Virizion EX / Genesect EX

[bossgivol]

I am building a virizion genesect deck for cities but I can't decide what tech to use to counter donphan and pyroar. These are my only choices due to lack of money or I would go get Manectric. Any thoughts? Meta is yveltal, lots of donphan, pyroar

Pokemon:
4 Virizion EX
3 Genesect EX
2-2 Beartic line-FRF
1 Deoxys EX

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums:
4 Professor Sycamore
4 N
3 Skyla
2 Colress
1 Shadow Triad
1 Lysandre
1 Lysandres Trump

3 Ultra Ball
3 Muscle Band
2 Energy Switch
3 Switch
1 Megaphone
1 Tool Retriever
2 VS Seeker
1 Colress Machine
1 Enhanced Hammer
1 G Booster
1 plasma ball

Energy:
9 Grass Energy
4 Plasma Energy

Strategy:
Power up Virizion, emerald slash onto benched Genesect. Bears for Pyroar/Landy/donphan


Or this one which uses Drifblim

Pokemon:
4 Virizion EX
3 Genesect EX
2-2 Drifblim DEX
1 Mr Mime-PLF
1 Deoxys EX

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums:
4 Professor Sycamore
4 N
3 Skyla
1 Colress
1 Shadow Triad
1 Lysandre
1 Lysandres Trump

3 Ultra Ball
3 Muscle Band
2 Dimision valley
3 Switch
1 Megaphone
1 Tool Retriever
2 VS Seeker
1 Colress Machine
2 Enhanced Hammer
1 G Booster

Energy:
9 Grass Energy
4 Plasma Energy

Strategy:
Power up Virizion, emerald slash onto benched Genesect. Blim for Pyroar/Landy/donphan. Valley for free Drifblim attack

 

[My Little Keldeo]

RE: Which VirGen to use?

Pyroar isn't a threat right now. While the deck does exist, its effectiveless has been greatly compromised by Donphan, which it strugles to take prizes against, and Seismitoad/ Garbodor. Pyroar/ Seismitoad is what you're most likely to see, but even that is not a commonly played deck. It would be best to just accept an autoless to Pyroar and focus on consistency, unless it's very popular in your local metagame.

Personally, I would go with the Drifblim version since Drifblim has more all-around utility. Being able to attack for no energy via Dimension Valley is a fun idea as well. You might even want to toss in a Mew-EX or two since you can Emerald Slash for just one Grass energy. I'm not sure how effective it is in practice, but it's something some friends and I were discussing. In any sense, Beartic just does't counter common threats in the metagame right now. Pyroar and Landorus are both seldom played, and VirGen does decently against Donphan thanks to Red Signal. You shouldn't have to worry about Yvetal, since that deck already has trouble with VirGen, but you could use Raichu as an alternative to Manectric if you really wanted to.

 

[Carpey]

RE: Which VirGen to use?

I agree with MLK above because Drifblim is useful far more often than Beartic is, not to mention it can hit higher numbers. Beartic would've been a fine choice too, but Donphans play Float Stones most of the time so that could be a pain.

 

[socery]

RE: Which VirGen to use?

I agree with MLK above because Drifblim is useful far more often than Beartic is, not to mention it can hit higher numbers. Beartic would've been a fine choice too, but Donphans play Float Stones most of the time so that could be a pain.

Beartic gives you a great matchup to donphan. All you do is Red Signal and Beartic their Donphan. Then you win.