Venser the Sojourner is very hard to fit in to things, he is a bit pricey for his starting loyalty and has effects that are a bit at odds with each other and tend to require you to build around them to make them at all useful
Palkia ex (Water / Space-Time Smackdown) Palkia's main attack does 150 damage, AND an extra 30 to every opponent's benched Pokemon, though it does discard three Water energy in the process
This actually isn't a big downside in red, because you can always use them again with cards like Mizzix's Mastery or Underworld Breach
You can get anything back, whether its a Basic, Stage one, two, or even an ex Pokemon
Not only is she indestructible
Each turn you can call out a different tribe, and then it arrives with another +1/+1 counter for free