Friday, April 11, 2014

Gurdurr -- Pokemon X and Y Card Review

Gurdurr Pokemon X and Y Card
Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Gurdurr from the X and Y Pokemon card set.  Gurdurr is a stage 1, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90.  It has a x2 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost.  Gurdurr does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Pummel, for two energy cards, one each of fighting and colorless, this move does 20 damage plus 20 more damage if you get a heads when you flip a coin.  Gurdurr's second move is called Hammer Arm, this move requires three energy cards, two fighting and one colorless, and does 60 damage, plus you get to discard the top card of your opponent's deck.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Gurdurr is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Timburr into play (I reviewed Timburr from this set yesterday) and then evolve Timburr into Gurdurr.  Gurdurr does have a stage 2 evolution in Conkeldurr that you'll probably want to use with this Pokemon line but since I haven't reviewed that card yet, the strategy below will act like Gurdurr is the final evolution in this line.  So if you read yesterday's review of Timburr you'll know that I thought it was a pretty solid basic Pokemon card that could be used on its own but you wouldn't want to use too many of them in a deck because they take two energy cards to attack and two energy cards to retreat.  So you could definitely use that card with this Gurdurr card, if you're building a fighting type deck I would definitely consider this Pokemon family and would use up to a 2-2 line of Timburr and Gurdurr in it.  No matter what Pokemon is in the active Pokemon spot I would use Pummel when you have two energy cards and then if you have Gurdurr in the active Pokemon spot you could use Hammer Arm when it has three energy cards on it.  You'll definitely want to have at least 2 energy cards on Gurdurr before putting it into the active Pokemon spot so it won't be too hard for you to retreat if you need to.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an average stage 1 Pokemon card from the X and Y set.  This card really is just average, it has an average hp, and two average moves, plus a high retreat cost.  Overall, I would give the line of Timburr and Gurdurr from this set a 3 out of 5 rating, individually Gurdurr was a 3 and Timburr a 4.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Gurdurr from the X and Y set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Gurdurr's stage 2 evolution in Conkeldurr which is from this same set.  Make sure to check below for the Free Pokemon TCG Online Codes!

Free Pokemon TCG Online Code Cards:
Today's Quiz for a Pokemon TCG Online Code Card --
At what level does Timburr evolve into Gurdurr?
Please respond by including your YouTube username and link to your YouTube channel.  If the question is quite tough, the first correct comment will win, otherwise I'll use a random number generator to choose a winner.

20 comments:

Unknown said...

i know this 1 cause timbur was my partner pokemon in black it was
lvl 25
pele ifil
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1c_tHNHVnGIH01ViRS5Puw

Unknown said...

at level 25

mohamed hussein

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOo4zQur_H8AUwW6V2Js7wg

Anonymous said...

Evolve in level 25!

Yan Raphael

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbkXTtYjhuFx2xEhIP9L4Q

Unknown said...

Evolves at lvl 25

http://www.youtube.com/user/guidounion

Unknown said...

lv 25
mecha gravity http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnLd6qGYN2vb_mZiBStxdJQ

Unknown said...

LEVEL 25 !! Yeah!!

Alvin Lai

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC04PcgOcWiKts1U6wo23WXw


TQ

Unknown said...

level 25

teng jinchung
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzwApPdp2Wlbp9KYcBOJByw

Guilherme Alferes said...

level 25
Guilherme Nunes Alferes
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv5KMnqMLEwhdXfIJczacvg

Unknown said...

That would be level 25!

Supermang
https://www.youtube.com/user/Joot000b

Jacob Lin said...

at level 25


https://www.youtube.com/channel/raytonlin1

1awesome180 said...

He evolves at level 25
youtube.com/user/1awesome180

BlackStar288 said...

It evolves at 25
YT: BlackStar288
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4jKsD-uVaxx1zCiyXH9Sg

Unknown said...

25!

mangomonkay
www.youtube.com/user/mangomonkay

Unknown said...

It evolves at 25

Fatyl Kamakazi
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwij0PksBk2GzKskn79zNPQ

Unknown said...

It evolves at level 25.

asdjklghty
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Unknown said...

At level 25

Shawn Ng

http://m.youtube.com/channel/?client=mv-google&layout=mobile

Anonymous said...

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Cabal said...

Timburr evolves into Gurdurr at level 25.

cabalw

http://www.youtube.com/user/cabalw

Unknown said...

Timburr evolve lvl 25 :)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNx-zQTHZSGm7OEyDqFpoQ

PrimetimePokemon said...

Congrats to Alvin Lai for winning!