Discussion Zygarde vs Lycanroc

[Adrien von Ardel]

I'm a huge fan of zygarde and especially if the full art version of him coming out in the new best of set, but the question I have now is this: Is he even still worth playing?

With the new lycanroc and even the original lycanroc, they both can do basically as much damage as him as well as having a pretty nice ability on the new one and the advantages that being a stage one brings, not to mention GX over EX. Plus they're not heavily focused on top cards in a meta getting field blower where every deck is going to run at least one copy. So is he even still worth playing over them?

 

[Fayld]

It is still faster, starts doing real damage earlier, benefits from fighting fury belt (let's not go crazy on how big an impact field blower will have...it isn't like tools don't exist in expanded and there are great tool removal options there currently), takes up far fewer spots in a deck, and heals itself with the second attack.

I am not saying the ruffs aren't great either. I have lost a lot of games to them. But they fill a completely different spot in the fighting deck meta. Honestly I think fighting is lacking in support right now making it harder to create competitive decks with fighting types in general and I do think the current rocks and ruffs deck is pretty solid. But that doesn't blow up the usefulness of zygarde. They are just different decks!