PorygonZ Donker(Not the Promo...)

[honchvire]

Here's an idea I've been tossing around, wanted to get some more opinions on it.
PorygonZ GE has an attack that says:

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 40x the number of heads.

It also has a power that lets you discard an energy card from your hand to change PorygonZ's type to the type of energy you discard.

Now a lot of people are big on shunning flip-effects, unless the effect is waaaay good(for example SSU and to some degree Pokemon Reversal). Here is my argument on behalf of Tri-Attack.

With Expert Belt, and Lucario GL or Lake Boundary in play, a single HEADS will do 120 damage to your opponents Pokemon(assuming you discard the correct energy). That is enough to KO a large amount of Pokemon. Two heads will net you 200 damage. Three heads will do 280. Enough to KO everything.

On average, you will waste your attack only 1/8 times. The other 7 times you will be doing enough damage to almost guarantee a KO on whatever active they give you. Since this is a game of six-prizes, you may play a few games without ever whiffing on an attack.

DCE and let you not waste your colored energys on powering up PorygonZs. When one goes down, you can have another one ready to go the very next turn. Also you can chose not to attach expert belt when up against low hp opponents.

My main problem is the fragility of PorygonZ, and I falter a bit to power lock since I am not able to change my type to abuse weakness. You also need to have a good sense about your metagame in order to distribute the colors of energy in this deck.

Any ideas?

[Spink]

Sounds like Keckleon. lol

Not a bad idea, just be sure to run Fisherman to get back energy.

[Mewtral]

1st, don't forget to include at least one PorygonZ LvX
Otherwise I liked this guy also. I decided that it combo's well with StaraptorFB LvX and Exploud (since Exploud drops your weakness.
And thanks to Porygon2 you can have a complete supporter engine and play many at once.
So add any energy you want to, you got a great build!

[mewbreon]

porygon 2 + volbeat + illumise + team galactics mars

infinate mars-ing
combo with 1 energy (DCE) tri-attacking

i ran this deck for a little bit.... meh.... loses a lot

[Black Mamba]

my friend got last place in US nats 2008 with a porygon z deck lol

[Rogue Archetype]

I don't have the nerves left in my body to have EVERYTHING riding on flips.

I love the possiblity of doing big damage like you're saying though. It's like running an Octillery deck. BIG possibililities but HIGH RISK of failure.

The idea is sound. But, you're really gambling there.

This is the problem I have w/ DRAGONITE. 50 spread per turn sounds BROKEN and... then... there's the flip :/

Know what I mean?

I just seem to MISS when I really need that heads.

Again though, your idea is scary if you're flipping well !!!

[The_Lurb]

Power Spray = sad Porygon-Z

[Shino Bug Master]

^Except, you know, when its against garchomp who is already weak to it. So it's only sad against half the main attackers. And it can easily wager or double Iniative away sprays

[honchvire]

Also you can retreat and bring up a new porygon z to type convert.