My Bad Romance

[dave628]

How's the Lostgar matchups? From testing, it's pretty hard; harder than gyarados especially if they also tech in Gengar SF.

Do you ever miss warp energy?

How's the MewGyarados matchups? They easily one hit ko you but you can also do the same; although they have an easier time in making recovery.

 

[Cetra]

How's the Lostgar matchups? From testing, it's pretty hard; harder than gyarados especially if they also tech in Gengar SF.

Do you ever miss warp energy?

How's the MewGyarados matchups? They easily one hit ko you but you can also do the same; although they have an easier time in making recovery.

Ahh lostgar...

This depends. Are they the speed version? If so a trainer lock will slow them down long enough to dominate the match. The games I tested weren't even fair to lostgar...

Not so trainer reliant? Its like playing lostgar vs vilegar. You have SO many pokemon. This is a good place for regirock as a tech.

However I have yet to see anyone with lostgar in my area. I can't believe I forgot to mention this before though ^^'

No I do not miss warp as it is completely unnessesary.

Funniest thing. I just go to gallery and copy the bb image link for all my pix ^^' I use firefox.

 

[Regis_Neo]

Lol, love the deck name, especially in relation to what you're talking about.

 

[dave628]

How do you handle the lone Regirock start?

Lostgar that does not rely too heavily on trainers gives machamp/vileplume the most difficulty; mostly due to the fact, that you need to get 2 fighting energies in your discard pile.

 

[Porii Sames]

^Regi-cycle a whole bunch, get it active one way or another, Fighting Tag.

 

[waynegg]

Wayne, I dunno how Cetra does it, but if you right click on the thumbnails in the gallery and select 'view image info' (I'm using Firefox btw), then you can get the URL for it, then just use the IMG tags

Random example

Well, maybe not totally random.

Hmm... I'm using FF and I can't copy the location.

I enjoyed your article btw Cetra. It is well written and it gave me a couple of new ideas! Just one question, in particular about your post BW rule overhaul- If rotation comes with rule changes, how will the deck carry on there after?

 

[Cetra]

@Dave: My current list runs 1 regirock and I gotta say I've been lucky enough to never start with it. If you do? I'd pray for a dce to retreat. Sets you back a couple turns, yeah, but better than nothing.

And yes I already say none trainer reliant lostgar gives the most problems, but I'm confused by fighting energy in the discard pile?

@Waynegg: I have not put much thought into how the deck with run POST rotation...why? Because if spiritomb gets cut, the deck pretty much shrivels up and dies a horrible horrible death. Could you still run VileChamp? Sure. but it wouuld probably be a lot of hassle that wouldn't pay off much unless you could get a quick set up. I personally would prefer a machamp donphan prime variant over vilechamp mainly because atm I can't say for sure how important trainers are going to be in our next gen engines of choice.

 

[Kayle]

And yes I already say none trainer reliant lostgar gives the most problems, but I'm confused by fighting energy in the discard pile?

Fighting in discard = you can attach to Regirock with its power = you can Fighting Tag it out of the way

 

[dave628]

Regirock's power does not work without any fighting energy in the discard pile.
Assuming a start of either Spiritomb or Machop, you can retreat either pokemon to get 1 fighting energy in the discard pile.

Now unless you have another fighting energy in your hand to use for Regirock's power, you will get to use Regirock's power one time. This deck has far too many pokemon for Lostgar to send to Lost Zone.
Thus, you may need to use Regirock's power more than once per game unless you are planning to retreat Machamp prime.

 

[PhadedPhione]

Its an interesting deck, should change the name to Rad Bromance imo. Regirock is the new darling for deck design.

 

[Cetra]

^^^^

Juggernaut woulda been good too...you pretty much bowl over everything once ur set up and ur engine works in a way where you shouldn't be losing machamps...

Do love me a rad bromance though >.>

 

[flariados]

The article is great and I think you did a great job explaining the deck but why no Azelf in your deck? When your one Machamp SF is prized against Luxchomp the matchup becomes a lot harder.

 

[Cetra]

The article is great and I think you did a great job explaining the deck but why no Azelf in your deck? When your one Machamp SF is prized against Luxchomp the matchup becomes a lot harder.

I was actually testing alot last night and found that against sp I prefer to drop SF champ later game to seal my last 2 prizes. That being said, Azelf becomes a lot less important.

However, my playstyle this year has ignored azelf completely. it hasn't been in any of the decks I've play ^^'

So far nothing too bad has happened

 

[ape101]

GJ man, really solid article.

 

[superwolfs]

I really like this article because I feel like the trainer line is so good. Not in any deck, but I feel like a deck that uses vileplume could use a similar trainer line to this and have it work very well. Great article overall

 

[Rambo]

Very solid article, I enjoyed reading through it.

I honestly wasn't to pleased to see no Azelf in this deck when you only have 1 copy of Machamp SF, as it can help more towards basic builds if it's stuck in your prizes. Also if you have issues with VileGar, you can see what prizes you have, and prevent yourself from being stuck against poltergeist as you'll be drawing prizes frequently. Also rainbow energy allows you to utilise its locking capability, if ever needed. Just an idea.

That being said, this build seems to work for you, so kudos on making a creative deck, works surprisingly well.

 

[chopemdown]

i like 3spiritomb 1smeargle 1 unknown q and 1 regirock too.

 

[jjkkl]

What.

Bad Romance is about hedonistic promulgation of sexualized themes as convention in an increasingly secular social zeitgeist. I don't get the title >:\

EDIT: The Cardigan's 'Lovefool', Michael Jackson's 'Bad', or Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' (though stretching it, hurhur) would be more appropriate titles.

 

[Charzano]

^ I feel like someone would report you if they could decipher your post.

 

[Cetra]

So I played two Bad Romance during regionals

Round 1 I got to play a guy I played during states who said my article was so good he had to play it. Even though I won it was still scary as craziness D: then in top 2 my buddy Tyrer knocked me down in top 2 with his version...

Moral of the story? Never write an article before a major tournament XD