HonchKing
06/14/2010, 07:47 AM
many have criticized steelix prime since UL was released because of its high attack cost and high retreat cost. Steelix is awful by itself but in a deck what many call helix it can be very powerful. with the ablilt to heal any damage it can be a major pain. it is a big problem for luxchomp because luxchomp relies on cheap KOs while steelix prime heals away the damage luxchomp puts out make luxchomp work fo its prizes.
Steelix prime is also a pain for luxchomp because of it body and control over stadiums along with special metal energies. thanks to its body steelix prime can not be affected by special conditons. It is the end for crobat prime because it can't be poisoned and its resitent to psychic. It can not be affected by crobat g or toxicroakg the promo or the non-promo.
Thanks to its ablitiy to control stadiums it is also very strong since it can use its opponent BTS against it then discard it so they can't use it. Special metal is anouther thing keeping steelix prime alive. Because special metal reduces damage if you have 4 special metal on steelix prime and garchomp c attacks it will only do 40 damage before they use chancey to heal it bring the damage down to 20:eek: .it would take more than 7 turns at that rate to konck out steelix.
questions:
Q: how do i run helix?
A: you run it with chancey PL, poke healer SF, flicities GE, and warps about 4 since pretty much every thing in steelix has a big retreat cost.
Q: how does steelix do in todays crazy format?
A: Steelix has done well at some battle raods. its just not as popular with some people. For those of you who don't know there is a senior using steelix prime in the chicago land area and is are doing very well. steelix prime has won him at least 2 battle roads already and he has gone undefeated 11-0.
Q: what problems does steelix have?
A; steelix has only a few problems but they are very big and are easy to see. One is the retreat cost of all the things played in it so if you can bright look up something then kill its claydol so it does not get any warps you should be able get an advantage. the special metal: if you can discard the energy it should be able to attack. its weakness to fire is its problem since everything new now has x2 if it meet blazeray it should have a problem.
Steelix prime is also a pain for luxchomp because of it body and control over stadiums along with special metal energies. thanks to its body steelix prime can not be affected by special conditons. It is the end for crobat prime because it can't be poisoned and its resitent to psychic. It can not be affected by crobat g or toxicroakg the promo or the non-promo.
Thanks to its ablitiy to control stadiums it is also very strong since it can use its opponent BTS against it then discard it so they can't use it. Special metal is anouther thing keeping steelix prime alive. Because special metal reduces damage if you have 4 special metal on steelix prime and garchomp c attacks it will only do 40 damage before they use chancey to heal it bring the damage down to 20:eek: .it would take more than 7 turns at that rate to konck out steelix.
questions:
Q: how do i run helix?
A: you run it with chancey PL, poke healer SF, flicities GE, and warps about 4 since pretty much every thing in steelix has a big retreat cost.
Q: how does steelix do in todays crazy format?
A: Steelix has done well at some battle raods. its just not as popular with some people. For those of you who don't know there is a senior using steelix prime in the chicago land area and is are doing very well. steelix prime has won him at least 2 battle roads already and he has gone undefeated 11-0.
Q: what problems does steelix have?
A; steelix has only a few problems but they are very big and are easy to see. One is the retreat cost of all the things played in it so if you can bright look up something then kill its claydol so it does not get any warps you should be able get an advantage. the special metal: if you can discard the energy it should be able to attack. its weakness to fire is its problem since everything new now has x2 if it meet blazeray it should have a problem.