Old Meta-game Decks?

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Jahikoi

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My question is what are some of the most famous decks from before D/P?

I understand from Base Set there were three main decks - Damage Swap decks, the hitmonchan rush thing deck and rain dance.

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Damage Swap Deck:

Main Cards:

Alakazam, Tentacool, Mr Mime, Chansey

Strategy: Alakazam's pokemon power allows you to move as many damage counters as you like from pokemon to pokemon. Use this power to move damage counters onto Tentacool, then use its Cowardice power to pick it up from your bench, essentially healing your pokemon. You can heal 80 damage per turn if you have all 4 tentacools in your hand.

This synergizes well with Mr Mime, as the opponent cannot do more than 20 damage per attack to it or all of the attack is negated. This essentially shut down almost all rain dance decks, as all of their attacks hit for 30+ with water energy attached.

Last but not least is Chansey. This beast had 120 HP, and with its double edge attack it could absolutely dominate a pokemon while sustaining a large amount of damage to itself. Then you can move all/most of the damage counters onto other chansey, and tentacool on your bench.

Alakazam was not used to attack in this deck, but Kadabra, for PCC does 50. Alakazam, for PPP, does 30 + a chance of confusion. After these, you shove the deck full of bills and oaks and stuff. This deck was beaten by Haymaker (Hitmonchan) decks as they mainly involved low damage low cost attacks such as hitmonchans Jab attack; 20 for one energy. However, even if they do manage to get a good start, if you pull a turn 2 pokemon breeder abra -> alakazam and a good hand, you can still defeat them easily.




But what were the staple decks during G/S/C? FR/LG?
 
If I could go back in time, I would TOTALLY run this deck

http://www.professor-oak.com/CardOrders/ItemDetails.asp?IID=6642

Just that, and some cards that let you put energies on.
 
I think Ludicolo, Macargo, and Pidgeot were some. Celio's was like Roseanne's at the time and Scott was like Cyrus's. I never played then, but I have a lot of older cards.
 
Pidgeot was a beast. I don't think it was run as a deck by itself (don't know about that though), but as a Draw Engine, like A FR/LG CLaydol. Except better.
 
I stumbled upon this yesterday. Fun read and has quite a lot of popular decks. Some articles don't work though.
 
Ludicargo was one-both from the Deoxys set. Use Magcargo to search for a card you want, put it on the top of the deck, and then draw it with ludicolo. Since benches were actually big back then, Ludicolo's Circular Steps attack (like Jumpluff's Mass Attack, except it excluded Ludicolo from the damage calculation).

Metanite was another. Metagross and Dragonite Delta, both from delta species (the set). You could get energies from Metagross's attack while having Dragonite up doing 70 every turn (for 4 energies, but still).

LBS was a deck made with Lugia EX, Steelix EX, and Blastoise EX. Lugia could one shot anything in format, and it could charged fast thanks to Holon's Electrode, Holon's Magneton, and Blastoise EX. Steelix could snipe for 100 if you needed to hit a benched tech, and Blastoise was energy acceleration.

Dragtrode was a Dark deck, with Dark Dragonite and Dark Electrode from Team Rocket Returns. Electrode was used to search out Dark energies, and Dragonite could switch them around, often to itself, to do high amounts of damage. The energies had to be switched as Electrode's power only worked if it had no energies. I think Rocket's Sneasel EX was in the deck as well, as it abused Dark Energies SO well. (It did 30+10 for each Dark-Type pokemon you had in play. That was 90 with a bench full of darks, plus a max of 40 extra damage for the Dark Energies.)

Pidgeot was a tech in many, many decks while it was legal, as it let you search for any card and put it into your hand. It didn't attack very often, but it could be put in many decks, as many decks were stage 2 (with rare candy obviously being very popular and sought after).

For G/S/C, there was Riptide Feraligatr and Sneasel, both from Neo Genesis. Sneasel was banned, along with Slowking, although sneasel did have a run as a very awesome deck. I don't recall anything non-metal that could stand up to 5 heads and 4 darkness energies coming from that sneasel, as nothing had more than 120 HP in those days (5 heads=100 damage, +40 from the 4 darks.) The two special energy types-dark and metal-were very powerful back then, even though riptide gatr dominated.

So yes, these are some of the "big" decks from back then (not all).
 
RAmpbolt was popular when I was first starting [Crystal Guardians Shuppet, Bannette EX from Legends Awakened.] It was a huge T2 deck, and ended up winning worlds that year. It eventually evolved into T2B, with the same Shuppet, but the SW Bannette.

Flariados was also good, Flareon EX along with Ariados UF. This deck could hit for a lot of damage for 1 energy, so it got set up fast.
 
There were quite a few combos regarding Slowbro and Misty's Golduck(I think).

Electric types with Electabuzz and Buzzap Electrodes were good too.
 
I remember Espeon Ex and Dusclops Ex, flariodose, meteknight and LBS all being popular decks in my area. Cant really remember what they did....
 
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