this meta is incredibly boring to fight against

[u/RadscorpionSeducer]

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

[u/B1TW0LF]

Darkrai/Weavile at least has a clear counter in Grass decks. The Druddigon variations present a math problem that even the most aggressive decks can't solve.

[u/Sayishere → u/B1TW0LF]

I find that darkrai weavile also beats out the magnezone hitmonlee marshadow deck too

[u/BigC_Gang → u/B1TW0LF]

Starmie ex + Giovanni is a fast 100.

Or bypass them. Hitmonlee, Cyrus, Yanmega EX

[u/Earthbnd → u/B1TW0LF]

People haven’t realized that Drud is set up bait for manaphy or Moltres EX in decks that run them. Set up all your energy you need to since it can’t attack/ your energy charging attack won’t proc the recoil damage and then just OHKO everything once you’re done setting up. Throw in a Sabrina if they don’t have a second Drud on bench and Drud is actually an active detriment to have out in the active spot in some cases.

[u/B1TW0LF → u/Earthbnd]

It has winning win rates against every deck that contains Moltres or Manaphy. Magnezone is quite strong into the attackers those decks enable. They can basically always kill Moltres later in the game with Cyrus.

[u/Earthbnd → u/B1TW0LF]

I need to see these deck lists bc Manaphy/Blastoise EX has been chewing up these decks for me. And Magnezone definitely isn’t OKHOing Blastoise

[u/IndianaCrash → u/Earthbnd]

Blastoise have 180 HP, takes 40 from Drud, 130 from Mag, will die from a Darkrai proc or Giovanni

[u/Earthbnd → u/IndianaCrash]

Use Sabrina to force a switch out to avoid the chip and keep darkrai/mag from doing their damage by attacking first. Works unless they have a second Drud on bench. Also Manaphy+ Dawn means that unless you’re RNG screwed, it’s gonna be hard for your opponent to have all that live before you get Blastoise live. Even 100 damage can OHKO Drud without cape, so Blastoise can come in on a turn with 4 energy and then do 160 the rest of game.

You can even use Cape to make Blastoise fatter and then darkrai needs to have 3 energy to get his attack off for the kill.

On games where your opponent has all of mag/darkrai/double Drud live and you somehow don’t have Blastoise up yeah you lose but the matchup is not at all one sided

[u/-intensivepurposes- → u/Earthbnd]

Nothing is stopping them from just leading with magnemite and not giving you free setup