Electrode

And it's shiny, which I was wild to see this purple Meganium show up in this, which was cool.

And so we an Electrode.

My team going into Erica was Bruno the Conkeldurr.

I had level 45s going in here.

I got a pretty decent team going up against Grass here, with Fire being one of my types, and of course Ice and Bug sitting in the wings.

So I lead with Hendrix, Arcanine.

He one-shots the Rillabloom with Flamethrower, assuming Electrode comes out, and pulled a Greninja and exploded himself.

Oh no. Luckily, Hendrix, he survived, but he's down to 35-ish percent HP, so he's hurting, but he survived.

I'd agree with you on that one.

One that seemed to be really popular amongst people online was the Electrode self-destruct die cut playmat for $29.99. Now, we've seen some die cut playmats in the past.

Yes.

I feel like every time they kinda release a new wave of products, we usually get, like, at least one or two die-cuts-

Yeah

... thrown in there.

So it's literally Electrode exploding-

[laughs]

I

think my absolute favorite, and this will be the last thing that I talk about, is the Electrode Self-Destruct Die-Cast Playmat.

Because you think about a playmat, right? A playmat is a rectangle, right? This playmat is not in the shape of a rectangle.

It's like it's electrode and then there's an explosion behind it and stuff.

This could be a nice Christmas gift for someone or maybe even yourself.

Yeah.

The fact that the Electrode Self-Destruct playmat wasn't the headliner is a little...

Because I agree with you.

I think there's one moment where he threw on Charged Priority and just completely took him off guard.

I mean, that Sableye messed a lot of people up because it was winning CMPs against, like, Histalian Electrodes, which I think a lot of people

weren't expecting.

I think it won against Cramorant.

But yeah, that higher attack stat definitely messed a lot of people up because it really limited some of the lines they could run and what they could lead.

Once they found out that they lost the charge attack priority in the lead, it made it a lot harder for them.

Especially, like I said, I know for sure I saw multiple Hisuian Electrodes facing that challenge where they would lead at game one, realize they lost the charge attack priority, and then couldn't really lead it as easily going forward.

And then they just had a lot of less options in terms of how they could build their lines.

A- and I- I'm okay with it more today knowing that Gen 5 is supposed to be like a soft reboot of Gen 1.

So Foongus and Amoonguss are your Voltorb and Electrode-

Yeah

... uh, transfer overs supposedly, you know.

Foongus [burps] along with-

Ew

... its evolution, yeah, is similar to Voltorb and Electrode in that it resembles a Poke Ball.

However-

Um, So another notable person within our GLC community, Chicken Fried, has had a lot of success with a very similar list.

But more or less, the idea of this deck is it's somewhat unique in that you want to get initial board set up, and through the use of the ability for Magneton and Electrode, you want to actually KO your own Pokemon for a desired effect.

In the hopes of having this massive combo turn where you lock something on your opponent's side in the active, strip their hand away, and then just have this massive spread attacker in Electivire.

Some decks are also playing the Luxray, which this version isn't, but that's chicken fried version that is leaning into the Luxray to start sweeping.

You could go heavier into Disruption Supporters as well.

You know, you could do the Lieutenant Surge, Zerosic, Delinquent combo to put your opponent into zero card hand if you wanted.

Absolutely nasty stuff you can do with the Call Signal and the Electrode, so...

When I saw this deck first built and get played, I thought it was just a really cool combo.