T2 Banette

[vanderbilt_grad]

Why 3 Night Maintenance? you'll have maxium of 3 Shuppets on your discard pile, the you'll use 1 Night Maintenance, get them out play Mentor and get rhem back on Bench. Your opponent have taken 3 Prizes and you have 4 Banettes to hit.

Because you need to get energy back too not just Shuppets. Also y ou need to hit the NM's reliably to keep the Shuppet / Banette chain flowing. With three your odds of having one when you need it are better. With just 2 you can be hosed if 1 is prized.

 

[~`Flygon`~]

If you play Banettech,NRG drops dont matter as much cause your playing DREs and a random Scramble

 

[Let Fire Fall]

Why 3 Night Maintenance? you'll have maxium of 3 Shuppets on your discard pile, the you'll use 1 Night Maintenance, get them out play Mentor and get rhem back on Bench. Your opponent have taken 3 Prizes and you have 4 Banettes to hit. You can take out one of them. So:
Out:
1x Night Maintenace
In:
1x PP/CB

3 is needed

 

[Skarmbliss]

I just tested this matchup against tsunamigatr and it seems that if Feraligatr is out. Banette is doomed but if Banette manages to quickly destroy the basics before Gatr is out. Then Banette has a chance. I would say this matchup would be 50-50 for right now. But i will do a lil more playtesting on the Banette deck.

Its basically the same type of deck as Bandoom last year. dealing heavy damage quickly but has a hard time against stage 2 pokemon.