![]() If you’re confused, the effect of G-Max One Blow doesn’t help with that. The last thing G-Max One Blow doesn’t ignore is anything that does not directly change the damage being done, or which reside on Single Strike Urshifu VMAX. Resistance also still applies in the vernacular of the Pokémon TCG, Weakness and Resistance are “game mechanics”, not “effects”. ![]() ![]() So yes, with this attack your Single Strike Urshifu VMAX can one-shot an Eternatus VMAX. There are things that G-Max One Blow does not ignore, and one of them is in your favor: Weakness still applies. Without protective effects, only Pokémon VMAX and the larger TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX have the raw HP to survive it. Ideally, though, you’re using this on something like a Zacian V that has Metal Goggles and the effects of Lucario & Melmetal-GX’s “Full Metal Wall-GX” attack protecting it. Even on a small, single Prize target it may be worth it if you need to cut through a protective effect. You just cannot afford to use G-Max One Blow unless it is doing something important. Not just because it is four Energy versus three, but because most of those Energy need to be Fighting and the effect of G-Max One Blow discards all Energy attached to Single Strike Urshifu VMAX. There are even high profile targets such as Crobat V, Dedenne-GX and Pikachu & Zekrom-GX!īeatdown is also good for easily OHKOing or 2HKOing smaller Pokémon, which becomes more important, given the drawback of G-Max One Blow. Beatdown, without any other buffs, is only good for a 3HKO against most Pokémon V, which isn’t good… but Fighting Weakness is found on most Lightning types, as well as many Colorless and Darkness types. I don’t know if you should, but at least it is an option. 100 for three is decent, and being an Evolution you could cover the entire cost for Beatdown with a Triple Acceleration Energy. For it can use “Beatdown” to do 100 damage, while pays for “G-Max One Blow” to do 270 damage, with the attack’s damage ignoring effects on your opponent’s Active but it also requires you discard all Energy attached to Urshifu VMAX. Single Strike Urshifu VMAX knows two attacks. A Retreat Cost of is high enough you’ll need to work around it, but not quite high enough to qualify for support like Buff Padding. No Resistance is the worst, but also the norm. Psychic Weakness could be an issue, but mostly due to Mewtwo & Mew-GX. 330 HP is just 10 shy of the printed max, and should be very hard to OHKO outside of Weakness. There’s some good Fighting support in Standard and some great examples in Expanded. Urshifu VMAX is a Fighting type, which is great for exploiting Weakness, though it does crash into Resistance a little often. Single Strike Urshifu VMAX is a Gigantamax Pokémon, but this term currently has no game mechanics or effects that reference it. They do still count as Pokémon V, though, so any support that excludes Pokémon V won’t work for it, while any counters that specify Pokémon V still apply. This makes them about as demanding as Stage 1 Pokémon, but they don’t actually count as Stage 1 Pokémon for the purposes of card effects. Pokémon VMAX are the evolved form of Pokémon V, and evolve only from Basic Pokémon V. As a Pokémon-VMAX, it counts as as Rule Box Pokémon, it gives up three Prizes when KO’d, can access VMAX support, and has to deal with anti-VMAX effects. Single Strike Urshifu VMAX being a VMAX covers familiar territory. You can get a general idea and list of the relevant cards here. They do not have Rule Boxes: they are worth however many Prizes when KO’d as their other game mechanics dictate, you put them into play the normal way, etc. What being a Single Strike Pokémon actually entails is access to a new family of cards and their support. Most Single Strike cards don’t have “Single Strike” in their names, but they all have the label. Technically, this does not make it a Single Strike Pokémon it is the “Single Strike” label in the upper-right corner of its card art (just below its HP and type). Single Strike Urshifu VMAX has a Battle Style in its name. Until or unless that happens, though, they’re just two Pokémon VMAX with the same Pokémon type, nothing more. It is possible some future card effect could reference both of them, or all cards with “Urshifu” in their name. Not unlike with the Galarian or Alolan forms of Pokémon that do not share the same lower Stage(s). Let us start by me pointing out that, from the game’s point of view, Single Strike Urshifu VMAX is a totally separate, unrelated entity from Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX. ![]() It has quite the mouthful of a name, one that calls for some explaining as it references two game mechanics. Single Strike Urshifu VMAX (SW – Battle Styles 086/163, 167/163, 168/163) is our 13th-Place Pick for the latest set.
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