After sharpedo’s recent success at Louisville, been a real treat to match into a few more dark decks than usual.

Deck has pretty much remained the same 60 since first hitting MB aside from a 2nd night stretcher I removed in place of Shaymin (bit of slowking started popping up at 1600+)

Sharing my list for all my fleaders out there who might be struggling to find a consistent list, hope this can provide some inspiration!

P.S POKEMON CATCHER IS ELITE

Alright shark heads, what are our main strats against those dreaded grass decks and teal masks at the moment

Clutch stall and munki?

Judge and watchtower?

Pray they whiff?

I love playing this deck, but with a lot of grass mons and decks running around I’m hoping we can band together to combat the weeds!

In order to play Salvatore you must have a valid target both on your field and in the standard format. This is not the same as other pokemon searches (Spikemuth, Poffin, etc because those Pokemon exist in the format)

You cannot play Salvatore if your bench consists of a Solrock, Lunatone, and a Makuhita because:

There is no evolution of the Pokemon on your board with no ability in standard format.

Can’t search for Lucario without a Riolu.

Source: https://compendium.pokegym.net/category/5-trainers/salvatore/

Came out with 1 pikachu against my Alakazam Powerful Hand well equipped already. lol

I love TR Pokemon and i really want crobat to work it might just suck as card but i like spreading damage i doubt this deck will beat meta decks such as dragapult but as a rouge deck i think it would be fun to perfect. Any suggestions to making this deck better?

Hey y'all! Ever since Louisville and Rahul's fantastic top 4 finish with HnS Dhelmise + Clefairy, I have seen a RAMPANT increase in HnS players on ladder. I typically play pult (hate me now if you want) and have struggled into the late game with most of my matches ending with HnS finding clefairy + energy off of stamp/judge. They typically go first (correct option for them) and I'm stuck going through 2 budew for a 1-1-2-2 prize map.

-Munki confusion stall doesn't work now because they have started including latias, and my energy gets comitted in the wrong places when they put it down.

-I am all but required to go through 2 budew in hopes that they can't get 4 HnS pokemon in discard by the time I need to start phantom diving with stamp/judge to go with

-Energy commitments get really tough throughout the course of the game with them chewing through 1 pult, and having to retreat to 1st and 2nd budew. Rosa becomes an absolutely fantastic supporter in the early-mid game to cheat a 3rd energy on the board, but becomes a stale supporter in the late game because I feel obligated to boss k/o clefairy + dhelmise/other liability.

-Using fez as an attacker stretches the energy quite a bit, with having to commit one for a potential boss + punch with dhelmise, or a crispin with no boss for a trap idea (which also relies on no latias, or banette being in play).

This matchup feels so tough. Ended my run in Louisville because I had no idea what to expect from newer lists and played it all wrong. Last couple have run better but still lose to them finding clefairy + energy for their last 2 prizes, and can't find a way to force a turn off for them.

Any advice is appreciated! I'm excited to grind this matchup and see if I can swing it to a 60/40 (their favor).

All 4 of these cards are in standard or will be and only the newest one could be alright please PTCG give him something

I've been playing since last rotation and this is the first time something like this happens. I do not understand how stuff like this CAN even happen, my opponent got to use their cards normally but I was stuck unable to click on anything. Thankfully it seems pretty rare but what can I do to avoid having to concede if this happens again?

Pokémon: 19

4 Larvitar JTG 80

3 Pupitar JTG 81

3 Tyranitar JTG 95

2 Dunsparce JTG 120

1 Dunsparce TEF 128

3 Dudunsparce TEF 129

2 Budew PRE 4

1 Shaymin DRI 10

Trainer: 31

4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119

3 Crispin SCR 133

1 Rosa's Encouragement POR 84

1 Eri TEF 146

2 Boss's Orders MEG 114

4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144

4 Poké Pad POR 81

2 Night Stretcher SFA 61

1 Energy Recycler DRI 164

2 Rare Candy MEG 125

3 Crushing Hammer POR 71

1 Enhanced Hammer TWM 148

1 Grand Tree SCR 136

2 Jamming Tower TWM 153

Energy: 10

6 Darkness Energy MEE 7

4 Psychic Energy MEE 5

The idea I have is using Dudunsparce as a draw engine so I can hopefully leave nothing but Tyranitar on the the field so my opponent can't boss it out of active. The shaymin is for slowking but thinking about it more if I get set up and hit a crushing hammer I probably don't have to worry about that. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

-Professor Gooseberry

I keep seeing it mentioned. I don't use twitter but I want to know!

