Salamence -- Plasma Blast Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Salamence from the Plasma Blast Pokemon Card Set.  Salamence is a stage 2, dragon type Pokemon card, with an hp of 150.  It has a x2 weakness to dragon type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost.  Salamence's Ability is called Breakwing, this Ability states that when you play Salamence from your hand to your bench, you may remove all of your opponent's Pokemon tool cards in play.  Besides the Ability, Salamence has just one move called Gaia Crush, this move requires four energy cards, two colorless and one each of fire and water, and does 100 damage, plus you must remove any Stadium cards in play.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Salamence is a stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Bagon into play and then evolve it into Shelgon before you can evolve Shelgon into Salamence, both of those Pokemon are from this set and I've reviewed both of them the last couple of days.  The Bagon card from this set is pretty good and I would use it on its own in a deck as a starter type Pokemon, the Shelgon from this set isn't as good so if you want to use this entire line I would either move Bagon into the active Pokemon spot immediately or evolve it up to Salamence on the bench.  If I was building a dual type deck of water and fire I would definitely use this line in that deck.  I would use a 4-2-2 line of Bagon, Shelgon, and Salamence, I would definitely set up one of the Salamence cards on the bench, put four energy cards on it and then use Gaia Crush every turn in the active Pokemon spot.  If you don't have four energy cards on Salamence there is no reason to put it in the active Pokemon spot because it has an extremely high retreat cost.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an average stage 2 Pokemon card from the Plasma Blast Pokemon card set.  This Salamence card is good enough to make this entire line usable in a deck, but it isn't a line you want to build a deck around.  I like that Salamence has a good hp and one good move, but the retreat cost is too high on this card in my opinion and the Ability isn't that great.  Overall, I would give the line of Bagon, Shelgon, and Salamence, a 3 out of 5 rating, individually Bagon and Salamence were 3 out of 5s, and Shelgon was a 2.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Salamence from the Plasma Blast set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Dialga EX Full Art, which is from this same set.  Make sure to check below for the Free Pokemon TCG Online Codes!

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