Surgeon General’s Warning: This is possibly the longest article you’ve ever read. If you have somewhere to be in the next half hour, you might not want to start reading. You might need to print the article out so that you can put a bookmark on the page you left off. If you’re hungry, you might want to prepare a snack and set aside some time for this one. Have fun! :)
Preface:
While this is a Luxchomp article, it contains a ton of information that can be applied to any player when they prepare to build a deck. Even if you never intend on playing SP in your life, there is a ton to be learned. I hope you enjoy the article and learn something new from it.
Luxchomp wins the most. Luxchomp top cuts the most. Last year, decks playing Luxray GL LV.X and Garchomp C LV.X won the most Battle Roads, Cities, States, Regionals, and Nationals. Luxchomp won Worlds, too. If you make a deck, it better have some way to answer to Luxchomp. Luxchomp, Luxchomp, Luxchomp. If you aren’t getting tired, or at least bored of Luxchomp, then I envy you.
For the longest time, I tried simply ignoring Luxchomp. I never played the deck once last year, and did all I could to ignore it. I played FlyChamp at MO States last year and ended up losing to Cursegars and Gardevoirs. I ran Cursegar at IL states and I ended up losing to Luxchomp. Come Regionals I mastered Sablock and ran it for the majority of the season – and I never lost to a single SP deck again.
And even then, I still thought Luxchomp was a better deck. I owned 2 Luxray GL Level Xs at the time, and they were going for 60$ each (they go for 75$+ now). So, if Luxchomp was so good, why didn’t I ever play it?
It’s a really, really hard deck to use correctly. You have to play every single matchup differently, and the mirror match is a nightmare. I tested Luxchomp night after night before Nationals and I couldn’t get my list right. I lacked the experience that many SP players had gathered over the years, and because I kept trying to avoid SP, I couldn’t ever wrap my head around deck building and complicated situations.
