Hey everybody, and welcome to another installment of Battle of Wittz. Since my last article, I’m sure plenty more of you have begun exploring the HS-EPO format to its fullest. At this point you’re probably narrowing your focus on a deck that you want to pilot to Regionals, while still trying to play your best to finish off the current Battle Roads season strong.
If you’re still looking for a deck to play for Regionals, check out my last article, as that was largely my focus there, along with my own personal deck decision process. Today’s article I’ll be focusing on a recap of the constantly evolving metagame, an analysis of my own tournament performance so far, and finally an analysis on the mindset and cards needed to grab the edge in the most popular mirror matches. Here we go!
Battle Roads Metagame
Let me start off by posting my own personal tally of the results on the What Won Battle Roads thread on the PokeGym. The person that decided to host the list has been incompetent on a couple of levels, and I finally get fed up enough to do a re-tally. The original poster is missing dozens of results and has been grouping in some questionable ways, and I think this list should give you guys a much cleaner and more accurate depiction of “what’s winning”:
