Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

City's Is Over, On To States, What Are You Expecting?

i like burdn of a day

i like burdn of a day

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well, of course throughout cities, i saw (and u probably did too)craploads of SP decks. but that doesnt mean that they are the best choice. for some people, cities are testing for states, and other people arent gonna show thier states decks beforehand. with states 2 months away, im sure heart gold soul silver will change opinions, but heres mine

the 4 top decks in no special order IMO
Gengar
Dialga G
Blazeray
Gyrados

other decks that i think can win a states or 2
Glisctomb
Palkia Lock
Machamp
Flygon

with that said, 3/4 of these decks are either disruption, some sort of lock, or both. and this metagame shows that if you can disrupt your opponent by switching thier pokemon, paralyzing them, etc or lock their powers, trainers, and stadiums, and still have pokemon that attack for high amounts of damage, the deck will be a success. i expect this to stay through states. opinions???
 
yea our format is all about speed and disruption, decks that can accomplish that are the ones that have been winning. from the new set i dont really expect to see many decks to make big impacts aside from donkphan and rain dance variants (first one i could think of). many stage 2's are going to get a big boost in consistency. i cant really judge accurately what will be seen the most. im willing to bet itll be pretty much the same.
 
Straight SW Gardy will rock people stupid, now that it can T2Plox again. I just want to see a new, faster version of FlyTrap make the rounds. I think it'll be interesting, even though it autoloses to power lock...
 
i like burdn of a day said:
well, of course throughout cities, i saw (and u probably did too)craploads of SP decks. but that doesnt mean that they are the best choice. for some people, cities are testing for states, and other people arent gonna show thier states decks beforehand. with states 2 months away, im sure heart gold soul silver will change opinions, but heres mine

the 4 top decks in no special order IMO
Gengar
Dialga G
Blazeray
Gyrados

other decks that i think can win a states or 2
Glisctomb
Palkia Lock
Machamp
Flygon

with that said, 3/4 of these decks are either disruption, some sort of lock, or both. and this metagame shows that if you can disrupt your opponent by switching thier pokemon, paralyzing them, etc or lock their powers, trainers, and stadiums, and still have pokemon that attack for high amounts of damage, the deck will be a success. i expect this to stay through states. opinions???
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suprised you didnt mention luxchomp as one of the top 4. that and dachomp have won the most CC's somebody on here totaled what won and topped i'll post it if i find it, looking at what won gives a good idea of what to expect.
 
1 - Cities aren't over for alot of people, I have mine running into Febuary.

2 - You can't get an accurate view this far in advance. What is good all depends on what everyone else plays, unless you have seriously tested then it's all just theorymon.
 
i like burdn of a day said:
well, of course throughout cities, i saw (and u probably did too)craploads of SP decks. but that doesnt mean that they are the best choice. for some people, cities are testing for states, and other people arent gonna show thier states decks beforehand. with states 2 months away, im sure heart gold soul silver will change opinions, but heres mine

the 4 top decks in no special order IMO
Gengar
Dialga G
Blazeray
Gyrados

other decks that i think can win a states or 2
Glisctomb
Palkia Lock
Machamp
Flygon

with that said, 3/4 of these decks are either disruption, some sort of lock, or both. and this metagame shows that if you can disrupt your opponent by switching thier pokemon, paralyzing them, etc or lock their powers, trainers, and stadiums, and still have pokemon that attack for high amounts of damage, the deck will be a success. i expect this to stay through states. opinions???
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My only statement to this is absouletly and completely not a shot.

First off, if you think that those decks are T4 and that the other 4 can win (other than Flygon) you are not thinking before you made this post. I am POSITIVE that this format is going to SERIOUSLY be altered by the time States is around. Most of the decks that are played right now save my 2 or 3 are going to be non-factors come States. I have a hard time believe that Dialga, BlazeRay, Gengar, GlisTomb, Palkia Lock, and Machamp will do well during States. The introduction of a few cards including DCE completely changes how the format is going to be. There is a reason I posted my GlisTomb list in my report for the 6 CC I went to. It will be not playable come States time and while a Senior or Junior might be able to win with it, I would be absoluletly shocked if a Masters won with it.

You really should take a look at the next set and then you will see what I am talking about as far as the format being completely different. :thumb:

Drew
 
Once HG/SS comes out unless you see a lot of SP then Gengar really won't be taking a lot of wins. The newer Spread version might work, but DCE does not work for Gengar lv X. Blazeray should be good due to jumpluff. Garchomp C will be very good in any SP deck with DCE. Machamp has trouble winning on its own.
 
Drew, I actually do think that Palkia could be decent come states, if only for the fact of how easily it can abuse DRE.
 
DarthPika said:
Drew, I actually do think that Palkia could be decent come states, if only for the fact of how easily it can abuse DRE.
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then i drop a luxray and 1shot you for 1 energy while using the superior garchomp DCE deck. no thanks.

palkia is so so so so dead. good luck vs gardy or luxchomp LOL
 
TheDarkAvenger said:
DRE?surely you mean dce?
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Err... yes. Not that I would mind having DRE back in the format. :wink:

ryanvergel said:
then i drop a luxray and 1shot you for 1 energy while using the superior garchomp DCE deck. no thanks.

palkia is so so so so dead. good luck vs gardy or luxchomp LOL
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I was only saying that I think it's going to be better than Drew thinks. It's not going to be the BDIF, but I do think it's going to be a fairly solid deck.
 
Not at all. Palkia Lock failed so hard at cities, as opposed to standard Dialga G/Garchomp, BlazeRay, and other superior SP decks.

Feraligatr prime will be everywhere but will not win
Jumpluff is alright, but easily one shotted
Donphan is Cute, but nothing to fear
Ho-oh Legend will be ok with feraligatr, but nothing like ZOMG BDIF11111!

Quote me if you want, but noone knows what's going to happen besides the people already testing the set.
 
If the Pokemon Trader reprint comes out, then the donkey decks will become huge again (Shuppet, oldGengar, Machamp, etc)
 
donkphan luxchomp there are all kinds of viable decks. gyarados gets better too. and the inevitable return of plox/ gardygallade
 
1. Luxchomp/DialgaChomp/Variants
2. Flygon variants
3. Gyarados
4. Gardy/gallade/DCE
5. Gengar/Gengar

I'm really hopping plox could make a comeback.

I like burdan of the day, no offense but you really didn't really say it like it is. Check out the what won cities. Luxchomp/ dialgachomp won the most by far. gengar is getting less play due to the amount of dgx
 
Here's what I see as the basic gist of it:
Donphan > SP
SP > Water
Water > Donphan
then everything else.
At least that's what we're seeing from our testing.
 
Then where does Gardy fit in to that? Cuz it's gonna make a splash, and it's gonna be powerful...
 
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