And so the daily card reveals begin! Riolu and Lucario from S9 Star Birth were just revealed. The set will release in Japan on January 14th. We will then get the set as Brilliant Stars on February 25th. Thanks goes to Bangiras for the translations!
Riolu – Fighting – HP60
Basic Pokemon
[F][F] Low Kick: 50 damage.
Weakness: Psychic (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1
Lucario – Fighting – HP120
Stage 1 – Evolves from Riolu
Ability: Roaring Resolve
Once during your turn, you...
Sandaconda BST? It discards energy for a big attack, though with Lucario you have to attach it directly while Sandaconda just mills. The lack of support on that front leaves only Bea, which if you're discarding the top cards in the deck anyway, Sandaconda's a more direct approach of the same gameplan. Lucario could pair fine with Primeape BST since it damages itself, but that's basically all it has going for it over the sand cannon.
Honestly this reminds me of Smash Bros.'s Lucario: Charging up the Aura Sphere (in PTCG's case, attaching fighting energies), then damage/percent respectively is built depending on how much you charged. The Lucario in the artwork even has the exact stance he does when charging Aura Sphere in that game. Sounds like a stretch but that sounds amazing if it was actually inspired by that.
Oh what leaks do we have for it rn I haven't seen
Same here
1. Volcarona???? Volcarona V? You DARE mention that pathetic card here? That's absurd.
Rona can do the same as Lucario in expanded, except on turn 1 instead of 2, and yes without evolving a frail basic
Tsareena V....
It's just one extra energy per turn nbd, and Rona and Tsareena don't even need acceleration. Lucario isn't bad, but at the same time it's far from being the good card Lucario deserves
Still haven't brought up a valid point. Volca and Reena v are, at the end of the day, not good options in general. Tsareena has to discard benched Pokemon which, in case you didn't know, takes a while to re-do. Revive, rescue stretcher, brock's grit and other cards along this vein are nowhere near as viable options as energy retrieval or fisherman for Pokemon that discard energy. That's literally not up for debate. Sure, Tsareena V has Sky Field but so does every deck in expanded but without having to discard benched Pokemon. As for Volcarona v- as I said, even bringing that thing up immediately disqualifies your argument because it's just downright awful. Sorry. You know, I've noticed something about this situation: people are taking everything far too literally and only looking at the surface level. At the end of the day Lucario is a wonderful stage 1, fighting type attacker and that is INFINITELY cooler and more interesting than a mediocre v that nobody plays. Besides I'm pretty sure nobody here but me has played PTCGO because ever since Roaring Resolve Charizard was released noobs have been buying the deck and just playing expanded (standard when it was legal) with it and doing just fine. I still see a new account use it every once in a while and if you aren't using a busted deck or a water type deck, you run the risk of actually getting your ass beat. Now imagine that but as a fighting type stage 1.
You seem to have forgotten that Giratina LOT and Exeggcute PLF exist.
