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What is the strategy behind this deck?

Crogunk does 20 to ralts. Toxicroak turn 2 KO's it with Paralyze Poisen .

if they start with Baltoy, you do 10, next turn Paralyze Poisen and they are KO'd at the end of your opponents turn, meaning you get a free attack.
if they start with Duskull, well... yea same story as Baltoy.


Toxicroak 2HKO's Gallade (because of Poisen) and gets a chance on Paralysis.

Scizor smacks around G&G mid to late game by doing 80. (or even early game if they try to Gallade rush)
and Gardy cant take on Scizor easily because of his resistance to Psy.

Scizor/Beach hurts Leafeon decks too much,
(even if they have up to 4 Windstorms, Scizor hitting for 80 almost constantly is brutal)

Empoleon decks have a hard time setting up when Cessation stops their Claydol.(most Empoleons had ditched Windstorm for Warp Point, or only ran 1 windstorm)
once they get an Empoleon out,(with no Special Energies on it) you OHKO with Trode.
if they get an Empoleon with Special Energies on it, you use Paralyze Poisen, and next turn Scizor's Special Blow KO's it (because of poisen). and you save your Trode to OHKO an Empoleon later.
they usally only get 1 to 2 Empoleons out, so as long as Trode isn't prized, it's usually an easy matchup (although it's the toughest out of the 3 decks)

-ian
 
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I knew it! Toxicroak fun made it!! Everybody said it was bad but It's awesome! ^^
At least Plox didn't take worlds, that's cool.

~Norman

It was not Toxicroak Fun that deck was never revealed. This deck was called "INTIMIDATION" based on the flavor texts of Crogunk and Scizor. If you saw me at worlds carrying the crogunk doll i bet you were pretty intimidated if not for the blubblering sounds we were making. The best part of finals was that more of the PCL guys were watching the juniors than the masters I think they were quite intrested how a card from last years entry pack (toxicroak) was about to win worlds.
 
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Crogunk does 20 to ralts. Toxicroak turn 2 KO's it with Paralyze Poisen .

if they start with Baltoy, you do 10, next turn Paralyze Poisen and they are KO'd at the end of your opponents turn, meaning you get a free attack.
if they start with Duskull, well... yea same story as Baltoy.


Toxicroak 2HKO's Gallade (because of Poisen) and gets a chance on Paralysis.

Scizor smacks around G&G mid to late game by doing 80. (or even early game if they try to Gallade rush)
and Gardy cant take on Scizor easily because of his resistance to Psy.

Scizor/Beach hurts Leafeon decks too much,
(even if they have up to 4 Windstorms, Scizor hitting for 80 almost constantly is brutal)

Empoleon decks have a hard time setting up when Cessation stops their Claydol.(most Empoleons had ditched Windstorm for Warp Point, or only ran 1 windstorm)
once they get an Empoleon out,(with no Special Energies on it) you OHKO with Trode.
if they get an Empoleon with Special Energies on it, you use Paralyze Poisen, and next turn Scizor's Special Blow KO's it (because of poisen). and you save your Trode to OHKO an Empoleon later.
they usally only get 1 to 2 Empoleons out, so as long as Trode isn't prized, it's usually an easy matchup (although it's the toughest out of the 3 decks)

-ian


I must say that, Scizor/Toxicroak, FTW...AMAZING idea :thumb: No one thought it was going to be anything at all, but I had confidence in it.
 
Scizor/Toxicroak is super amazing, I just played GG with Toxi, so I called it Toxicroak fun because Croagunk was about to be my school mascot and was in movies I filmed.

Instead of Scizor/Toxicroak, I thought of Toxicroak Fun/Darkrai

~Norman
 
I got Top 32 in Seniors with Blissey/Bronzong and lost to Justin B playing GG. Toxicroak/Scizor is a wicked deck. I barely won against it in swiss. Kevin got lucky with his heads, and so did I. Mimicry ftw,
 
Yamato played Muk and Plox, with Absol and cesslock to great use, I have visual confirmation...

But he lost Top32...

Yamato played red face paint it was a combination of GG and AbsolAde. Yes I know for sure, I have the list.

Back to back posts merged. The following information has been added:

Tim H: Played Plox/w Cresselia Tech, He top 16 (after going 8-0 in the Grinders)
 
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Master:
Jason K. > PLOX /Dusknoir
John S. > EmpoZong/Cess
Alex B. > EmpoZong/er2
Yacine S. > PLOX/Dugtrio
Sami S. > EmpoZong/Cess
Chris F. > Empozong/Cess
Drew G. > Amphyzong
Drew H. > PLOX/Dusknoir
Simone S.> PLOX/Ampharos/Bronzong/Cresselia/Ampharos
Gino L. > PLOX/Muk/Cresselia
Tsuguyoshi Y. > PLOX/Muk/Cess
Takae S. > Banette/Blissey
 
Master:
Jason K. > PLOX /Dusknoir
John S. > EmpoZong/Cess
Alex B. > EmpoZong/er2
Yacine S. > PLOX/Dugtrio
Sami S. > EmpoZong/Cess
Chris F. > Empozong/Cess
Drew G. > Amphyzong
Drew H. > PLOX/Dusknoir
Simone S.> PLOX/Ampharos/Bronzong/Cresselia/Ampharos
Gino L. > PLOX/Muk/Cresselia
Tsuguyoshi Y. > PLOX/Muk/Cess
Takae S. > Banette/Blissey

Why is Ampharos listed twice?

JW,
Drew
 
Seniors:

1 Dylan w/ emp
2 bliss
3 emp
4 curran w/ plox
5 aziz w/ empozong
6-
7- scizor/trode
8 garret f leafmag
9 jon b with plox
10
11 Plox
12 Toicroak/Scizor
13
14
15
16 eevees
17Magleaf
18
19 emp
20
21
22
23
24 plox
25
26
27 torterra zong
28
29
30plox
31
32 GG


Concerning DECKS not PLAYERS
this is what i got so far
 
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Seniors:

1 Dylan w/ emp
2 bliss
3 emp
4 curran w/ plox
5 aziz w/ empozong
6-
7- scizor/trode
8 garret f leafmag
9 jon b with plox
10
11
12
13
14
15
16 eevees
17
18
19 emp
20
21
22
23
24 plox
25
26
27 torterra zong
28
29
30plox
31
32

this is what i got so far

32nd was gg.......
 
Seniors:

1 Dylan w/ emp
2 bliss
3 emp
4 curran w/ plox
5 aziz w/ empozong
6-
7- scizor/trode
8 garret f leafmag
9 jon b with plox
10
11 Malik w/ Plox
12 Toxicroak/Scizor
13
14
15
16 eevees
17
18
19 emp
20
21
22
23
24 plox
25
26
27 torterra zong
28
29
30plox
31
32 GG

this is what i got so far

Added meeeeeee! :)
 
Seniors:

1 Dylan w/ emp
2 bliss
3 emp
4 curran w/ plox
5 aziz w/ empozong
6-
7- scizor/trode
8 garret f leafmag
9 jon b with plox
10
11 Malik w/ Plox
12 Toicroak/Scizor
13
14
15
16 eevees
17 Sam w/ Magmortar/Leafeon
18
19 emp
20
21
22
23
24 plox
25
26
27 torterra zong
28
29
30plox
31
32 GG

this is what i got so far

Added my self :p:p:p
 
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