Legend Maker

Banette ex LM 85/92

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Banette ex LM 85

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?
Look at the bottom of your card: you should read LM 85/92 there. Its illustration is signed Mitsuhiro Arita.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Legend Maker set, released here on 13 February 2006.

When it came out

Legend Maker landed here on 13 February 2006.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
90
Type
Psychic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Number
85/92
Set
Legend MakerLM
Illustrated by
Mitsuhiro Arita

The Japanese text is not available yet. Text shown: English.

Its Ability

Shady Move

Once during your turn (before your attack), if Banette ex is your Active Pokémon, you may move 1 damage counter from either player's Pokémon to another Pokémon (yours or your opponent's). This power can't be used if Banette ex is affected by a Special Condition.

Its attacks

Shadow Chant

30+

Does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each Supporter card in your discard pile. You can't add more than 60 damage in this way.

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.

  1. A strength

    Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.

  2. A strength

    It has an Ability, Shady Move. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,427 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.

  4. Keep in mind

    It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,427 tournament lists we have read, 3,370 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 24 Banette cards on one page, priciest first.

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