Standard Metagross GX / Necrozma GX

[Makeda87]

I've been playing Metagross for a while now and been changing some cards around in my deck to see if it plays a bit better or not. A while back I played in the Bremen regionals ... but didn't get that far. Since then I've changed the deck around again, but I'm still not sure what I would change now to improve my deck.

Playing against Garbodor with the Garbotoxin with this deck is just a pain in the neck as well. Anyone got some tips for this kind of matchup? Or some tips for improving my list?

P.s. I know ... I should be playing 4x N, but I only still have 3x. I want to add a second Brigette, should arrive in the mail soon. 4 rare candies is perhaps a bit overkill and 3 would probably be better. Just wanted to see if this worked out a little bit better.

Pokemon:
4 Beldum (GRI)
3 Metang (GRI)
4 Metagross-GX (GRI)
1 Alolan Vulpix (GRI)
2 Tapu Lele-GX (GRI)
2 Necrozma-GX (BUS)
1 Mimikyu (GRI)

Trainers (Supporters)
3 N
4 Sycamore
2 Skyla
3 Guzma (BUS)
1 Brigette (BKT)

Trainers (Items)
4 Ultra Ball
3 Rare candy
3 Field blower
3 Max potion
3 Choice band
1 Professor's letter
1 Rescue stretcher

Energies
6 Metal energy
5 Psychic energy

EDIT NOTE:
3 Skyla -> 2 Skyla ( was a typo)
3 Rare Candy -> 4 Rare Candy (was also a typo)

 

[KabuTopgun]

I'm assuming the 3rd Skyla is a replacement for copy 4 of N, so I won't criticise that. I don't know if you really need a second Brigette, though. I mean if your doomed to playing without Tapu Lele GX I don't think the second will make much difference, and otherwise you're only going to need the one copy.
Judging by the fact you played at the most recent regionals it seems you want to be as competitive as possible; in other words you need to own at least one copy of Lele, sadly.

I like Necrozma GX with Metagross GX, though; it's a good fit.
The number of Metang and/or Rare Candy certainly seems excessive if it's 3 and 4, respectively. I'm guessing the 3 Metang is for security against Espeong EX shenanigan's, so leave it if it helps with that, but in that case you could even go as low as 2 Rare Candy...

Garbodor is a conundrum, certainly, but I'm not aware of any groundbreaking counter. A fourth Field Blower maybe? I mean 3 is kind of assumed for a Metagross GX deck, but if you go that bit further it could be the shift you need. Pretty mundane advice, I guess, but anything else is going to distract form your strategy. Eg, Espeon GX can snipe Garbodor but only using it's GX attack...
A 4th Guzma may also help; ultimately Garbodor can't prevent your strategy if it's KO'd, lol. Probably better for the deck, overall, than max Blowers, too.
The other consideration is what decks are using Garbodor; the main one seems to be Golisopod Garbodor, which did win the Bremen Regional...
So that makes your extra Field Blowers more convincing, and there may be a couple other options that help more against Golisopod than Garbodor.
Unless there are other decks running Garbodor that you lost to?

 

[Makeda87]

The 3 Skyla was a typo, I actually run 2 copies. (Changed the original post). Same goes for the amount of Rare Candies, I run 4 copies instead of 3 (also a typo).

I've had a couple of instances where Brigette was prized and cost me a few games, that's why I wanted to try to run 2 copies instead of 1. But ofcourse top decking the second copy in a match probably wouldn't see play anyway.

The fourth fieldblower and Espeon GX might be interesting. I thought Garbodore had 120hp, but that's just the one from GRI and the Garbotoxin one has exactly 100hp.
(I do own 2x Eevee with Energy Evolution, Espeon GX and another fieldblower, so I might just try this).

I remember losing two mirror matches of Metagross GX. And a match against Gardevoir GX I lost ... I had both my Lele's in my prize cards. Most of the other matches I tied because the time ran out. (Also, I single sleeved my deck now in the hopes to save time during matches. Learned this from a Youtube video, lol).

Changes I would consider:

+1 Eevee (SUM)
+1 Espeon GX (SUM)
+1 Guzma (BUS)
+1 N
+1 Field Blower

-1 Skyla
-1 Rare Candy

And perhaps -1 Metang. Not sure what to take out to add the other cards tho.