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Poké-BODY ⇢ Intimidating Pattern
As long as Masquerain is your Active Pokémon, any damage done by an opponent’s attack is reduced by 20 (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
{G} → Skim Attack : 30
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illus. Masakazu Fukuda · LV.36
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Its antennae have eye patterns on them. Its four wings enable it to hover and fly in any direction.
feyblade
The insane thing is that, if we keep up with the current level of power creep, this sort of thing might be printable as a basic as of gen 6.
Shoopuf
And enter Lucario EX.
Shoopuf
There are 2 things that are really interesting about the wording of Intimidating Pattern.
1) It says to reduce the damage of the opponent’s attack, not just the damage done to Masquerain.
2) It says “*before* applying weakness and resistance”, which is quite unusual.
For a semi-competitive fun deck, I would run this Masquerain with SV Ninjask and Expert Belt for the Ninjask. I could circling dive back to the Masquerain and slowly widdle away at my opponents. And if I needed more cards, Skim Attack was great. No rates, super cheap, and stage 1’s meant it was FAST. People loved seeing it go.
Jiří z Poděbrad
“Intimidating Pattern” appears on a couple of other cards (most recently, “Shining Legends” Arbok
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