You can play him on curve much much more safely than most planeswalkers because his effective cost is just two mana (normally, it can be a lot less if you have things that tap for more than one)
This will have diminishing returns, of course, and Bidoof wont be the bulkiest Pokmon in your deck by a long shot, but imagine reducing cards like Pikachu ex and Gyrados ex to 60 and 90 HP respectively with just two energy
The better approach, then, is to use mass removal to sweep away all the creatures on the board at once
The mechanics arent just stapled onto the world they feel born from it
Their card backs look completely different from modern designs, which is why theyre called the old back
Lunala beats Solgaleo in the battle of the box legendaries, as these two Pokemon continue to battle it out