Is Pikachu ex Too Good?

[@KonstantinosKousidis]

I honestly thought the togekiss said “this ability does not suck”

[@E3keegan]

Same tbh

[@joyfulxsorryw]

I mean.....Boomerang Energy is a card that does alleviate some of that annoyance that comes with Slaking ex discarding energy, along with powerglass recycling energy. So you could crispin 1 basic energy, then manually attach the boomerang energy. Both of these cards I feel people underestimate/underutilized

[@brandonwest18]

If Lugia was OP with 2 Archeops, imagine when Cinnabar Island gets me FOUR of them!

[@OriginFormeLad]

"Situational situation" - Azul GG, philosopher.

[@enhidri160]

REAL

[@qtAlexx_YT]

Slaking ex with max belt, trumpets, and boomerang energy can hit 330 and you keep the energy

[@shrilmody5942]

And dont forget the Hourglass as well… just get back energy immediately

[@shrilmody5942]

Using the stadium and other damage modifiers easily Slaking Terapagos is OP damage deck

[@sierraj7480]

hourglass tool not being brought up for slaking is criminal

[@naturalharmoniagropius4486]

Duh, it's a 1-of card. Not all the time it is applicable.

[@sierraj7480]

@@naturalharmoniagropius4486 ALL THE TIME

[@MiguelAngel-jz7vo]

What "doest not stack" means that if you have multiple togekiss, only one will trigger from any KO, but you can trigger it multiple times in a turn if you can KO multiple active pokemon with stuff like Dusknoir and moving damage around before your attack. Hydreigon can use a neo upper and janine/dark patch or double dark patch in a turn. As it is a stage 2, most of the time it will have already a basic energy from a previous turn. You could also move double dark to it with the free retreat morpeko if you are sure it cant be ko'd next turn

[@Mr_N8o]

Gravity mountain can be good against ex 330 hp pokemon to allow pokemon that can hit 300 (driftloon / Pikachu EX) to KO in one hit, I’d rather run gravity mountain over the +30 hp stadium because then they can just remove the stadium instead to KO the driftloon. I do think it’s more of a niche card, I might run just one in my gardevoir ex deck for charizard ex matchups. You could just argue monkedori… and yeah… but again, niche cases.

[@buttermane]

The gravity mountain seems awesome. Play tserrena ex or rat to put stuff to 10hp remaining and knock them all out with it Also the amped stadium can do the reverse on big basic decks forcing them to not remove the stadium and then you can remove when needed

[@juanhernandez-uq9um]

I think joltik from stellar crown is more efficient for tera pikachu than the new terapagos or magneton

[@aS__Spencer]

Agreed. Plus you just throw in the sparkling crystal + radiant greninja + hourglass tool, and crispin and then you're chilling all day lol

[@naturalharmoniagropius4486]

I disagree. Since Dusknoir is *EVERYWHERE* , 1 Dusclops and your Joltik gets KOed before the opponent attacks. If I am giving up prizes, It should be done within my turn on theirs, so that I can pull a Counter Catcher can gust for 300 Turn 2.

[@Chienpaoplayer]

I disagree because you have to attack with joltik and magneton doesn’t so you can keep pikachu attacking and in the active for the ability. Plus going behind on prizes lets all the great comeback cards activate

[@aS__Spencer]

@Chienpaoplayer if you're running joltik in Pikachu, you're aiming to go 2nd so you can attack with Joltik. Even if your joltik dies next turn, who cares? You just offset your opponents prize mapping, and you have 2 pikachu's in play on your following turn that have the grass and lightning energies on them. You could easily hit with the 1st pikachu by attaching the sparkling crystal, and your 2nd one gets the metal energy manually attached, then boom you have 2 pikachu ready to hit. Now, once your energy is discarded after attacking you can easily reload with a crispin for the 1st Pikachu with the Sparkling crystal on it. For the 2nd Pikachu, you can attach the Hourglass tool on the turn you hit with it so that you can accelerate 1 of the energy at the end of your turn, and then crispin once it's your turn again. Do you understand now? I'd go as far to say that Magneton is much slower to use since you have draw/discard through your deck to find energy, discard them, find magnemite and magneton, pray they don't get sniped by dusknoir etc etc. Then you run into the issue of keeping a consistent flow of magneton coming in and using them. That strategy is so linear and exploitable in comparison to my strategy that I mentioned earlier.

[@edmanbosch7443]

​@@aS__Spencer Relying on Joltik for the majority of your energy acceleration in the way you describe still has flaws. There are plenty of ways to work around Pikachu's ability, many of which are already played in existing decks. Plus, your opponent can just ignore the Pikachu and gust up Pokémon on the bench, which you will likely need at least a couple of since you aren't guaranteed to get all the pieces you need off of top decks and supporter cards alone. Even with its ability, Pikachu isn't guaranteed to survive long enough to do more than 1 attack. I'd argue that having at least a 1-1 line of Magneton is needed in order to attack turn after turn, and imo it's just good to have since it makes the deck a bit more flexible and allows for other attackers (like, say, Iron Hands) to be used more easily alongside the Pikachu.

