>>45423246Gen 1: energy removal, dark vileplume
Gen 2: slowking
Gen 3: everything was balanced but lugia/steelix/blastoise was great
Gen 4: claydol, broken time space, crobat G, poke turn, uxie, vileplume, machamp
Gen 5: mewtwo EX, garbodor, (EX cards in general honesty), hypnotoxic laser, N, ghetsis, exeggcute, tropical beach
Gen 6: shaymin EX, seismitoad EX, battle compressor, vs seeker (reprint), forest of giant plants, parallel city, lysandre’s trump card, night march, lysandre, Archie/maxie, double dragon energy, puzzle of time, max elixer, greninja break,
Gen 7: Buzzwole, beast ring, decidueye GX, zoroark GX, tag teams, Arceus & Dialga & Palkia GX (arguable best card ever printed), dedenne GX, lusamine, oranguru, gardevoir GX, guzma, field blower, electropower, welder, ultra necrozma, tapu lele GX, hoopa, choice band, malamar, giratina, spell tag, garbodor, trevenant & dusknoir GX
Gen 8: Crobat V, eternatus Vmax, oranguru, zacian V, centiskortch Vmax, scoop up net, galarian zigzagoon, quick ball, cramorant V
I’m likely missing a ton, but these are some I can think of