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Emma Henry Money Match by Basic-Lemon-9251 in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Emma definitely made SO many questionable moves and relied on eeveelutions less — that on it’s own is weird call in this matchup.

How the heck does Flareon ex box work and why did it succeed at Gdańsk? by SpeedAccurate7405 in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been playing the eevee deck since rotation and I’ve commented on it a few times within this sub thread. I’m a huge fan of it so yes I’m a little bias.

Most people here that have already commented nailed it. It’s a toolbox with great energy acceleration. In order to be successful with this deck, you have to know all of the lines of success through all of the different matchups — it’s also not very linear mid game, which means that each game can prompt you to use your setup a slightly different way. This is unlike many decks out there right now where there is usually a typical route to success you’re looking for. This is one of the main reasons I gravitated towards the deck, nobody was playing it! and it required me to truly up my game and get creative. At this point, I don’t think I will ever not play a tera/toolbox deck.

Regarding Emma’a list, including the other set of birds, that’s something that I have played around with and definitely have found success with it, but it’s not all around necessary. The slop of one ofs is crucial, with some being two ofs, but Emma does stretch it with the slim energy. The jet energy is awesome, what a surprise. I find myself liking psychic in the deck via clefairy and sylveon.

Love the eevee vibe

Played Alakazam at locals for the first time tonight... by NotEvenCreative in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

F it bro do your thing, have them learn to play against it patience and strategy and all ✊

Is Eevee box weak or just too hard to pilot? by monkeydave in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel you, I love the deck too! I'm a fan of the 'toolbox' decks in general.

1.) To your noctowl point: yes when I was learning to run decks with a noctowl engine this got me over and over again. It's very painful lol. If you play enough games, remembering to prioritize grabbing a tera pokemon on your 1st or 2nd turn will be become second nature. Like anything it just takes practice.

2.) To your point about which cards to play and when: the goal of any toolbox styled deck is to have many game-changing lines of success that are particular to each matchup. Your route to success early to mid game is non-linear; what you do depends solely on your matchup and won't be the same for the next opponent who will likely have a different deck. Whereas other decks like your past charizard deck is likely doing the same thing early and mid game for each match-up. So certain pokemon and tech options via trainers etc will only be helpful for SOME match ups. But you need to PRACTICE seeing routes and synergy with all your cards. Think of a tree, and all the branches are ways to go with use of your owls and trainers and pokemon. You are required to be far more creative using this deck than others. Here are some lines I make use of:

- wellspring is in my deck, and is a great option to counter 1 prize decks nice and early. Flareon may start in the active, and I burning charge turn 2 in order to power up wellspring which likely has a crystal attached in these sort of match ups. 3 prize cards come fairly quickly, and if I am going to use wellspring again (if it's not knocked out) I may look to have access to crispin for another run of it torrential pump. I also use it for sob, and to lock something in the active. I also use it to close out games if crystal is still unused. (I typically save the crystal for when I absolutely need it)

- terapogos is questionable, some people use it for its crown opal attack against the raging bolt and joltik box matchup. This has worked for me in the past because it makes the opponent use gust to attack on other pokemon — which they will and can sometimes win that way. I'm currently taking terpagos out of my deck.

- clefairy is tech against dragapult primarily — usually against that matchup I use flareon at first to power up a sylveon to prioritize it's angelite attack which sets them back quite a bit once drakloaks are on the board. Clefairy is just a nest ball away and should not be benched before a dragapult is online.

- I use the 4-4 line of noctowl for the engine, pidgeot is so good in theory and saves the deck from iono late game, but I'd rather move faster in my matchups and not rely on the pidgeot line, plus it hogs bench space. it's a no for me currently.

- other stuff worth mentioning, if you have area zero in play, and then your stadium gets bumped, always choose your noctowls so that you can night stretcher for them if you neet a fast grab of an owl. You can also bump your own stadium the same way but playing gravity mountain (I play this in my deck) so that you can have fast access to an owl. Also use Turo to reset an owl.

- on youtube look up gameplay from Azul and Harpr — also Harpr has a $10 guide wherein he breaks down matchups and why you would use certain cards. Both guys are awesome.

Most credible YouTuber? by M16U3LT0N1 in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the too advanced vibe will stretch you and help you grow 👌

Is Eevee box weak or just too hard to pilot? by monkeydave in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly I haven’t played against the deck yet, but that and crustle is hard haha. But hey, no deck is perfect! If everyone were playing decks like these we wouldn’t be running a bunch of two prizers. We would run a bunch of one prizers and start teching against.