[@wasthatthebiteof8796]

Fun fact, the "stack" term was actually introduced in Paradox Rift with Minun

[@Cramzie]

Hydreigon plus a heavy dusknoir line maybe briar too and you’re taking all prizes in one turn 💀

[@shrilmody5942]

Yes thats what the meta is going to be… and Pikachu ability does not proc because its only 130 Hp

[@Knight34766]

Slaking could be good with boomerang energy alongside double turbo and counter gain

[@lukayaba4793]

Maybe rich energy can be used in a pikachu ex/pidgeot ex penny loop control deck? And just reattatch rich energy every turn?

[@LocalMaple]

For Pikachu ex: Leafeon, colorless attack: attach 1 Grass energy from your hand to a benched Pokémon, and heal all damage off it. Use with Beach Court, Powerglass, and/or Archaludon. Bianca’s Devotion: heal all damage from a Pokémon with 30- HP remaining. Or tech it into an existing Galvantula deck. Once item lock no longer matters, switch to OHKOs.

[@visionary-t5l]

What about the Exeggutor EX 2nd attack? Flip coin and either active basic or bench basic is knocked out? Would work in a regidrago deck...

[@toekneeheadless2393]

A quad pikachu deck with no energies would be annoying. Quad penny, 3-4 pal pad, a ton of disruption. Only counter is canceling cologne, which decks that can one-shot don’t usually have.

[@Surge7-hs63k]

Bro Slaking could easilly 1 hit ko a charizard. Just give Slaking a Max Belt! and for recovery of the max belt when you somehow eventually get ko'd just use the supporter Rosanne's Backup to but the max belt back into you deck and then Arven it back out in your next turn!! 👍Oh and for energy just add 4 or 3 Boomerang Energy to the deck, Slaking only needs 1 and then any other energy of your choice. to draw out the boomerang energy just use colress tenacity.

[@zacharyjackson7584]

Just a reminder the Pokemon do not "die", they just get KO'ed.... Knocked Out. 😜

[@zacharyjackson7584]

And yes, boomerang energy could work in this deck perhaps.

[@FulgoreMKII]

The Slanking with power hour glass or boomerang energy would be fun to meme with.

[@punkuin5208]

There is also a minun in paradox rift that uses "stack" in its phrasing.

[@greninjaboi]

Minun from paradox rift seems to be the first card to use the term "stack," but nobody noticed until bouffalant.

[@soulist8224]

6:34 that’s tatsugiri? All this time i thought it’s a crab 6:45 if we had 1 basic pokemon and we got 1 stage 1 pokemon of it, can we evolve the basic one using thi effect?

[@Phantomydg]

Slaking w/ Terapagos and Boofers, glass trumpets and crispin with grass energies and a tech'd iron leaves ex. Have the single prize Slaking with reversal energy as a single prize option. Can be an amazing deck imo if the meta is right

[@CommanderJonas]

13:10 for a second, I thought he was wrong, but it turns out Cramorant can Ignore all energy cost on the card. I thought it was only colorless, since all the other TMs don't ask for any Colored energy.

[@eezobtw]

I think crispin with the pikachu could be really strong as well. Attach an energy to it on bench then next turn crispin the other two and bonk. Lots of ways to get it set up

[@strangeserver8313]

Slaking is crazy with trumpets,hourglass and boomerang energy

[@Jmaniscoolboi]

What abt quad pikachu with a bunch of healing just avoid roaring moon and find some way to do damage or mill

[@greninjaboi]

The funny thing is that since teras take no damage on the bench, tm flourite doesn't matter much against hydreigon anyway.

[@dyllandemouey3669]

Pikachu ex is going straight into baby regis. They needed a basic attacker and that will be it

[@alexnicolaou3579]

baby regis died when VIP rotated. the new cart ace spec is meh.. don't see them returning into relevance before they rotate

[@dyllandemouey3669]

@alexnicolaou3579 it's more consistent than I thought after playing it for a while but all the lists out right now are clunky

[@wooper8996]

Do you think Pikachu EX will be good in Area Zero Regis

[@AlphaTheDivine]

maybe a copy of tatsugiri in drago for the first attack to get around mimikyu and cornerstone instead of needing cologne?

[@UncalibratedAimbot]

Giratina V already does that. The Tatsugiri ex will help after rotation, but no telling how popular Mimikyu or Cornerstone will be after rotation. Edit: Plus Regidrago VStar rotates out next year so it super won’t matter haha

[@AlphaTheDivine]

@@UncalibratedAimbot kinda forgot about giratina V, and besides regidrago itself rotates soon too

[@williamguile1788]

Gravity Mountain with Tsareena ex maybe

[@stuckrath887]

6:49 love to see the tatsugiri love! even if the ex card sucks!

