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Lurantis-GX was also used alongside it maybe to accelerate grass energies via its Flower Supply attack. Lurantis was used for its Sunny Day ability, which makes Grass and Fire types deal 20 extra damage to your opponent’s Active Pokemon. Based on the list of decks that I saw, it all comes down to how Tapu Bulu was used, and, so far, I see only two methods. Meanwhile, Horn Attack cost a single Grass energy for 30 damage and Tapu Wilderness GX costs the same attack cost of GGC for 150 damage while healing all damage from it.

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However, the damage is 120, plus 60 more if you discard all energies attached to it. It’s a Pokemon-GX with three attacks, but one of them has the same Nature’s Judgment with the same attack cost. Most decklists feature Tapu Bulu-GX as one of the attackers (SM Black Star Promos SM32, SM Burning Shadows 130/147, 149/147, SM Hidden Fates Shiny Vault SV91/SV94). You can see a variety of deck lists from major tournaments around 2017-2018 regarding Tapu Bulu-GX. Still, Tapu Bulu also reminded me of another Tapu Bulu card when I was looking up decks in Limitless. Expanded has better cards than Vitality Band – such as Muscle Band and/or Fighting Fury Belt – that Tapu Bulu can benefit as well as Lurantis (SM Black Star Promos SM25) that can further boost damage output, but there are many more counters like ability denial. Vitality Band can help secure clean 2HKOs elsewhere. Even if Nature’s Judgment’s damage output wasn’t reduced, it still falls short of 2HKOs against the biggest of VMAX Pokemon. Not to mention most of the Metal types in the Sword & Shield era naturally has a -30 resistance against Grass types, so Nature’s Judgment won’t be dealing 160 damage it’ll deal just 130 damage instead, which is a 3HKO against Metal Pokemon V-MAX. There’s already an anti-Grass card in the form of Bouffalant (SS Battle Styles 118/163) as its ability can let Bouffalant deal 60 extra damage to grass pokemon. So, there are enough partners to work with, but the Grass type as a whole, isn’t doing as much favor. As such, I would personally use the Rillaboom/Tapu Bulu combo. And instead of Energy Retrieval, you can use Energy Recycler to shuffle 5 basic energies from your discard pile onto your deck, giving you more more opportunities to repeatedly use Nature’s Judgement and replenish basic energies than the Cherrim/Energy Retrieval method.

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With a manual attachment and one use of Voltage Beat, you could also go from zero into attacking. It’s Voltage Beat ability lets you attach up to 2 grass energies from your deck to one of your Pokemon.

Rillaboom (Sword & Shield 14/202, SWSH006, SS Shining Fates 13/72, SV006/122) is also another nice candidate even though it is a stage 2 and it has been reviewed once. Although the discard cost hurts, as long as you have energy recursion cards like Energy Retrieval, then you might be able to attack again. With that ability, going from zero to attacking is quite realistic. It’s Spring Bloom ability lets you attach Grass energies from your hand to your Pokémon as often as you like (except for Pokémon with Rule Boxes such as Pokémon-EX/GX/V). The same could’ve been said for Tapu Bulu if it didn’t have any partners.Ĭherrim (SS Battle Styles 8/163) is one of those potential candidates to support Tapu Bulu, and it was reviewed as the 10th best card of Battle Styles. Coupled with external damage boosting cards like Fighting Stadium, Strong Energy, and Muscle Band, it can fake being Darkrai-EX’s Night Spear attack! Nature’s Judgment did the same 80 plus 80, but since that attack costed FFC, and there weren’t many methods of accelerating Fighting energies, then that attack was rarely used. However, Landorus-EX was used mostly for its Hammerhead attack because it was a respectable attack at the time, costing a single fighting energy for 30 damage AND doing 30 damage to one of your opponent’s Benched Pokemon. Nature’s Judgment (that specific attack name) was first seen on Landorus-EX, but I don’t recall seeing much older cards that does a similar thing. But if they retreat and/or switch their Pokémon, then it seems kinda pointless for Push Down, other than having them use up some of their resources.

Not to say that Push Down doesn’t have any use since it might be slightly helpful under certain circumstances.

So, I suppose Nature’s Judgment is one of the redeeming qualities of Tapu Bulu. Nature’s Judgment costs GGC and deals 80 damage, and if you decide to discard all energies attached to it, then it does 80 more damage, totaling 160 damage. If your opponent doesn’t have any Benched Pokemon, they don’t have to switch. Push Down costs G for 20 damage and makes your opponent switch their Active Pokemon with one of their Benched Pokemon. Tapu Bulu (SS Battle Styles 16/163) is a single prize, Basic Grass type with 130 HP, Fire weakness, a retreat cost of CC, and two attacks.