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TheGeneral

TheGeneral

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So I ended up playing against a Gyarados SF deck at BR's the other day and was intrigued by the deck as a whole. My only question is, running sableye/registeel, what is the ideal t2 or t3 set-up for a gyarados deck?? How does someone do that?? I am lost for the first 2-3 turns.

Any help would be great! Thans a lot!!!!
 
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Get out a Sableye and with a combination of Roseanne's to get magikarps in your hand and felicities to discard them, get 3 in the discard. Sableye essentially means you can use 2 a turn speeding up this process.
 
ideal starting poke is sableye to search for rose and get registeal and a magikarp in order to discard it right in the begining and u go from there u ether discard it with ur felicitys or ur registeal or u use that 1 to set up gyrados its a very easy deck to play and really has no heavely bad matchups unless going against lightning types.
 
evil umbreon said:
ideal starting poke is sableye to search for rose and get registeal and a magikarp in order to discard it right in the begining and u go from there u ether discard it with ur felicitys or ur registeal or u use that 1 to set up gyrados its a very easy deck to play and really has no heavely bad matchups unless going against lightning types.
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This is what i try to do myself and as far as bad match-ups the only one that i have had has ben bad hands/draws. The one change that i truely had made was removing regsteel for regice. He to me is better do to the fact i can force them to move luxray or infernape for his power of course they power spray it which has happend more times then i like :lol:. But other wise the deck is a blast to play and good luck with it...
 
^^^^ to be honest ive never played the deck lol and ive only played against it once but when i see A card i basicly no wut to do with it lol and to the regice thing i wouldnt really like that card in the deck cuz u cant discard for no reason unless they changed the ruling. and the registeal i havent seen many ppl power spray it cuz they havent known about the deck and now it has some fame so i expect ppl to start powerspraying and mespriting asap.
 
evil umbreon said:
^^^^ to be honest ive never played the deck lol and ive only played against it once but when i see A card i basicly no wut to do with it lol and to the regice thing i wouldnt really like that card in the deck cuz u cant discard for no reason unless they changed the ruling. and the registeal i havent seen many ppl power spray it cuz they havent known about the deck and now it has some fame so i expect ppl to start powerspraying and mespriting asap.
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There was a ruling that Regice CAN use the discard function if if the opponents defending poke is not an unevolved (or there is no bench)
 
registeel isn't absolutely needed on the bench. i've found that claydol is becoming more important, but it's still not absolutely necessary. a majority of my games i have found that i don't even need to set up claydol. with all the draw that you get from sableye/felicity's, it's nice to have, but not needed.

my bench set-up usually looks like:

active: gyarados
benched:
crobat g
sableye
uxie/azelf
toxicroak g (promo)
-empty-(sometimes claydol/registeel)
 
so T1 (assuming you start with sableye) you use Impersonate & rosys for registeel & magikarp. next turn, bench registeel & magikarp? or would you use lux ball/rosys for more magikarp and regi heal them? is the point of this deck t2 60 or t3 90?

EDIT: also, is relicanth a better tech than toxi promo now since it can snipe as well as OHKO luxray X?
 
A lot depends on your opening hand. A T2 90 is possible, but not very often.

Yes, I'm sure half of PokeGym has a list that always does 90 T1 :rolleyes:

Gyarados can be a bit of a slow starter, but that's usually fine cos once it gets going, not many decks and set ups can cope with being hit for 90 (plus Crobat when needed) every single turn by a 130 HP Pokemon.

I'm tempted to agree about Relicanth. Not so much for the snipe, more because you can drop it and use it the same turn. It's also more likely to take a return hit than Mankey. On the other hand, your opponent doesn't need to bother with Unown G vs Gyarados, so you need them to have 2 Energy Gains out . . . maybe Mankey is the safer choice.
 
I may be new but doesn't Dusknoir take care of Gyarados? If Gyarados becomes very popular won't folks tech in a Dusnoir just to torment the Gyarados set up?
 
^^^ no it doesnt cuz gyrados doesnt need anything really on its bench once 1 is set up and active cuz they have NM's and rescues.
 
you can dark palm a claydol or registeel but by what ive read, claydol isnt a HUGE necessity and putting anything else besides claydol or registeel (like sableye or crobats) might actually HELP out the gyarados deck.
 
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