6 results for: BKT–FLI
A Review of Christopher’s Forbidden Light Favorites and Initial Beast Box Musings “This also means that I have to go through and choose what I’m ordering from the upcoming set, which is entirely its own issue. I’m guessing most of you will have already gone through this by now—I’ve just been behind schedule because of the onslaught of Regionals/ICs in recent weeks (and, okay, I might’ve been hoping to win boxes to minimize the need to buy stuff too). Nonetheless, I’m going to list my own buy list here just in case there’s something that may differ from your own that could be of note: Buys Alolan Exeggutor FLI Frogadier FLI Greninja-GX…
Jimmy’s SLC and São Paulo Recaps and Forbidden Light Favorites “R1 Zoroark-GX/Lycanroc-GX GRI WW R2 Ho-Oh-GX/Kiawe WW R3 Zoroark-GX/Glaceon-GX WW R4 Espeon-GX/Garbodor WW R5 Buzzwole-GX/Lycanroc-GX GRI WW R6 Zoroark-GX/Lucario-GX/Lycanroc-GX GRI WLW R7 Buzzwole-GX/Lycanroc-GX GRI ID R8 Zoroark-GX/Lycanroc-GX GRI ID R9 Zoroark-GX/Lycanroc-GX GRI WW R10 Zoroark-GX/Lycanroc-GX GRI WW R11 Zoroark-GX/Garbodor WLL R12 Tapu Bulu-GX/Vikavolt SUM WLL R13 Magnezone UPR/Dusk Mane Necrozma-GX LWL R14 Zoroark-GX/Golisopod-GX WW 9-3-2, 15th place Headed into this event, I knew that I wanted to play something consistent. I also prefer playing decks that have a chance against everything, as opposed to just a couple good matchups. This left me deciding between Golisopod-GX/Zoroark-GX and Buzzwole-GX/Lycanroc-GX. Both decks fit…
A Discussion of the (Good!) State of Expanded and Discussion of Malamar for FLI Standard “I do think there is great power in this banlist and you never want to appear as if you are caving in to the demands of the community, but if updated more frequently, I think it could easily be done if only as a charade that would make people more interested in Expanded. As stated above, the main problem with Expanded is that you simply do not have to care about it, and can plan your whole season around avoiding it if you really want to. It is simple to see how Expanded has always been something that you could…
Expanded SLC Recap, Fighting for Toronto, and First Looks at Buzzwole and Malamar/Necrozma for FLI Standard “This weekend showed that Zoroark has become predictable to an extent, and decks are adapting more successfully. We saw a huge surge of Fighting type decks, an important Drampa-GX/Garbodor presence, along with a Korrina based Gardevoir-GX deck, and even Sableye/Garbodor have a strong showing (with the latter taking the big win in the end). With only a single Zoroark deck in the Top 8, maybe the format will prove to be more varied than it felt to me personally this weekend. I’m not sure I can say I’d be happy with a more varied format that includes decks like Sableye/Garbodor…
Alex Discusses Post-LAIC Standard with Buzzwole and Ultra Necrozma “As we’ve seen from this weekend, you can play Buzzwole in any number of different ways. There are 2-3 tech slots that you can use for some number of the following cards: Fighting Energy Energy Switch (Multi Switch) Super Rod 2nd Mew-EX counter (Oricorio, Mew FCO, Mewtwo, Sudowoodo) Enhanced Hammer Zygarde-EX That seems to be the exhaustive list, and allows you to take the deck in a handful of different directions. Extra Fighting Energy and/or Super Rod help you be more consistent with Max Elixir. The 2nd Mew-EX “counter” and Enhanced Hammer give you a bit of an edge against…
A clay slab with cursed engravings took possession of a ______. The slab is said to be absorbing the ______’s dark power. (Galarian Yamask)
Using Science to Answer Pokémon Metagame Questions “Looking at a large sample of games played by archetype can inform what deck is the BDIF. Further, can we determine: did decks that had good results over-perform because they played against favorable pairings relative to the meta or are they, in fact, simply well-positioned against the meta? SixPrizes’ own Christopher Schemanske and the RK9 team went through and categorized every deck played at the Portland Regional Championship tournament by archetype. Then, I was provided with the win/loss data for every matchup for Day One of the tournament in the form (Round X – Archetype One v Archetype Two -…
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When it’s drumming out rapid beats in battle, it gets so caught up in the rhythm that it won’t even notice that it’s already knocked out its opponent. (Thwackey)
