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Crobat Poison!

Captain Gizmo

Captain Gizmo

Kara Zor-El
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    I'm trying to make a Poison deck and my main card would be Crobat up with Virbank City Gym to keep poisoning them. Basically it's a poison deck.
    I find it to be kinda slow, is a Crobat deck good?

    Pokemon:
    1x Giratina - Plasma Storm 62/135
    2x Crobat - Plasma Storm 55/135
    2x Golbat - Plasma Storm 54/135
    1x Shedinja - Dragons Exalted 48/124
    2x Koffing - Plasma Storm 56/135
    1x Mewtwo EX - BW45 Promo
    3x Zubat -(2x Plasma Storm 52/135 & 1x Plasma Storm 53/135)
    2x Nincada - Dragons Exalted 10/124
    2x Weezing - Plasma Storm 58/135

    Trainers:
    2x Switch
    2x Potion
    1x Computer Search
    3x Virbank City Gym
    1x Ultra Ball
    2x Team Plasma Grunt
    1x Level Ball
    2x Energy Search
    2x Pokemon Communication
    2x Ether
    1x Bill
    2x Escape Rope
    4x Hypnotoxic Laser
    2x Colress
    1x Professor Juniper

    Energy:
    2x Plasma Energy
    12x Psychic Energy
    2x Grass Energy



    So I know the Grass energy are pretty useless. Today I just got some cards that I replaced my grass Pokemon with, so now my deck doesn't have grass energy using Pokemon.I'm thinking about replacing them with Psychic, should I?

    And I'm basing my deck around a Poison deck, please help me in that? :)

    Edit: So I added in a few cards yesterday, so I think my deck is getting better by the day.
     
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    Question. Whats the plasma energy for? Also are you playing a modified deck? If so i dont think Bill is a legal card.

    Also im currently trying to put together a crobat deck as well. My pokemon breakdown is:
    3-1-3 Crobat
    3-1-3 Scolipede
    2x Giratina
    1x Mr. Mine
    1x Mewtwo EX

    Though i would plan on running Rare Candies. Other things i kinda wanted to run is Toxicroak or Muks.

    Idk what the energy counts on the other pokemon in terms of colorless. But i think you could run a few double colorless and the rest psychic energy. You should also put in more drawing cards like Juniper or w/e, to allow you to refresh your hand more. Probably the team plasma grunts come out and junipers, N, or Colress go in.

    But thats all my opinion.
     
    oOkay thanks, any opinion is highly welcomed. I added those Plasma energies because I couldn't find extra Psychic energies =/
    I thought Bill was a legal card... Guess I'll have to get myself a Cheren for that.
    How do you speed up the process of evolving your Pokemon and getting energies for it?
     
    Bill hasn't been legal since last August. I'm not sure why PokeGym hasn't fixed the search function on their Researching Tower that still pulls HGSS-era cards for their Modified page.

    Rare Candy is your friend in a Stage 2 deck.

    Also, in a deck with no "natural" (ie - Ability-based) energy acceleration, Ether and Pokedex in combination could work as a semi-functional energy acceleration, along with Skyla to pull the missing one you need from the combo when you're trying to energy accelerate.

    I'd opt to partner it with Garbodor from Dark Explorers/Plasma Freeze (it's a secret rare in Plasma Freeze, while just a normal rare in Dark Explorers) as a means to attempt to stall and to wall-out Keldeo EXs from using Rush In when you're getting close to a KO.
     
    so Crobat & Garbodor, rigt? Adding Venipede/Scolipede/Whirlepede would be tto slow for the deck?
    How many energies should the deck have?
     
    I ended up sort of finishing my deck with what i planned. It works pretty well. I usually end up having to throw a few basics under the bus. But once a Scolipede or Crobat get going, they take down entire teams on their own.

