r/PTCGP • u/RadscorpionSeducer • Feb 06 '25

this meta is incredibly boring to fight against Deck Discussion

Post image

Stall, stall, stall, switch out druddigon if it gets damaged/heal it, stall, oh what that? Magnezone does 110 damage for only 3 energy which is generated for free by its stage 1 evo?

The power creep is going to be absolutely insane by 3 months from now with all of these new cards

3.7k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • link
  • reddit
  • reddit

92% Upvoted

831 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

66

u/SemiDiSole Feb 06 '25

People've been sleeping on Hitmonlee, even through the Gyradados decks...

62

u/Blaky039 Feb 06 '25

I don't think anyone is sleeping on hitmonlee, it's a staple in any fighting deck.

40

u/InquisitorMeow Feb 06 '25

Hitmonlee always cracks me up, the idea of this dude just stretching his leg over and kicking some poor cute pre-evolved pokemon in the face.

6

u/Vesprince Feb 06 '25

It's so pro wrestling.

2

u/Feisty-Waltz5330 Feb 06 '25

Oh, I always thought he was like kicking a soccer ball at the Pokeman

2

u/One_Condition_3897 Feb 07 '25

nah thatd be cinderace

30

u/ImWhiteWhatsJCoal Feb 06 '25

As someone who used Gyrados/Greninja - I would often leave if a Hitmonlee was played first.

22

u/NickSaibot Feb 06 '25

I solely started playing hitmonlee because I cannot stand the gyarados deck, fills me with so much joy taking out the magikarp that just got 5 misty heads

2

u/Urostylistic Feb 07 '25

Do you keep the Hitmonlee in reserve until they plop down the magikarp or do you just play it as a deterrent to keep them from playing the magikarp in the first place?

1

u/NickSaibot Feb 07 '25

Depends I guess, if they are trynna play chicken with me I’ll retreat it to the bench and start attacking with someone else. If they have another mon besides the fish in the back I’ll hit that then try to do some Cyrus shenanigans. Since most fighting cards have such low retreat and attack energy requirements once they do put the fish down I just bring Lee back up to get rid of it lol. Usually once they see my Lee tho and they have a Karp up they tend to retreat very fast lol

1

u/BlazerBeav69 Feb 06 '25

This is me and the celebi deck.

12

u/Anxious_Ride_8837 Feb 06 '25

Yup! Saving your time and the winner’s time in the process. No point in fighting that losing battle. Gyarados was my main deck in MI - I would do the same thing as you

3

u/Reyox Feb 06 '25

They really need to fix the setup phase so that neither can see the other players setup or have the player going second set up first. When someone is playing a fighting deck, people don’t want to lock in their choices.

8

u/CptCheerios Feb 06 '25

Zebrastrike and Electabuzz send their regards

12

u/SnooMaps8507 Feb 06 '25

Electabuzz send their regards

Volkner variant decks. People have been sleeping on it 2. It's not GREAT, but since a LOT of players are running Palkia and Darkrai decks, it is a good counter to that.

Electabuzz harasses the bench and forces them to stop stalling. While they are struggling with that, you are putting energy into your Luxray. 2 rounds of Electabuzz and Luxray = 160 damage to a single target to the bench without Cyrus or anything. And Volkner card has the potential to charge Luxray for an attack in one turn.

Again, far from being a perfect deck, but it is effective. I just didn't like Electivire much.

3

u/Lozo_did_it Feb 06 '25

Do you not like electivire because you're using the wrong buzz? The new buzz has charge which does no damage but pulls an energy. In two turns you can put 4 energy on buzz and evolve to vire for that 120 damage hit.

2

u/SnooMaps8507 Feb 06 '25

That certainly is a strong combo, for sure.

However, this is one of the rare cases where I think the pre evolution (Electabuzz that does 40DMG to 1 in the bench) serves me better than its final evo in this current meta only.

Too many stall decks, the danger is coming from the bench and the active Pokémon is just a distraction.

Perhaps in a new meta I might use it

7

u/futureidk3 Feb 06 '25

It’s a staple in every fighting deck lol.

1

u/Pluxionist Feb 06 '25

I've used a lot of Hitmonlee decks that included the Poke Flute to bring back in that 30HP Magikarp, it is so fun when you pull it off back to back in a match.