playing a combination of cards with a unique strategy that can doesnt take god start/hand and perfect luck give it at least turn 3 set up. generally it is a deck that utilizes pokemon that most people wouldnt ever really think of, that can also counter the most popular decks, scizor/toxicroak is a good example of this. in sabelocks case, it is to use a different combination of supporters and pokemon such as chatot G, to simply prevent your opponent from ever setting up, and then using very common cards, such as honchkrow G and garchomp C lv X to KO your opponents pokemon.
IMHO, that is rogue.