Kingambit, Revenge Punch from “Ruler of the Black Flame!”

By: JustInBasil · Posted Posted onJul 11, 2023 at 3:06 AM · 38 Comments

The Kingambit line and Revenge Punch were revealed from the Japanese set SV3 Ruler of the Black Flame, which releases in Japan on July 28th and will form part of our Obsidian Flames set in August.

Pawniard – Metal – HP70
Basic Pokémon

[M] Triple Cutter: 10x damage. Flip 3 coins. This attack does 30 damage for each heads.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: Grass (-30)
Retreat: 1

Bisharp – Metal – HP110
Stage 1 – Evolves from Pawniard

[M] Metal Claw: 20 damage.

[M][C] Fury Cutter: 50+ damage. Flip 3 coins. If 1 of them is heads, this attack does 20 more damage. If 2 of them are heads, this attack does 60 more damage. If all of them are heads, this attack does 120 more damage.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: Grass (-30)
Retreat: 1

Kingambit – Metal – HP180
Stage 2 – Evolves from Bisharp

[M] Execute: If your opponent’s Active Pokémon has 4 or more damage counters on it, it is Knocked Out.

[M][C][C] Massive Rend: 140 damage.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: Grass (-30)
Retreat: 1

Revenge Punch – Trainer
Pokémon Tool

When the Pokémon this card is attached to is Knocked Out by damage from an attack of your opponent’s Pokémon, put 4 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon.

You may attach any number of Pokémon Tools to your Pokémon during your turn. You may attach only 1 Pokémon Tool to each Pokémon, and it stays attached.

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That Kingambit can be fun in a deck with something like Quick Shooting. Yeah, 2 stage 2 lines is clunky, but you don't need any energy acceleration since Kingambit's attack cost is only 1 metal.
 
So it seems like there's a little combo where your Kingambit with Revenge Punch is attacked (and probably OHKO'd), but another Kingambit gets an insta KO in response.
Idk, I feel like dropping the health numbers from 300+ down to something more manageable would but a much better solution than printing mid cards like these.
 
Pawniard/Bisharp/Kingambit - this seems pretty counterable ngl. I don't like it. Stage 2, useless Stage 1, at least Yveltal needs Lugia and Archeops to make it good before it rotates. 2/2/3

Revenge Punch - nerfed Giant Bomb but at least it does last more than turn, although technically it does. 3-4
 
Revenge Punch within a deck around Kingambit is the intent, obviously. You could probably also get away with Revenge Punch as a tech in other gimmicky decks, like a counter spreading Zoroark Box deck (with stuff like 151 Raticate, Electivire, Mismagius, Hisuian Braviary and whatnot) or that gimmicky Mismagius/Lunala deck. Those decks still honestly need focus on consistency first lol.

Edit: Oh, and Alolan Raticate can gimmick this too.

Revenge Punch as a generic anti-Gardevoir tech is bizarre, and not really that stellar an idea, because of two things:

1. The decks that consider teching Panic Mask, like how Christian Labella did it with Arc-Dura-Umbreon, would probably rather play Panic Mask to avoid the attack from Gardevoir altogether rather than force a knockout.

2. The decks that consider teching Box of Disaster, like Kris Kemp's Arc-Aerodactyl deck, do so because they run into the risk that Gardevoir can OHKO their pokemon and still be above 40 HP.
 
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Say you have an intentional combo without saying you have an intentional combo. My first thought for this was use Lost Mine Sableye to spread damage around, then let the King go ham. Good Gardevoir counter, if you can get it to Stage 2 in time.
 
RogueMike95 said:
Revenge Punch within a deck around Kingambit is the intent, obviously. You could probably also get away with Revenge Punch as a tech in other gimmicky decks, like a counter spreading Zoroark Box deck (with stuff like 151 Raticate, Electivire, Mismagius, Hisuian Braviary and whatnot) or that gimmicky Mismagius/Lunala deck. Those decks still honestly need focus on consistency first lol.

Edit: Oh, and Alolan Raticate can gimmick this too.

Revenge Punch as a generic anti-Gardevoir tech is bizarre, and not really that stellar an idea, because of two things:

1. The decks that consider teching Panic Mask, like how Christian Labella did it with Arc-Dura-Umbreon, would probably rather play Panic Mask to avoid the attack from Gardevoir altogether rather than force a knockout.

2. The decks that consider teching Box of Disaster, like Kris Kemp's Arc-Aerodactyl deck, do so because they run into the risk that Gardevoir can OHKO their pokemon and still be above 40 HP.
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Samurott VSTAR seems a natural fit.
 
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