Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What will win Regionals

I think Rogues will show up, some doing better than others. With such a concentrated list of Top Decks what better time to play rogue?
 
I don't think the top decks are all that concentrated. It's not like when everyone was playing GG.

Besides, it's not so much the number of different top decks, it's the fact that they all have very different strategies and types of Pokemon. This makes it incredibly hard to build a good rogue (note - a good rogue is one that is built to counter the metagame, not just a bunch of Pokemon that no-one plays much). What does well against Luxchomp might do very badly against Jumpluff. What kills Jumpluff might die easily to Gyarados etc.
 
baby mario said:
This makes it incredibly hard to build a good rogue (note - a good rogue is one that is built to counter the metagame, not just a bunch of Pokemon that no-one plays much).
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I agree with this whole heartedly, but if one can be created to beat not just all top teir decks, but other "rogue" decks too, is it still considered a rogue deck? Is it still "rogue" if 98% of people don't play it but it can beat all top teirs and most others?
 
SUPER CHAR said:
I agree with this whole heartedly, but if one can be created to beat not just all top teir decks, but other "rogue" decks too, is it still considered a rogue deck? Is it still "rogue" if 98% of people don't play it but it can beat all top teirs and most others?
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I dunno what other people consider a 'rogue' deck. Mostly it looks like people call anything that isn't Luxchomp/Gyarados/Gengar rogue. I've seen people on here call Machamp and Donphan 'rogue'. What next? Flygon?

To me, a true rogue deck is an original creation or combination that is designed to be competitive in the meta, which no-one is expecting until they see it. (So surprise is one of its main weapons). Eventually most of these actually become meta decks themselves. That's what happened to Gyarados, and that's what will happen to Sablelock.

IMO, these things are not rogues . . .

1. A deck that used to be meta that people don't play much any more (like Dusknoir or Machamp)

2. Decks that were supposed to be meta but failed (like Salamence)

3. Decks that use cards that don't see much play, mainly cos they are rubbish. That's not building a rogue, that's just playing with crappy Pokemon. Is a theme deck rogue?
 
When you try to counter all of the top tier decks with one card techs or a bulkier line you lose consistency and find out you don't always beat them. If you try out a Donphan/ Gengar SF/Luxray Deck you will lose to the decks you tried to beat. Just saying. Jumpluff will do much better now that people know a more competetive way of running it.
 
why does everyone think gyrados is s great. yes it top cutted a lot. but it didn't get that many #1
 
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Just because it did not win any tournaments (which it did) Gyrados is still one of the best decks in the format because it get everything it need by turn 2 to 3 and can hit for 90 for no energy (110 with E belt)
 
I'm gonna be honest, I don't like the term rogue. But I think more of them will show up and tear up. (Cough*Exploud*cough, Ambient Noise...)
 
I think that the extremely broken arcanine sv will sweep.

On topic, luxchomp, jumpluff, and gyarados are probably top. SDs will topcut, but will not win
 
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i think shuppet has a chance of winning. it won our states by beating jumpluff, gyrados (sami sekoum) and luxchomp (freddy K)
 
The JL said:
i think shuppet has a chance of winning. it won our states by beating jumpluff, gyrados (sami sekoum) and luxchomp (freddy K)
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Didn't Sami concede to him without playing?

Shuppets a decent deck, but theres alot of things currently which give it issues.
 
I personally hope some anti meta deck has been discovered sort of like gechamp last year and as nnann said above shuppet has major problems with decks like Sabledonk and Cursegar
 
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