New Pokemons and GX cards!

[Big Yoshi]

Hey everyone, a video came out about 4 new Pokemons, two were alrealdy leaked by CoroCoro, but this is the video of the new Pokemons:

Crabrawler is a new fighting type crab with the abilities Hyper Cutter and Iron Fist.
There are new Sandcastle Pokemons that were revealed at the CoroCoro leak, Sandygast and Palossand, Sand Ghost Pokemons, with the new ability Water Compaction, which raises the defense stat sharply if hit by a water type.
Also, the pre evolution of Bewear is revealed, named Stufful, Normal Fighting.

For GX Cards, this is the video:

It's a new type of card that gives you a move, a GX move that can be used once per battle!

 

[Tho]

About the new Pokemon, while unoriginal, they could actually prove pretty good! For example, Palossand could turn out great for competitive battling with it's ability, allowing for really bulky builds with an Assault Vest, making almost impossible to take down with the right support! If it's ability nullifies water attacks, it'll be great with a Surf user in doubles, while if it doesn't, it can still be good since you can Water Shuriken it to +6 and then Rest if off or something of the sort, plus then it can use Luminous Moss or Absorb Bulb, the possibilities are endless! Another example is Crabrawler. It has great abilities, pure fighting is a really good typing and considering how slow it's bound to be, not being part water is really good defensively! While the design is like a mix of a crab and Rocky and his bad eye after the match with Apollo, I somehow actually like it, it's funny but weirdly cool!
As for the GX cards, I haven't played any TCG at all past the Platinum series, mostly because it just because far too OP and easy! Attacks used to hardly deal like 50 damage or so, but now most attacks for new cards deal 100 or more damage for example, meaning the game isn't nearly as fun and seeing those cards only reminded me of how they ruined one of my favorite TCG series! Seeing an attack with 230 power with a simple effect of discarding your energy cards just proves that the game will only keep getting worse considering how most attacks with that effect used to deal about 80-100 damage even when coming from legendaries!:/

 

[CJ]

The new Pokemon actually looks pretty good! I like the way they are going woth the new Pokemon!

As far as GX cards go, I really don't like the artwork that much. I prefer the full art artwork they did with XY EXs. Competitively, these cards look a bit OP but maybe they will release some trainer cards which might reduce their capability. Along with that, they do make the next expansion more OP than the previous one, so it isn't anything great to fear about. Pokemon releases counters to everything.