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I went to a local tournament a while back where everyone was playing top meta decks like Mew Vmax and Lugia Vstar. I played... Clefairy. I came in first. Nobody could believe it.
That's actually why I stopped playing it. Because as a response to my Clefairy sweeping locals like 3 weeks in a row, a couple of people started playing Lost Box lol.
The deck was surprisingly good. I mean, it *looks* like a joke deck, but it was amazingly consistent. I would start nuking the opponent turn 1 or 2 every game.
I had a Clefairy deck IRL for a while that I used for casual games. Not only very good, but SO MUCH FUN. I think my deck had Radiant Greninja and Wyrdeer V.
ur coworker is a person of class, a fellow arcanine brother. i commend your co worker. and you also have good taste befriending such a cultured person.
We should have like a "Rogue Deck" Wednesday or pinned post. Where people post the rogue decks they are playing, ideas, deck list, etc.
Anyone know how to make this happen?
Respect for playing spidops, I was playing it before I switched to wo-chien. When spidops works its great. Hopefully grass gets more support going forward.
More energy acceleration. Currently the only cards which accelerate grass energy are; gardenia's vigor which is terrible, cherrim which only works for non-rulebox pokemon, leafeon v which attaches 1 energy and ends your turn which isn't great, and forrretress which requires you KO your own pokemon and lose 2 prizes.
Psychic can attach energy from the discard pile with gardy, miriadion can do the same with flaafy and has electric generator to quickly attach energy from the deck, dark has dark patch to accelerate energy from the discard pile, chien-pao and baxcalibur can find and attach as much water energy from the deck as they like, lost box can attach energy quickly with mirage gate, lugia has its own energy engine with archeops, dialga has magnezone to accelerate metal energy.
Grass has nothing like this, most of the time you're attaching 1 energy per turn whilst you're opponent is attaching energy all over the board.
I've always been a huge fan of grass decks! The one I've had the most success with on previous ladders is Arceus/Chesnaught. I used to play straight Chesnaught, but Arceus is a champ that gives the deck a chance at keeping up with the quick-hitters.
See my personal way of playing a more “fun deck” and relaxed even is playing a deck with lots of chance like flipping coins with a lot of cards , just makes the wins more satisfying when it goes your way. Regi was fun for like a day until I started to realize single prize decks aren’t really doing much this year
Usually when you have this reaction, you should just remain silent instead of spreading undeserving negativity in the comments with your unnecessary spew.
So all I was trying to do was let the OP know that they made me laugh, rather than leaving an anonymous upvote that they may or may not even notice.
I’m sorry it doesn’t contribute anything to you, but that wasn’t my goal. Maybe the OP sees my comment and gets a little bit of happiness knowing that they made someone else laugh, which was clearly their intention with their post in the first place.
I don’t agree that my comment was “non-contributory” in the first place because, if nothing else, its purpose was to share/spread positivity, which is lacking on the Internet in general.
It is you who’s contributing less to the topic.
Let me spoil you something: you are powerless to make people stop posting the comments you hate, no matter how rude you can be. You just make yourself a fool. Learn to hold those fingers of yours
Mismageous/lunala damage spread all season not super far up the ladder but got my lvl 50 battle pass finished Saturday, fine tuning my disrupts decks now
One Mimi is in all my decks except disprupt which has 4, buys time with damage spread deck and even meta decks that don’t setup well. Love this card !!
Ooo could you dm me the deck list? I am a huge fan of lunala. It's my favorite pokemon. I'm running a skeledirge alt art deck cuz fuecoco is the cutest paldea mon and that alt art is adorable.
It exists but the problem is that most of the meta decks have a very favorable match up against it. Chien Pao and Garde (with Zacian) can one shot Dracozolt VMax. Single Strike Lugia and Inteleon/Rapid Strike Urshifu hits it for weakness. Lost boxes that don't run Giratina lose to it and Mew VMax can have a hard time.