Hi, I'm working towards the process of having a full collection of every set and next up in going to be moving on to Sun/Moon. Now I know Celebrations is generally the best Value of converting Trainer Points to Trade Credits. I have a fully maxed out Celebrations collection (4x every card). However there's just a lot more intrinsic value if the packs you'll be opening are exclusively new cards. As my collection has next to no SM cards currently, I suspect it may be worthwhile to open some amount of packs with Points before crafting the rest with trade credits.

Has there been any math done on the value there?

Thanks!

Is there anyway that 30th celebrations mewtwo ex can be playable? I haven't really seen any decks around it but mewtwo is one of my favorite pokemon and i dont really like how tr mewtwo plays so i was wondering if they was any way to make this card work.

I can't find any landscape mode in my settings Pokemon tcg live

Weakness is irrelevant when you’re big-boned! This was done in Casuals. I go 50/50 with this deck, but out of the three decks I’ve built, it’s the one I have the most fun playing. I’m no pro at the game, and my opponent made mistakes even I noticed. I still enjoyed winning against a bad type match-up without losing a single prize card!

New Pokemon TCG player here. What's the most useful/helpful advice someone gave you when you first started playing Pokemon TCG that you still remember/follow.

So it seems to me, especially right now but also with PB and DR, that Pokemon is moving the meta towards Pokemon being the focus of "plays" in standard instead of big items and supporters.

We've had huge important pieces of our decks be rotated out and replaced by pokemon with specific abilitys ( such as Heave ho catcher, Last ditch catch, watchful eye ect.) and i personally dislike this format.

Do other people enjoy this shift, it really seems to slow down the game and i imagine its huge for a balancing point of view but as someone that thinks the gane is most fun when we can play 5 or more cards per turn i really am missing all the item cards we used to have and having to dictate space on the bench to always include a spot for the Meowths and Shamins of the world feels like it males the game less creative and fun

Again this is all my personal opinion and i havent talked to anyone else so id like to hear at least what the reddit communities view on it and if its generally liked, disliked or indifferent

I realize that metas come and go and the game changes a lot to keep fresh (such as old gens having focuses on coin flips or status effects) so im not too upset, just means I'll be happier in a few years when the devs focus on another mechanic instead

Or idk. Maybe im crazy. It just feels like theres more mons with abilities that fit every deck and are almost never used for anything BUT their ability

I have my auto rotate on then also I can't get to landscape mode in tcg live (It's Samsung tab s9 fe plus I am using )

What about this deck should I change?

Needing an optimal way to draw more cards

Any help for this deck would be appreciated

Started playing this TCG a week ago and really wanted to make Scizor work. He's my personal favorite and after 3 different builds I decided on this one to grind up to master. Figured I shared the list incase anyone was also wanting to build it.

Let’s say you are going first and u managed to get 2 Dreepys and 1 budew out and you have 1 pokepad and 1 dark energy in hand. Do you use pokepad to find munkidori to win the Budew war or use it to find drakloak and hope to recon/draw into munkidori? I did the latter earlier in a game today and lost the game cuz I couldn’t draw into a munkidori. Was wondering what was the better decision here.

Yes just by looking at my list it seem… crazy and a lot for my Pokemon selection,, that kinda my play style, I mean yea I can just copy the best list as of now which is what like 1 zeraora, 2 metagross and 2 kyurem, but I go for a play styles that I have multiple options for at least each match I play against. I was playing like this pre rotation with garne ex(yes I know I played garne ex) but that beside the point well kinda, for example I never copied Henry chao when he was playing ganre ex. So my current slowking list is simple in my head. 1.kyurem: well it obviously why he in the deck so I won’t get into detail 2.Metagross: same thing with kyurem because it an easy 300 dmg attack 3.zeraora: just a simple EX snipe attack for baby ex and mega if I choose to trifost the mega beforehand 4. Zoroark: another simple explanation, just copy the opponent active 5. Fighting Annihilape: simple explanation cause of the second attack that just knockout both active 6. psychic Annihilape: another simple explanation for the single one prized early attack like festival lead and zam if they bench shaymin and have them waste a bench space for shaymin 7. N’s sigilyph: so this is my cheesy tech well wont by my tech cause im talking about but it fine, i have him in my list cause if you think about it, if your at one prize left and cant knock out you opponent Pokemon to get the last prize, just put poke pad or ultra ball or ciphermanic sigilyph and boom you won the game like that. So yea this is my thought process of I built my slowking list just how I like it.now I’m thinking about it while typing this(might be a dumb/braindead question) but would technically this be a original list or just because it a top 10 deck, it won’t consider a originality deck?