[@aPiTcH58]

Everyone talking about Pikachu and slaking and no one thinking about the headset with magnezone control

[@Galenz27]

Thanks for the video, Azul, I have a doubt now, does that mean tatsugiri can put stage 1 or 2 in the bench with his attack? Because it says pokemon, not specifies basic

[@andrewharriott5135]

Look at Reuniclus. It has the same effect. Short answer is yes.

[@Galenz27]

@@andrewharriott5135 thanks 🙌🏽

[@TolisWorld]

i tried to make a deck with pikachu and i just couldnt make it work

[@punkuin5208]

Glass Trumpet + Boomerang energy with Slaking ex

[@tonyfata5151]

What kind of move name is "Obsidian"!?

[@nin10yen]

8x tatsugiri for the single prize dondozo from base set seems pretty funny with the tatsugiri ex

[@robofluff1449]

Ima say it here and now, Slaking EX with boomerang energy is the way

[@aS__Spencer]

Maybe I'm cooking here but wouldn't boomerang energy + Teal mask ogerpon + energy switch be solid for slaking? You'd discard your boomerang energy, and it just ends up coming back onto the slaking.

[@100T_UwU]

Why have boomerang when you can energy switch and attach for turn? You can still accelerate energies to the ogerpons... Please step out of the kitchen sir.

[@shadowtakamiki1]

Boomerang energy doesn’t seem bad with slaking

[@isoldmymumforrp5371]

Pikachu could be a decent card, as soon as cologne rotates. Same for regidraco being able to spam dragapults attack

[@buttermane]

But dusknoir would be the better play to get around the ability

[@isoldmymumforrp5371]

@@buttermane ye you can do it once. if you do it twice, they take 6 prices in 2 attacks.

[@ControlledCh4os]

Slaking with Boomerang Energy?

[@gromultimas2224]

Rogelio’s doesn’t suck, but it might suck for PTCG as a whole. Honestly it’s so broken it might be considered for ban.

[@ciaarruhh]

Isn’t Pikachu Tera??

[@ATrashcanDream]

You can literally just Adrena-Brain or gust with patcherunt and counter pikachu

[@uwaa5768]

intercom would allow chien pao to run supporters more consistently

[@spac3ninja]

Let’s go new azul vid

[@elliecccg7791]

the joltik goes well with the pikachu deck

[@luisangelperez9469]

Gravity Mountain is for Pikachu to defeat Charizard 😂

[@traxyr]

Slaking EX boomerang energy

[@thomassteenkamp4575]

I think pikachu is being over hyped there are many ways to get counters onto it before you OHKO it. its ability will not matter

[@Rain1]

What about the Dipplin with festival lead for togekiss? For example, knock out pidgey, flip a coin, get heads, take extra prize. Opponent chooses new pokemon but it's still your turn. Knock out charmander, flip coin? it's heads? Take extra prize? I think "this ability does not stack" means that even if you had two togekiss on the bench, it wouldn't use both of them, just one of them. I don't actually know if (because it doesn't say it can't be) it's ability can't be used twice in your own turn. Just not two togekiss for the same knockout?

[@yatestes3128]

pikachu ex with lost box

[@noseylowis6857]

Slaking in same format with path

[@breadstick502plays3]

yes

[@lucid2740]

Azul quit glazing tatsugiri leave the damn sushi fish alone

[@henry19eleven50]

azulgg azulgg azulgg azulgg azulgg azulgg azulgg azulgg pikachu ex with biancas devotion or scoop up cyclone or penny

[@pandalo5910]

Is scoop up cyclone better than sparkling crystal?

[@henry19eleven50]

@@pandalo5910 idk probably not

[@moxieboosts7397]

​@@pandalo5910 I was wondering if crystal would work since the attack specifies 3 energy. If it said all energy sure and I know typically you do as much as you can I'm just not as well versed in the nuances of pokemon TCG. Id know the answer if it was magic but not sure with pokemon 😅

[@Rain1]

@@moxieboosts7397 it works, you would just attach two, attack, then discard two, and keep the crystal tool on. Sometimes with these types of moves on cards it should include a phrase along the lines of "discard 3 energy from this pokemon if 3 energy are attached. If this move was used through other means, even though you didn't have up to 3 energy attached, discard all energies attached." But much more beautifully worded than that jumble i just said lol.

[@stuckrath887]

​@@moxieboosts7397 in this case, since "discard 3 energy" is an effect and not a condition for the attack, you would discard all the energy that you can, even if you don't meet the full effect. Also, as a sidenote: it would still work even if the discard 3 was a condition, since wellspring ogerpon + crystal and dte can use the 120 snipe even if it can't "shuffle back 3 energy from this mon", that is the official ruling at least when it comes to sparkling crystal

[@BryanPearson]

Slaking EX = boomerang energy...and then a switch card for when u knock out all of the EX and Vs...lol

[@chrisbeech6044]

Does Buffolant make Slaking a 400HP Pokémon?? Lol

[@hyp3rdriv383]

first!