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There's a difference between original and bad. His list is so fundamentally poor that he had to have run extremely hot the entire time.
 
He played really well, I saw I think 3 of his top cut games, not including his very quick 2-0 of semifinals mirror. He played the finals well also, but man did he get lucky to pull it out.
 
I don't get all the 'that list is terrible, loses SP mirror' etc.

That list was played by the World Champion who was the number 1 seed after the swiss as well. Has everyone complaining ever even qualified for Worlds? He beat Sami in the mirror in Top 8, and beat another Luxchomp in Top 4. Just because something seems really bad, doesn't mean it always turns out that way. I know the English Meta and American are similar, and most people would have laughed at the idea of Flygon/Torterra, Gyarados ( over a year ago ), Gardevoir SW in Luxchomp etc. Unless you're an incredibly talented player, thinking inside the box isn't going to win you any major tournaments.

Luxray GL Lv X never saw play as a tech until Silvestro won Worlds, and had been completely overlooked at that point but played a huge part in the 09/10 season. Maybe some of the ideas the Japanese introduced to everyone else will?
 
I can almost understand PONT as something to do late-game once your chain has expired and your hand dwindles to garbage. My mind is still boggled.
 
Props to the guy for winning, but there is NO WAY i would run this list, not if my life depended on it, IMO it's just not as consistent as others w/out call. I see the Dragonite play over Ambipom because i myself am usually torn between the two. I feel PONT was a GREAT play because-
Not Tombed locked
Searchable
Doesn't take up bench space
So i like it(the whole list, wouldn't play cuz i know i'd misplay w/ this list once or twice)
The lack of promocroak and ERL surprises me though, he must've missed all Jumpluff lists, they would eat this for breakfast...
Junior champion beats Masters champion :p
Also i would've thought he'd play one Unown G, but guess not(then again other than 2 cards this is post rotation...Roseanne's Research)
Also were the metals special or basic?

Last question-Anyone have lists for the other World Champions?
 
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I think the 2 Lightning, 2 Metal is pretty risky. A prized energy and a good timed Ambipom and either Luxray or Dialga wouldn't be able to attack for the rest of the game.

But if you think about it, if the only pokemon on his side of the field are uxie and SPs, you can turn the SPs to get the energy back, and you can attack with Uxie to go back into the deck.

Not playing Claydol probably made the deck less disrupt-able.
 
The guy's record at worlds is good enough to tell me this strange to us draw engine works. I'm more used to Call, but Warp energy is not a bad card. Dragonite FB is a great card for mirror as well, though I still had Ambipom in my list as well for Gardy mostly.
 
DonphanAtoZ said:
Read the post above you, Rokman. It's not ridiculous. Quit complaining everyone.
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Yes it is. It is very ridiculous. the guy is just good

And you can quit telling people what to do. You aren't a moderator
 
That final game of the Masters was the verry best single game I have ever witnessed. HUge Momentum changes. At first it looked like LuxChomp had it when it went up 2-0 then all the suddend a machamp gemoes down from nowhere and it looks like Luxchomp is going down. Then when Gardy comes up and locks, they next card is Uxie X and the OHKO with Lucario SP on the bench. Then the undamaged Machamp comes up. He lookers the Luxchomp players hand, and takes out to tie the game 1-1. Then he gets everything he needs in the next 6 cards draws (5 for lookers and one for his turn) Boom throws down an energy. Levels up to Luxray X, brings up the uxie and trashbolts for the win. He needed the Luxray X and two energy in 6 cards to win the World Championship and he got it. What a fantastic finish to the best final match in Pokemon World Championaship history.

Way better then last year where it was a 2-0 blowout in Masters.
 
Yeah, finally some GOOD finals games... and they were televised on a big screen. :-D

A lot of the japanese luxchomp lists were weird. Yamato's list ran a 1-1-1 Gardevoir, a Purugly G and an Absol SW (and 1 call energy) and he did really well as well.

Re: The dragonite not being good in mirror - It's better than ambipom in the mirror match. Somneone said it's bad because it's weak to the ytype it's countering - This is a GOOD thing, because you've just ko'd a garchomp with dragonite, so they might not even be able to ko you back, and if they do you can follow up with a garchomp ko on the garchomp they used to ko your dragonite with. Ambipom was also really good vs. plox though (tail code DCE's) so arguably it was the better play. I know yamato ran ambipom over draggy.
 
rokman said:
Yes it is. It is very ridiculous. the guy is just good

And you can quit telling people what to do. You aren't a moderator
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ri·dic·u·lous
   
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–adjective
causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable

Hmm, no I don't believe any deck that won worlds is worthy of ridicule, absurd, preposterous, or laughable. If it were ridiculous, why would a good player even seriously bother with it? Unless of course it wasn't ridiculous. It may have some strange choices, but those are obviously above our head, unless you're saying worlds was won on a fluke.
 
Deck might not look good on paper.

Deck went 12-0 at Worlds, doing the business where it counts.

Nothing to do but stand back and admire the player and the deck.
 
ARMondak said:
There's a difference between original and bad. His list is so fundamentally poor that he had to have run extremely hot the entire time.
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Did you even make worlds. This list may look bad, though it was the one that won. So what are you to judge his list poorly??
 
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