![]() ![]() Satoshi Tajiri ( The Ultimate Game Freak) Everything I did as a kid is kind of rolled into one-that's what Pokémon is. When I was making games, something clicked and I decided to make a game with that concept. Kids play inside their homes now, and a lot had forgotten about catching insects. Places to catch insects are rare because of urbanization. A fishing pond would become an arcade center. Every year they would cut down trees and the population of insects would decrease. Then development started taking place, and as it grew, all the insects were driven away. There were rice paddies, rivers, forests. The place where I grew up was still rural back then. He grew up around Tokyo, in the real-life Kanto area, at the time when it was beginning to be industrialized, and he saw the effects of the increasing pollution on the natural habitats around him. So, when Game Freak was inventing a bunch of cool video game creatures, they tried to appeal to their own inner children by designing them with poisonous barbs, stingers, goo, and whatnot, because poison is cool!īeyond this, another inspiration for poisonous Pokémon came from a different memory from Tajiri's childhood. Ask any kid: anything is cooler if it's poisonous. If you're fighting with bugs, why wouldn't you want to catch a bug with a poisonous stinger? That's so much cooler than the bug without the stinger. Satoshi Tajiri originally came up with the concept of Pokémon inspired by how, as a child, he and his friends would catch bugs and have them face each other to see which would win. How about a caterpillar with two stingers! Unless he forgot this detail, along with other details such as his grandson's name. And Professor Oak, as the foremost expert on Pokémon, should know about this "feature" of the local fauna. ![]() So, when you think about it, Professor Oak is sending a ten-year-old child into a world mostly inhabited by deadly poisonous creatures, with the task to coax them out of their hidey holes and personally poke their stingers and see what happens. In the first Pokémon games, Professor Oak sends you off on a wonderful adventure through the region of Kanto, to find different Pokémon and study them and complete a compendium of all the creatures in the world. Muk & Alolan Muk GX Tag Team is there to do the heavy lifting for round to round damage as he can heal himself 100 damage per round if the opponents active Pokemon is poisoned! And if they get any really big players out like another Tag Team Pokemon, he can use his GX attack to put 15 damage counters on them between rounds (which could get boosted to 17 if Toxicroak is still out!).Like this rabbit covered in poisonous barbs Then, finally if you switch from Virbank City stadium to Dust Island stadium after they're poisoned, then even if they use trainer cards to switch out the poisoned Pokemon, then ALL of the poison damage counters are moved to the newly active Pokemon instead. Secondly, if you have Dragalge (xy2) on the bench, then any of the opponent's poisoned Pokemon CAN'T retreat at all. Firstly, if you have Muk (sm9) on the bench, then the opponent can't remove poison from evolving or devolving. Now, there are many ways to remove poison condition from Pokemon, so there are several cards in this deck to help stop the opponent from doing that. Then, if you have Toxicroak on the bench he adds an additional 2 damage counters and if you have the Virbank City Gym in play, that increases it 2 damage counters as well for a total of 14 damage counters, or 140 damage between EACH PLAYERS TURN! With just 1 energy he can increase the damage counters between turns from 1 to 10 counters. Then once the opponent's Pokemon is poisoned, you want it to deal as much damage as possible and that's where Dragalge (SM12) comes into play. Best of all though, is if you have Garbodor (swsh2) on the bench and there is ANY kind of stadium in play you can poison the opponent's Pokemon as a free action with Garbodor's Poisonous Puddle ability. You can also poison the opponent's by using the poison barb tool or even the Koga's Trap supporter card. Firstly most of the Pokemon in this deck can cause the poisoned condition with attacks, many of which with just 1 energy. There are several ways in this deck to be able to get the poisoned condition onto the opponent's Pokemon. The idea behind this deck is to quickly poison the opponent, and then increase the damage counters between rounds to kill them quickly and then stopping them from escaping. ![]()
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