The Story Of Mew VMAX
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drapion wasn‘t even the first direct counter they attempted, it was mightyena
Mightyena was a soft counter whereas drapion was a hard counter
@@MrWessiide elaborate? how was mightyena a soft counter? it literally knocks out mew vmax in one hit with no energy cost.
@@noname-pp2vd you have to evolve it. Hope you get it set up by the time you need it. Drapion you just put it down and goooooo.
@@XtremeVegan that does not make it less of a hard counter imo. it takes more deck spaces, but only gives up one prize and its ability can‘t be shut down by path.
it‘s just a less effective hard counter, because they underestimated how broken mew vmax is.
@@noname-pp2vd I mean, when it first came out it was considered a counter but it didn't see play. The fact that it needed reprinted as drap means it wasn't the hard counter Pokemon wanted it to be. And no one is saying it's not a counter just more so that a better counter came out that has seen play based on the meta. Mightyena is a counter but drap is THE counter for most decks in the meta.
I see Vespiquen in the intro and I like how we brought my girl in , another banger James! Good job dude!!!
The funny thing is that this deck was the strongest deck, exactly like the “strongest” Pokémon in the lore
Don’t remind me about this pink gremlin.
In an extremely cold take, I think that Mew VMAX is by far the most annoying deck to have come out in recent years. It has everything it needs:
-An extremely potent card draw engine (who the hell thought it was okay to draw up to 24 cards in a turn? It really should have had a hard limit to one Fusion Strike System ability per turn).
-Reliable energy acceleration (Elisa’s Sparkle should not exist, especially since FSE is really powerful on its own, and multiple attacks benefit from having them attached to any of your Pokémon, essentially making the “one energy per Pokémon” downside pretty much irrelevant).
-High damage potential with little energy (210/190 damage for a DTE consistently is a lot to handle, as it can KO a lot of basic Pokémon V’s, and Meloetta is supposed to be a single-prize glass cannon, but Mew takes away the “glass” part, as you are hitting 280s/260s without ANY downsides).
-Attack copying capabilities (it always adds so much more flexibility, as you don’t need to switch around your attackers).
-Bench Snipe (thank you Brilliant Stars for adding Eiscue, as if Fusion Strike decks needed even _more_ versatility).
-Damage resistance from Oricorio (Which gives Mew VMAX an effective 350 HP! Fun!)
-Damage increase modifiers from Power Tablets (as if it needed to do _more_ damage).
-A shred attack that does decent damage (Yeah, I’m sorry Duraludon VMAX, but your ability is useless to what it was designed for).
-Ability protection (Usually overlooked, but that’s the secondary effect of FSE).
-Essentially a health reset button (You can empty so much damage into that thing, but then it uses Psychic Leap to take away all your hard work and switch into the Mew, only for it to evolve again).
-A free retreat cost for its main attacker (overtuned much?)
-I’ve seen some innovative lists use Leafy Camo Poncho, and if you’ve played against it, you know how annoying it is to not be able to boss out their benched VMAX. Not all that common, but I felt like mentioning it.
Okay, this sorta morphed into a rant partway through, but all of this still applies. Great video btw.
"Damn, that looks pretty weak. We should have given him an Item Lock attack."
-TPCI probably
Its undeterred but not unbeatable, and to be fair it took a hard time for mew vmax players to compete until vance take the 1st place in bdif in the worlds due to changes of the rotation last year
I also hate this card so badly. They give so much support to some cards and they don't even care. Then you see ridiculous tournament results with this card and then you see counters decks but they never good. This is the cycle of a good card. But I hate the fact they were so naive when making this card.
@@derekjeter3654 Yeah, at least with Lugia, if you kill or remove the Archeops’ in any way, they’re pretty much hooped, as they have lost all of their energy acceleration. With Mew, it has so many raw *options* that no matter the situation there’s a solution. Got path’d? Here, take my Worker card. Spiritomb? My Boss can handle it. Drapion? I can out-damage it anyways. You know it’s bad when an entire set is dedicated to a single deck archetype. And the set sucked at that.
I have despised and refused to play Mew Vmax from the time Fusion Strike was released, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing it rotate out of Standard. Like you said, it does literally everything. TPCI threw the kitchen sink at it, and we have been dealing with their poor game balance decisions since.
Mew Vmax players did indeed having a hard time after the post rotation, but one guy took the odds and win with this deck in the worlds. It sure fits the top spot before the another deck will be the very BDIF
The Paldea Evolved set also added a supporter card that seemed to aim at basically Lugia V-Star and Mew VMAX. That card was Giacomo (Discard a special energy from each of your opponent's Pokemon) . A well timed Giacomo could remove all energy from the deck, rendering it useless. Why did that card see so little play against such a strong deck despite being able to fully stop it?
I think it’s because Lugia decks tend to have a lot of energy on one Pokémon so it’s not really worth using your supporter for turn, also it’s not good in most matchups
1. Lugia Vstar isn't as good as mew in the slightest. So, implementing 1-2 cards just to account for ONE deck in the meta rather than THE deck in the meta isn't too worth it.
2. It's a supporter card, unlike the Mew Counters, which are low maintenance, high reward basics. Since supporters can only be played once per turn, you're sacrificing the ability to see more cards for a long-term strategy or set up for win conditions for a stall that, unless the way that the Lugia player manages their energy in a hyperspecific way, won't make a large impact.
