Friday, May 1, 2015

Starmie -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Starmie Primal Clash Pokemon Card
Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Starmie from the Primal Clash Pokemon Card Set.  Starmie is a stage 1, psychic  type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90.  It has a x2 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a free retreat cost.  Starmie does not have an Ability and it only has one move.  The only move that this card has is called Synchro Star, this move requires one colorless energy card to use and does 10 damage plus 60 more damage if the defending Pokemon and Starmie both have the same amount of energy attached to them.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Starmie is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Staryu into play (I reviewed Staryu from this set a few weeks ago) and then evolve Staryu into Starmie.  If you read my review of Staryu, the first thing you'll want to know is that it is a water type Pokemon card but doesn't require any water energy cards to attack.  The second thing you need to know is that Staryu is a very poor card in this set, only having one move that is based on a coin flip.  Because of this, if you want to use Starmie in your deck, definitely set up the entire line on your bench.  So taking a look at this specific Starmie card, I would highly recommend using a 1-1 line in a deck, putting 1 energy card on Starmie and keeping it on the bench until your opponent uses a Pokemon in the active Pokemon spot that has one energy card on it, I would then switch Starmie into the active Pokemon spot, use Synchro Star, doing 70 damage, and then retreat it during the next turn, hopefully performing a one hit knock out when you attacked.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an above average Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Primal Clash set.  This card really isn't much better than average overall, having an average HP and only one move.  But I really like the combination of the move that this card has and the fact it has a free retreat cost, these two things work perfectly together and should really help you during your battle.  Together with Staryu from this set, I would give the two Pokemon a 3 out of 5 rating, Staryu is very poor, but I would never use it in the active Pokemon spot anyway.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Starmie from the Primal Clash set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Rhyhorn, 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 --
How many English sets included Starmie as a Psychic type Pokemon?
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.

16 comments:

Unknown said...

4 sets, Neo Revelation, Skyridge, EX Hidden Legends and Primal Clash as 70 hp, 80 hp, 80 hp again and 90 hp respectively. I have all 4 of them

YouTube Name - Aditya Rallapalli

Cabal said...
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Cabal said...

4 English sets

cabalw

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnLY5kCyPH6tBOPfSjiVgsg

StilledTongues said...

4 sets!

YouTube Name - Anderson Kong TaoYat

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaD04fVmAAIVnFbI6XLpuDA

Sky said...

Four english sets have Starmie as a Psychic Type

SkyBlade79
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3-GR64yJnJghdWyUFYq-TA

Unknown said...

Starmie was a psychic type in 4 english sets

playwithtay63

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIRkRgEi_Ac6u69qqEMNkKA

Chasista said...

Four sets included Starmie as Psy type Pokémon.

Chasista

https://www.youtube.com/user/Chasista

Unknown said...

4 sets: Neo Revelation, Skyridge, EX Hidden Legends and Primal Clash

kris_is_ me_

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS8yZqqC5f1ZgQE-rr0bkQ

Unknown said...

4 English sets included Starmie as a Psychic type Pokemon

brezaboy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH9PLftx6uOhaO-ifNtPbmA

Unknown said...

Starmie was a psychic type in 4 english sets

Yoshiarta Luis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-A8d3G-TYpsnPXuNHso-RQ

Unknown said...

4 sets can u plz give me a code plz I haven't got one yet my YouTube name is ...... Mr pancho or I could give you a link to one of my videos https://youtu.be/zGAgXwujmco .. But can u plz give me a code

Unknown said...

4 set my YouTube name is ... Mr pancho or I could give u a link if it's hard to look for https://youtu.be/zGAgXwujmco. But can u plz send me a code I haven't got one yet

Unknown said...

Four

Sherief Adel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrEHf9PIg83MWNuTySUISbA

Unknown said...

4 English expansions included Starmie as a Psychic-Type Pokemon.

Kai Tung Ng

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_wX6pMW7wFZFmb9E3XmOw

Unknown said...

4 sets

Jaycie Dyer

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC3W-MsfcrsEV0uxBe88qmhg

PrimetimePokemon said...

Congrats to Niruth Kashyap for winning!