Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Anyone play garchomp?

yoyofsho16 said:
Why not TV Reporter? Discard a Pokemon to revive in the process?

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aggggggh i got a bad hand on you!! that match totally destroyed my spot in top cut!
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True. Though only recently have I added Garchomp Lv X, so I haven't tweaked it yet.

I've also downgraded the line to 3-2-3-1, and it still works fine.
 
I've found that a starter isn't needed if you can get a solid start and hopefully a Togekiss turn 2 or 3, as long as your energy line is not spread too thin among all the colors, you should get the color you're looking for when you play it down, if not, Roseanne's Research always works too. I play 3-2-3/1 as well and it works great, 3-2-2/2, not so much. Premier Ball works much better than two of the level X.

I'm considering playing 20 energies, 4 Psychic, 4 Water, 2 Fighting, 2 Lightning, 2 Metal, 2 Darkness, 2 Grass, 2 Fire. It might end up being too much though, if so I'd probably take out 1 of Grass, Metal, Darkness, and Fire, as those weaknesses do not seem to be as big in the meta game, at least not in my area.
 
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That's weird, I've had a lot of problems with 3-2-3-1. I find Garchomp has problems against certain decks so you need to rebirth pokemon quickly, and with only 1 lv.X, it can be aggravating to have it prized. You can lose some games if you can't get the lv.X out in time.
 
^I have yet to have my Chomp Lv.X prized, but it will happen. I had to use my Chomp Lv.X 3 times against Empoleon(That shows how much you need it). But haveing the 3rd Garchomp helps alot too.
 
I'm running my Garchomp straight. (That means alone, by itself.)
I know, at first it seems stupid but I have done very well with it.
I am running 3 Gible, 2 Gabite, 3 Garchomp, & 1 LV. X. I run 2 of every energy, witch seems to be enough and then I'm prepared for any situation. Restore gets past Lati-lock because restore makes it a basic Pokemon! I thought about putting in 4 Smeargle to thin out my deck and get me the energy I need when I need it, and then I can dump a Garchomp and some energy with Felicity & TV Reporter, then I can restore.

What do you guys think?
 
3-1 is better.
What happens if you play 2-2 and a regular Garchomp is prized? Nothing to restore but your tech cards, and also no chance to have a backup Garchomp.


mewtwoisba said:
sorry but garchomp over rated the one i have seen have been extreamly slow. also it gets owned bye blissie.
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lol this is a fairy tale.
I've beaten four Blissey decks with Garchomp during this tournament season, and didn't lose to a single one. +30 weakness doesn't mean verything. With Garchomp Lv.X you may have x2, but you can restore tech cards like Kabutops MD. And if they play Holon Energy FF, Togekiss still can do well. Sableye CG tech also helps a lot (and brings cards into discard pile for Restore).
The only deck that really owns Garchomp is Eeveelutions... but there are a lot of techs in other decks, and it can have problems with some (not all) builds of Magmortar and Plox.

Charisychulee said:
I'm running my Garchomp straight. (That means alone, by itself.)
I know, at first it seems stupid but I have done very well with it.
I am running 3 Gible, 2 Gabite, 3 Garchomp, & 1 LV. X. I run 2 of every energy, witch seems to be enough and then I'm prepared for any situation. Restore gets past Lati-lock because restore makes it a basic Pokemon! I thought about putting in 4 Smeargle to thin out my deck and get me the energy I need when I need it, and then I can dump a Garchomp and some energy with Felicity & TV Reporter, then I can restore.

What do you guys think?
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At least you should use some draw support (Claydol, or if you want to have energy for Restore, Delcatty, but watch out for Battle Frontier then).
 
ShadowGuard said:
3-1 is better.
What happens if you play 2-2 and a regular Garchomp is prized? Nothing to restore but your tech cards, and also no chance to have a backup Garchomp.
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That is why your tech cards are supposed to be awesome. I know in my Garchomp, my tech cards can clean house by themselves, and that is why I chose them.

