Fall Battle Road Report
Greenwood, Indiana
9/19/09
Master’s Division
Graham “Poteet24” Poteet
Well after playing half a season last year, I was obviously excited as soon as I saw the Battle Roads Schedule. The only problem is, I had NO idea what I was going to play even up to a couple days before…
The metagame is so diverse right now with all sorts of decks that can compete depending on what shows up… Flygon, LuxApe, BlazeRay, Gengar, Beedrill, Palkia G, any SP deck can be good enough with its engine.
I finally pick back up the Beedrill
So I drive down solo to Greenwood, and see Dustin Z. there, obviously was expecting this. Also see Kyle L, and a couple other guys I saw at the end of last year.
I believe before any drops or anything the final count for masters was right around 23. 5 Rounds Swiss. Top Cut of 4.
Here’s my list:
| Pokémon-19 4 Weedle GE 4 Kakuna RR 2 Beedrill GE 2 Beedrill RR 2 Baltoy GE 2 Claydol GE 2 Uxie LA 1 Azelf LA |
T/S/S-35 4 Broken Time Space 4 Roseanne’s Research 4 Bebe’s Search 4 Super Scoop Up 4 Dusk Ball 4 PlusPower 4 Night Maintenance 3 Rare Candy 3 Warp Point 1 Luxury Ball |
Energy-6 6 G |
One thing you may notice is the absence of Unown G. I didn’t think Gengar would be played much, if at all, so the two I did have in it, got cut out for more important cards.
So here goes the first event of the 09-10 season!
Round One
Tim [Mothim/Shaymin]
I’ve played Tim before and he’s a real nice guy. I go first and I draw two basics…Baltoy and Azelf. Not really what I was looking for. I pass. He starts with a Roserade GL, and uses that first attack that poisons and prevents retreat. I evolve into Claydol to ditch the poison and start the swarm. I warp out Claydol and I think I got two drills up, because I know next turn he used the same attack on my active Drill. I get that out of the way and he gets out a Shaymin LV.X, the one with “Revenge Seed”. He gets a KO on my Bee, but I get four up again and return the KO, he blocks with a Burmy next turn, and powers up another Shaymin. After the Burmy is gone he sends up Shaymin and gets another KO on a Beedrill. But I do have the NM, so I get the fourth back up, and sweep his bench from this turn.
Win [1-0]
Round Two
Holly [Charizard G]
I was obviously a little scared when a fire Pokémon was flipped over. She starts Cyndaquil active and with a benched Charizard. I don’t remember too much of this game. Obviously the deck calls for Typhlosions to pass energies to a Charizard G LV.X. Unfortunately, Beedrill was too fast. After getting a stutter start on Turn two. I was all up and running on three, and swept from there.
Win [2-0]
Round Three
Penny [Electivire FB/Raichu]
A very similar strategy to the Charizard deck. Requiring a setup of energies in the discard to get going. Using the Raichu to discard them for 30 a piece mid/late game. Again Beedrill was too fast, and I was up and running turn three again for the sweep.
Win [3-0]
Round Four
Dustin Z. [Dialga G/Garchomp C]
Excellent, I play the guy who finished number one in Indiana last season. I’ve talked to him just a tad. But he’s been super awesome to me since then. I knew regardless of what he would be playing it would be tough.
I start Weedle and some other exciting things and I go first. Ending my turn with an active Weedle, a benched one from Call for Family and a Baltoy. He KOs my active Weedle with Crobat stuff and Claw Swipe. I top deck Claydol, and evolve. Seeing the benched Dialga, I knew I had to get running before any kind of attempt to Deafen me in to submission. So I decide I’m going to get as many Drills out now as I can, no matter how many Super Scoop Ups I have to burn, PlusPowers I waste, and anything else I can do. I do pretty well and when all is said and done I’m sitting on Three Beedrills and a Kakuna. I KO his Garchomp. He struggles from here to find some Pokémon to lean on and I hold on and get far enough ahead for the win.
Win [4-0]
Round Five
Mike [Porygon Z]
This game was kind of a dud on both our ends. His prizes are pretty bad, and I had to get Azelf down three times to get my Bee-parts out of my prizes before being able to do anything. After a very slow start we trade a couple prizes, but I finally get ahead, as seeing my prizes were a huge help.
