Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Scorpio! (back from the dead)

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Has any1 tested this v Bell/plume, im curious what you guys think the match-up would be like, and you can be sure that i am covering my bases and testing this against my Bell as well.

Magnezone hurts this deck quite a bit. since it can 1-shot any of your walls be either attaching more energy, taking the special energies off of magnezone, etc. and you cannot do the same.
 
LOL

Just to let everyone know, I havent tested with this deck much at ALL, I dont really think its the BEST deck out there, and the list you see is one card off from the list I run. Heck, I may run other decks for Battle Roads.

Gliscor = Scorpion -n = Scorpio. Pretty simple.
 
How does this beat Kingdra consistently? I mean, Gliscor Lv.X is double weak to water. IMO, the tech for this deck should be Luxray. Not only does it PWN Kingdra, it also beats most decks that run Lv.Xs.
 
Politoed666 said:
How does this beat Kingdra consistently? I mean, Gliscor Lv.X is double weak to water. IMO, the tech for this deck should be Luxray. Not only does it PWN Kingdra, it also beats most decks that run Lv.Xs.
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Because kingdra should never be able to hit glisgar. Also Stage 2 techs don't work in this deck.
 
like said before playing darkrai helps against any stage 2 or stage 1 allowing the easy 80 or 60 switch with disruption. i think maybe playing 2 is a good idea in this version of scorpio. i honestly though testing think that this is the best version of scorpio with venomoth.
 
SuicidalPikachu said:
Has any1 tested this v Bell/plume, im curious what you guys think the match-up would be like, and you can be sure that i am covering my bases and testing this against my Bell as well.

Magnezone hurts this deck quite a bit. since it can 1-shot any of your walls be either attaching more energy, taking the special energies off of magnezone, etc. and you cannot do the same.
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I tested out the Magnezone matchup and so far Magnezone smashes this deck every time. The constant retreating for free between 2 zones makes Gliscor cry.
 
Paralyze stops them from retreating. The player you played against didn't have the strategy right to go against Magnezone.
 
ApachePrime said:
Paralyze stops them from retreating. The player you played against didn't have the strategy right to go against Magnezone.
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You paralyze them and they lv.x up removing it. Or they warp point, or they just move all the nrg off the Magnezone and let you KO it and send out a fresh one. You only get to paralyze once when you lv.up so your not exactly going to be able to do it every turn. >_>
 
Using Burning Poison allows Lvl X to be scooped up and repeat the paralysis to a never ending cycle. >.> You use your Warps all you want. You only have so many. And can also only lvl up once in a while.
 
I've been testing this deck against AMU and so far it's failing miserably. I don't even play Snowpoint Temple in my AMU so it would, theoretcally, be easy to get OHKOs. It's extremely inconsistent, and mimie doesn't really help since AMU has max. Warp points and Energy Pickup. Once the Mimes die you really don't want to waste your NM on them so it's difficult to ge them back. It takes to long to set-up the stall strategy and bythen AMU is 2-3 prizes ahead and has killed most of your stalling tricks. Azelf Lv.x also really hurts this deck even if you only have 2-3 energy in play.
 
well to be honest, against AMU you probably wouldn't hide anymore. You would go aggressive with darkrai/lvl X to pester spam them for the OHKOs ... so yeah ... scorpio plays differently depending on the deck and the player running it needs to know what to do when.

IF GB becomes possible, yeah u hide behind mime cause Id rather mime die than gliscor ... every time
 
DarthPika said:
I tested out the Magnezone matchup and so far Magnezone smashes this deck every time. The constant retreating for free between 2 zones makes Gliscor cry.
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Yup, it sure does.

