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- ↓ 0.11
- ꩜ 0.55
- ↑ 3.15
{L} → Drill Peck : 20
{L}{L}{C} → Raging Thunder : 120
This attack does 40 damage to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
illus. Hitoshi Ariga
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A legendary Pokémon that is said to live in thunderclouds. It freely controls lightning bolts.
100000Volts
Best Zapdos drawing yet. Love everything about it. The aerial view, the static, the well detail of Zapdos. It may have a 0% gameplay, but 100% on artwork.
Sam
This was always one of the more disappointing rare pulls but up close it looks better.
David Peters
There was actually a short period where this Zapdos was played in M. Manectric-EX builds by a few guys. Raikou is currently the better option, though: Infinite damage cap, more tolerable Weakness, and a good defensive Ability.
Otaku
The card’s problem was one of timing; it released at a time when a big, Basic, non-Pokémon-EX Lightning Type beatstick just wasn’t in demand. Drill Peck isn’t great, but it isn’t bad. Raging Thunder does a good (just not great) 120-for-three, with a drawback that is easy to eliminate or capitalize upon, often using cards that already fit the deck. The Weakness is quite context sensitive as well; being one of the few Lightning Types that is Lightning Weak instead of Fighting and in fact is Fighting Resistant makes it a nice addition for a mono- or mostly Lightning Type deck.
Yes in the end, it released at a time when all of this was in low demand, and as you state, Raikou (XY: BREAKthrough 55/162) just outperforms it. Damage you can scale based on your Energy investment works well so long as the combination of base damage/bonus-per-Energy hits a sweet spot, and on that card it certainly does.
100000Volts
I enjoy reading your comments, Otaku. Even though I never played pokemon TCG, I like your explanation on the cards. Thanks for the tips.