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{C} → Sob : 20
During your opponent’s next turn, the Defending Pokémon can’t retreat.
{W}{C}{C} → Torrential Pump : 100
You may shuffle 3 Energy attached to this Pokémon into your deck. If you do, this attack also does 120 damage to 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
· Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
· Tera Pokémon ex rule: As long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks (both yours and your opponent’s).
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burma
With the new Sparkling Crystal ACE SPEC tool, Torrential Pump can be used for only one double Turbo Energy. Including the bench-sniping effect.
Super powerful combo!!
Guest
Can someone confirm it’s true? Thanks
Anon
It’s not true, since 2 does not equal 3.
EctoCandy
It is true – it’s not released yet, but the upcoming ACE SPEC Sparkling Crystal reduces a Tera Pokémon’s energy costs by 1 of any type of energy. So, you can attach Sparkling Crystal to fulfill the water energy requirement, then Double Colorless Energy to fill the two colorless energy requirements.
Guest
But if you only have 2 Energy, how can you hit the Bench? I didn’t know what the ACE SPEC does but it looks like a Tool, not an Energy. So how can the attack shuffle it into the deck?
Anon
The ACE SPEC doesn’t get shuffled into the deck; it reduces the attack’s cost by {W}, so it can be performed with a Double Turbo attached. A player could then perform the “You may shuffle 3 Energy attached to this Pokemon into your deck” effect, even if you had only had 2 attached, by following the ‘do as much as you can’ meta rule.
Even though you can shuffle in the Double Turbo, though, that’s still only 2 Energy, so when you check to see whether you’ve shuffled in 3 Energy (the “If you do” portion of the attack), you’d fail to hit the bench.
Guest
It could be better if the site got rid of the comment system and replaced it with something else. Sometime the comments are wrong and there’s no fact checking to delete a post if it’s wrong.
burma
The Japanese judges have already ruled on it. This isn’t speculation.
https://youtu.be/XCbA3BWn2qQ?si=kB4VRs2QT09qMPrV
Guest
I don’t have time to watch 16 minute video. It is not even an official channel and you make a lot of spam
Zob
“Official Proof” is shown at 3:48, though sadly I haven’t found a link to the Japanese website this person allegedly got their screenshots from. I disagree with this ruling, but this youtuber wouldn’t have 140k subscribers if they were wrong about such key elements of the card game, so I think it is true.
Will they arbitrarily decide that “discarding” is interpreted differently from “shuffling”? For example, since the crystal ace spec has been proven to modify the numbers on “shuffling” effects, now do you only need to discard 1 energy if the printed effect is “discard 2”? That would allow you to spam Greninja EX (tera) double bench snipe for 1 energy discard per turn. What about “all energy”, does that become “all but 1” when crystal is attached?
I think this ruling makes a mess of things.
Guest
The Sparkling Crystal does not “modify” the effect of shuffling energy into your deck in any way. This interaction is allowed due to the “do as much as you can” rules of the game. Additionally, the ruling comes straight from the official Japanese Pokemon TCG website. It is not sourced by the creator of the video, which is stupid, but it is 100% official.
BillehBawb
the comments are literally the main reason I come on this site and you are actively rejecting correct information being laid out in front of you lol
Guest
It’s the main reason I come to the website too. There are good comments but sometimes people come here and they bury the good comments under their spam of less helpful comments. “This card is good in decks!” but they don’t explain why the card is good in decks and it isn’t helpful. “This is interesting!” but only if you don’t know anything. “This is infamous!” but I’ve never heard anyone talk about it. So what does infamous mean? Or here they say something but it is not even sure if it is true, so people have to check. It feels like homework and it is not fun. If it was every once in a while it would be ok but there is obviously times I can come to the website and read comments and learn cool information. Other times I come to the website and just read junk comments.
burma
The YouTube channel I linked is run by Ross Gilbert, @thewossy, who is an official TPCi announcer for Worlds 2024 :) so he’s pretty well-vetted with his info!
Guest
Don’t you get it? First, you didn’t link the information. So it’s not the same. I don’t trust you. Many of your posts are wrong. I had to look up the information myself. Also, I don’t know who that person is. It’s kind of like saying you can trust the announcer at the baseball game to know who next year’s first round draft picks will be. And linking to the Youtube channel with no timestamp isn’t helpful. Your posts are not good. The other people have links and explanations. You just say things with no proof or any more information.
burma
why the hostility?? Is that really appropriate??
Jack
@Guest – you could do to be kinder. If you’re coming here for facts, you’re in the wrong place. If you want facts and fact-checking, you’re probably better off with a wiki such as Bulbapedia, which has trivia sections on some cards and has a host of administrators and TCG volunteers who are passionate about the game. It’s not always 100% accurate, such is the nature of public-editable wikis, but it can be fixed and updated as required. If you want information about what is or has been good competitively, well, some of that is on Bulbapedia too, or you might find something on sites such as PokéBeach which have articles about the competitive game – admittedly behind a paywall in many cases, but few things in life are free.
This site, however, is provided to you and all of us for free by an extremely dedicated team. Coming in and saying the site should get rid of the comment system because there are a few comments you disagree with or dislike is not cool, and frankly selfish, with no thought given to the rest of us who like to talk about these cards just because they’re neat. Sometimes people get things wrong, and that’s okay, because it’s human nature. You don’t get to dictate to anyone how to use this website, because it isn’t yours.
I’d ask you politely, as a fellow fan and user of this site, to quit picking on burma too. Maybe you aren’t aware that’s what your doing, but it feels like it from where I’m sitting, and it’s not a good look.
Guest
Well I am sorry if I sound mean, but this is backwards. A couple of weeks ago, the front page had a lot of good comments. Now, this person is posting short, unhelpful stuff. Good posts get lost or buried under the bad ones. Where did all the interesting conversation go? I liked C. Ezra’s posts, but they’re pushed off the front page now. This person posted 12 times. “Reprint incoming!!” OK? I saw that in news already. I cannot find posts like Ezra’s on news. And does it bother people when someone posts “first!” on forums? Yes, it does, and those posts get deleted because they interrupt better comments. So the situation is that it’s burma who is being unkind to the other posters and also the readers like me. And actually I didn’t want to say say that comment system have to be deleted completely, just replaced with something that lets people see the good comments and not the bad ones. I don’t have to pay to read good posts on the internet, other websites get rid of the bad posts automatically.