Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What will win Regionals and WHY?

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jeffrey123

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This is more of a discussion than a poll. Mod's, please don't lock this one -__-

The top decks in the running imo;

1. Luxchomp- Been doin it all year long. Majority of states wins throughout 2 years
2. Vilegar- Trainer lock is potent and Gengar with it is incredible. Has a great time with the format barring Dialgachomp.
3. Gyarados- Of course, the deck swings quick and hard. With many different builds, the deck's hard to beat.
4. Sablelock- It won tough states. It's solid.


Then you have;
Charizard
Steelix
Lostgar
Regigigas
Yanmega
Jumpluff
Mewperior
Dialgachomp/other SP
 
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I predict that Dialgachomp sees a huge surge in wins. So many people are packing Vilegar after its performance at States, it would seem like a natural choice.
 
Idealistically - The perfectly teched out Yanmega deck. ^^

Realistically - Luxchomp/Dialgachomp. The game caters to them the most by a longshot.
 
I'd love to Gigas take a regional. It has very favorable matchups and it is just a solid deck in general. It has to be piloted by someone that knows what they're doing though.
 
Basically, there's a triangle of decks that have been surging and dying in popularity this format: Luxchomp, Gyarados, Gengar, which determines what other, lesser decks are successful.

States was an OVERLOAD of Luxchomp, and decks are emerging that have a good LC matchup albeit shaky matchups elsewhere, such as Steelix, Gigas, MachampVileplume, Vilegar, Scizor, Ttar, etc.
Never in any other tournament did I see so much Luxchomp and hear so many people expressing their disgust at playing Luxchomp themselves as states week 2, and never have I seen so many SP-beaters as States 11. It will see a LOT less play at Regionals.

I think Gengar will be the "top end" of the triangle this time around.
 
DIZZtheWHIZZ said:
I'd love to Gigas take a regional. It has very favorable matchups and it is just a solid deck in general. It has to be piloted by someone that knows what they're doing though.
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I saw more Gigas at States than I have in a long time. It still wasn't very much, but it was nice to see.

I'ma attempt to rep Gigas myself. It takes an immense amount of mental prep though >.> gonna need like 30 hours of sleep too.
 
That match usually comes down to deafen for profit. I had a tech Luxray X at states that I didn't need to use, since I think Vilegar ruined Gyarados for me at some point.
 
Almost all Dialgachomp's match ups are difficult but very winnable. It doesn't give you many easy/cheap wins, but on the other hand it's more donk-resistant than most decks and it's great against all the random crap that usually relies on PokeBodys.
 
Hmmm....Gengar variants did win 10 states, not bad. What is surprising is the horrible performance of Dialga during states. Besides Machamp, Dialga was the worst performing deck out there. Another thing of interest is that Gyarados did significantly better at States than it did at cities. With all of the Lostgar hype, that is a bit surprising as well. Lostgar also did surprisingly well with 5 wins. Which, leads me to believe a few things: Lostgar does a lot better against Dialga than we thought and it does worse against Gyarados than we thought. And, of course, Luxchomp did as we expected: fairly low win percentage, tons of plays, lots of wins. So, with this in mind, it looks like Luxchomp will continue its reign through Regionals. Dialga had the second most Top Cuts through States, but had the lowest win percentage (amongst real decks, I don't consider Machamp SF a real deck).

To summarize the fallout from States: Luxchomp will dominate Regionals. If lostgar gets more play, it will hurt many decks out there. Its seems the 3-1 Garchomp lines and thick mirror counters really hurt Luxchomp against Lostgar and the ability to see off DGX and the lone Garchomp C X have had a pretty significant impact on the meta game, but due to the number of Luxchomp being played, the matchup will catch up eventually. So, for some predictions:

Luxchomp
Gengar Variants (they are basically the same thing, many Vilegars are teching in LW and Lostgars lock and use Gegnar SF)
Gyarados
 
Luxchomp always has the most wins. It's highly played(not saying it's not good), and it has ways of beating every deck. At states the top decks that fought for power were vilegar, dialgachomp, and luxchomp. I've seen Luxchomps really teching for Vilegar players these days so seems a little risky with a less experienced player. I see some new decks winning games.
 
'Decks that will win' are not exclusive to pre-existing archetypes. Decks that will win are the ones best teched, and prepared for multiple scenarios.

Or just really lucky. This is Pokemon, after all.
 
The reason dialga doesn't win much is because its easily the hardest sp deck to play(which isn't saying much).

You get the good players playing it over luxchomp, and you will see a reversal.

Gyrados just isn't good imo. I can easily stop it with basic simpple strategies. I am not worried about that deck with 90% of any deck I could play.
I think its why you don't see the truly good players playing it because at the end of the day a good player is too much for gyrados.

Vilegar and Dialgachomp, why?
Pure skill in Dialgachomp, pure consistancy and smart plays with Vilegar.
 
Alex2k said:
This is more of a discussion than a poll. Mod's, please don't lock this one -__-
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But... this IS a Poll :(

It's a question that can be answered with a single word.

"DialgaChomp"

"LuxChomp"

Therefore it is the kind of poll that we don't want to have crowding the board.

Let's leave it open and see if people actually provide a "WHY" to their answers.
 
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