Why didn't even a LBS deck made it to the finals? And who thought of LBS? And what's Mewtric combo?
DarkLugia said:I know LBS has been rotated but I felt that it was a good choice for worlds. I believe that LBS was the strongest HL-on deck (BDIF), but not neccessarily best deck for certain metagames. It was probably one of the main reasons for the shift to non-pidgeot based decks approaching Worlds (as it was far superior to other pidgeot-playing decks). The majority of < 10, significant proportion in the 11-14 played LBS. Some LBS's made it to T32, maybe one made it to T16 in 15+.
The 'slow' LBS you were referring to was the old LBS with 2-2 steelix/magneton+electrode/jirachi dx one. My sons used this version to qualify for Worlds. But by the time we were at Worlds it had evolved to a 4 transceiver/castform/jirachi hl/latias */mew ex/POW +/- lati@s lock which was extremely speedy and consistent. It had good matchups against most decks, losing mainly to lunasol (but with the extra water attacker from lati@s made it winnable). Delta.dec(eggsraichu,mewtrick,dragtrode and others were winnable). In fact Fulop was 2nd seed in 15+ with an LBS (and was unlucky to be paired with 31st seed Jermy's Nidoqueen-Houndoom).
Mewtrick is notorious for poor starts, with no energy drop sometimes up to 3-4 turns. Notice that Jason's version was more straightforward, with less flippy cards (no ER2's). He used 3 Scott's to ensure that he had all the necessary stadiums/admin when he needed them. He also had at least 10-11 lightning energies and 4 multis (that's 14-15 rechargeable energies).
There were actually no successful rogue decks at Worlds (on a large scale, maybe lunasol in 11-14). Maybe Jimmy's Eevolutions was the closest. Delta.dec performed miserably. All the successful performers were consistent versions of tried and tested decks (LBS,dragtrode etc). The Bannete-Medicham ex deck failed as well.
So in a diverse metagame, a tried and tested consistent tier 1 deck is superior to rogues.