Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What Will Be Good For City's?

mrdraz07 said:
Wow you're nice. .... How could I even consider SP to be a BDIF if RR wasn't out...

Maybe "Tier 1" is a better description? The point is, Gyarados and SP have few to no bad matchups to popular decks, and can still beat the bad matchups they do have, which are major criteria for being BDIF. I'm also guessing these will be more popular than Flygon during Cities, which leaves what tier 1 decks to be BDIF? exactly.

Gengar, Machamp and GeChamp are tier 1.5. Not quite BDIF cuz they have problems w/ tier 1 decks, and Unown G which is in almost everything.
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There's a difference between "tier one" and BDIF in my mind. So...

I'd be surprised if Flygon wasn't as popular as Gyarados if not moreso. I haven't heard much about SP outside of this forum compared to non-SP decks but that may be because they haven't changed much since SV's release. Suffice it to say, I will be sorely disappointed if you're correct. I guess not surprised - but to see half of everyone playing Gyarados and SP variants will be upsetting, I don't like Gyarados and I never liked SP Pokemon as a concept... and with all of these awesome alternatives...

I can't think of a terribly bad Flygon matchup. I'm not thinking that hard, though. I also can't think of one for Gengar, and most Gengars run Relicanth because it laughs at Unown G.


As far as Shuppet Donk goes, it's a deck that relies on a somewhat risky set of draws to work and must work before the opponent sets up. It's viable. It's too easy to tech against for me to see it being successful on a large scale - perhaps in CCs, but not States.
 
I'm running my rhyperior/delcatty deck just to see how it flys.
It's quite consistent and reasonably fast to set-up, add high hp/ attacks and I think it's a viable deck for this meta.
 
TheDarkTwins said:
You need to stop. You IMO are hijacking this thread. This is supposed to be a thread on what will be good for Cities, not Salamence is the play, which it is according to you. I will also tell you that I along with MANY others will never take anyone seriously who is hyping up a deck that is in their username. I mean if someone named Beedrill started posting how awesome it was I would be skeptical as most people are biased because that is thier favorite Pokemon. I have a few more thoughts on this, but I believe this gets my point across.

Drew
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I think a swarm of 49 octillerys will be BDIF.

I haven't played much recently, but Kingdra still seems viable. Expert Belt gives it some neat little tricks.
 
I'm sorry but gengar is a top deck? That deck is awful. The only way you can win is if your opponent doesn't play smart. If you go against a good player they'll keep little trainers in hand and unown g the right things. Then you'll be stuck doing 30 a turn.
 
Son_of_Apollo said:
I'm sorry but gengar is a top deck? That deck is awful. The only way you can win is if your opponent doesn't play smart. If you go against a good player they'll keep little trainers in hand and unown g the right things. Then you'll be stuck doing 30 a turn.
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I don't like Gengar and its stupid Power, and I don't play it either, but it is very foolish to write the deck off.

People always say 'play smart and you win' but it isn't as easy as that sounds.

Cycling Trainers with Claydol helps, but it's not always possible and it can hurt you by limiting your options.

If they play Nidoqueen, avoiding Fainting Spell becomes a real chore. You are now forced to mess around taking 2-3 turns trying to KO a Pokemon that can retreat for free and heal.

Sure, go ahead and Unown G stuff. Just forget about using any Stadiums, Expert Belt, Memory Berry, Bench Shield, or Energy Gain unless you enjoy having Relicanth sniping you for 90+.

Gengar lacks damage output, but it is so disruptive that it deserves to be taken seriously.
 
My BlazeRay has been pwnge ever since I built it. (since it came out, I was trying to build it.) I expect to win a few cities with it.
 
That reminds me, if my pokemon has 150 HP Total, with only 10 HP left and it is now poisoned, and I have nidoqueen on my bench. What happens? Does poison work first, or doesn Nidoqueen?

The order of that decides its survival.
 
SalamenceGreat said:
That reminds me, if my pokemon has 150 HP Total, with only 10 HP left and it is now poisoned, and I have nidoqueen on my bench. What happens? Does poison work first, or doesn Nidoqueen?

The order of that decides its survival.
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kind of irrelevant to the topic, but u get to choose what takes effect first, so ur pokemon stays alive
 
It doesn't really matter cos you don't check for KO until both are resolved.

Poison does 10 damage
Nidoqueen heals 10 damage
Then you check.
 
Yeah, I know. It doesnt really relate to the topic. But I didnt want to waste a tread just for this. Thank you.

Back to the deck topics;

Do you think magnezone could ever come back? I think It can still be good. With expert belt and stuff.
 
I expect to see:

Gliscor
Gechamp
Flygon
Gyarados
Luxape/blazeray
Maybe Salamence


Im gona be playing Flygon or Luxape because it is one of the best decks around.
 
Actually, now that I think about it, Im expecting very little Flygon decks.

At my league, everyone who played flygon has moved on to Shuppet donk or somthing else.

-Gyarados
-Shuppet
-Glisctomb
-Kingdra
-Luxape
-Gengar
-Maybe arceus
-Maybe tangrowth
-Maybe Flygon
 
SalamenceGreat said:
Actually, now that I think about it, Im expecting very little Flygon decks.

At my league, everyone who played flygon has moved on to Shuppet donk or somthing else.
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People won't be using their City decks at League.

They are probably just trying out some new decks.

I wouldn't read anything into it.
 
baby mario said:
People won't be using their City decks at League.

They are probably just trying out some new decks.

I wouldn't read anything into it.
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Yeah, I agree with BM. Last year I was playing Primeape w/ Xatu and Weaville, and when I came to Cities I played GeChamp and everyone was like :eek:. It happens every year.

At the cities this year I expect Beedrill to be "swarming" ('scuse the pun) around everywhere. Less experienced players will be playing it because they can build a consistent list quite easily and a basic 'drill deck is easy for a less experienced players to get to grips with, some people will netdeck it because OMG it wun worldz!! and some people will make a great swarm deck with it and be highly placed with it. Everyone and their gerbil will be running Flygon because there are sooo many variants and it's a fun deck to play, as well as a very good deck in the right hands with a quality list. People will play LuxApe because OMG it wun natz!! and people will play Blaziken because OMG it came 2nd in Jerman natz!!. But seriously, they'll both be big contenders and will be highly played as well. Noobs'll still run Macheap, noobs and experienced players will play Gengar (and it'll do well), and some random person will build a great GeChamp deck and pwn with it. Sallamence will be popular deck as well, I think.

Just my views!

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Yes, Sally decks will be like the biggest played i predict. And alot people do play there competivie decks at leagues. Everyone at mine was playing there Flychomp and SalChomp decks there.
 
Garchomp SV most likely. It tanks fairly well, I can imagine that it would work all right with Salamence, though I would prefer not to muddy up the lines like that.
 
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