Upcoming Deck Hawlucha EX/Whimsicott/Virizion EX

[Drunkenmole]

With the upcoming release of the expansion Furious Fists i decided to create a Deck based around Whimsicott and Hawlucha.

The main idea of the deck is to boost your pokemon with Whimsicotts ability "Fluffy Tag". Other ideas of this deck would be using Rocky Helmet and Rock Guard to make use of Hawluchas Special Ability which is basically a free Rocky Helmet.

Virzion EX for Energy distribution, Mewtwo for the X Ball, Raichu against Yveltal. Hawlucha basically oneshots every Darkrai when you get a Stadium Card out.
The new expansion gives a lot of options for fighting pokemon, for example the new special energy "Strong Energy" which gives fighting pokemon +20, also the new stadium empowers fighting types. But IMO the stadium card "Skyarrow Bridge" works better because you get free retreats on your basics expect for mewtwo and Whimsicott has basically an in-build retreat.

I might also consider running the new Lucario EX/M-Lucario EX but this still needs further testing.


Anyway, let´s take a look at the deck:


18 Pokemon:

2 Hawlucha EX
2 Virizion EX
1 Mewtwo EX
2 Pikachu
2 Raichu
3 Cottonee
3 Whimsicott
1 Mr. Mime

15 Energy:

6 Grass Energy
2 Fighting Energy
3 DCE
4 Strong Energy

27 Trainer/Items:

4 N
4 Juniper/Sycamore (note: you can only run either of those, not both)
2 Skyla
2 Colress
1 Super Rod
2 Spirit Bangle
4 Level Ball
2 Ultra Ball
2 Switch
2 Skyarrow Bridge
1 Computer Search
1 Tool Scrapper


Let me now what you think about this deck. Personally i think this deck could be a lot of fun, but it´s very risky because Whimsicott is a very easy target and to deal the full amount of damage you want you will always need a turn with Whimsicott to boost, which could become a Problem the longer the game goes on.

 

[Gerik]

The only real problem I see with this deck is the fact that the whimsicott switch leaves your new active Pokemon vulnerable. You're wasting a turn to do 40 more damage when you could have dealt your Pokemon's attack damage twice; more effectively KOing the opposing Pokemon. Whimsicott will allow your opponent's Pokemon to hit your empowered Pokemon once, which can set it up to be KO'ed by their next Pokemon. Once you attack your turn is over so chances are your 'empowered' active Pokemon will be slaughtered. Also Mewtwo does nothing for this deck other than get big if you solely focus on him. Seeing as Virizion is your /only/ energy accelerator, you can have a problem since you're running a lot of basics which means you won't always 1st hand virizion and can accidentally first hand your single Mr.Mime or Mewtwo-EX which shouldn't be fighting turn 1. It may seem good on paper but the deck has a lot of problems. Taking turns to setup with Virizion can let your opponent setup other powerful things. Virizion needs 2 turns to attack, so you get 2 more grass energy out. So far i'm a bit sketchy on the deck, without some real playtesting I can't give my final verdict.