D-did either of you even read the part where I said it was a mixture of best and worst case scenario where you could get the card into play but couldn't accelerate it faster than that? Of course there are scenarios where you can get it powered up in a turn or two, but that scenario is just as likely as my scenario where you just dead draw and have a 240 hp target that took 4 turns to get powered up. I bet the both you just skimmed over it and wrote angry fanboy responses because I'm not on the vikavolt GX bandwagon.
Now, since the fanboys clearly are not listening to the voice of reason and just looking at the GX attack and wetting themselves of the thought of getting 6 prizes off 3 benched shaymins, I'm going to list the pros and cons of this card.
Pros:
* First attack costs 1 lightning energy and attaches 1 energy from your discard to itself if you have any.
* Can get played on the first turn with Forest of Giant Plants.
* GX attack hits every pokemon your opponent has on the bench for 60 damage (With wide lense against things with 120 or less hp and lightning weakness, they're now in danger of being OHKO'd by this attack)
* Good synergy with vanilla vikavolt
*Second attack hits for 180, knocking out Stage 2 and lower pokemon, BREAKs, big basics, and most EXs. Takes huge chunks out of Megas and GX cards.
Cons:
* Stage 2 pokemon, so without FoGP, rare candy, or Wally, it takes 2 turns to get in play. (Same with vanilla vikavolt)
* Second attack discards two energy from it in a 4 energy attack. (One could argue that it's not that big of a problem with vanilla vikavolt, but you need vikavolt in play to minimize the effect of it. Oh and you need to make sure you have both lightning and grass energy in your deck to take full advantage of the ability)
* Second and GX attack both require 4 energy to play. (See above parenthesis statement for why this is a problem)
* Forced to share an evolution line with vanilla vikavolt which can cause issues of not having enough 'chairs' for both cards to 'sit' on.
* 60 damage is just that, 60 damage. If your opponent has a bunch of 60 and less hp on the bench, cool you get a prize or two. If not, you just put useless damage on pokemon that can potentially get it healed off or not see the 'active position' ever.
* Without Wide Lens, anything that is weak to lightning attacks is not in danger of being KO'd by the GX attack.
You get the point, there are good things about this card, and there are bad things about this card. And what gets me is that everyone thinks the cons are all negligible. I mean, what if your opponent runs garbodor in standard before it gets rotated to expanded? "Oh? What's that? You want to use vanilla vikavolt to power up your GX? Hang on, let me get my garbotoxin on."
If fanboys want to ignore the cons and repeat the same line of "Hurrdurr forest of giant plants+rarecandy+wally means I can get it powered up in one turn because I'm the king of top decking and have everything I need in my opening hand, and anything that I might need later on, I'll just top deck like a boss."
Then we're done here, there is nothing I can say to get you to put your super rod away and actually look at what this card does.
