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RattataJoey
Hey guys today I'll be reviewing Regigigas EX.
Regigigas EX – Colorless – HP180
Basic Pokemon
[C][C][C] Giga Power: 60 damage. You may do an additional 20 damage. If you do, this Pokemon also does 20 damage to itself.
[C][C][C][C] Raging Hammer: Does 50 damage plus an additional 10 damage times the number of damage counters on this Pokemon.
Pokemon EX rule: When Pokemon EX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 4
As with all Ex's so far Regigigas EX has huge Hp weighing in at 180Hp, on a basic that's always going to look impressive, Regigigas EX will always be able to take 2 hits in the early game and Eviolite Stone makes Regigigas EX's last-ability even greater by effectively giving Regigigas EX Donphan Primes Pokébody, ironically with Donphan Prime currently being Regigigas EX's biggest threat in the current format being able to hit hard by turn 2 and hitting Regigigas EX for weakness meaning that turn 2 Regigigas EX could be facing 120 damage or 100 damage if Eviolite is equipped either way Regigigas EX is facing a 2 Hit Knock Out.
Of course Regigigas EX's second attack makes for a great counter to that allowing between 150-170 points of damage depending on the situation but the chances of drawing 2 Double Colourless Energy's is quite slim and I wouldn't rely on it too heavily especially since they can setup a Donphan next turn to resume earthquaking and easily finish off Regigigas EX to claim 2 prizes whereas your own recovery won't be as easy even though Regigigas EX is a basic which is easy to search and has the ability to make use of Revive his energy costs put him in a position that his quickest setup time is going to be 2 turns and where you can say the same about Donphan his time is spent waiting to evolve which currently has no effective way of being stopped ( I know Archeops is due for release but the fossil mechanic just makes him unreliable).
Where as at the moment we have a good handful of cards that can discard energy attached to a Pokémon namely Crushing Hammer, Lost Remover and the Emerging Powers Krookodile any of these 3 cards can set a Regigigas EX player back a turn which gives your opponent time to pull ahead with there setup.
The big question is, How do we run Regigigas EX? I feel that the best way to run it would be to make the most of his huge Hp and so it would be best to find a healing engine that he can use and for the sake of numbers I'll use Donphan Prime as the opposing attacker as I've already covered the fact that he can deliver substantial and consistent damage and it wouldn't be a surprising occurrence to see a Donphan in the opposing active position.
So what types of healing do we have? Mostly we seem to have 2 types of healing Trainer and Pokémon, the Trainer healing cards we have at the moment are Potion, Moo Moo Milk and Max Potion.
For the sake of argument I'll say that Moo Moo Milk is effectively the same as Potion with an even
split between doing twice as much or doing nothing and speculation into the effects a 25% chance just seem like a foolish idea when most people won't play a card when it works 50% of the time. So the first healer we shall look at is Potion which heals 30 damage from 1 of your Pokémon so let us check the numbers when using potion to heal
Start Attack1 Potion Attack 2
Without Eviolite:
180Hp 60Hp 90HP -30Hp
With Eviolite
180Hp 80Hp 110Hp 10Hp
As we can see using Potion Regigigas EX needs to have Eviolite attached for attack 1 or Potion won't heal enough for Regigigas EX to survive attack 2 and to be honest its never a good idea to be relying on having a specific setup especially when it will only guarantee you 1 more turn and you'll be giving up 2 prizes, this leaves us with Max Potion a card can guarantee 2 more hits with or without Eviolite but he can't attack because Max potion requires Regigigas EX to discard his energy's leaving the choice in a stalemate situation between concede 2 prizes and have a chance at taking 1 or miss my attack this turn and try again next turn, 1 way around the stalemate is to use Reuniclus from Black/White.
A lot of people are starting to experiment with Reunilcus after the success it had in google Cawthon's worlds deck, with Reuniclus in play it would be easy to move the damage from the active Regigigas EX to a benched 1 and then healing the Regigigas EX with no energy attached this would also leave you with the ability to control the output of Raging Hammer while still being able to avoid knockouts, but the Reuniclus build does have its drawbacks most prominently Catcher can be used to bring active Reuniclus or the benched Regigigas EX which can be an easy 2 prizes for your opponent if you didn't manage to use Max Potion last turn of course an easy solution to this is to run the Reuniclus build with Vleplume and lock out any chance of catcher being using to claim easy prizes, of course with this build Max Potion is a none option as well and the closest equivalent would be to use Seeker which would allow you to refresh your benched Regigigas EX but uses your supporter for the turn, a plus to this is the fact that Seeker will also force your opponent to pick up 1 of there benched Pokémon making clearing the field slightly easier.
So which build is best? Personally I'd say it all comes down to the individuals preferred play-style without Trainer lock Regigigas EX will be a lot faster but if you include Trainer lock the deck is bound to be to be much more secure while slowing your opponent down.
Will Regigigas EX affect the format? Personally I don't see him having a huge influence over the game this season while we've got popular hitter like Donphan around but there is a possibility that next format Regigigas EX maybe be a powerful play especially as the Black/White format hasn't shown us any Fighting types that can hit heavily for minimal energy.
In closing I'd Like to say that Regigigas EX has the potential to actually see play and maybe with the right player using the right build might be able to win a few low level tournaments such as Battle Roads.
So whats your view on Regigigas EX? Do you think he stands a chance? and how would you play him?
