Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

rk9 ex, how much it is now???

ryanvergel said:
"well made walrein ex deck"...
No wonder you're doing so well, you're playing [bad] decks.
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kid was in a different age group the concept of the deck is solid and the way he played it was very smart. Just because you dont like a card doesnt make it infeiror.
 
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ryanvergel said:
...retarted...
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Kind of ironic to misspell the word "retarded", isn't it?

In any event, using that word in reference to another member or their actions falls under bashing other members, which is against the rule.
Consider this a warning.
 
Maybe I shouldn't type at 8am anymore...after staying up all night.
Just because you like a card, doesn't make it superior. Walrein sucks, that's been established. If that guy likes using inferior cards, that's all good- but to think that using those kinds of results to establish a point won't have much merit.

My Flail-Master deck(totodile, spinda, slakoth) totally went 10-0 yesterday. Who cares if I beat Turbo Dunsparce, Torchic Star Superstar, and The Monkey Deck(aipom), to get those results.
 
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The only part of walreain that sucks is the weakness which will be remedied by rayquaza from HP adn you actually played it you might have seen why it was good. Id explain it but then you would just shoot down the stratagy anyways. If you want to debate about the quality of a card with me talk to me on AIM. There no reason to go name calling or making a kid feel bad about his deck that actaully beat a deck that if his set up wasnt what was (BTW was really good and he could get it consistantly) He would have gotten beaten very easily. 40 for 2 to any Pokemon is really a good attack and 150 HP is not as easy to beat down even with weakness. And mind also my deck was weak so the fact I was able to get to 1 prize means that RK9 when played right can even deal with beaing weak now a couple tweaks and It should be able to win.
 
I don't think those subtle pros outweigh the heavy cons.

Cons:
Has two biggest weaknesses in played format. Steel(SMP, LBS, MetaNite, Mercury, a lot of stuff) and fighting(RL, Queen, Cham) that's a weakness to just about every single deck out there. And it's an ex, no orb.
Needs 4 energy to do subpar damage. 80 for 4 isn't very good. I'd rather use a queen and hit 80 for 3 and not have ugly weakness. Only time you do sufficient damage is when you're hitting someone that probably already killed you. Cham probably PP'd then swings for 120(ohko), queen can pretty easily hit for 70(and ruins=15), TTAR can very easily OHKO you with ruins in play. So you'll be doing 120 when you were probably already knocked out. Wow >_>
It's an ex, 2 prizes for taking it down, which isn't easy.
Ugly retreat cost.

Pros:
Cool body
Snipe attack
Second attack can do 120, but only to pokemon that OHKO it with ease...

I don't see this pokemon doing well in a format where EVERY deck has a pokemon that can hit it for weakness and take down your ex.
Maybe in Holon Phantom, but guess what, we're playing the here and now, not the future.

(http://pokegym.net/forums/showthread.php?t=29666)
 
Ryan... remember Kingdra? 2-1-2 line gets rid of that weakness. Possibly with someting like a 2-1-2 Pidgeot could be a pretty sweet deck, but that's just from the top of my head... (and I could be wrong, I'm willing to admit that)

Back on topic, I wouldn't PERSONALLY spend that much money on one card. If you really want to play with it NOW you are going to be running around 30 smackers.
 
light_gengar said:
Ryan... remember Kingdra? 2-1-2 line gets rid of that weakness. Possibly with someting like a 2-1-2 Pidgeot could be a pretty sweet deck, but that's just from the top of my head... (and I could be wrong, I'm willing to admit that)

Back on topic, I wouldn't PERSONALLY spend that much money on one card. If you really want to play with it NOW you are going to be running around 30 smackers.
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the kid ran it 2-1-2 kingdra and then magcargo and HL Walrein smooth over then crush draw. stall with freezing breath early
 
So, he wanted to have:
walrein ex
walrein hl
magcargo
kingdra

Three stage 2s and a stage 1. Why not just use rocklock if you want 3 stage 2s up and running. Not to mention with crush draw, you still aren't getting search power, so you'd want another magcargo up anyways =\
 
hmmm... wanna play smart? ever heard of rock-lock with pidgeot?

plus, it's still a new card. give it some time... there could be some good combos.
 
light_gengar said:
hmmm... wanna play smart? ever heard of rock-lock with pidgeot?

plus, it's still a new card. give it some time... there could be some good combos.
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ryanvergel said:
So, he wanted to have:
walrein ex
walrein hl
magcargo
kingdra

Three stage 2s and a stage 1. Why not just use rocklock if you want 3 stage 2s up and running. Not to mention with crush draw, you still aren't getting search power, so you'd want another magcargo up anyways =\
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Having fun?
 
his bench was 2 magcargo one crush draw and one kingdra then he had a speed deoxys tech mostly for dustox since the biggest safeguard used here is ninetaless the HL walrein takes care of that. Now if can get back on topic which version of K9 did you like if any?? what real reason can it not work other than getting beat by ludi which hopefully stump will help with
 
It's not just ludi, there's a little deck called LBS. And by little, I mean huge.
Not to mention it has to 2hko a lot of pokemon, like queendom, rocklock pokemon, etc.

It worked in Japan, yes. Why? because they had SMP all over, we don't. Not even close to the amount they did. So, to expect it to do well, when it did well over there because of SMP, is rather foolish.

Is it a cool card? Yeah, it can be pretty nice. But it's so solidly overrated.
I see offers like latios*, lugia ex, and blissey ex for TWO arcanine, which is pretty absurd. The card is way overpriced and overrated.

best version of arcanine? probably straight with lunasol.
 
Prime said:
..and once people figure out that it's totally overated, I suspect that price will go down about $10.
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I agree with you

ryanvergel said:
It's not just ludi, there's a little deck called LBS. And by little, I mean huge.
Not to mention it has to 2hko a lot of pokemon, like queendom, rocklock pokemon, etc.

It worked in Japan, yes. Why? because they had SMP all over, we don't. Not even close to the amount they did. So, to expect it to do well, when it did well over there because of SMP, is rather foolish.

Is it a cool card? Yeah, it can be pretty nice. But it's so solidly overrated.
I see offers like latios*, lugia ex, and blissey ex for TWO arcanine, which is pretty absurd. The card is way overpriced and overrated.

best version of arcanine? probably straight with lunasol.
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Whats LBS stand for? Seems Like a good deck its gonna be popular
 
It's really popular at the moment. Doesn't it just surprise you how one new card can make a semi-mediocre old pokemon like the new big thing?
 
LBS is also called binder MSF 45....

I went crazy collecting those Arcanines... but i'm starting to realize they aren't too great... it's so funny how so many people want them..I can get them taken off my hands way too easily! also when up against walrein which many people at my league are playing it gets pwnd no problem!
 
Prime said:
It's really popular at the moment. Doesn't it just surprise you how one new card can make a semi-mediocre old pokemon like the new big thing?
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What semi-mediocre new pokemon?
 
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