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Was GG the best deck of the POP era?

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No Team R Plox was it, was a 95-5 over gg in testing.

Prove me Wrong.

1,2,2,3,5 @ states. Are only losses were to straight banette and each other. FL and GA states

Your opp. cant Fire starter, Or mew lock you, or use Pidgeot(only reason 90% of the rest of the decks built could work) Any other pokepower here.
 
Pidgeotto Trainer said:
No deck has ever dominated this season like GG did. Blaziken dominated most of the year, didn't win nats or worlds. Medicham became pretty dominant, didn't win worlds. Storm (Blastoise ex/Steelix ex/Lugia ex) dominated states, didn't win nats or worlds. Infernape quickly became the best deck, didn't win nats or worlds. Absolutions actually did win nats and worlds, but won very few tournaments actually over the course of the year, not even being a huge play in worlds after nats.
Gardy/Gallade dominated all year, and remarkably still won nats AND worlds. I think that shows it was the best deck of the POP era, or perhaps ever. (I wasn't much of a competitive player in the early wotc days so I can't really say). All other clear #1 decks were able to metagamed out by the big events, except for GG.
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LBS did win worlds...Infernape also won nats...
 
Yep, best and most broken deck ever. Who ever likes to claim GG as their deck, they should really be :nonono::nonono::nonono:.:nonono:

The game is healthy when there are several decks that can strive. There really wasn't any decent counter to GG that had any sort of legit odds agains the others. I think the game takes a hit, when deck builders can't come up with decent-meta game plays against it, that are also decent against other decks.

The only thing that I do respect the fact was the deck was a player's deck. Many options that were available to play it. No surprise that Ness win's with it, because he is the best player.
 
Say what you want but G&G and it's variants just took advantage of the switch from one format - Ex Series Cards -to a whole new type of play with DP. Put LBS, Metanite, Blaziken, Sneasel, etc under the same circumstances with NO competition and of course it will dominate the full year.

It's not that G&G was so good it's that everything else was really so bad. Even now I think G&G will continue to play very hard just because I haven't seen anything as consistant. Kindra, AMU, Mewtwo yeah right you'll see during battle roads. The only thing that to date hurts G&G is the lack of DRE and some rotated supporters. You can't compare this to anything else.
 
Mega Neck said:
Trust me to make spelling mistakes. Urgh, Pokémon is my strong suit. Not spelling. Thanks for calling me on that one SuperWooper, I feel like a COMPLETE fool now!
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We've all been there. Don't beat yourself up. ;/

On topic, GG is most probably the best deck of the last four or so years. Blaziken was so dominant for a pretty big stretch of time, but at Worlds started approaching, stuff like Shiftry, Metabyss, Swampert really started picking up speed. Blaziken comes closer to GG than anything I can think of while POP's been running things, but even it couldn't manage to win Nats AND Worlds. What really did it was the fact that Gardy and Gallade both evolved from Ralts - affording the player access to either locking down powers (devastating, at times, in a Claydol-filled metagame), or one trillion damage (devastating in any format whatsoever) at the drop of a hat. Again, Blaze comes closest to this kind of thing (Firestarter and the EX both coming from Torchic), but it just didn't exhibit the same amount of dominance.
 
It's hard to argue what decks had the most synergy. Every good deck has synergy. Blaziken may have been the closest to GG in terms of dominances, but the fact that GG won nats AND worlds despite being the dominant deck all year is amazing and a feat NO other deck under PUI has done. I really find this feat incredible. You can pretty much say that it was the prior dominance of Blaziken, Storm, Infernape etc. that made them lose the big events. GG was the first and only dominant deck that had to face being the clear #1 and still won the big events. Blaziken won neither big event.

GG isn't going to continue dominating though. I guarantee you it wouldn't have even been the best deck last format without DRE and Scramble, but that isn't related to my argument. It still dominated for 8 months without being overthrown, we haven't seen that in the POP era.
 
Who knows,POP just messed up because they were supposed to rotate Double Rainbow and Scrambles out before they did that,dumb fact they dont release 6-8 sets like Japan do, making it dominant, it wouldnt have dominated if everyone and their grandma didnt decide to play the deck.
 
If Legend Maker hadn't gotten rotated we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Of course GG would have still been great, but with everything in LM the format would have been much more balanced.
 
