Machoke could make Gyarados AOR that much better by stopping benched magikarps being so vulnerable
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That Machoke art looks really familiar...
Well the Machamp from Plasma Blast and this new Machoke are by the same artist so...That Machoke art looks really familiar...
I see.
- Machop - we will now have 2 Machops in Guardians Rising this May, this one and from the Rockruff deck.
- Machoke - No more Bench Sniping but, Garbage is everywhere! 3 Geodudes
- Machamp - pretty bit decent tho.
I wonder how this will work against Trevanant Break.
Well it says prevent all damage from the opponents active pokemons attacks, as well as placement of damage counters from attacks and abilities to all of your benched pokemon, so only the active would get hit, unless you had something like Magearna EX in play the and you had a metal energy attached to the active.....right?
Machoke is obviously a good support option against things like Espeon and Decidueye.
Machamp is actually interesting too though. I could see a deck that runs a 2-2-1 line with these cards, then if they lose a GX attacker they can teammates or ultra ball and pull out a Machamp for a revenge kill. This thing can situtationally hit over 200 with a choice band for 2 attachments which isn't bad. Submission isn't terrible either, the 3 F cost is annoying but you hit a solid 180 with band, 200 with band/strong energy or kukui.
Tauros/Machamp seems pretty strong in particular since Tauros is basically designed to trade with EX/GX cards then go down, then once it goes down you drop a Machamp to knock out whatever killed it, and even if they revenge your Machamp you're up on prizes. And at 160hp it's a pretty big ask to revenge it the next turn after losing 2 pokemon unless you're running mega mewtwo.
Machamp is actually interesting too though. I could see a deck that runs a 2-2-1 line with these cards, then if they lose a GX attacker they can teammates or ultra ball and pull out a Machamp for a revenge kill. This thing can situtationally hit over 200 with a choice band for 2 attachments which isn't bad. Submission isn't terrible either, the 3 F cost is annoying but you hit a solid 180 with band, 200 with band/strong energy or kukui.
Tauros/Machamp seems pretty strong in particular since Tauros is basically designed to trade with EX/GX cards then go down, then once it goes down you drop a Machamp to knock out whatever killed it, and even if they revenge your Machamp you're up on prizes. And at 160hp it's a pretty big ask to revenge it the next turn after losing 2 pokemon unless you're running mega mewtwo.
That Machamp looks like it is trying to dab.
I know, and that's because it's a tin-exclusive promo. What I said was, there's never been a EX promo being released in a tin, before it appeared in an actual set. There's been plenty of EX's being exclusive to the tins (Kalos/Hoenn Starters).
I really like the Machoke artwork, though I find it kinda funny (like @silversalamence10 said) how much it looks like the Machamp artwork from Plasma Blast. If I'd been Kouki Saitou, I'd switched the poses a little, but hey. It looks good either way
Can you please stop posting what the cards do in the preview? I like being surprised
I think the Mafamily just likes rocks my dudes, almost all their art across the TCG has big ol' rocks in it.
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