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Gyaradan

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Well, I've finally decided to go back to my roots with Donphan and make a competitive build based off an old concept I had last season. I feel that with the addition of Machamp Prime this deck is much better and gives it the steam it needs to be a good late game deck, not just a fast donk deck. Here's the list:


-23- Pokemon

4-4 Donphan Prime
2-2 Ursaring Prime
2-2 Zoroark
2-2-2 Machamp Prime
1 Bouffalant


-12- Energy

6 Fighting Energy
4 Double Colorless Energy
2 Rainbow Energy

-25- T/S/S

4 Pokemon Communication
4 Pluspower
3 Pokemon Collector
3 Professor Oak's New Theory
3 Seeker
2 Professor Elm's Training Method
2 Twins
2 Energy Exchanger
2 Judge

Strategy:

Lead with either Donphan or Ursaring and either Tank and bash with Donphan or Disrupt and Swing with Ursaring for big damage. Meanwhile, get a benched Machamp ready so you can fighting tag a hurt active for a fresh one and seeker the damaged Pokemon. Machamp also serves as a great late game attacker, and Zoroark is great for Reshiram or Zekrom. Bouffalant is there as a revenge attacker that you can fighting tag back once you've got a fresh attacker ready.


I'm currently tweaking the deck-list shown here and there and I will post a revised list if I find anything else to be a better build. Meanwhile, your thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
 
why do u run rainbow energy? o_O you're not going to be using zoroarks first attack unless you seriously messed up and if you did its not really highly you'll turn the game around by 2 rainbow energy in your deck. its useless for fighting tag to. Twins should be dropped to. you should be keeping an advantage with donphan.

-2 Twins
+2 Pokegear 3.0 to get your seeker / elms / pont / judge easier.
 
why do u run rainbow energy? o_O you're not going to be using zoroarks first attack unless you seriously messed up and if you did its not really highly you'll turn the game around by 2 rainbow energy in your deck. its useless for fighting tag to. Twins should be dropped to. you should be keeping an advantage with donphan.

-2 Twins
+2 Pokegear 3.0 to get your seeker / elms / pont / judge easier.

To feed Usarings body I think.
 
To feed Usarings body I think.

Correct. Oh and yes, if I really need to I can attach it to Zoroark to pull any one card from my deck. As for the twins I will try the 2 Pokegears and see how that works out. Thanks to Speedy Scizor for clearing up the reasoning behind the Rainbow Energy. :thumb:
 
I would personally keep the twins in since you may be at an early disadvantage if you don't get setup right away. PokeGear is alright but I would much prefer to have Twins in like you do, as it's a guaranteed ANY two cards.

Nice deck all around, try playtesting it to see how fast it is, you may want to lose the 2 Judges and perhaps put in 2 Switch to really make use of Seeker, and to help get Ursaring out if you need too. That's really all I would suggest, unless you like having Judge for disruption I don't think you really need it, just my opinion!

Your build looks solid though, test it out to see what works and what doesn't! Nice idea too adding Zoroark to a Machamp/Donphan based deck! I'm curious to see how Ursaring will work with it as well! :thumb:
 
I would personally keep the twins in since you may be at an early disadvantage if you don't get setup right away. PokeGear is alright but I would much prefer to have Twins in like you do, as it's a guaranteed ANY two cards.

Nice deck all around, try playtesting it to see how fast it is, you may want to lose the 2 Judges and perhaps put in 2 Switch to really make use of Seeker, and to help get Ursaring out if you need too. That's really all I would suggest, unless you like having Judge for disruption I don't think you really need it, just my opinion!

Your build looks solid though, test it out to see what works and what doesn't! Nice idea too adding Zoroark to a Machamp/Donphan based deck! I'm curious to see how Ursaring will work with it as well! :thumb:

Thanks! I think Zoroark will probably become a staple for HS-on, as it's a great card and a good counter to the dragons. I'll try the 2 switch and see how they fair, but Judge has came in handy before. Like you stated though, it's all a matter of preferance. Ursaring has always had great synergy with Donphan I think in that Donphan's Earthquakes will set up a benched Ursaring for massive damage. I'm going to put my current list through some extensive testing and i'll be sure to keep everyone updated as to what works and what doesn't. :thumb:
 
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