Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Top Decks at Regionals

The results this far has shown an incredible variation among the winning decks. It may be that Ludicargo, Zapdos and Blaze are mentioned more often, but the cause of that could easily be that these decks are favored by the better players.
 
Basically, people are going to continue to play Zapdos because it will win for them. It's not good enough to win a tournament, but it's good enough to give you a winning record. I encourage this practice of playing Zapdos, because that's one deck I don't mind facing at all. In fact, I enjoy facing it.

~ RaNd0m
 
TrueGamerX said:
So far in this day and age of the metagame, Zapdos has become too weak to even be consistent enough to win a tournament. Sure it did good at Cities, but now its at the bottom of Tier 2. To me, when playing a straight Zapdos deck, your taking a big risk. Sure it has speed and that possible Turn 2 advantage, but it lacks heavily in the consistent department. So everyone please, no more hype with Zapdos, lets just move on.
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no more hype about zappy??? i wont even say sorry HYPE HYPE HYPE!!! I'll be glad to play you with mine and we'll see who has hype since im just a newb and ur so good :biggrin:
 
ryanvergel said:
You're saying rocklock doesn't rely on pokemon powers/bodies?

No pidgeot
No TTar
no Amphy

it ends up just being a bulky 3 stage 2 deck with mediocre damage capability. Without the synergy between the pokemon, the purpose fo them becomes obsolete. Also, by having to run 4 anti-gyms, a rocklock is wasting 2-3 more slots(since most played 1-2 gyms before) and having to probably play scott means even more consistency.

Basically, rocklock becomes alot more inconsistent, and having to search alot for anti-gyms means even less consistency and draw, it becomes this slow, bulky deck. I'm not saying you're unskilled, you got to worlds, obviously you were good. I just don't think rocklock is NEARLY as powerful as it was before. Milotic/BF both hurt it alot, and you probably just got lucky only facing 4 BF.

My ghost deck runs four for two reasons: 1. it's weak to dark, and if the opponent is uding dark, i will be at a disadvantage, i can at least level this out with BFs
2. no other gyms help my deck, since all of the attackers are EX, so the only gyms that I could run to help me would be something to hurt the opponent

and the remark about wobby: haunter/jirachi OWNS it. 2 attacks from either, and it's dead. I play alot of switches, and if I see wobbys, it isn't hard to counter. Gengar ex>regice too, wobby may hurt, but there are quite a few pokemon that hurt it alot. Jirachi+coin flip=60hp wobby who's confused, 40hp/confused with haunter and a good flip..

I spent all my time before emerald preparing my rocklock/dragtrode, tweaking it and such, only to have everything get owned by BF. I just think more people should play it... too many people assume everyone else will be playing it so they dont think they need to. I personally don't like BF, at least it's time of release... having to trade all my cards for a completely new deck, and needing to playtest/create an enitely new deck for regionals which was only like a month after emerald... it's lame

Not saying you're a bad player, ice, the contrary, much respect for winning with my favorite deck, but I still think rocklock is dead in most circumstances. Running into only 6 gyms that own you is lucky, especially since i/others expected BF to be way more popular than it obviously is.

Don't even know if I'll be playing ghost deck at regionals, hard to know what to play. The whole premise of the deck was to hurt decks like bex/vex/gex/a few others, and those decks aren't all over regionals i've come to notice, so the deck's metagame is bad i think.
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I dont really have time to explain all the things you mentioned that are horribly wrong. I could but I dont really want to give up my strategies. Here's a clue, your thinking about the deck all wrong. Emerald changed the metagame, you have to change the way you play your deck, rocklock or not. And to elaborate more on how many battle frontiers I faced, there were quite a few. I belive every single deck in the finals (except for the one blaze/pidgeot deck) that I faced played mutliple battle frontier against me, not to mention the few smart players in the swiss rounds. Did it slow me down, yes, did they stop me...no. Its one of your cards that I can get rid of itin a turn for one of my cards. And Random, man I wish I could have owned your *blurp* with that sand damage tyranitar. Oh yeah went to see Revenge of the Sith, awesome movie :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: worthy of Ice's highly sought after seven thumbs up.
 
