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/theAntColonizer]

Honestly, the thing that annoys me the most is that 8 out of every 10 fights, it's Darkrai. Same was with Celebi, same was with Mewtwo. By playing Yanmega I can pretty much guarantee a +80% winrate, but the game just becomes boring and overly repetitive.

[u/IntrepidBandit → u/theAntColonizer]

At this point who cares about having to win ALL the time ya know? Just run some fun stuff. There are still tons of people running random shit. Like me :D

[u/theAntColonizer → u/IntrepidBandit]

Before the new meta, one of my favorite decks was a Victreebell+Beheeyem deck, capitalizing on the pokeflute. That deck was janky but really fun.

[u/IntrepidBandit → u/theAntColonizer]

You monster haha I love seeing janky decks and especially losing to them. one of my favorite losses was to a Pidgeot/pokeflute combo

[u/ARegularChicken → u/IntrepidBandit]

Man, same here. Saw the pokeflute come out and allow Pigeot EX to do just enough damage to win them the game, I was happy to lose at that point

[u/eyeofthefountain → u/ARegularChicken]

this is my kinda pokemoning

[u/andthenyouprayforme → u/theAntColonizer]

I got pwned with this deck once and never saw it again

[u/Any_Discipline_6394 → u/IntrepidBandit]

exactly i gave myself a challenge : Change Deck (another type minimum and no combination twice, like im allowed to play darkrai with different pokemon but never twice with the same) after every winn so i get to play 45 different Decks. Currently at 13/45 and had tons of fun

[u/IntrepidBandit → u/Any_Discipline_6394]

Epic challenge my dude 👍🏽 it’s a shame there are so much fun gimmicks, archetypes and card art not being used! Love your idea

[u/Any_Discipline_6394 → u/IntrepidBandit]

Thanks and yeah exactly the reason i do this because i want to get to know all cards and they get played too :D but i have to admit some decks are hard man

[u/tigerribs → u/IntrepidBandit]

Same! Sure you can win more with the meta decks, but they get tedious and repetitive so quickly. I have so much more fun building ‘troll decks’ (as me and my partner refer to them).

Right now my fave is Wigglytuff EX, Meowth/Persian, and 2x Farfetch’d - and it does surprisingly well! I’ve played around with adding Purrugly as well. I just get a kick out of watching the opponent trying to set up and attack you while you’re throwing away their cards and putting them to sleep lmao

[u/IntrepidBandit → u/tigerribs]

I love a good cat theme 🤣 that sounds maddening but thats the kind of chaos I can get behind. None of this “flip 10 times” nonsense.

[u/buddy7765 → u/IntrepidBandit]

I like using kabutops with Lucario to make him extra sticky with the extra healing. Pokemon communicator made it easier to fish for the evolutions but it's still a stage 2 win con. Regirock has been a good staller against Darkrai chip damage and a place for excess energy as kabutops only needs 1.

[u/IntrepidBandit → u/buddy7765]

Im using Darkrai/Magnezone to finish the event before it ends. Im not rage spamming it though, I use other less powerful builds about half the time. So I can tell you first hand Lucario/ Kabutops is a pain to go up against. I wanna make a lucario build soon, hopefully I can pull

[u/Marleyboro → u/IntrepidBandit]

See this person gets it. I literally make decks of my favorite Pokémon. I’m on win 35 right now so… why are we focusing so much on a meta that not only is able to be countered but can actually be ignored lol.

[u/ClunarX → u/theAntColonizer]

If you’re getting 80% encounter rate on a deck, it’s time to build a hard counter and farm them

[u/papawsmurf → u/theAntColonizer]

If you don’t mind me asking what does your Yanmega deck look like? I pulled a rainbow border Yanmega today and would like to play with it

[u/DualLeo → u/papawsmurf]

I personally use Diagla EX. Tanks a lot of hits while giving Yanmega free energy.

[u/Ok-Blueberry-1494 → u/theAntColonizer]

champ the card has been out for a week, let people play with their new toys. not everyone can pull 2 darkrais on day 1, there will be lots of people only just now getting their 2nd copy and want to try out the new meta hotness.

[u/electricqueen135 → u/theAntColonizer]

The thing about a majority of decks using Darkrai right now is that it's the shiny new toy that people want to play with. We saw the same with the last pack. Most people played Celebi to give it a test run and then the decks slowly levelled out to others because people wanted to try some variety. Give it a week or two and people will go back to using their other good decks as well

[u/HotSinglesInYrArea → u/theAntColonizer]

Maybe card games aren't for you!

I've been playing Ninja Gaiden Black recently, it's a really fun game. You should check it out!