List reasons or this will be closed as a poll.
Magmortar and GG will be all that wins States.
it sucks but it's true, anyone with a deck that's meant to beat gallade and mag prob won't make it to the top cut for this reason
less people will be playing those decks so the counter decks will lose to other archetypes unless the tourney is full of mag and gallade so the people playing mag and gallade will do well because they're the 2 most heavy hitting consistant decks that have been created, and IMO the opposition will cancel itself out
feraligatr is another archetype that will win something, i honestly doubt the truly skilled players are going to stick to gg and mag all across the country so, if it's a strong deck it has a chance to win if played right, claydoll has made so many decks viable that weren't before becaue they are less consistent than gg and mag
i hope people are smart enough not to play absol because i hate it and not only do i feel it's a bad choice in my own opinion
but it has legitimately become a bad choice, there's no argument, with pachi and claydol, i would be suprised if it was in a single winning deck, or even in any deck,
so my list would be
gallade
gardy
mag
phlosion
feraligatr
blissey
suprise pokemon
suprise pokemon
anti metagame pokemons trailing in success