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It’s Been a Minute

An All-Inclusive Tome on the Early NXD-XY Format “(This is a very long article. You may want to click the links below to skip between sections.) XY Set Review The Big Picture Winter Regionals Fallout Incorporating XY Emboar/Delphox Trevenant/Garbodor Trevenant/Flareon Darkrai/Garbodor Darkrai/Yveltal Hydreigon Virizion/Genesect Plasma Yveltal/Bouffalant Fairies Conclusion Venusaur-EX Well, let’s look at our next round of “Evolution” EXs. This guy is a bit of a stinker. It has high HP, but its attacks are really underwhelming. A middling 3 Energy (2 with a DCE) poisoning attack isn’t very good. I guess you do get 90 damage out of it with a Virbank, but even if you do…
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It Might Not Be Good But At Least It Will Be Pretty

Jay’s 3rd Place 2012 US Nationals Report “Having Worlds in Hawaii also creates a very interesting dilemma as far as article writing goes. Only a handful of players are making the long (and expensive) trip to Hawaii to either compete in the World Championships or do their best to grind in. For the rest though, this season has drawn to a close with the end of US Nationals and they already have their eyes set on next season. What this means is some people want to hear about what did well at Nationals and what the best play is for the Grinders and Worlds. The other group…
It’s so strong that it can knock out some opponents in a single hit, but it also may forget what it’s battling midfight. (Cramorant)

As the Format Turns

Final Lists of NXD-XY, Flashfire Set Review, and Updated Decks “Where We Stand: The End of NXD-XY Dark Decks Rayboar, Blastoise Virizion/Genesect Plasma Fairy Toolbox Fringe Decks Flashfire Set Review Incorporating Flashfire Old Decks Blastoise Rayboar Plasma Aggro Yveltal Yveltal/Garbodor Virizion/Genesect Fairy Toolbox New Decks Pyroar/Archeops Charizard Conclusion These types of decks break down into a few different categories, but they share enough overlap that it’s worth addressing them at once. They all center around Yveltal-EX, the big powerhouse to come out of XY, stepping in to relieve Darkrai of its duties as the core attacker to abuse Sableye and Dark Patch. The range of these decks is fairly wide though. Some…
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A constant collector of information, this Pokémon is very smart. Very strong is what it isn’t. (Blipbug)
Powerful legs and jaws made it the apex predator of its time. Its own overhunting of its prey was what drove it to extinction. (Dracovish)