Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What do you expect to see at states and why?

I doubt Rampardos will see much play outside of Juniors/Seniors. Too donk-based, and you can't Roseanne's out the basic. Fossil decks have always had a few strikes against them. Also, Grass decks (and not just Torterra and Scizor/Cherrim, mind you) will see a lot of play, which is strkie two against Rampy.

Amphytric may steal some of Kingdra's fire because of the Weakness factor. Dialga Lv. X would be a good investment.

The aforementioned Dialga G Lv. X may hurt T-tar a bit, but there are ways around it. I'm teching Metagross and Rotom MD in my deck for that reason.

Broken-Space Blow Giratina and Gardy PT may well give GG decks a shot in the arm. Giratina can send the Pokemon Gallade Sonic Blades away to the Lost Zone with its attack, and Gardy PT's Poke-Power works well with Gardy Lv. X's Power.

If anything, I think it's any deck's game at this moment. Every deck in the current format seem to have at least one deck that checks it. I guess this is what happens when Weakness is no longer always x2....

- Croatian_Nidoking
 
infinity said:
I think Kingdra or Galactics is the way to go.

Infinity
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I don't know about you but I am expecting a lot of grass variants as well, so while I think Kingdra is good, you really don't want to run into one of them. Not saying it is a bad choice, but if people start playing grass it makes it a bit harder for Kingdra to win.

Drew
 
TheDarkTwins said:
I don't know about you but I am expecting a lot of grass variants as well, so while I think Kingdra is good, you really don't want to run into one of them. Not saying it is a bad choice, but if people start playing grass it makes it a bit harder for Kingdra to win.

Drew
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How exactly CAN kingdra beat A good Shaymin Leafeon deck? If people do start playing alot of Leaftile w/ Shaymin and Torterrific Kingdra is gonna lose its reputation.
 
meganium45 said:
Regigigas. Giggles will be around until people realize that it has died. Too slow, no longer a surprise. RIP my good friend.

Vince
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If it was youre friend then you would have relized that it didnt die. So it has one bad matchup everydeck does but how many people do you know that will be playing rampardos? That number should be around the same as everyone playing other decks. there will not be a overwelming amount of ramphardos simply because there are so many better options than a T2 deck.
 
It's not just Rampardos. Just about any deck running enough G pokemon and Power Spray can disrupt it quite a bit. They can kill anything from a Mesprit/Uxie drop, to a Palkia swap, to a critical Sacrifice.
 
vanderbilt_grad said:
It's not just Rampardos. Just about any deck running enough G pokemon and Power Spray can disrupt it quite a bit. They can kill anything from a Mesprit/Uxie drop, to a Palkia swap, to a critical Sacrifice.
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G decks usually only have 1 power spray in thier hand at a time becuase they cyrus'ed last turn. And in order to keep my powers locked they usually have to chain thier cyrus and then lose the ability so use draw and search cards. The heavyiest hitting pokemon G decks have at thier disposial is toxicroak. but since all good regigigas players use statiums its ify wether it'll hit big or not. Plus toxicroak can will die in one turn because of giga blaster while it takes 2 shots of yours. But if sacrifice is blocked all i have to do is switch/retreat/warp point/warp energy out of thier and send up dialga G and toxicrak is usless.
 
That's a bold assumption to make. More than once I've had 2 or even 3 in hand. Additionally I did not say "A deck with a G attacker" ... I said a deck that runs enough G Pokemon. That could be 3 Crobat Gs using a different main attacker.
 
TheDarkTwins said:
... I don't expect grass to be big as there are just too many things that can beat it, plus the fact that grass decks are slow and can have issues setting up. I like the new shaymin, but I am not sure how good it really is in the current format. I still there are way too many decks that give it issues.

Drew
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TheDarkTwins said:
I don't know about you but I am expecting a lot of grass variants as well, so while I think Kingdra is good, you really don't want to run into one of them. Not saying it is a bad choice, but if people start playing grass it makes it a bit harder for Kingdra to win.

Drew
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Wwwwwwhhhhhaaaatttt?

You've confused me.
 
Prime said:
Wwwwwwhhhhhaaaatttt?

You've confused me.
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Grass decks are slow, but because they are Resistant they don't get OHKO and get the ability to set up and that gives Kingdra so many issues it isn't funny. I don't think that Grass variants are good, but I expect that they will see play.

In other things, the problem is there are so many deck choices. My deck has 3 decks it has issues with, however just because it has 3 decks that it has issues that might be played doesn't mean I will run into any of them. It is all about match-ups at states. Granted if there are less of the decks you have issues with the better your going to do. Last year at States I played Banette. I went 7-1 losing only to the one deck I had issues with, Magmortar. There was only 1 Magmortar I believe in the whole age group. I took my chances happened to face a deck I didn't want to face but still manage to overcome it and win because I faced almost every deck I had a decent matchup against. If you can manage to not face your bad match ups more than twice you should be okay, if you do, you might be in some trouble. That is the best advice I can give. Don't be scared of what you "might" face, but play a deck you think you will do well with if you don't face more than 2 of bad match ups and if you think those "bad match ups" will popular your deck choice is most likely a bad choice.

Drew
 
Here are my honest opinions on deck ideas that will rise up in states:

For the inexperienced or player who wants to throw around a good deck

Blaistoise/catty. This is an easy build up deck with not much complication and win or lose will have a good match up with over 50% of the field.

For the casual player who wants to play tough but not jump to top decks:
Speed infernape. Again easy to build but its harder so you can wither have a T1 chance or dominate early

For the top players there are a few:

Crobat/Skuntank combo" This has been a good opposition in tourney play and i fell all whom play it have problems. It is yes an auto loss to machamp unless the champ gets up quicker which is hard with how fast it moves.

Machamp: Its said to be an autoloss to the tank/bat but its also super fast so depending on what it plays it can T1 it or hit pretty hard and move at a speed that is hard to conquer.

Gengar/Noir. Alot of people look past this deck now that newer decks are moving faster and hot harder but its still gonna be in states and still probabily gonna pose a risk for players. I fell coming up its gonna be out there but not in big #'s

Leafeon/Shaymin: Its funny this deck was mentioned because here i only heard few players running it. I looked it over and did like the way it moved so i fell coming in states iots gonna be a factor. As for a big factor i cant say right now.

The deck some like/some don't:
Rampeados: I like this deck alot due to its quick movement and overall hard hits. I can see where drew brings the point of not enough bang for the buck but with the field as wide as it is now i fell it can amke some impact in the states this year. Its gonan be one of those: "Lets see what happens" decks.

These are my opinions on it. Good luck to all who play in states this year and hope to see u on the Northeast in the next 2 weeks (Jersey and Mass)
 
FireFighter095ReBorn said:
Here are my honest opinions on deck ideas that will rise up in states:

For the inexperienced or player who wants to throw around a good deck

Blaistoise/catty. This is an easy build up deck with not much complication and win or lose will have a good match up with over 50% of the field.

For the casual player who wants to play tough but not jump to top decks:
Speed infernape. Again easy to build but its harder so you can wither have a T1 chance or dominate early

For the top players there are a few:

Crobat/Skuntank combo" This has been a good opposition in tourney play and i fell all whom play it have problems. It is yes an auto loss to machamp unless the champ gets up quicker which is hard with how fast it moves.

Machamp: Its said to be an autoloss to the tank/bat but its also super fast so depending on what it plays it can T1 it or hit pretty hard and move at a speed that is hard to conquer.

Gengar/Noir. Alot of people look past this deck now that newer decks are moving faster and hot harder but its still gonna be in states and still probabily gonna pose a risk for players. I fell coming up its gonna be out there but not in big #'s

Leafeon/Shaymin: Its funny this deck was mentioned because here i only heard few players running it. I looked it over and did like the way it moved so i fell coming in states iots gonna be a factor. As for a big factor i cant say right now.

The deck some like/some don't:
Rampeados: I like this deck alot due to its quick movement and overall hard hits. I can see where drew brings the point of not enough bang for the buck but with the field as wide as it is now i fell it can amke some impact in the states this year. Its gonan be one of those: "Lets see what happens" decks.

These are my opinions on it. Good luck to all who play in states this year and hope to see u on the Northeast in the next 2 weeks (Jersey and Mass)
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Joe, your a little bias towards Machamp IMO. You have to remember that Skunktank/Crobat is going to play Toxicroak, which can give Machamp fits. You get hit by 90 + 10 from poison. You can't take it out, you also have to flip 3 heads just to KO it, if you only flip two, expect it to be Poke Turned, and then played back to the active spot. I just don't see that matchup being anywhere close to what you think it is. Have you tried the matchup? I have, Machamp has all sorts of issues against it. Plus our area (NJ) is totally and completely overrun by Kingdra and guess what, Kingdra usually beats Champ. I think that Champ which may have been close to Tier 1, is now closer to a Tier 3/Rogue Deck, as while it is good and will see play, it just can't keep up with the insane about of Psychic Pokemon that are going to see play. I mean I actually expect Dusknoir and that could be an issue as Machamp is going to have issues as well, I am not saying that Machamp is going to make anyone do bad, but your going to have to get lucky and miss your bad matchups to do anything with it.

Drew
 
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