Top 10 Pokemon TCG Decks For League Cups & Challenges With Lists!
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- The 2024-25 Pokemon season is underway, and with it Cups and Challenges. Today I am breaking down the Top 10 decks in the metagame by providing my tier list and lists! Let me know what decks you've been playing and if you agree/disagree with my list!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Gholdengo ex
02:24 Giratina Vstar
03:30 Regidrago Vstar
04:52 Raging Bolt ex
06:43 Snorlax
07:59 Miraidon ex
09:07 Dragapult ex
10:12 Chien-Pao ex
11:54 Charizard ex
13:26 Lugia Vstar
15:17 Lost Box
16:19 Gardevoir ex
18:33 Outro - Hry
thanks for your thoughts on the meta game! the audio during the decklist portion is panned all the way to the left, making it weird to listen in headphones, but still quality content regardless.
My bad, I don't know what happened when I recorded. I'll do my best to fix that going forward
Great stuff as always! I admire your optimism that Zard is favored into Lugia.
Unfair Stamp plus Counter Catcher Archeops goes hard. If you play Enhanced you can also get around Legacy, stop a Gift, or get rid of an energy off a cinno (when they have 2) in combination with KO on chops. If Lugia draws perfect it will win though, but we know how rare that is lol
@@CiaranTCG Finally found my answer!!! thanks Ciaran!! :D Will keep this in mind when I play vs Lugia
my left ear really enjoyed this episode!
Glad the left ear got some quality content!
been playing iron valiant future box with 2 jet energies at locals and cups lately and iv won 3 in a row now! super slept on
That sounds pretty interesting. Do you use Valiant to set up KOs for Hands?
@@CiaranTCG no i dont even play hands!
@@CiaranTCG Pokémon: 12
4 Iron Crown ex TEF 81
3 Iron Valiant ex PAR 89
2 Miraidon TEF 121
1 Mew ex MEW 151
1 Iron Bundle PAR 56
1 Iron Thorns ex TWM 77
Trainer: 37
4 Professor's Research PAF 88
3 Arven OBF 186
2 Iono PAF 80
2 Boss's Orders PAL 172
1 Kieran TWM 154
4 Switch SVI 194
4 Switch Cart ASR 154
3 Techno Radar PAR 180
2 Energy Retrieval SVI 171
1 Earthen Vessel PAR 163
1 Trekking Shoes CRZ 145
1 Counter Catcher PAR 160
1 Reboot Pod TEF 158
1 Nest Ball PAF 84
1 Lost Vacuum CRZ 135
4 Future Booster Energy Capsule TEF 149
1 Exp. Share SVI 174
1 Town Store OBF 196
Energy: 11
6 Psychic Energy 5
3 Lightning Energy 4
2 Jet Energy PAL 190
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Hello, I have a question for you.
Thinking about Gardy for a cup, do you think it is still necessary to tech e hammer? I feel like double hands is an autoloss either way, and cincinno lugia feels like a 50/50 matchup with it.
Thanks!
@@BlazikenTCG1 I think most people playing Lugia are still running Cincinno. If your area has any it's probably still worth it. If you're worried about jamming tower maybe run sinnoh instead since it has some utility outside of just lugia as a counter stadium
@@CiaranTCG I haven’t seen too many Lugias at my local cups lately, but the ones I have seen are usually playing double hands.
My biggest issue has just been bricking with Gardy, so was thinking that cutting e hammer for a consistency card could be helpful.
@@BlazikenTCG1 if you don't see many lugias then yeah cut the hammer for some consistency
@@CiaranTCG alrighty. Thank you very much for the help!
Could you tell me how to play the stall mu as garde?
Set up a board of Gardevoir, Flutter, Ralts, Ralts, Ralts, Drifloon. Attack with Gardevoir with a dark energy and if Ralts gets gusted just use its attack to bring it back to the bench. Save your Turos in case you start with something bad or need to reset your energy.
Hi Ciaran! Hmm.. From experience I would say Raging Bolt is on even matchup with Charizard. It's not a bad matchup as long as it has baby sandy shocks then just keep on knocking out charmanders and pidgeys early.
I'd say if Raging Bolt draws perfect it will always beat Charizard, but Radiant Zard becomes super tough to deal with. The Zard player can also go Counter Catcher Unfair Stamp and it becomes hard to recover
Tbh i think Drago is underrated. Ive been playing a lot of Dragapult lately and its the one deck ive struggled against. Even tho CPao has a "bad" Drago match up, its been the only deck that feels like i usually have a solid chance to beat them. Ive tried messing with lost box as well but my draws with it on live are really bad and it feels really underwhelming.
I find one of the big problems with Drago is that it is susceptible to bricking as well. I need to use the VSTAR power half my games just to stabilize. I also just don't think it can consistently beat Gardevoir right now.
