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Espeon/Garbodor from NAIC to Now and Decidueye/Vileplume for Worlds “Espeon/Garbodor can survive in a Greninja-based meta, since Greninja scares away its poor matchups. Gardevoir and Volcanion are shunned away by Shadow Stitching, but Garbodor variants will stay. Drampa/Garbodor has a slightly better Greninja and Volcanion matchup, but does worse across the board. It recently took down Liverpool Regionals, similar to Seattle this past May. I believe this occurred because very few people play Espeon/Garbodor compared to Drampa/Garbodor. Other players in turn assume that Espeon-GX is an unfitting partner, and never consider it. Going into Worlds, I would not consider playing Espeon/Garbodor for day 1. The two days are separate—they require…
The Making of Quagsire/Naganadel for the DC Open, My Latest List, and What Has Changed About the Deck “Going into Worlds, I expected the meta to be mostly these five decks: PikaRom, now with Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GX Green’s ReshiZard Malamar variants Blowns Mewtwo & Mew-GX decks When looking at this list, I noticed that three of the decks—PikaRom, Blowns, and Mewtwo—did not have a good answer to attacking Keldeo-GX. Benching a Keldeo does not immediately win the game against PikaRom, as they have a few 1-Prize attackers, but as long as you could power up several consecutive Keldeos, they would be in trouble. (Mind you, this is before 1-of Power Plant was mainstream in PikaRom). Using the…
They came over from another region long ago and worked together with humans. Their green skin is resistant to water. (Copperajah)
Thoughts on the new Expanded and Standard Formats, plus a first look at Volcanion, Gardevoir, and Metagross in BKT-on “I’ve been relatively shy about my thoughts on Expanded, keeping quiet while the discussion on the format (and the game in general) raged this past season. I personally felt that Expanded was a diverse and healthy format- Expanded has been an absolute dumpster fire of a format and I freakin’ hated it with a seething passion. It was abject trash and anyone who thought otherwise was, quite frankly, wrong. Then, this past week, TPCi published an update to Expanded’s banlist, finally making due on their ancient promise of actually monitoring that format for unhealthy combos. As I’m sure many of…
Profiling Zapdos/Lycanroc-GX in Standard and Recapping Archie’s Blastoise in Expanded “Coming into the tournament, I knew that Zoroark-GX/Garbodor would be a relatively safe play. I liked the list I had posted because it was consistent against everything, and should I dodge Pikachu & Zekrom-GX, the deck would work well. I liked having the extra Rescue Stretchers, Garbotoxin, etc. for my other matchups rather than the specific anti-Lightning cards that didn’t even make the Pikarom matchup favorable. Both versions of Zoroark-GX/Garbodor were my fallback, and it was good to see that some people had success with it. Alex Schemanske finished in Top 8 and Arlo Neel in Top 4. Justin Bokhari,…
Aided by the soft pads on its feet, it silently raids the food stores of other Pokémon. It survives off its ill-gotten gains. (Nickit)
Playing Blastoise without Beach “This is actually the card that Wilson used in his deck to take Beach’s place. When I first heard the idea, I was skeptical about running a 2-2 Stage 1 evolution line in a deck that can already have troubles setting up and keeping consistency. I did end up testing it, though, because of the success that Anthony had with it. I instantly realized one thing; Magnetic Draw is good. Really good. Being able to play your hand down and know that you can always refill your hand is great in Blastoise. The Catcher nerf also helps this deck, preventing…
Post-Rotation Inteleon VMAX and Vikavolt V, the Two Ends of the Lightning-Nerfed Spectrum “I believe that the post-rotation metagame favors Inteleon VMAX for three main reasons: No PikaRom or any big Lightning decks Good matchup vs. Eternatus VMAX Favorable typing against Fire decks, like Centiskorch VMAX It’s funny how a Pokémon so mediocre in the previous format can theoretically become super suitable in the current format. Inteleon VMAX has two good attacks and they have a direct impact on the main matchups of the new format, which are ADPZ, Eternatus VMAX, and Fire decks in general. I don’t think Inteleon VMAX is a super powerful deck, like Eternatus VMAX which can hit for…
Cunning and cautious, this Pokémon survives by stealing food from others. It erases its tracks with swipes of its tail as it makes off with its plunder. (Nickit)
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