Blaziken 1111
Active Member
It's really enoying until you realize that its just easyer to make a counter.
Salamence Ex :water: is your solution.
- 160HP water dragon
- resistance to BOTH :fire: and :fighting:
- OHKOs Magmortar X
- OHKOs Magmortar SW
- OHKOs Typhlosion
- Gallade could flip ALL prizes and still not KO it by 10
- You can choose to hit the active AND snipe for 40 instead when you're not in a pinch
- Type switch when you're presented with random :grass: decks
- A monster with Unown G.
There it is, the card that beats both BDIF. Yeah, it needs 4 Energy to attack, but that's why we have Altaria :water:; Swellow :fire: retreats it for free; Xatu :dark: makes it deadlier... so many combos, so little play. Why?
Dang should have went with a pure counter but I thought there would have been some kind of change.
I realize that there are some counters for both decks
theres plenty of decks that do well against both of them, you don't have to play 1 of 2 decks, play something else but don't expect it to be as easy to make a successful list as it is to make a gallade decks or mag deck,
Being mad at people won't keep them from playing a deck you don't like, so you might as well do something about it. That's what I've been doing for the past couple months and we'll see how well it pays off on Saturday.
The same thing happens every format.
There are top decks that do well at cities, every single person on Pokegym complains
Somebody comes up with a new deck that does well at States
Everybody on Pokegym copies that deck for week 2 of states
Everybody then complains on how the new deck is too good
Followed by countless threads in this forum. Every time.
I dunno how long you've been playing this game...But I can tell you...That in the 10yrs I've been playing, Its the same thing.
Winning decks dominate the environment early season, rogue decks dominate late season.
Get over it.
because it's slow and a lot less consistant than a dp deck, gallade and mag are fast and they keep coming, salamence is probably just hide till you get one set up and then use one, lose two prizes for doing so, then hide till you get another setup
all those techs will be hard to get out since salamence is so slow and requires so much steam, i'm sure it can beat them with it when you get a god start, but decks like that don't win tournies
i've heard of a lot of people "come up with" salamence but i hope none of them would ever play it at states, because decks that need god starts to win don't get them at tournies
idk correct me if i'm wrong anyone that played salamence yesterday if you won or top cut with it
1 of the basic and 2 of the evolution? Doubt it.This would disagree:
Pokemon:14
4 Bagon(SW)
3 Shelgon(SW)
4 Salamence EX D
1 Swablu D
2 Alteria EX D
1 POrygon
2 Porygon 2
Trainers:33
4 Scotts
3 BeBe's
2 Professer Elms
3 Mentors
4 Prof Oaks Visit
2 Stevens
3 Windstorm
2 Lake Boundry
4 Rare Candy
2 Roseanes
Energy:
13 Water
I wonder why nobody is playing Garchomp.
I got 2nd at States with a Garchomp deck (1st was Magmortar/Delcatty, but even if I lost it was very close and the matchup is quite ok). Claydol gives great draw Power and Togekiss helps to easily build up a second Garchomp long before the first is knocked out. Using PlusPowers, it OHKOs anything up to 130 HP if needed, and G&G can't OHKO more than one Garchomp during a game. I didn't have any problems against standard Gardy, the only disadventage is that the deck isn't able to snipe in any way, that's what made me lose to Scramble Magmortar.
Just because most people aren't able to build good decks without Gardy or Magmortar it doesn't mean that there aren't any other strong decks to play at States.