Arachnophobia — Can Galvantula ex Be Good?

[PMJ]

Hello PokeBeach readers! Isaiah here, and I am happy to be writing another article for you all! Last time, I discussed my Palafin ex deck and how I felt it could be a surprisingly strong play for the Baltimore Regional Championships. While I chose not to play the deck myself, I do think the deck was in a good spot, and even still might be. An attack that does 250 damage for one Energy is still remarkable, and it feels like the deck is just one good healing card away from being a high-tier threat.
As we have now moved past the Baltimore Regional Championships, though, we finally get to talk about Stellar Crown. All things considered, the last few sets have been relatively low-impact: Temporal Forces marked a rotation that resulted in many of the best decks staying good, then Twilight Masquerade saw minor changes with the introduction of...

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[MarlinRimes]

I feel like how galvantula/2nd attack based terapagos decks do will base our views on future Tera Pokémon’s 2nd attacks. Like sylveon ex, it looks interesting, but how are we getting that 2nd attack off quickly and consistently enough

 

[Steen]

Terapagos ex is especially annoying to deal with when you play other basic rulebox decks, even Raging Bolt has some trouble pulling out the necessary damage, and the Bouffalant with Curly Wall makes it much more difficult. It's even a nightmare against my own Teal Mask ex & Serperior VSTAR deck since only my Serperior can attack Terapagos if it gets a single Crown Opal off.

Though, the biggest weakness I've seen is Dusknoir sniping a Bouffalant with Cursed Blast. If you can find a way to disable the defenses, that's the key to hard countering Terapagos ex. Canceling Cologne is also a good way to get past its resistance.

 

[Kookaburra Kong]

Why is the title of this article different from the deck in discussion? Eh, clickbait I guess.

 

[F4nt45m]

Why is the title of this article different from the deck in discussion? Eh, clickbait I guess.

The Galvantula ex is probably in the paid section of the article, as they did a similar one a few days ago.

 

[Charmaster:)]

For the first time ever, there is a Noctowl card that is not just meta-relevant, but meta-defining.

Sorry, but I need someone experienced in the Neo formats to explain why Neo Genesis Noctowl was only meta-relevant before I buy this. The new Noctowl certainly wasn't the top-tier Noctowl, and though I'm trying to figure out the exact definition of meta-defining here, it was playable in every Neo format and appeared in what appear to be two top Rocket-Legendary Collection decks (I say "what appear to be" because the title of "top deck" on Jason's blog has not always aged well, with the painfully tier-three Arcanine/Electrode still being marked "top deck" on the Base-Fossil page, so take this with a grain of salt and ask an experienced Rocket-Legendary Collection player whether these decks still hold up). Source: https://jklaczpokemon.com/rocket-lc-decks/

Why is the title of this article different from the deck in discussion? Eh, clickbait I guess.

Most likely because the article had a really long prelude and the "free-to-read" cutoff was before the author got to Galvantula ex.

 

[EmmaTheBest]

Why would/should anyone pay to see this clickbait tier article? Just when I thought this site's paywall couldn't be more stupid and community-inhibiting, this happens? It's like that hack did NOTHING in causing them to re-evaluate their ways... :/

 

[Edgecase]

All the Galvantula stuff is in the second half below the break, even the lead-in about why the thought process led to Galvantula in the first place. Decklist could have used some QA (SFA cards are all mis-coded as SHF), and even by the end, the author is pretty honest about the deck development still being WIP.