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LostGar makes P!P stupid.

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The solution is to stop printing multiple OP cards that work all too well together in a brainless, speed-format, where you are really only accessing your recall area of thought.

Until that happens, people should be able to drop, because "cheating or not" in my eyes, playing those other decks is cheating, and thus forcing cheating.

Increase the time limit would help prevent dropping and allow slower decks a chance to shine. It may also force tournaments to cut back on players and a round, or would have to be played over the course of two days.

Is dropping out to cheat the system ethical? In a balanced TCG, no, but this TCG's competetive play likes to enforce cowardly tactics. It's sad but the truth. The fact that the Uxie donk is raising to power is proof of this. Many players don't enjoy playing, only winning. If everyone enjoyed playing then a lot mroe decks would enjoy winning.

It honesly seems that the card creators purposely print multiple OP cards in sets first so that tournaments can fit to a time restraint, then in the next rotation try to balance it out. The problem with this is, the OP deck is already established and has ample time to try out counters.

Conclusion: Gengar is the counter to the system. If you have complaints, sign a petetion for a restricted list in pokemon or something. If they do this, then people on the opposite side, who want to actually play a game, will sign a petetion to make attacking on each player's first turn illegal.
 
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Tyranitar+Umbreon is pretty good against everything except Machamp SF and Gyarados. Without Umbreon pretty much every fighting tech under the sun will make your life difficult (Donphan being your #1 enemy).

I heard Tyranitar is really really popular in Japan (or was) when Gengar Prime came out too.

If tyranitar decks already lose to luxchomp, I'm pretty sure a slower tyrannitar deck would also lose.
 
If tyranitar decks already lose to luxchomp, I'm pretty sure a slower tyrannitar deck would also lose.

Lol every stage 2 deck not named TurboMachamp SF loses to Luxchomp due to set-up denial, that's a given.

I said its good not beats the format and is Tier 1! :thumb:
 
^ lol ok. But yer right, I could really see just like agro dark decks having success in a lost gar format.
 
In Japan Nats it was 20 minutes rule in Swiss so, Lucario, Garchomp and Dialga Remove Lost took care of it. In Japan nats speed prize lead was the key due to the short amount of time so, lostgar didn't dominated really.
 
Oh my holy God.

I don't know what is so hard to comprehend about "Gengar Prime wins everything in Japan, and they only have to take four prizes to beat it." Japan had the same meta we did and LostGar dominated. It's a simple fact.

Does everyone think that the Japanese haven't already tried your cute homemade counter to LostGar? Do you think the Japanese are stupid or something? Every tier 1 deck loses miserably to LostGar, as has been proven by Japan's tournaments within the past several months and continual playtesting by players in the States. There is no secret tech to beat the deck. No, it's not going to win everything. But it will eclipse LuxChomp as the BDIF.

Japan pretty much makes that clear.

If you had read the thread....
they only run 1-1 lines of things. oops, 1 luxray gone, gg.
 
In Japan Nats it was 20 minutes rule in Swiss so, Lucario, Garchomp and Dialga Remove Lost took care of it. In Japan nats speed prize lead was the key due to the short amount of time so, lostgar didn't dominated really.

I'm confused by this comment. If you're talking about sp lucario, how does that help against lostgar? And are you talking about garchomp C?

Btw, what did win?
 
I'm confused by this comment. If you're talking about sp lucario, how does that help against lostgar? And are you talking about garchomp C?

Btw, what did win?

The Lucario nd all that were used Vs Tyranitar nd Vs lostgar is pretty much get prizes quickly nd win or win by time, Japan meta is very random also, unlike U.S. Forexample, at Nationals Yuta lost to Flygon/hippodon at Nationals on time. Also during that time Porygon Donk was really popular so, Gengar really wasnt the play at that time from the looks of it.

This is not a troll but, SP won Nats.
 
The Lucario nd all that were used Vs Tyranitar nd Vs lostgar is pretty much get prizes quickly nd win or win by time, Japan meta is very random also, unlike U.S. Forexample, at Nationals Yuta lost to Flygon/hippodon at Nationals on time. Also during that time Porygon Donk was really popular so, Gengar really wasnt the play at that time from the looks of it.

This is not a troll but, SP won Nats.

That's crazy. Although I don't think any of those strange ideas could compete in US play, it is interesting to see different ways of looking at deckbuilding and at the game in general.
 
The Lucario nd all that were used Vs Tyranitar nd Vs lostgar is pretty much get prizes quickly nd win or win by time, Japan meta is very random also, unlike U.S. Forexample, at Nationals Yuta lost to Flygon/hippodon at Nationals on time. Also during that time Porygon Donk was really popular so, Gengar really wasnt the play at that time from the looks of it.

This is not a troll but, SP won Nats.

Which lucario was it?
 
Lostgar is far from the BDIF... imo Dialga will be BDIF as it effectively counters Lostgar. I don't see how you are going to stop them from using Skuntank + belt +deafen and denying you your lost world. That's a far better counter than a "counter deck" full of dark Pokémon.

You want a deck that dominated its format? Plox puts Lostgar to shame.
 
Lostgar is far from the BDIF... imo Dialga will be BDIF as it effectively counters Lostgar. I don't see how you are going to stop them from using Skuntank + belt +deafen and denying you your lost world. That's a far better counter than a "counter deck" full of dark Pokémon.

You want a deck that dominated its format? Plox puts Lostgar to shame.

what about a dck full of Diagla and Dark Pokemon, that is my plan.
 
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