3-1 and 2-2 both have problems. With 3-1, if your lv.X is prized, you aren't rebirthing anything. If you run into a bad matchup where you need your rebirthed monsters, you are in a hole without a ladder. With 2-2, if your Garchomp (non-lv.X) is prized, you won't be able to go on the offense with a regular Garchomp and will have to use your only Garchomp to Rebirth stuff. I'd rather have 2-2 because at least in that example, I can Rebirth my stuff and KO some stuff quick. Throw down Gallade, flip over all your prizes, and you'll find that Garchomp pretty quickly.
 
3/1 is better, since the deck doesn't need restore, i can not think of a single time that i've needed to restore some type of tech to get me out of a sticky situation, i have probably used restore 2 times out of 20-30 games and i've probably only lost like 4-5 games, against many different decks, it's a solid deck on it's own with a basic build

if your deck is entirely focused on restore than 2/2 makes much more sense, you better have some good techs though for such a slow setup, gardy and gallade come to mind because if you run the basics you can just psychic cut for your prized lvl x, or garchomp
 
Why would you use Garchomp lv.X if your deck wasn't built around Rebirth? Rebirth is a broken attack, and I feel a rebirth-focused Garchomp deck would have fewer bad matchups than a non-rebirth-focused Garchomp deck. Garchomp already has a lot of problems with any fire deck that runs FF, any eeveelution deck that runs Umbreon, any water deck that runs any of the numerous ways to remove weakness on water Pokemon, strong colorless decks, etc. That is why I feel rebirth is the better focus for the deck. It doesn't rely on the opponent's weakness (even though it can take advantage of it) and can unleash the strongest pokemon in the game and power them within the same attack. It's an attack too, which means it can't be shut down by Psychic Lock or Cessation Crystal, or even Lati-Lock that might shut down Garchomp too.

I don't know if either Garchomp build would or could ever be at the same level as GG, but I am definitely having fun trying to perfect a resurrection deck.
 
you make good points, but from my experience, garchomp on it's own can work around anything, it can 2 hit knock out anything, the lvl. x just helps get critical knock outs, with it's plus power effect, and restoring a garchomp can help you out of sticky situations,

i'm not saying which build is better because focusing a deck around restore was so difficult that i quickly gave up and focused on garchomp itself, so i don't personally know how good it can get,

i still think garchomp can beat gardy, i've had great succes against my list with 4 frontier and a shard, i can't imagine how much more overtly teched a list could be, but i know latilock never really does much to chomp since i still 2 shot them while they 3 shot me, and i can restore if i have to to get around latilock but it's more or less a waste of a turn
 
So far my garch's match ups:

G&G: Haven't won yet......... but I nearly did. Got screwed by warp point, winning him the game. Otherwise it does quite well and should be able to win a few times.

Rock band: Played it only once, and got T2 donked........... However, after words, while testing my deck, I got a hand which would have ravaged one.......

Eeveelutions:
Quite an easy match up. I can get around espeon and umbreon easily.

Empoleon:
Of ones I've played, it's easy if you can quickly take out there active empoleon. Empoleon has already damaged the bench, plus dragon pulse, everything is in OHKO range.

Arithmatic:
Very easy. I beat the guy playing one hands down.

Inferncatty: Had a very close game with one today, would have won, but was screwed, once again, by warp point.

Fosils:
..........................................................Hope you NEVER play one of these. Mine gets my garch bad......................................................

What our your garch's matchups aganst thease and others?
 
I have a 50/50 record against G&G and I've beaten everything else I've played. I'm adding the Smeargle to thin out my deck and get energy when I need it, I guess I'll see how it works tomorrow. So my pokemon line is now 4 Smeargle, 3 Gible, 2 Gabite, 3 Garchomp, & 1 LV. X. I really don't need any other Pokemon, thanks for the suggestion though.
 
Good luck. If you can do that, I'd like to copy your list!
 
I want to play it, but yet to have the cards. I beleive in two types of Garchomp though. The straight 4-2-4 Garchomp and the Restore 4-2-3-1 Garchomp.
 
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