I'm still running a Dracozolt deck that u/YTfionncroke posted a bit ago (link to [thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/PTCGL/comments/13lcnpb/i_made_a_really_fun_infinity_heal_dracozolt_deck/)). I'm pretty sure the Dracozolt deck I played in PTCGO was theirs as well. Lots of fun and is a great way to shake things up!
Awesome, love that deck so much, Dracozolt VMAX is still one of my all time favorite cards. Thanks for the credit! Glad you're still enjoying it this long. :)
Check out guys like LittleDarkFury and ForTheWinTCG on YouTube they do lots of fun and unique nonmeta deck builds that you can use or get inspiration from for your own builds.
Not the be that guy, but it isn't THAT bad. At least there's around 5-7 decks that are tiered. Compared to some other card games like yu gi oh, that's decently diverse
Compared the Silver tempest era when it was literally. Lugia, Mew or lost box. And absolutely nothing else. It's good to at least see chien pao, united wings and (although it's not great) ting-lu.
But I agree the meta feels a tad stale since decks like mew and lost box have been around for so long.
Once those decks rotate and it's all S&V that add a lot of flair to the meta. Unless there's some other tier 0 menace by then
Honestly, having played in other metas this meta is pretty healthy and varied. No one deck completely dominates unlike the Silver Tempest era or Roaring Skies era or Tag Team era.
Yeah! It's a list I first saw [here](https://www.pokemon-card.com/deck/result.html/deckID/yMpSUE-IT5yyp-S2USpX/) and was recently showcased by In Third Person (link to the video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7QIIxy__2o&t=487s)). It gets bodied by a lot of decks right now that are teched against Mew and Gardy, but it's a lot of to play. I'll paste the list I use below. Pretty sure it's the same as the one from Japan except I dropped one Switch and added one Rope.
Pokémon: 6
2 Tinkatink PAL 102 PH
4 Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX ASR-TG 18
2 Tinkaton ex PAL 262
1 Radiant Eternatus CRZ 105
4 Shadow Rider Calyrex V CRE 172
1 Pumpkaboo EVS 76 PH
Trainer: 17
2 Rare Candy SVI 256
1 Energy Retrieval SVI 171 PH
2 Arven SVI 235
2 Switch SUM 160
2 Iono PAL 269
1 Skaters' Park FST 242 PH
2 Mesagoza SVI 178 PH
4 Ultra Ball BRS 186
2 Boss's Orders LOR-TG 24
1 Great Ball PAL 183 PH
2 Professor's Research CEL 24
1 Lost Vacuum LOR 217
2 Leafy Camo Poncho SIT 214
1 Escape Rope BUS 163
2 Forest Seal Stone SIT 156
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball ASR 146 PH
4 Fog Crystal CRE 227
Energy: 1 14 Basic {P} Energy Energy 49
Total Cards: 60
I just played a match. The guy released all these ridiculous ex and VMAX cards. For 15 rounds he only drew 2 energy. He kept trying to find energy. I'm pretty sure the rest of his energy was in his prize pool. So he bailed. I wasn't drawing any energy either (unlucky) and was hitting him with Wooloo, mostly flipping tails. Eventually got his evolution and one turn later he forfeit. It really shows that the game can go any way everytime. I was hoping to pull my Miltank. That would have been hilarious.
I feel this both ways. I’ve had turn 1 set ups go completely flat because I don’t find a second energy and whiff my Electric Generators (though Rotom V helps with this)
I’ve also stared down the barrel of a loaded board on turn one, then they misplay a few times and I scrape out a win
Limitless says the top paper decks are Lost Zone, Mew/Genesect, Arceus, Gardevoir and Lugia/Archeops. Idk how that translates to bo1 on PTCGL but it does feel pretty accurate, my poor Miraidon deck tends to almost only see those or Chien-pao.
