Plasma Eevee

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Camoclone

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I have been playing around with Plasma Eevee's for a while now. It has been going very well. It appears to have strong matchups against most of the metagame. Deoxys EX is a beast and I find myself attacking with it a lot. The biggest problem for me is Seismitoad / Garb right now. What do you guys play in your Plasma Eevee variants?

I run 1 Jolteon and 1 Thundurus and hardly ever use them. I am considering dropping them for Leafeon.
 
Camoclone said:
I have been playing around with Plasma Eevee's for a while now. It has been going very well. It appears to have strong matchups against most of the metagame. Deoxys EX is a beast and I find myself attacking with it a lot. The biggest problem for me is Seismitoad / Garb right now. What do you guys play in your Plasma Eevee variants?
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I feel like you ripped this paragraph out of my brain. Except seis garb is easy.

Brave Vesperia said:
I would drop the Jolteon for a Leafeon PLF. It really helps against the Seismitoad match.
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You're the millionth person to say that lol.

On topic this deck is actually really good.
 
grantm1999 said:
Camoclone said:
I have been playing around with Plasma Eevee's for a while now. It has been going very well. It appears to have strong matchups against most of the metagame. Deoxys EX is a beast and I find myself attacking with it a lot. The biggest problem for me is Seismitoad / Garb right now. What do you guys play in your Plasma Eevee variants?
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Except seis garb is easy.
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Garb isn't as easy as you think it is without Leafeon. You can kill their Trubbish so they can't get the Garb lock. But after you do that they just roll you. You can't trade without colress machine.
 
After revising my Plasma deck, some playtesting, and standard format tournament experience, I now only run Leafeon (PF) and Glaceon (PF) in my Plasma deck. I'm finding that Leafeon is a very effective counter to Seismitoad EX (as well as any other Poké that needs "lots" of energy). In addition to providing my TP Poké with free retreat, Glaceon also counters Pyroars too.

I also run Thundurus EX (for some energy attachment acceleration when no F Poké are around - lol), Lugia EX (F Poké counter and potential game changer) and Deoxys EX (probably my most popular secondary attacker - truly a beast).
 
With battle compressor, plasma flareon could do huge damage.
(not saying this as a counter to seis just a thought)
 
I think there is even more potential in the Eeveelutions deck than last format, where it was still respectable. Professor's Letter and Energy Evolution make evolvting Eevee into whatever your upponent is weak to an easy task. Vaporeon, Leafon, and Flareon serve has hard counters to Landorus, Seismitoad, and VirGen respectively. The Dark Explorers Jolteon (it was a promo in the Sylveon box) can also be considered, as for one lightning energy (you need to discard) it, and a Silver Bangle, it will one-shot Yveltal-EX. I originally built this using Mewtwo and DCE, but switched to Deoxys and Plasma Energy / Colress machine due to being more efficient in practice.

The downside of this deck is that it's essentially made of techs, and while Energy Evolution keeps it consistent, it will have a lot of trouble with whatever you can't hit for weakness. A deck like this requires good knowledge of the metagame, and making adjustments before big tournaments, as it treads the line between meta and rogue. While it's easy to prepare for the common threats (Landorus, VirGen, etc), you run the risk of being crushed by a rogue deck that you don't have a counter for. If Gengar-EX cathes on when Phantom Gate is released stateside, this deck could get into a lot of trouble as neither legal Umbreon has a strong, low-cost attack.
 
In my Flareon deck, I am currently running 3 Flareon, 2 Leafeon and 2 Vaporeon as counters to VirGen, Seismitoad EX, and Landorus EX, respectively. At first I thought it was a bit asinine to run 7 Eeveelutions with only 4 Eevee as opposed to the standard 4-3,2 lines we commonly see in these kinds of decks with a split at the 5 Eeveelutions with 3 Flareon and 2 Leafeon. I am also looking forward to Battle Compressor Flareon. Woohoo! However, I am torn between signs of evolution Eevee or the Eevee from FUF with the Energy Evolution ability. Any thoughts?
 
I mean, I don't want to be "that guy," but if I was building an eevee deck, Leafeon would be the first thing I put in, I'm not sure why you didn't have it in the first place. (Unless your meta is extremely Pyroar heavy or something.) The most success I've seen from an eevee deck was pretty much just straight Eevees and Deoxys, no thundurus or lugia or anything. I would run 2 Leafeon, 2 Flareon, a Glaceon (gives Deoxys free retreat), and 1 or2 Espeon. Maybe a Vaporeon to counter Landorus, but tbh, since all of your guys are plasma anyways, you could probably get away with running Plasma Kyurem as well.

One of the guys in my league put an interesting spin on it though - he played it with 2 Leafeon, 2 Flareon, a Glaceon, and an Espeon, but he also included Pyroar. He played extra fire energy so he was able to Blacksmith. It's a lot to put into a deck, but it helps a lot against anything that isn't Seismitoad/Garbodor. Aside from the Pyroar, it was pretty standard. He also played Training Center + Mr. Mime, so Landorus had a very hard time against the deck. It was unable to set up quick KOs, and usually you'd end up overwhelming it with Leafeon and Flareon.
 
Leafeon and Flareon are phenomenal attackers while everything else are more like techs for specific match ups, so I think those two should definitely be the core. I played around with this deck too until I realized you needed Basic Energy unlike the Eevee from Unseen Forces. I didn't have much luck with it, but it's good to hear that someone else is!
 
One Approved said:
One of the guys in my league put an interesting spin on it though - he played it with 2 Leafeon, 2 Flareon, a Glaceon, and an Espeon, but he also included Pyroar. He played extra fire energy so he was able to Blacksmith. It's a lot to put into a deck, but it helps a lot against anything that isn't Seismitoad/Garbodor. Aside from the Pyroar, it was pretty standard. He also played Training Center + Mr. Mime, so Landorus had a very hard time against the deck. It was unable to set up quick KOs, and usually you'd end up overwhelming it with Leafeon and Flareon.
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The deck has absolutely no room for all of that, nor need or bench space for mime.
 
If you're interested in a seriously good list, I'd recommend checking out Pooka's list(from the Top Cut). He made an awesome Eeveelution deck for last format. But yes, drop Jolteon and get Leafeon. I'd run 4 eevee, 3 flareon, and 2 leafeon tbh. Can never have too many. Other than that though the deck is solid. I would know since I played a very similar list in March.
 
I've considered running a few Eeveelutions with Dusknoir to capitalize on the cheap damage. The big 3 are Leafeon and Espeon PLF along with Glaceon FF (30 and 10 spread). All of them hit for one energy. Combined with Miltank, you could do lots of cheap damage with every damage counter being put to use.

Edit: Tried a game on Playtcg. It's actually not a bad deck (though I think that's more dusknoir's doing). Glaceon did some decent spread while hitting his Donphan's for weakness. Leafeon came out late game to hit for 60/80 and while it got destroyed in one hit, Miltank put on some damage counters too.

Here's my list.

18 pokemon

3-2-3 Dusknoir
3 Miltank
3-1-1-1 (Eevee: Leafeon/Espeon/Glaceon)
1 Jirachi EX

34 Trainers

2 Rare Candy
3 Skyla
4 N
3 Colress
3 Juniper
1 Pokemon Fan Club
2 Lysandre
3 Ultra Ball
1 Evosoda
1 Dowsing Machine (ace spec)
2 Switch
1 Escape Rope
3 Muscle Band
1 Silver Bangle
1 Professors Letter
1 Energy Retrieval
1 Startling M Phone
1 Sacred Ash

8 energy

3 Psychic
3 Water
2 Grass
 
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