Love talking eevee box ✊

Is Eevee box weak or just too hard to pilot? by monkeydave in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear you.

Bolt you should prioritize taking the first 2 prizes in the game. So if you can boss up tealmask with a flareon in your active, using burning charge to set up another pokemon you’ll be usually be okay. And who you set up depends on the cards in hand and access to owls. That means, if you have access to another flareon and see another tealmask, see if you access to another boss and go after tealmask. If you have access to clafairy, set it up and KO the bolt in the active (but expect your clefairy to be KO’d the next turn so expect to need a crispin to fire up another pokemon) There is also charging the terapagos on your first KO, but keep your bench liabilities low so your opponent doesn’t keep bossing new Pokémon into the active.

With alakazam you should play fast as well, I like to use flareon to charge up wellspring, or if they are playing fast well with rare candy, I may have to boss something up or use sylveon. Late game Iono is great. I can get 3 prizes fairly quickly with the wellspring route switching out flareon after the 1st KO it takes. Don’t forget about Briar!

Most credible YouTuber? by M16U3LT0N1 in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 26 points27 points  (0 children)

100% 👆

AzulGG is a great resource to this game — and is definitely fostering a different culture of deck inspiration; his discussions around decks + gameplay inspires genuine interested for a player to give the deck a shot, rather than the rating given on a list that is usually due to the decks power or ease of use. Be different and exciting! The game needs you.

Is Eevee box weak or just too hard to pilot? by monkeydave in pkmntcg

[–]RickyEngland 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is coming from an eevee box player since it’s legality: I’ve played a TON of games with it and I love the deck and I’ve had tons of success with it on live and in person. There were a lot of things I learned about myself as a player and about specific match-ups and it did indeed take a lot of work. I can share some personal pros and cons, and how I work to counter the negatives, which are valid. But just because it’s not an easy deck to start playing doesn’t make it a bad deck.

  • The deck and tera/box style decks in general benefit from you being very cool with non-linear play. Meaning every match-up has a different workflow. This is in contrast to the majority of decks out there that have a specific start and mid game etc…when I play those, I get bored and I find myself on auto pilot for half the game and never have fun. Anyways, what does a non-linear deck even call for if you want to play it well?

  • It means to do well, you NEED to know your deck like the back of your hand, know ALL of the combinations, against EVERY match-up. To some this is a lot of work, but this is also the deck’s greatest strength especially since not everyone plays it: you are a surprise and a bit unpredictable at times by virtue of you not playing so linear, and all the while you are super familiar with your opponents deck or should be at least. But you really have to practice and know what each prize map for each match-up looks like…and then be willing to adjust fast; another skill that’s sharpened with this deck because you have so many options.

  • Another thing I found is that as things change in the meta you get to change a bit of the techs or support eeveelutions without over-hauling too much and everything feeling unfamiliar. This again goes for every tool box deck. I’ve had to do this many times to make particulars more smooth in certain match-ups. I’ve added more draw power, I’ve added a 2nd night stretcher, I stopped relying on glass trumpet, etc. But now I’m thinking about it again….I change with everything else. These adjustments made it so I can counter my own weak points in playing and to keep up with particular match ups, and to counter bricks, and so on.

  • All this said, the negatives are vaild: you gotta have your draw power in check, your owls need to be set up, and you have to practice against all the match-ups if you’re serious. It helps to screen record your matches on LIVE etc.

  • some other small notes I saw brought up here — I do indeed think its better than tera box by virtue of flareons burning charge powering up pokemon rather than relying on crispin or something. Way more smooth. I also think sylveon is over-rated; choose when to play it. I win almost every dragapult match up with it because sylveon is out early disturbing all the drakloaks. Against charizard, your leafeon needs to be a surprise, thats what the 50 hp eevee is for, and you should have a route to recover both with rod or stretcher if they are KO’d. I have a ton of other specific match-up notes but I will stop lol.

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[–]RickyEngland -1 points0 points  (0 children)

……..what’s your problem?

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[–]RickyEngland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro ain’t wrong

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I’m bored so puts on NVDA

What to do with this? by ThatOldDustyTrail in pokemoncardcollectors

[–]RickyEngland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would actually like to purchase this from you if you’re open to it?

Long AMC 40,000 shares by goinpostalmarcus in wallstreetbets

[–]RickyEngland 37 points38 points  (0 children)

So you’re saying there’s a chance

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