Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

The New Claydol? Discuss

Sabett said:
I never said anything about that, at all. You said sure it'll make our decks less consistent, but everyone will have that. But SP is consistent enough to contend with current archetypes that have claydol, and will absolutely stomp them when they dont have it, and when they've lost nothing.
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I was not specifically referring to any comment you made, sorry if it seemed that way. I was just adding a thought that it seems to me that comparative consistency is not really the problem when facing a Luxchomp deck. The problem seems to me to be Poke-Turn that allows repeated "Bright Looks" and "Healing Breaths" and Energy Gain that powers up their attacks faster. Any attempt to beat Luxchomp should really start with thinking about how one can negate the use of Poke-Turn and E-Gain.

For the record, I am not saying that consistency is not important. I just happen to believe that of the factors that Luxchomp has in its favour, consistency is the least important of the three: concsistency, Poke-Turn, E-Gain.

It's just an opinion - not a fact - others are free to offer differing opinions.
 
Articjedi said:
All I can say is, new players are spoiled. This old vet remembers running supporters only for draw and it worked just fine.
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In a format where you have 2/3 turns to setup and STEVEN this is possible but in our current terrible speed format it isnt :/
 
My friend ran lunatone and solrock as an engine. wasn't really that bad. You look for a card in the top 3 you want and discard and draw. Easy to target but easy to get out.

Also, from experience, some decks just recquire their own engine (If sp didn't make that obvious).
Such as Delibird for water decks.
Heracross for grass decks.
And many more im sure. As a perk, they don't have you trade your hand away or limit it.

Also, I know a lot of us like engines but isn't that because they help us obtain what we need faster but at random? Try to look at your deck, and realize what cards are really the essential and what give you chances to obtain them. If you could successfully make a deck that chooses this and that, then you probably wouldn't need an engine... of chance that is.
Unfortunetly, Furret is leaving us soon, makes me sad.
I abuse supporters a bit, and i like the idea of Jirachi and New oak's. And what about sabeleye if you like speed?
 
I haven't read through this entire thread, but in my opinion there isn't a new Claydol, and when there is one, it'll be immediately obvious.

I'm personally hoping that there isn't a new Claydol-like engine for quite a while, as it would be cool to get to experiment more and give decks more of a personal twist. Claydol will definitely be missed though.
 
kwisdumb said:
I haven't read through this entire thread, but in my opinion there isn't a new Claydol, and when there is one, it'll be immediately obvious.

I'm personally hoping that there isn't a new Claydol-like engine for quite a while, as it would be cool to get to experiment more and give decks more of a personal twist. Claydol will definitely be missed though.
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Engine is a fancy way of saying geting the cards i need quickly and efficently. I encourage you to experiment, then you could be the person who discovers the blatant that is missed. Like Blissey
 
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