Ribombee -- Burning Shadows Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Ribombee from the Burning Shadows Pokemon Card Set.  Ribombee is a Stage 1, Fairy type Pokemon card, with a HP of 70. It has a x2 weakness to Metal type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to Darkness type Pokemon, and a one Colorless Energy card retreat cost.  This card's Ability is called Honey Gather, it says once per turn, you may search your deck for up to 2 Basic Energy cards and put them into your hand.  Besides the Ability, this card has just one move called Pollen Shot, for one Colorless Energy card, this move does 20 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Ribombee is a Stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Cutiefly into play (I reviewed Cutiefly from this set yesterday) and then evolve Cutiefly into Ribombee.  If you read yesterday's review of Cutiefly, you'll know that I thought it was a well below average Basic Pokemon card overall, mainly due to the fact it only had a HP of 30.  I did like how the card had a free retreat cost, but it couldn't be in the Active Pokemon spot long before getting knocked out.  So knowing this about Cutiefly and looking at this Ribombee card, the first thing that stands out is how well this card may work with Gardevoir GX from this set, you can use Ribombee's Ability to get 2 Fairy Energy cards into your hand, then use Gardevoir GX's Ability to attach Fairy Energy from your hand to one of your Pokemon, essentially, this is a way to guarantee that you can use Gardevoir's Ability each and every turn.  Other than the Ability, which is very useful, there is no reason to use this card in a deck because it has such a low HP and a somewhat weak move.  So if you're building a deck, I could see using a 1-1 line of this family, you could use Guzma with Cutiefly the first turn, then the second turn, evolve it so you can always make sure to have Energy in your hand.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is a below average Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Burning Shadows set.  Like I mentioned, outside of this card's Ability, which is excellent, this card is very poor overall, with a low HP and a weak move.  Although not heavily used, this Pokemon line can certainly be used when deck building, to aid something like Gardevoir GX and attaching Energy from your hand to your Pokemon.  Even though both Pokemon received below average ratings individually, I am going to give the two cards a 3 out of 5 combined rating, just because the line goes from free retreat cost to useful Ability.

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

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