot of junk, so its rating actually increased… :/
  - Will Whiteside
    
    If there’s one thing the random pairings has taught me, it’s that there’s a stupendous amount of pokemon with stats that are identical to this, plus or minus a bit of HP, a coin toss, or a retreat cost value:
    
    Random Pokemon
    60 HP. (W)[C]: Tackle. 10[WC]: ATTACKNAME. 20
    
    Weakness: E x 2.Resistance: N/A
    Retreat: *
    Flavor: “Quick, power on the DS and copy down the pokemon’s Pokedex entry!”~ Professor Oak.
    Illustration: Ken Sugimori/SUI/etc
    (Common)(insert set symbol here)
    
    You know, if they actually printed common unevolved mons with attacks that have nice effects stapled onto them (or, god forbid, meaningful pokebodies or poke powers!) we might not be having so much of a problem with EXs and Musketeers.
    - Ziggmiceter
      
      How do you like with the new format of Disqus?
- Ziggmiceter
  
  It’s better than most of the cards it’s paired up against, good cards are few and far between in this system. Most of the time I get commons/uncommons from the ex series. Which is understandable because it easily has the highest chance of happening.
  - Adam Capriola
    
    It was at 95% with 100 impressions, something seemed fishy.
Will Whiteside

I have no clue. This will (at best) be lolsy tech against Rain dance( “attach 10 energies in one turn? Ok, but now I’m going to deal 400 damage in one hit!”) but it gets revenge killed too easily for it to get its job done.