Burning Shadows
Machamp GX
Versions of this card
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What the card itself says
Everything below is written on the card itself: how much health it has, what it fears, and what its attacks cost.
- HP
- 250
- Type
- Fighting
- Retreat cost
- 3
- Weakness
- ×2
Its attacks
Cross-Cut
60+If your opponent’s Active Pokémon is an Evolution Pokémon, this attack does 60 more damage.
Bedrock Breaker
130Discard any Stadium card in play.
Muscle Punch GX
180This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Resistance. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
What to make of it
Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- 250 HP, and nothing in Burning Shadows goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.
- None of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
- Weakness Psychic ×2. Against a Psychic Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 1,909 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
Who plays it
None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.
The other cards of this Pokémon
Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 45 Machamp cards on one page, priciest first.