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Good riddance, less stuff to worry about during worlds, so no need to study, just netdeck america`s (the continent) top 8 and you`ll do fine senior.
 
HAHAHA THAT IS NOT GUARANTEED You still need to be able to build a good deck. Worlds is a completely different meta than US Nats, which is 10 rounds then TC, consistency is king at Nats, where as worlds is almost a game of predicting the meta and knowing how to counter it effectively.

Please tell me how many worlds you've been to. What's that, how many? None. Exactly.
 
Is quite idiotic to not bring the deck that brought you top in the NC to WC, if you got that far thanks to it, is axiomatic that it works.

I got a better question, how many worlds have you won my wise friend?... make it two: What is the japanese formula for success in every pokemon WC in both VGC and TCG to own masters division?
 
ALEXARD said:
Good riddance, less stuff to worry about during worlds, so no need to study, just netdeck america`s (the continent) top 8 and you`ll do fine senior.
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I'm not in Seniors.

Are you trying to set a record for the number of times someone has been wrong in a single thread?

It's a pretty tough ask here on PokeGym, but I think you have what it takes.
 
@Alexard: Not always. I know for a fact Con Le almost didn't play Sableock at worlds last year due to the metagame (influx of Chomp due to his own win at US nationals). Goals are different at both events. For example people often go for points at nationals. I would play Magneboar over, say, Zekrom at Nats due to consistency. Although I probably wouldn't win, I would probably get my points for an invite. While at worlds people go all out. I would be in it to win it.
 
^ Also happened in 2009.

A lot of people switched from SP decks to Flygon at Worlds when it became clear that SP was being heavily teched against.

Worlds is a weird metagame, unlike any other tournament. Sticking with what you played at Nats is sometimes the best option, but not always.
 
I know for a fact I would play the same deck. Went for about 2 seasons with Chaos Legends before I was forced to switch. Good times were had there.
 
I remember German champions took almost the same deck to worlds that they took to nationals, the same goes for Argentina, Canada and Mexico representatives... I know they only got as far as top 32 but they took the same decks from NC and LCQ to the WC, anybody has the decknames of the japanese NC winners from 2010?
 
The Japanese decks would not be relevant as they were not playing the same format in Japan.
 
Yay rice and chicken....
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Yea some random post so what?

Well i whould like to comment... I think this got off topic...

But who cares :D

Well i agree that i whould also play my same deck both nats and worlds, but its a wise thing to do if your going to change your deck for points and to change it for worlds. I didnt know that.
 
baby mario said:
Of course you are. I shall be hugely disappointed if I don't see your 'Top 16 with Caterpie Donk!' report here on PokeGym right after US Nats.



Actually, we European people who are going to Worlds do need to worry about HGSS-on. Yet another ignorant comment from you.
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I'm sorry to tell you this Baby mario, but he doesn't even got a top 8 at his local league, in México
He's never been competitive, and he won't ever be seriously :tongue:


Talking about random post, do anyone know when will the invites by ranking are going to be updated (at least for Europe and AU region) also if able i would like to know the average ranking people will need to get an invite
 
Jigsaw said:
I'm sorry to tell you this Baby mario, but he doesn't even got a top 8 at his local league, in México
He's never been competitive, and he won't ever be seriously :tongue:
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D'oh.

Looks like I've been trolled again :lol:
 
Jigsaw said:
I'm sorry to tell you this Baby mario, but he doesn't even got a top 8 at his local league, in México
He's never been competitive, and he won't ever be seriously :tongue:
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Are you afraid about not getting Top again at nationals, but you`re right I am indeed not competitive... :rolleyes: if being competitive involves getting disqualified for cheating, like you did :lol:, good luck earning the invitation by ranking and not by winning the event, supervised games are never that easy. We are both top 4 state players since 2009, meaning you are not competent or a serious threat for worlds either.
 
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Guys, has it really come to killing yet another "healthy discussion" thread with accusations and personal remarks? Please, take this to the PMs, and leave this thread open to the community, it's been somewhat healthy to "clear the air" about the issue of the ways people approach this game.

Not a mod, not being a mod, but this is a personal appeal to save what remains of this thread.
 
Back on topic. I'll always feel that netdecking will always be unhealthy for the game. I feel those players don't really contribute anything to the game because it does not promote growth. People are going to play the way they want but it's robs the fun from the game. People are supposed to go into tournaments with having fun in mind and they don't.

I went over to read some of the tournament reports just to find that 70 percent of games played were all donks and then your opponent saying, "I'm only in it to win". Who says something like that? Sure you play games to win but not at any cost. You have people who will say they play rogue all the time but you read their tournament reports and they play meta. That tells me that you only play rogue when your record is not on the line. I care about my record and I always put it on the line by going rogue.

It's just sad how much the game changed. You got people who try to sneak out of a Pluspower KO, find a way to cheat their opponents and take advantage of less experience and that's not right. Right now we have people trying to figure out how to make Zekrom donk. I mean really? Leave the donks in the last format and come up with something new.

Guess the one thing I can say is I have never played a mirror match before and if people are so worried about them, just don't play the deck and make something up. If you ask me, I think some people here need a crash course in deck building.
 
While I may prefer playing rogue decks, I still design them for beating non - rogue decks.... yes, I can fun winning.
 
I've said it once, and I'll say it again; we only have a limited number of cards that we can use, and of that, only a limited number of those cards are actually good and usable. What happens is that people will use the combos and cards that do best and from that we develop what we call a metagame. Unless you want people to play bad cards and inferior combos for the sake of being original with them.

By asking people not to think up of ideas like Zekrom donk is depriving them of creativity - the creativity you so desperately cling to and admire. What would our world be if people didn't look for the better, faster, and more efficient way of doing something? Back in the dark ages I suspect; if we could even make it that far. I admire the person who created the Uxie donk engine; that took a lot of brain power to figure out. In fact, all of the deck types that exist today evolved into what they are because people tried and tested, and tried again to make the best deck out there. You're playing a GAME, so you have to expect that people will find the best and most efficient ways to win games. If you don't like that, then do something non-competitive, like knitting (although I wouldn't be surprised if even that had competitions...).

And again, your definition of fun is different than other's. My idea of fun is going into a tournament and winning games - I really don't care what deck I use to get that done. The problem is that the people you're describing are people that no one likes anyway - the people who violate the SOTG by being mean, arrogant, and disgusting to other players and treat everyone else very poorly. These people may or may not netdeck. But not all netdeckers are jerks, and I think you're missing that point. Me and all of my friends played netdecks this past season.. I played BLG, someone else played LoxChomp, and another played Gyarados. Our group is probably the most friendly and approachable group in the area because we're always smiling, being friendly, and having fun. But for some reason, you paint us as if we're monsters, out to ruin people's day or something. I don't get it, w/e
 
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