Help How good a play is Silvally for competitive?

[Perfect_Shot]

Heyas, I've recently put together a Silvally GX deck on PTCGO, and it's been a ton of fun. Granted I don't have some cards there yet that I do have in real life (lookin at you, Tapu Lele) but it still works pretty decently, and I really enjoy it.

With that said, how well do you think Silvally GX can do in either format? I've been playing it in Expanded so far and have had a good time of it so far, but I'd like to get some opinions for both formats before I go and buy cards. Thanks in advance!

 

[Shfinx]

For Standard, I can't really give any advice. For Expanded, though, I think Silvally GX is probably in a kind of awkward spot right now. Silvally can get one-shot by Zoroark (albeit only with a perfect setup by Zoroark, but it's a possibility nonetheless). A lot of night march decks like to throw in Marchadow GX, who can hit for weakness and easily one shot you. Buzzwole also hits you for weakness, which is really unfortunate. Since you need two attachments to do your first attack before you can start accelerating and easily chaining Pokemon, a good night march or turbo darkrai might just not give you the chance to Evolve/attack. You'd have a fairly good Toad Matchup, though, if you manage to set up one Silvally. If you teched in a Oricorio, koko, or Latios that could greatly help you night march matchup, though, since you could get easy bench snipes.

Silvally/Buzzwole might work, but that's just theory-crafting. You could hit Zoroark for weakness, snipe against Night March, and then use Silvally for most other matchups.

I hope this helps. Sorry if I sound like I'm looking down on the deck or anything. It's a perfectly fine deck, and I'm a strong believer in playing whatever you're comfortable with. If w're talking strictly meta, though, it has a lot of awkward/unfortunate matchups in Expanded. It would probably fare pretty well in Standard, though, besides being one shot by Vika/Bulu.