>>32547438No huge tournaments were won with Charizard, maybe some local or some shit, maybe in the absolute babby age bracket. It's Nintendo power, it was probably shilling.
You couldn't even really use it with energy burned DCE since the language on fire spin said discard 2 energy cards rather than 2 energy. And there was no real energy acceleration other than Blastoise which is also a stage 2, only a shitload of energy disruption. I can't even think how you'd make an actually functional Charizard deck that can deal with the disruption base set had.
This was the card that ultimately made Rain Dance Blastoise viable as the only true haymaker alternative (again wiggly often ran haymaker cards because it was the Mega Rayquaza of its day and needed bench warmers/good starters). Once you got going you could completely block your opponent from having more than one attachment on the board at a time and drop OHKOs on them every turn. But if Haymaker started Electabuzz and moved first it was over.
Some Haymaker decks also ran Muk which hard countered Blastoise (and it would have countered Charizard if it was worth running lmao) at the expense of being useless in the mirror which was the more common matchup.
