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To save an entire thesis, there is no practical way to tell you what to target at a point in the game. However, there is a general statement that works out pretty well, think out how you are going to win the game. At the start of every turn your goal should be to figure out if you can win in...

Imo, Volcanion isn't going to be represented near as high as Sceptile, so I am going to go with the assumption that you will have more bad than good matchups. Palkia is a really cool card, and I was thinking about using it in a Water Toolbox type of deck. However, it doesn't really cut the...

To spitball off of @Camoclone: It is because Raichu can't blow out a certain matchup. With decks like Trevenant/Waterbox you have matches that are 70/30 in your favor. With Raichu most of your matchups are 50/50, 60/40, and 40/60, meaning that you don't have amazing matchups, nor do you have...

Which Stadium is best is largely up to opinion and what build you are running, personally I like being able to attack instantly, so I usually use 4x Forest of Giant Plants. Some builds want to be a little bit slower, so they might run Parallel City or Shrine of Memories, however you could tech...

Post Rotation: It can win against all matchups if you are smart, except Fire. However, Fire isn't good against most decks, because it needs abilities, has bad starting Pokemon, and loses Blacksmith which was one of their best cards. It also gets squashed by Mega Ray, Groudon, and Mega Mewtwo...

The issue with Octillery is Garbodor, "But Shaymin is an ability based Pokemon too!" I'll get to that. Shaymin and Octillery are completely different types of support Pokemon. Shaymin is used for making explosive plays turn 1-2 and getting an early lead. Octillery is used for long game...

This is my current list that is using Garbodor but not Giratina. 2 Trubbish (BKP 56) 2 Shaymin-EX (ROS 77) 3 M Sceptile-EX (AOR 8) 4 Sceptile-EX (AOR 7) 2 Garbodor (BKP 57) 2 Lugia (FCO 78) 9 Grass Energy (GEN 75) 1 Hex Maniac (AOR 75) 4 Ultra Ball (FCO 113) 1 Giovanni's Scheme (BKT 138) 1...

They don't have to, but to make the most use out of them, I personally would revolve them around Ninja Boy. For example, Trevenant can still be strong even if you don't open up with the turn 1 Wally into Trevenant, but it is super strong to Wally into Trevenant turn 1. You also begin building a...

I don't think so, I don't really like Fire with Garbodor being a thing. The other decks are cool, but I don't have the money to drop on 3-4 Shaymins so I can effectively use Ninja Boy. Tbh, I don't think any deck is standing out to be the best. Every deck has massive flaws, so your goal is just...

I was thinking about Fire being pretty cool. Run stuff like Volcanion, Volcanion-EX, Entei, and Flareon, then just be able to switch into whatever you want. It would be really cool because a common issue Fire has is starting with the wrong Pokemon, which basically all of their Pokemon aren't...

Any deck reliant on Battle Compressor is going to basically be worthless post rotation (Yes, you can still play it for a few weeks, but I wouldn't go through all of the hassle of getting the cards just to have to sell them). As far as suggestions go, for Mega Sceptile, I would just run pure...

Mega Sceptile seems like the more competitive option, with Fire types taking a huge hit with Blacksmith/Compressor being gone, but Volcanion is going to be a deck (Just not too good of a deck except the Sceptile matchup) and it boasts the best grind game. I think it has a lot of opportunity to...

Sorry, completely forgot about what makes Groudon so strong. I feel like Giovanni's Scheme is going to be good to play (Mainly in Sceptile/any decks that lack the ability to 2 hit KO), especially with the rise of the 210+ hp Pokemon it seems good enough to at least make a tech one of out of it.

Mega Mewtwo is such a rough matchup for a lot of decks (That aren't Rayquaza/Sceptile), it and Garbodor makes any rogue deck just cry. A big reason why I probably won't play Volcanion is because it only has one favorable matchup (Sceptile), Rayquaza is simply faster and can hit harder, Mega...

Has anyone tested against the Volcanion matchup? How bad is it/What build of Sceptile were you playing?

I would cut: 1 Hoopa-EX: Clogs the bench way too hard, on average your bench will look like 2 Volcanion-EX, 1 Shaymin, 1 Flareon-EX, and either another Flareon-EX or a Volcanion, depending what is your Active Pokemon 1 Blacksmith: With Battle Compressor you will be able to send Supporters to...

Well, Garbodor with just some switching cards (Currently testing 2 Switch and 1 Rope, might cut a Switch), can get the job done. If you are "Mega Sceptile looping" you can just retreat by discarding and just get back energy with Fisherman. Zoroark is cool, but with Fisherman, it isn't that...

Ninja doesn't lose too much, except startling megaphone, which is kinda big. A lot of decks are planning to run Garbodor, practically any deck that can, will. You will also have to deal with more Sceptile decks (Seems like one of the more hyped decks) which can play under Garbodor and that...

@XacerB8, that is what I am running as far as switching cards too. I retreat with energies mainly with Flareon-EX and Entei, I generally don't mind a Volcanion getting knocked out given I can make good use of it's acceleration in the mean time. Volcanion-EX is the one really annoying card, but...

@socery, they lost Blacksmith which was huge and Battle Compressor which was meh (Decent for accelerating energy, but much better at accelerating supporters). What we are getting (In a few days), is a Pokemon that can discard a ton of Energy to boost your attacks, and a Blacksmith on legs. Sure...