Porygon-z promo (Cities, masters)

[festizzio]

Pokemon (25):

3-2-3-1 Porygon-Z (TR-TR-Promo-MD)
4x Smeargle UD
2-1 Uxie LA
1-1 Dialga G Lv. X
1-1 Drifblim (Shiny-UD)
1-1 Dodrio SV
1x Azelf LA
2x Unown Q

T/S/S (27):

2x Looker's Investigation
2x Bebe's Search
2x Pokemon Collector
1x Palmer's Contribution

3x TM TS-1 Evoluter
3x TM TS-2 Devoluter
4x Poke Blower +
3x Rare Candy
3x Warp Point
2x Pokemon Communication
1x Luxury Ball

1x Broken Time-Space

Energy (8):

4x Call Energy
4x Double Colorless Energy

The Pokemon:

Porygon -- Main attacker, Overload does lots of damage.

Smeargle UD -- Best case scenario: you go second, look at their hand for a supporter, then use one of your own. Worse case: You go first, look at their hand, they don't have a supporter, you have to end. Either way, you see their hand, you see what you need to expect, and you may get a free supporter. Also, resists stupid Sableye donks.

Uxie - Draw, also trade-off is an engine with Z's decode power.

Dialga G - shuts off annoying Scizor Primes and Vileplume/Spiritomb trainer locks. As far as Gengar Lv. X's level down, see next Pokemon.

Drifblim - against Vilegar, gets rid of 'gar lv. x for a next turn DGX. Gets rid of Machamp, gets rid of Umbreon UD, basically anything that is in my way.

Dodrio - getting that extra card can mean everything, especially when I just decoded for 2 Poke Blowers and they have something interesting on their bench.

Azelf - Prizes

I'm not going to explain everything else, since I think it's mostly self-explanatory. Call Energy should be a given in this deck, even though I don't see many people using it in here. The reason I only run 1 BTS is because I can easily search it out via Porygon-2's Poke Power. I only need it for 1 turn anyway; after I get my first Porygon-Z out I can search for Rare Candy etc.

What can I change to make this deck better?

 

[Zangoose]

Play 4 Seeker, SSU's and Junk Arm. Thi deck can be CRAZY fast if you can get it going. Here's my list


4-4-3/1 PromoGon/TM
3-1 Uxie
1-1 Dialga
2 Crobat
1 Azelf
=20

3 BTS
4 SSU
4 Seeker
4 Junk Arm
4 PokeTurn
3 Devolouter
3 Evolouter
3 Collector
2 Bebe's
2 PokeCom
=31

4 DCE
4 Warp

Strat is

To set up a PromoGon and a Porygon-Z. Seekr and SSU's let you abuse PoryGon's Power which lets you grab a Trainer w/ a flip. Junk Arm is too good in this. Donk with PromoGon. Decks REALLY good.

 

[festizzio]

Thanks for the suggestion Zangoose, but to be honest I really only want help on my current deck; yours seems like a new deck entirely.

 

[BubbleTea]

You could definatly try out junk arm and rescue energy here.
question: why is dodrio sv better then noctowl hgss? noctowl has 90 HP which makes it harder for garchomp to ohko you. is it only for the free retreat cost of dodrio??

 

[festizzio]

Dodrio is definitely for free retreat. I don't care about Garchomp sniping it, because revenge killing Garchomp is easier than taking candy from a baby (pardon the cliche). As far as Rescue Energy goes, I would like to try it, but I really need Call NRG and DCE and I don't really want to run more than 8 energies. If you had a suggestion that worked for it though, I'd be down to give it a shot. tbh I find Junk Arm pointless here, as I never lose enough TMs to have to get them back. I run 8, and I play really smart with them so there's always enough to kill my opponent. I very rarely get surprise KO'd.

 

[festizzio]

Bumpers . . .

 

[idrumprettywell]

instead of dialga g x, would you consider a 1-1 manectric pl with a 1-1 erl for late game? you could have a 100% success rate with legend box because of porygon-z x's power
i was considering doing that in my version of this deck. what do you think?

 

[festizzio]

I like the idea, but here's why I won't do it, and it's mostly specific to my deck: I'd have to run fire, lightning, and/or rainbow energy, which means I'd have to take out either call or DCE since more than 8 energy is too much in my opinion. It's the same reason I decided to run Drifblim over Crobat Prime. I don't have room for basic energies. However, even if that weren't the case, I think Porygon-Z is good early, mid, and late game so there'd be no reason for a different attacker.