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Passimian wasn’t going to hit very hard without help. 40 damage didn’t get you very far in 2018. It did, however, provide other Passimian help when on the Bench, and 3 Benched Passimian let the attacker reach rather decent numbers. There was also another Passimian from Sun & Moon that could be stronger with a full Bench, and with that attack and these boosts, there was suddenly a pretty dangerous set-up just waiting to happen, though with a few unsurprising issues.
110 HP was fine when talking about Basic Pokemon that weren’t going to evolve. It was, however, low enough that a lot of good attacks could reach that number for a KO. It wasn’t always free for every deck, but it certainly wasn’t reliable enough to take a hit. While the Psychic Weakness would normally matter with Malamar decks around at the time Passimian was at its peak, that deck could typically find a way to getting a KO at that HP level either way so it didn’t change too much. The Retreat Cost was reasonable at 1, so if you had to start with this you could retreat it at least somewhat easily in a pinch.
Power Huddle had the potential to really help out some other attackers. This had to be Passimian, as when this Passimian was on your Bench, any of your Passimian’s attacks did 30 more damage to the opponent’s Active Evolution Pokemon. This did limit targets (and basically meant that Passimian wasn’t working at all once Tag Teams were released). This did, however, give a nice boost earlier in the SUM-On format in particular, where you were otherwise in this odd spot where Fighting had lost some of its damage boosts but not all of them and Passimian could help the Sun & Moon Passimian potentially hit harder than the more common Zygarde and Buzzwole cards.
Rock Hurl did just 40 damage that wasn’t affected by resistance and needed a Fighting and a Colorless Energy. 3 Benched Passimian could get this to 130 against anything that had evolved, but the other Passimian hit harder with a full Bench and had reasonable power even when not boosted.
This Passimian did enable the earlier Passimian card, with 1 Passimian helping get to 190 damage and 2 getting to 220 damage, enough to take on a lot of Evolved Pokemon-GX. The need for all the set-up and all the Passimian being a bit frail made it less than consistent, but the deck had a few solid showings. It was typically paired with Tapu Koko to soften up the opponent, especially in the match-ups where Basic Pokemon were running the show. This Passimian was worthless in those games, and yet you still probably wanted to have a 2-2 split in the deck so you could take advantage of the times where it did work. This wasn’t the greatest thing, yet you did not want to run into it if playing something like a Zoroark-GX.
Toxicroak, Passimian & Annihilape are from her storyline team
Primeape and Lucario are from her rematch team
And as much as I try to use newer generation Pokémon first, so I could have given her a Combat Tauros, but she’s a wrestler ffs, Hawlucha’s IN THE DEX, it’s perfect for her
Passimian was my pick for today! I cheated a little because I’ve had brainrot over some characters of mine, but I will say Passimian was on the list before that. This is Heem-Hyeon, my OC, in a Passimian inspired Rugby uniform!
