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Seriously, nobody has mentioned Medicham ex? Although it had a very short lifespan, it was the most dominant deck during its time. Even decks that directly tried to counter it struggled because of the incredible strength of shutting off Poke-Powers in conjunction with Rocket's Admin, Pow, and Energy Removal 2,
 
Pooka said:
Seriously, nobody has mentioned Medicham ex? Although it had a very short lifespan, it was the most dominant deck during its time. Even decks that directly tried to counter it struggled because of the incredible strength of shutting off Poke-Powers in conjunction with Rocket's Admin, Pow, and Energy Removal 2,
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I disagree. It was a good deck, but just didn't have the power to keep up with the major archetypes. It was a top tier deck for the few months it was viable, BUT even then it was still shunned by the more popular Dragtrode, Rock Lock, Ludicargo, etc.
 
Pooka said:
Seriously, nobody has mentioned Medicham ex? Although it had a very short lifespan, it was the most dominant deck during its time. Even decks that directly tried to counter it struggled because of the incredible strength of shutting off Poke-Powers in conjunction with Rocket's Admin, Pow, and Energy Removal 2,
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Pure Power! weak to Fighting ( =] ) That deck was amazing. I loved the look of peoples faces who stood there taking 3 damage counters with out using powers and couldn't get a 2 to 3 retreat cost pokemon out the active..
 
Professor Elm said:
I disagree. It was a good deck, but just didn't have the power to keep up with the major archetypes. It was a top tier deck for the few months it was viable, BUT even then it was still shunned by the more popular Dragtrode, Rock Lock, Ludicargo, etc.
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Shunned? It dominated all 3 of those decks. He said that it was dominant in its short time and it was! Medicham won 2005 Nationals and then it won Regionals in 2006. There is no doubt it was a great deck.
 
Bandoom is another deck that hasn't been mentioned. It won just about as many Cities as Metanite and Delta (RaiEggs), still had good placing at States that year but died down during Regionals.
 
If we are not going to acknowlege Medicham Ex or the era of T2 decks, we should have Jirachi DX/Swoop, as that was pretty dominating as far as getting good starts. :thumb:

I am not sure what I think about what decks should be and the above is just an idea, not really what I think, just a solution to what I have read.

Drew
 
Wasn't the era of T2 decks at City's 08 with Kingdra, Gengar, and Machamp running around?
 
Mach said:
Wasn't the era of T2 decks at City's 08 with Kingdra, Gengar, and Machamp running around?
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There's usually always T2 decks running around in the beginning of the format in BR's and Cities. 2 years ago was also a memorable time for T2 decks as Blissey, Magmortar, and Kricketune were popular and dominant decks before GG came around and cleared them out.
 
You absolutely have to include MetaNite. This was the deck that I played when I first entered competitive play, and I know from experience that this was a truly great deck. IMO it was the best deck of its day.
 
Mach said:
Wasn't the era of T2 decks at City's 08 with Kingdra, Gengar, and Machamp running around?
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No, those TRIED to be T2, but weren't anywhere close to as consistent as Muk Ex, Medicham Ex, Arcanine Ex, Hariyama Ex, and the Eeveelutions Ex.

Drew
 
Claydol, you should add Claydol because Claydol GE in straight Claydol decks make for fun searching fun. Imagine running 4 claydols on your field... you will get almost any card you want from your deck. It was the dominant deck of its time.
 
TheDarkTwins said:
No, those TRIED to be T2, but weren't anywhere close to as consistent as Muk Ex, Medicham Ex, Arcanine Ex, Hariyama Ex, and the Eeveelutions Ex.

Drew
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Arcanine EX was competitive?????? Please explain!!!!!!!! (I love that card)

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Claydol, you should add Claydol because Claydol GE in straight Claydol decks make for fun searching fun. Imagine running 4 claydols on your field... you will get almost any card you want from your deck. It was the dominant deck of its time.
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lololololololololol
 
TheDarkTwins said:
No, those TRIED to be T2, but weren't anywhere close to as consistent as Muk Ex, Medicham Ex, Arcanine Ex, Hariyama Ex, and the Eeveelutions Ex.

Drew
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Get out Drew, Kingdra went off, going 2nd, over 60% of the time (experimentally). Thats pretty ridic consistent.
 
The reason Medicham ex and Muk ex being considered "T2 decks" was important is because of how slow the format was back then. In recent formats, a turn two Psychic Lock from Gardevoir has been considered devastating, and that's with all the extremely powerful cards we have at our disposal. Back in 2005, the popular decks (LudiCargo, Rock Lock, etc.) were all based around slow, multiple Energy attackers that spent quite a few turns using things like Jirachi, Pidgeot, and Magcargo to setup. If you shut those things down starting T2, the decks will fail to even setup. The speed and control given by Medicham ex was amazing in that era, and it really was dominant.
 
How dominent do you want?
Lugia/blastoise/steelix
dragonite/trode (or metagross if thats what you like)
Bannete ex
Infernape
Blissey
Gardy/ Gallade
Blaze ex
T-tar ex or dark t-tar w/ amphy
medicham ex
empoleon
Flygon ex
Luxray with its various partners

I think those are the most dominent for the time nintendo owned the game.
I would say Gardy, Ape, Blissey, Medicham ex, Blaze ex, Dragonite, Electrode ex and Flygon ex were the most significent.
 
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