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Reshiram/Emboar (HG/SS On)

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Bag o Bones

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Here's a deck I plan to take to Battle Roads. Hopefully everyone here can give me some advice.

Pokemon: 18

4 Reshiram
3 Tepig
3 Pignite
2 Emboar (Ability)
2 Vulpix
2 Ninetales
1 Oshawott
1 Samurott (Shell Armor)

Energy: 15

15 Fire Energy

Trainers/Supporters: 27

4 Energy Retrieval
4 Plus Power
3 Pokemon Collector
2 Switch
3 Rare Candy
1 Flower Shop Lady
1 Seeker
2 Revive
3 Professor Oaks New Theory
2 Junk Arm
2 Professor Elm

Traditional Reshiram/Emboar Deck. I have the Samurott teched in for the mirror match, as Emboar can power him up as well, and he OHKO's Reshiram and Emboar with a Pluspower. If I'm not facing a mirror or donphan, then its bait for Junk Arm. Pluspower also to help with the mirror and Zekrom to help with the OHKO.

The rest of the trainers should be self-explanatory. Collector to help get basics. Revive to get Reshirams back. Candy to help get out Emboar and Samurott. Oak for hand refresh, Elm for searching, and switch/seeker to heal a damaged Reshiram.

Thoughts/suggestions?
 
nice idea with samurott. thought I'd suggest a lanturn prime instead. it's an electric to battle those nasty water types that would take advantage of your main pokemon's weakness, and it could also switch to count as a water type to OHKO mirror decks. then, I'd take out the 2 junk arm and replace it with 2 rainbow or electric energy. then, I'd take out a pluspower and add another seeker for consistency.

so:
-1-0-1 samurott
-2 junk arm
-1 plus power

+1-1 lanturn prime
+2 rainbow (or electric) energy
+1 seeker
 
I'm not sure about the Lanturn Prime. One of the nice things about Samurott was that he can't be OHKO'd by Reshiram.

Its a good idea though, I'll keep it squared away just in case it happens to work better.
 
yeah that's the downside :/ I guess if you were playing against an electric deck you'd just not use samurott at all. and use it against mirror decks still and it could do fair against water decks.

I'm going to play test it for my reshiboar deck haha see how it goes...
 
I' d replace the pignite for an emboar. a 3-2-3 line is better than a 3-3-2. not much point in having that tepig and pignite if they can't evolve to emboar.

I'd also take out the 2 junk arm still, because you don't really benefit from cards in your discard pile. I'd replace those with fisherman for recycling. I'd also replace an energy retrieval with a 3 fisherman. in case you're up against a trainer lock deck, you still want the ability to recycle energies. also fisherman is better mid-game because you don't really use any other supporters after you get set up. and getting 4 energy back is better than 2.

finally I'd replace a plus power for another seeker. it's nice to have the two seekers to combo with the 2 switch.
 
I only have 2 of the ability Emboar.

Fisherman is an idea though. And is Trainer Lock going to be that big in HG/SS forward, due to the loss of spiritomb?
 
It will boost once Catcher is out, but you shouldn't be worrying about it too much in HG/SS-on right now.

dmaster out.
 
Have you considered running Shuckle (The HGSS promo) instead of Ninetales? It's much faster because its basic, and I think you should include it in your list.
 
Well, if you only have 2 Emboars to bring up, you might as well slim the line down to 2-2-2, since you won't be losing anything of value there. Having a 1-1-0 Pignite isn't going to be doing you many favours.

I'd add in a second Seeker and a single Twins. Seeker is invaluable when you make an early push, and of course can be used to heal Reshirams and retrieve benched energy for reattachment. Twins helps tremendously during the Prize war, by fetching the otherwise unsearchable resources needed to keep up.
 
I was trying to figure a way out to work twins in.

Also, does Alph Lithograph 4 seem useful? With Azelf gone, its one of the only ways to check prizes.
 
yeah alph 4 helps me out a lot. I'd take out that extra 1-1-0 pignite line because you don't want cards thrown in just to be knocked out for twins. you can get that from your first guy getting KO'd anyway. I'd replace those two cards with alph 4 and the other one for a 4th collector.
 
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