Roserade -- Flashfire Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Roserade from the Flashfire Pokemon Card Set.  Roserade is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy retreat cost.  Roserade does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Whiplash, for one grass energy card, this move allows you to flip a coin until you get tails, for each heads you may discard an energy card attached to your opponent's active Pokemon.  Roserade's second move is called Mega Drain, this move requires three grass type energy cards and does 70 damage, plus it allows you to heal 20 damage from Roserade.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Roserade is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Roselia into play (I reviewed Roselia from this set yesterday) and then evolve Roselia into Roserade.  If you read yesterday's review, you'll know that I thought Roselia was a very good starter type Pokemon card that should definitely be used in any grass type deck out there.  It had two pretty good moves, and could make the defending Pokemon go to sleep.  Because Roselia is such a good basic Pokemon, you can easily use it on its own, and because this Roselia card isn't as good in my opinion, I would use a line of 4-2 or 3-1 of Roselia and Roserade.  I would make sure I have three energy cards on Roselia before evolving it into Roserade and then use Mega Drain every turn.  If you had multiple lines of Roselia and Roserade in your deck, you could save one on your bench and if your opponent has a card that requires a ton of energy cards to attack, you could move Roserade into the active Pokemon and try and discard their energy cards by using Whiplash.

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 Flashfire set.  This card is pretty solid overall, having a low retreat cost, average hp, and two moves.  I wish Whiplash would for sure discard at least an energy card, but Mega Drain is a great move which makes up for the poorness of Whiplash.  So overall, if you're looking for a basic and stage 1 line to put into your grass type deck, this line of Roselia and Roserade is a good option, overall I would give this line a 4 out of 5 rating, of course Roserade was a 3 and yesterday I gave Roselia a 5.

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Roserade #15/124 -- Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Roserade from the Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Set.  This is the second of two consecutive Roserade Pokemon cards I'll be reviewing from this set.  Roserade is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to water type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Roserade's Ability is called Le Parfum and says when you move this card from your hand to evolve one of your Roselia cards in play, you may search your deck for any card you would like and then put that card into your hand.  Besides the Ability, Roserade has one move called Squeeze which requires two energy cards, one each of grass and colorless, and does 30 damage plus 20 more damage and paralyzes the defending Pokemon if you get a heads when you flip a coin.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Roserade is a stage 1 Pokemon card, I would recommend getting Roselia on your bench first, then evolving it into Roserade while on the bench, once you get two energy cards on Roserade you are ready to put it into the active Pokemon spot.  However, make sure to use Roserade's Ability when you move it from your hand to evolve Roselia, I would suggest searching your deck for an evolution card so you can evolve one of your Pokemon quicker.  Once you get Roserade into the active Pokemon spot you have no choice but to use Squeeze, hopefully you get lucky and flip a heads, because otherwise Squeeze doesn't do much at all.  So after reviewing both Roserade cards, this card is definitely the worst of the two, the only reason I would use this card in a deck would be for its Ability, but I would rather have a supporter card in the deck to do the job of Roserade's Ability, I would not use this card, and stick to a 2-2 line of Roselia and Roserade, if you really want to use this card, I would keep the 2-2 line but have one of each Roserade from this set in your deck.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating.  There is no comparison between today's and yesterday's Roserade cards, yesterday's was much much better, this card is very bad compared to that one, this cards Ability can only be once and can easily be replaced by a supporter card, and its only move doesn't do much damage unless you get a heads when using the move.  Other than those things, this card is average after that, average hp and average retreat cost.

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Roserade #14/124 -- Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Roserade from the Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Set.  This is the first of two consecutive Roserade Pokemon cards I'll be reviewing from this set.  Roserade is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to water type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Roserade does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move is called Crosswise Whip which requires one grass energy card and does 30 damage times the number of heads you get when you flip 4 coins.  Roserade's second move is called Poison Point and for three energy cards, two colorless and one grass, this move does 60 damage and poisons the defending Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Roserade is a stage 1 Pokemon card, I would recommend getting Roselia on your bench first, then evolving it into Roserade while on the bench, once you get one energy card on Roserade you are ready to put it into the active Pokemon spot.  If the Pokemon you're facing has 120 hp or less on it, I would use Poison Point two turns in a row, if it has more than 120 hp or you only have one energy card on Roserade I would use Crosswise Whip instead.  Since there is another Roserade Pokemon card in this set which I'll be reviewing tomorrow, I don't know which one is better yet, but I would definitely suggest using this card and using it in a grass type deck.  I would suggest using a 2-2 line of Roselia and Roserade.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 5 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is a great stage 1 Pokemon card, it has an average hp, low retreat cost, and two great moves.  One is extremely quick and can do major damage, the other does average damage for average energy but being able to poison the defending Pokemon makes Poison Point an above average move.  So I would definitely recommend using this card in a grass type deck.

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