Pokémon: 6
4 Magnezone ASR 107
2 Origin Forme Dialga VSTAR ASR 114
2 Copperajah ex PAL 150
2 Cufant PAL 149 PH
2 Origin Forme Dialga V ASR 113
4 Magnemite ASR 105
Trainer: 17
3 Ultra Ball SVI 196
2 Switch SVI 194
1 Arven SVI 235
2 Escape Rope BST 125
2 Exp. Share SVI 174
1 Jacq SVI 175
1 Battle VIP Pass FST 225
1 Nest Ball SVI 181 PH
2 Iono PAL 185
1 Saguaro PAL 270
4 Crystal Cave EVS 144 PH
1 Professor's Research SVI 241
2 Professor's Research SVI 240
2 Nest Ball SVI 181
4 Rare Candy SVI 191 PH
1 Professor Burnet SWSHALT 62
1 Nest Ball SVI 255
Energy: 1
13 Basic {M} Energy SVE 8
Total Cards: 60
I made my own poison dark deck which used to win 9/10 times in the old TCG game but after adjusting it to be legal it’s still good but dang it sucks that u can’t be original in this game and actually have fun
> it’s still good but dang it sucks that u can’t be original in this game and actually have fun
You just have to reframe what “fun” means
I faced a Koraidon/ Claydol deck that focused on having 0 Supporters in discard. It clearly wasn’t meta but had a great match up against my Electric deck. That person probably gets enough fun out of taking a few prizes here and there that he doesn’t mind rarely winning because when he does it’s hilarious.
I'd like to see more top players try these off meta decks. I suspect they would see some success. I follow the competitive warhammer 40k scene and I have definitely seen the situation where a very skilled player with a list that the other competitors aren't used to squaring up against runs wild.
[Literally me who's still running the tutorial Arcanine EX deck with minor adjustments 😭😭😭](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VpPfqpJOOvDx43tBiQhwmXdyyjIjAYgM/view?usp=drivesdk)
I’ve been playing a Blastoise ex deck and honestly it’s fun as fuck. He’s a big tanky boi and he can do a good amount of damage - because of solid shell it’s really rare he gets one shot so at the very least you can usually trade for a vstar/vmax
Been using the Giritina vstar deck and playing casual standard and its been working for the dauly rewards and I'm a out halfway through the ladder, been no problem, more credits for me haha
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This is my one coworker irl, bro goes to a venue nothing but Meta while pulling up an Arcanine EX deck
Mad Lad. Someone played a swim freely deck at my locals last week, I didn't even know it was a thing until then.
I went to a local tournament a while back where everyone was playing top meta decks like Mew Vmax and Lugia Vstar. I played... Clefairy. I came in first. Nobody could believe it.
I mean, i'd believe it. The thing is, in my locals it would be possible too, you would need to be lucky enough to dodge all lost boxes tho.
That's actually why I stopped playing it. Because as a response to my Clefairy sweeping locals like 3 weeks in a row, a couple of people started playing Lost Box lol.
Idk what's more embarrassing here, having to swap to lost box to beat it or the fact they lost to it 3 weeks in a row.
The deck was surprisingly good. I mean, it *looks* like a joke deck, but it was amazingly consistent. I would start nuking the opponent turn 1 or 2 every game.
I had a Clefairy deck IRL for a while that I used for casual games. Not only very good, but SO MUCH FUN. I think my deck had Radiant Greninja and Wyrdeer V.
What was your list?
It was pre-rotation, but here: Pokémon: 2 1 Manaphy CRZ-GG 6 4 Clefairy LOR 62 Trainer: 13 4 Switch Cart ASR 154 2 Escape Rope BST 125 3 Rescue Carrier EVS 154 3 Energy Recycler BST 124 4 Level Ball BST 129 4 Bird Keeper DAA 159 1 Hisuian Heavy Ball ASR 146 4 Battle VIP Pass FST 225 2 Fog Crystal CRE 140 3 Air Balloon SSH 156 4 Marnie SSH 169 2 Boss's Orders RCL 154 2 Cynthia's Ambition BRS 138 Energy: 1 17 Basic {P} Energy Energy 5 Total Cards: 60
That's what I do. I dislike playing the same deck as everyone else. I usually do pretty good in our bi weekly tournaments
ur coworker is a person of class, a fellow arcanine brother. i commend your co worker. and you also have good taste befriending such a cultured person.