Giacomo only does anything against an awful player who is playing energies just to play them
Because Giacomo as well as drapion, spiritomb and bunch of other cards are completely garbage against every other deck in the meta.
@@derekjeter3654 spiritomb has some use outside of going against Mew, but overall yup agreed.
Pink cat.deck will never go away
This video was amazing! Mew truly is one of the best decks ever. I saw Pikiptcg make a video similar to this a few weeks ago!
Edit: Pikip also made an entire article about how Mew could succeed if it fell under the radar to avoid heavy counters at the start of Paldea Evolved format. Apparently the Mew believers never gave up!
Great video. Thanks for the quality content
I think Mew has a case for goat deck (it also won the Japan championship this year)
Really well-made video.
I remember back when Double-Turbo Energy was revealed everyone just glanced over it because of the damage downside it had but I knew differently. Double Colorless energy is one of the most powerful energies that existed, even with that downside the turbo variant is still going to be insanely strong. Enter Mew Vmax being printed and it found its home with making an S-tier decklist working.
Man, great video, more like this please! Subscribed!
Awesome video as always! Went a little fast tho, I had to pause a rewind a few times lol.
thanks for feedback :)
Super high quality video, great job
Awesome video, great storytelling
Hey! That’s me at the 13 minute mark 🤣🤣🤣.
This video is so so good! Great work and long live Mew!
randomly was scrolling through quote tweets and found this LOL thanks for the banger tweet
We oonga, there for we boonga
worlds 22 essentially was the palkia vstar format rather than mew
Can’t wait for these V’s to get rotated.
I love Vance :)
Great video, easily gained a subscriber here. I was so happy when mew took worlds top spot. I liken it to a former great athlete who is counted out from being to old to compete at the top levels. Who has just enough left in the tank to pull out the one last shining moment in the biggest game.
Great analogy and I agree completely! Mew vmax was my first ever standard deck and it will always hold a special place in my heart. Seeing it take down the biggest event to date is something I’m extremely happy it gets to have on its permanent legacy.
lol pretty much. I'm glad Mew won and not Lugia. Mew deserves the Worlds win for being one of the best decks of the entire last 2(ish) years.
İ didn't realize how much different the card game then the official lader in sv ,I'm so confused
That why I bought mew V max and I little bit upgrade my mew v max deck
Giving genesect a 210 damage attack was so dumb. It should have been 150 since it has power tablets.
Even just dropping it down to 200 would have made mew vmax balanced. 210 was PERFECT for dte mew to hit the magic number 280 with two tablets+belt. If it was 200, mew would need three tablets+belt to kill vstars, so you'd only be able to do it once per game. This would make fusion mew the only viable way to play it, which I assume was what pokemon intended it to be played. Fusion would be balanced too because it's tied to Fusion energies on board which allows more counterplay.
Why no Charizard ex ????
I'm so glad it's getting rotated out since I play expanded I'll be able to afford the card now and basically just throw in sky field
It would be solved if sideboard was allowed.
Nice. I like the historical context.
It's all f.ed up but I can't blame him, he wasn't alive back then
@@user-qx7yw2cv7k Wtf?
Honestly, if Genesect V just had "You can only use this ability ONCE per turn", I feel like the Mew VMAX deck would have been more fair.
It does though
@@popo237 They mean "once per turn and that's it" like Crobat V and Dedenne GX, not "once per turn per card".
Dark has always been a typing in pokemon tcg. Yeah I'm from 1998 and a press x to doubt. Seriously tho, makes me doubt everything else you are saying,seeing other comments, it seems you have a basic understanding, but you are definitely not someone I would take seriously
The only thing that I like about Mew Vmax is that it's going to rotate out soon. Good riddance to possibly the most unbalanced archetype ever printed in Pokémon TCG history. May they never make something so completely broken again.
I think it is just a case of git gud
Sadly, pokemons reaction to making the best deck ever is target it with lame cards instead of… idk making better cards to build decks around, not worse.
I just got back into Pokemon, built a Skeledirge deck. Went to my locals and managed to play my first IRL game in over five years. You're telling me this asshole pulled out a Worlds deck against me after I said I'm "new"?
Do you actually believe someone is an asshole because they play a good deck?
I don't even know what are you talking about dude but sure welcome back. I just hope we don't see more ridiculous decks like mew anymore.
You said it yourself. It's ridiculous deck. And I'm playing arguably a much lower tier. And that's what they bring out?
They don't bring it for you, they bring it for more competitive players. It's a tournament, you're supposed to try to win
If you're new to chess, do you expect your opponent not to use their queen because you don't know how to use yours?
Nah mew is not that strong. Any dark or control deck can beat mew. The problem is that nobody wants to play control or dark right now cuz they sucks. Pokemon loves giving broken advantages to psychic mons.
And yet, it keeps winning. They printed direct counters and Mew players just laughed them off. The deck just has it all, and it will torment the game until it thankfully rotates out.
7:10 why is boss blurred here?
it didn't rotate lol
@@jamesctcg I thought that, but is it not true of pokeball too, which also appears?
I didn't realise my bad
@@jamesctcg np. Congrats on getting top 4 at worlds btw.