With many European Nationals coming up very soon and most playing an MD-CL format I decided to write an article to help you understand and give you an idea about the high tier decks that are going to be played. To do this I will use my own knowledge and link you to older SixPrizes articles that have in-depth analysis.
Firstly I will look at what I consider the top tier decks. I highly advise reading the information about each of these even if you are not planning on playing them yourself. The more you understand a deck the easy it will be if you get matched against it.
Dialgachomp
This is one of my favourite decks to play and one I play a lot. I am sure anyone who has ever played Dialgachomp has found out that it is extremely hard to play and is very unforgiving with even the smallest of misplays.
Even though the majority of high level players will say that Dialgachomp is on par if not better than Luxchomp and say that it has some amazing match ups all round, it is still underplayed compared to Luxchomp and Vilegar mainly because of how unforgiving the deck is and how hard it can be to play well through an entire tournament.
When I started to learn Dialgachomp I found it very hard to find any good information about the deck. Most of the articles and deck lists you find on the internet are either out of date or Luxchomp lists that have had the Luxray taken out and have had a Dialga G put in instead which is a very bad way of making the deck.
Here are some of the articles I found most useful to find out more information about the deck.
Chris Fulop – Battle Road Report Plus Dialga Discussion
This article is a bit old now, but you can get a good idea of how some of the key techs can work in the deck and it is a nice alternative deck list to the one in this article.
Kenny’s list is very interesting, playing 3 Lost Remover and no Stadiums. There is a good explanation to why he played the deck this way. I like this list, but the lack of Machamp counters can be a big problem.
