Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What will win Worlds

I would like to stand up for gyara. Yes I play the deck so it is favoritism lol. I believe that gyara has no autolosses except a pretty rough sablelock and PLOX matchup.I cant see it doing good in masters because i dont think many will play it, but in seniors, i see the few that do play it getting far (no i dont think i will lol).
 
Gyrados looses to LuxChomp it will have a very tough time winning worlds in any age group. No to mention it looses anytime you have Magicarps prized and 30 HP starters are donks waiting to happen.
(Prized Magicarps are the ONLY reason I beat David C. at regionals this year)
Lat year when the French Masters player went T8 at Worlds with it, it was a spurpise deck. This year everyone has played it so much that people have learned how to beat it. I would be very surprised if anyone makes T8 at worlds with it again this year.
 
Luxchomp for most g-dos's is 50/50-favorable and before anyone says so yes i am 100% sure.I am X-1 i testing with luxchomp and the one loss was a claw swipe donk. Azelf for prized karps lol?
 
lucario123 said:
Luxchomp for most g-dos's is 50/50-favorable and before anyone says so yes i am 100% sure.I am X-1 i testing with luxchomp and the one loss was a claw swipe donk. Azelf for prized karps lol?
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Maybe you have a special way to beat it, But if the average Gyrados player is playing the average LuxChomp player, the LuxChomp should win 60% of the time.
 
Actually, the average Gyarados player knows that is worst match-up via deck selection is LuxCHomp,s he should have used those techs psaces for the Azelf MT/Donphan/consistancy up cards/Plus powers/reversals/etc. that make the match-up 50/50. Gyarados OHKO's any non-lv.X in the average LuxCHomp deck, even most Mewtwo counters, while Luxray can only Ko gyara back with the 2 Luxray GL's it plays. It just becomes a game of timing and cheap prizes.
 
Shino Bug Master said:
Actually, the average Gyarados player knows that is worst match-up via deck selection is LuxCHomp,s he should have used those techs psaces for the Azelf MT/Donphan/consistancy up cards/Plus powers/reversals/etc. that make the match-up 50/50. Gyarados OHKO's any non-lv.X in the average LuxCHomp deck, even most Mewtwo counters, while Luxray can only Ko gyara back with the 2 Luxray GL's it plays. It just becomes a game of timing and cheap prizes.
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Yes I completely agree. If a Gyrados player is prepaired for the Matchup he will have a better chance. But the same cards that help him with Luxchomp will slow down his constancy vs other readom decks. It is a trade off. But as Luxchomp is the most popular deck out there you would be wise to prepair for it.
 
Gyarados is a beast swinging for 90-110 a turn for no energy. Even when you kill it, he just comes back the next turn to swing for just enough damage. Luxray takes and energy, flash bites a belt, lucario and stuff to OHKO gyara. Gyara takes just a belt and three karps in the discard that should have been taken care of on the second turn of the game.

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and also, gyara takes 0-1 techs to kill luxchomp. Whether its toxi, relicanth, or mankey, gyara's consistency is not affected.
 
PokemonSteve said:
A 60 card deck with at least 1 basic Pokemon and there is no more than 4 cards of the same name (apart from basic energies and apart from Arceus, where there can be as many as the winner wanted.).
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You know, this response was pretty funny the first time around.

But now...:nonono:
 
Gyarados beats Luxchomp if you have enough expert belts. To come back from Luxchomps early prize takings you must be able to knock out any Luxray you see so they can't Trash Bolt/flash bite you. Spraying Azelf is the only thing keeping it back from beating LC. No regular Gyarados list is going to win though. You must modify your list to have a better Luxpluff and LC matchup. Speed is key. You must be able to survive judge. Luxpluff can win, but for the most part it is a bad play with Luxchomp ERL. Sablelock has a decent chance also as does Donphan varients.
 
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genchomp it doesnt lose to much



seniors division won 5 battle roads with it and top8 at nationals i would of won if i knew the best of 3 rules
 
When I played Gyarados (cities, states, regionals) even though my list wasn't teched I had a positive record against luxchomp. It's all about how you play it. Gyarados doesn't really have any great matchups, but it's only real terrible matchup is cursegar. On paper you just look at the deck and wonder how it's winning anything. It only does well because every single matchup is winnable. A lot of decks you play against will just get overwhelmed by the constant 90 with recovery.

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magicarp101 said:
genchomp it doesnt lose to much



seniors division won 5 battle roads with it and top8 at nationals i would of won if i knew the best of 3 rules
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It has pretty solid matchups all around, but with all the people jumping on the sablelock bandwagon I don't think it'll go far. Sablelock is a really bad matchup for it.
 
I think Rogue, or something heavilly teched. (I.e. Inconsistent, but lucky)
OR
Whatever baby mario is playing.
 
lucario123 said:
I would like to stand up for gyara. Yes I play the deck so it is favoritism lol. I believe that gyara has no autolosses except a pretty rough sablelock and PLOX matchup.I cant see it doing good in masters because i dont think many will play it, but in seniors, i see the few that do play it getting far (no i dont think i will lol).
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Shuppet kills Gyarados. . .
 
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