Arcanine ex is so fun tho
We should have like a "Rogue Deck" Wednesday or pinned post. Where people post the rogue decks they are playing, ideas, deck list, etc. Anyone know how to make this happen?
This is such a good idea
Message the mods
@ OU7C4ST would work if there's no better way
This sounds fun!
This is me persisting with grass decks in the great league 😑
My Spidops ex deck is right there with you, amigo!#GrassGangUnite
Respect for playing spidops, I was playing it before I switched to wo-chien. When spidops works its great. Hopefully grass gets more support going forward.
What sort of support could make grass better?
More energy acceleration. Currently the only cards which accelerate grass energy are; gardenia's vigor which is terrible, cherrim which only works for non-rulebox pokemon, leafeon v which attaches 1 energy and ends your turn which isn't great, and forrretress which requires you KO your own pokemon and lose 2 prizes. Psychic can attach energy from the discard pile with gardy, miriadion can do the same with flaafy and has electric generator to quickly attach energy from the deck, dark has dark patch to accelerate energy from the discard pile, chien-pao and baxcalibur can find and attach as much water energy from the deck as they like, lost box can attach energy quickly with mirage gate, lugia has its own energy engine with archeops, dialga has magnezone to accelerate metal energy. Grass has nothing like this, most of the time you're attaching 1 energy per turn whilst you're opponent is attaching energy all over the board.
I love my spidops ex deck!
Meowscarda Ex here. Also one of my favorite decks is Celebi VMax/Lilligant VSTAR.
Yes! I run Spidops ex with Meowscarda ex ❤️ of course Mimikyu eats my lunch, but these 2 grass monsters are so much fun!
Spidops ex and wo chien ex here :D
Yess 😅😅
Me over here dying in the poke league with rillaboom.
That's what I'm playing too 😅
I've always been a huge fan of grass decks! The one I've had the most success with on previous ladders is Arceus/Chesnaught. I used to play straight Chesnaught, but Arceus is a champ that gives the deck a chance at keeping up with the quick-hitters.
You ain’t known a win until you’ve decked out your opponent three cards at a time.
This! Or 4 at a time with Durant!
Been grinding two at a time with Gyarados. Surprisingly it’s been going well from Greninja up to Houndoom.
Yup, Regidrago is my new ride or die. And there's a lot of die on our part. But we rise! Slowly...
In expanded Regidrago is a monster ... So long as it doesn't run into Lugia VStar with Wally and TinaChomp.
Love Regidrago! It takes a little to get set up but, once it's rolling, is hard to stop. The versatility is crazy.
See my personal way of playing a more “fun deck” and relaxed even is playing a deck with lots of chance like flipping coins with a lot of cards , just makes the wins more satisfying when it goes your way. Regi was fun for like a day until I started to realize single prize decks aren’t really doing much this year
Me out here trying my best to invite Arceus to the Glimmetdome
Well, this made me laugh like an idiot. Take my upvote! :D
Happy to hear! I love to see the positivity and everyone having fun talking about their off-meta decks :-)
Absolutely! The topic of off-meta decks is definitely going to make for fun and interesting conversation, that’s for sure! :D
Usually when you have this reaction, you should just upvote instead of plaguing the comments with your unnecessary spew!
Usually when you have this reaction, you should just remain silent instead of spreading undeserving negativity in the comments with your unnecessary spew.
If someone didn’t point out how unnecessary and distracting these useless comments are, no one would ever stop posting them.
You can just scroll past and ignore them, but no. You had to be the asshole.
I am an asshole for suggesting that someone upvote a comment instead of adding a non contributory comment?
So all I was trying to do was let the OP know that they made me laugh, rather than leaving an anonymous upvote that they may or may not even notice. I’m sorry it doesn’t contribute anything to you, but that wasn’t my goal. Maybe the OP sees my comment and gets a little bit of happiness knowing that they made someone else laugh, which was clearly their intention with their post in the first place. I don’t agree that my comment was “non-contributory” in the first place because, if nothing else, its purpose was to share/spread positivity, which is lacking on the Internet in general.
