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A Look to Japan for Rebel Clash’s Impact on Standard’s Top Tiers, Including Dragapult VMAX, Toxtricity VMAX, ADPZ, and PikaRom “To understand some choices with Japanese decklists, we first have to understand Japanese tournaments. Their tournament levels roughly mirror ours: Trainer Challenges, City Leagues, Champions Leagues, and Japan Championship. Tournaments are Swiss + Top Cut, Best-of-1 with a 25-minute timer, except for Trainer Challenges. Much like our League Challenges, Trainer Challenges lack a Top Cut. Ties do not exist in Japanese tournament structure. This has an interesting effect on Stall decks. If a game would result in a tie by our standards, it results in a double loss in Japan. Because of this, Stall and Control decks donβt have nearly…
Junior/Senior Metagame Analysis for PRCβSUM Standard Tournaments “2 M Gardevoir/Giratina-EX 2 Darkrai/Giratina 1 Yveltal/Garbodor 1 Turbo Darkrai 1 Water Toolbox (Lapras-GX/Manaphy-EX/Palkia-EX) 1 M Mewtwo/Garbodor 2 M Gardevoir/Giratina-EX 1 M Rayquaza 1 Turbo Darkrai 1 M Alakazam/Espeon-GX 1 Decidueye/Vileplume 1 Volcanion 1 Vespiquen Juniors Top 8 decklists forΒ AnaheimΒ and Melbourne can be found at the preceding links.Β The Juniors metagame seems to be shifting in Standard.Β Dark decks (Darkrai and Yveltal) were the focus of the division in Dallas, Athens, and Anaheim. But between Anaheim and Melbourne, we’re starting to see lots of decks that seem to be aimed at beating Dark decks. This is especially true when you consider…
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2nd Place 2014 Oklahoma States Report “Going into States, I was sitting at 480 CP, so I was pretty comfortable. I only had to hit a Top 16 at one of the upcoming State Championships I was going to be attending, which I felt was fairly easy to do. Before I start talking about my performances, I’ll take a look at what was going through my mind before I ended up choosing my deck for the first week. I was pretty set on a Plasma-based deck after my article a couple months ago, and it was the only thing I had really tested extensively. On my…
Using the braids on its head, it pummels foes to get them to quiet down. One blow from those braids would knock out a professional boxer. (Hattrem)
It can race around like a unicycle, even on rough, rocky terrain. Burning coal sustains it. (Rolycoly)