Camping Gear and Orbeetle from S5! By: JustInBasil Posted 1 week ago to TCG 32 comments Camping Gear and a new Orbeetle have been revealed from the twin S5 sets, S5I Single Strike Master & S5R Rapid Strike Master, which release in Japan on January 22nd. These cards should appear as part of the international set Sword & Shield—Battle Styles, which releases March 19th. Thanks goes to ToineLay for the translation. Camping Gear – Trainer Item If you play this card, your turn ends. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. You may play any number of Item cards during your turn. Orbeetle – Psychic – HP110 Stage 2 – Evolves from Dottler [C] Evo Control: For each Energy attached to this Pokémon, you may search your deck for a Stage 2 Pokémon (excluding Orbeetle) and put it onto your bench. Then, shuffle your deck. [P][C][C] Zen Headbutt: 100 damage. Weakness: Darkness (x2) Resistance: Fighting (-30) Retreat: 1
Orbeetle - if you can turn 2 Orbeetle, getting out stage 2s is very very easy. Well, Orbeetle itself is a stage 2, so good luck. 3-4 Camping Set - searches card, pretty straight forward. It ends your turn so better use it turn 1. 4?
camping gear could be decent orbeetle is a decent card in concept but i think it could be too clunky to actually be used
Nice to see a more viable Lifesplosion in Orbeetle. Rare candy plays are a lot easier than Gen V/VI Fossil mechanics. It's even a colorless requirement this time, too! Tis a shame that Vs, VMaxes, & TagTeams are still gonna stomp all over such a deck, though.
Yuru Camping Gear looks pretty great for turn one, but you'd generally want to search for a card you'd like to play immediately, not hold for the next turn. In terms of consistency, it's more of a "win more" card. I'm sure people will try it, but I'm not sure they will love it. If it sees play, it might just make already consistent decks be more consistent, rather than help newcomers enter the format.
And with heavy hearts we must choose Orbeetle over Cradilly in expanded because it's more consistent. You will be missed.
Did you just say instant stage 2 playability? No basics, no stage 1s, no rare candies, no nothing? Is this the card we’ve all been waiting for?! (Which, ironically, is on a stage 2)
both cards are good, the camping gear might be better but the orbeetle is about to be insane in standard this card with 4 energy means getting out all the most powerful cards in the game no penelty not bdif off the bat but very very good and yeah its omastar basically
Camping gear seems interesting I don't know how good it is at the price of your turn you get any card in your deck which seems pretty nice, although beware of Marnie if you are tempted to use this card
Could you first turn get a blipbug out and try and find evolution incense and skyla and then the next turn use skyla to find the rare candy? It would sort of be like having 8 rare candies if you had 4 skyla and 4 rare candy, it would be your supporter for the turn though.
Greens exploration could be better actually if you don't have many Pokémon with abilities in your deck
Awesome!! Lifesplosion is back and this time, it’s meant to accommodate Triple Accel and DCE!! It’s finally time to bust out my Hatterene/Orbeetle SSH control deck, hehehehe.
Lifesplosion has always been one of my favorite attacks in the whole TCG, so it's awesome to see one of my favorite effects making a comeback in the tcg. Is it better than Cradily? That remains to be seen. My decks that worked Lifesplosion thrived off of Lileep not being a basic by started with an energy accelerating Pokémon like Rayquaza or Shining Mew to pump Cradily so full of energy by turn 2 that he can't think straight. I'd like to see if I can do the same with Orbeetle.