Infernape/Chandelure (Energy Damager)

[Syaongel]

Pokemon: 14

• 2 Plasma Infernape
• 1 Loud Howl Monferno
• 2 Chimchar
• 2 Plasma Chandelure
• 2 Flame Burst Chandelure
• 1 Free Floating Lampent
• 3 Litwick
  
• 1 Outrage Reshiram

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums: 34

• 3 Colress Machine
• 1 Energy Retrieval
• 1 Energy Search
• 2 Level Ball
• 4 Random Receiver
• 4 Rare Candy
• 2 Super Rod
• 1 Switch
• 4 Team Plasma Ball
• 1 Tool Scraper
• 1 Town Map
• 1 Ultra Ball
• 1 Float Stone
• 1 Muscle Band
• 2 N
• 4 Skyla

Energy: 12

• 9 Fire Energy
• 3 Plasma Energy

Strategy:

It is really simple. The main Objective is having from one to two Plasma Chandelure on the Bench and at least one Monferno on the Active Position. The Chandelure will energitize my Monferno's attacks.

His first attack is Torment, deal 30 damage and cancel one atack from the opponent's active Pokemon. The second one deal 120 damage at the cost of discarting all energies attached to him.

Since he does not attack with a lot of energies, it is perfect against energy based decks as MewTwo Ex, or Yvetal Ex. Ideally, it is ready in two turns. The main idea is using Skyla for having what I need in hand, primarily Rare Candy and Plasma Balls for looking for those Pokemon.

Normal Chandelure and Reshiram are there for counter Anti-Plasma Decks. Chandelure is almost the same as Infernape.

This is the standard version, the unlimited version of this deck has more-than-half wins in TCG ONLINE, while this has kind of the 50% of victories. I want to improve this deck. Some help? Thanks for reading. Correct the sets if needed, I do not get how to differentiate them.

 

[Ivy_Profen]

You could try out Max Potions considering after you use its second attack, infernape has no energy anyway. Whats good is that it also has free retreat.

Either way with the new set that comes out there are quite a few possibilities for this deck. Including flame torch and black smith, basic energy acceleration. Which can reduce the need for chandelure at all. making this deck overall more consistent and faster to set up. It also frees up space that allows you to have a 4-1-4 line of Infernape. It also opens up a slot for a few secondary pokemon. Possible ideas are...

-Pyroar to just wall big basic decks.
-Leafeon to counter water types and anything that uses a ton of energy like Fairy
-Zekrom w/ outrage to counter water types that are weak to electric. If you include rainbow energy you can damage Zekrom 30 per energy drop with frozen city out, allowing you to hit 80 (160 with weakness, 200 with muscle band) with 2 rainbow energy attached. This also allows you to deal with Yveltal and Lugia much easier.
-Garbodor to counter keldeo ex from refreshing the attackers after you torment.

Either way you need supporters. 4 Juniper, some shauna, maybe colress.

 

[Syaongel]

First of all, thanks for your reply and commentaries about my deck, I do really appreciate it.

I will take into account the new set possibilities when they are available, so thanks for making them clear here. Also, I like the idea of Zekrom, it looks like it can work better than my Reshiram. I also did not consider the idea of a Frozen City combined with the rainbow energies (rainbow energies are standard ?), thanks for the information. A Garbodor will be nice, but I am worried about the consistency of the deck running with one of them.

I have always consider the option to work with more Supporters and I know they could be useful, but since I run 1 of much of my items, I am always worried to use Junipers. What would you recommend me to throw away for making space for the supporters? I almost always need some of the items depending on the deck I am confronting and in what troubles I may be at a time. So thanks for the commentaries.

Finally, a Colress may not be very useful since I do not run a big bench. Ideally, this deck runs 3-3 Chandelure and 3-3 Infernape with 1-1Chandelure non plasma and a Reshiram. But I do not have the cards, if I had them, I would run more Juniper since I would only need 1 Infernape and 2 Chandelure. Have a bright day!