Win [5-0]
Awesome, I’m going to be top seed of top cut, being the only undefeated player in Swiss. Our top 4 were
1. Graham P.
2. Dustin Z.
3. Holly (Forgot your last name. Sorry)
4. Kyle L.
So I see that I get to play Kyle L. in the first round of top cut. We get a lunch break before, so I go to Taco Bell and grab some food and come back.
Round Six
Top Four
Kyle L. [Palkia G/Luxray/Pixes]
Well this is sort of bittersweet. Kyle is one of the people I contribute my ability to learn the game fairly quickly to. I don’t have many people to play in my area, so I have talked to him quite a bit and he’s done more than I could ever ask for in helping me come along, understanding how the Pokémon meta shifts and much more. And of course, our first time actually playing would be in a top cut.
Well, I knew this was going to be another tough one. So we start. I pull off a decent trick Turn two, involving a dumping of my hand, while locked, retreating an active Azelf, and promoting a Baltoy. I attach the Baltoy and then Psychic Balance from zero to five. Unfortunately, I can’t find anything. He effectively Mes-locks me for the first three turns or so, and gets a good lead on me and I couldn’t find a supporter when I could use powers (ie Uxie) so I scoop when he’s up like 5-3 on me about 15 minutes in.
0-1
Game two goes a little better. I get through the first few turns of Mes-lock. Quickly getting set up after the lock breaks. I get three Beedrills up as soon as lock breaks. He gets a Palkia G out and keeps Splashing Turning to the bench, but I’m KOing whatever he sends active, and he scoops when I’m up like 4-2.
1-1
Rough start for him. Two Unown Gs. I get setup much easier though this game as I never see a Mesprit until around Turn 5. He also seems to be struggling to get to supporters, and I also misplay by looking for a Claydol instead of an Azelf to get my fourth Beedrill that’s in my prizes. I Super Scoop Up to make room, and go and get my fourth Beedrill. I take the lead and hold it and he scoops down a few prizes.
2-1
Win [6-0]
Well Dustin wins his match and its down to us in the Top Two…
Dustin Z. [Dialga G/Garchomp C]
After beating himself up for not Deafening turn one our first game, I knew this game was going to be super difficult. Sure enough first game he deafens for a good 5-10 turns. I don’t remember how long, but it was forever. That of course slows me down a ton. Unable to use my Dusk Balls, I’m only effectively searching with Bebe’s Search. I go after Claydol and he Power Sprays it a couple of turns in a row. I scoop after misplaying an energy attachment when I’m down like 5-3.
0-1
Game two was almost exactly like one. We get to time and he’s up on 2 Prizes on me. Deafening whenever he gets a KO making Night Maintenance worthless. He played it all brilliantly. Not a surprise.
0-2
Loss [6-1]
Well, second isn’t too bad to begin the year, and losing to Dustin isn’t exactly anything to be ashamed of, so I get my four packs and head on out, looking forward to week two up in Angola.
4 PP seems like a bit too much. Also, 2 Uxie seems like it could eat A LOT of bench space, which is not good for a deck like Beedrill. I think you ought to put in some Multi Energy, in case Claydol and Azelf have to attack.
Overall, the list looks pretty good. You overcame the Palkia lock which is GREAT, sadly…Dialga G got you in the end, no surprise
Try to fit in 1 Phione MD so you can speed up the deck a bit vs. Dialga G
Ya, four PP may have been 1 too many. I was honestly expecting a decent Kingdra presence here, but there were none. I’m obviously never benching more than 1 Uxie, unless they KOd Claydol… I felt that I needed Azelf to look in prizes for bee-parts. Not a lone Uxie. Phione is a great idea I’ve seen before but I struggle to find room for it. Along with 2 Unown Gs…
Ya, four PP may have been 1 too many. I was honestly expecting a decent Kingdra presence here, but there were none. I’m obviously never benching more than 1 Uxie, unless they KOd Claydol… I felt that I needed Azelf to look in prizes for bee-parts. Not a lone Uxie. Phione is a great idea I’ve seen before but I struggle to find room for it. Along with 2 Unown Gs…
I would like to see this deck list “Dialga G / Garchomp” someone could post, Thank’s
Mario
4 PP seems like a bit too much. Also, 2 Uxie seems like it could eat A LOT of bench space, which is not good for a deck like Beedrill. I think you ought to put in some Multi Energy, in case Claydol and Azelf have to attack.
