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- ↓ 48.00
- ꩜ 60.97
- ↑ 182.02
{M}{C} → Metal Reversal : 40
Before doing damage, you may choose 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon and switch it with 1 of the Defending Pokémon. Your opponent chooses the Defending Pokémon to switch. If you do, this attack does 40 damage to the new Defending Pokémon.
{M}{M}{C}{C} → Extra Comet Punch : 50+
During your next turn, Extra Comet Punch does 50 damage plus 50 more damage.
· Pokémon-ex rule: When Pokémon-ex has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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· Metal Reversal previously appeared on AQ Metal Cube 01!
· “Extra Comet Punch” probably should’ve been translated to “Meteor Mash” to match the way the video games translated the attack コメットパンチ, but コメットパンチ is literally “Comet Punch” so I can see what happened here. The Generation 1 move we know as ‘Comet Punch’, れんぞくパンチ, would’ve been better translated as “Consecutive Punch”, or “Repeat Punch”, but, well, character limits, so we ended up with Comet Punch.
So here comes Ruby and Sapphire with an attack that is literally “Comet Punch”, but they’ve already used that name. In the video games, they invented a name – Meteor Mash – and in the TCG, they went with ..whatever they tried to do here, I guess. Be faithful to the actual name of the attack, without overlapping with the other move they’ve already translated as Meteor Mash, I guess? It’d be nice if they’d done it without invoking “Extra”, which is something of a loaded term on a Pokémon 𝒆𝒙, but I like it.