Elden Ring (2022) | dev. FromSoftware
It happened an age ago. But when I recall, I see it true.
On a night of wint'ry fog. The rune of death was stolen and the Demigods began to fall. Starting with Godwyn the Golden. Queen Marika was driven to the brink. The shattering ensued; a war that wrought only darkness. The Elden Ring was broken, but by whom? And why? What could the Demigods ever hope to win by warring?
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Jacek Jedral.
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SEBASTIAN STAN L'Officiel Russia | 2018 Ph. by Gavin Bond
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (2017) dir. James Gunn
Alolan Ninetales-GX brought a couple of interesting things to the table. A strong attack with heavy Energy discarding was nothing new, but you didn’t see it quite like this on Water-types very often. There was also an attack that wasn’t very strong but was cheap and could hit the Bench. Both of these had potential uses, and the GX attack could change a game if the opponent wasn’t careful. It’s probably unsurprising that people tried this card out once it was released, though it would need support to make any of its traits work out.
210 HP was a good number. The Stage 1 Pokemon-GX would not be falling easily, with even most of the strongest attackers needing extra damage to get there. The Metal Weakness was not usually a factor. Someone might occasionally bring a deck featuring the type, using something like Metagross-GX or Solgaleo-GX, but those were rather uncommon and saw only minor success at most. It was also nice to see a Pokemon-GX that just needed 1 Energy to retreat if needed.
Ice Blade wasn’t very strong, at 50 damage for 2 Colorless Energy. It could hit one of the opponent’s Benched Pokemon if you wanted, providing value to decks that could spread damage around. This usually meant decks with Decidueye-GX, putting damage all over the opponent’s board to set up for mulitple KO’s later. Many of these decks didn’t even run Water or Rainbow Energy, with Alolan Ninetales-GX only being used to hit the Bench with Ice Blade or occasionally an important Active Fire-type even if it wasn’t going to be very impressive damage.
Blizzard Edge required a completely different sort of deck. This attack was powerful, dealing 160 damage, and a Choice Band could potentially get that to a few GX numbers. It did need 2 Water and a Colorless Energy and required discarding 2 Energy from Alolan Ninetales-GX to use it. Decks trying to access this attack would build around it, likely trying to soften up the opponent’s team with Ice Blade and possibly attacks from something like Tapu Koko before using Aqua Patch to accelerate to another Ninetales to clean up. These decks had a couple of good showings even if the other sort of deck was more common and typically did better.
Ice Path GX had its moments. It also needed 2 Colorless Energy, and took up the team’s GX attack for the game. It moved all damage counters on Alolan Ninetales-GX to the opponent’s Active Pokemon, which could be a huge deal if there was a lot of damage to move. Playing against this Pokemon could be very annoying, as you had to try to avoid setting up this big attack while getting it into KO range for one of your own. This wasn’t always going to matter too much in a game, yet the threat of it was big enough to put pressure on anyone facing it.
Alolan Ninetales-GX made it into a few different sorts of decks, usually to spread damage counters around the Bench but sometimes to hit really hard as well. It was reasonably common, with Decidueye-GX being the most common partner. Zoroark-GX came later, and this Alolan Ninetales-GX sometimes got a copy in those decks as well, being able to spread damage to soften things up. There was an another Alolan Ninetales-GX, a Fairy-type, once Lost Thunder was released, and that card’s Item search alongside an attack that hit for 70 to the Active and 30 to a Benched Pokemon tended to steal the spotlight. Being able to just KO an Ultra Beast once per game was notable at times at that point, and any uses this Alolan Ninetales-GX saw would typically be limited to a single copy in a deck using the other one. That didn’t mean that this card wasn’t good, though; spread was solid for a while, and you could build for a big attack as well. Both paths were good enough for solid showings at high levels, as far as International events, and it was pretty good in 2017 and even into early 2018.
The Batman (2022) dir. Matt Reeves
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Bioshock | otherplaces y.t 7/–-
Pokegirls
*sips water*
Haunter’s pokemon red/blue sprite 3Dified
I detest the surface as much as you do, but don’t you find the timing of this a bit convenient? But you wouldn’t be that gullible, would you? You want this war too, don’t you?