SuperWooper said:
We've all been there. Don't beat yourself up. ;/

On topic, GG is most probably the best deck of the last four or so years. Blaziken was so dominant for a pretty big stretch of time, but at Worlds started approaching, stuff like Shiftry, Metabyss, Swampert really started picking up speed. Blaziken comes closer to GG than anything I can think of while POP's been running things, but even it couldn't manage to win Nats AND Worlds. What really did it was the fact that Gardy and Gallade both evolved from Ralts - affording the player access to either locking down powers (devastating, at times, in a Claydol-filled metagame), or one trillion damage (devastating in any format whatsoever) at the drop of a hat. Again, Blaze comes closest to this kind of thing (Firestarter and the EX both coming from Torchic), but it just didn't exhibit the same amount of dominance.
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If Blaziken RS was as good an attacker as Gardevoir SW is then it probably could have taken nats and worlds- but when you get two pokemon from the same evolution, non-ex both of whom attack, have only +30 weakness and different types you get a sick pokemon.

A broken pokemon.
 
Pidgeotto Trainer said:
No deck has ever dominated this season like GG did. Blaziken dominated most of the year, didn't win nats or worlds. Medicham became pretty dominant, didn't win worlds. Storm (Blastoise ex/Steelix ex/Lugia ex) dominated states, didn't win nats or worlds. Infernape quickly became the best deck, didn't win nats or worlds. Absolutions actually did win nats and worlds, but won very few tournaments actually over the course of the year, not even being a huge play in worlds after nats.
Gardy/Gallade dominated all year, and remarkably still won nats AND worlds. I think that shows it was the best deck of the POP era, or perhaps ever. (I wasn't much of a competitive player in the early wotc days so I can't really say). All other clear #1 decks were able to metagamed out by the big events, except for GG.
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Umm Ross didn't Stuart win Worlds with Medicham? (I could be wrong but I thought that was what he played)
 
JandPDS said:
Umm Ross didn't Stuart win Worlds with Medicham? (I could be wrong but I thought that was what he played)
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He did, but that was 11-14. As far as GG being the best deck of the POP era, I think it's actually a tough call. Was it the most dominant, absolutely, was it the best deck in it's format, for sure. However, I think it’s difficult to call any deck the outright best deck, since each was competing in a different format. If you were to play a season (or even one tournament) in which all the successful decks from the Nintendo era were legal, I'm not sure GG would win.
 
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GG and it's not even close. Countless counters thrown at it, extended time and even though you could say Empoleon was a favorite over it, GG was without a doubt the best deck of the POP era.

Most dominant deck ever? I doubt it's GG. Feraligatr essentially dominated since its release into the Rocket-On format and even was quite good following that. It won 2 STS's. Remains to be seen if any deck can ever dominate two formats like Gatr did.
 
GG and Blaziken have a lot in common. Both occurred while the game was in transition. With Blaziken being bale to abuse some cards pre-ex series while the game was adjusting to the abusive power of ex pokemon. GG came in while DP was settling in. It is simple, Gardevoir is not AS good in DP-on, it was its ability to abuse pre DP cards that made it sooo good.

THe reason I think GG was able to take worlds and nats while Blaziken was not was just how the decks work. GG at its heart is a disruption deck. However, it gets AMAZING setups with abusing Telepass and Cosmic Power. When playing GG it almost feels like Pidgeot again. So the deck had the sheer power in the form of Gallade to rival LBS or Blaziken, but had disruption which made it SOOOO much harder to counter, that and the removal of double weakness IMO.

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I would say GG is the best deck of the POP era for all the reason you said but for another one more: it's the deck which involved the highest skill factor.
It's a deck which can start bad but then win.
It's a deck that can do X-0 in the right hands and the 0-X in the wrong one.

And another important thing: it's the only deck that make mirror games more skill-intensive than any other game.
When i see 2 GG which are facing, it seems to see a chess game.
 
I don't think it will die as much as everyone thinks it will next format, like Aggy said, its losing a couple important cards, sure DRE helps, but its not 100% vital. Plus Azelf Lv.X makes a great tech. I also agree with andceo, because it was so played, it found a lot of mirrors, where usually the player with the higher skill will come out on top, how is this bad for the game?
 
been playing this game for 8 years and GG was without a doubt the most dominant deck for POP. However for wotc, gatr and slowking variants take the cake imo
 
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