>Subject: Pokemon Attack Ratings
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>Pokemon Attack Ratings
>
>Ok. Most poeple love to have a Charizard or Zapdos in their decks. Why? 
>Because they can do 100 damage attacks. I don't even care. Here is a simple 
>way of how I would rate the use of attacks. 
>
>I always think of how many turns you take to do an attack. Let's use 
>Charizard for example. His Fire Spin attack needs 4 energy cards, so It takes 
>4 turns to do the attack. At the end, it does 100 damage. Now here's the part 
>that shocks ya. We'll use hitmonchan now. Jab does 20 damage with 1 energy 
>card and Special Punch doing 40, with 3 energy cards. On your first turn with 
>him, you attach an energy and do Jab, and on the second do the same thing. On 
>the third turn take one more energy card and do Special Punch. Now the total 
>damage on your opponent is 80. Take another energy card and attach it to 
>another pokemon since you don't need it for your forth turn. Finish it off 
>with one last Special Punch ending your 4 turns with 120 damage! More than 
>Charizard's!
>
>I recomend that you use this strategy only at the beginning of the game. Your 
>opponent might have a ready-to-kill Charizard with 4 energy cards already. 
>And if other features that affect this process are used, such as resistance, 
>energy removals, or pokemon powers, do not use it. I hope my article was 
>useful to you. Bye.
>
>Miguel
>ECHGEE@aol.com
>