ToxiTank RR

[Prime]

THE ENGINE
2 Uxie
1 Azelf
1 Claydol
1 Baltoy
1 Sableye

THE PROTECTION
2 Unown G

THE MASTERMIND
2 Lucario GL

THE EXECUTORS
2 Toxicroak G
1 Toxicroak G (promo)
2 Weavile G

THE HELPERS
2 Bronzong G
1 Skuntank G
3 Crobat G

TOTAL 21 POKEMON (20 Basics, 1 Stage 1)
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4 SP Energy
4 Call Energy
1 Basic Dark
1 Basic Psychic
1 Basic Metal
1 Basic Fighting

TOTAL 12 ENERGY
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4 Roseanne
4 Cyrus
2 Cynthia
2 Bebe
4 Energy Gain
1 Luxury Ball
4 Poke Turn
2 Snowpoint Temple
2 Warp Point
2 Night Maintenance

TOTAL 27 TRAINERS

Never gonna mulligan with this deck!

The strategy is much like the old ToxiTank deck, but the new Lucario GL helps improve the deck tremendously, by curving bad matchups. In the past, Machamp would OHKO a Toxicroak G, and Toxicroak could only do 40+poison+20=70 back. But with Lucario, that 60 becomes 120, and the poison along with it, allows for a complete OHKO of Machamp.

Against Gengar, you utilize Weavile. Weavile can do 50 dmg with it's second attack if you have 4 SP Pokemon on your bench. You want to only have 4 on the bench so you don't KO Gengar with the attack and active the Poke-Power. Lucario allows Weavile to do 100+poison for the safe KO.

Against Tyranitar, you actually have 2 routes you can choose from. You can attack with one of your precious Lucarios, doing 30+10 more for each energy attached to Tyranitar (most likely a lot) times 2, or you can follow up a KO'd Pokemon with the Promo Toxicroak G that can do 20+40 more which will be 120 after Lucario GL's effect, plus poison and a crobat drop for the magical 140 damage.

I didn't put the thought into Palkia/Dialga decks because it would stretch the deck too thin to try to hit the weakness on all the popular decks. I focused on the decks that I could abuse Lucario the most against, and I think I succeeded.

The 1-1 Claydol is just safe. If I run into Power Sprays, which I left out, Uxie will be too inconsistent to be useful.

I left out Power Sprays because I felt they were nifty, but just a overall waste of space. If my opponent is winning the game significantly, a single power spray won't change that. I'd rather focus on KOing quickly and winning quickly then focus on disruption of poke-powers and a lock.

4 SP Energy help the deck a ton. Bronzong can move it around the board and help power everything. Call Energy is a must in every deck I play now. Consistency is important, especially if you flip over your starters and your facing a Machop or Gastly.

Hope you like the idea.

 

[SuicidalPikachu]

i don't know, when RR comes out, there's going to be more SP decks and this'll be worthless against 50% of the format.

however, i don't like sableye, and you're going to need something to beat Mewtwo X with other than poison. 1 Lucario GL should be plenty, with those two slots a 1-1 Dialga G line should be fine.

you don't have enough stadiums to be able to utilize Skuntank's power, you aren't running any Power Spray, OR the new Invention coming out that's a non-supporter Bebe's for SP pokemon.

you have multiple stadiums you can choose from, Galactic HQ, 2 more Snowpoint, etc. you'll need to choose those.

 

[Prime]

I TOTALLY forgot that Skuntank needed a stadium to poison.

You are right in assuming that there will be more SP decks. But I feel that the big decks won't change much. Machamp will still destroy SP decks in my opinion. Gengar will have more SPs with Powers to munch on. Tyranitar...well, that was just a deck I threw into the mix.

I do think Lucario can be a great metagame counter tool.

Thanks for the help!

 

[starcharge]

This is a very interesting deck! And actually, it's not half bad. The one problem is it revolves around Lucario GL, So you need to get them into play around T3. You may need more stadium if your relying on that poison from Skuntank G. Some Galactic's HQ would be nice. Try a few matches. Play around with it. Also, for the deck to reach full bloom, we will need to se the meta game curve with RR (I might even find myself making a SP deck :biggrin. Don't worry. This is a great deck. PM me with your results once you try it out in a premier tourny!

 

[TODDakaESTEBAN]

hey im on my phone so not sure if i read correctly but you might have said machamp ohkos toxicroak and that it does 70 in return, but machamp is an easy win for this deck, they need the lvl x and that puts them in ohko range,

good deck i like toxicroak i think if it were me it woul look a lot different

 

[FunnyBear]

Actually Toxicroak G does 60+30+10 = 100 for Machamp, which is why I run Lake Boundry, but the new Lucario GL is a terrific idea for SP decks, which are mostly x2 weakness anyway.