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The effect on US nationals from Canadian Nationals?

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Dunno about the effect on US Nats, but Canadian Nats has definitely had an effect on the Pokegym trading forum . . .

H: Grandmother, Emboar#20 W: YANMEGA
 
IMHO: It would be unwise to just dismiss this information and assume that the Canadian play is not going to have an effect on us. It would also be unwise to forget what is still solid as well.

Yanmega/Judge is definitely a fantastic deck and it proved itself in the PREVIOUS format, so why wouldn't it be a good deck now? Its early game disruption is solid and tapers really well into late game, plus it counters one of the strongest current decks. This is not to say Magneboar should be ignored as I think it is still an incredibly powerful deck, but I think we now have a somewhat more diversified meta.

That being said, you'd be a fool to dismiss this information.
 
Honestly I think the winner got really lucky to miss all those donphans. Also his ranking was mid 1600's to begin with.
 
ATTENTION CANADIANS!!!

Do not take offense to the statement below.... Disclaimer....

Canada has NEVER, EVER influenced our metagame. Not even once..... Canada is, after all, the place where Exploud/Golem won Nationals.

I am not a rocket scientist, however it seems like, if people dont see an idea here on the gym, it isnt out there. What a terrible mistake.

HELLO PEOPLE, Yanmega is good!!! For those of you who havent noticed. I am here to make sure that all of you know this before nationals.

Seriously, are you kidding me?

As I said before, people who cant think for themselves and want to follow the leader, will give up on what they have been testing, and they will choose something that they have seen played successfully in Canada. Just because it worked for them, doesnt mean it will work for you!

That is the only impact Canada will have on our metagame.

close/.>TRUTH

Jimmy
 
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the guy who played ZPS at canadian national, is a yugioh palyer which barely plays pokemon. He mainly played agianst kingdra and yanmega dekcs the whole time. But i still congratulate him on his win at nationals.
 
cabd said:
And once again Baby Mario says it best. People will deny the painfully obvious in favor of theorymon. Those that do not at least consider the results of Canadian Nats are doomed to fail.
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Taking the results of a faraway tournament as proof that one deck is better than another is theorymon, as well. Our field will not perfectly echo their field; our top cut will not reflect their top cut.

Considering how our metagame may be impacted by Canadian Nats is wise. But relying on your own testing when deciding which matchups are favorable for which decks is necessary.
 
cardfreak said:
the guy who played ZPS at canadian national, is a yugioh palyer which barely plays pokemon. He mainly played agianst kingdra and yanmega dekcs the whole time. But i still congratulate him on his win at nationals.
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Thats sad :( 17171717
 
And no one from the gym is canadian? I know everyone belittles their metagame but i wish to see a report of the tournament, guess youtube will do.
 
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I'm still not convinced in Zekrom. Yanmega was all over the tournament.
As far as U.S. nationals go. I wouldn't change your deck all of a sudden last minute. However, you can expect to see more Yanmega at nationals I'm sure.
 
PkB_ said:
Honestly I think the winner got really lucky to miss all those donphans. Also his ranking was mid 1600's to begin with.
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Seriously? He played Donphan in T4....

And, from everything I've seen, he didn't get lucky and "miss all those donphans," there wasn't a lot of Donphans in the first place. Worst case scenario, he made a good meta call. Best case scenario, the deck REALLY is that good...
 
cardfreak said:
the guy who played ZPS at canadian national, is a yugioh palyer which barely plays pokemon. He mainly played agianst kingdra and yanmega dekcs the whole time. But i still congratulate him on his win at nationals.
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What does that have to do with anything?

Imagine that, a deck wins a national tournament, does well and people still doubt its legitimacy. I never would have thought.

It's great for him that he won the event, and none the less with a deck that a large majority of people have claimed as inconsistent and just all around bad. it's really great to see a large diversity of decks making the top 16 and 8 spots, but I guess there are some that would rather just see magneboar printed 8 times in a bracket.
 
MGS-58 said:
Personally this is just my opinion, but I think the impact Canada nationals has on the US is far too hard to pinpoint. On one hand you'll have players jumping the bandwagon and playing decks that topped canada nats while on the other hand some players will just stick to what they have currently. However, the big problem with just playing the decks that topped canada nats is that you have only a week to prepare them. I am 100% positive that the players who played creative decks at canadian nats have worked on perfecting them for weeks in advance. If u were working on a magneboar list all this time and just switch to kingdra yanmega or w/e, you would more than likely do worse with it having so little time to prepare.
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Usually I would agree with you that Switching deck ideas at the last minute is a bad idea, but it not like anyone can use the deck the played in State or Regionals, heck this year you can not even use the deck you used last month in Battle Roads. No one has any real world experiance with HGSS on decks expcet Canada right now so switching to what worked and advoiding what did not work up there may not be such a bad play this year.
 
chrataxe said:
Seriously? He played Donphan in T4....

And, from everything I've seen, he didn't get lucky and "miss all those donphans," there wasn't a lot of Donphans in the first place. Worst case scenario, he made a good meta call. Best case scenario, the deck REALLY is that good...
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I think you have your best and worst scenarios mixed up.
 
cardfreak said:
the guy who played ZPS at canadian national, is a yugioh palyer which barely plays pokemon. He mainly played agianst kingdra and yanmega dekcs the whole time. But i still congratulate him on his win at nationals.
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I think this can only mean that Yu-Gi-Oh is much more skill-intensified game if a player that plays mainly Yu-Gi-Oh can just come to Pokémon tournament and win National Championships. Maybe I should change to Yu-Gi-Oh as well, because I'm 100% sure that the win of this player had nothing to do with all over lighting weaknesses, flips or donks.
 
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