Signing off for now
Rattata Joey
Regigigas EX – Colorless – HP180
Basic Pokemon
[C][C][C] Giga Power: 60 damage. You may do an additional 20 damage. If you do, this Pokemon also does 20 damage to itself.
[C][C][C][C] Raging Hammer: Does 50 damage plus an additional 10 damage times the number of damage counters on this Pokemon.
Pokemon EX rule: When Pokemon EX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 4
As with all Ex's so far Regigigas EX has huge Hp weighing in at 180Hp, on a basic that's always going to look impressive, Regigigas EX will always be able to take 2 hits in the early game and Eviolite Stone makes Regigigas EX's last-ability even greater by effectively giving Regigigas EX Donphan Primes Pokébody, ironically with Donphan Prime currently being Regigigas EX's biggest threat in the current format being able to hit hard by turn 2 and hitting Regigigas EX for weakness meaning that turn 2 Regigigas EX could be facing 120 damage or 100 damage if Eviolite is equipped either way Regigigas EX is facing a 2 Hit Knock Out.
Of course Regigigas EX's second attack makes for a great counter to that allowing between 150-170 points of damage depending on the situation but the chances of drawing 2 Double Colourless Energy's is quite slim and I wouldn't rely on it too heavily especially since they can setup a Donphan next turn to resume earthquaking and easily finish off Regigigas EX to claim 2 prizes whereas your own recovery won't be as easy even though Regigigas EX is a basic which is easy to search and has the ability to make use of Revive his energy costs put him in a position that his quickest setup time is going to be 2 turns and where you can say the same about Donphan his time is spent waiting to evolve which currently has no effective way of being stopped ( I know Archeops is due for release but the fossil mechanic just makes him unreliable).
Where as at the moment we have a good handful of cards that can discard energy attached to a Pokémon namely Crushing Hammer, Lost Remover and the Emerging Powers Krookodile any of these 3 cards can set a Regigigas EX player back a turn which gives your opponent time to pull ahead with there setup.
The big question is, How do we run Regigigas EX? I feel that the best way to run it would be to make the most of his huge Hp and so it would be best to find a healing engine that he can use and for the sake of numbers I'll use Donphan Prime as the opposing attacker as I've already covered the fact that he can deliver substantial and consistent damage and it wouldn't be a surprising occurrence to see a Donphan in the opposing active position.
So what types of healing do we have? Mostly we seem to have 2 types of healing Trainer and Pokémon, the Trainer healing cards we have at the moment are Potion, Moo Moo Milk and Max Potion.
For the sake of argument I'll say that Moo Moo Milk is effectively the same as Potion with an even
split between doing twice as much or doing nothing and speculation into the effects a 25% chance just seem like a foolish idea when most people won't play a card when it works 50% of the time. So the first healer we shall look at is Potion which heals 30 damage from 1 of your Pokémon so let us check the numbers when using potion to heal
Start Attack1 Potion Attack 2
Without Eviolite:
180Hp 60Hp 90HP -30Hp
With Eviolite
180Hp 80Hp 110Hp 10Hp
As we can see using Potion Regigigas EX needs to have Eviolite attached for attack 1 or Potion won't heal enough for Regigigas EX to survive attack 2 and to be honest its never a good idea to be relying on having a specific setup especially when it will only guarantee you 1 more turn and you'll be giving up 2 prizes, this leaves us with Max Potion a card can guarantee 2 more hits with or without Eviolite but he can't attack because Max potion requires Regigigas EX to discard his energy's leaving the choice in a stalemate situation between concede 2 prizes and have a chance at taking 1 or miss my attack this turn and try again next turn, 1 way around the stalemate is to use Reuniclus from Black/White.
A lot of people are starting to experiment with Reunilcus after the success it had in google Cawthon's worlds deck, with Reuniclus in play it would be easy to move the damage from the active Regigigas EX to a benched 1 and then healing the Regigigas EX with no energy attached this would also leave you with the ability to control the output of Raging Hammer while still being able to avoid knockouts, but the Reuniclus build does have its drawbacks most prominently Catcher can be used to bring active Reuniclus or the benched Regigigas EX which can be an easy 2 prizes for your opponent if you didn't manage to use Max Potion last turn of course an easy solution to this is to run the Reuniclus build with Vleplume and lock out any chance of catcher being using to claim easy prizes, of course with this build Max Potion is a none option as well and the closest equivalent would be to use Seeker which would allow you to refresh your benched Regigigas EX but uses your supporter for the turn, a plus to this is the fact that Seeker will also force your opponent to pick up 1 of there benched Pokémon making clearing the field slightly easier.
So which build is best? Personally I'd say it all comes down to the individuals preferred play-style without Trainer lock Regigigas EX will be a lot faster but if you include Trainer lock the deck is bound to be to be much more secure while slowing your opponent down.
Will Regigigas EX affect the format? Personally I don't see him having a huge influence over the game this season while we've got popular hitter like Donphan around but there is a possibility that next format Regigigas EX maybe be a powerful play especially as the Black/White format hasn't shown us any Fighting types that can hit heavily for minimal energy.
In closing I'd Like to say that Regigigas EX has the potential to actually see play and maybe with the right player using the right build might be able to win a few low level tournaments such as Battle Roads.
So whats your view on Regigigas EX? Do you think he stands a chance? and how would you play him?
Signing off for now
Rattata Joey
