Hello people of PokeBeach! I've been tweaking this deck for a little while now, and it's been pretty fun! In case you are not aware, the goal of this deck is to use Falinks's attack to dish out ~150 damage for 1 Twin Energy while also gradually powering up a Falinks-V or two for bigger OHKOs. It's currently a work in progress over here, but things seem to be going... slower than expected.
##Pokémon - 9
* 1 Diancie {*} FLI 74
* 4 Falinks RCL 109
* 4 Falinks V RCL 110
##Trainer Cards - 38
* 4 Marnie SSH 169
* 2 Karate Belt UNM 201
* 2 Ordinary Rod SSH 171
* 1 Erika's Hospitality TEU 140
* 2 Pokémon Catcher EPO 95
* 1 Reset Stamp UNM 206
* 4 Quick Ball SSH 179
* 1 Switch EVO 88
* 3 Cynthia UPR 119
* 1 Air Balloon SSH 156
* 2 Counter Gain LOT 170
* 2 Sonia RCL 167
* 4 Professor's Research SSH 178
* 3 Martial Arts Dojo UNB 179
* 1 Great Catcher CEC 192
* 4 Acro Bike CES 123
* 1 Tool Scrapper DRX 116
##Energy - 13
* 3 Capture Energy RCL 171
* 4 Twin Energy RCL 174
* 6 Fighting Energy SWSHEnergy 6
Total Cards - 60
My main issue is that, at any point in the game, the deck just feels weak. TAG TEAM-centric decks just run it over with absurd damage, health pools, and in some instances, healing and(!!!)/or energy acceleration. Falinks, as it stands, just feels so flimsy; even with an effective 150 health on a 1-prize attacker (assuming three Falinks-V in play), it just doesn't matter when ADPZ/MewBox have an infinite amount of ways to completely flatten you and power up eighteen other attackers in the process. The deck also tends to run out of steam really fast; whiffing a Twin Energy can oftentimes lead to disastrous results, and I feel that cards like Karate Belt and Counter Gain are just too inconsistent to be used effectively. Finally, I feel like the deck could really use some additional draw/search, but the problem is that a good chunk of these cards will clog up your bench and weaken Falinks's damage. I've really wanted this deck to be great, but I feel that any time I see a shiny-GX with that stupid yellow border, the game is already lost. Perhaps I'm just a little salty at the time of writing this, but this deck loses to 95% of the ever-popular TAG TEAM decks so hard, it's not even funny.
Any and all help would be very much appreciated.
(P.S.: If you've got the resources, it'd be better to swap the Pokemon Catchers with Boss's Orders. Technically, it's an upgrade, but with the current price of the card sitting at a whopping $15 each, I'm gonna wait a little bit before I commit)
##Pokémon - 9
* 1 Diancie {*} FLI 74
* 4 Falinks RCL 109
* 4 Falinks V RCL 110
##Trainer Cards - 38
* 4 Marnie SSH 169
* 2 Karate Belt UNM 201
* 2 Ordinary Rod SSH 171
* 1 Erika's Hospitality TEU 140
* 2 Pokémon Catcher EPO 95
* 1 Reset Stamp UNM 206
* 4 Quick Ball SSH 179
* 1 Switch EVO 88
* 3 Cynthia UPR 119
* 1 Air Balloon SSH 156
* 2 Counter Gain LOT 170
* 2 Sonia RCL 167
* 4 Professor's Research SSH 178
* 3 Martial Arts Dojo UNB 179
* 1 Great Catcher CEC 192
* 4 Acro Bike CES 123
* 1 Tool Scrapper DRX 116
##Energy - 13
* 3 Capture Energy RCL 171
* 4 Twin Energy RCL 174
* 6 Fighting Energy SWSHEnergy 6
Total Cards - 60
My main issue is that, at any point in the game, the deck just feels weak. TAG TEAM-centric decks just run it over with absurd damage, health pools, and in some instances, healing and(!!!)/or energy acceleration. Falinks, as it stands, just feels so flimsy; even with an effective 150 health on a 1-prize attacker (assuming three Falinks-V in play), it just doesn't matter when ADPZ/MewBox have an infinite amount of ways to completely flatten you and power up eighteen other attackers in the process. The deck also tends to run out of steam really fast; whiffing a Twin Energy can oftentimes lead to disastrous results, and I feel that cards like Karate Belt and Counter Gain are just too inconsistent to be used effectively. Finally, I feel like the deck could really use some additional draw/search, but the problem is that a good chunk of these cards will clog up your bench and weaken Falinks's damage. I've really wanted this deck to be great, but I feel that any time I see a shiny-GX with that stupid yellow border, the game is already lost. Perhaps I'm just a little salty at the time of writing this, but this deck loses to 95% of the ever-popular TAG TEAM decks so hard, it's not even funny.
Any and all help would be very much appreciated.
(P.S.: If you've got the resources, it'd be better to swap the Pokemon Catchers with Boss's Orders. Technically, it's an upgrade, but with the current price of the card sitting at a whopping $15 each, I'm gonna wait a little bit before I commit)
