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Pokemon Card of the Day #2363: Pidgeot-EX (Evolutions)

Pidgeot-EX was mostly a way to access M Pidgeot-EX, but it also had 2 attacks of its own to look at. The power it could access on its own was low, but it was also one of those Pokemon that an opponent had to play carefully against if they couldn’t take it down in a single hit. Pidgeot-EX was good at punishing attacks that were strong but not quite enough to KO it if given the opportunity.

170 HP was 10 below where most Pokemon-EX were, though it was still high enough that it took a really big hit to break through for a KO on it. The difference between 170 and 180 wasn’t a big one, though even 10 HP could matter in a few random situations, especially against an opponent that liked to spread damage onto the field early in a game. The Lightning Weakness did the Pokemon of that type go for an easy 2 Prizes, though this point of the game was one where Lightning wasn’t one of the top types. You’d still want to keep an eye out for Vikavolt decks, and the later arrival of Rayquaza-GX meant that you’d see some Lightning-type partners in some builds of that deck, with Xurkitree-GX being notable there. Pidgeot-EX’s Fighting Resistance, while not lowering damage by much, was nice if up against the typical Buzzwole, Zygarde, and Lycanroc that saw a lot of play in the BKT-On format. If you needed Pidgeot-EX to retreat, 1 Energy would do the job, and this was quite reasonable.

Mirror Move wasn’t a very reliable attack, but it was one that made your opponent play very carefully. It required just a Colorless Energy and only did something if Pidgeot-EX was damaged by an attack during the opponent’s last turn. Mirror Move did the same amount of damage to the opponent’s Active Pokemon. Pidgeot-EX could hit back reasonably hard if it took one of those typical attacks around 110-130 damage, which could be useful to discourage what would otherwise be a good play. On the other hand, it could be avoided in a lot of cases, so it was hard to get off a good Mirror Move, and you’d only make equal progress compared to whatever you were facing so going for good trades wasn’t easy either.

Feather Lance was rather weak, at 80 damage for 3 Colorless Energy. 20 damage was also done to 1 of the opponent’s Benched Pokemon, but that wasn’t enough to save it.

Pidgeot-EX could punish a careless opponent that attacked it with a weakened Pokemon-EX or Pokemon-GX, but that was about it. This was quite unreliable against anyone who knew what they were doing. The main goal of this card was really to access M Pidgeot-EX, which was available in the same set.

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