Hey everybody, and welcome to the newest segment of Battle of Wittz. In this article, I’ll take you guys through my deck-selection process coming into Nationals, my experience overall, and my thoughts on the most important decks to test for Worlds.
Let’s start with my journey toward finding “the right deck for me” a few weeks before the tournament:
The “Secret Deck”
A few weeks back in my last article, I talked about my number one favorite rogue deck, Vileplume variants:
“I can’t get into detail of the cards used in the deck because the player requested I keep things a secret, but all I can say is trainer lock is a LEGIT way to start messing your opponent up. While he included a lot of different interesting cards and techs in his build to tackle the meta, I want to talk about Vileplume as a whole, as well as share my own personal experiments with it at the moment.”
Now, I’ll be perfectly honest. At this point, I only kept the contents of the deck secret out of respect for my local Pokedad Carlos Pero, a.k.a. LosJackal here on Underground (pretty cool that at least 3 out of the top 4 Juniors all have parents representing here!).
By the time I had written the article, we had only tested his Vileplume experiment for around a week, and while my Magneboar getting continuously whooped was a wakeup call, I kept trying to attribute things in my head to luck. I couldn’t get myself to admit Ursaring/Roserade as a good partner to Trainer lock, and decided to go my own route with Jumpluff, which you guys would end up seeing in the last article.
The engine (Vileplume/Sunkern/Yanmega) remained unchanged, but I felt convinced that I needed to improve on his “inferior” build.
