Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

How big will infernape 4/Luxray GL be?

I am aware what it does against Kingdra...
but how does it help against beedrill?

High Jump Kick x 2 = 100.
High Jump Kick +30 = 80.

Either way, you two hit kill... and Split bomb does LESS to an active Beedrill.
I understand that, with Lucario, you can just add in a crobat (or one earlier split bomb) for the kill... but worth the slot? worth tutoring for? Meh.
Are repeat OHKOs woth 1 slot in your deck? NO way, that is sooooooo bad, you could use that space muuuuch better.
 
There's no need to OHKO kill Beedrills... You'll just give them a chance to recover them back via Night Maintenance and having it back in play within the next turn. Split the damage between the Bees and KO several within 1 turn, that way, it will hard to recover them back...
 
There's no need to OHKO kill Beedrills... You'll just give them a chance to recover them back via Night Maintenance and having it back in play within the next turn. Split the damage between the Bees and KO several within 1 turn, that way, it will hard to recover them back...

Oh yes, doing 20-20 for 5 turns to KO 2 Drills at once (assuming they don't hit the SSUs) while they're doing 90-120 a turn, is much better than KOing 2 Beedrills in 2 turns.
And exactly what advantage does it give them that they have to use Night Maintenance and then get the KOd Beedrill in play again? When you aren't KOing Drills, they don't even need to recover, because you aren't KOing anything.
 
I believe most won't move on unless you know how to use it and counter with many ways.and i think its downside is flash impact your hurting 1 xof your pokemon.
 
Except that you don't use Flash Impact unless you have the donk, or you can put the damage on a Crobat you are going to Poke Turn.
 
How many Power Spray are people using? I've seen from 0-3 and am just wondering the average amount I can expect when playing against this.
 
Well, now that the cat's out of the bag and at least half of top 8 is LuxApe, let's hammer out a list instead of fighting over it. It sounds like it's close to agreement on the Pokemon line-up, which is something like:

3-1 Ape
2-1 Ray
2 Crobat
1 Bronzong
1 Lucario
2-1 Uxie
2 Unown G
1 Azelf
=17

And for the SP engine, we have something like this:
4 Cyrus
4 Poke Turn
4 Energy Gain
4 Power Spray
? SP Radar
=16-20

To round out the staples of the deck:
4 Roseanne's
2 Aaron's
2 Premier Ball
2 Pokemon Rescue/NM
=10

Energy count looks to be 10-12 with mostly Fire and SP, maybe 1 or 2 Lightning since you have 8 ways to search.

Can someone confirm how much of this is close?

Edit: Looks like at least 3 of Top 4 in Masters is this...
 
Too many Gengar decks in the tournament. Gallade just doesnt stand a chance due to the weakness factor. Not to mention, Nidoqueen is in the deck and that card right there defeats Gallade 4's entire strategy.


What do you guys think of putting Azelf LA in the deck?
 
I'm hoping that LuxApe will become the next GG, then their will be more rogues. It will be a better format.
 
Anyone thought of Gallade/Luxray?

I've built it... It isn't very good.

I'm hoping that LuxApe will become the next GG, then their will be more rogues. It will be a better format.

That... isn't a healthy format. One overly dominant deck, and then decks that beat it. That is the meta you want?

What do you guys think of putting Azelf LA in the deck?

I was under the impression people were already playing it. I'm not a big fan, but It is standard.
 
^I found last year really fun. GG was ruling, EmpoZong beat it. Tons of rogues. I'm happy, and so are other people.
 
Too many Gengar decks in the tournament. Gallade just doesnt stand a chance due to the weakness factor. Not to mention, Nidoqueen is in the deck and that card right there defeats Gallade 4's entire strategy.

1-1 Dialga G Lv.X says hello.
 
Turns out, very good.
I took top 16 with it. Lost to Mother Gengar, since I prized my last poketurn and my crobat and didnt have a good hand (read: crap)
Pooka Won with it
I saw a bunch of others top cutting, also.
 
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