Hey guys my name is Perry Going from North Carolina. I recently got back into Pokemon and I am kind of new to the game play. However, I have been fortunate enough to build successful decks like LuxPluff, Sablelock, and LuxChomp, but they were not working for me. So in response I went ahead and made a deck that was not played as much in tournaments, LuxPhan. This Donphan Prime variant has many tricks up its sleeves. As mentioned in the title, Luxray Gl LV.X is included in the deck along with a very useful and disrupting card, Mesprit LA.
The idea of the deck is to T1 Donphan and “Psychic Bind.” Donphan is a very fast deck, but many decks can go around and counter it like Jumpluff and Gyarados so to slow these decks the T1 “Psychic Bind” is necessary. Then T2 one should hope for a second Mesprit and Claydol set up. This allows the player to stall and slow the opponent down one more turn. By T3, you should have a Donphan with 3 energies and an Expert Belt on it hitting hard for 110 with a Luxray GL sitting on your bench. This is where the fun begins.
I run 2 Warp Point and 2 Switch allowing me to switch Donphan and to bring up Luxray GL. Then, one shall level up and “Bright Look” one of your opponent’s bench Pokemon; thus, free retreating or Poke Turning it to bring up the Donphan that can hit for 110. Just repeat for knock out after knock out.
The deck is pretty consistent, Donphan sets up very quickly and a T3 “Heavy Impact” is common. Also, 8 out of 10 times I am able to set up fully by T4, so I would say it is very consistent. Plus with LuxPhan, Donphan does not have the major weaknesses that it usually has, like an auto-loss to Gyarados or Palkia Lock, because Luxray GL covers Donphan’s water weakness and Mesprit prevents a “Psychic Bind” from Palkia Lock. Mesprit and Luxray GL actually give Donphan a chance against these decks.
All-in-all this deck has sustainability, recovery, and the speed to be a viable deck for Battle Roads.
Here’s my deck build for LuxPhan:
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Pokemon: 4 Donphan Prime (HGSS) 4 Phanpy (SW) 2 Luxray GL (RR) 2 Luxray GL LV.X (RR) 2 Mesprit (LA) 2 Baltoy (GE) 2 Claydol (GE) 1 Crobat G (PL) 1 Azelf (LA) 1 Uxie (LA) 1 Lucario GL (RR) |
Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums 3 Roseanne’s Research 2 Bebe’s Search 2 Pokemon Collector 1 Palmer’s Contribution 1 Copycat 3 Broken Time-Space 2 Warp Points 2 Switch 1 Luxury Ball 2 Pokemon Communication 4 Super Scoop Up 4 TG’s Invention G-105 Poke Turn 1 Energy Gain 2 Expert Belt |
Energy: 5 Fighting 1 Lightning 2 Multi Energy |
