Post-Triumphant Machamp Deck List and Analysis

The Fall Battle Road season has come to an end, and we are faced with a fairly well-defined metagame. The format has been dominated by SP decks, ranging from LuxChomp to DialgaChomp and to Sableye variants. Beyond that, the two most successful decks were Gengar/Vileplume and Machamp decks. These could be straight, speed-based Machamp decks, or paired with other cards, such as Kingdra.

With the metagame being more defined, I had personally taken quite the liking to Machamp/Kingdra due to its favorable match-ups against the rest of the tier 1 archetypes. Of course, heading into the City Championship series, things aren’t going to just be another round of Battle Roads, as we get an influx of new cards from the HS: Triumphant expansion.

Now, we have an established metagame, and a bunch of new, exciting cards to look through. I addressed what cards I felt had potential in my brief review of the set the first weekend of Prereleases, but since that point, I’ve had a chance to actually test a lot of the cards, and get a more refined view of which of them I feel will actually make an impact in the metagame.