Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Top Teir Decks?

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Ash_Van_Je said:
Sorry, but hmm, Polistall is a deck?
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Won the Southeast Regionals, beating both an Ariados/Dustox ex deck and a Flariados (not mine though). People kept telling Jake Burt that he was facing an auto-loss, but then he came out to win the whole thing. So yeah, I'd say it's a deck, just a very underplayed deck. People are too afraid to use it because of LBS, I think.
 
i think Rock-Lock is a very consistant deck that can match up with almost anything pretty well.
My Top 5 decks:
1. Rock-Lock
2. Cham
3. POW! Block
4. LBS
5. Metanite
 
icemelter1001 said:
Someone ACTUALLY won with Mercury AND A REGIONALS AT THAT..
WHAT is this world comming too?!?!?!?!?!!?
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i'd like to you to win with a delta deck besides Gyraduck and Metanite using only 1 set and in this format
 
RockLock isn't played very much at all anymore. Too much cham, queen, flariados, and randomness for it to do well.

LBS is still the beast of burden right now. You've got Cham, Mewtric, LBS, Flariados, and Queen up at the top, with like 10 other decks that can go right up there with them or right below them. Tough metagame.
 
ryanvergel said:
RockLock isn't played very much at all anymore. Too much cham, queen, flariados, and randomness for it to do well.
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nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

what i really wanna know is what decks are *if you can beat all of them, you got a chance at worlds*
 
icemelter1001 said:
Someone ACTUALLY won with Mercury AND A REGIONALS AT THAT..
WHAT is this world comming too?!?!?!?!?!!?
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Considering the following, it's not all that surprising
a) I didn't just win with it, I'm the guy who created the deck (should I call it an archetype, using the dictionary definition of the word?) in the first place.
b) Dramatic differences exist in Australia/New Zealand from the US metagame, to the point where, while every archetype is represented by at least one top ranked player (along with a lot of Rogue decks), it's highly rare for more than 1-2 people in the same division in any tournament to play the same archetype.

Interesting that you say that RockLock isn't being played so much anymore, Ryan. I haven't kept up with the US metagame as much as I would've liked recently, with IRL issues to attend to, not to mention the recent VA issue with the Pokémon anime. I've got a quick question for you then. Do you see the distribution of archetype decks played to significantly change at any time between now and worlds, or do you think that the archetypes established as the main ones now will continue to be the bulk of decks played right up until the rotation?
 
It depends on whether a new, original deck will do well at Gyms or US Nats. If so, be sure that lot of people wil copy it.
 
Rulemaster said:
you guys forgot to add sunflora/metagross to the list of top tier decks
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???...


my list:

Flariados
LBS
Dark T-tar variants
Queen


those 4 are going to win at least 60-70% of the GC:thumb:
 
The archetypes will continue to change.

The fact is, they have to change for the following reason:
TRIPS

Regionals didn't give out trips. This year, trips are harder to come by. If Regionals gave us new decks (mewtric, flariados), you can bet your boots GCs will too, because trips are on the line. Players will have new and awesome decks to bust out for the GCs, and they'll win- and the metagame will once again shift during GCs and for Nationals.

It's also interesting to see the disparity in regionalities for the US. West, Midwest, East, Southeast all have very, very different metagames. Entire archetypes are non-existent almost.

Rocklock, at least in the east/southeast is 100% dead. I know it's played in the west a little, and perhaps a tiny bit in the midwest.
 
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