The same could be said about any deck. How hard is it to say take out or Polterguiest. SP offers plenty of opitions far more so than i would say a Machamp deck would offer. Playing SP mirror is incredibly skill orenitied I mean granted there is some sakeing in it but it happens in all match ups.
Well yeah, that's my point. SP offers what could be too many options, and since SP Pokemon are lumped together in a kind of 'secondary' Pokemon type (like Dark Pokemon were), there's a lot of SP-specific Trainers and Supporters that go along with it. SP are almost kind of like a sub-game within a game; you're not going to be able to use cards like PokeTurn or Power Spray in just any deck; it's going to be a SP specific deck.
Regular Pokemon cards are afforded some similar cards, but with some kind of drawback: Super Scoop Up demands a flip. There was Goop-Gas Attack, but that card's long since been rotated. You can shut off an SP's trainers, but only with a Stage 2 Vileplume that shuts off yours as well, instead of a Basic Pokemon with a Metal Energy attached. It's this kind of toolbox where decks like, well, Toolbox get their name from. A lot of non-SP decks aren't afforded the same control and basic power that SP decks provide, which is why SP decks are a favorite among tournament players.
A SP mirror match is going to take knowing how an SP deck works because you'll have to maneuver your own around it, try to deny the opponent of what he needs while getting your attackers out first; but that's the basic concept of SP decks in the first place. Generally speaking, I mean more playing SP against any deck other than SP.
People complain that SP is what's killing Pokemon, or that donking is what's killing Pokemon. It's neither. SP is a dominant deck simply because of how good it is, and how easily it counters what most other decks can throw at it. Donking is just simply another method of winning. There's not really much that can be done about it until the sets get rotated, and it's pretty evident that PCL is trying to fix it by the new rules coming up. Wait it out a bit longer; Pokemon's been through worse than this. okeball: