Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What is the best deck in the format??

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With so many good decks out their right now, its hard to choose which one i want to build, you see i am just getting back into tournament play, I've played some games with the local tournament organizer, you know to get back into the swing of things. I want to be ready to compete in the FL state championship in march, and hopefully do well. So to those that have played the tournaments, seen the decks, played the decks, have won the tournaments. Tell me what in your opinion is the Best deck in the format and why?
 
yeah I've done that i've narrow my interest to a few, Luxchomp sp, gengar, flychamp, gyrados,blazeray sp. You see i can broaden my specrum to a national scale, asking people on pokegym. I'm more of the speed set kinda of person, so the sp pokemon appeal to me.
 
what i mean is to go with wut feels good like i tried a psichic deck didnt work out so well i tried a fire deck worked out great so just follow wut u like
 
Well if you want sp theres lady Gaga, Blazeray... and so many others. A really good set up would be Speedrill! Quick attacker and quick setup! It does a fair amount of damage as well!
 
In before DarthPika makes some attempt at a witty Palkia Lock joke.

Seriously though, there was no "best deck" pre-HGSS, and we havn't had any time to see if HGSS is going to push something over the top. I have a bad feeling about GG and Flygon/Gardevoir now that DCE hit the format.
 
If this thread had been posted before Cities, I would have made a very long post about how Gardevoir/Gallade/Weavile was BDIF. But with the arrival of DCE, it is NOT BDIF.

Palkia Lock is not the BDIF, especially since Gardevoir is going to be played. Palkia Lock gets into trouble while under a power lock (I know from experience with GGW) and Gardevoir is going to be much faster and is going to be able to shut a power lock down.

Shuppet is not BDIF, as Spiritomb is heavily played and gives Shuppet problems. Let's not forget what happens to Shuppet when a Dialga G uses Deafen.

Speedrill will have trouble under a Gardevoir power lock. A Spiritomb start against Speedrill will also give it problems.

Gengar is really, really, really, really evil, but most decks will just eventually play around it, so it isn't BDIF.

So overall, I say that there is no one deck that is BDIF. What will win tournaments is a deck that is good and played by a player with a lot of skill.
 
Yeah this question is much too early into the hgss format to be asked/debated in an honest fashion. Wait til states roll around, it'll be interesting to see if any one deck has the prevalence similar to that of SP this past cities.
 
you happen to live in the most competitive state/area in the world! congratulations.

this means two things:
1. dont get discouraged when you get beaten over and over, consistently, for years
2. you likely wont find any information for which to metagame or learn from, because FL players are extremely clever and secretive.

so, basically, just grab a consistent deck and hope for the best.
 
MY view on the format in the UK.

Top tier

Feraligatr ??
Donphan/Manectric for sure
Flygon/Machamp
Jumpluff/Cherrim/Shaymin for sure
Gengar/Nidoqueen
Gadget Luxray
Shuppet/Mr Mime
Gyarados
Luxray GL with Blaziken
Luxray GL with Beedrill
Charizard
Salamence LVX
Dark Flygon


Random Mid and low Tier

Snorlax LVX
Dusknoir
Toxitank
Arceus
AMU
Palkia/Dialga
SP Toolbox
Torterrific
Gardevoir decks
 
Nekizalb said:
If this thread had been posted before Cities, I would have made a very long post about how Gardevoir/Gallade/Weavile was BDIF. But with the arrival of DCE, it is NOT BDIF.

Palkia Lock is not the BDIF, especially since Gardevoir is going to be played. Palkia Lock gets into trouble while under a power lock (I know from experience with GGW) and Gardevoir is going to be much faster and is going to be able to shut a power lock down.

Shuppet is not BDIF, as Spiritomb is heavily played and gives Shuppet problems. Let's not forget what happens to Shuppet when a Dialga G uses Deafen.

Speedrill will have trouble under a Gardevoir power lock. A Spiritomb start against Speedrill will also give it problems.

Gengar is really, really, really, really evil, but most decks will just eventually play around it, so it isn't BDIF.

So overall, I say that there is no one deck that is BDIF. What will win tournaments is a deck that is good and played by a player with a lot of skill.
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You forgot SP. Before DCE, LuxChomp and Dialga Garchomp both had a pretty good following that believed they were BDIF. And some believe that LuxChomp only got better with DCE.
 
Gunwing said:
MY view on the format in the UK.

Top tier

Feraligatr ??
Donphan/Manectric for sure
Flygon/Machamp
Jumpluff/Cherrim/Shaymin for sure
Gengar/Nidoqueen
Gadget Luxray
Shuppet/Mr Mime
Gyarados
Luxray GL with Blaziken
Luxray GL with Beedrill
Charizard
Salamence LVX
Dark Flygon
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I predict that only one of those decks will be top tier in the UK


Random Mid and low Tier

Snorlax LVX
Dusknoir
Toxitank
Arceus
AMU
Palkia/Dialga
SP Toolbox
Torterrific
Gardevoir decks
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and one of these will be too.
 
SebastianS said:
Gardy/Gallde/DCE

its pretty obvious
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Naw GG still has some speed issues of not getting rushed by sp and getting there set up claydols and telepasses power sprayed. I still wanna see a gg list thats faster than FGD seeing as you still wont get psychic locks going til like T3 at the fastest (call is still too good for that deck to give up) where upper energies wouldve done the same thing at this point.

lol i'm gonna go against my own advice. BDIF in the format will be SP with Garchomp C and/or some kind of Flygon variant.
 
Too many different kind of decks. There is no BDIF.
Even if there was one BDIF, there's so many different variations of that one "BDIF".
Unless everyone's net decking with the exact same 60 card list, it's too unpredictable.
 
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