Unown · Unseen Forces (UF) #L

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   Ambassador L

   (3 years ago)

   The effect of Unown L’s Hidden Power is identical to the effect of Life Drain, an attack that previously appeared on RS Kirlia #35 and Sabrina’s Kadabra.

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     AmbassadorAmbassador L

     (2 years ago)

     On Sabrina’s Kadabra, Life Drain had a number of cracked combos available at its disposal for OHKO opportunities, and so did Kirlia. One, as proposed in Vol. 27 of Pokémon Card Trainers Magazine, is to combo it with EX Vileplume’s Poison Pollen – creating a 50% chance for a de facto OHKO every single turn. It’d get a bit awkward on tails, but your opponent still has a Pokémon 10 HP away from a KO, and if they try and call your bluff by leaving it in for another turn, you could either Switch or Retreat your Kirlia, Memory Berry it, and keep going. (As an alternate to Vileplume, SK Beedrill is an interesting way of guaranteeing Poison-via-Power.)

     All this ends up surviving rotation, as Poison Pollen comes back for the PCG block on Vileplume δ, and Life Drain returns, albeit secretly, on Unown L. This is a potentially more agile implementation of the combo – you can’t Memory Berry Unown to give it any secondary utility, but it does have access to Shuffle, which creates an interesting opportunity to pivot around and decide what you want to do based on how your flip on Poison Pollen goes. Actually, you’re even able to do one better with PK Cacturne’s Poison Structure, which has access to a scenario where Poison is guaranteed, and could enable Unown L to hand out Ls turn after turn after turn.

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       EctoCandyAmbassador

       (2 years ago)

       Neat that you mention this now, as there’s actually a similar deck popping up here and there in the current meta, using the new PAL Clodsire ex and PGO Alolan Raticate. The player gets a Stadium in play – generally Mesagoza to help out with the high Pokémon demands of the deck – and then uses Toxic Wetland and Super Fang each turn for a knockout. What’s really handy is that the deck can also use Reversal Energy to instantly power up an Alolan Raticate in a pinch. The deck probably isn’t quite so cracked, though, as it has some steep energy demands and a lot of vulnerability to Boss’s Orders and Path to the Peak.

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