>>28158647>In a fairy deck and having a bench with 6 energy on all your other mons non counting the ones on this card the damage would be 180Six energies takes a very, very long time to set up. That's either two turns of Geomancy (assuming you draw into energies too), or some inconsistent Mega Turbo/Elixer plays. 180 damage spread out over three turns is only 60 damage a turn, which is nothing. Not to mention you'll need 8 energies total to KO Belt/Megas, and you lose three of those energies every time you lose a Gardevoir, EXP Share excluded.
>Despair Ray does 110 damage and can only do more damage at the extreme cost of losing your bench for a one time useThat's what makes it so good. It's not about the damage, it's about being able to run 4 Shaymin, 3 Hoopa, and however many other support Pokemon with no risk, since you just clear your own bench. It's about only needing 1-2 energies to 2HKO the format. It's about doing meme plays like discarding your own damaged Gardevoirs to deny prizes.
>The fuck am i missing?Brilliant Arrow Gardevoir requires a stupid amount of setup for on-par results. Fairies have some meme tools like Aromatisse+Max Potion, but the former is rotating.
So since Brilliant Arrow ONLY does damage, it ends up being a shit card compared to the dozens of other stronger, faster, more efficient raw damage dealers.
Meanwhile, Darkrai EX/Giratina and pic related function identically yet have many other advantages to them. Darkrai isn't a Mega and only needs a DCE to attack while also having some very good partners and type support, while Xerneas Break isn't an EX and makes for a much more compact engine.
