Wailord -- Guardians Rising Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Wailord from the Guardians Rising Pokemon Card Set.  Wailord is a Stage 1, Water type Pokemon card, with a HP of 200. It has a x2 weakness to Grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four Colorless Energy card retreat cost.  Wailord does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  Dive is the name of the first move on this card, for three Energy cards, two Water and one Colorless, this move does 40 damage, plus, if you flip a heads when flipping a coin, all effects of an attack on Wailord, including damage, during your opponent's next turn is prevented.  Wailord's second move is called Open Sea, for four Energy cards, three Water and one Colorless, this move does 80 damage, plus it heals 30 damage from each of your Water type Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Wailord is a Stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Wailmer into play (I reviewed Wailmer from this set yesterday) and then evolve Wailmer into Wailord.  If you read yesterday's review of Wailmer, you'll know that I thought it was a below average Basic Pokemon card overall.  For a Basic Pokemon, the card had a very high HP and could do a fair amount of damage, having two moves, however, similar to this card, both moves it had were on the slow side, and neither were that powerful.  So knowing this about Wailmer and looking at this Wailord card, if you're building a mostly Water Type deck, I could see using a 1-1 line of this Pokemon family.  Of course you'll want to set this line up on the Bench, then you could use Open Sea a couple of turns and heal your Bench Pokemon.  Because this card is so slow, it is definitely going to hurt if you have to move it to the Active Pokemon spot early, or if you have to retreat it.  I would not consider using this card if you can't use the healing effect with Wailord's Open Sea move.

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 Guardians Rising set.  Although this card is extremely slow on the attack, has a high retreat cost, and can't do that much damage when attacking, because it can heal 30 damage a turn from all of your Water Pokemon in play, I am giving this card an above average rating overall.  Combined with Wailmer from this set, which I gave a 2 out of 5 rating, I would give this line a 3 out of 5 rating total.

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Wailord -- Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Wailord from the Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Set.  Wailord is a stage 1, water type Pokemon card, with an hp of 200.  Wailord is the stage 1 evolution of Wailmer, there is a Wailmer card in this set and I reviewed that card yesterday.  Wailord has a x2 weakness to electric type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost.  Wailord does not have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Water Cannon and for one water energy card this move does 30 damage times the number of heads you get when you flip a coin for each water energy card attached to this Pokemon.  Wailord's second move is called Giant Wave and for four energy cards, three colorless and one water, this move does 80 damage, however this move can't be used two turns in a row.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since this is a stage 1 Pokemon, you'll first have to evolve Wailmer into Wailord to use this card.  Like I said yesterday, you'll want to keep Wailmer on the bench until you evolve it into Wailord, once that happens you can move this card into the active Pokemon spot when it has at least three energy cards on it, four would be even better.  As far as strategy goes, depending on how many energy cards you have attached to Wailord and how much damage would knock the defending Pokemon out would determine which move you would use.  If you can knock out the defending Pokemon with 80 damage or less you'll want to use Giant Wave, and then obviously the next turn you would have to use Water Cannon.  I would use Water Cannon if you either don't have four energy cards attached to Wailord or you feel lucky when you have at least three energy cards on Wailord so Water Cannon has a possibility of doing 90 damage.  I would suggest using a 2-2 or 2-1 line of Wailmer and Wailord in a water type deck.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  Even though this card has a massive hp, the highest in the TCG, I am not going to give this card a better than average rating.  The reason I'm doing this is because both of Wailord's moves take a ton of energy cards to use, and Giant Wave is good, but as soon as you use it you have to use Water Cannon the next turn which has the potential to do 0 damage.  Another thing I don't like about this card, even though I know why it is so high is the retreat cost, if you decide to retreat Wailord it is going to take quite awhile to get the energy cards back on it.  So overall this is an average stage 1 Pokemon card.

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