What are the new Top Tier decks that are going to be coming out?

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What are the new Top Tier decks that are going to be coming out? I'm kinda behind on this new set. So what Decks are going to be "The Play"?

Also, I just want to know what kind of cards in the set Nobel Victories will have that will change the current decks and make new ones.

Lists/Skeletons of the decks are nice to have.

Please give me your input.

Thanks, Techdeck101
 
Basically the same decks will be dominating. Zekrom and Reshiram will gain more power with Eviolite and Rocky Helmet (yay). Durant may see some play, I doubt it will preform too well. I'm sure a lot of people will be looking into stuff with Victini, Audino, Sharpedo etc.. DD might get better because of Kyurem. Those are the only changes that I can think of right now.
 
Donphan will probably go down in popularity because of eviolite and cryogonal. People want to make decks with Eelektrik but it's not really going anywhere quite yet. Some people are trying to play with druddigon, hydreigon, archeops and chandelure, but they won't be top tier, for sure. Some people are building cobalion/vileplume/reuniclus instead of beartic now, but weak to fire means this probably won't go anywhere. Zekrom will continue to get insanely popular because of eviolite (more so than Reshiram).
 
Thanks guys! That really help! If I were giving out the "Grain of Sand" Idea (The sand) I would give one to both of you!
 
Zekrom and Reshiram will be really big. Using newer cards like Eviolite will make the decks even better, with other optional techs such as Super Rod and Rocky Helmet. Because of a rise in play in dragon decks, decks that have weaknesses to either of them will not be played as much.

ZPST probably the biggest boost from NV. Eviolite especially makes the deck better, giving it consistency, and keeping Zekrom from being knocked out in some cases. A Bolt Strike will only give Zekrom 20 damage, and even after a Bolt Strike any attack that does 120 damage will still not knock Zekrom out. This makes cards such as Bouffalant worthless, and makes Zekrom a lot harder to knockout. By attaching Eviolite to Tornadus, and Earthquake attack will only do 20 damage to Tornadus, and 40 with Ruins of Alph. Ruins of Aplh used to give Donphan the 2hko, but now Tornadus most be 3hko'd. Without Ruins of Alph, it will take six turns to knockout a Tornadus with Earthquake, or five with Pluspower. The huge boost ZPST gets from Pluspower will make it Tier One if not BDIF.

TyRam also gains a lot from NV. Super Rod and Rocky Helmet are ok, and Eviolite is really good. Though it doesn't dramatically give a boost to to TyRam, after using Typhlosion's Afterburner, it will take 140 damage instead of 120 damage to knockout Reshiram. This can be a problem in mirror or for ZPST. Super Rod works as energy retrieval, and Rocky Helmet is a Gothitelle counter.

Gothitelle doesn't really get a boost, but the deck isn't any worse. Rocky Helmet doesn't pose much of a threat because of Pokémon Catcher. It may be played more because of a good ZPST and TyRam match-up, but Mew techs will probably keep it down.

Stage 1s are getting worse. Zoroark no longer has the return knockout on dragons, nor does Donphan. Gothitelle also tears the deck apart because all the Pokémon tend to hit for low damage amounts. The hope against TyRam is to knockout Typhlosion, but against ZPST, Zekrom and Tornadus will just be able to take out all of your Pokémon.

MegaZone is a bit worse, because of a bad TyRam and ZPST matchup. Zekrom hits Yanmega for weakness, and Reshiram ohkos Yanmega too. Both decks can Catcher-ko Magnemites to cut out drawpower, making MegaZone worse.

tl;dr? dragons will dominate.
 
Well there is one Rogue deck that's been getting alot of attention from Japan lately, and that's CaKE (Cobalion/Kyurem/Electrode Prime). Cobalion is the main attacker in the deck while Kyurem covers for Cobalion in the TyRam matchup. Electrode is in the deck to attach energies and while being behind on prizes you utilize N to drop their handsize down. All in all it seems like a REALLY fun deck to build and test.

MewPluff gets hurt a bit from Noble Victories but it still gets a few good cards to help it out mainly Rocky Helmet and Eviolite. Out of both Mew decks currently I think MewBox probably has better luck with it's synergy with Vileplume, Sunflora, and Yanmega Prime especially now that Yanmega recently got reprinted as a Promo. I think Rocky Helmet with Zoroark is the play If you still need a way to Revenge KO the Dragons with Foul Play.
 
@ Glaceon, wouldn't Gothitelle stop Rocky Helm from being played, I could see it helping if it gets played early but as soon as Gothitelle hits the field isn't it pretty much a dead draw?
 
Thanks again Cards Slinger and Joey! I would like to try that CaKE deck!
 
RattataJoey said:
@ Glaceon, wouldn't Gothitelle stop Rocky Helm from being played, I could see it helping if it gets played early but as soon as Gothitelle hits the field isn't it pretty much a dead draw?
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If Gothitelle is out, it is just like every other trainer draw. For it to be effective you have to get it out T1/T2 otherwise its a wasted tech. Still not a game changer for Goth though no matter what.
 
RattataJoey said:
@ Glaceon, wouldn't Gothitelle stop Rocky Helm from being played, I could see it helping if it gets played early but as soon as Gothitelle hits the field isn't it pretty much a dead draw?
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There are still pre trainer lock attachments.
 
Glaceon, I guess since a GOOD Goth deck sets up at least 1 Goth by turn 2, you don't have much time before that. :)
 
Which is why Rocky Helmet isn't a very good tech. Also Pokémon Catcher gets around it. And it can't be attached during trainer lock.

I never said it was good :p
 
yea I did say you could get those early attachments, sorry if it seemed like I was saying you where wrong by no means was that my intention, in fact everything else you said was bang on the money
 
glaceon said:
Which is why Rocky Helmet isn't a very good tech. Also Pokémon Catcher gets around it. And it can't be attached during trainer lock.

I never said it was good :p
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But If you're not playing against Item Lock you can get Rocky Helmet back with Junk Arm If they Catcher the Pokemon it's attached to and donk it for a prize.
 
Well, there really isn't any "new" top tier decks we are going to get after Noble Victories release. In fact, Noble Victories is simply going to improve most of our current top tier decks. Reshiram and Zekrom decks will gain Eviolite, which will make them a lot better in that they'll be harder to KO. Magnezone builds will gain N, and Magnezone and N are perfect together in that N can be played very late in the game when both players have 1 prize cards left to heavily disrupt the opponent while you can safely draw cards with Magnezone out. Super Rod will improve all the current top tier decks, for that + Junk Arm creates a very useful recovery option late game.
 
Card Slinger J said:
But If you're not playing against Item Lock you can get Rocky Helmet back with Junk Arm If they Catcher the Pokemon it's attached to and donk it for a prize.
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There is something messed up with what your saying. I have no clue what your saying.

Catcher up a Pokémon then use JA for Rocky Helmet and donk how?
 
I was addressing how Rocky Helmet can be played without under Item Lock If you Catcher a Pokemon that has that Pokemon Tool attached to it and gets donked in the process.
 
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