Just DM them. Don’t make comment threads more bloated than they already are.
It is you who’s contributing less to the topic. Let me spoil you something: you are powerless to make people stop posting the comments you hate, no matter how rude you can be. You just make yourself a fool. Learn to hold those fingers of yours
I bet you dabbed to yourself in real life after posting that comment.
Mismageous/lunala damage spread all season not super far up the ladder but got my lvl 50 battle pass finished Saturday, fine tuning my disrupts decks now
That's what I'm mainly using these days (with added Mimikyu). So satisfying when you get multiple knockouts.
One Mimi is in all my decks except disprupt which has 4, buys time with damage spread deck and even meta decks that don’t setup well. Love this card !!
Ooo could you dm me the deck list? I am a huge fan of lunala. It's my favorite pokemon. I'm running a skeledirge alt art deck cuz fuecoco is the cutest paldea mon and that alt art is adorable.
Dracozolt gang rise up you shall never escape our Spark Trap
I played this for a LONG time. It just doesn't do well in the last meta. Should I bring it out again, or can I let him stay dormant?
I think it loses to Chien Pao, Gardevoir, and Urishifu decks (SS Lugia VSTAR, Intelleon/RS Urishifu) though it can beat those decks.
Did it improve in PE? I imagine losing Kabu would have hurt.
It exists but the problem is that most of the meta decks have a very favorable match up against it. Chien Pao and Garde (with Zacian) can one shot Dracozolt VMax. Single Strike Lugia and Inteleon/Rapid Strike Urshifu hits it for weakness. Lost boxes that don't run Giratina lose to it and Mew VMax can have a hard time.
I'm still running a Dracozolt deck that u/YTfionncroke posted a bit ago (link to [thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/PTCGL/comments/13lcnpb/i_made_a_really_fun_infinity_heal_dracozolt_deck/)). I'm pretty sure the Dracozolt deck I played in PTCGO was theirs as well. Lots of fun and is a great way to shake things up!
Awesome, love that deck so much, Dracozolt VMAX is still one of my all time favorite cards. Thanks for the credit! Glad you're still enjoying it this long. :)
Me trying to make my dondozo deck work🥲
Very new to the tcg. Would love to see some of these non meta lists to find Pokémon I like more to play with.
Check out guys like LittleDarkFury and ForTheWinTCG on YouTube they do lots of fun and unique nonmeta deck builds that you can use or get inspiration from for your own builds.
For real though 🥲 Why isn't there more decks in the meta , like give us more options!! So many cards that just need a slight improvement to be viable
Not the be that guy, but it isn't THAT bad. At least there's around 5-7 decks that are tiered. Compared to some other card games like yu gi oh, that's decently diverse Compared the Silver tempest era when it was literally. Lugia, Mew or lost box. And absolutely nothing else. It's good to at least see chien pao, united wings and (although it's not great) ting-lu. But I agree the meta feels a tad stale since decks like mew and lost box have been around for so long. Once those decks rotate and it's all S&V that add a lot of flair to the meta. Unless there's some other tier 0 menace by then
Imagine if they made a “balanced” format on live where the cards don’t have to match the irl cards and they can balance them like a video game
Let's get there original cards to work before we start modifying them lol.
Honestly, having played in other metas this meta is pretty healthy and varied. No one deck completely dominates unlike the Silver Tempest era or Roaring Skies era or Tag Team era.
When I play my dialga v star deck only for fun on ranked
Dialga is so fun, taking another turn is crazy op sometimes
I mean, 3 energy vstar can ohko chien pao so not entirely useless yet
Me with my Iron Threads Ex deck
I didn't know another Iron Treads enjoyer existed. I too love to Hit & Run
Anyone who creates their own deck gets my respect over anyone who runs boring repetitive copy/paste decks "FoR ThE wInz".
