Toxic said:I'm returning to the Pokemon TCG and I'm curious about making a Cinccino deck. What kinds of cards do people use with this little critter? From what I've gathered there are 2 kinds, pure Cinccino swarm and anti-meta.
Edit: This should probably be moved to Player's Sandbox. My bad. :/
He means Water Arrow Kingdra.Zhaituki said:KingCino is best Cinccino variant against other metagame decks cause kingdra can put dmg counters with it's power which ignores donphan's body.
The other aka attacking kingdra is a must too to do something better against reshiram or donphan variants. CinPluff won't be any good. what metagame deck is weak against grass? none!
Vulpix Yolk said:If I were to play some sort of Cinccino variant, I think I would play it with other Stage 1's or basic that could abuse DCE, or need little energy to function. Zoroark is an option, good counter to most Emboar variants, assuming you are playing Pluspower, my main problem with Zoroark is that it can't do anything special against Donphan, and neither can Cinccino, so you aren't getting much coverage out of it, it is good against RDL, I will give it that, but I think Cinccino already has that covered. Another decent contender that I would consider would be Yanmega Prime. It doesn't need another energy type, and since you only have Stage 1 lines, I feel that the deck could set up off of a T1 Judge, while significantly stalling its opponent. Yanmega is a little nicer than Zoroark against the Donphan match up, still not an ideal counter, but it has a harder time with Reshiboar if they can set up off your early game Judge. Oh! Something that I just thought of while writting this post! It might be worth testing Cinccino with Crobat Prime. Gives Donphan trouble, so if your Meta is Donphan heavy it could give you some great match ups, decent against Reshiboar (I think), and has some nice snipe capabilities. The one thing that could be a problem with this idea is consistency issues, you would have to have a great list for it to be consistent through a tourney with a large amount of rounds like Nats.
Those are the first ideas that came to my head. Whatever you end up playing, I would highly recommend adding Bouffalant, and if you need some type coverage, Reshiram and Zekrom techs could be useful just for Outrage damage. It may seem weird, but it can really help. Hope you got some ideas from this post.
KingCino runs with water energies AND DCE. energy is not the problem in Cinccino variants lol.catutie said:that would be awesome...but you can only run 4 DCE in a deck. that ruins it. go for low energy instead of just DCE abusers
Vulpix Yolk said:If I were to play some sort of Cinccino variant, I think I would play it with other Stage 1's or basic that could abuse DCE, or need little energy to function. Zoroark is an option, good counter to most Emboar variants, assuming you are playing Pluspower, my main problem with Zoroark is that it can't do anything special against Donphan, and neither can Cinccino, so you aren't getting much coverage out of it, it is good against RDL, I will give it that, but I think Cinccino already has that covered. Another decent contender that I would consider would be Yanmega Prime. It doesn't need another energy type, and since you only have Stage 1 lines, I feel that the deck could set up off of a T1 Judge, while significantly stalling its opponent. Yanmega is a little nicer than Zoroark against the Donphan match up, still not an ideal counter, but it has a harder time with Reshiboar if they can set up off your early game Judge. Oh! Something that I just thought of while writting this post! It might be worth testing Cinccino with Crobat Prime. Gives Donphan trouble, so if your Meta is Donphan heavy it could give you some great match ups, decent against Reshiboar (I think), and has some nice snipe capabilities. The one thing that could be a problem with this idea is consistency issues, you would have to have a great list for it to be consistent through a tourney with a large amount of rounds like Nats.
Those are the first ideas that came to my head. Whatever you end up playing, I would highly recommend adding Bouffalant, and if you need some type coverage, Reshiram and Zekrom techs could be useful just for Outrage damage. It may seem weird, but it can really help. Hope you got some ideas from this post.