Molunk and its evolution Amfira are considered a bit strange in Pokémon TCG Pocket. What do we combine them with?
This is Molunk: Molunk is a Fire card with 60 HP. For a colorless energy, it can use Poison Spit. The attack deals 10 damage, but adds an additional 40 if the opposing Pokémon is poisoned. There is also a nice special version of Molunk in the Mysterious Island Set, which you can see in the title image.
Molunk evolves into Amfira. Amfira has 80 HP and can use “Poison Claws” for a Fire energy. It deals 30 damage and poisons the opposing Pokémon.
Here you can see both cards:
What makes Molunk strange? Some trainers note that the two cards feel swapped. If Amfira, the evolution, had the extra poison damage, it could benefit from an opponent’s poisoning caused by Molunk.
This way, Molunk is theoretically the stronger attacker. However, Molunk itself cannot cause the opponent to be poisoned.
So how do you play these cards correctly, and which ones do you combine them with? By the way, you can find another list of the best decks in Pokémon TCG Pocket here.
What deck do Molunk and Amfira fit into?
In general, both cards fit well in decks trying to poison opponents. Especially Molunk is interesting here, as it can deal a lot of damage for little energy when the opponent is already poisoned. It might even be more useful than Amfira.
Therefore, it’s worth taking a second Molunk, but only one Amfira. This way, you can evolve your first Molunk and take advantage of the poisoning by Amfira with a second Molunk.
However, the cards are primarily suitable as a complement to typical poison deck cards. These include:
- Smogmog, which reliably poisons opponents
- Sleima, also a poisoner
- Sleimok, which deals extra damage similar to Molunk when poisoned (120 in the best case, but also for 3 energies)
- Koga: With this, you can return Sleimog or Smogmog to your hand – for example, to bring Molunk when you want to deal damage quickly but are lacking in energies
- Typical cards like the Poké Ball to get Molunk quickly onto the bench or into the active position
- Leaf or X-Initiative to quickly swap an Amfira after poisoning for something else
The cool thing about Molunk: It uses colorless energy and can thus be used in any type of deck. Fire energies are needed for Amfira. Especially plant decks can quickly be pressured by Molunk, as extra damage is dealt. This also includes the extremely strong, popular Celebi deck – you can read more about it here.
