Amoonguss
Although his attack and HP are not the best Amoonguss has the ability to Confuse and Poison your opponents Pokemon when you use him to evolve a Foonguss. Playing this at the right time can seriously hinder your opponent and cause them to retreat, heal or risk considerable damage. Best case your opponent will take 10 damage between turns and hit itself for an additional 30 by the time you have your next turn for a maximum total of 50 hit points per turn. Should your luck continue 'Rising Lunge' can hit up to an additional 50 damage per turn before using Pokemon Tools.
There are a lot of other Pokemon such as Ninetales from the Dragons Exalted set which can cause additional damage depending on the conditions already on your opponents Pokemon. In this case using Amoonguss to cause two status conditions will allow for Ninetales to do a guaranteed 120 points the turn you evolve Amoonguss. Should your opponent survive they will then be hit with 10 hit-points of poison damage before even thinking about dealing with confusion! All things going your way you are looking at 170 damage for the wonderful value of one fire energy and one very well timed evolution!
Lilligant
Lilligant is not the greatest Pokemon on it's own. However, when combined with the Poison/Confusion power of Amoonguss, 'Dream Dance' can cause some serious damage! While asleep your Pokemon will be unable to retreat meaning they will be forced to sit and take silly amounts of damage from their poison and (should they ever wake up) the possibility to hit themselves with Confusion. This kind of mass Special Conditions on Pokemon can scare less experienced players and be hard to over come without lucky trainers and heals. This is why 'Lead' is a useful tool.
Packing your deck with supporters and means to search out healing methods would be essential when using this card as it also puts itself to sleep. Although not the end of the world you would also be stalling your own deck, which is never great.Genesect EX
Now here is where a good plan all comes together....
Although his attack 'Megalo Cannon' is not great, it still attacks for 120 points per turn. The double grass requirement is a bit of a pain when you have many double colourless users hitting for just as much. However, what we are really interested in is his Ability 'Red Signal'.
When you attach a Plasma Energy to Genesect you may switch one of the opponents benched Pokemon with their Active Pokemon. This means that when you are holding your Amoonguss in your hand and Lilligent/Ninetales is at the ready you can pull out your opponents Mega/Ex Pokemon with the millions of Energy cards attached to it and start smashing it with Special Conditions!
Remembering that a lot of the EX/Mega series have HP above 150 and attacks that can be brutal against basic/weaker Pokemon being able to stop them attacking with Sleep/Confusion is a great defence. Being able to pull said Pokemon out before it has the time to power up is also a great strategy as your opponent will be left scrambling to either heal, retreat or power up their Pokemon before you defeat it!
These are just a few ways that you can use this periods Vs Ladder rewards. If you find any new combos feel free to comment bellow!
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