Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

My Garchomp deck.

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Used to use clafable, but it wasn't much help. Also used ho-oh, but he powered up WAY to slow, plus I don't want another basic.
As for Shifty ex, I think skill hack is a little chansy. If they don't have a pokemon, it's a wasted attack.
 
3 premier balls seems excessive if garchomp (not the lvl x) is your main attacker
i dont know how necessary the 4 pluspowers are either, yes i know you are trying to get 20 damage on the 130hp opponents but garchomp lvl x has a power that helps with that. i guess what i am saying is that you may want either the premier balls OR the plus powers, but i dont think you need both.
i am a firm believer that 4-2 furret > 3-3 furret.
i think that gardevoir and blastoise d are poor candidates for garchomps resurrection attack. i agree with the previous posters, you NEED heavy hitters.
 
Dusknoir is a must. not only can you bring it back with the lvl X, but he then helps vs opponents Lats/general metagame.

I like 1 Ralts, 1 Gard in here too.
 
The premire bals are EXTREMELY useful, especially against mag. And I nead all the plus powers. I lost a game against a G&G ONLY because I didn't have my last plus power in the deck then. But from what people are saying, I nead a heavy hiter in here. Although, (not sure) but I think, next to gallade, Garchomp can do the most damage for 3 energy out there.(Sure, there's gyarados, but he has to have damage on him, so he'd only get like, one attack.) So should I put a gallade in? And yeah, duskinor does sound like a good idea. What should I take out, though?
 
For weavile I only have 3 darks in here. I was thinking Leafeon Lv.x for energy accell. And for strenght charm, I'll see if I can fit that in, then test it to see if that works.
 
If I use any energy accell it's going to be a 1-1 leafeon Lv.x or 1-1 togakiss. Probably not a wevile. I use them in another deck, and yes, I agree they are an amazing energy accelerator, but there just not for this deck.
 
if you run no special energies, then run crystal beach. it will help you an awful lot against gg.

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josher3147 said:
Lati-Lock...you lose.
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ok...? that doesnt make much sense. alright, so blastoise d wont work? big whoop.
 
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I've never played against a lati-lock. There not used around here. And besides, every deck has a weaknes. Also, it would shut down garch's power, which is BA-A-A-A-D. I never though about crystal beach...>:D Great idea.
 
i love garchomp..but garchomp lvl x is like a god..its uber....its going 2 be a challenge..torterra and the eveelutions are going 2 rise 2 power tho!!!
 
^Torterra? The slowest card in the universe? Unless you're talking about the one from OUR DP7,
which won't come out until November. Empoleon will be archetype, and it will get crushed.
The eveelutions will never make it, they have too little HP (even with espeon,) and they aren't fast
enough as some other decks will be.

If you're playing this, and it becomes archetype, then Crystal Shard will become popular.
You'll need Windstorm or Pachi to counter this.
 
Brawler1624 said:
If you're playing this, and it becomes archetype, then Crystal Shard will become popular.
You'll need Windstorm or Pachi to counter this.
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crystal shard tips a decks matchup against garchomp like 5% more in a decks favor, if that, it's not even worth the space to tech against a good but mildly popular deck
 
Brawler1624 said:
If you're playing this, and it becomes archetype, then Crystal Shard will become popular.
You'll need Windstorm or Pachi to counter this.
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If they're running Crystal Shard, neither Windstorm or Pachirisu is going to help. Attach Shard, attack for insane damage/possible OHKO. Here are my reasons to play the following:

Windstorm should be for Cessation Crystal and Magmortar's Battle Frontier, or as someone said earlier, play Crystal Beach! You're not playing Special Energy and GG isn't going to disappear with Majestic Dawn's release.

Pachirisu should be for any type of set-up you might want. I'm opting for Pachi over Call Energy because Restore only pulls Basic Energy.

IMHO, yheard?
 
For the Crystal Shard problem, why do you think I have blastoise d in here? :/ I predicted the rise in garch decks, which would make crystal shard popular, so I threw him in here. And yes, I think I'll get crystal beach in here. I already have windstorm in here. And for pachi, I don't know why, but I just don't want more basic pokemon... pachi does sound like a good idea, and I might test it, though. As for using a togekiss, I'd run it without the basics with just togetic and togekiss.
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The eveelutions will never make it
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Tell that to my friend. His eevee deck rocks. :p
 
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i don't think garchomp needs blastoise to beat shard, or dusknoir to beat latilock, a simple and consistant list can beat those problems with a little skill,

too much tech is a big SLOW problem for garchomp this list has a lot of tech spaces that do almost nothing for the deck, restoring a blastoise is a horrible idea, no weakness at the cost of an attack, and gardevoir for restore is, getting a stage 3 out to waste an attack on setting up,or doing 60 damage to block powers at a point in the game where it will no longer make much difference

you need weavile for energy accel because this deck seems like it was built to set up for 4-5 turns and manually place energy while it goes through several pokemon to setup

good luck
 
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