From: Brian Brokaw To: Dugald Morrison Subject: Re: Two Questions Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 7:55 PM > Thanks for your column - I like it very much. I have two questions, one > very basic and one a little more technical: > > (1) I have been playing Pokemon for a while, but I've never really > understood the significance of the "Level" of each card. It doesn't seem to > have any effect on gameplay, and I've looked everywhere trying to find out > what it means. So, what does the Pokemon Level mean? It has no bearing on game play, but it will be helpful in the future if people get in the habit of describing the cards by their level. For example, in Japan there are MORE Promo Pikachus than you can shake a stick at! If we just called them "Promo Pikachu" you would say: Which one? However, Media Factory was very careful to ALWAYS change the LEVEL of the Pokemon when they made a FUNCTIONALLY different card. So Level 12 Pikachu is functionally different than Level 14 Pikachu even though both of them are "promos". > (2) When you're playing against Ditto, and say you have Scyther do 30 > damage and then next turn you retreat Scyther and advance one of your > Pokemon that only has 30HP so that Ditto is knocked out, does your 30HP > Pokemon get to attack on that turn whatever Pokemon your opponent replaces > Ditto with? Yes! It wasn't your fault that your opponent was using such a flawed Pokemon as Ditto! It won't cost you your attack. (2 K-O's in one turn would be cool!) Brian Brokaw