If you're up against an aggro deck, Hangry Sorin's ability to create food tokens while ticking up loyalty counters two at a time is going to be pretty troublesome, too
Earlier moments of intense interest in the Pokmon TCG space can be explained fairly easy with the launch of Pokmon Go in 2016 coinciding with interest then, or for the much larger boom during the pandemic years of 2021-2022, it was the high level of interest in goods rather than services and particularly the different collectible markets at that time
Most notable, however, is their themes of past and present, a defining feature of these paradox Pokemon
This is a pretty severe limitation that can keep your opponent from building up a proper team
It only has 100 HP and its attack, Submarine Blow, only deals 40 damage