Sunday, January 6, 2013

Pikachu -- Boundaries Crossed Pokemon Card Review

Pikachu Boundaries Crossed Pokemon Card
Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Pikachu from the Boundaries Crossed Pokemon Card Set.  Pikachu is a basic, lightning type Pokemon card with an hp of 60.  It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Pikachu does not have an Ability, but it does have two moves.  Its first move is called Pika Punch and for one lightning energy card this move does 10 damage.  Pikachu's second move is called Double Voltage, this move requires three energy cards, two lightning and one colorless, and does 40 damage times the number of heads you get when you flip two coins.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Pikachu is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Raichu, there is not a Raichu card in this set but there is one in Next Destinies, I would recommend keeping Pikachu on your bench and evolving it into Raichu before moving it into the active Pokemon spot.  With that being said, you could definitely try and use this card on its own, or as a starter Pokemon that is used a couple of turns then is evolved into Raichu a few turns later.  I would recommend this card as starter Pokemon because its first move only requires one energy card, so it can attack right away, and then if you can't get Raichu into your hand very quickly, Pikachu has the potential to do 80 damage per turn if you get three energy cards on it.  So, if you have this card on your bench, keep it there until you evolve it into Raichu, if you're forced to put this card into the active Pokemon spot, use whichever move you have the required amount of energy for, unless you only need to do 10 damage to knock out the defending Pokemon, then you'll want to use Pika Punch since it does damage for sure.  I would only use 1 of these in a deck if you plan on using Pikachu on its own and not evolving it (like Ash), otherwise you can use more Pikachu in your deck if you're using Raichu.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is an average basic Pokemon card.  This is a very solid card in my opinion, it has an average hp, low retreat cost, one quick move, and one slower move that has a possibility of doing a great amount of damage.  So if you need one more Pokemon card in your lightning type deck, this one should suffice.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Pikachu from the Boundaries Crossed set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Voltorb from this same set.  Make sure to check below for the Free Pokemon TCG Online Codes!

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What game does Pikachu serve as the starter Pokemon?
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26 comments:

Daniel said...

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xandys said...

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Toh said...

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Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

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PrimetimePokemon said...

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