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Standard It's gonna get Growlit

Nyora

A Cat
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Hello! I saw one of my friends play this the other day at my league, and I ended up building it on the PTCGO. Even with the bad RNG, I've had a pretty consistent win rate if I'd say about 80%. I've done 2 tournaments, one one of them, 2nd in the other. I need to test this deck more, but I feel it has potential. With that, the list:

****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ******

##Pokémon - 17

* 1 Minccino FAC 86
* 2 Shaymin-EX ROS 77
* 1 Carbink FAC 50
* 4 Growlithe EVO 17
* 4 Volcanion-EX PR-XY XY173
* 1 Mew EVO 53
* 1 Wobbuffet GEN 111
* 1 Staryu EVO 30
* 1 Starmie EVO 31
* 1 Wailord-EX PRC 38

##Trainer Cards - 34

* 3 Professor Sycamore STS 114
* 4 Trainers' Mail ROS 92
* 1 Dive Ball PRC 125
* 1 Energy Retrieval EVO 77
* 2 N DEX 96
* 1 Lysandre FLF 90
* 1 Super Rod BKT 149
* 1 Olympia GEN 66
* 1 Ninja Boy STS 103
* 1 Fisherman BKT 136
* 4 Ultra Ball FAC 113
* 3 Fighting Fury Belt BKP 99
* 2 Float Stone PLF 99
* 3 VS Seeker ROS 110
* 1 Hex Maniac AOR 75
* 4 Sky Field ROS 89
* 1 Pokémon Ranger STS 104

##Energy - 9

* 8 Fire Energy EVO 92
* 1 Psychic Energy GEN 79

Total Cards - 60

****** Deck List Generated by the Pokémon TCG Online www.pokemon.com/TCGO ******
For those who don't know what Growlithe does, it is a fire type- so boosted by Steam Up, and I use it for Hind Kick, which is [C] for 10, and switches it with one of my Benched mons. I can switch into Carbink, Mew, Wailord, or Wobuffet, in order to disrupt my opponent. My main problem in this deck is, of course, it's obvious counters, Garbodor, Hex Maniac, Lysandre, etc. but also finding space for another float stone. Having this much Pokémon I think requires such use of 3 Float Stone. Can someone help me with finding this space?
 
Seriously? I thought there might be at least some discussion about this deck? Well, I'll start then. How do you think this deck could do competitively? Good matchups? Bad matchups? I'm thinking that this has, like a volcanion deck, a good and bad matchup to most things volcanion has a good and bad matchup against.
 
Hi @rainyman123 , considering that you have Fisherman and Vs Seeker, I don't think Starmie would have so much relevance in the deck. I would change:
-1 Staryu
-1 Starmie
-1 Dive Ball

+1 Energy Retrieval
+1 Float Stone
+1 Level Ball

The main problem about comparisons between this deck and Volcanion decks is that you can't score OHKOes, while Volcanion decks does. I think this deck is more like Donphan from Plasma Storm, just hit and run. It seems funny to play, but I can't help too much :(
 
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