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Ludicargo
Lanturn Variants

Those are the two decks to beat. There are a lot of other less popular decks like Green Heal, Muk ex, and plenty of decks that rely on multiple countergyms, like Blaziken, Rock-Lock and Dragtrode, all still placing in the Top 2 in a few of the five regionals we've seen so far. And, OF COURSE, there are always completely RANDOM Zaptrode and Shedinja decks from the LOVELY place called SoCali. -_-

Right now, though, it's Ludi and Lanturn to beat.
 
RaNd0m said:
Basically, people are going to continue to play Zapdos because it will win for them. It's not good enough to win a tournament, but it's good enough to give you a winning record. I encourage this practice of playing Zapdos, because that's one deck I don't mind facing at all. In fact, I enjoy facing it.

~ RaNd0m
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Zappy wasent played as much as now before but once i made 2nd twice with zappy i hear zappy popping up all over and zappy selling for up to $40 so i wonder if i inspired players to bring zappy up to the plate and play it??

Maybe not but i just gotta wonder.
 
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Zappy is just a lucksack piece of garbage. Honestly, I have to say it is the most overrated deck in the HISTORY OF THE GAME. As for who invented it, Pablo and I have been playing it since like when FRLG came out, please, but WHO CARES?! It got lucky at Socal Regionals, if you were there, you would undestand how it won. Anyways, bye people.
 
ppl, its terrible. If you build something up and sac a bunch of basics, bring what u were building up then destroy zappy. geeze
 
Fast zappy wins because its fast. Simple as that, it can get out a good amount of damage quickly and if your opponent cannot build up something to counter it in time well, they're out of luck. The thing about zappy is that it is consistently fast, though people play lanturn because that can sometimes be just as fast.
 
DPG Unit>Zappy

I dont see how people still think Zappy is good, it loses to 90% of the metagame, and anything that GETS setup is an auto loss.

The deck is awful, get over it.

tA
 
i played a total rogue deck and went 9-0 and im pretty sure that it will do good in other regionals :biggrin: :biggrin:
 
FireFighter095ReBorn said:
Zappy wasent played as much as now before but once i made 2nd twice with zappy i hear zappy popping up all over and zappy selling for up to $40 so i wonder if i inspired players to bring zappy up to the plate and play it??

Maybe not but i just gotta wonder.
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LOL people hgave actually WON stuff with Zapdos, 2nd places aren't good enough and Zapdos has been popular since I created it, when FRLG came out.
 
I created Pokemon.

True story.

(Moral of the story: You can't "create" a deck when it's a one-card strategy)
 
I invented Martin Moreno.

God it kills me inside reading all of these regionals reports. If I lived in any other part of the country, I'd be swimming in more money than Scrooge McDuck =\
 
No one has talked about SitH pwning all other decks with it's insane ability to counter about anything.
The fact of Rock-Lock being almost defeated ( still a very strong deck if played by strong players)
gives it more of a Shot. Limiting it's bad match ups to mainly Wailren.
It is a red face paint deck but I think it stands a chance.

Truthfully Zapy- sucks I have played with it and even lost to my self . Based on how long it took to
get set up. It can winn many games. But what it you got to the finalls, and start with a zapdos and no energy, sucky trainers that can't grab energy, and other asorted trash.

Blaze- I beleve will fair strongest. It is very consistant. I had never played with it before states, for fear of bad luck as normal with me in big tournys. But I T8ed and now love it.
 
supertyranitar said:
I have to say, Revenge of the Sith(Draggy Sith) is a good deck. Its going places thats for sure.
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haha Mike. Just because I had some success with it doesn't mean it is going places.
 
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