A Santa Clara Tournament Report with the 1st Place ReshiZard, What I Learned From My Losses, the PikaRom I Didn’t Play, and Oh Yeah Madison “I’ll be the first to admit that I was ill-prepared for the inaugural tournament with Unbroken Bonds and hoping for some last-minute miracle of a deck to fall into my lap as I boarded my flight to Santa Clara. I was dead set on playing PikaRom or a Mill list similar to the one that Peter Kica wrote about in his article last week. I had found so much success with PikaRom in the past and the deck was testing well online, but at the final hour its flaws began to unravel themselves. Before I go into what went wrong…
Junior/Senior Metagame Analysis for Guardians Standard “7 M Rayquaza 6 M Gardevoir PRC/Xerneas 5 Decidueye/Vileplume 5 Turbo Darkrai 4 M Mewtwo/Garbodor 3 Volcanion 3 Darkrai/Giratina 1 Water Toolbox 1 Yveltal/Garbodor 1 M Alakazam 1 Vespiquen 1 Lycanroc/Carbink 1 Lapras 1 Lurantis/Vileplume 1 M Gardevoir STS Juniors Top 8 decklists for all events can be found at this link (the 5 PRC-SUM events were Anaheim, Oceania, Salt Lake City, Latin America, and Roanoke). There is a very clear set of top decks in the Junior division. However, it’s more interesting to see how the metagame developed over the last 3 months and why those top decks got played when they…
The New England Meta, Semi-Finalist Surveys, and Week 2 Predictions “As I stated before, I was able to walk around and spectate any game I wanted to as long as I was not commentating at the same time. This gave me near perfect knowledge of the top tables metagame at New England Regionals. I will start by showing you the Top 8 and listing the decks each player played. I will say that the Top 8 was actually a pretty accurate representation of what the metagame felt like at the top tables. The metagame was defined, and I saw few surprising decks. The most interesting deck I saw do well…
Making the Most of M-Pokémon-EX “Meet the Megas Mega Venusaur & Mega Blastoise Mega Kangaskhan Mega Charizard X & Mega Charizard Y Proper Utilization Deck Lists Hydreigon Aromatisse Conclusion The five Mega Pokemon available in the current format are Venusaur, Blastoise, Kangaskhan, Charizard X, and Charizard Y. They’re monstrous creatures with the highest amount of HP ever printed; even the likes of G Booster and Black Ballista aren’t enough to take them down in one blow. Each one has a single attack that is none too revolutionary or game changing (although both Charizard do boast an almost unnecessary 300 base damage). The biggest source of…
It absorbs the life-force of those who drink it. It waits patiently, but opportunities are fleeting—it tastes so bad that it gets spat out immediately. (Sinistea)
It barely moves, but it’s still alive. Hiding in its shell without food or water seems to have awakened its psychic powers. (Dottler)
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