Magnezone's partner

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So im noticing more people using emboar with magnezone instead of feraligator...why?

Emboar does have more hp and it can attach energy to any pokemon, sure that's nice but why is this important?

Fergy has less hp (only 10 less) and can only attach water to water pokemom, so in a magnezone deck it would only be able to attach it to itself. But it has less retreat (only by one) and a good weakness to grass. Not many grass decks around but there are water decks like blastoise that could harm emboar.

Even if pokemon catcher comes out and drags out either of em it wont be enough to ko them if attacked by reshi/zekrom.

Also if you are facing a reshiram/fire deck you can use fergy to attack for weakness!

So why is emboar being used in magnezone rather than feraligator? why is it that being able to attach energy to any pokemon more advantageous? also sorry for my noobishness. :rolleyes:
 
Emboar can attatch to any pokemon, which is extremely advantageous. It allows you to adapt to any given situation, whereas with feraligatr, you can only do the same thing every single time. Emboar's attack also takes {R}{R}{C}{C}, as opposed to Feraligatr's {W}{W}{W}{W}. It's much easier to attack with emboar, beacuse you can use a combination of {R} and {L} energies, whereas with Feraligatr, you need to get 4 {W} on it, which won't be easy if you keep putting {W} into the lost zone.
 
Emboar/Magnezone IMO is better. You can attached to Magnezone along with the fact that you can abuse RDL too.
 
Emboar is much better. You can get a Magnezone fully loaded up with energy the turn you play it, which is a huge help. There's no more awkward turn after a Magnezone is knocked out where you can't attack. Believe me, I played MagneGatr, and I had about 1 of those turns every 2 games, which really hurt.
 
The only serious advantage you get from Feraligatr is that it gives you a rock solid Donphan counter if you can get the 4 waters on it. You really can't afford to Lost Burn out 3-4 donphans and still win a game, so you do need a secondary counter, and most of them require water energy to work.

That said, I don't partner either of them with my Magnezone; I run 4-4 Yanmegas.
 
I do see Shuckle abuse having a lot of potential, and Magboar becoming a metagame deck. I'm just not yet sold on whether it's "the deck" for magnezone. Honestly, I think Magnezone fares best in a deck with a lot of quick pokemon with mostly-colourless attacks. Sadly, we don't get that many of those until the next set, but when we do, a toolbox deck with magnezone as a cleaner WILL do well.
 
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