Hippopotas -- BREAKthrough Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Hippopotas from the BREAKthrough Pokemon Card Set.  Hippopotas is a basic, fighting type Pokemon card with an hp of 80.  It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost. Hippopotas does not have an Ability and it only has one move.  This move is called Nose Jet, for three energy cards, two colorless and one fighting, this move does 30 damage, however if your opponent tries to attack during their next turn, they must flip a coin, if they get a tails, the move does nothing.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Hippopotas is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Hippowdon, which is in the Primal Clash set, you'll more than likely want to use the full evolution when using this line, but since there isn't a Hippowdon card in this set, I'll just act like I plan on using Hippopotas on its own.  So, on its own, I cannot recommend using this card in a deck, I say this because Hippopotas is way too slow and is way under-powered.  Most Pokemon that have moves that require three energy cards to use can do at least 60 damage a turn.  So there is just absolutely no way I would ever want to use this card on its own in a deck.  Ideally, if this card wasn't so slow, you would get this card into the active Pokemon spot to start the game and then use Nose Jet every turn to prevent your opponent from attacking you and allowing you time to set up your benched Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 1 out of 5 rating.  So in my opinion, on its own, without considering Hippowdon, this is a very poor Basic Pokemon card.  Even though it has an above average HP, this card is still not very good, because it is really slow on the attack, cannot do much damage, and has a high retreat cost.  So if you're building a fighting type deck, I would definitely look elsewhere for a Basic Pokemon card use.

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

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True or False?  Hippopotas is the only fighting type, Basic Pokemon in the BREAKthrough set to have a stage 1 evolution not in the BREAKthrough set.
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Hippopotas -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Hippopotas from the Primal Clash Pokemon Card Set.  Hippopotas is a basic, fighting type Pokemon card with an hp of 90.  It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost. Hippopotas does not have an Ability or an Ancient Trait but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Tackle, for two colorless energy cards this move does 20 damage.  Hippopotas's second move is called Rolling Tackle, for three energy cards, two fighting and one colorless, this move does 50 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Hippopotas is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Hippowdon, which I'll be reviewing tomorrow, you'll more than likely want to use this card with that Pokemon.  However, since I haven't reviewed that card yet, I'll just act as though I plan on using this card without its evolution.  So, on its own, I would not recommend using this card in a deck, I say this because Hippopotas is slow to attack requiring at least two energy cards and is even worse on the retreat requiring three energy cards.  So unless you are very patient and want to use a Switch trainer card, I would not recommend using this card in a deck.  If you do decide to use one, do not use more than one and I would probably recommend setting this card up on the bench since it is slow on the attack, that way when you move it to the active Pokemon spot you can attack right away with either Tackle or Rolling Tackle.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating.  So in my opinion, on its own, without considering Hippowdon, this is a below average Basic Pokemon.  Even though this card has a high HP and two moves, I am still giving it a below average rating because it has a very high retreat cost, slow to attack, and Rolling Tackle does below average damage for the amount of energy cards it requires to use.  So if you're building a fighting type deck, I would look elsewhere for a fighting type Pokemon.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Hippopotas from the Primal Clash set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Hippopotas's stage 1 evolution Hippowdon, which is from this same set.  Make sure to check below for the Free Pokemon TCG Online Codes!

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