Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

DP-on | Decks after rotation.

Naki Feralkin said:
How many people missed this sentence, I don't know. All I know is people keep assuming Bubble Coat stays on.



It goes away. Its situational. I already ranted about the lack of usefulness that Bubble Coat has.
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However, it'll give you 2-3 turns instead of 1-2, which is a huge advantage when you are OHKOing pokemon left and right. Just a thought.
 
My beef is its dead draw against any rogue match up or mirror match up, plus theres no suitable way to get it at the moment except for Lapras or hopeful top deck.

It might buy you time, but the chance that you'll get it when you want it is a lot slimmer than people assume.
 
Yes, teching Bubble Coat is a good move, but it must be drawn out.
 
And with Claydol, Cynthia, Felicity, Bronzong, Oak's Visit, Pokedex and other cards in the format, drawing into a specific card is hard since when?
 
Scipio said:
And with Claydol, Cynthia, Felicity, Bronzong, Oak's Visit, Pokedex and other cards in the format, drawing into a specific card is hard since when?
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The main problem with Bubble Coat is that its a dead card for most of your battles.
 
Naki Feralkin said:
My beef is its dead draw against any rogue match up or mirror match up, plus theres no suitable way to get it at the moment except for Lapras or hopeful top deck.

It might buy you time, but the chance that you'll get it when you want it is a lot slimmer than people assume.
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A lot slimmer than getting a plus power, a night matinence, a rare candy, a warp point?
 
Brawler1624 said:
Torrtera MD dosen't have :water: resistance.

3 Hit-Ko.

Although I have another deck in mind....
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60 damage. Heal 20. 60 Damage. Play healing card. 60 Damage ko. Still have a great sized torterra and I've powered up a benched one. Torterra doesn't lose anything from the rotation and is going to be as strong as ever (though rhyperior and amu look to be difficult matchups).
 
Papi/Manny said:
60 damage. Heal 20. 60 Damage. Play healing card. 60 Damage ko. Still have a great sized torterra and I've powered up a benched one. Torterra doesn't lose anything from the rotation and is going to be as strong as ever (though rhyperior and amu look to be difficult matchups).
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AMU = god blast spam (against torterra) lol
 
ahhh, how about:

Lumenion (IFDS)/Cresselia,
Machamp (IFDS)/Lumenion
Shaymin/Leafeon/Sceptile (GE)/ Sceptile (IFDS)

Or Feraligatr/Bronzong (IFDS)


I see those combos being pretty interesting
 
A lot slimmer than getting a plus power, a night matinence, a rare candy, a warp point?
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The point is getting it at a critical point in the game in which it actually is necessary, which is usually when you need that extra turn to survive and not when someone can one shot you anyways. Assuming you actually absolutely positively need it.

Considering your worst possible matchup is dependent on your decks weakness, in essence, you should only be worried about one part of the meta game, and maybe not even if you're playing a good enough deck. The actual uses of the coat are so limited that I question its use at all.

Honestly, I'd rather top deck a critical Cynthia's Plan or Roseanne at a critical moment as opposed to a Bubble Coat against a favorable non-weak matchup.

And Pachirisu/Vire X love Kingdra with Bubble Coat.
 
Which is why Kingdra should never run Bubble Coat in the first place. Electric decks fall against Kingdra anyway.

Papi; you do know that Kingdra has 130 HP and as such survives your 2 petty 60 blasts just as well as how your Torterra survives 2 shots of 60, right?
 
Lumineon is a horrible card. Lack of HP, weak attatcks, it's just not that good at all.

And if you say it's power is good, well, most people don't FORAGE basics in their hand.
 
well to me every card is importent in my deck iv'e been playing for 6 years and i still a have a hard time understanding cards but draw power and speed will be a big deal after the rotation and it doesn't matter what you play there will be someone out there with a deck that could beat yours it doesn't matter if weakness is involed or not

mangevire-
 
Scipio said:
Which is why Kingdra should never run Bubble Coat in the first place. Electric decks fall against Kingdra anyway.

Papi; you do know that Kingdra has 130 HP and as such survives your 2 petty 60 blasts just as well as how your Torterra survives 2 shots of 60, right?
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If its so easy for kingdra to shove buck's/plus powers into its list, I don't see why torterra can't. Heck, even cresslia tech is a viable option in torterra and allows for the 2 shot.
 
Electric decks fall against Kingdra anyway.
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A good electric build outta be able to take it, especially since it hasn't been tested that electric decks fall against Kingdra yet. Again, theory crafting proves nothing until you've actually tried it out against actual players and don't predict everything they're going to do.
 
Brawler1624 said:
Lumineon is a horrible card. Lack of HP, weak attatcks, it's just not that good at all.

And if you say it's power is good, well, most people don't FORAGE basics in their hand.
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:lol::lol:

yea stage 1 with free retreat,all attacks cost 1,can snipe,fill bench for dark palm,and have agility effect is bad.Yea its real bad.:lol:
 
Geez, it is hard for us newbies to keep up with all these abbreviations. DRE? Okay, Double Rainbow Energy. AMU? Okay, Azelf, MeSprit, Uxie? PLOX? GG deck where you use more Gallades with his Psychic watchamacallit.

I play a lot with my two sons. We've been only playing for just over 2 months now. It's strange how the League and some of the dealers shutdown for the first two weeks of August? World is only a 2-day event right? Getting off on a tangent...

Anyway, I sort of regret dumping a lot of money into cards for the three of us realizing I could just print scans on card stock and stick them in protectors to play and experiment with, THEN go buy all the $20-$35 cards for the decks you think have the most potential. Oh well, at least we didn't buy a bunch of booster boxes and amassed a ton of duplicates that suck and we don't need. Bought all individuals on the Bay through the same 2 or 3 dealers.

Getting back to the topic... I think for LA though, I'm definitely test playing scans of the cards before deciding what to spend more money on.

I think one of the major changes for the next format is the loss of DRE. That's going to hurt any card requiring 4 energies hard/slow to power up. This means Magmortar X might not fair so well? Or is it worth holding on to?

Is seems to me, of the, um, what do you call them, archetypes? that seem to have consistent winning potential the pre-LA cards still worth holding onto would be (at least on my list):

Leafeon
Glaceon
Empoleon
G & G (although people may get tired of this, hopefully something in LA will help destroy G&G/PLOX)

I'm skepticle about AMU, people get all excited when something can do a ton of damage in one attack but it usually is hard/slow to setup and or has a heavy cost (discard all energies). To get all those three Lv.X out there at the same time isn't going to be easy. I can see the hype/excitement about it though. I doubt it will dominate.

Some of the LA cards that really caught my eye that may prove quite good/useful:

Magnezone X
Mewtwo X
Gliscor
Rhyperior X
Frosslass
Tech Machine TS-2
Bubble Coat
 
jazee, I think I will also be printing off more scans in the future. For $4, I was able to build AMU and test it out at league. Talk about really cheap.
 
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