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Coming in Last and Being Okay with It “I’m not crazy about this format, and I know I’m not the first person you’ve heard say that. I’ve been playing for about five years, and I’ve had success a number of times at major tournaments, culminating with a 2nd place finish at Worlds 2013 and top 8 in 2015. But this year, with limited consistency options and turn 1 Item lock, I feel deck builders are held back. I like to build wacky decks but am always too scared to take them to tournaments. This format in particular is not kind to rogue ideas, so if I want to win,…
Zacian/LucaMetal, Learning Lines of Play, the Players Cup, Growing as a Player, and on Using Articles “Before anything else, I feel the need to briefly touch on the subject of the Players Cup. The qualifying system itself is terrible, and requires an undetermined amount of Event Tickets on PTCGO, rather than any semblance of skill, to earn a spot in the Online Qualifiers. There’s also this tiny little issue with the leaderboards not showing all of our earned “Tournament Rep.” For me at least, it doesn’t show around 66% of my Rep, and I’ve seen and heard of similar numbers throughout the community. However, this is actually not a huge problem in my opinion. If everyone…
Pablo’s Top 4 Picks for the Latin American International Championships (ft. Zoroark) “I’ve had an itch for this deck ever since I lost to it in Top 4 of Memphis, and although I haven’t played it at a big event yet, I think it’s one of those 50/50 decks that I mentioned before, with good or even matchups across the board, except for Vikavolt/Tapu Bulu. I definitely regret not having used it in Sydney, which is the event I tested it the most for. However, all of that testing still applies and I’ve also played around with it recently, and this is the list that I currently have sleeved: Now, here…
The seeds attached to its cotton fluff are full of nutrients. It spreads them on the wind so that plants and other Pokémon can benefit from them. (Eldeoss)
An Evaluation of Lost Thunder’s Change of Standard’s Pace and A Trio of Lost Thunder-Enabled Concepts “Consistency With the release of Lost Thunder, a lot of consistency was brought to the table. Blacephalon-GX/Naganadel is a very consistent archetype that was born completely out of the new set. Additionally, consistent decks like Zoroark-GX/Lycanroc-GX and Psychic Malamar are top contenders in the new format. Decks that were deemed to be a bit more inconsistent, such as Rayquaza-GX/Vikavolt, have started to be phased out of the meta. This makes playing the game a whole lot more enjoyable because both players are actually getting to play a whole lot more often. In conjunction with that, the games also feel more…
Nine Different Builds of Mega Rayquaza-EX “These decks play certain cards that you will see multiple times, and you may have questions about them. Rather than explain the cards over and over, I thought it would be a good idea to mention them at the start. Shaymin-EX ROS The most important card in these decks (besides Rayquaza) and my favorite Pokemon is Shaymin. Shaymin is needed to make sure you “Set Up” in every game. Shaymin gives you the ability to draw until you have 6 cards in your hand. Combine this with a Supporter and you have plenty of opportunity on Turn 1 to establish a…
Closing the Book on RoxieChomp in Standard, and GardEon for Dallas “I’ll be brief here, because I know UPR–CEC Standard is waning and unimportant. I had a string of League Cups and Bochum Regionals where I played RoxieChomp, so I’d like to post my list here one final time for anyone going to tournaments before Sword and Shield sets come out. Not that anyone cares now, but I think TinaChomp will still be an incredibly strong deck with the rule changes and the new cards. Time will tell what new additions should be made, and which version (Roxie or non-Roxie) will prevail. Take this list to League Cups! It has good…
Kenny Wisdom on Greninja BREAK for Your Next Expanded Event “I originally wrote something like “Greninja lists are mostly the same, but I wanna go over some key cards here” for this section. The next thing I knew I had written almost 2,000 words on those key cards, and suddenly, this description felt a little less honest. While it’s true that, due to the nature of Greninja itself, you’re going to get a lot of lists that look more or less the same, I think it’s very important to make sure you’re examining every possible decision and actively aware of the choices you’re making. Hopefully the 2,000 words below will…
A First-Hand Evaluation of the Zigzag Approach to City Championships “In a given cycle of Regionals, the average player only participates in one Regional Championship. If they make the second day, and play out all of their rounds, that makes for 14 rounds of Swiss. Add in three more rounds of top cut, and it’s possible to play 51 total games over the weekend with one deck. This is exactly the time for a hedgehog mentality. Play that one deck, and play it very well. By comparison, during City Championships, there will be plenty of competitive players making it out to 12 or more events. For Masters Division players, that will frequently mean…
Once a year, on a specific date and at a specific time, they gather out of nowhere and form up in a circle. (Stonjourner)
Five Things I’ve Learned About the UPR–RCL Metagame, Format Favs (Fire Box, Mewtwo Welder, Inteleon VMAX/Frosmoth), the Players Cup, Playtesting, and Record Keeping “During this time, a lot of the community has come together to organize some of the best-run online events I’ve ever seen, including the Limitless Online Series. With the fourth and final qualifier this coming weekend, we have no idea what the meta will hold and who will be the final twelve competitors that advance into the Invitational tournament itself. Qualifier #3 showed us some interesting decks emerge with it being the first major event with Rebel Clash legal. What have we learned about the format so far? PikaRom is one of the most dominant decks in the format with the…
Thoughts on the Format as a Whole (Spoiler: It’s Fast) and Centiskorch VMAX/Scoop Up Net “Oh where to start? ADP? Sure, why not. Unless you’ve been living under a proverbial rock in regards to the Pokémon community these last few weeks, you’ve surely heard the calls for a ban of ADP. And you’ve also heard the people defending the card. I’ve mostly been on the side of the former, as I believe that ADP is bad for the game as a whole. There’s a lot that can be said about ADP right now. I personally believe ADP is more of a symptom of the actual problem rather than the whole problem. The game has sped…
It was inside a meteorite that fell 20,000 years ago. There seems to be a connection between this Pokémon and the Dynamax phenomenon. (Eternatus)
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