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there was also a guy from blackpool who came to our league. he played a ace scizor cherim and he beat everyone in the league except for me and the league leader. i played him and he said that he'd give me his list if i won. we played best of three and i won two- one, but only just by one prize. i think everyones teching for the new stuff and not the old cards so the old cards e.g scizor, cherim may have the element of surprise.
baby mario
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Scizor/Cherrim will need more than the element of surprise to beat all the DGX decks/techs.
RogueDecker
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Decks will either be SP, 1 Energy stage 1/2 decks, or rogue.
Rogue decks that are going to pop up are what im quit excited about.
Rogue decks that are going to pop up are what im quit excited about.
Naki Feralkin
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Whats that timmy? Palkia teched a Donphan and wrecked Luxray in one hit? Couldn't be!
Battle Roads gaiz. SERIOUS BUSINESS. Arguing about stuff right now is pointless. Wait for cities and have fun with BR's. Not everyone is gonna be pooping Luxchomp out and Palkia will be perfect for everyone trying to make Charizard work. And don't forget that Steelix can stop Luxchomp dead in its tracks.
Battle Roads gaiz. SERIOUS BUSINESS. Arguing about stuff right now is pointless. Wait for cities and have fun with BR's. Not everyone is gonna be pooping Luxchomp out and Palkia will be perfect for everyone trying to make Charizard work. And don't forget that Steelix can stop Luxchomp dead in its tracks.
I thought that it would be a good idea to post this question here instead of making a new topic...
What are the main disruption decks that will be viable this format? I am coming back to Pokemon after taking a break (about 6 months) and I know that I want to use a disruption deck but I don't know what is available. The only deck I have looked into is Sableye Lock and it looks promising and fun but I want to know more about other options. Also, if possible, I would like the deck to be cheap and affordable to make. I'm coming back to Pokemon from playing Yugioh and it got to the point where some cards anywhere from $50 to $80 each, and you would need 3 of those cards in your deck to make it work.
What are the main disruption decks that will be viable this format? I am coming back to Pokemon after taking a break (about 6 months) and I know that I want to use a disruption deck but I don't know what is available. The only deck I have looked into is Sableye Lock and it looks promising and fun but I want to know more about other options. Also, if possible, I would like the deck to be cheap and affordable to make. I'm coming back to Pokemon from playing Yugioh and it got to the point where some cards anywhere from $50 to $80 each, and you would need 3 of those cards in your deck to make it work.
RogueDecker
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When PL gets rotated i will LOVE pokemon..
becasue people will have to be creative when making decks,
instead of throwing Chomp, Dialga, or Luxray in it and calling it a deck.
becasue people will have to be creative when making decks,
instead of throwing Chomp, Dialga, or Luxray in it and calling it a deck.
Deoxys Cool Form
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You can build other decks you know.
SP takes a lot of skill to play - I love it for that reason, makes it fun to play.
When it goes you could complain all the skill will be taken out the format too.
And SP can be countered, so both people can be happy.
Instead of waiting for Platinum to be rotated, why don't you be creative and try to build a deck to counter them?
TheDarkTwins
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So you're not going to "LOVE" Pokemon until the 2012-13 season then? I mean if you think PL is getting roatated out next year you are most likely in for some disappointement, as I don't see that happening.
Drew
baby mario
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Comments like this are so frustrating.
If you think anyone has ever had any success just throwing these Pokemon into a deck, then you don't understand much about the game. SP decks are among the hardest to fine-tune and the most demanding to play.
Not using the most powerful Pokemon in the format just because you want to be 'different' is pointless. There's nothing 'different' about it either . . . Leagues are full of kids playing sub-par Pokemon for fun.
Also, just wait until PL is rotated out . . . then we will find out what the new Chomp, Luxray, and Dialga are. If you think there aren't always going to be popular cards, you're delusional.
Just imagine what the Format would be like without SP cards. IMO they really are too overpowered, they have like a build in counter too so much stuff, they can counter and beat anything by being fast and, what I hate the most, no matter what you play, if you draw a bad hand you wont have the chance to get out of it. Thats my real problem with them, if I draw an ok hand I usually beat them, but if my hand is bad and I need 1/2 turns to setup I might as well scoop.
