I recently gave Pokemon an option after playing Vanguard (didnt find a deck that was bread and butter to me) and playing Yugioh again and stopped because everything is broken and Nekroz is Jesus or something, but I stopped playing Pokemon for 6 months, so what are the newer best decks? I see Aggron got a card and he is my favorite pokemon as he brings memories, so im considering him, but with a $100-150 budget what could I run?
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You could go with a Mega Aggron deck since he is your favorite and the deck is a solid deck. M Aggron/ Bronzong/ Dialga EX/ Cobalion EX/ Heatran/ Aegislash EX all could go in the deck.
Yveltal EX varients are still good and somewhat cheap if you go with the promo Yveltal EX's.
Flareon decks are seeing a good amount of play not sure how expensive they are with the recent success of flareon.
Fairy Varients like M gardevoir EX or Florges EX are still good , Florges EX is realitivly cheap as well.
Pyroar is ok still and probably cheap.
Yveltal EX varients are still good and somewhat cheap if you go with the promo Yveltal EX's.
Flareon decks are seeing a good amount of play not sure how expensive they are with the recent success of flareon.
Fairy Varients like M gardevoir EX or Florges EX are still good , Florges EX is realitivly cheap as well.
Pyroar is ok still and probably cheap.
Yeah you could run it with Xerneas EX/ Aromatisse. Yveltal EX has done very well even though dark patch was rotated.
After a bit more research I see LandoBats are a bit ridonculus, but with my knowledge, will Landorus get rotated? And Yveltal seems like a strong choice, and a bit fun deck I saw was Flareon. Battle Compressor is quite amazing. The reason I want to play this game again is because this deck doesnt have 1 card wins, like in Vanguard, you can pull a super lucky double crit and win the game off that, and in Yugioh, well that list would be to long. Im looking forward to Pokemon again.
Flareon is the BDIF in my opinion however it's not the type of thing that you will be able to just pick up. It is the hardest deck to play in the format. My brother (a senior) has been playing for 3 or so years and he can't play it optimally. Night March on the other hand is very similar to Flareon is fairly simple to play. I highly recommend starting with Night March / Empoleon. It's not mechanically difficult and is the cheapest of the decks that I consider to be Tier 1. Landorus / Bats is probably going to decline due to the popularity of Flareon and Night March (both play Empoleon / Archies which wrecks Landorus). It is very likely that Landorus will be rotated although not confirmed.
Here's a list of meta decks main idea, in the parenthesis are the names people commonly call them/variants used. I'm not really sure of what you missed, so I just listed all of them xD
Hope this helps!
PS: In YGO there are certainly OP cards (way too much tbh) but not 1 card wins.
- Virizion EX/Genesect EX (Virigen): Emerald Slash onto Genesect and then proceed to OHKO with G-Booster. Has trouble with Donphan and Megas.
- Yveltal EX variants: Attach Energy onto Yveltal EX and attack. Ok match-up against most things, bad match-up against M Manetric EX decks.
- M Gardevoir EX/Aromatisse (Fairies): Get Energy into play with Xerneas' Geomancy, powering up Gardevoir to Mega Evolve and OHKO with Brilliant Arrow. Good match-up against slow decks, ok match-up with almost everything else, fast decks can sometimes be a problem if they take free Prizes early-game. Bad match-up against Metal.
- Seismitoad EX decks (CancerToad, ToadBats): Use Quaking Punch to limit the opponent's options, sadly that's all I can tell you about this one as I have never used (or plan to use) this guy.
- Donphan: Use Spinning Turn to damage EXs and promote an appropriate wall for the situation. Good match-up against most EX decks, ok match-up with almost everything else, bad match-up against Seismitoad.
- M Manetric EX (MegaMan): This one is never played alone, but I mention it since it's a thing. Good match-up against Yveltal, bad match-up against Donphan and Fighting decks in general. Of course, it all depends on what you pair it with.
- M Aggron EX/Bronzong-Dialga EX/Bronzong (Metal): Another one I have little experience with. All I can say it's it has a good match-up against Fairies and a not-so-good match-up against faster decks.
- P Groudon EX/Landorus: Use Battle Compressor and Landorus' Shout of Power to power up your Groudons. Good match-up against anything that it can outspeed (not much, really), ok match-ups for anything that doesn't outspeed or is a OHKO deck, bad match-up for everything that outspeeds or is a OHKO deck (a lot of things, really.)
- P Kyogre EX/Manaphy: I have limited knowledge on this one. Main idea is set up quickly with Manaphy and Alpha Growth, then Primal Devolve and start destroying things. Match-ups are off-limits for me, but I guess it's a lot like P Groudon.
- Joltik/Lampent/Pumpkaboo/Mew EX (Night March): Use Battle Compressor to get as many Night Marchers in the Discard as possible, then OHKO EXs with your Joltiks/Mew EXs. Favorable (not necessarily good) match-ups against EX-heavy decks, ok against other things, bad against things that run bats.
- Zubat/Golbat/Crobat (Bats): These aren't played by themselves and provide extra damage that helps get KOs and sometimes to take free Prizes.
Hope this helps!
PS: In YGO there are certainly OP cards (way too much tbh) but not 1 card wins.