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#Lightning yellow buy ultraball full#

The plan is very straightforward: do your best to achieve Turn 1 Full Blitz to power up another Pikachu & Zekrom- GX, and hope those two can carry you through the game. With the sole focus on achieving Turn 1 Full Blitz, this deck fits the one-dimensional glove just like the last one. Turbo Pikachu & Zekrom- GXĪnother of the good but not quite top Lightning decks, in my opinion, are the pure turbo Pikachu & Zekrom- GX decks. ****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ****** The only card that makes this deck stand out from the rest is Professor Kukui, which allows the deck to reach a slightly higher damage threshold on some turns, but the one-dimensionality of the deck is what puts it in the lowest spot for me in the Lightning decks rankings. I can see how that might’ve caught some people off guard in Oceania, but two months into the Team Up set, we should all be expecting and possibly playing around such a play. The secondary one is to get a big hit “out of the blue” with the combination of Tapu Koko p’s Dance of the Ancients Ability, along with Tapu Koko- GX’s Aero Trail and Tapu Thunder- GX.The primary one, to attack with Zapdos every turn and supplement the “low” damage output with Shrine of Punishment, Electropowers, and Choice Bands.

The deck is the most straightforward and predictable out of them all as it only has two game plans: We saw this iteration of the deck take down the whole Oceania event, piloted by Isaiah Williams. Out of the six versions I listed in the beginning of the article, these are, in ascending order from weakest to strongest, my preferred choices: 6. As always, any tournament run can be very easily defined by the matchups you face during the day, and if it’s a lot of mirrors then it can ultimately come down to luck. So which of the Lightning decks should you choose for your upcoming League Cup or for Denver? I honestly don’t think there is a right or wrong answer here. Without it, I genuinely doubt Lightning would have such variety as it does at the moment. You could even argue at this point that Zapdos/Jirachi is what is winning and placing at these big tournaments, with added spice of either Jolteon- GX or Pikachu & Zekrom- GX as added support, but these are mainly viable thanks to Tapu Koko p and its insane Ability Dance of the Ancients. The card advantage that Jirachi provides is insane, and its “sleeping” drawback isn’t even one when you have cards like Escape Board and Switch which coincidentally synergize with one of the best attackers in the game: Zapdos. This card is so good that I’m of the idea that either you play it yourself, or you must be actively trying to counter it, by playing Absol TEU (soft counter) or Alolan Muk SUM (hard counter). Which Lightning deck is the best? I think that is still up in the air, but all of them have something in common: Jirachi with Stellar Wish. No deck is invincible of course, but Lightning decks have had the biggest presence in the eight Standard tournaments since Team Up was released, winning six of them in the process.

There are other archetypes that are doing just as well so far, and I would deem those Tier 1 decks as well, but the sheer number of Lightning-type decks present in the Top 8 of all the recent Standard tournaments seem to confirm that Lightning is on a tier of its own. With the myriad of support cards that there are right now for Lightning decks, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Two of these were won by Lightning decks (PikaRom/Zapdos in El Salvador and Jolteon/Zapdos in Bolzano) and the other one was won by Zoroark/Lycanroc- GX ( in Fortaleza). Last weekend was especially busy, with two SPEs and a Regional taking place. If you’ve been following my journey on social media, you’ll know that since Collinsville I’ve been favoring the “half-and-half” PikaRom/Zapdos deck and have successfully collected 450 Championship Points in about a month’s time by placing Top 4 at Collinsville, 1st and 2nd at Cups, double 1st at Challenges, and 1st-finally securing an SPE win-in El Salvador this past weekend! Since the set’s release, we’ve seen Lightning dominate in different forms, all of which seem to be extremely viable and potent in their own way: It also meant the metagame has been a lot more focused and defined than before, as it all revolves around one type: Lightning.

If there’s one thing that can be said about the metagame it’s that Team Up had a tremendous impact, arguably bringing two or three decks to the top tier immediately.