With 60 base damage and the potential to stack 180 extra damage on top of this, its a powerful attack if you can find a way to keep your Bench Energized and your Energy Cards in place
If you wanted to replace it with something like a Catcher, then the issue at hand becomes PONT and keep the Catcher? or Juniper and go for the better odds of KO? So, if we have 4 Double Colourless Energies in deck, what are the odds of getting one by: Junipering our remaining hand PONTing our hand back Sageing through 5 cards looking for the DCE Ill only go through this once, so no worries
It gets even worse due to its weakness, Reshiram BLW can kill Spinarak with just a DCE and a PlusPower drop
Fighting/Psychic is a popular combo, and decks based around the Starter types (Fire, Grass, and Water) are very popular as well
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