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I use a combination of the Gardy builds. I don't see any use for Creselia now. Unfair Stamp is too good. Im between Zard and Gardy. Challenges I might lean Gardy, but for Cups Zard might be the way. Also i love 8 Psychic Energy in Gardy but that's just me.
I was actually thinking of just running Henry's build with Unfair Stamp, but in best of 1 I generally lean towards consistency. Without Drifloon I've felt fine with 7 Psychic.
Same, I prefer gardy and charizard decks overall. Regidrago has grown on me. I feel the same way about excluding cresselia, I've picked mimikyu and some other options that work well in the deck. I'm waiting for the duskull line tho, Charizard might just take over.
Hyper aroma really helps Gholdy set up
I think it could be good for the deck, but then you lose out on the Catcher Cologne package. Might still be worth it, but I need to test it out!
Question, how to deal with regidragi with gardi?
Trade positively with Drifloon and Scream Tail. Tail can KO Squawk and Drifloon kos regidrago and Ogerpon easily. You can munki 30 to ogerpon and not even need a bravery charm. Also look to Munkidori the damage counters they place with Phantom dive
How do you beat lugia as charizard? I always have a hard time
Counter Catcher and Unfair Stamp are your best friends. If you play Enhanced Hammer and/or Sinnoh the matchup gets a lot better. After they take their first KO you want to stamp and counter catcher a chops. Then when you KO cinno you want to enhanced or sinnoh to stop gift
@@CiaranTCG thank you Ciaran!!!
Miraidon definitely isnt a bad matchup for lost box if you use the bear well
I feel like Ursuluna is Miraidon's biggest enemy. I won a game at NAIC with 0 Archeops by just using Bear lol
@CiaranTCG yup for sure. My friend at locals plays miraidon alot. Last time we battled I played hedricks exact list and beared him 6times for the set lol
what do you think of Ancient Box?
I think it is pretty underrated right now. If your meta has a lot of Bolt and Lost Box it is in a good spot, but the rest of its matchups are a bit shaky.
Fortunately Gholdy has Kyurem now which can beat Lost Box easily I hope
I don't know how much it improves the matchup. You still need Cologne, and Greninja would get you 2 prizes. I'd have to test it though, maybe that 3rd prize is the difference
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I don’t know about Raging Bolt being a good matchup against Dragapult. I usually run through it setting up the bench attacks finishing it off with bosses orders pulling 4 prizes. That deck usually bench 4 2prizers at a time
Raging Bolt just KOs the Pults super efficiently, and they have the Switching carts to take their Pokemon out of the 4 prize turns as long as they save them. I find Dragapult has trouble stringing together KOs as well. If pult needs to take a 1 prize KO they can just use Sandy Shocks as well to force a Boss from the Pult player
How do you beat gardi with regidrago
Tech in some Jamming Towers and/or Vacuums
Turn 2 Phantom Dive coupled with a Prime Catcher can handicap the Gardy deck a lot. So push to get Primal Dive and go from there. Vaccuum and Jamming Tower are also good.
@@jokur3 do u mean phantom dive in so where do u put the damage
@@animeandrice9664 phantom dive and it is dependent on what's on the board where you put the counters. I tend to put all on Kirlia but if there is an attacker on board put enough counters on it so that gardevoir cannot place counters is also a good move. But I hate to say it but it depends.
@@jokur3 my problem is if u put it all on kirlia and it evolves to gardi that’s bad for u and if u put it on an attacker they can monkey then still use the attacker or charm it so I’m thinking it might be correct to use noiverns attack or goodra
i cant hear anything in the decklist section
I know some people had issues with headphones, so maybe try without them?
I think people just don’t know how to play the Grady match up with raging bolt. I think it’s honestly more even.
If you don't have any techs for the Gardy matchup then they just outrade you with one prize Pokemon. They can even KO ogerpon without Charm on Drifloon by using monkey.
@@CiaranTCG yeah what you’re suppose to do is limit the amount of easy 2 prize on the board. Lost vac drifloom/ boss garde. Also use baby sandy shooks to clean up little guys
If you play the matchup correctly it’s not as bad as people make it out to be.
Target kirlias really early. If they can only get two ralts in play turn one and you boss up and ko an early ralts/kirlia. You have a lot of momentum then in the game.
You’re welcome btw I’ll be starting a raging bolt masterclass soon $50 per person
Where is ancient box ?
It probably should have been an honorable mention. It can definitely compete at cups!
@@CiaranTCG thank you for your answer
Raging bolt is def better then Miradon in my opinion
Theyre definitely in the same tier to me. I just think Miraidon targets the more popular decks which is why I put it ahead