And about the sp skill thing, I know that playing it to perfection is hard, dont worry. But on the other side, even if you dont playi t to perfection its still autopilot enough to win games by its sheer overpoweredness. And T2 Bright look your attacker, spray your Uxie snipeyour Claydol lol is just... What is one supposed to do about it? And what I really dont get is that theychose a rotation that nerved EVERYTHING except SP :/
With Claydol it was possible to fight back but now everything non sp has such a lack of power that I dont see how it should work. YOu can run hrd counter sp decks (Machamp) but then you wont beat anything else.
And honestly, its been around for so long that Ive just grown sick of it
And about the sp skill thing, I know that playing it to perfection is hard, dont worry. But on the other side, even if you dont playi t to perfection its still autopilot enough to win games by its sheer overpoweredness. And T2 Bright look your attacker, spray your Uxie snipeyour Claydol lol is just... What is one supposed to do about it? And what I really dont get is that theychose a rotation that nerved EVERYTHING except SP :/
With Claydol it was possible to fight back but now everything non sp has such a lack of power that I dont see how it should work. YOu can run hrd counter sp decks (Machamp) but then you wont beat anything else.
And honestly, its been around for so long that Ive just grown sick of it
ShadowGuard
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Why not? They took out four sets this year, and so they'll probably to the same next year. Platinum isn't really a new "era", it still has Lv.X and all the other card types. If they're going to take out only three sets (like they did for DX-on), they'd have to rotate five sets the next year, and woulnd't have HGSS-on.
RR-on seems completely logical for me, and also would be good for the metagame. You don't think they leave sets of the SP block and take out the main SP engine? Well, remember what they did with the Delta block? This was exactly the same, so why not again?
DX-on. There were archtypes and popular deck, but there weren't any dominating deck where nothing else got real chances against.
Word.
And I don't get it why they rotated out POP 8/9 (released AFTER MD), leaving Cyrus as the only viable energy search, causing problems to all non-SP-decks (except for Gyarados maybe).
Triumphant without Lost World could help to fix this. There are many viable cards that are useful against Luxchomp, like Twins, Machamp Prime, Magnezone Prime or Nidoking. But unfortunally, Gengar kills them all if we get Lost World.
jokerjake7
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yah i just came from yugioh too and i played x sabers...so expensive, but even the best decks here are alot cheaper. sableLock is the top distruption followed by the new Vileplume Spiritomb trainer lock deck. like the name says it depends on vileplume from undaunted and spiritomb and gastly which both have atks and powers that make it so no trainers can be used so it slows the deck down to your level, there are alot of versions of it because each person uses a different powerhouse i prefer gengar because you already have gastly in there and then there are several techs to put in that u can find on people's posts on the deck help forum. and sable lock is the most popular distruption and its pretty effective too.
Thanks for the info. I will probably go with Sableye Lock and now I just need to make a starting list for it. This will be fun since I haven't made a Pokemon deck in forever. xP
RogueDecker
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Sp takes skill, you are correct.
I've played SP, I do play SP.
I like seeing more than 3 main decks at tournaments.
DialgaChomp, Luxchomp, and Sablelock are the most played decks.
All SP, and most of the people are not creative when they make the decks.
They Netdeck and act like they have play tested it.
I also play machamp and Vilegar. Both extreme Counters to SP.
There is just not as much variaty as i would like to see.
SP decks are overpowered, and if you disagree then i feel sorry for you.
baby mario
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Fair play.
You should look around a bit more. Cursegar, Gyarados, Gardy/Gallade, Donphan and Jumpluff were all successful decks last format. Some people had good results with Regigigas. Flygon/Torterra won German Nats and Top Cut Worlds. Steelix decks can do ok too.
All SP, yes, but all very different decks that are played in very different ways. You might just as well criticise all Stage 2 decks for being the same. The netdeck problem (if it is a problem) exists in all card games and has existed at least since people started using the internet. It's not an SP-only issue.
Both are pretty much meta decks, just like Luxchomp.
As I said, last format there were about a dozen decks that were fairly competitive.
How do you measure 'overpowered'? It's an easy term to throw around but what does it actually mean? SP decks are popular, successful, and good, but is that the same thing? Other decks can still do well.
Please don't waste your sympathy on me.
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