I'm trying to come up with some [mildly] competitive Garbodor variants, so far these are what I have in mind:
- Raticate/Garbodor
- Bouffalant/Garbodor
- Darkrai/Garbodor
Each variant would use Virbank (with the exception of Raticate, since it's redundant), Lasers, and Bangles to be able to OHKO any EX Pokemon. Garbodor to nullify important opponent Abilities, most notably Virizion-EX's Verdant Wind which disables Special Conditions like Poison, and Blastoise's Deluge without which pretty much cripples a Keldeo/BK Deck. And Sableye's to Junk Hunt your Lasers, Scrappers, and Enhanced Hammers (only run 1-2, goes a long way.)
Raticate is more a "for fun" variant, but I've had great success with it, even against TDK. But is really susceptible to Catcher KOs and Bench damage (with the inclusion of Garbodor, Mr.Mime is out of the picture.) As such I'd run a few Silver Mirrors to stall enough to get enough energy on Raticate to OHKO an enemy Pokemon.
Bouffalant doesn't need much explanation. 120+30+30. Only needs 2 Energy, Bouffer+Silver Mirror makes him hard to get rid of, and he only gives away 1 Prize. With Garbodor's and Hammers, the enemy would be hard pressed to take 6 Prizes.
Darkrai loses the free retreat, but you'd just run 4 Float Stones and a few Switches to compensate. Darkrai with Dark Claw and Virbank/Laser can do 140 as early as turn 1. Hitting the Bench for 30 can help setup a Catcher KO the next turn.
And lastly, I do wonder if one could combine Darkrai, Bouffalant, and Garbodor into one Deck, or if it'd be too clunky of a list..
What do you guys think, as far as competitive Garbodor Decks go? ^.^
- Raticate/Garbodor
- Bouffalant/Garbodor
- Darkrai/Garbodor
Each variant would use Virbank (with the exception of Raticate, since it's redundant), Lasers, and Bangles to be able to OHKO any EX Pokemon. Garbodor to nullify important opponent Abilities, most notably Virizion-EX's Verdant Wind which disables Special Conditions like Poison, and Blastoise's Deluge without which pretty much cripples a Keldeo/BK Deck. And Sableye's to Junk Hunt your Lasers, Scrappers, and Enhanced Hammers (only run 1-2, goes a long way.)
Raticate is more a "for fun" variant, but I've had great success with it, even against TDK. But is really susceptible to Catcher KOs and Bench damage (with the inclusion of Garbodor, Mr.Mime is out of the picture.) As such I'd run a few Silver Mirrors to stall enough to get enough energy on Raticate to OHKO an enemy Pokemon.
Bouffalant doesn't need much explanation. 120+30+30. Only needs 2 Energy, Bouffer+Silver Mirror makes him hard to get rid of, and he only gives away 1 Prize. With Garbodor's and Hammers, the enemy would be hard pressed to take 6 Prizes.
Darkrai loses the free retreat, but you'd just run 4 Float Stones and a few Switches to compensate. Darkrai with Dark Claw and Virbank/Laser can do 140 as early as turn 1. Hitting the Bench for 30 can help setup a Catcher KO the next turn.
And lastly, I do wonder if one could combine Darkrai, Bouffalant, and Garbodor into one Deck, or if it'd be too clunky of a list..
What do you guys think, as far as competitive Garbodor Decks go? ^.^