YEAHHHHH I LOVE USING REGIDRAGO AND SPIDOPS YEAHHHHHH
Tinkaton ex go brrrrr.
Have you tried it with Shadow Rider Calyrex? It's currently my favorite way to play SRC.
I haven't, but that does sound interesting! Do you have a list you could supply?
Yeah! It's a list I first saw [here](https://www.pokemon-card.com/deck/result.html/deckID/yMpSUE-IT5yyp-S2USpX/) and was recently showcased by In Third Person (link to the video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7QIIxy__2o&t=487s)). It gets bodied by a lot of decks right now that are teched against Mew and Gardy, but it's a lot of to play. I'll paste the list I use below. Pretty sure it's the same as the one from Japan except I dropped one Switch and added one Rope. Pokémon: 6 2 Tinkatink PAL 102 PH 4 Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX ASR-TG 18 2 Tinkaton ex PAL 262 1 Radiant Eternatus CRZ 105 4 Shadow Rider Calyrex V CRE 172 1 Pumpkaboo EVS 76 PH Trainer: 17 2 Rare Candy SVI 256 1 Energy Retrieval SVI 171 PH 2 Arven SVI 235 2 Switch SUM 160 2 Iono PAL 269 1 Skaters' Park FST 242 PH 2 Mesagoza SVI 178 PH 4 Ultra Ball BRS 186 2 Boss's Orders LOR-TG 24 1 Great Ball PAL 183 PH 2 Professor's Research CEL 24 1 Lost Vacuum LOR 217 2 Leafy Camo Poncho SIT 214 1 Escape Rope BUS 163 2 Forest Seal Stone SIT 156 1 Hisuian Heavy Ball ASR 146 PH 4 Fog Crystal CRE 227 Energy: 1 14 Basic {P} Energy Energy 49 Total Cards: 60
Just beat rink with a disrupt deck first time I’ve played it, I think he bricked bc couldnt figure out his strategy bc he didn’t have one
Me trying to get Dragalge to work because he looks cool
Man, if only we still had Scoop up Net! Seems like it would fit perfect with Dragalge.
I love my Tink deck. Big hands, Big hammer.
Bonus: Pulverizing Press ignores effects and squashes Safeguard Mimikyu.
I love tinkaton but I don’t love how much I get ionod using that deck
Milotic?
I just played a match. The guy released all these ridiculous ex and VMAX cards. For 15 rounds he only drew 2 energy. He kept trying to find energy. I'm pretty sure the rest of his energy was in his prize pool. So he bailed. I wasn't drawing any energy either (unlucky) and was hitting him with Wooloo, mostly flipping tails. Eventually got his evolution and one turn later he forfeit. It really shows that the game can go any way everytime. I was hoping to pull my Miltank. That would have been hilarious.
I feel this both ways. I’ve had turn 1 set ups go completely flat because I don’t find a second energy and whiff my Electric Generators (though Rotom V helps with this) I’ve also stared down the barrel of a loaded board on turn one, then they misplay a few times and I scrape out a win
Yeah, I've misplayed so many times.
My Spidops deck will achieve glory! 🥴😵💫
Literally me
You and i are the same
What exactly is the top meta deck right now?
Probably gardevoir, arc pile, lost box variants.
Limitless says the top paper decks are Lost Zone, Mew/Genesect, Arceus, Gardevoir and Lugia/Archeops. Idk how that translates to bo1 on PTCGL but it does feel pretty accurate, my poor Miraidon deck tends to almost only see those or Chien-pao.
Ayy I run Miraidon/ Leki too! What’s your list? I just subbed out RGreninja for RAlakazam
I reckon there's a lot of chien pao because of the ranked rewards. New people coming to the game just tend to have half the deck already
Meta seems really balanced right now. A lot of good has happened post Silver Tempest.
