More Musings on Seismitoad-EX, Loving Card Advantage, and Tamin’ Shaymin “My primary goal for Spring Regionals was to earn a (somewhat) significant amount of Points in order to get back into the Top 32 players in the US & Canada and earn a $1,000 Nationals stipend. I’m not sure if at this point I’ve actually gained anything, considering the amount of money I’ve already spent on traveling for tournaments — but Top 32 in North America is an impressive title in any case. Additionally, any amount of Points is helpful for my (long-shot) goal of getting Day Two status at Worlds, which could be achieved with a really good performance at US Nationals…
Greninja and Lightning-Lock (Jolteon/Regice) for Week 3 and Beyond “Greninja is quite a familiar deck by now. After Grafton Roll made Day 2 at Florida Regionals with it in the Winter, Greninja took off in popularity during States. The appeal of Greninja is that it has an alternate win condition of simply setting up. Of course, every deck has the three direct win conditions: draw 6 Prizes, KO your opponent’s last Pokemon, and deck the opponent out. Over the years, we have seen some other decks with alternate win conditions. These are a set of conditions that will always (or almost always) lead to one of the direct win conditions…
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…
A body made up of nothing but muscle makes the grappling moves this Pokémon performs with its tentacles tremendously powerful. (Grapploct)
This Pokémon keeps its heat-sensitive head cool with ice. It fishes for its food, dangling its single hair into the sea to lure in prey. (Eiscue)
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