Prof-It! Episode 31: Best 2010 Autumn Battle Roads Decks

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  • http://www.facebook.com/kennywisdom Kenny Wisdom

    Great video as always!

  • http://www.adamcapriola.com/ Adam Capriola

    Great episode man and I’m looking forward to the new theme song! Is it going to be another poke-rap?

    • Anonymous

      I’m actually not 100% sure what kind of direction I’m taking. I’m about 60% leaning toward a re-recording of the original, and 40% leaning toward a new theme. I might take the same lyrics to the old theme and put them to a whole new direction, we’ll have to see what me and Colin come up with.

    • Anonymous

      I’m actually not 100% sure what kind of direction I’m taking. I’m about 60% leaning toward a re-recording of the original, and 40% leaning toward a new theme. I might take the same lyrics to the old theme and put them to a whole new direction, we’ll have to see what me and Colin come up with.

    • Anonymous

      I’m actually not 100% sure what kind of direction I’m taking. I’m about 60% leaning toward a re-recording of the original, and 40% leaning toward a new theme. I might take the same lyrics to the old theme and put them to a whole new direction, we’ll have to see what me and Colin come up with.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XJNOWAFEM7GFUG3HBZV3TSIB7U Scott

    Always informative.

  • Anonymous

    Yeahhhh Chenlock ftw!!! Rip that DCE!

    This year’s looking pretty good so far, just like last year. I’ve always liked the years where there’s many more than just one or two top decks, (one example of such would be Plox), and with all the options available, anybody can put together something original and have a chance to come out on top.

  • Anonymous

    When you said Colin’s name, I did a double take. I lent him a Poke Turn for him to play in Donphan/Mesprit/Luxray (which I helped create) at my local BR which he used to Top 4 with. Small world :D

    Oh, and nice video Jwittz. It was good, but I feel like you’ve done it before. Instead of you just talking about every deck in little segments at this point (pre-States, pre-Regionals, pre-Nationals, etc.), I’d rather watch full length deck analysis on the new decks. Just my 2 cents.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah I definitely want to get to strategy as fast as I can, but the big shame is there aren’t any new decks other than vilegar that are doing very well :/. Vilegar will probably be the next episode after my tournament report, but since I don’t see our meta changing for a while I probably won’t have another metagame episode for a while.

      • Anonymous

        Steelix/Scizor TANK deck. Mabey do an analysis on that…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Clow/527972731 Eric Clow

    great content. Very helpful, and infomative about the state of the game based upon battleroads.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1055600204 Aaron Michael Davis

    I love the original game music playing in the background of the last few videos. Just sayin’ :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/apenandamuse Evan Baker

    Solid, informative video. Definitely helps figure out which techs to emphasize and which to scale back a bit. I think I’d been overemphasizing my VileGar tech because of all the hype surrounding it; maybe I’ll pull it back a bit now.

    • Anonymous

      yeah, it all depends on your metagame. Vilegar isn’t winning very many tournaments, but it’s definitely popular–keeping at least some option to deal with him might be a good idea as long as it doesn’t hurt your chances against sp. I’ll be sure to keep the statistics posted in my future videos though–it’s only been one weekend so the popularity of different decks might change.

    • http://www.facebook.com/chrisisnotahmonster Chris Lalonde

      hey evan, don’t you think he kinda looks like ryan graham?

    • http://www.facebook.com/chrisisnotahmonster Chris Lalonde

      hey evan, don’t you think he kinda looks like ryan graham?

  • http://www.facebook.com/guy.sargent Guy Elias Sargent IV

    it’s informative and well put together, but I think you have the tendency to be extremely short-sighted in some of your videos. just off-hand comments about “Vilegar being a top contender all throughout the season”, or about dialgachomp or luxchomp being “at the top at LEAST through city championships.” the next set contains so many many cards that are going to trump these decks. Vilegar will be basically replaced by lost zone gengar. Energy removal is going to absolutely destroy dialgachomp (and can hurt luxchomp), and tons of other stage 1/ stage two decks are gonna be able to keep up in speed/recovery with SP thanks to cards like junk arm, twins, rescue energy, hunter, etc. yea sure, SP is gonna have access to these cards as well, but most SP lists are extremely tight, and thanks to the cyrus engine probably won’t feel the desperate need to cram this stuff in, however all stage one/stage two decks will catch up drastically in speed and recovery. and if you’re already playing rare candy, that machop/machamp tech is just one Twins away from sweeping SP.

