80HP is blah in this day and age, but Venomoth's other qualities make up for it. Venomoth has a great, fantastic, super-d-duper Poke-Body that puts any Pokemon that attacks Venomoth (and does damage, even if Venomoth is KO'd) to sleep and makes it poisoned. It's not even a flip of a coin. That is sick.
Then it has an attack for GG that does 50 damage. 50 for 2 is above average, which and GG is fairly cheap. The attack also has an effect that makes Venomoth immune to all effects of attacks excluding damage next turn. I love that ability. It really hurts decks like Gallade/Banette that place damage counters.
Grass isn't the best type right now, but beggars can't be choosers. One retreat is decent, and fire weakness is not bad at the moment. Another great thing about Venomoth is the fighting resistance (-20). It takes Lucario 4 shots to KO Venomoth, and Gallade has to flip over 2 prizes to OHKO Venomoth.
I feel Venomoth could be a decent metagame play at the moment, but I have no idea what to run it with. I've thought about Pidgeot SW, as a good 120HP pokemon that has free retreat, also has resistance to fighting, and can disrupt the opponent's pokemon too. Throw in a Pidgeot d with some GL in the deck (maybe) and you could shut down the opponent's (non-delta) poke-powers. That'd help against Delcatty PK, Gardevior SW, Lucario lv.X, Electivire, and a few other cards.
Any ideas? Any thoughts on Venomoth?
Then it has an attack for GG that does 50 damage. 50 for 2 is above average, which and GG is fairly cheap. The attack also has an effect that makes Venomoth immune to all effects of attacks excluding damage next turn. I love that ability. It really hurts decks like Gallade/Banette that place damage counters.
Grass isn't the best type right now, but beggars can't be choosers. One retreat is decent, and fire weakness is not bad at the moment. Another great thing about Venomoth is the fighting resistance (-20). It takes Lucario 4 shots to KO Venomoth, and Gallade has to flip over 2 prizes to OHKO Venomoth.
I feel Venomoth could be a decent metagame play at the moment, but I have no idea what to run it with. I've thought about Pidgeot SW, as a good 120HP pokemon that has free retreat, also has resistance to fighting, and can disrupt the opponent's pokemon too. Throw in a Pidgeot d with some GL in the deck (maybe) and you could shut down the opponent's (non-delta) poke-powers. That'd help against Delcatty PK, Gardevior SW, Lucario lv.X, Electivire, and a few other cards.
Any ideas? Any thoughts on Venomoth?