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Expanded Donphan

brazdan

brazdan

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Would like to know if you think Donphan is still a competitive deck.

Pokémon: 14
  • 4 Hawlucha FFI 63
  • 4 Phanpy PLS 71
  • 4 Donphan PLS 72
  • 1 Dedenne FFI 34
  • 1 Sigilyph LTR 66
Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums: 35
  • 2 N
  • 3 Professor Sycamore
  • 2 Colress
  • 1 Professor Birch's Observations
  • 4 Robo Substitute
  • 3 VS Seeker
  • 2 Fighting Stadium
  • 1 Hex Maniac
  • 1 Computer Search
  • 1 Silver Bangle
  • 2 Muscle Band
  • 2 Lysandre
  • 1 AZ
  • 3 Korrina
  • 2 Focus Sash
  • 1 Silent Lab
  • 2 Float Stone
  • 2 Level Ball
Energy: 11
  • 4 Strong Energy
  • 5 Fighting Energy
  • 2 Double Colorless Energy
Strategy:

Similar deck that we saw at the World except:

Hex Maniac and silent lab to stop all the abilities:
Can help hawlucha in some cases
Stop Archeops abilities, shaymin etc...

Dedenne because Yveltal is popular
Level Ball: new addition to get all pokémons other than Donphan.

Comments.
Thanks for looking. :)
 
I think that wobuffet is better in current format than hawlucha, with shaymin. Having it turn 1 in active is huge. Slows them down so much and let's Donplan set up. Since you don't have abilities to speak of. I would also suggest teammates. Those hawlucha are going to get ohko.
 
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Ivy_Profen said:
I think that wobuffet is better in current format than hawlucha, with shaymin. Having it turn 1 in active is huge. Slows them down so much and let's Donplan set up. Since you don't have abilities to speak of. I would also suggest teammates. Those hawlucha are going to get ohko.
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I'd have to agree with this, even more so with things like Vespiquen, Vileplume, Shaymin-EX, and Aegislash-EX in this format. While Sigilyph and Hawlucha are good cards, Wobbuffet covers a wider range of Pokémon because it negates abilities from most Pokémon. With this said, Bats are still a substantial threat to this deck and Silent Lab won't do any good against them so having a Hex Maniac or two will be nice.

Silver Bangle is also a good card but I'm also rather mixed on this card. While it can OHKO M.Manectric with Silver Bangle, it losses against M. Rayquaza as it's resistant to Donphan. One solution to this is by using Hypnotoxic Laser to make up that missing damage and since you're using Dedenne, you don't really need it.

Here's an idea of what you could add in and swap out.

- 2 Hawlucha
- 1 Sigilyph
- 1 Silent Lab
- 1 AZ
- 1 Lysandre

Then to add

+ 3 Wobbufett
+ 2 Hypnotoxic Laser
+ 1 Hex Maniac

This is just an idea you could do as well. The main reason I put it like this is because of Mega Evo's, your going to have a rough time reaching that peak damage against them so you're going to need to slow them down as much as possible.

I hope this helps!
 
I also encourage wobbuffet as it shuts down archeops with stops you from evolving your donphans, he only really needs 1 as he already plays 2 float stone. Hawlucha is to strong in this format play 1 if you can, free retreat and cleans the board of EX's you didn't finish.
 
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