RE: Tier List
Yoshidude10 said:
^Here's a few reasons why:
-Typhlosion's retreat is half of Emboar's(which helps against Catcher)
-Typhlosion has a great attack(destroys DCE users)
-with Typhlosion, you never run out of energy(and lets you run less because of it)
Just run 3/4 Sage's Training, 4 Juniper, and 4 Junk Arm, and you can get the Fire energy in the discard, no problem.
For the sake of discussion and in the defense of Emboar:
- Typhloshion's power deals 10 damage to Reshiram... every time it's used. This would give it a huge disadvantage against a mirror or even a Zoroark tech. Not to mention the setup is dependent upon the setup of 2 Typhlosions to run smoothly. One Emboar out allows a Reshiram to recover in 1 turn AS WELL as power up any Reshiram on your bench that very same turn, while 1 Typhlosion takes 2 turns to recover a Reshiram, all while dealing 10 damage.
- Typhlosion's attack is solid, no doubt but against a meta that uses almost no energy (Yanmega), 70 damage for a stage 2 isn't all that great, especially if you're going to use energy acceleration on Typhlosion instead of Resh that turn. Meanwhile Emboar has the benefit of a second attacker that can deal 150 in a single turn, while the ability Version can attack for 80 if you need him.
- HP is also in Emboar's favor. 150 > 140
- Energy Consumption. This is where I think the meat of the argument takes place. With Typhlosion, energy is readily available in the discard pile and it doesn't need recovery cards like Fisherman and Energy Retrieval. That gives it more room to fit PlusPowers, Reversals and a lot more flexibility overall.
Energy Recovery for Emboar comes strictly from Energy Retrievals and Fisherman. Personally, I run a 4/2 ratio of each allowing me to potentially reuse 16 energies in the deck, on top of the 12 that I already run. That's a lot of energy and is PLENTY of energy to fuel Blue Flare WELL over the 6-8 times needed to take 6 prizes... and I'm not even counting the use of junk arm.
Everything else between the decks are more or less equal. Emboar and Typh both utilize the Ninetales drawing engine, are stage 2's and can be ran in the exact same amount.
Let's get one thing clear... I not doubting Typhlosion as a top tier piece. I just want legitimate reason why he is preferred over Emboar because I honestly can't see it. I just want all the facts so can make the right decision when I build my list and try to make Reshiram the best that it could be.
One final word I honestly believe that the only reason Resh/Embar/Typh didn't do as well was simply because the sheer amount of Yanmega players. Had that raw number been anywhere close to even, We would be discussing a whole different list of top tier decks as I believe Reshiram takes a dump over Yanmega all day long.
