Which is better? Venusaur or Blastoise? By far the awnser would have to be Venusaur. Now I know all you water fanatics will be saying, "No way, my Blastoise is the best card ever," but hear me out. First the Similarities: Both have 100 hit points Both are Stage 2 Both have a weakness(B - Electric, V - Fire) and no resistance Now the Differences: Attack: Blastaoise Hydro pump does 40+ with a max of 60 for five water enegry Venusaur: Solarbeam does 60 for four grass energy - So obviously Venusaur is better because it costs him less enrgy to do the same ammount of damage Retreat Cost Blastoise: 3 Venusaur: 2 - Need I say more? And the big difference: Pokemon Power: Blastoise: Attach any water enegry in your hand to any WATER pokemon Venusaur: Move as many Grass energy as you want from ANY pokemon to ANY other pokemon. - Blastoise's power is nice, if you have more than one water enegry in your hand and a H2O pokemon without enough water enrgy. It basicly lets you speed up your energy placement. Venusaur on the other hand allows you to do something you otherwise can't do: MOVE engery around. So you can put out a chansey, move four enegy on him, use doubleslap, and take the energy back the next turn before chansey dies. Or you could move it off him and use the best Venusaur combo Trainer ever: Pokemon center, lets you heal all your damaged pokemon as long as you have one without a counter on him, like a weedle or something. And you can move the energy to any pokemon not just a water one like Blastoise. And heres something to think about: Hmmmm whats that new expansion called, The jungle perhaps. Wait a second there is only 3 new water pokemon, but OH GOSH 18 new grass ones!! Wow a pokemon with such an incredible grass power... he'll be in high demand, better get my hands on one now before the prices sky rocket like with Charizard So if you find yourself faced with the dilema which sould I get: a Blastoise or a Venusaur, go with the Flower-Power over the Crustation See you on the PokeBattlefield P5ycho709@aol.com