The new archetypes

[Rai]

Blissey is as playable as Pidgeot RG

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So... Uh... It's not playable in the current format?

[del]Ah, gotta love verb tense useage...[/del]*SHOT*

 

[(TYranitarFReak)]

Blissey is as playable as Pidgeot RG

Blissey is as playable as Pidgeot RG was last time....

 

[SPARTA]

...No. It isn't. I don't even know where the heck you pulled that comparison from.

 

[DarthPika]

At the beginning of a season it is obviously difficult to see clear archetypes yet. Right now the only good examples would be Infernape/Delcatty and Mario. These are both decks that have seen lots of play, have had some results, and the general build of the deck stays consistent.
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LOL!!!

Mario is inferior to Empoleon Lucario, and Ape is dead.

Those are NOT good examples of archtypes.

 

[SPARTA]

I'm afraid you all have the wrong idea about "Archetypes." The word means a model after which other things are patterned. In Pokemon, there are truly only a few archetypes per se: (1) speed, (2) energy acceleration, (3) stalling, (4) disruption, and (5) the good ol fashioned "big monster."

Good catagorizing.

"Blissey" is not an archetype. It is a card. The archetype for straight Blissey is "speed." The Trainer line for such a deck can be easily modified for other speed decks. For example, TV Reporter can be replaced with Oak's Visit when using a "speed" Kricketune. Essentially, both decks are the same, even if they utilize different attack modes (Blissey retrieves Energy to increase power, Kricketune loads up its Bench).

...That made no sense. At all. Seriously, have you been up for like 4 days and gotten no sleep, because I KNOW you are smarter than that. If a similar trainer engine makes two decks not archetypes, then R-Gon and Metanite aren't archetypes.
If Ambulence (Solo Blissey) isn't an Archetype, Mario is a fish =/.

Mario is a hybrid. As some correctly point out, it uses "speed" with Riolu/Lucario, and Machop DP. It also depends on the "speed" of Machamp. However, it has the capacity to become a "good ol fashioned monster" once Machamp is built to 3 Energy. 90 damage+ Confusion is nothing to sneeze about.

Still trying to make Mario appear better than other decks? Give it up, anyone who listened to you before would believe you if your reasons were "Gurgen Flagen Shrigen Blarg", and everyone who knows better... knows better.

Metanite depended on "energy acceleration."
Absol/Honchkrow depend on "disruption."

Metanite depended on alot more than energy acceleration, but I see your point. Metanite rlied on powers, Ambush relied on damage spread and scrambles, Mario relies on DONKING, ect.

Great minds may differ about how many archetypes, or which deck belongs in which category, but these are the true archetypes.

True archetypes are decks that are widespread and effective in todays metagame.

Creation of particular Trainer/Energy Engines can be considered "archetypes" also, as they lend themselves to modular installation in similar decks. TRUK may be considered such an archetype. I was intrigued enough by the gossip about TRUK engines to formulate my own Blissey engine which works well in other "speed" decks also.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TRUK ENGINE FOR THE THOUSANTH TIME!!! Don't tell me you ACTUALLY think that an Aggro Blissey and a Blissvire deck could run the same engine? The next person who says this should be slapped....

"Standard Strategies" is just a euphemism for "Archetypes."

Code out.[/QUOTE]

...No, it isn't, at all. Way to get it 100% wrong.