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Slowking · Neo Genesis (N1) #14

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Slowking · 80 HP · {P}
Pokémon (Slowking) › Stage 1 : Evolves from Slowpoke

Pokémon Power ⇢ Mind Games
Whenever your opponent plays a Trainer card, you may flip a coin. If heads, that card does nothing. Put it on top of your opponent’s deck. This power can’t be used if Slowking is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.

{P}{P}{P} → Mind Blast : 20+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage and the Defending Pokémon is now Confused. If tails, this attack does 20 damage.

weak: {P}×2 | resist: n/a | retreat: 3
illus. Ken Sugimori
Neo › Neo Genesis (N1) › #14/111 : Rare Holo · ↘ Dec 16, 2000
Formats: Other: 1999–2001 · Modified: 2002, 2003
External: Bulba ↗ · Shop: TCGplayer ↗, cardmarket ↗, eBay ↗
When its head was bitten, toxins entered Slowpoke’s head and unlocked an extraordinary power.

Rating

Overall: 100.00% (142 wins, 0 losses)

Within Set & Formats:

  • Neo Genesis: 100% (1 win, 0 losses)
  • BS-on (1999–2001): 100% (9 wins, 0 losses)
  • Neo-on (Modified 2003): 100% (11 wins, 0 losses)
  • RO-on (Modified 2002): 100% (9 wins, 0 losses)

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12 comments

  1. reshikrom64

    (10 years ago)

    10/10 before I found about mistranslation…-2/10 afterwards.

    Reply
  2. Mantidactyle

    (10 years ago)

    BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

    Reply
  3. Curtis

    (10 years ago)

    Technically never received errata. I’d say it should be banned from Unlimited until it does, but that format has much more broken cards to worry about.

    Reply
  4. coolestman22

    (10 years ago)

    Oh god the Sneazel Slowking format was broken. Glad I didn’t play then!

    Oh wait. I played during the SP era. That was almost as bad. And now the EX era.

    I wish we could just ban ND and go back to Cities format. That was fun.

    Reply
    • Mantidactyle coolestman22

      (10 years ago)

      You’re harsh.
      SP was nowhere as bad as Slowking – Sneasel – Murkrow.

      Imagine playing 8 battles in a row in a National having to flip like 10 coins every turn… :D

      Reply
  5. NicholasInzeo

    (10 years ago)

    broken! yet he looks so innocent

    Reply
  6. charzbarz

    (10 years ago)

    if both card effects are a chance of working right, how is this broken? its a chance card that can be one shot by most basic pokemon?

    i havent been playing for long so bare with me if theres something about this card i dont know.

    Reply
    • coolestman22charzbarz

      (10 years ago)

      First of all, there were no EX’s, Pokemon Catcher, or basics with 130 HP back then. 1 for 20 was considered good.

      Second of all, if you set up four Slowking, your opponent has to flip four coins, and if even one is tails the trainer doesn’t go through. Imagine having a 6.25% chance of being able to play a Junk Arm, then even if it went through you’d have a 6.25% chance of it working. That’s about (my math might not be 100%) a 1.0375 chance of it working.

      Reply
    • Chuck Rancor charzbarz

      (10 years ago)

      Well back when this is a card, at least if my understanding is right, 80 HP is a bit harder to one shot. Today, you’d still need either Catcher(which Slowking can prevent), or a pokemon with an ability, that brings to the active. Either way, you have a card that’s denying half of the opponent’s trainers and piling them up on top of his deck.

      Reply
  7. Curtis

    (10 years ago)

    So because this Power was mistranslated as stackable, people got out multiples at a time, that much I understand. But did battles ever break down to Slowking trades? Eventually you’d probably KO whatever else they had, especially at the molasses pace the game had been reduced to. Seems like you’re almost forced to be prepared to attack with it.

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  8. Twylis

    (4 months ago)

    The fact Wizards banned Sneasel before this mistranslated monstrosity still bothers me. Sneasel was strong, sure, but the also-broken trainers of the era provided strong counters to it (especially the Energy Removals). Couldn’t rely on them with this thing in existence, though.

    Lends credence to the theory that Wizards mistranslated this on purpose because they didn’t like the fast-paced trainer-driven gameplay.

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    • TwylisTwylis

      (4 months ago)

      Looking into it further, to call this a mistranslation is itself rather misleading. The card was translated correctly, there was just an entire line left out:
      “You may use this Power if Slowking is your Active Pokémon.”
      So unless they just didn’t understand the game well enough to know what that meant and were trying to save on card space, this “mistranslation” was 100% deliberate.

      I hate Wizards.

      Reply

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