Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

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Roarkiller

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I was wondering if this idea could work.

Metagross' Gravitation reduces HP by 20.

Abol Prime reduces any basic's HP placed on the bench from the hand by a further 20.

And Miasma Valley further pulls it down another twenty if it's not grass or psychic.

As a tech, LunaRock defence against garchomp's healing activities. Absol already an anti-gengar, the whole como is anti-gyarados/jumpluff, and metagross is the only evo line, probably 3-2-3 line, one of them with Magnetic Reversal for pseudo-luxray effect.

Opinions?
 
It's an interesting idea. I remember some people at league talking about something like this, specifically as a Gyarados counter so that Magikarps just instantly died. Dialga G Lv. X would completely shut it down, though, which could be a problem. Could be worth testing, though, if someone could get a good list together.
 
Skeleton list it is then.

Pkmn (16)
4 Absol prime
3 sableye
2 unown dark
3-2-3 metagross (x1 magnetic reversal)
2 uxie
2 crobat G

TSS (34)
3 collector
3 bebe
3 seeker
3 PONT
2 cynthia guidance
4 candy
4 miasma valley
2 energy exchanger
3 warp point
3 cyrus
4 poketurn

4 special metal
3 special dark
3 basic dark

Not sure if warp energy is needed. Also realise the problem of a lack of basics here, thinking of good alternatives.. It's sad that Absol isn't a spreader, else it would've been great by itself. Could also use cursegar, but that's a little hard, considering the energy cost.

Btw, cynthia is there for the stadiums/candy. It's a great card to search for stuff like these, don't bash it.
 
What about Weavile? It adds hand disruption and can do 30 damage anywhere in the field?

Sneasle's Beat Up attack isn't too bad either.
 
Houndoom G could help against Dialga G LvX, as you can just drag it to the Active spot with Magnetic Reversal and OHKO it.


I had the same idea a couple of days ago, but didn't have the cards to actually build it.
 
RegiMove/Cyclone energy, BTS, GG. Not to shoot down your idea. Skarmory FB would probably be a bit better since you can keep the pressure on all the time so they can't cyclone out of it.
 
Caleb said:
RegiMove/Cyclone energy, BTS, GG. Not to shoot down your idea. Skarmory FB would probably be a bit better since you can keep the pressure on all the time so they can't cyclone out of it.
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Even Cyclone wouldn't work if he had two Absol Primes in play.
 
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Flight said:
Even Cyclone wouldn't work if he had two Absol Primes in play.
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In that respect you're right, but even then I've seen allot of gdos playing dialga, and reversal, and luxray. Usually every list runs one of the three. Also given the fact you already run metal with metagross, that means you don't have to run two types of energy (unless you are planning on not having a back up attacker?). Also keep in mind gdos is a beast, and a fast one at that. It won't take long for one to hit the field, and I wouldn't underestimate it's ability to take a good few prizes before you got the lock on, so even if you did manage to take two or three prizes with the lock, once another gydos is up and running it would gain the advantage before you could shut it down. Maybe devoluter could help you kill it the first time?

Also my other problem would be match-ups with everything else. It seems like this deck would suffer against anything that has remotely high HP basics.
 
Used to run a similar deck, with Skarmory FB in place of Absol; it was interesting and fun, but overall felt too slow. Then again, that might have just been the build I was using.
 
My friend told me about skarmory too. But the thing is, I don't want to focus too much on the actual lock itself. A cut of 60HP will prevent most deck from performing well, but not the top tiers like SP and vilegar (especially not vilegar).

The sub-main idea is to utilize absol's 2-energy attack to start the prize countdown. Even without miasma valley, which is the easiest to counter with the ever rampant BTS, a cut of 40HP off the bat is enough for absol to knock out anything else easily.

Which is also why I'm considering absol G and/or palkia G at this point. absol G's a sniper for one dark, and with crobat should be enough to get in the kills early enough in the game, although you lose the prime as active. Palkia clears the bench to force the opponent to either keep the bench small or risk the damage pile.

Either way, I'm banking on the new wonder supporter, seeker, to get in half of my damage. That, or just dump the metagross and go for Darkria/Cresslia Legend for sweeps.
 
ShuckleLVX said:
Not sure how BTS helps Gyrados when, you know, the karps never get a chance to evolve...
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Because BTS removes Miasma Valley, and Gdos runs more than enough outs to get out of a Absol Lock, hence I suggested Skarmory FB who can't be RegiMove'd, Cyclone Energy'd, Poekomn Reversal'd, Bright Looked, or Time Crystal'd out of.

If you want to stick with Absol that's cool, but you're going to have to have two out to even stand a chance against gdos, and even then you have to expect to give up at least two prizes before you get your setup, and then knockout the gdos (good luck). Once you get them locked they'll have a tough time till they drop a luxray/dialga/reversal, and then they'll have an easy out. Maybe instead you could tech in a skarmory for gdos, and a absol for everything else? Even then you'd still have to worry about a Dialga+BTS, but that's the best you can minimize the risks, especially since not every gdos has dialga.

As for everyone else I still think you're going to have trouble. You should be able to hold your own vs. VileGar, but the LuxChomps, and especially DialgaChomps are going to have a field day. Your setup will be slower than their's, and damage on their pokemon will be easily brushed off. Not really sure what you could tech in to fix this. Maybe machamp, but that's space intensive, and will reduce consistency vs. your other match-ups.
 
Raen said:
I'm fairly certain he's talking about the UD Weavile.
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Correct, I was referring to the UD Weavile whose Feint attack does 30 damage to one Pokemon.

I thought the "Beat Up" Sneazle remark would have made that obvious.

I really like this idea, but it is missing something.......?????
 
Weaville i an interesting idea, and gotta admit, i a better sniper than asol G, although you can't use it 1st turn.

So I guess if this deck was to be built, 2 skarmory FB would be in order, alongside the 4 absol. Would Jirachi then be a better starter than sableye, I wonder?

Btw, the new gust of wind is gonna royally screw up this idea, lol.
 
IMO, you need a bit more Pokemon and Pokemon search. Remember, you need to lost zone a Pokemon just to attack with Absol.
 
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