Pokemon Opponents: Psychoanalysis and Strategies

As we prepare our decks for Fall Battle Roads, don’t forget to prepare for the types of opponents you will encounter. Yes, these opponents are usually in one shape or form at every tournament, so you’d best put this article in your back pocket and pull it out when you need it most. So, without further adieu, let’s check out these Poke-profiles: [...]

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Uxie Donk

Uxie Donk

Hello everyone! This is my third article for SixPrizes, hope you like it. =)

Today I’m going to talk about Uxie Donk… No, this is not Shuppet; this is in my opinion a totally different deck. I know both decks focus on attaching 4 Plus Powers (+10 damage each) and an Expert Belt (+20 damage), but Shuppet Donk mainly focuses on attacking and sending up a wall; while in Uxie Donk, you don’t send a wall because by that time, [...]

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The Right Timing

The Right Timing

Hello everyone, this is my 3rd article I’ve written for 6P (I wrote the other two under the “Rhin” nickname) and the first one not to be about deck analysis. This time, im going to focus the analysis on tips to get the perfect timing to play galactic trainer cards for SP decks.

I believe the main advantage SP decks have other the rest (and what makes them rule the metagame right now) is the speed they have, and that speed mainly obtained thanks [...]

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Porygon-Z/Dodrio: Deck List and Analysis

Porygon-Z/Dodrio: Deck List and Analysis

After playing the Pokemon TCG for about a year and running 2 metagame decks in Kingdra and Dialga/Garchomp, I decided that I would like to try and make a rogue deck that could be viable in today’s meta. It didn’t take long for me to remember the Porygon-Z Promo, a card that would act not only as a wonderful main attacker, but could also function as a great engine. Without further ado, here is the list, mostly crafted for MD-on.

Pokemon:

3 Porygon GE [...]

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VileTomb: The Trainer Lock Combo

VileTomb: The Trainer Lock Combo

This article is intended to show how Vileplume UD combined with Spiritomb AR can be an incredibly powerful trainer lock strategy.

The Big Idea

Both Vileplume and Spiritomb have the ability to block you from playing Trainer cards. Vileplume’s strength comes from its Poke-Body “Allergy Flower” which, while in play, does not allow either player to play Trainer. Spiritomb’s Poke-Body “Keystone Seal” has the same effect, but only when Spiritomb is in the active position. The basic strategy is to [...]

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Refine Your Play Testing

Refine Your Play Testing

With Worlds right around the corner, numerous players will be devoting their weekends (and possibly more), to play testing. Across the many games that I’ve been a part of, there has been a common factor… unrefined play testing.

The play testing methods that I learned 12 years ago have helped myself, and a few teammates, land multiple Regional/National/Worlds titles in a few of our past games.

1. Use the most consistent build

Probably the biggest mistake I’ve seen people make in play testing is [...]

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Tech Please! #01 Donphan HGSS.

Tech Please! #01 Donphan HGSS.

Title: Tech Please! #01 Donphan HGSS. Format: MD-HGSS: UL

Introduction:

We all know Donphan is as annoying as it is popular. A force to be reckoned with, Donphan can turn any player, newbie or veteran, into a potential round loss at a tournament. Don’t get me wrong, Donphan is a great card, and arguably the most game changing card of the last 3 expansions, barring maybe Jumpluff, Spiritomb and Expert Belt.

The thing that makes it one of the [...]

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Egg-Meg: Optimism for new seasons

Egg-Meg: Optimism for new seasons

Hello everyone, Brit Pybas here. Now with the season being over for most, the vast majority of you are worrying about rotation, but fear not for I may have the solution for the MD-On season. I call it Egg-Meg and it has been sitting in your collections since HGSS.

Egg-Meg Pokemon:

3 x Chikorita 2 x Bayleef 3 x Meganium Prime 2 x Chansey PL 2 x Blissey Prime 2 x Uxie 1 x Uxie Lv.X 1 x Azelf 1 x Chatot MD 2 [...]

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Analysis of Four Popular Decks

Analysis of Four Popular Decks

~Intro~

With National Championships already over, the next tournament in line will be Grinders (the Last Chance Qualifier, for those without Worlds invites), and finally the World Championship itself.

Judging by the deck usage in the recent United States National Championships’s Master Division Top 128 cut, Luxchomp again showed it was a deck that always be played in very large numbers. Next in line for popularity would be Sablock, Plox, and Jumpluff. Other decks made a great showing including Cursegar, [...]

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Being Unique

Being Unique

Here I am again, writing an article on something a little unusual. With US Nationals now over and 2 months before set rotation, maybe it’s time to have a look at some of the more unusual decks you can play with.

Arceus

This is a deck which is obviously meant to go together, but having never seen one being tried and with no major tournaments coming up why not give it a go?

Deck List: Pokemon: 21 5 Arceus AR (Colourless) 2 Arceus AR [...]

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