Barkjon
Active Member
Ever since HGSS-on was announced, I've been wracking my brain (and my collection) for a lock deck to play. In the MD-on season I fell in love with Sablelock - a truly awesome deck I wish I could still play. I was really looking for a deck that resembled that, and the Ambipom/Weavile that topcutted there seemed perfect.
I started researching the deck and got the list he played. I had almost the whole list except for the Donphan Prime, so I kinda messed with the deck. I preferred to have more of attacking power, so I tried to combine Ambipom/Weavile with my Cinno/Zoroark, and this is what I got...
POKEMON (25):
4-3 Weavile UD
2-2 Slowking HGSS
3-3 Ambipom TR
2-2 Cinccino
1-1 Umbreon
1-1 Zoroark
T/S/S (22):
4 PONT
3 Juniper
3 Collector
4 Seeker
4 Communication
2 Dual Balls
2 Switch
ENERGY (13):
4 DCE
4 SP. Dark
3 Dark
2 Rescue
STRATEGY:
As you can see, this deck is prettttttyyyy rough right now. I'm relatively new to this deck, so the strategy isn't totally perfected yet.
The focus of this deck is to disrupt your opponent to the point where they have nothing good in their hand and almost nothing on the field, and then sweep with Cinccino. Weavile is extremely important here. His "Claw Snag" Poke-Power let's you discard a card from your opponents hand. Extremely valuable to get rid of an important card in their hand. On top of this is Ambipom. His first attack does little damage but has an amazing effect of getting rid of 2 of your opponent's cards. In addition to these two Pokemon, Slowking can both speed yourself up or lock your opponent via it's poke-power.
If you get those 3 Pokemon out early, your opponent will (hopefully) be locked down, so you can bring out Cinccino. This is a valuable attacker, that will often hit for between 80 and 100 damage. Considering that your opponent is already locked down, that will often OHKO your opponent. Ambipom is also used as an attacker, and Weavile can be used to snipe babies on your opponents bench.
Additionally, you have Xatu, Zoroark, and Bouffalant. Xatu is an awesome card that directly counters Machamp Prime - a fully-loaded Champ is one-shotted by Xatu. Zoroark is used to (occasionally) set yourself up, but generally used to OHKO Zekrom or Reshiram via it's Foul Play attack and a sp. dark energy. Pretty awesome. Bouffalant can also revenge kill most Pokemon and can OHKO RDL.
The T/S/S line is mainly directed towards consistency and speed.
The Energy line is pretty obvious.
Anyways, please help!
I started researching the deck and got the list he played. I had almost the whole list except for the Donphan Prime, so I kinda messed with the deck. I preferred to have more of attacking power, so I tried to combine Ambipom/Weavile with my Cinno/Zoroark, and this is what I got...
POKEMON (25):
4-3 Weavile UD
2-2 Slowking HGSS
3-3 Ambipom TR
2-2 Cinccino
1-1 Umbreon
1-1 Zoroark
T/S/S (22):
4 PONT
3 Juniper
3 Collector
4 Seeker
4 Communication
2 Dual Balls
2 Switch
ENERGY (13):
4 DCE
4 SP. Dark
3 Dark
2 Rescue
STRATEGY:
As you can see, this deck is prettttttyyyy rough right now. I'm relatively new to this deck, so the strategy isn't totally perfected yet.
The focus of this deck is to disrupt your opponent to the point where they have nothing good in their hand and almost nothing on the field, and then sweep with Cinccino. Weavile is extremely important here. His "Claw Snag" Poke-Power let's you discard a card from your opponents hand. Extremely valuable to get rid of an important card in their hand. On top of this is Ambipom. His first attack does little damage but has an amazing effect of getting rid of 2 of your opponent's cards. In addition to these two Pokemon, Slowking can both speed yourself up or lock your opponent via it's poke-power.
If you get those 3 Pokemon out early, your opponent will (hopefully) be locked down, so you can bring out Cinccino. This is a valuable attacker, that will often hit for between 80 and 100 damage. Considering that your opponent is already locked down, that will often OHKO your opponent. Ambipom is also used as an attacker, and Weavile can be used to snipe babies on your opponents bench.
Additionally, you have Xatu, Zoroark, and Bouffalant. Xatu is an awesome card that directly counters Machamp Prime - a fully-loaded Champ is one-shotted by Xatu. Zoroark is used to (occasionally) set yourself up, but generally used to OHKO Zekrom or Reshiram via it's Foul Play attack and a sp. dark energy. Pretty awesome. Bouffalant can also revenge kill most Pokemon and can OHKO RDL.
The T/S/S line is mainly directed towards consistency and speed.
The Energy line is pretty obvious.
Anyways, please help!
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