Rapid Strike Starmie

CARDS TO REPLACE IN IMAGE: STARMIE, STARYU, & CRABOMINABLE (Crabominable V)

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How To: Get your basics out early. Accelerate energy with frosmoth, and hit with either suicune V, RS Starmie, or crabominable V based on your matchup

Turn one: X

Tips:

- Use Nessa + Frosmoth to be consistent with your energies and Retrieving Suicune V & Crabominable Vafter getting knocked out

- it's ok to discard 1-2 energies turn 1

-starmie does not

CARDS TO REPLACE IN IMAGE: STARMIE, STARYU, & CRABOMINABLE (Crabominable V)

Leave your questions & suggestions in the comments.

How To: Get your basics out early. Accelerate energy with frosmoth, and hit with either suicune V, RS Starmie, or crabominable V based on your matchup

Turn one: X

Tips:

- Use Nessa + Frosmoth to be consistent with your energies and Retrieving Suicune V & Crabominable Vafter getting knocked out

- it's ok to discard 1-2 energies turn 1

-starmie does not hit weakness

- Fill up your bench for max damage with suicune V

-remember to not attach all of your water energy with frosmoth if you need to manually retreat

- a telescopic sight does NOT add 30 more damage for each water energy you discard from RS Starmie. The 30 more to your opponent's benched V/GX pokemon is just an additional 30 to the overall damage you would do similar to RS passimian.

- basic Water energy consistency/retrevial > telescopic sight on a pokemon that will be knocked out or wash energy that cannot be used with nessa. Being able to retrieve that extra water energy each nessa is better than a one use telescopic sight because you have other attacker like Suicune V & Crabominable V + that extra water energy retrieval on starmie also boosts RS starmie's damage output

Strengths: Can hit bench. Can attack with the same suicune V/crabominable Vthat was knocked out the turn before with Nessa + Frosmoth

Weaknesses: RS inteleon, bench damage, having low HP pokemon

Cards considered: Telescopic sight, rescue carrier, Banette, Froslass, Boss's orders, pyukumuku, milotic v, (one line VMAXs) Inteleon VMAX,  vaporeon VMAX, Glaceon VMAX, Wash energy, Blastoise VMAX, Ice rider calyrex VMAX, wailord (stage 1), Basculin, zigzagoon, Seaking, crushing hammers, fan of waves, RS Wishiwashi, Krabby (Attack: "aqua shower"), greninja Vunion, rare candy, Zoroark

Feedback/Other opinions: "Do away with starmie and go more into suic and carb with some fan of waves. You need the fan to get rid of FS energy to snipe mew inorder to get enough damage counters on it for crab to KO it." -anonymous