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From: victreebel29@juno.com [mailto:victreebel29@juno.com]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:58 PM
To: Cardtips@pojo.com
Subject: RE:Non Metagame Pokemon ways to beat current archtypes.


Hello everyone, it is Tim.  Here is another article with parts that are
wrong, or, um... not effective.  First of all, ecogym and Gatr.  The
strategy given is wrong.  Ecogym makes it so energy ATTACHED TO POKEMON go
back to the owner's hand.  So, gatr's energy still hits the discard.  Then,
Typhlosion.  It's biggest weakness isn't necessarily water, cause Typhlosion
is usually played with Blaine's Arcanine which can be played with cinnabar
gym.  Also, removal isn't a big threat against Typhlosion, considering the
Fire Recharge power.  As for Slowking... It's difficult to gust one up
without Iggly/ Muk etc.  Brock's mankey makes this more possible.  HOwever,
Balloon Berry has made it easier for Slowking to run.  Then, babies... Why
in the hell would you want to poison them??  Just use an attack that does
30+ and one hit KO them.  If you poison them, they will just retreat and end
the effect.  Now, the dark types... Double gusting generally won't help,
seeing as almost all dark !
types retreat for free.  The houndooms don't, but they don't have high
retreats.  For metal types, Promo Smeargel is really good to counter them.
You paint them some color other than metal, and then the metals stop their
damage.  This is unreliable, considering Smeargel is easy to knock out, but
it's fun.  Well, guess that's all for now.

-Tim Svenson

e- mail me at Victreebel29@juno.com