While Pokmon requiring multiple energy types (such as Dragon types needing Water, Fire, or Electric) are allowed, this approach is generally inefficient unless your deck is specifically built with ample energy support for those Pokmon
Attacking Your Opponent in Pokmon TCG Every Pokmon attack has an Energy cost listed next to it
Its overuse in OP02 meant Whitebeard was arguably the only viable deck
This can throw an opponent off guard with an awkward attack, which will still result in the creatures death, or a convoke spell that they were saving for later
If you do, you only keep the creature until end of turn, but that's often enough
After doing so, we look again at its duplicate in the staging zone, but don't consider that it has counters