Friday 22 June 2012

Pokémon Review: Klinklang





Despite being in the RU tier, Klinklang is a very good Pokémon that can certainly be deadly when in the right hands.
First off, the Klinklang evolution family has 2 signature moves being Shift Gear and Gear Grind.
Shift Gear is what makes Klinklang a usable Pokemon -- what it does is give +2 speed and +1 attack with no drawbacks whatsoever. This makes Klinklang a very solid Pokemon in RU, I almost beat a full team with only Klinklang once.

As for abilities, I would go with Clear Body... but it's unreleased, so for now you'll have to go with Plus or Minus, unfortunately.
I don't really have much to say about stats, as there is only one set that's ever used for Klinklang, so let's get to it:

Shift Gear
Klinklang @ Life Orb/Leftovers
100 HP 252 Atk 156 Spe
Nature: Adamant/Naughty
Ability: Plus/Minus
Moveset: Shift Gear, Gear Grind, Return, Substitute/Hidden Power Ground/Hidden Power Fire

Credit to Smogon for that.

In the TCG:
Klinklang [Black & White] is a fairly good Pokemon in the TCG, and like Durant - there is also a Klinklang deck that is used quite a bit.
So the deck has loads of EX cards and more.
I'm not going to get into talking about the deck, so I'll just talk about the card itself for now.
It has the ability Shift Gear, here is what it does:

As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may move a Metal Energy attatched to one of your Pokémon to another one of your Pokémon.
It also has a very nice move in Gear Grind, which lets you flip 2 coins, and do 80 damage times the number of heads.
If you want to see a scan of the Klinklang card, check it out on PokeBeach: http://pokebeach.com/scans/black-and-white/76-klinklang.jpg

Overall I would give video game Klinklang a 6.5/10 and TCG Klinklang a 7.5/10

That is it for this Pokémon review, see you guys next time!

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