Rhyperior 76/160 -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Rhyperior from the Primal Clash Pokemon Card Set.  This is the first of two consecutive Rhyperior cards I'll be reviewing from this set.  Rhyperior is a stage 2, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 150.  It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost.  Rhyperior does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Rock Shower, for three energy cards, two fighting and one colorless, this move allows you to flip 3 coins, for each heads you get it does 20 damage.  Rhyperior's second move is called Stone Edge, this move requires four energy cards to use, two each of fighting and colorless, and does 80 damage, plus 40 more damage if you get a heads when flipping a coin.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Rhyperior is a stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Rhyhorn into play and then evolve it into Rhydon before you can evolve Rhydon into Rhyperior, both of those Pokemon are from this set and I've reviewed both of them the last couple of days.  If you've read my reviews of those cards you'll know that I thought Rhyhorn was a very solid Basic Pokemon card having an above average HP and one good move, just a little slower on the attack and having a high retreat cost, on the other hand, I thought Rhydon was a below average Stage 1 Pokemon card, it again had a high HP, but it had a really high retreat cost, and neither move it had was that great, and both moves were slow.  So knowing this about the first two Pokemon in this line and looking at this Rhyperior card, this card is the perfect card to use a Trick Coin trainer card with, since both moves on Rhyperior require coin flips.  I would only use this card for its Stone Edge move which could knock out most Pokemon in one move, by doing 120 damage, it is just extremely slow to set up, and because I wasn't a big fan of Rhydon from this set, I would recommend either starting with Rhyhorn in the active Pokemon spot and evolving the whole time from that spot, or evolving the entire line on the bench since these Pokemon require so many energy cards to attack.  I myself would not use this line in a deck because Rhyperior just isn't that great of a Stage 2 card and doesn't warrant using up space in a deck to use.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is a very average Stage 2 Pokemon card from the Primal Clash set.  This card has some positives and negatives about it, it does have a good HP and two decent moves, one very good doing up to 120 damage a turn, the other based totally on coin flips, which main end up doing no damage at all, but both of its moves are slow and its retreat cost is high as well.  So looking at this entire Pokemon family, like I said above, I just wouldn't recommend using it in a deck and because of that, giving the line a 2 out of 5 rating, individually I gave Rhyhorn and Rhyperior 3 out of 5 ratings and Rhydon a 2.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Rhyperior from the Primal Clash set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of the second Rhyperior, which is from this same set.  Make sure to check below for the Free Pokemon TCG Online Codes!

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