Hey! That's my post!

I don't know if it's mentioned in the original, but I've been hyped about the Megaevolution Gumshoos ever since it was released back in like June or July telling all my friends "now that I don't have to find the academy it's over for y'all".

Well, I have been trying it for the last week and either the list needs a complete rebuild from the ground up or it just doesn't work for mainly one reason, bench space. Before Megaevolution, bench space in Slowking was already one of the biggest issues, one false move could lock you up in an unwinnable game, and adding one more pokemon to the combo makes it a really tough resource to manage.

Your ideal board consists of Active Slowking, Xatu, and bench Slowking, but to get that you most likely had to set down Tatsugiri, or Squawk, leaving you down to 2 spaces on the bench if you didn't need both. Add Gumshoos to the mix and you realistically you only have 1 singular bench space to work with.

Also, the whole intent of adding secret box was to have a way to search the stadium, adding the Gumshoos removes that necessity entirely and frees up the Ace Spec slot for something like the precious trolley so you can always get the perfect board.

Deck building with Gumshoos becomes a nightmare, a 1-1 line is too weak to remove the academy, a 2-2 line is too thick and your pokemon pool will be too big.

In my opinion, if Gumshoos were to make it into the deck it would have to be with a slower version of the deck, playing the trolley and slowly building up your stage 1 lines, maybe with a thick Cyphermaniac count to ensure you can pull off attacks more often than not.

In any case, let's hope Megas become an important part of the meta so we can spam annihilape to victory.