Overall, the list looks pretty good. You overcame the Palkia lock which is GREAT, sadly…Dialga G got you in the end, no surprise
Try to fit in 1 Phione MD so you can speed up the deck a bit vs. Dialga G
I would like to see this deck list “Dialga G / Garchomp” someone could post, Thank’s
Mario
Nice win on that Palkia deck, I heard the match up is 90-10 in Palkia’s favor. I love when people pull off wins like that, good playin man. Good playing.
Gengar may not be as popular as it was a few months ago, but Flygon is all over the place, so you need Unown G to prevent getting locked with sand tomb. Otherwise a nice list.
Nice win on that Palkia deck, I heard the match up is 90-10 in Palkia’s favor. I love when people pull off wins like that, good playin man. Good playing.
Nice report man! Any reason why you chose to go with straight Beedrill over Beedrill/Luxray?
In regards to Unown G, I didn’t think Flygon would be huge, again I expected to play 1 or 2, so I was hoping my 3 warps would be enough. There was actually no Flygon seeing play, so I got lucky. I’m still normally throwing 2 in this deck though. But I figured for a battle road I was just going to hit as hard and as fast as I can.
Yes beating Palkia with Beedrill is not easy, I went 0-2 at worlds against it. I was very fortunate to pull off the win.
Adam – I chose to go straight Beedrill for a couple of reasons.
One – As stated since it was a BR I figured hitting real hard real fast would beat half the decks there.
Two – I don’t feel I am skilled enough to play the deck (Raybees) with the same consistency as straight Drills.
In regards to Unown G, I didn’t think Flygon would be huge, again I expected to play 1 or 2, so I was hoping my 3 warps would be enough. There was actually no Flygon seeing play, so I got lucky. I’m still normally throwing 2 in this deck though. But I figured for a battle road I was just going to hit as hard and as fast as I can.
Yes beating Palkia with Beedrill is not easy, I went 0-2 at worlds against it. I was very fortunate to pull off the win.
Adam – I chose to go straight Beedrill for a couple of reasons.
One – As stated since it was a BR I figured hitting real hard real fast would beat half the decks there.
Two – I don’t feel I am skilled enough to play the deck (Raybees) with the same consistency as straight Drills.
I personally don’t like Beedrill/Luxray cause the list seems too out of wack. Too many things to compensate for Luxray to throw off the Beedrill consistency. It did win Worlds but…ugh, I dunno.
Yea, I don’t really want to challenge Beedrill/Luxray since it won worlds…but I dunno. The extra spot needed to even consider dropping Luxray never seems to be there. I understand you can insta poke-turn after the Bright Look, but he has to sit there himself a turn before. I’m not sure. Maybe I’m just negative since I tried a 1-1 Cherrim line for a while (flutter wings searchable plus power every turn, yes please) but it always seemed like it got in the way of an uxie or azelf drop…
Yea, I don’t really want to challenge Beedrill/Luxray since it won worlds…but I dunno. The extra spot needed to even consider dropping Luxray never seems to be there. I understand you can insta poke-turn after the Bright Look, but he has to sit there himself a turn before. I’m not sure. Maybe I’m just negative since I tried a 1-1 Cherrim line for a while (flutter wings searchable plus power every turn, yes please) but it always seemed like it got in the way of an uxie or azelf drop…
Gengar may not be as popular as it was a few months ago, but Flygon is all over the place, so you need Unown G to prevent getting locked with sand tomb. Otherwise a nice list.
Nice report man! Any reason why you chose to go with straight Beedrill over Beedrill/Luxray?
I personally don’t like Beedrill/Luxray cause the list seems too out of wack. Too many things to compensate for Luxray to throw off the Beedrill consistency. It did win Worlds but…ugh, I dunno.
Wow…Cherrim. Now THAT would be interesting. I’ll have to try it out
Wow…Cherrim. Now THAT would be interesting. I’ll have to try it out
-4 dusk balls
+4 quick balls
other then that the build looks great congrats on 2nd
-4 dusk balls
+4 quick balls
other then that the build looks great congrats on 2nd
I guess I’ll just test quick balls more. I just don’t like playing them because of all the early thinning you do with Roseannes and flutter. I feel like you’ll get to one of the 7 other pokemon more often
Or try 2 of each
I guess I’ll just test quick balls more. I just don’t like playing them because of all the early thinning you do with Roseannes and flutter. I feel like you’ll get to one of the 7 other pokemon more often
Or try 2 of each
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