Meanwhile, the Hero of Oxid Ridge's Haste enabled a faster smash and a bigger front punch
The important thing is that these creatures are good mana sinks and they're flexible enough to see play or to leave your opponents guessing about what abilities you might activate
The artwork on Energy cards is usually a good indicator of what they do
In multiplayer, if you gain life, you want either to gain life in giant chunks (a la Invincible Hymn) or when doing other things (a la Kitchen Finks)
I realize this is stuff I usually write in other articles, but since this card is going to be nutso in this deck and in others, it pays to think about it now that its just about the cheapest it will ever be due to us being at peak deck opening over the next month
If a Pokmon has enough HP, it can occasionally tank one hit from the opponent before it would be knocked out in the next attack, so players can retreat into another Pokmon