Swinging the Sphene — Refining Regidrago VSTAR

[PMJ]

Regidrago VSTAR  has proven itself to be the best deck in the current format with many high placements at Regional Championships, including coming first and second at the Toronto Regional Championships. The deck has proven itself to be robust and has managed to succeed despite many decks being constructed with beating Regidrago VSTAR in mind. Players have mostly agreed on how the Regidrago VSTAR deck should be built, however, there are still many questions surrounding the finer choices in the decklist and which Dragon Pokemon to include as attackers.
Which Pokemon to Choose?

Dragapult ex, Hisuian Goodra VSTAR...

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[Exo]

I get scared when playing against regidrago knowing they have exeggutor in their deck but then I remember I'm an evolution deck

 

[TheLegend]

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[Steen]

Swinging Sphene is the entire reason why it's basically BDIF cause it serves as a hard counter to Raging Bolt, when it already has Covert Flight from Noivern as a soft counter. Nothing actually stops you from running both at once too, so if you can't find the Exeggutor you can still stall for damage.

 

[Matteloop]

Thank you for sharing with us. We greatly appreciate it

What's with the bold broseph?

 

[TheLegend]

What's with the bold broseph?

I had to google how to typ appreciate because i'm not english lol. It was bold there.

 

[angooseburger]

Swinging Sphene is the entire reason why it's basically BDIF cause it serves as a hard counter to Raging Bolt, when it already has Covert Flight from Noivern as a soft counter. Nothing actually stops you from running both at once too, so if you can't find the Exeggutor you can still stall for damage.

Its not a "hard counter" to raging bolt. Frankly, the raging bolt matchup is only hard because they can turn 1 going second knockout a 2 prizer. You're forced into double rad zard plays to win but it requires ALWAYS requires two energy switches to work. Exeggutor doesn't help against a turn 1 knockout so it's not a "hard counter". Noivern is the card you use if you want to hard counter, not exeggutor. And no, you don't ever want to run both because they have overlapping uses in niche situations.

 

[Charmaster:)]

Should the sentence "Hisuian Goodra VSTAR was also a big question in the deck during the Stellar Crown format as many players chose to forego it for a second Dragapult ex due to the higher presence of the mirror match and the Klawf / Terapagos ex deck, and fewer regular Terapagos ex / Noctowl decks being present" say "Surging Sparks" instead of "Stellar Crown?" The part about fewer Terapagos ex/Noctowl decks and more Klawf/Terapagos ex decks would seem to make more sense, as Terapagos ex/Noctowl was new in the Stellar Crown format and Klawf/Terapagos ex began to pick up steam in the subsequent format.

 

[Steen]

Should the sentence "Hisuian Goodra VSTAR was also a big question in the deck during the Stellar Crown format as many players chose to forego it for a second Dragapult ex due to the higher presence of the mirror match and the Klawf / Terapagos ex deck, and fewer regular Terapagos ex / Noctowl decks being present" say "Surging Sparks" instead of "Stellar Crown?" The part about fewer Terapagos ex/Noctowl decks and more Klawf/Terapagos ex decks would seem to make more sense, as Terapagos ex/Noctowl was new in the Stellar Crown format and Klawf/Terapagos ex began to pick up steam in the subsequent format.

The popularity of using H. Goodra VSTAR was dwindling around Stellar Crown anyway since the effect isn't really worth it for a deck supposed to be aggressive. Before Shrouded Fable it was using Goodra since it did lack bench reach so it did need to occasionally defend against powerful evolutions like Zard and other Dragos using Lost Impact, as well as the meteoric rise of Raging Bolt.