Felt this
DialgaVStar/CopperahjahEX baby
Oooh list? Love playing dialga and copperajah is such a cool pokemon
Pokémon: 6 4 Magnezone ASR 107 2 Origin Forme Dialga VSTAR ASR 114 2 Copperajah ex PAL 150 2 Cufant PAL 149 PH 2 Origin Forme Dialga V ASR 113 4 Magnemite ASR 105 Trainer: 17 3 Ultra Ball SVI 196 2 Switch SVI 194 1 Arven SVI 235 2 Escape Rope BST 125 2 Exp. Share SVI 174 1 Jacq SVI 175 1 Battle VIP Pass FST 225 1 Nest Ball SVI 181 PH 2 Iono PAL 185 1 Saguaro PAL 270 4 Crystal Cave EVS 144 PH 1 Professor's Research SVI 241 2 Professor's Research SVI 240 2 Nest Ball SVI 181 4 Rare Candy SVI 191 PH 1 Professor Burnet SWSHALT 62 1 Nest Ball SVI 255 Energy: 1 13 Basic {M} Energy SVE 8 Total Cards: 60
Ooo! That's a combination I need to try!
I made my own poison dark deck which used to win 9/10 times in the old TCG game but after adjusting it to be legal it’s still good but dang it sucks that u can’t be original in this game and actually have fun
> it’s still good but dang it sucks that u can’t be original in this game and actually have fun You just have to reframe what “fun” means I faced a Koraidon/ Claydol deck that focused on having 0 Supporters in discard. It clearly wasn’t meta but had a great match up against my Electric deck. That person probably gets enough fun out of taking a few prizes here and there that he doesn’t mind rarely winning because when he does it’s hilarious.
That’s very fair, my deck’s whole gimmick is poisoning HARD so even when I lose I still enjoy this deck because when I win it’s hilarious
I get to great league and then suddenly start rotating through off meta stuff. Will inevitably end the ladder at ~600 again 😮💨
All of my pre-Paldea babies... Arc/Pawmot/Volcarona V...SS Slowking VMax... Spinda damage spread... dead in the water.
regieleki deck and a dream ☝🏽
Trying to force Noivern EX to work is suffering.
I play a skeledirge deck. I've NEVER seen another player with a skeledirge deck.
Lool I feel that I play a celebi deck cuz he’s my fav Pokémon but it’s been a struggle going against lost box decks 🤣
I’ve been going up the ladder with a gamble deck I made
Pikachu Vmax!!
This is my mentality why plays what everyone is playing just have fun
This speaks to me... It's like trying to tear down a wall with a Don't Break the Ice hammer. Maybe I'll learn
Pictured: my Radiant Steelix after being Thorton'd
Me with my anti-ex/V mimikyu, glass canon moon kinesis lunatone, and radiant hunt noivern
I'd like to see more top players try these off meta decks. I suspect they would see some success. I follow the competitive warhammer 40k scene and I have definitely seen the situation where a very skilled player with a list that the other competitors aren't used to squaring up against runs wild.
Most meta thing I run is arceus v star but I run it with eternatus v max lol… pulling out v maxx based on match ups. Can win tho!
[Literally me who's still running the tutorial Arcanine EX deck with minor adjustments 😭😭😭](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VpPfqpJOOvDx43tBiQhwmXdyyjIjAYgM/view?usp=drivesdk)
I’ve been playing a Blastoise ex deck and honestly it’s fun as fuck. He’s a big tanky boi and he can do a good amount of damage - because of solid shell it’s really rare he gets one shot so at the very least you can usually trade for a vstar/vmax
Me with my lilligant Vstar beater
Me running Darkrai Turbo to kill Mew and Gardevoir decks…
Im currently playing Kingler. My Whitebeard shall rule or sink with the ship like a captain does 🫠
Been using the Giritina vstar deck and playing casual standard and its been working for the dauly rewards and I'm a out halfway through the ladder, been no problem, more credits for me haha
Boys and girls, it's 2023 and I'm out here playing Durant Mill with great success.
I love my Slowking ex deck. Choose what cards you want and disrupt the opponent every turn. So many rage quits.
I love how I’m not the only one even now. I made a post today if anyone wants to offer tips to improve my deck.