wait how does wigglytuff slow it down and xatu doesnt??? xatu would make a really bad machmp tech, it will take 3 turns to take out machamp with only 1 nrg if you dont use bucks or pluspower it also not very good at sniping, 20+ 10 for every nrg on the target poke. machamp kills only 2. 3-3 weavile seems heavy and this deck is so flygon meat. 3 LvXs. 2 are bench sitters.
Late game, you don't WANT to be asleep. You want your opponent to be asleep for disruptive purposes. Thus, it's best to move the sleep condition from your Big Appetite onto your opponent's Pokemon. The reason for this is because, later in the game, you reasonably SHOULD have enough energies to attack with Exercise, and, if you powered up with Weavile and have it on bench, you have no reason to be hitting less than 120 damage a turn while awake. Wigglytuff would force you to attack during sleep, and can easily be misplayed (if you make the mistake of using it before Big Appetite, something people do often, then you just wasted your Big Appetite for the turn unless you can remove the special condition. Even then, it's kind of a waste.)
Essentially, it's not my opinion that Wigglytuff is worse for the deck's lategame than Xatu; it's my knowledge. I've been toying around with this deck since RR came out, so please don't try to prove you know more about it than I do.
Of course, I made the comment about Xatu being a decent anti-Machamp tech. That's only if you're not running Uxie, in all seriousness. (Machamp X kills itself against virtually any psychic type.). The sniping, though apparently insignificant, is a nice way to deal with benched Pokes (and HILARIOUS against grass types).
Also, you're very welcome, TheMonster. I like to help fellow Snorlax players. I do want to state something, though;
thank you everyone for the help and thank you rusco for playing babysitter. also because im low on money right now but i want to build this deck for a local tournament i was thinking of building it but in a different way. i will keep an eye out for the cards i need in the original post but i was gonna put the bronzong that does cycler along with xatu and starmie that gets water energies back from the discard. any comments on that idea?
You really shouldn't. The Snorlax Deck I placed on the Gym (known as Healing Flood) is pathetic, and is probably one of the better runs of a Water-Psychic Snorlax build out there.
DarkLax just works better. It has a better damage output, less space on the bench to worry about (you only
need three things on Bench at all times in DarkLax as opposed to five at all times with a Healing Flood deck), and overall better energy acceleration.
