Standard City Championship Deck Suggestions?

[Pokiapoki]

I plan on going to a city championship on Dec 28, 2015 and not sure which deck to use! The deck i really Liked playing on Tcgo Was sceptile/Ariados/crobat, but can that deck hlod up to abigger tournament like this? I also have all the cards in real life for this deck but just not sure. Which decks are being played in standard right now  and which are being payed at other city championships?

[fr33land]

I saw a lot of different decks at the city championships I attended.

Most popular?  M Manectric / Everything

Partnered with Yveltal or Giratina EX.

Giratina EX / Bronzong and Giratina / Fairies.

Hoopa / Rayquaza was a potent force.

Night March was out in droves.

I think most popular in no specific order:

Giratina EX

Mega Man

Mega Ray

Night March

Numerous:

Vileplume

Yveltal EX

Not so many:

Primal Groudon

Redtwo

[rgp151]

Well, of that I'd say that Bluetwo should trounce: Giratina EX, Mega Man, Mega Ray, but struggles hard against Night March.

 

Honestly, I've really been liking my Medicham deck and have found it really consistent and pretty much equally good... oh wait, never mind, Medicham sucks against Giratina-EX. That one match-up is really hard for it.

 

But I'd say that Sceptile-EX is not good IMO and I've played lots of Sceptile-EX. I just don't think it holds up in the current meta. 

 

I like Machamp-EX actually, and you could do something where you run Medicham with 1 Machamp-EX to handle Giratina (basically planning on using just his first attack), but I've never tried that.

 

Bluetwo with Gengar-EX is really not bad at all, and IMO is good for a tourney like this because Gengar-EX is good at handling Night March.

[danielpeebles]

can "kung foo mewtwo" attack regice when the resistance blizzard is active?

I'm guessing it could be defined as an effect on your pokemon, not a protective effect on regice.
seems I only notice regice when he's clearly got the upper hand or I just don't have a problem with him.

 

also, would have to believe people are using seismitoad in many decks like giritina-ex, even if he's not the feature.

[DonbranFL]

The strongest contenders week 1 were M Manectric, Night March, and Dark Stuff w/ or w/o Gallade. Expect the meta to try and counter those decks.

[fr33land]

What's the deal with Darkness and Gallade??

Double Colourless is the star of the show or what?  Gallade BKT is the only one in standard now.

[Felidae_]

Darkness (aka Yveltal w/ Zoroark) just has the perfect shell for the inclusion of Maxies so you are essentially don't disrupt the general core of the deck while adding a good supporting card that can also OHKO one of your biggest weakness. Add the ability to OHKO any Nightmarch Pokemon with baby Yveltal plus suprise factors such as Zoroak break to get a snekay ko and you got yourself a pretty solide archetype .

 

Thanks for providing the info of the meta @fr33land and donbranFL, helped be a lot for chossing my current Standard line-up

 

edit: @ daniel: yes, Vanishing Strike will go through Regice.

[fr33land]

lmao.

I brought Typhlosion. . .

I ended just above the middle of the pack.  It was really fun, though. . . it was cool to have a rogue deck that no one else tried and I got quite a few wicked KOs, they were all pretty good games.  I totally annihilated the other not top tier decks but there was no way to compete against the speed of Hoopa Ray, when your opponent can go second and Emerald Break for 240 before I was even able to evolve. . . well, that was a short match.  I think I kind of misplayed it a bit, thinking after I should have Hoopa stalled him or gone for a Sycamore and found myself another pokemon, there was lots of things I should have done, anyways. whatevs.  Getting KOs with Massive Eruption was totally worth it.  The promo is freakin amazing too.  I don't want to spoil it, but it is really pretty. IMO

[DonbranFL]

I miss Reshiphlosion to death. I wanna build Typhlosion, even if it's just for random Fire dailies. XD

[PKMNRocker11]

I miss Reshiphlosion to death. I wanna build Typhlosion, even if it's just for random Fire dailies. XD

Do u think there'd be a demand for some players to play HS-BLW/EPO games? Ive always wanted to do that not sure if itll have any replies. Funny enough ReshiPhlosion would be my choice

[DonbranFL]

Ehhh, it's very expensive to play that format. But I'm sure the interest would be there.

[fr33land]

I think Zoroark is disgustingly good.

Against M Ray - Mind Jack them into the atmosphere.  That attack is so sick.

Against NM you will be at a disadvantage since you must evolve, maybe bring Seismitoad, or try Hoothoot: uses DCE, item lock will probably cripple them.  If you get Zoroark up you'll probably be KOing everything except the odd Vespiquen.  Yveltal EX could probably take the weight here, or baby Yveltal.  Bring a few Target Whistles maybe.  I guess if I knew how to deal with Night March I'd be some kind of competitor, but not so much.

Against other EX, use the Break Evolution, If you can disrupt Giratina-EX to slow them down a bit and Foul Play the Chaos Wheel, they can't play Double energies.  Pretty much dead in the water.  Once you Break evolve Giratina has to 2-shot Zoroark Break, no?

Also, free switch rocks.

I think there's something to a disruption heavy deck with lots of Zoroark.  I wanted to play Bronzong / Zoroark but I couldn't field Aegislash EX, which I think would have been super potent.  Someone else posted a great deck, Bronzong and Zoroark with Dialga EX and Aegislash EX, would have had the answer to everything in that.  Maybe except my stupid Typhlosion deck.

EDIT:

Felidae:  SICK, I never looked at Pumpkaboo's weakness until just now. . .  Crazy  yeah, darkness is the way to go. . .  Mind Jack for the win!  Oblivion Wing for KO, whaaaa?

 

Typhlosion is super fun, btw.  I basically just aim to almost deck out and fish out Energy Recycler with Trainer's Mail or Skyla and play that repeatedly alongside Battle Compressor to make sure there's nothing but energy left in there, 320-400 damage all the time, it's not really a practical strategy but it is really fun.  Some people never caught on that there was no chance or luck involved at all at that point.  Can't really do that forever though and it's harder to stream a stage 2 attacker, even though it has 150 HP, it's huge for a single prize card.  Training Centre would have been nice, but Scorched Earth works so much better.

[DonbranFL]

As a result of my testing, I would probably take either Yveltal/Zoroark/Gallade, Raichu Bats, or Tyrantrum/Giratina/Bronzong depending on the expected meta of the tournament. But the format still has some evolution to undergo before the OP's City Championship.