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Hey all, Pyrocitor here, Im building the best decks I can on Redshark of each of the common archetypes in the metagame right now to test my deck against. Im ignoring rogue decks because you cant predict what people will use, anyhow these are the common decks I know of:
Jumpluff
LuxChomp and variants
CurseGar
MotherGengar
Charizard
FlyPhan
LuxPhan
Steelix variants
AMU
Gyarados
Dialga G Lv.X and Sp techs

Im not a noob I just havent played in a while so I would appreciate any knowledge you guys can give me on other common archetypes. Also if anyone has a standard list that really runs well for any of the above decks please post it below. Thank you everyone, Kiki x Peace
 
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Machamp will be bigger without Unown G. Jumpluff will die, I don't care what other people say, it just won't be able to recover like it used to without Claydol, and a 'pluff that can't recover is a 'pluff that can't win. I don't see Flygon being big at all, too slow in a format where S2's have no support and SP's have everything. Cursegar will be in the same boat.

MD-on, from the get go, will be a lot of SP's, with a spattering of Charizard (since it has an engine), Machamp (People wating to abuse Take Out), and Gengar (People wanting to abuse Shadow Room).

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Shuckle is right with everything he said. Jumpluff might make a decent deck with survivability techs, but for the most part it will die. SP decks will be the best in the format, and if they have to they can tech against Machamp. Donphan will be decent because it does not need Claydol as much. Gyarados I am on the edge about. Sablelock will become better. These decks will be the main decks you should test against or with.
Luxchomp, Blazechomp/ray, DialgaChomp, Sablelock, Charizard, Gengar, Machamp.
 
dusknoir SF will also make a comeback with damage even. Maybe be a little slow but has seemed to run better with uxie than claydol for me.
 
I think lanturn prime will be more widely played than gatr prime due to its dual type poke power. It is basically the lightning/water version of leafeon/magmortar and can be a very quick deck due to DCE
 
Blastoise/Feraligatr is seeing a lot of play in this area, Sable-lock is on the rise, and I almost drowned in Machamp decks last time I attended. Those are the only new decks I've noticed popping up so far :tongue:
 
Fall Battle roads top decks
LuxChomp
Charizard
MaCheap
Gengar

then Cities

Gengar prime (If released)
 
csponsler said:
Only way I can see it is running 2 Regice. Increasing the odds of starting with it are not fun.
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And whats wrong with one regice? Gyrados doesnt need all three magikarps in the discard in one turn.
 
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You really want to get T2/T3 90 and I just don't see that happening with 1 Regice. Yeah, you have SSUs but I feel that they are too flippy and aren't reliable when you really need them to be. Most decks: i.e. Mostly SP and some other decks can mow you down about 2 prizes before you can get your Gyarados and 3 karps in the discard.

With Gyarados you want to get the karps in the discard while hopefully disrupting(Switching w/regice) and still drawing into your Warp ENG, G-Dos, and BTS. With felicity's out next season, I just don't see Gyarados doing as well.
 
yeah, discarding is not a problem for gyarados in the coming format. its the loss of the draw power that felicity's gave it.
 
csponsler said:
You really want to get T2/T3 90 and I just don't see that happening with 1 Regice. Yeah, you have SSUs but I feel that they are too flippy and aren't reliable when you really need them to be. Most decks: i.e. Mostly SP and some other decks can mow you down about 2 prizes before you can get your Gyarados and 3 karps in the discard.

With Gyarados you want to get the karps in the discard while hopefully disrupting(Switching w/regice) and still drawing into your Warp ENG, G-Dos, and BTS. With felicity's out next season, I just don't see Gyarados doing as well.
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You dont see it happening t3 with sabeleye starts and pokemon collectors? What did we draw an azelf 3 BTS and 3 gyrados? seems bad.
 
uhhh, it's not the discarding that's a problem, it's the lack of being able to get a decent sized hand with no Claydol and no 4 card draw. Sure Regice does the discarding fine, but then your hand size is like, 3. Felicity covered 2 thing Gyara needed, discard and draw. Claydol and Regice were able to duplicate the effect against disruption, but not meant to do it consistantly. Now with Felicity and Claydol gone, Regice is gettign lonely.
 
Shino Bug Master said:
uhhh, it's not the discarding that's a problem, it's the lack of being able to get a decent sized hand with no Claydol and no 4 card draw. Sure Regice does the discarding fine, but then your hand size is like, 3. Felicity covered 2 thing Gyara needed, discard and draw. Claydol and Regice were able to duplicate the effect against disruption, but not meant to do it consistantly. Now with Felicity and Claydol gone, Regice is gettign lonely.
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Agreed,


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Shino Bug Master said:
uhhh, it's not the discarding that's a problem, it's the lack of being able to get a decent sized hand with no Claydol and no 4 card draw. Sure Regice does the discarding fine, but then your hand size is like, 3. Felicity covered 2 thing Gyara needed, discard and draw. Claydol and Regice were able to duplicate the effect against disruption, but not meant to do it consistantly. Now with Felicity and Claydol gone, Regice is gettign lonely.
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Not all gyrados decks even ran claydol, and what if you get a hand that starts with a sabeleye and Collector? You collector on the impersonate, get regice and two magikarps. play yours next turn, go grab two other karps, and an uxie. Seems absolutely fine from having two cards in hand. No care about felicitys.
 
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