Black Mamba
New Member
Max out night maintenance. You'll need them, especially while playing a 1-1-1 line.
nooooonononono. Having a lot of experience with a deck SIMILAR to this one, 4 night maintenance are completely useless. You'll either have them early game when you don't need them at all, or they'll just be discarded with sally. 1-2 night maintenance is plenty, because most of the time, if you start to take out stuff with 150, you don't really need much else from your deck. That's the beauty of sally, once you take out a few charged up pokemon, theres not all too much they can do, especially if you're playing crystal beach. A 1-1 magneton line isn't very helpful either, I've made more use out of playing 2 mr. stones instead, however horrible that sounds.
Castform is not helpful in this deck in my opinion. It forces you to play a bagon that can be sniped by empoleon, and a shelgon with 10 less hp and a bigger retreat cost. Not to mention the PK bagon/shelgon share in that handy dandy resistance to fire/fighting (take THAT, T1 riolu!).