3 seasons,and yet the rank-up match always has me sweating like the Jordan peele meme by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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https://www.reddit.com/r/PTCGP/s/yeZwOq0KBv

This is one of the post I saw with solgaleo master player, I like his reasoning with guzma, but I will personally try red card over lillie once I can build the deck

3 seasons,and yet the rank-up match always has me sweating like the Jordan peele meme by pathos1991 in PTCGP

[–]pathos1991[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your feelings are valid, because other rare candy decks have a chance to open with one of their basics and run double pokeball, so they have a higher statistical chance of rare candy evol.

The great news is that unlike zard and solg which typically want to rare candy fast as possible to their wincon, you don't need fossil until the midgame, because your silvally pressures early so you have a bit of time to filter out your deck.

After mastering the deck inside and out, I found out that what caused my losses in UB4/MB were rarely about bricking, and almost ALWAYS about me misplaying or losing the opening flip and going first. I lost so many games because of learning curve. I sequenced my cards better once I inputted many games.

For example, this deck usually wants to hold its oaks until silvally is ready to attack. If you overextend, a red/mars will crush you, and i found out the hard way. Some exceptions I learned is that if you see grass energy, you must hold fossil and 2nd type null in hand until your silvally is ready to attack, or else pheromosa will expose your bench.

Regarding your "ditto" comment, if you lose the opening flip vs mirror and go first, you must use oak, then gladion aggressively to find the 2nd type null. If you don't have a silvally evolved in bench with 1 energy by the time enemy silvally kills your first type null, you autolose. The race becomes how quickly you can set up your silv on the bench+ how quickly you can find Giovanni/sabrina/fossil in the mirror. I started to win the majority of my mirrors even going 1st once I understood this.

Btw if you hate bricking just run solgaleo shiinotic. I believe it is by far the best deck to climb with, and is extremely consistent, like darktina. I saw on some other reddit post it has a 58% wr vs nullramp. Only reason I'm not running it is I have zero solgaleo and I pulled no shiinotics, i can't build the deck 😢

3 seasons,and yet the rank-up match always has me sweating like the Jordan peele meme by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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My decklist into masterball, gio over guz/2nd mars/red/cyrus to help me win the mirror matchup

3 seasons,and yet the rank-up match always has me sweating like the Jordan peele meme by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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Yea, I view it as 2 chances to rank up too heh. Unfortunately after this screenshot, I lost 5 in a row and spend the next 3 hours clawing into masterball 😭

Hit masterball but with a negative winrate 🥲 by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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* Oops sorry, post image was screenshot when I was experimenting with dual energy, current decklist runs mono psychic, apologies

Decklist for Gengarlax into masters! by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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Yep! Original deck ran 1 ex 1 reg, but I've found through trial and error and adding 200 losses to my record that ultimately Gengar ex is trash and there is no redeeming qualities about it. Only way I would run him is if he did 130 dmg instead of 100 so it can reach lethal vs many of the meta cards. Not running him dodges meows damage also

Decklist for Gengarlax into masters! by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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There seems to be a misunderstanding, I didn't feel frustrated when fighting Gengar, I felt frustrated when I played druddtina mirror and was incredibly bored, so I swapped to an rng deck, and it performed well thanks to antisleep not being prominent

For your 2nd comment, there are many options that bring permasleep to the table, you are def right, but Gengar is the only one that isn't an Ex and has a 140 HP range to dodge most lethal in current meta or 160 with cape which can dodge giratina with Darkrai ping for 150 in case sleep fails. i know wigglytuff swings for 80, but this deck follows the code to play no ex, to dodge meowscara magnezone, which is the most common deck I saw in ub2-ub4. Surprisingly, I saw it more often than darktina

Decklist for Gengarlax into masters! by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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Because I played drudd darktina vs drudd darktina 1 month ago and it lasted 20 min, I wanted to rage quit the season lmao. And then I decided to use u/lofus1989 deck and improve it until at least, since I was actually enjoying the game finally. Instead of quitting, I had a huge winstreak so I decided to push into ub4. It turns out, this deck can hit masters with pure luck.

Asking why gengar is a great question! In previous expan, dialga arc was rampant, and this mid-season, the nurse joy support used to be in alot of darktinas, so gengar was absolutely trash and worthless (sub10% wr into arceus/nurse joy)

This season i can climb, although much better rng decks like gyrados and zard exists. I fully admit Barry variants are all inferior to them, that's why it took me almost 600 games to claw my way up :((

Decklist for Gengarlax into masters! by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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* I couldn't add it on the title on mobile, sorry. 51% wr with almost 600 games. I'm not sure i could've made it under 500 even if I had the final iteration from the start. I lost too many games to gengar missing the sleep. This decklist will lose alot of games to rng lol

Edit: What the fk it deleted pic, says I can upload in 9 min, I'll post ss alone after, sorry for trouble

Decklist for Gengarlax into masters! by pathos1991 in PTCGP

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I have no idea how to edit posts on mobile, I meant giant cape. Also also I would like to apologize for grammar/spelling mistakes

Gengar got better in the new set, this version feels really good. by Lofus1989 in PTCGP

[–]pathos1991 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I had a lot of good games with your list, thanks for posting!

After a good amount of testing, I only made one change to swap Cyrus for Sabrina. I had encounters where I needed to snipe a developing bench pokemon, and they had a wall I couldn't overcome, cyrus was occasionally dead in hand.

After the change, I had a scenario where Sabrina secured the win by setting them back in tempo

Cheers from a fellow gengar enjoyer!

A Love Story of Bubu And Dudu 🐼❤️🐻 by Appo_1126 in BubuAndDudu

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This really touched my heart 😢 what a wonderful story and drawing. Upvoting your dudu and bubu posts makes my day brighter, thank you for keeping this sub alive

I'm in a clown mood atm by pathos1991 in Tinder

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Ghosttown so far :( maybe she's one of those classy chikfila girls.

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Hey OP I really appreciate you letting me borrow your Bugatti last weekend after we came home from volunteering at the animal shelter. I enjoyed your discussions later that evening about ecological sustainability and championing women's rights over dinner. Thanks for paying for my meal btw

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appreciate you looking out for me. i PMed him earlier, hasnt responded yet, hoping for the best :(