2013-04-20 DRX Leafeon 006- Second Look

[waynegg]

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[gal=53042]2013-04-20 DRX Leafeon 006[/gal]​

 

[ShadowCard]

From June 17, 2012...

90HP is standard for Leafeon. It is its only HP printed since MD except for the lvX. This one's attacks just fall short of past versions. Too bad for such a pokemon that--like all eevee evolutions--is easily on the more popular side.

Probably should have been a league promo.

wow, it's been 10 months since I wrote that. Feels like it wasn't that long ago.

Maybe the rise of :grass:-weak pokemon inspired a second look, but I don't understand why a second look at Leafeon. Virizion would have been a much better. But Leafeon?

Retreat Cost: With :colorless: retreat, it isn't going to move around very easily.

Attacks: Energy Assist only finds basic energy cards so you won't be recycling Plasma Energy cards with it.

Bottom attributes: :water:-resistance does not matter because its HP is too low. The only :water: Pokemon that would be attacking it (Blastoise and Keldeo EX) already hit for OHKO after resistance. :fire:-weakness actually doesn't hurt it too much because a lot of the basic and stage 1 don't OHKO it even after the x2 modifier. The extra damage will of course make Leafeon squirm but it will survive.

Should have been a league promo.

 

[pokedan24]

4/10

Attacks are cheap, but too underwhelming to be much of a threat. Energy acceleration is nice, but all it does is move the card from terrible to below average.