Zap Deck 5.0

[cary_ninja]

:lightning: Zap Deck 5.0 sychic:

Pokemon Cards
2-Zekrom
3-2-1 Chandelure (cursed shadowz)
3-2 Zebstrika (electrispark)
3-2-1 Reuniclus (damage swap)
3-2 Galvantula (electroweb)

Trainer Cards
2 Great Ball
2 Switch
2 Revive
2 Energy Search
2 Energy Switch
2 Energy Retrieval
2 Pokemon Communication
2 Cheren

Energy Cards
10 Electric
10 Psychic

I wish to keep this deck BW-onward, as I hope it can remain legal for some time now. Galvantula may be taking a leave of absence though, as other than being a Turtwig SP it doesn't really effect the rest of the deck. Chandelure places damage counters on benched while Zebstrika hits all benched, hopefully opponents will lose track of who has what damage, and who can do different sniping. Reuniclus moves damage counters to benched Zekrom who comes out for massive damage.

Unrelated: Remember how damn cool the base set Zap Deck was when it first came out?

 

[Electrode]

You've got an okay idea, but it needs to change if you want it to work out against metagame decks. You've only got one Clus and Chandelure. What if they're in your prizes? Galvantula is pretty useless. You have no Collectors, Twins, anything, that will help you set up faster considering you've got two 3-stage lines. I really doubt that HGSS being rotated out soon. You're gonna have to include some H/S Pokemon.
You could easily get donked before even setting up due to lack of good draw cards.

 

[kidwithhat]

don't run pyramid lines, sure its ok sometimes now because of catcher, but that's just with basics, for example...
your playing reshiplosion... you wouldn't want to run a 4-3-2 line, you would want to run something like
4-2-3/4 (matters what build your running). also, no rare candy? sure you want to keep it b/w on but...why? its going to be awhile before rotation, if you want to anything to meta decks you HALF to run some HGSS and on stuffs. Anyways what makes this deck good? there is no energy acceleration, no basic strategies or nothing. I'm not trying to be a total d-head, but its kinda true

---------- Post added 12/09/2011 at 10:27 AM ----------

also... TO MANY ENERGY!

 

[cary_ninja]

4-2-4 would be assuming I'd also be running rare candy. Also, what did you mean by "HALF to run some HGSS", does this imply my deck should be half HGSS and half BW? I didn't say this deck was gonna go to tournaments, and yeah it clearly needs work. As for the point of Galvantula, as I've just decided, I can pool damage counters onto him and then heal it with his "heal as many damage counters as you cause" attack. How does this deck not have a basic strategy? I listed one underneath; have too much damage counter movement happening at the same time, (here's three to you, now one to all your benched, now all my various damage to zekrom and galvantula, slam and or heal). As for my prizes, what if all the reshirams and emboars were in the prizes of a metagame deck? I'm so glad Azelf/Uxie/Claydol are finally out. What garbage and blatant brokenness.

Also... what is your suggestion toward "To Many Energy"? Was that some sort of cheers like "To long life" or "To friends"? "To many energy, may you always be supplied when need be".

 

[kidwithhat]

4-2-4 would be assuming I'd also be running rare candy. Also, what did you mean by "HALF to run some HGSS", does this imply my deck should be half HGSS and half BW? I didn't say this deck was gonna go to tournaments, and yeah it clearly needs work. As for the point of Galvantula, as I've just decided, I can pool damage counters onto him and then heal it with his "heal as many damage counters as you cause" attack. How does this deck not have a basic strategy? I listed one underneath; have too much damage counter movement happening at the same time, (here's three to you, now one to all your benched, now all my various damage to zekrom and galvantula, slam and or heal). As for my prizes, what if all the reshirams and emboars were in the prizes of a metagame deck? I'm so glad Azelf/Uxie/Claydol are finally out. What garbage and blatant brokenness.

Also... what is your suggestion toward "To Many Energy"? Was that some sort of cheers like "To long life" or "To friends"? "To many energy, may you always be supplied when need be".

ok i you basic strategy is to heal?.. well you have 1 reuniclus... lets say you actually get it out without rare candy and stuff?, even if you are playing b/w and up... theres still catcher. all I'm trying to say is pyrimids don't work

 

[cary_ninja]

It's actually to spread damage, both to myself and my opponent, and heal when necessary, as I've painstakingly stated above. Also, what does "ok i you basic strategy" mean? Anyways, is catcher worth anything if I can pretty much snipe and **** any of my opponents benched as I see fit? Also, what does catcher have to do with whether or not pyramids work when I don't have rare candies at my disposal? Catchers only deals with my opponents pokemon. Back to the idea of sniping, I could spread Chandelure's 30, or I could place it on one, switch to Zebstrika and hit for 70 to the defending and 10 to each benched giving that previously targeted pokemon 40 damage. I'm not saying that I'm right and you're wrong, just that I wish you had read what I had tried to explain before diving into this head first without any form or literary clarity as a form of advice.

Or were you saying I need to defend against catcher? I have 2 switch. Should I run 4?