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Standard Manectric/Bats - First Timer

Letharia Vulpina

Letharia Vulpina

Aspiring Trainer
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This is the second deck I've made and the deck I'll take to my first tournament. What do you guys think?

Pokemon:
  • 4 Manectric-EX
  • 4 Zubat
  • 4 Golbat
  • 3 Crobat
  • 2 Shaymin EX
Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums:
  • 4 Professor Sycamore
  • 1 Professor Birch's Observations
  • 1 Judge
  • 1 Giovanni's Scheme
  • 1 Lysandre
  • 1 AZ
  • 1 Hex Maniac
  • 4 Trainers' Mail
  • 4 Ultra Ball
  • 4 Super Scoop-Up
  • 4 VS Seeker
  • 2 Level Ball
  • 1 Super Rod
  • 2 Fighting Fury Belt
  • 1 Muscle Band
  • 2 Head Ringer
  • 2 Parallel City
Energy:
  • 7 Lightning Energy
Strategy:

I still havent tested the deck much but so far this is what I've made using just info I've read online and theory. Help Welcome
 
I'd drop Giovonni for a Brigette. That's a nice T1 supporter to play to be able to get 3 zubats on the bench right away. Other than that seems like a pretty solid BATMAN deck
 
Why spend money on a deck that will die (in Standard) in 2 months? Manectric and Crobat (and Super Scoop Up, AZ, Muscle Band, Head Ringer) will rotate in August... There are a lot of better decks who can live more, but if you play in Expanded, that's ok ;)
 
The types and mount of pokemons are fine, I would not change anything there.
But I am wondering why you are not running any N.
N is such a great card, I feel like each deck should run at least 3 of them ( you can fit two by cutting birch and judge).
The rest of your supporters appear good to me.

Fighting fury belt vs muscle band:
Perhaps this is a matter of opinion, but I found that in Batman decks, the extra 10 damage from muscle band was often more important then the extra 40 hp from belt.
I would go 2 muscle band 1 fighting fury belt, or perhaps ditch belt as a whole.
Parallel city...Once again it depends on what you need the most.
Cutting the opponets bench to three pokes is nice, but I like to make a case for dimension valley.
It may seem strange, but dimension valley allows your bats to attack for free, so bats can tank things like lucarios/medichams/zygardes/garchomps ( bats not only resist fighting, but being psychic also hit most fighting for weakness) while you can charge up manectrics on the bench, grabbing KO's on the big exes with headringer+ assault laser.

To round it off, perhaps 1 stadium is enough.
That way you have some space to add 2 flash energy, to further combat weakness.
But once again, it depends on what you fear the most.

All in all great starting point for a BATMAN deck imo, it's just some detail tweaking that might be needed.
 
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