Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

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vanderbilt_grad said:
No. Battle Frontier, Cess, and Lati-lock are the easiest options.
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Darn! DWD runs windstorm and I have no room in my deck for the Lati -lock.

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David's Confused Pokedad said:
Darn! DWD runs windstorm and I have no room in my deck for the Lati -lock.
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Guess the decks are going to have to come up with a Birch/Oak's engine?
 
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DWD runs windstorms, but I'd guess they only run 3. Even if they ran 4, if you are running at least 3 Cessation Crystal and at least 3 Battle Frontier, you should be able to stick one or two. You can search for your stadiums and tools too and DWD can't search for their windstorms. The only problem I could see would be DWD using Honchkrow lv.X's attack and bring back Windstorms from the discard.
 
Prime said:
Sableye is good against the entire format. LOL
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QFT.

Any deck that can make use of his poké-power and plays basic searching cards (isn't that like every deck anyway lol) really should just use it.

Even random things like Hurricane could benefit from an extra card in Croconaw's range.
 
Cyrus said:
Policy is policy, but eh, I guess one qualification for both of us is that it's heavily based on the judge's discretion.

Fact is, though, that Richard broke policy by using the most blatant form of gamesmanship there is. I'm reserving judgment, especially since neither side minded (Anthoy :p), but looking at it from facts only, lil Richard should have been penalized in some way.

However, this is thrown entirely out the window based on match context: if this was just a joke near the end of the game, then have at it.



Also, Honchkrow gives Feraligatr so many troubles it's not even funny. In solo testing I've gone 6-0 vs my gatr with my honchkrow, and I don't think I've lost more than one or two games total of about twenty (my Krow vs other people's gatrs) versus non-me's.

You cite that Catty is the end-all solution, but also forget how brutal Cessation Crystal is against Gatr.dec. Trust me, it's a horrid matchup.
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If the Hurricane you played against used Stantler and Gatr d, I'm sure that things would have bin very different. In my testings, I have found that the best Honchkrow can realy do, is slow down Hurrican by a few turns. All they have to do is stall, set up a Gatr d on the bench and it's all over for the Krow player.
And FYI, I run a good DWD list. It beats most decks, but just looses to Gatr, and Empoleon is proveing troublesome.
 
Stage 2s are just in general bad vs Krow. Your 1 Gatr d isn't going to win you this matchup. You have to have Totodile, RC, Gatr d AND energy in order to be effective. It's a minimum of 4 cards that you can simply NOT lose early on. You're just relying on top decks if they're gone, too.

Stantler isn't even effective. You're just giving them even more of a chance to hit a trainer and discard another card. They also still have Mars and Umbreon *. There seems to be a lot more than you think of. I'd take a credible player like Kettler's word on the matchup.
 
Basics with Paralyzing, Sleep are the easiest counters to slow them down.
That or a starter deck with no trainers........
 
SLOW DECK said:
Basics with Paralyzing, Sleep are the easiest counters to slow them down.
That or a starter deck with no trainers........
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A starter deck is not the solution. What if your Torterra gets discarded :eek:. GG ......:lol:

I think the best way to counter Absol is to use Absol. It just makes everything more fair :lol:. Seriously, the thing can pretty much fit in any deck! It evens the game out since each player is loosing cards from their hand. As said before, Sableye CG is another excellent choice because of its disableing abilities.
 
^A deck that requires only one stage one to power up to be fully powered for EVERYONE to be able to attack has the advantage over pretty much any other deck I can name. Using an Absol on them isn't the answer.

Kettler: not sure what I was on (though I WILL do a drug test on myself to find out :thumb:), but yeah, DWD would destroy Hurricane.
 
Scizor said:
Stage 2s are just in general bad vs Krow. Your 1 Gatr d isn't going to win you this matchup. You have to have Totodile, RC, Gatr d AND energy in order to be effective. It's a minimum of 4 cards that you can simply NOT lose early on. You're just relying on top decks if they're gone, too.

Stantler isn't even effective. You're just giving them even more of a chance to hit a trainer and discard another card. They also still have Mars and Umbreon *. There seems to be a lot more than you think of. I'd take a credible player like Kettler's word on the matchup.
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I use Mars and Umbreon* in my Honchkrow, and it still is hard to win. You seem to be forgeting about Stantler's second attack.
 
It's funny how everybody used to say the same thing about Blissey. " It's too good. The only way to beat it is to use it". There's always an answer to everything, you just have to be creative.
 
DarthPika said:
If the Hurricane you played against used Stantler and Gatr d, I'm sure that things would have bin very different. In my testings, I have found that the best Honchkrow can realy do, is slow down Hurrican by a few turns. All they have to do is stall, set up a Gatr d on the bench and it's all over for the Krow player.
And FYI, I run a good DWD list. It beats most decks, but just looses to Gatr, and Empoleon is proveing troublesome.
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Yes on Stantler, no on Gatr d. I will concede that the matchup is a little bit more interesting with the lightning tech, but Stantler is, as Jorel put it, "pwndaddies"d by Absol.

Also, as Scizor put it, stage two decks in general have issues vs Honchkrow. There are a couple notable exceptions (Infernape, Mario [which isn't even a deck]), but Krow has a huge advantage versus gatr.
 
I found that if a player plays Professor Birch, said player still would have to get it in time to get rolling.

I noticed that if you play Mars yourself and use Gardevoir, your opponent can't do that much. DWD doesn't seem to deal in the "Big Hand Catagory", so losing cards is annoying for them as well. Fighting fire with fire, so to speak.
 
A few points...

Skarmbliss- Yes, that is why Boofu and I named it DarkWing Duck.dec
Tyranitarfreak- DWD might settle down a little, but it will never be forgotten.:smile:
Cyrus-I agree with your agreeance. Absol is Stantler's pwndaddy
Scipio-The problem with someone playing Professor Birch is that they are actually playing professor birch.
 
jkwarrior said:
A few points...

Scipio-The problem with someone playing Professor Birch is that they are actually playing professor birch.
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Japan (which by the way still has Holon Engine) disagrees, according to Tego (and my ability to read... Which hopefully is accurate). Having played a few games with that card in my deck, I see why; it's much better then originally thought (broken, no. Useful, yes).
 
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