Kilowattrel ex, Scrafty, Roto-Stick, and Other Gym Promos Revealed for April!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onApr 18, 2024 at 10:42 PM · 20 Comments

Starting this month, players who attend Japan’s Gym tournaments will receive a new promo pack containing one of seven promo cards. Four of them are brand new; the rest are reprints.

The chase card will be Kilowattrel ex. In English we should get it inside a future “ex Box” or within a future set. It probably won’t release here for at least six months.

Thanks goes to JustInBasil for the translations!

Kilowattrel ex – Lightning – HP260
Stage 1 – Evolves from Wattrel

[L] Return Charge: Switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Then, attach up to 2 Basic [L] Energy from your hand to this Pokémon.

[C][C] Thunder Lance: 40+ damage. This attack does 40 more damage for each [L] Energy attached to this Pokémon.

Pokemon ex rule: When your Pokemon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Lightning (x2)
Resistance: Fighting (-30)
Retreat: 0

Scraggy – Darkness – HP60
Basic Pokemon

[D] Kick Shot: 30 damage. Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.

Weakness: Grass (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Scrafty – Darkness – HP120
Stage 1 – Evolves from Scraggy

[C] Snatch: For each of your Benched Pokémon, search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.

[D][C][C] High Jump Kick: 100 damage.

Weakness: Grass (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Roto-Stick – Trainer
Item

Look at the top 4 cards of your deck. You may reveal any number of Supporter cards you find there and put them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn.

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Scrafty simply tutors five cards - really good value, but I don't know if it isn't too easy to punish, even when the game slows down.
Lottery Stick looks like a fine consistency cards for beginner decks, but it's very likely to whiff completely and leave the user sad.
 
Yaginku said:
Scrafty simply tutors five cards - really good value, but I don't know if it isn't too easy to punish, even when the game slows down.
Lottery Stick looks like a fine consistency cards for beginner decks, but it's very likely to whiff completely and leave the user sad.
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Lax stall buff bc so many supports
 
Return Charge seems like it would be fun to use with some Iron Thorns or Mimikyu&Rescue Board combo where you constantly load up Kilowattrel and then slam your opponent…but the energy has to come from hand and one boss and it’s over, so that’s not actually viable unfortunately.
 
I don't know if the Lottery stick is as good when we have Pokegear 3.0 which looks at the top 7 instead of top 4. You are more likely to hit a supporter with Pokegear than lottery stick.

Unless Pokegear ends up rotating, i would just say Pokegear is better.
 
Yeah the only argument to be made for Lottery stick is that it can get more than one supporter from the top 4, but the odds of even seeing two are so low and on top of that it’s a draw supporter so you’re banishing or discarding the others you got anyway so Pokegear is definitely better.
 
Tired me thought the Loto Stick was a weaker Pokegear for a second. I mean it is cause you're gonna play one supporter anyway.
 
The Scrafty would be really good if not for hand disruption, and even with hand disruption if you can Salvatore into it turn 1 and they don't have Iono in hand it's 3 free cards, which could really help.
 
ThePokemonGuardian said:
I don't know if the Lottery stick is as good when we have Pokegear 3.0 which looks at the top 7 instead of top 4. You are more likely to hit a supporter with Pokegear than lottery stick.

Unless Pokegear ends up rotating, i would just say Pokegear is better.
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Pokegear doesn’t rotate for another 2 years? Next rotation is F and then G would rotate. I think that’s way too far in advance to know what supporter search we have available.
 
Yaginku said:
Lottery Stick looks like a fine consistency cards for beginner decks, but it's very likely to whiff completely and leave the user sad.
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It's "roto stick," not "loto stick," meaning it either holds a Rotom Phone or rotates around, possibly both. ;)

Seriously, though, you'd probably be either wanting more than four Pokégear or running a high density of Supporters if you ran this card. It's an interesting option for very, very specific decks, but not much more for the time being.
 
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