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2011-10-11 TM Bellsprout 057

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[gal=51110]2011-10-11 TM Bellsprout 057[/gal]​
 
Very situational, but in those situations, man, is it useful! Normally used to counter vileplume decks or gothitelle reuniclus decks by dragging up vileplume and reuniclus, respectively. The problem is, it has only 40 hp, which means its a free prize for yammega. Overall, a decent card, but not one that I'd recommend for all decks.

6/10
 
I tried teching it. It only sort of works against Goth. Most of their decks run DCE to speed up attacks and can use those for an instant retreat. Its ok, but not good enough to change matchups very much. It is also a horrible lead. 4.5/10
 
Itss best with Rescue energy. i think there gets to a point where, with a an Aipom UL, you'll wate them out of DCE and leave them stuck active. Overall, for a basic of a stage 2 Pokemon, its good.

6/10
 
Carnivine is cooler :(

I wouldn't play it personally, but whatever rocks your boat I guess.
For what it does it's not that good, but one of the only things in the format that can do it under trainer lock.
 
Fourty HP is disappointing for a basic in todays' format. My cat is basic and it has well over 130 HP but that's my cat and not a pokemon card. I'm looking forward to the day of seeing a 140 HP bellsprout with the HP going down for each evolution. That would be a One hundred ten HP gloom, and an eighty HP poliwrath. If that's the case the poliwrath atleast should have free retreat is it's evolving from a bellsprout. Now lets go into attacks

For on colorless, preferably :grass: (or :water: if it's gonna be that poliwrath) you can switch the defending pokemon pokemon with one of your opponents benched. Which isn't that great since you can point over your opponents shoulder and switch them yourself when he's not looking, or just DDG him.So there are easier and more dangerous ways to duplicate the result. Careless tackel is self explanitory, You're one attack away from a tyrogue KO.

Weakness is great. No one plays fire. Plus this thing is gonna be a poliwrath with a grass weakness anyways which is double great. No one plays a fire and grass deck combination. That's unheard of completely. Not even delta could touch this. There's no resistance and a pretty horrifying retreat.
 
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Yeah yeah running late again, blame Motel 6 for not offering free wifi...

Yesterday's CotD was Bellsprout from TM, another weed to say no to. Statwise 40 HP is frail for a Basic, x2 Weakness to :fire: is bad, no Resistance is common, and :colorless: to Retreat is cheap. Inviting Scent is basically a GoW/Catcher in attack form for :colorless:...that being said it's kinda pointless seeing how you can just use the Trainer. Careless Tackle deals a decent 20 for :grass:, but the 10 damage blow-back means you're just inching that much closer to death with Bellsprout's bad HP.

Modified - 1/10 (Literally no reason to run him on his own, and his final evolution of Victreebel isn't really worth running either)
Limited - 1/10 (Useless here, he won't live long enough likely to evolve)
Unlimited - 1/10 (A good example of what kindling looks like)
 
Regis_Neo said:
Yeah yeah running late again, blame Motel 6 for not offering free wifi...

Yesterday's CotD was Bellsprout from TM, another weed to say no to. Statwise 40 HP is frail for a Basic, x2 Weakness to :fire: is bad, no Resistance is common, and :colorless: to Retreat is cheap. Inviting Scent is basically a GoW/Catcher in attack form for :colorless:...that being said it's kinda pointless seeing how you can just use the Trainer. Careless Tackle deals a decent 20 for :grass:, but the 10 damage blow-back means you're just inching that much closer to death with Bellsprout's bad HP.

Modified - 1/10 (Literally no reason to run him on his own, and his final evolution of Victreebel isn't really worth running either)
Limited - 1/10 (Useless here, he won't live long enough likely to evolve)
Unlimited - 1/10 (A good example of what kindling looks like)
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Seriously? You might want to re-think that.
 
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