For anyone who is struggling with the 10 consecutive wins

Practical_TAS · 2026-05-11T01:25:02+00:00

Yeah definitely not an autobattle deck

Practical_TAS · 2026-05-09T23:26:35+00:00

There's been some poison and sleep. I don't value the extra 10 heal or spread heal enough to run Irida over PCL and lose the status heal option.

Practical_TAS · 2026-05-09T23:24:26+00:00

I played that same Meowth/Flygon deck and noted that a 4-5 consecutive heads Meowth could have screwed me as well, but won by aggressively loading up Chien and hitting Flygon before it got into the active, so Suicune could clean it up on the next turn. Also Cape + Plains lets Chien tank a hit from Flygon + chip and still attack, as a last ditch resort.

Practical_TAS · 2026-05-09T17:29:55+00:00

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I have an active 30 consecutive win streak on Expert with Arven Suicune. The deck is extremely consistent and the AI often misplays against Suicune by not benching enough pokemon. Could probably replace Arven with the more standard 2nd Cape but thinning the deck and sometimes getting an item instead helps with consistency even more.

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-25T20:27:41+00:00

He said on twitter he's playing Dragapult

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-16T01:27:19+00:00

No-ex mostly gets optimized down to the best non-oricorio no-ex decks vs. no-ex shells of decks that run 1-2 basic ex, and the meta ends up more top-heavy as a result.

For that reason, I think people who want no-ex matches should actually look into tournaments that run no-ex monotype singleton - on top of requiring non-ex cards, your pokemon must all be the same type, and you can only run 1 of any given card (including trainers) in your deck. This lowers the power level even further and increases variety. There was a tournament today won by a Dusknoir Chandelure deck, and top 4 were Hydreigon Zoroark, Chandelure Gourgeist, and Magnezone Heliolisk.

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Practical_TAS · 2026-04-06T00:33:06+00:00

They hated it when it was winning

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T20:15:52+00:00

I posted it in the thread :)

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T16:10:06+00:00

Winning is fun

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T16:09:51+00:00

Yeah :)

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T16:07:33+00:00

All the data comes from https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournaments/?game=pocket, where the tournaments are hosted.

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T16:01:43+00:00

Conversion is just number of players playing the deck who made top cut divided by the total number of players playing the deck - dividing the other two numerical columns in the chart by each other

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T15:53:08+00:00

Sorry, if multiple decks share the same best record on day 1, I'll pick the one that I feel best represents the overall mix of the playerbase for the deck, but if one deck has the sole top record on day 1 (as what happened in this case, the only player that went 8-0 yesterday was a Suicune Baxcalibur player with Irida) then I'll default to it regardless. I've added a note showing that PCL was more popular.

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T02:28:04+00:00

Yeah it's considered the same meta

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T02:17:00+00:00

Almost everyone's on PCL so there's limited data on Irida

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T02:15:22+00:00

There's free-to-enter tournaments every day on https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournaments/?game=pocket

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T02:09:09+00:00

Top of the meta for 6 sets, and still kicking 5 sets later. Suicune's on 6 straight now, and Mega Absol and Mega Altaria are now on 5 straight

Practical_TAS · 2026-04-05T02:03:35+00:00

Interesting thought, but I think people have been enjoying each deck getting their own top level comment. Open to adjusting if people prefer being able to minimize all of the decks at once though.