Bah, I hate all the people saying my deck sucks. I kinda saw it coming though. It was a scrap idea, after all. It just grew.
 
rofl Im not sure if it is because you guys suck at this game or don't know how to improvise but against magnezone you go speed and stop hiding..... you are too fast for them (this comes form playtest) against AMU, yes you do use your NM for mime lol and no u don't hide, u go speed yet again and kill them. you guys need to know how to improvise based on what deck you are playing against.

anyways through alot of playtesting against different decks, I dropped gliscor and so did my friends, not saying its a bad deck but maybe its just not its time. maybe later in the season
 
I posted something similar in another thread but it's worth saying again.

So far EVERY deck I've tested in this format has some bad matchups. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

Luxray can nuke AMU but looses to Groudonk
Magnezone smshes Froslass but gets the near auto-loss to MagLeaf or Skittles
etc.

Every single deck can be countered by something else good that's out there. I've yet to find the deck without at least one bad matchup. So what if Scorpio has a bad matchup or two? It doesn't really matter unless said bad matches are popular in your meta or it starts to turn out that Scorpio is having more bad matchups than good.

I think time could be more productively spent finding techs for some of these ... for instance 1-1 Houndoom can be evil vs Zone and might even give you a Burned condition on him to exploit ... and working on making the list more consistant. Plenty of my other decks are playing solid & fast but I seem to be having a lot of slow starts with the lists in this thread.
 
vanderbilt_grad said:
I posted something similar in another thread but it's worth saying again.

So far EVERY deck I've tested in this format has some bad matchups. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

Luxray can nuke AMU but looses to Groudonk
Magnezone smshes Froslass but gets the near auto-loss to MagLeaf or Skittles
etc.

Every single deck can be countered by something else good that's out there. I've yet to find the deck without at least one bad matchup. So what if Scorpio has a bad matchup or two? It doesn't really matter unless said bad matches are popular in your meta or it starts to turn out that Scorpio is having more bad matchups than good.

I think time could be more productively spent finding techs for some of these ... for instance 1-1 Houndoom can be evil vs Zone and might even give you a Burned condition on him to exploit ... and working on making the list more consistant. Plenty of my other decks are playing solid & fast but I seem to be having a lot of slow starts with the lists in this thread.
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I would agree with him on this except for the fact that houndoom is a bad tech for magnezone lol. I mean 120 (because u are not going to have fewer benched) and then they 80 you?? KO??? waste of 2 cards and effort to get it out??? waste of getting fire energy??? I think so
 
the60746 said:
rofl Im not sure if it is because you guys suck at this game or don't know how to improvise but against magnezone you go speed and stop hiding..... you are too fast for them (this comes form playtest) against AMU, yes you do use your NM for mime lol and no u don't hide, u go speed yet again and kill them. you guys need to know how to improvise based on what deck you are playing against.

anyways through alot of playtesting against different decks, I dropped gliscor and so did my friends, not saying its a bad deck but maybe its just not its time. maybe later in the season
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The game is made up of improvisions, but you need a core strategy. Also, depend on the set-up game of Magnezone, it shouldn't be much slower than Gliscor. The matchups are consisted of a balanced mix of running and smashing, and I know I put Pester as part of the main strategy for versing UMA. Night Shift also plays an importaint part. You can't ingore the limitless possibilities of this deck. Don't assume we are bad, before knowing what you are talking about first.
 
no duhh decks are built around one strategy and that's fine but in order to be a good player (judging by a lot of the people's post alot of you are not) you need to know when to throw that strategy out the window and improvise and Magnezone is one of those decks, if it gets set up, your are screwed. therefore you have to be faster and that's not hard for gliscor to do if you play a good enough list
 
the60746 said:
no duhh decks are built around one strategy and that's fine but in order to be a good player (judging by a lot of the people's post alot of you are not) you need to know when to throw that strategy out the window and improvise and Magnezone is one of those decks, if it gets set up, your are screwed. therefore you have to be faster and that's not hard for gliscor to do if you play a good enough list
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wow dude ... i don't know what you are providing to the thread ... but really glad you gave some imput :nonono:
 
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