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Pokemon Card of the Day #2200: Greninja BREAK (BREAKpoint)

Greninja BREAK had one job to do. It was here to put damage counters on the opponent’s side of the field and have them add up over time, all while making sure Benched Pokemon weren’t safe. Yes, this required some recycling of Energy, and you’d eventually want multiple BREAK out there that were already from a Stage 2, and yes, Garbodor messed it up. The thing was that the base Greninja still applied some pressure and helped against a decent number of Ability-based decks and that one turn worth of breaking a Garbodor lock could sometimes be enough to turn the tables without playing more specific cards to do so, which seemed to make for a very potent sort of deck.

Greninja BREAK’s only stat of its own was the 170 HP. This was rather high, and you’d usually be able to get off multiple Giant Water Shuriken. The rest was based on the Greninja under this, which was usually the one from BREAKpoint. This meant a Grass Weakness and being able to retreat for free.

Greninja BREAK had no attacks of its own, but it did have an Ability. Giant Water Shuriken could be used once per turn and only if Greninja BREAK was your Active Pokemon... But you got to put 6 damage counters on 1 of the opponent’s Pokemon. This made sure that you could prevent something from hiding on the Bench without needing to use a Supporter to do it, and the common Pokemon hiding on the opponent’s Bench weren’t safe.

Greninja BREAK, when everything was set up, was devastating. You could toss damage around all over the place, though you’d want things like Starmie and some Items to get Energy back and to help get all of these Stage 2 Pokemon and their BREAK into play. This, along with the need to keep the very popular Garbodor at bay, was why Greninja wasn’t the best deck in any format. It was, however, just below that for quite some time, getting 2nd at Worlds 2016 and top 16 at Worlds 2018. It did have this way of overwhelming things once a Greninja BREAK reached the field, and using a deck without any Pokemon-EX or Pokemon-GX made the opponent actually Knock Out 6 Pokemon to win. This was seen in most tournaments for a couple of years for very good reason.

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