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- ↓ 2.99
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{R}{C} → V-create : 100
If you have 4 or fewer Benched Pokémon, this attack does nothing.
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This Pokémon brings victory. It is said that Trainers with Victini always win, regardless of the type of encounter.
Quarter-Turn
This card is underrated. “V-create” 2HKOs anything, including EXs, and can be streamed with EXP Share. It’s not the best card out there, but it’s quite good.
coolestman22
The thing about Victini streams with Exp. Share is it doesn’t hit for a common weakness and you have to fill up your bench for it to work.
Quarter-Turn
Yep. Maybe if Fire weakness ever becomes popular, we can build this deck. I built this for league in a 70-HP-and-under format, and found that keeping the bench full isn’t too difficult.
coolestman22
Yeah, but you’d have to play more basics and it couldn’t be Tier 1 because of Ditto.
Mantidactyle
Who plays Ditto ? :P
And anyway, you can Catcher it and get a free KO. 40 damage isn’t too hard to achieve.
Curtis
If a Victini swarm deck were to make it to T1, everyone would play Ditto.
Sure, Ditto is easy to KO, but what would be your backup attacker in a deck like this anyways? Tonadus?
Quarter-Turn
Even Tyrogue and a PlusPower gets the job done.
Mind you, Ditto will probably be rotated out before (if ever) Fire weakness becomes a thing.
coolestman22
Not necessarily. There might not be a rotation this year, mind you, and Registeel-EX is coming out next set, which is like a faster, tankier Kyurem.
coolestman22
You would need a backup attacker because you’d have to fill your bench, so Tornadus probably.
Charmaster
This Victini was used by the 2013 Seniors finalist, Clement Lamberton, as a tech attacker in https://pkmncards.com/card/rayquaza-ex-dragons-exalted-drx-85/ / https://pkmncards.com/card/eelektrik-noble-victories-nvi-40/ (Source: https://www.ptcglegends.com/tournaments/2013_WORLDS/seniors/Clement%20Lamberton-FR). It excelled at OHKOing Grass and Metal type Pokémon EX, such as https://pkmncards.com/card/cobalion-ex-plasma-storm-pls-93/ , https://pkmncards.com/card/virizion-ex-plasma-blast-plb-9/ and https://pkmncards.com/card/genesect-ex-plasma-blast-plb-11/. Another Victini that could play a similar niche was https://pkmncards.com/card/victini-ex-plasma-storm-pls-18/, which can accelerate Energy or deal 100 damage for free while the ACE SPEC https://pkmncards.com/card/victory-piece-plasma-storm-pls-130/ is attached.
That being said, 100 damage for 2 Energy was never enough to carry an entire Quad Victini archetype, in spite of the discussion above. For that reason, I am greatly perplexed that V-create Victini’s spiritual successor, printed nearly FOURTEEN years and an additional 140 HP in max stats power creep later, only does TWENTY more damage for the same Energy cost!
https://pkmncards.com/card/victini-black-bolt-blk-012/ That’s not even Gym Leader Challenge levels of viable! One hundred and THIRTY damage was the magic number last time I checked, so it needs a damage buff just to knock out common basic attackers in that format! (Definitely still knocks out tons of common Pokémon, but a lot of them would be bench sitters.)
Speaking of 130, that’s another thing that hasn’t been power crept since 2011… it was a common HP for many legendaries back then, and it remains so today. Maybe not OHKOing single prize techs was part of why Victini/Exp. Share never became a thing. (Common cards like https://pkmncards.com/card/crushing-hammer-emerging-powers-epo-92/ and https://pkmncards.com/card/tool-scrapper-dragons-exalted-drx-116/ could also explain it, or perhaps bench damage from https://pkmncards.com/card/darkrai-ex-dark-explorers-dex-63/ was the culprit.)