Galvantua: Comming soon to the meta? Or not?

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Alright guys, lets get a look at this guy. His first attack, Electroweb is not bad. Remember, you have to be active to level up, so you could keep Sableye/Spiritomb up so no one could level up for 3 turns, so it may be small, but any stalling of Garchomp is good. Belt it and doing 40 damage to the same Pokemon turn after turn, unless they Warp Point or Switch.

The real reason I'm here is to tell you about the second attack, Leech Life. This attack is similar to Torterra's Giga Drain. Is has less of an energy cost, one DCE and there you go. You belt it and doing 60 healing 60. Which helps with the 80 HP, 100 with the belt. If there was a deck built around this, you would spam PlusPowers, Bucks, Black Belt, Defender, etc. Anything to help with the damage to heal all the damage done to this little guy.

So what do you guys think? Is is possible this guy could make his way in somehow, or be a rouge deck crushed every time by the big bad Meta.
 
I think he will be great come the Rotation. MD, LA, SF and PL will be rotated for sure IMO. He wont be a deck by himself I think, but has the potential. I've been thinking about Using him with something else, not sure what as of yet. But I think with a bit of support, he can be launched into the Meta (I plan on using him thats for sure).
 
I'm coming up with a decklist right now, PM me some ideas, but I think I may build a deck around this for BR's or something.
 
IMO, Sableyes are just going to rip this deck apart. A 30 HP basic is slaughtered by Crobats and such. I'd just say wait out the B/W rules.
 
^Then, stop playing Pokemon. Look, a ultimate deck in the meta does not means that we can't play other decks. Maybe it could be played after rotation, I mean why not?

As for the deck, maybe a counter to destroy decks like Donphan?
-Kingdra prime
-Abomasnow (DCE so...)
-Sunnyshore city (why not)
And a back up like Raichu Prime or the new Legendary, Zekrom? (anyway, the electric one) with Pachirisu. This deck could be powerful.
 
I have a deck idea, and I was going to use this guy as a starter :) as his leechlife can stall for a few turns to setup bench
 
He can't really tank with only 80 HP and his damage output is weak. His first attack does the same thing as lock up, and that's not exactly used as an attacker. His second attack would be cool if he wasn't killed so easily.
 
How would Sableye/tomb prevent you from leveling up 3 turns? And it is just Garchomp Bait, with 80 HP. If belted they'd double Flash Bite..
 
^ This is more or less a post-rotation deck. Even if GCX is in the format, most of SP staples will be gone, rendering GCX almost useless. Sableye will be gone as well. So the format will be much slower. Again as I stated SP's will be useless post rotation. So Galvantula has a chance after the rotation.

Heres a skeleton for a RR-On Format

3-3 Galvantula
2-2-2 Magnezone Prime
2-2 Electrode Prime
2 Spiritomb AR

T/S/S
3 PONT
2 Bebes
3 Expert Belt
2 Volkners
1 Flowershop Lady
3 Pokemon Communication
2 PETM
3 Rare Candy
2 Energy Retrevial
2 Revive
2 Collector

Energy
12 {L}
3 Rescue
 
The real reason I'm here is to tell you about the second attack, Leech Life. This attack is similar to Torterra's Giga Drain. Is has less of an energy cost, one DCE and there you go. You belt it and doing 60 healing 60. Which helps with the 80 HP, 100 with the belt. If there was a deck built around this, you would spam PlusPowers, Bucks, Black Belt, Defender, etc. Anything to help with the damage to heal all the damage done to this little guy.
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80 HP. Nuff said.
 
Here are my problems with it:
1. With 80 HP, any half decent deck can 1 shot it, so it doesn't matter if you heal.
2. The first attack: Pokéturn, SSU, etc. It wouldn't be a bad first attack on a good card though.
3. The second attack: see 1.
4. The other things: x2 weakness to Donphan is terrible, and the one retreat isn't too bad but it's not doing you any favors.

There is no healing it when it gets in a tight spot, because it will go from full HP to dead before you can do anything about it.

And at Gengar_is's last post: Things in the next meta can hit for 80. Cincino, Jumpluff, Donphan, kingdra, etc, etc.
 
This card could definetely become Meta, just not in our current format. After rotation, it'll be a beast. If rotation was HGSS-On, it would be uber-meta.
 
^ True, but again your mising the point. Magnezone Prime can out tank Donphan if set up w/Sunnyshore in an RR format (which is something I forgot to put in that post w/the deck list)
 
^

Not saying it can't, but this card, in my eyes, will eventually become a staple tech.
 
Gengar_is_Pwnage said:
^ True, but he could be meta AFTER Rotation
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It doesn't matter. Stabilizing a deck out of an 80 HP Pokemon is insane. Unless it would do a ridiculous ammount of damage such as Pluff or Mewperior. But the strategy of the deck is to tank, which is impossible with 80 HP. Plus first turn trainers will make this deck be donked out of heck.
 
galvantula will not become a meta staple.

40 dmg if weak. and wont make a single scratch on any pokemon
80HP is even weaker. itll get 1 shotted by Every meta pokemon and prime

if you want a good tech. bouffalant will be the one
revenge for 1 dce dishing out 90 dmg is pretty awesome
 
@ Darkvoid 57 We posted at the same time (if not a few seconds after). That one post where I stated this:

^ True, but again your mising the point. Magnezone Prime can out tank Donphan if set up w/Sunnyshore in an RR format (which is something I forgot to put in that post w/the deck list)

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was directed at LORDY JONES
 
I can see it splashed in things that are weak to water and slow because of CC for it's second attack, but not much else.
 
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