vaporeon
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^ I have been thinking about it, it's why I posted. This would be the first time since my Pidgeot Vaporeon deck I topped 8 with that I used Rare Candy. I don't see any reason why they did what they did to Rare Candy. All it does is make stage 2 Pokemon unplayable if they are not playing support roles.
We have;
1- Basic Pokemon with 130 HP that hit for 120.
This mean they come into play ready to attack and KO something once setup. They can also abuse Revive and Max Potion when its release, Reshirom more then anything.
2- Stage 1 decks like Donphan and friends that can't hit that hard but hit hard early.
Donphan can be a counter but it can't 1 shot Zekrom with out Pluspower but can revenge kill it but can't do much about Reshirom, plus any stage 1 Prime takes a few turns getting setup.
3- Stage 2 decks are unable to keep up with this fast format because of what they did to rare candy. We use to play Pokemon when we needed them out. Now we have to play them when we get them so we can Rare Candy the next turn, which makes your possible setup Pokemon Catcher bait. It a format with Donphan and basic Dragons hitting for 120 damage with Catcher and Junk Arm this means,
3a- Your benched pokemon you're trying to setup with the energy or 2 gets gusted up and gets killed, setting you back a turn or 2. Keep in mind this is maybe your Pokemon you're trying to get going to try to fight back.
3b- If they play like me, I'll go after Pokemon with energy attached to them to make sure you can't get setup because of big dragon Pokemon swinging for 120 every turn.
I'm trying to see the good in this format but It's going away. Sure Zekrom is more scary then Reshirom because the whole deck is basic but both of them don't care about a dragon getting knocked out because they can ether play another one or revive one, play ER or fishermen and do it over again. The deck has fast recovery like G-Dos and no other deck can do that. Stage 2 decks have it harder because of what they did with Rare Candy.
Maybe it would have been fine for a B/W on format, but not a HGSS on format. Looking at all the cards we have right now, I'm not seeing anything. Take a look at Lugia and Elemental Blast. Sure its a basic that could hit for 200 but it was ether EX or the Leagnd Version which was hard to get out or took 2 prizes when killed. The game as I could tell never had a basic that could hit fast and hard before with so much HP.
We have;
1- Basic Pokemon with 130 HP that hit for 120.
This mean they come into play ready to attack and KO something once setup. They can also abuse Revive and Max Potion when its release, Reshirom more then anything.
2- Stage 1 decks like Donphan and friends that can't hit that hard but hit hard early.
Donphan can be a counter but it can't 1 shot Zekrom with out Pluspower but can revenge kill it but can't do much about Reshirom, plus any stage 1 Prime takes a few turns getting setup.
3- Stage 2 decks are unable to keep up with this fast format because of what they did to rare candy. We use to play Pokemon when we needed them out. Now we have to play them when we get them so we can Rare Candy the next turn, which makes your possible setup Pokemon Catcher bait. It a format with Donphan and basic Dragons hitting for 120 damage with Catcher and Junk Arm this means,
3a- Your benched pokemon you're trying to setup with the energy or 2 gets gusted up and gets killed, setting you back a turn or 2. Keep in mind this is maybe your Pokemon you're trying to get going to try to fight back.
3b- If they play like me, I'll go after Pokemon with energy attached to them to make sure you can't get setup because of big dragon Pokemon swinging for 120 every turn.
I'm trying to see the good in this format but It's going away. Sure Zekrom is more scary then Reshirom because the whole deck is basic but both of them don't care about a dragon getting knocked out because they can ether play another one or revive one, play ER or fishermen and do it over again. The deck has fast recovery like G-Dos and no other deck can do that. Stage 2 decks have it harder because of what they did with Rare Candy.
Maybe it would have been fine for a B/W on format, but not a HGSS on format. Looking at all the cards we have right now, I'm not seeing anything. Take a look at Lugia and Elemental Blast. Sure its a basic that could hit for 200 but it was ether EX or the Leagnd Version which was hard to get out or took 2 prizes when killed. The game as I could tell never had a basic that could hit fast and hard before with so much HP.
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