    I’m not saying any of your info is wrong, but I’m just saying to anyone thinking about running out and buying cards for any of these decks, it may be better to save your money for Triumphant.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t believe that the lost zone gengar will perform well in the 30+3 format. You can’t win on time because you’re not taking prizes. I’d rather poltergeist for 90 and beyond to get knockouts instead of letting my opponent attack for prizes. Fainting spell is also amazing, still.

      That lost removal card or whatever its called should be pretty good, though. The problem I see with it though is that while it could be amazing vs. deck A it’s a dead draw vs. deck B. I don’t know how many I could dedicate to running in a deck. In luxchomp I’d say around 80% of the time DCE gets discarded the turn its played– but I’m sure you could still remove warp/call if you wanted.

      Junk arm is in my opinion the best card in the set. I stress 2 in every deck, even if it is sp.

      Machamp tech+twins is pro, too. Pramawat pretty much established that a 1-1-1 or 1-0-1 machamp line can win you (or almost win you–seen in game 3) the sp matchup.

      I’m pretty reluctant to say SP will get trumped because of its engine. The cyrus engine is so superior to any other decks. I doubt SP being knocked out of the top 3 decks as far as wins/cuts goes– but I guess I shouldn’t make a statement until it happens. I’m just pretty confident even with the new card things won’t change much as far as how often sp will win. My underground article is all about teching out luxchomp–you’d be surprised how much free space a list can have!

      As far as saving your money for triumphant goes–you should anyways. If POP has any sense left in them, the rotation will be to RR-On next year, making all SP bad. If I was a new player I’d get familiar with other decks than sp now to give them a competitive edge for next year.

      • http://www.facebook.com/guy.sargent Guy Elias Sargent IV

        lost world variants/ lost zone gengar is funny in that some people may be completely over-hyping it, but other people are completely overlooking it. It has a TON of tools in it’s disposal coming out in this set or already out, I don’t think 30+3 will be a problem at all. it has incredible speed, and although people claim that it will be too easy to keep pokemon out of your hand, it has amazing tools like spiritiomb LL, hunter, etc to help it along. I guess only time will really tell, but I’m betting this deck will be top tier almost immediately.

        you’re right about lost remover, it’s completely a meta based card I think, which is what makes it tough to decide about. in a small meta you can just decide whether you want to tech against steelix/dialga etc… but in a larger tournament setting like a states or regionals, you have no idea what to expect. still I Think there will be plenty of call/warp/DCE/rescue energies to make it worthwhile.

        Junk arm is very good, and I love it in SP because extra poke turns are amazing. This card will see a lot of play and a lot of interesting uses. in every deck, still I think it may be more beneficial to non-SP decks, but we’ll count this one up as a wash since SP can make use of it too.

        Twins is going to be amazing, but I truly think it outshines in evolution decks, or legends. like I said, it makes getting those 1-0-1 techs out much much easier, but the difference is that luxchomp is usually ahead in prizes most of the game it’s winning. and as much as I love SP, I would plan on being ahead almost the whole time, so I don’t know if I would include twins in an SP list at all.

        but mainly the two cards that I think will really really turn the format towards legends/evolutions and away from SP are hunter and rescue energy.

        The main drawback from luxchomp/blaziken/dialgachomp is that pretty much none of your pokemon can OHKO an evolution. meaning if they can manipulate energies/keep BTS in play, their badly wounded t-tar/steelix/whatever is just a warp energy/switch + hunter away from denying you a prize. and bam he’s right back out while you’re wasting resources.

        another big difference maker will be rescue energy. usually the huge advantage of SP is that once you knock out a stage 2, they may not be able to respond right away, allowing you to keep pecking off prizes as they send up fodder. Now they can just pick up that 1-1-1 machamp line, or 1-1 donphan, or whatever deck they may be playing, and as long as it has a low energy attack (champ, phan, gengar, etc etc), they’ll be right back at it, not giving SP the turn it sometimes needs to reposition itself favorably.

        I know it’s a lot of theory and we don’t know much, but the bottom line is, I’m extremely excited for this next set to come out and change the format a little bit. I’m kind of tired of seeing the same 2 decks at all the top tables.