With the Battle Road season starting up in the middle of September, I made it a priority to head out and attend one in the first weekend to both get some good experience with the new format, and in order to win one of the nifty new Victory Medal promos. I have an admitted soft spot for Typhlosion, so this card was a must win for me.
I knew going into the tournament that I felt the best decks were Vileplume Gengar, LuxChomp, and DialgaChomp. I knew to expect a lot of SP decks, and some Gengar due to their popularity alone. Being the first tournaments of the new format, I expected to see a lot of untuned, experimental decks, and as a result, I wanted to run a deck that I felt was going to be the most flexible and capable of beating a variety of threats.
That deck, in my eyes, is DialgaChomp. In addition to that, I felt that I had a solid amount of experience using the deck, seeing how I had used it during the City Championships the prior season, and I had been testing it as one of my Worlds options only a few months prior. I wound up throwing this wonderful little list together. I’ll address some of the more interesting or unusual choices in the list below:
