Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

NEED gyarados counters FAST.

My favorite Gyarados counter is still TM Devolutor. Just do 30 damage to Gyarados and de-evolve it. BAM. Magikarp is dead.
 
Kayle said:
160 HP can bite a tail revenge
Hit 80 recover 50 for WCC, so that's a 2hko

If it has the same belt state as the gyarados, it wins the damage match.
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A Belted Gyarados 2HKO's RSL.
RSL 2HKO's a Belted Gyarados.

Unbelted Gyarados 3HKO's RSL for two prizes.
RSL 2HKO's Unbelted Gyarados for one prize.

Belted RSL 2HKO's Belted Gyarados for two prizes.
Belted Gyarados 2HKO's RSL with a Crobat G drop for THREE prizes.

RSL is harder to get out, harder to recover, and requires a water and DCE to attack. It doesn't win at anything compared head-to-head.
 
Go for Infernape E4 level X, keep switching gyrados then start attacking their bench and it HAS won me bunch of games against gyrados and was really effective.
 
^^Not effective because of Crobats and Warp Energy.

Beating Gyarados is all about the early game, you need to find a way to take an early lead an maintain it. Taking prizes off the bench helps. If you have to take the Gyarados head on then try to find a way around rescue energy, status conditions, devolutor and damage counters can all be used here.
 
Dual_Draw said:
^^Not effective because of Crobats and Warp Energy.

Beating Gyarados is all about the early game, you need to find a way to take an early lead an maintain it. Taking prizes off the bench helps. If you have to take the Gyarados head on then try to find a way around rescue energy, status conditions, devolutor and damage counters can all be used here.
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I don't see how Crobats or Warp Energy have any bearing on the effectiveness of Infernape 4.
Naturally you have to take prizes early and often, but as long as you start off solid (necessary in any matchup), once you get out Infernape 4 lv.X, you are basically guaranteed a prize a turn, as long as you can handle whatever Gyarados has on the bench, which is huge if Gyarados can't OHKO you.

The main weakness of Infernape 4 is the times when the Gdos player runs one of Luxray/Reversal/PokeBlower, in which case, they take out your Infernape 4 and severely limit the advantage you gain from it.
 
The turn that you KO Gyarados and their bench is full, Drop Ditto (TR). This will buy you 1 extra prize if they aren't holding a Poke Turn.
 
Their bench will be full so they can't put down a gyrados until another pokemon gets killed/poketurned/super scooped up
 
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