    Crobat does, as you know, 40 damage + 40 between turns + 20 if you manage to have virbank gym out. So basically does 100 damage and if they cant switch out, it will hit 160 by them time its your turn again. Knocking out most things. Plus its ability is night sight. This allows you to draw an extra card if you deem it so.

    Giratina makes a good addition to a crobat deck, since crobat has no retreat cost. So if they are poisoned by crobat and you dont want to risk it from taking a hit from something on the bench. You can toss out giratina and with Hex, it can do 50 + 50 if they have a status effect. Or just plain 90 and mill one of their cards for 1 energy more. Giratina is also team plasma, making it immune to frozen city.

    Scolipede has poison point. So if they attack it, they get poisoned. Its attack is venoshock, which is 80+40 if they are poisoned. With the additional poison damage of 10 + 20 with virbank. If they cant switch out thats an additional 30 poison damage, making it like 180 damage before its your turn again.

    Im still looking for a few more basics to toss in, since i only plan to run 3-1-2 crobat and 3-2-2 scoliped, with 2 giratina. Mewtwo is a pretty good EX if you feel the need for one as it can murder things like Keldeo that just laugh at poison decks. Mr. Mime can protect the bench since you have you carry frail Zubats. Sigliphs are also nice if you have trouble with EXs, as it can be damaged by them. Toxicroak with revenge is also nice, but with two 3-step pokemon in the deck, its probably not a good idea to try and add a 2 step as well. Of course you can also add keldeo into this deck, since its ability is really OP, and having a strong counter to fire is always nice.

    As for energy, i have 13 psychic energy with 3 double colorless. The DCE work on all of the pokemon that i propose for this deck, so maybe even 12-4 would be better.
     
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    So I took all of your advices and tuned up my deck. So here it is as of now. I still have some main cards to put in it.


    Pokemon:

    2x Nincada Dragons Exalted 10/124
    1x Giratina Plasma Storm 62/135
    Golbat Plasma Storm 54/135
    2x Mr. Mime Plasma Freeze 47/116
    2x Crobat Plasma Storm 55/135
    3x Zubat Plasma Storm 53/135
    1x Mewtwo EX B&W Promo

    Trainers:
    1x Team Plasma Ball
    2x Ether
    1x Professor Juniper
    1x Level Ball
    2x Switch
    2x Colress
    2x Energy Search
    4x Hypnotoxic Laser
    1x Colress Machine
    2x Potion
    1x Computer Search
    2x Escape Rope
    2x Cheren
    3x Virbank City Gym
    1x Great Ball
    2x Pokemon Communication
    1x Ultra Ball

    Energy:
    15x Psychic
    2x Plasma Energy
     
    So i tried putting in Garbadors into the deck and it seems to compliment the deck pretty well. Though i had to take out Scolipede to do it. The trubish that could pull out cards from the discard and put in on the top of your deck, and the other one that could pull out tool cards from the deck are helpful. Not to mention the garbadors with Biosmog that poison and coin flip for energy discard is nice. Plus the garbador that prevents abilities as long as it has a tool card can also be helpful against keldeo decks, though it prevents Crobats night sight ability...

    Anyway, i'm gonna test it at league tomorrow and if it does well i will give you the breakdown.
     
    Again, thanks a lot guys for taking your time and helping me out with my deck.

    I'm debating if I should replace my 3 Ultra Balls with something like Level Balls and Team Plasma Ball to get my Pokemon. Since those get my Pokemon ready and I don't need to discard anything from my hand. But if I'm going to play Garbador, I might play like 1 or 2. Depending on how Profen see the gameplay with it tomorrow.
     
    So i played about 17 matches. And my deck did fairly well considering it only has Mewtwo EX in it and i played against tons of EX based decks. Roughly like 12/5 was my win/loss ratio. Though i had a few matches with just zubat on first turn or running into no energy for 8 turns.

    Though i did find that this deck is terrible in 4 player double battles. Its too slow and it didnt end up doing anything.

    As for the deck itself, While it still needs some work and maybe another crobat.

