Alright ya’ll, well here’s my first article for 6P Underground. I actually wrote something close to an 8 page article on Umbreon and how I went about making the list, but then I realized something: it doesn’t beat SP. So, I (re)learned a lesson when it comes to making decks and I can now share it with you guys!
Lesson 1:
When making a deck, you need to take two things into account right off the bat:
1. The goal of your deck: Pick your strategy and build your deck around it. Include cards that compliment your strategy over not only cards that hurt it, but cards that just add nothing at all. Every single card in a deck counts, so make use of your space.
2. The Metagame: This is what I didn’t do when building Umbreon.dec. All I did was focus on Umbreon and its capabilities and totally forgot about the metagame surrounding it and what I had to beat. It was a great idea in a fantasy world, but Pokemon is no fantasy!
So now that we all have learned an invaluable lesson, I’ll get on with my article…
Umbreon/Machamp
Undaunted didn’t bring the Pokemon world much when it comes to competitive decks. Sifting through the cards, you might pull out a handful of possibly-playable cards- and Umbreon should certainly be one of them. At first glance, it doesn’t look like much: 90 HP Stage 1 (standard, maybe a little less than normal nowadays), average bottom stats, and an extremely mediocre second attack (flipping coins ugh). Moonlight Fang, though, provides Umbreon with one of the most interesting attacks printed in awhile.
For 1 Darkness Energy, you’re doing 30 damage and then Umbreon can’t be hit by ANY of your opponent’s Pokemon that have Powers or Bodies. Not just their active, ANY of their guys. That means Warp Point is virtually the only way they can attack Umbreon if they have Powers/Bodies. Some decks will literally just fold to this attack (Donphan comes to mind).
Of course, most decks have ways around this attack. First, only 30 damage a turn? That’s not a lot and a lot of decks could just attack with guys they wouldn’t normally with that don’t have Powers or Bodies. So, we’ll have to work on ways to counter their counters, won’t we?
