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What to Expect, My Week 1 Picks, and Quick Tips for Cities Success “In no particular order, here is a list of decks that I expect to see the most of come Week 1: Night March Vespiquen Tyrantrum/Bronzong Magnezone/Raikou M Manectric/Regice Mienshao The XY-on rotation is still relatively fresh, and consequently we’re sure to see a lot of variance. However, right off the bat, I expect that we will see a lot of Night March, Vespiquen, and Tyrantrum. Night March and Vespiquen are always crowd favorites, as they are cheap to build and relatively easy to play. Tyrantrum on the other hand is a little more difficult to pilot, but people will likely…
Profiling the Stupendous Stalling Strategies of the Lost Thunder Standard Format and Spicy Techs to Counter the Storm “While I was in attendance in Roanoke this weekend, I don’t have any sort of report or anything of that nature to offer—after being asked on Friday afternoon, I was added to the event’s judging staff (or, added back—long story). I spent the weekend floating between the stream and the floor, meaning the prep I’d done for the tournament wasn’t put to the test. Nevertheless, before I got that email on Friday, I was planning to play either Blacephalon-GX or Regigigas/Hoopa for the weekend, so I have some decent content to cover provided how the weekend went. When Alex and…
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)
Malamar Three Ways (Standard, Ultra Necrozma, Unit Energy) and AbilityZard ×2 (Pidgey Teched, Max Consistency) for Daytona Beach “Malamar seems to be in a decent place in the metagame right now. With a majority of the top decks being TAG TEAM-based, a single-Prized deck should be able to take advantage of that. The flip side of the argument, and what I mostly hear as the death of Malamar, is Mallow and Lana. While healing 120 does give Malamar problems, I don’t think that alone is enough to push it out of the metagame. I was able to snag a 1st place at a League Challenge and a Top 4 at a League Cup this past week with Malamar…
LAIC by the Numbers, Pidgey Power, and My Top 2 Plays for Daytona Beach “Thanks to RK9 Labs, we have access to the entire Day 1 field across all age divisions for LAIC. We’ll focus on Masters for our purposes, but there are a few interesting numbers in the other two divisions as well—notably 5 Reshiram & Charizard-GX/Flareon-GX decks in Seniors, and 2 Naganadel/Rayquaza-GX decks in Juniors. Masters saw a Day 1 meta dominated by Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX (ADP) decks, as well as Mewtwo & Mew-GX decks. Based on numbers provided by Limitless, we know some number of players brought a Green’s Exploration-based ADP list, as opposed to the midrange list with…
Discussing the 2015 World Championships Invite Structure “Who Deserves an Invite? The New System Tournament Structure Other Concerns Conclusion I think it’s important to take a step back and take a look at the goals in mind when deciding on the invite structure for Worlds. It seems reasonable to say that the goal of Worlds is to have the best players from various regions come together and play for the title of World Champion. So then, what’s the best way to do this? There has to be some kind of system in place to determine which players are the best in each region. In the case of…
This Pokémon slept for aeons while in the form of a statue. It was asleep for so long, people forgot that it ever existed. (Zamazenta)
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