Yes, "placing counters" is not the same as "damage done", so Holon Energy WP prevents placing counters onto that Pokmon
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But you'll get so much use out of it in any kind of counter deck, especially because it's a two-cost permanent that sits on the battlefield giving you continued value
That leads me to a specific anecdote, which is that the only instance of what could be called grinding I had to do in the game involved fighting some guy in a lab to get Water Energy cards in order to build a specific setup
(See also: last years Solar Flare decks.) In other words, keep all this in mind when youre working on a deck that does not have a big gap in power level between most of its cards, and dont let any dogmatic jokers tell you that youre a lunatic if you consider more than 60
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