    Pokemon: 17 (11 Basics)
    2x Giratina PS
    1x Mewtwo EX
    3-1-2 Crobat PS (2 Spiral Drain and 1 Free Flight)
    1x Trubbish NV (Garbage Collect)
    1x Garbador DRX (Garbotoxin)
    2-2 Garbador PS (Biosmog)
    1x Mr Mime PF
    1x Sigilyph DRX (Though i added it in after league and took out a zubat)

    Supporters: 8
    2x Skyla
    1x N
    1x Colress (Would rather change it for N or Juniper though)
    3x Juniper
    1x Cilan

    Trainers: 19
    1x Pokemon Communication
    3x Great Balls
    2x Virbank City Gym
    1x Float Stone
    1x Rescue Scarf
    3x Rare Candy
    4x Hypnotoxic Laser
    1x Tool Scrapper
    1x Superior Energy Retrieval
    1x Switch
    1x Dowsing Machine (Ace Spec, though i might switch for comp search)

    Energy: 16
    3x Double Colorless
    13x Psychic

    Overall the plan of this deck is to assemble crobats as soon as possible for the night sight extra draws as well as easy 80 damage without Virbank, and either force a switch or get a knock out next turn. Giratina is there to deal with other psychic pokemon as well as destroy the opponents hand with its shadow claw. Mewtwo is well mewtwo. Mr Mime protects your bench against the likes of articuno EX, Landorous EX, and Darkrai EX to name a few. Sigilyph blocks all EX attacks and can smash things that stack energy, like Keldeo. Garbador with biosmog both poisons as well as discards precious plasma or double colorless energy with a coin flip. The garbotoxin garbador uses rescue scarf or float stone to cancel all abilities and can be stripped of it if desired with tool scrapper.

    I find great balls to be more helpful than level balls or plasma balls. They may not be able to grab what you want when you want it. Though it can pick up any pokemon from the top 7 cards of your deck, which as i found out at league, is really helpful and often got me something. Running as many junipers, its nice to be able to pull out stuff from my discard using trubbish or dowsing machine mid to late game. Though computer search is more helpful early to mid game. I like to carry at least 1 switch incase something gets stranded or paralyzed. Energy Retrieval is really useful, though hard to fit into my deck, so i only added one superior one just in case.

    Interesting things I realized while running night sight is that it really allows you to work/play around with your supporters. Being able to draw 2 extra cards to see if you really need to juniper a precious hand or drawing after juniper to pick up a few extra cards can be game changing. It could also work well with Pokedex as you can choose what cards from the top 5 of your deck to draw.

    Note that this is in no way a professional deck, and it does have some kinks to work out, like needing another crobat. Though it can perform well against decks that heavily rely on abilities, EXs, or large retreat costs.
     
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    I have been wondering that. Mewtwo never really helps all that much and his death is 2 prizes. But it is nice to have something that can attack with 2 double colorless energy, while most of the rest needs 1 psychic 2 colorless or something along those lines.
     
    Thanks a lot Profen. I'll make the deck you listed. It's hella lot better than the one I got now. But about the Trubbish, aren't they gonna cycle soon? And how about adding a Deoxys-EX to the deck so my Pokemon could have extra attack power?
     
    Yeah most likely. Though I lack deoxys and i am not buying one. That and the only problem with that is i would need to run plasma energy as well to make full of his attack. Which would probably mean at least 2 plasma energy and probably 1 colress machine. Though it could act as a psuedo-energy acceleration, but it would require me to take out a cards, probably Cilan and 2 psychic energy. Which might hurt this deck more than help it. Idk.

    Though if you run Garbador with garbotoxin. You have to be careful how you use it. As it gets rid of all abilities. This include Sigilyph, Deoxys, Mr. Mime, and Crobat's Abilities. All of which can be vital at any point in time. So its good to have a tool scrapper (or some way to grab one) in hand when you put one on Garbador.
     
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