Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

sneasel UD: a menace reprinted

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HonchKing

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heres a history lesson on sneasel for those of you who don't know:
The year is 2000 and Neo genesis has just been released and sneasel is about to become one of the most broken cards. Along with wooper and its ability to lock your oppenents attack, igglybuff and its ability to freeze any one of your oppenents pokemons powers even on the bench, the unown and their ability to reduce damage from your oppenents sneasel, ditto, and wigglytuff, and sneasels ability to use beat up to kill anything that stands it its way. the deck soon became the dominant deck of the format. Pokemon had no choose but to ban sneasel ending its rain of terror. Now the ban has been lifted and sneasel has been reprited. The question now is will sneasel be able to make an impact without its old comrades and find help with some of the cards in the new format.

reasons sneasel won't return:
with only 60 hp it can easly be KO'd
it requires 2 energy which can be kind of slow
its a coin flip which can be unreliable

reasons sneasel can come back:
with free retreat luxray x goes great with it
it can easily brought out with collectors
flower lady can get it back easily

will sneasel rule again in this new format?
 
Short answer: No.

Long answer: Also No.

A basic that needs :dark: :dark: to attack? With flips? I'd rather Garchomp C w/DCE+Gain for 50, and have consistent output. Its much too slow, averaging 60 w/o sp Darks. (WITH A FULL BENCH, less without a full bench)

The HP is much too low as well.
 
Second best Sneasel to date. Original NG Sneasel didn't have F weakness.

I'm pretty glad we have a good Weavile also. Along with Sableye lock, this guy can actually pose as a attacking force in a Sablelock/Weavile deck, Initiatives and hand discarding can really lock things up in the next format.

It will come back, just not for the reasons it was good before.
 
No one think Sneasel will come back as an attacker.

It will come back, however, as a fantastic stepping stone to a great Stage 1. Free retreat is one the most influential things a Basic Pokemon can have (Chatot, Crobat G, Luxray GL, Garchomp C, Unown Q, Electrike) and Beat Up isn't too bad when you're in a pinch.
 
It's not good anymore.

When they reprinted it in Ruby & Sapphire, Mewtwo ex was in the same set. Mewtwo ex was played. It did three for 60. That was good at the time. If some chose to play that over Sneasel, we can obviously say that Sneasel won't be good now because Mewtwo wouldn't be good now.

Of course, there's more that goes into it, but it's not going to be good. At all.
 
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