Standard The Hive (Lurantis GX / Pheromosa GX / Shaymin)

[Dark Espeon]

THE HIVE

Pokémon (16):

• 2 Pheromosa SM6 (beatdown)
  
• 2 Pheromosa GX (beatdown)
• 3 Lurantis SMP (beatdown)
• 4 Fomatis SM1 (evolution)
• 1 Lurantis GX (beatdown)
• 2 Tapu Lele GX (search)
• 2 Shaymin (beatdown)

Trainer (31):

• 3 Professor Sycamore (draw)
• 2 Brigette (search)
• 3 Guzma (control)
• 3 Cynthia (draw)
  
• 3 N (draw)
• 1 Rescue Stretcher (retrieval)
• 3 Choice Band (beatdown)
• 4 Max Elixir (accelerate)
• 2 Field Blower (discard)
• 1 Revitalizer (retrieval)
  
• 4 Ultra Ball (search)
• 2 Evo Soda (search)

Energy (12):

• 12 Grass Energy
• 1 Beast Energy

STRATEGY:

Start with either of the Basic Grass Pokémon and use Brigette to search out two Fomatis and another attacker. Evolve the benched Fomatis into Lurantis and start to attack with either Pheromosa GX or Lurantis GX. Use Shaymin to revenage the defeat of the first attacker and accelerate to the bench with Max Elixir to ensure another attacker is available once Shaymin is defeated.

 

[1ronhead]

So this is basically just a lurantis deck with the non-ex shaymin as the 1 prize attacker. Nice idea though! About Pheromosa gx, I think its biggest problem is just that it doesn't have any high-output attacks (except the gx). Its first attack has some potential, but grass pokemons just can't hit for weaknesses most of the time. So the deck generally looks ok, but I feel there would be problems regarding energy acceleration, because the only thing I can see that brings energy is the max elixir. You can say lurantis gx could do that, but that just takes up a turn, and it might be knocked out after that, especially when volcanion is a fairly popular deck (also lurantis gives two prizes to your opponents).

Those are just some random thoughts of mine.

 

[Dark Espeon]

Hi 1ronhead,

Thanks for the review. I do feel the same. Pheromosa GX is in the deck for either Fast Raid is the deck goes first, or Beauty GX to have a decent ohko attack that Lurantis deck lacked thus far. Shaymin is a beast in this deck and I consider to include a third one. The main idea to to use Lurantis GX and Max elixir to accelerate in the first few turns. When it is knocked out start to flock them with Shaymin. Promo Lurantis and Choice band should allow them to achieve ohkos. Once the opponent took four to five prizes send in Pheromosa GX to clean house. Fire weakness is an issue for Lurantis but Shaymin should not be affected too much.