#light flareon

Light Flareon could hit pretty hard if it got its coin flips. Really, even decent luck resulted in a solid attack here, and on a Pokemon that wasn't particularly frail that was notable. On the other hand, there was very direct competition from another Fire-type to consider. It was hard to get out of the shadow of one of the best attackers in the era, and it was going to take one of two small traits to have a chance in this case.

80 HP was a solid number for a Stage 1, leaving only Water-types (mostly due to a Weakness) and things like Blaine's Arcanine and Magcargo hitting hard enough to break through quickly. Most attackers would take 2 turns, which Light Flareon could keep up with reasonably well. To be fair, that Water Weakness was a huge pain, mostly for both Feraligatr decks but also in case Kabutops showed up to help Steelix against Fire-types. Light Flareon could retreat for a single Energy, which was one of the perks it had over Magcargo. Going back to hide behind a Cleffa was much easier to do with this.

Warm Up was the other thing Light Flareon had over Magcargo. It required a Fire Energy, and while it did no damage, it did let you search your deck for a Fire Energy card to attach to 1 of your Benched Pokemon. Placing down an Entei was far better than this, but this was here if you really couldn't find one and couldn't shuffle your deck with Cleffa. That was not a common occurrence but was better than nothing.

Burning Flame started at a slightly low 30 damage for 2 Fire and a Colorless Energy. Then, 2 coins were flipped, and each heads did 20 more damage but also made you discard a Fire Energy attached to Light Flareon to use the attack. The average output was 50 with 1 discard here, which was rather decent.

💥 light flareon 🔥

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