Cetra - Very very nice article. I personally have playtested 'Gigas (thanks to our convo months back :thumb
and understand just how devistating an active/belted/fully powered 'Gigas Lv.X T2/3 can be. Great job on the report, glad to see it unveiled
Sweet I got the general on ma side lol XD
But jeez I work a closing shift and come back to all this? ._.
Where to begin...
@Laugh: I question if you read the article. I DO run 3 rescue and a TSD. I used to run 4 rescue, but opted to try a different bind strategy for regionals. I'll probably be going back to the 4 rescue because though TSD is nice, I like rescue personally.
@Mac: If you've even played against this deck I would question the players build. Gigas is by no means slow. Even when you power spray me, I have the DCEs to start attacking my second turn no matter what. Which leads me to explain why DCE from someones question earlier:
DCE is in for a few reasons. Yes, you can't use it with the Lvl X's attacks as a means of energy excel, but that's not my purpose. DCE is a recovery mechanism and a Plan B energy attachment. If I get knocked out, DCE gets my new gigas up and running fast. If I get my first sac sprayed, I dce to start attacking ASAP. It also works great as a means of paying for my heavier retreat costs when I can't sacrifice them out of my way or don't WANT to sac them out of the way,
@ Kayle, as always thanks for the support. You've witnessed the deck firsthand, and you've seen me play qute a few matches this year to boot. You say you don't have the skill, and though you don't have the time I do with the deck, I'm confident you understand it enough to play it by now.
@ Meeesie: I disagree with everything you've said on here. A 60/40 on favor of luxchomp? You're daft. If that were the case, I wouldn't have come anywhere CLOSE to placing how I did this year. I built this deck and tailored it to play against luxchomp. Everything about this deck screams a counter to you. People keep saying things like Power Spray and Promo Croak. I'll tell you flat out that I'm more afraid of a pwer spray than a promocroak.
About Power Spray, I have a couple options for getting rid of them when I actually NEED to sacrifice. The first is Let Loose. I get rid of your hand and force you to draw 4 new cards. Sure you can draw into another spray, but at least I'm forcing that to chance. Sure you can power spray my Letloose, but to be frank, have fun with it because unless you have another it's pretty pointless. If you do, congratulations because you just wasted 2 sprays in one turn.
As for promo croak. I used to be pretty sketchy about this before I thought it out enough. Prmoocroak can't suprise attack me. With downer lock and I psychic bind going, you have to hand attach 2 energy and use an e. gain to even get an attack off. If I'm playing with drag off, like should be done in this match up, I'll pull you up long before you're charged, then I'll wail into you something fierce. Even if you were to get one off, I cure poison with LA gigas (which is my preferred gigas), I have warps. I can retreat manually. To get rid of damage, I heal off 80 with sacrifice. I'll flat out tell you that this is teh only part of the game where you would have me backed at a corner, but unless you know what you're doing you won't suceed and I'd have to give you props for getting that far anyways.
Should you prove YOUR matchup is true? I'd gladly take you on if I didn't think redshark was a complete waste of my time, but for one match I'd contemplate downloading it and giving myself a crash course in how it works to do it.
On a side not I'm going to explain why my match up reads 90-10. How many people net deck luxchomp? A lot. That said, how many players actually know what they're doing with it? I only know a few personally and even they have a hard time with me. I've only lost to 1 Luxchomp deck in tournament this year and it was played by a machine (lol). If you had that good of a record inside and outside of the tournament structure wouldn't YOU have a crazy percentage like that? Add in my skill with the deck and my matchup makes complete sense for me at least. I'm not saying the deck won't lose to luxchomp and I'm far from saying a good player couldn't take me down, but what I am saying is that it takes a really good player to be able to compete against this deck. That or hope I get a horrible start.
