Dark and Metal Venomoth


Hiya!  It’s me Master 1080 again with another one of
my articles.


This time I will talk about Venomoth, a Pokemon that
is rarely used.  However, I use it to annoy the heck
outta my opponents.  Venomoth is a powerful and fun to
play card if used correctly.  I’m here to talk about
how it can be somewhat powerful in today’s
environment.


All right now, let’s cut to the chase.


To begin, Venomoth has 70 HP, Fighting resistance, and
best of all, no retreat!   It is like a status-effect
causing Scyther.  It has a Pokemon Power called
“Shift” that let’s you change Venomoth’s type (does
not weakness or resistance) to any type other than
Colorless in PLAY.  Its attack is called “Venom
Powder” that does 10 damage (or more if you used
“Shift”) which on the flip of heads causes the
Defending Pokemon to become Confused and Poisoned!


Strategies with Special Energy Cards:


Since you can “Shift” to any type of Pokemon in play,
you can now take advantage of the Metal and Darkness
Energies.  Either your opponent or yourself can have a
Darkness or Metal type Pokemon you can “Shift” to. 
Once you have shifted to Dark or Metal, you may now
play the corresponding Energy Card on to it without
any side effects.


With Darkness Energy you can add 10 damage per turn. 
I advise you to shift to Darkness first to ensure that
the Darkness Energy does not do anything bad to
Venomoth.
But I know that you might be thinking, “Why not just
‘Shift’ to the type the opponent is weak against?”  I
know you still add 10 more damage that way and you
don’t need the Darkness Energy.  But think about it,
if you have 2 Darkness Energy you can do 30 damage
with a chance of Confusion and Poison.  Also, you can
deal an extra 10 damage to Pokemon with no weakness
with the Darkness Energy attached.  However, to do the
30 damage you will require a grand total of 2 Grass
and 2 Darkness Energy, which leaves Venomoth Energy
Removal and Gust of Wind bait (since it has a weakness
of Fire).


With Metal Energy you can decrease you opponent’s
Attack damage by 10.  It is important that you “Shift”
Venomoth to Metal first otherwise you will inflict no
damage at all due to the fact that Venomoth was no a
Metal type to begin with.  This will protect Venomoth
from receiving a lot of damage, especially from Fire
Pokemon.


Strategies not requiring Darkness or Metal Energy:


Since Venomoth can inflict some of the most damaging
status-effects in the game, I suggest using a Stadium
card with it.  
- The Rocket’s Training Gym will prevent your opponent
from saving his/her Pokemon by retreating.  
- Chaos Gym, Slowking, and/or Dark Vileplume will
prevent your opponent from using any Trainers to save
their Pokemon.  If they try to retreat, then used Dark
Dugtrio to place 20 damage on the retreating Pokemon,
with the flip of a coin of course.  Or you can use
Murkrow to lock the in place (this is good with
Venomoth since Murkrow is the Pokemon that provides
Venomoth the Darkness type to shift to).


A simple strategy to use with Venomoth is with
Meganium.  Meganium’s Wild Growth Pokemon Power let’s
all Grass Energy provide 2 Grass Energy for your Grass
Pokemon.  This means Venomoth may attack using only
one Grass Energy Card!


Weakness:


Venomoth’s major weakness to my Special Energy Card
strategy is Magby.  It’s attack shuts down all Pokemon
Powers for one turn, the effect of the attack ending
on your opponent’s next turn.  If Magby shuts down the
“Shift” Pokemon Power, then Venomoth will become Grass
type again and will no longer have the benefits of
being Dark or Metal.  Muk, Smeargle, and Goop Gas
Attack are not too much of a threat since they are not
as annoying as Magby.  Plus, what makes Magby so
strong against Venomoth is because it is a Fire type
and stops all Powers for 2 turns, yours and theirs.


Also, other status effects will shut down Venomoth’s
Pokemon Power causing it to once again lose the
benefits of being a Darkness or Metal type.


Well there’s another one of my reports.  This
concludes it.  My thanks to everyone who reads this
and the people at Pojo who help post it.


Responses to Master 1080 at the_master1080@yahoo.com


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