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lucario is an odd pokemon. pretty much every physical set i've seen has been far overrated but the specs set has almost always outperformed my expectations. 1-hiting and 2-hitting things that it has really no right to with a little prediction and a great combination of fighting/ghost/dragon...
anyone who's played a tcg other than yu-gi-oh can tell you that restricting cards is a rather horrible way to ensure balance. it just ends up making around half of your deck exactly the same as every other deck. the same thing would happen with pokemon. every single team would include 2 of maybe...
nice warstory here. i've played against metroidmania before on shoddy. and yeah, his starmie utterly lacks ice beam. i think it's got surf, tbolt, rapidspin, and recover and is a bit more defensively eved than most. he won out a stall war with my blissy with it.