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Any tips to upgrade this deck? Very high win rate so far and cycles energy cards well for Gholdengo.

ThatGuyMeep
ThatGuyMeep Member Posts: 1
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Pokémon: 14

1 Swablu SIT 142

1 Sigilyph SIT 75

1 Unown V SIT 176

1 Gholdengo ex PAR 252

1 Tatsugiri PAR 141 PH

2 Gimmighoul PAR 198

1 Gholdengo ex PAR 231

1 Jirachi PAR 126 PH

1 Lunatone PGO 34

1 Radiant Greninja ASR 46

1 Mantyke PAR 189

1 Altaria EVS 106

1 Orthworm PAR 138

1 Mewtwo ex PAR 58


Trainer: 18

2 Energy Recycler BST 124

2 Fog Crystal CRE 227

1 Super Rod PAL 276

2 Superior Energy Retrieval PAL 277

1 Lady LOR 193

1 Avery CRE 130

1 Tulip PAR 259

1 Raihan EVS 152 PH

1 Ultra Ball ROS 93 PH

1 Artazon PAL 171

2 Nest Ball SUM 123 PH

1 Boss's Orders PAL 172

1 Hisuian Heavy Ball ASR 146 PH

1 Arven SVI 166

1 Technical Machine: Turbo Energize PAR 179

1 Rika PAR 241

1 Roark PAR 242

1 Pal Pad FLF 92 PH


Energy: 3

1 Reversal Energy PAL 192

12 Basic {P} Energy SVE 5

10 Basic {M} Energy SVE 8


Total Cards: 60

Comments

  • pikayou
    pikayou Member Posts: 78 ✭✭✭
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    A good deck will usually have one main strategy, which it is able to pull off consistently. You've identified Gholdengo as a good attacker, which is a great start, but only running one-ofs of most cards is completely hindering your consistency.

    Most of the cards here are completely useless (Mantyke and Sigilyph have very weak effects and are basically just giving your opponent a free prize, Mewtwo and Unown are massive two prize liabilities that provide little benefit and your opponent can easily take out, how are you ever going to power up Lunatone and Orthworm enough to do any damage?) you would be better off just focusing on a 4-4 line of Gholdengo and scrapping those cards. Your supporter choices are also weird, and you have way too much energy (and also the only Pokemon that can use Reversal here is Altaria, which is doing 60 damage lol).

    Here's a fairly standard Gholdengo list, you don't have to copy it exactly but it might be good to take a look at its structure. You can see it's running high numbers of important cards and lots of draw support to consistently get more energies into the hand without wasting turns.

    Pokemon (18)

    3 Gimmighoul PAR 87

    1 Gimmighoul PAR 88

    4 Gholdengo ex PAR 139

    2 Scyther MEW 123

    2 Scizor OBF 141

    2 Bidoof CRZ 111

    2 Bibarel BRS 121

    1 Radiant Greninja ASR 46

    1 Manaphy BRS 41


    Trainer (31)

    3 Boss's Orders PAL 172

    3 Worker SIT 167

    1 Iono PAL 185

    1 Klara CRE 145

    2 Lady LOR 159

    4 Battle VIP Pass FST 225

    4 Ultra Ball SVI 196

    4 Superior Energy Retrieval PAL 189

    4 Nest Ball SVI 181

    1 Echoing Horn CRE 136

    1 Energy Retrieval SVI 171

    2 Artazon PAL 171

    1 Temple of Sinnoh ASR 155


    Energy (11)

    11 Metal Energy 8

  • OlderAngel11
    OlderAngel11 Member Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭✭
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    @ThatGuyMeep Listen to what @pikayou is saying. Play his decklist. All his points are great and his decklist is much better.

  • Deggylee
    Deggylee Member Posts: 2
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    I just use

    4 Gimmighoul PAR 198

    4 Gholdengo ex PAR 231

    then 4 full evolutions all the way to alakazam ,then I have 16 energy’s split between psychic and electric ,then I have four double colorless

    trainers I use the energy recycle cards and keep and draw three cards ….

    i no this wasn’t really detailed like most the other post but I promise it’s a good deck

  • TechHog
    TechHog Member Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This just proves that win rate on this app is meaningless. This almost looks like a GLC deck with all of the one-offs. I don't understand why people do this. Do you think that having as many different cards as possible somehow makes the deck better? And then the 23 energy... :/

  • drummerwyatt
    drummerwyatt Member Posts: 13
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    My question is: How To Crush Gholdengo??

    My intense dislike for Gholdengo notwithstanding, it is a deck that just always catches me off-guard.

  • Spookytony13
    Spookytony13 Member Posts: 3
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    I recommend having 20 of your cards being energies. 4 gholdengos and it's prevolution. And then a new ex and a lot of cards that either collect energy from grave or from deck

  • FloofCollects
    FloofCollects Member Posts: 27
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    i have a roaring lugia as my strongest if you have one use that

  • OlderAngel11
    OlderAngel11 Member Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭✭
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    You should probably play the 40th place list from a recent regionals (can't remember which one :| ) by Mathew Wood Aka Little Dark Fury. It's strong and consistent and fast, and only plays ten energies. @Spookytony13 yOu almost never need twenty energy in a deck, unless you're playing Miraidon, and even then eighteen is pretty much the maximum.