Lets talk about Ampharos. I tried to fit this card in lots of decks, mostly the power lock Ampharos, but now it has its own deck. I will be discussion the lock version and not the spread version.

The Deck List:

The main cards of the deck:

- Ampharos Platinum

This Ampharos allows you to power lock every Pokémon with damage counters on it. That’s why the list has two Crobat G, so you can put one damage on any Pokemon and power lock it.

The attacks: The first one is the more useful has you do 60 or 30 + paralyze to slow down your opponent. The second one is a way to attack and charge an Ampharos on bench (Prime normally).

This is the first Ampharos to you want to get on the field. When you lock opponent’s powers they will have to use Supporters; that’s when Ampharos from SW enters in play.

- Ampharos Secret Wonders

This Ampharos puts 2 damage counters on each of your opponent’s Pokémon after they play a Supporter card from his or her hand. This means 20 damage almost every turn.

This Ampharos’ attack isn’t great, so it should be used only as a last resource.

After supporter lock, Ampharos Prime enters in play.

- Ampharos Prime

This Ampharos allows you to put 1 damage counter on the Pokemon your opponent attaches their Energy to, so this means 10 more damage each turn.

The attack from this Ampharos is good as it does 80 or discards an Energy, which is great because you can slow down your opponent.

- Manectric

This card protect Claydol from being locked by Ampharos.

Manectric’s attacks are great; the first one allows a 30 damage spread on all Pokémons with Powers, the second attack allows allows you to do 40 damage and charge a benched Ampharos.

- Pachirisu

This is the best starter I can find for the deck, as it allows you to search for 3 basic Pokemon and is a great counter against SP decks.

The Trainer list is basic so nothing to tell about it. In regards to Energies, Cyclone Energies are there because of Spiritomb and Mr. Mime. A trainer lock on this deck isn’t an autoloss, but slows down the strategy and since Ampharos needs only 1 Lightning we can afford to play Cyclone.

Problems on the deck:

- Dialga G Lv.X PL: If this cards enters play, all PokeBodies are shut down. This means the lock strategy must be abandoned and we have to start attacking. The options against this deck are metal resistance, Ampharos Prime attacking for 80 or 100 with Expert Belt, or 60 and TGI Energy Gain discard with Pachirisu.

- Too many Stage 2′s. With 3 types of Ampharos, sometimes we don’t draw the one we want and that means the deck slows down.

- Retreat cost of 2 on two Ampharos and 3 on the other is a big problem against Flygon Lock.

That’s it, give suggestions and thanks all.

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After testing a bit the deck against Expert Gyarados I decided to post it here. The list consists of the following:

First of all the main Pokémon:

- Trapinch

The lock Pokémon, attach an Energy along with Memory Berry and the lock starts here. Attack for 10 and lock the Pokémon from retreating or switch the opponent’s Pokémon to let him discarding Energy or Trainers to retreat it.

- Flygon Lv.X

Just let it stay active and discard top card of oponent’s deck between turns.

- Palkia Lv.X

This is the Pokémon who let you change defending Pokémon without attacking with Trapinch so you can switch and lock on one turn.

- Slowking

The new addition, Slowking from HS lets you reorder the top 3 cards of either players deck allowing to choose what to discard. This lets discard useful cards like Switch, warp points, Warp Energies, etc…

- Unown K

New addition too, if you are almost KO one Claydol or other locked Pokémon just remove 2 damage counters from him and let it be locked again and again. :)

- Spiritomb

This is a early game locker for Trainers. I think its more useful then Chatot as you can quickly evolve stage 2 Pokémon or Claydol as you lock opponent’s Trainers.

Second the key trainer:

- Memory Berry

This cards will let Flygon Lv.X use Trapinch attacks…that’s the objective of the deck.

- Department Store Girl

The only objective of this cards is search for 3 Memory Berry as there is not any other way of searching them.

Third energies:

- Call Energy

Bad hand, no starter Pokémon but one Unown G…ohhh!!

Just attach a Call Energy and search for useful Pokémon while you will can retreat with Unown G next turn. This is an example to use Call Energy on this deck. After turn 1 or 2 they are useless.

- Other energies

The other types of Energy are just to give retreat 0 to all Pokémon in this deck while attached to Flygon.

Conclusion

I think this deck can became a meta deck since it has good match-ups against all deck that don’t use many switch cards and don’t have terrible match-ups against deck that have lots of switch cards like Gyarados since we can discard them with combo Flygon Lv.X + Memory with Slowking HS.

Hope you enjoy.

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