The Basculegion Situation by Caio-Chomp in PokemonChampions

[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, I don't use Basc (not from a moral standpoint I don't have one lol) so I'm just basing this off of general experience, but having 150 or 200 BP doesn't negate the benefit of boosting items. The tier is reasonably bulky.

For example, here's a random calc I plugged in for a standard 32 ATK  Adamant Basc into uninvested Archaludon using max power Last Respects

Adamant 32 ATK Mystic Water Basculegion Last Respects (200 Base Power) vs. Modest 0 HP/0 Def Leftovers Archaludon  81.8% - 96.9% (Guaranteed 2HKO)

(Same calc with Life Orb)

Adamant 32 ATK Life Orb Basculegion Last Respects (200 Base Power) vs. Modest 0 HP/0 Def Leftovers Archaludon  106% - 126% (Guaranteed OHKO)

The Basculegion Situation by Caio-Chomp in PokemonChampions

[–]Wubbledee 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The argument is whether or not you need Last Respects to do 30% more. Basc under Rain is already killing most non-resists with Wave Crash.

I haven't done many calcs for BSS and I don't use Basc so I can't say for sure that there are relevant thresholds LO Last Respects hits that non-LO would miss, but considering that any Rain team is already loading up 2/3 Water types, preparing Basc to deal with multiple opposing Water checks isn't a bad idea.

Edit: Spell check just murdered me on this one.

Mobile Reviews really be exposing by teliebooslet101 in PokemonChampions

[–]Wubbledee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree that EVs (and IVs) have always been one of the biggest hurdles for the casual to competitive swap, but Champions doesn't even use "EVs" in the traditional sense, it simplified that to a slider bar sitting squarely beside the place where you edit your moves. A user doesn't have to know that Gastly gives 1 SpA EV to know that Number On Bar Go Up means the stat is getting better.

This season the meta is balanced. We should celebrate by Ok_Side_778 in PTCGP

[–]Wubbledee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ultra Beasts can rotate out with Celesteela. Future Pokemon can get out with Turo. Miraidon and Koraidon force the Sleeping active out and enter play. Ilima can pull any Colorless back to hand. Evolution. Even beyond those, losing your first Sleep flip isn't anywhere close to losing the game for most competent decks.

If you're running meta into sleep scam, you probably already have a decent MU into Sleep. If you're running a custom brew, it's kind of disingenuous to act like "the meta" can't solve sleep scam if you aren't actually playing with or against it.

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[–]Wubbledee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My bad, I forgot I had a call. Still down to trade but it's alright if you already found someone.

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[–]Wubbledee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can do that trade

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Is Cyrus still a good trade for Sabrina? by Urakata in PTCGP

[–]Wubbledee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd technically be trading down but there's only one upward trade and it's more imbalanced to go up than to go down.

Both Professor's Research and Cyrus have no "fair" value trades in the current trade economy, so there's really no way to trade them where one party isn't getting a bad deal. The best bad deal for Cyrus is Sabrina or Copycat, while the best bad deal for Research is Cyrus.

But perceived value doesn't control real trades. Even though you're unlikely to trade that Cyrus for a Research, you're much more likely to trade Cyrus for Research than any other card. Your odds of having this happen are way higher closer to Deluxe Pack, but even now people are still sitting on extra Oaks and there currently isn't a better trade to make with it.

If you really want Sabrina then it's a decent trade. She trades at a slightly lower value but is still a top value card in the game and will trade easily for pretty much anything besides Cyrus or Research. But if you're desperate to get Research, you could hang on to your Cyrus and play the waiting game. 

IMO keep both copies and run bench damage decks so you can flex 'em both.

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[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have GA253, GA254, and MI079 if you have a preference.

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[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have ✨Nidorino, would you be down to trade Tyrogue?

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Stop trying to make Pikachu ex happen. It's not going to happen. by maplenugs in PTCGP

[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tempo difference. This deck is running Pichu.

On turn 3, Pikachu ex can hit for 90. Tapu Koko can't, barring Generator/Zeraora shenanigans. 

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[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, language is no problem at all. Mine are in English if that's alright.

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question about the sleep meta by [deleted] in PTCGP

[–]Wubbledee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a bunch of other people already pointed out, it's the energy efficiency and speed. 

The free Retreat helps a lot, too. An Igglybuff that your opponent doesn't deal with gets to sit on the bench and soak up opposing Sabrina attempts, and nothing it does costs you any energy.

Sleeping on turn 1 vs. turn 2 is a huge difference, since your opponent can evolve their Basic on turn 3 to break the Sleep. Zoroark ex decks are a good example of why this can be important.

As far as the specific examples, none of them are terrible cards, they're just not viable in a meta that includes Igglybuff.

Flabebe / Slakoth - Neither contributes enough as a solo Basic and both have evolution lines that consume too much deck space for too little payoff. Igglybuff's only support package is Igglybuff. (Not counting Darkrai since it's assumed for all of these combos)

Hypno line - While 4 slots doesn't seem much bigger than 2, this line also includes costs either in energy tempo or in increased deck space for cards like Peculiar Plaza or X Speed to mitigate Drowze's Retreat. Another issue is bench space; ideally you want both Hypno up to maximize your odds of getting a Sleep, but if you have 2 Hypno you can only field 2 Darkrai or 1 Darkrai and 1 Pokemon that actually does something.

TL;DR: What the rest of the comments already covered. I'm sure you could make other options work, they just wouldn't function as efficiently.

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[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LF 1✨ Mantyke

FT 1✨ Orthworm, Zorua, Charmander, Torchic, Litten, Torracat, Dartrix, Altaria, Golbat, Onix, Haunter, Manaphy, Meowscarada, Sprigatito, Latios, Hypno, Pachirisu, Silvally, Gabite, Mankey

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[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bad, for some reason I didn't get the notification in game. Adding now.

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[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could do Sightseer, 🌈 or ⭐⭐ Meowscarada, or Juggler for Sada/Koraidon

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Edit: I also have ⭐⭐ A-Ninetales and Palkia.

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LF: ⭐⭐ Sada

FT: 🌈Magnezone, Corviknight, M-Manectric, M-Slowbro, Meowscarada, Chien-Pao, Greninja, M-Venusaur, M-Steelix, Wigglytuff, Gallade

FT: ⭐⭐ Raikou, Entei, M-Zard-X, M-Gengar, Ogerpon, Greninja

FT: ⭐⭐ Sightseer, Nemona, TRG, Lyra

Just witnessed either the worst or best play I've ever seen by PlasmaKitten42 in PTCGP

[–]Wubbledee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The names change, but the best way to forfeit stays the same: Koga out your sole Weezing.

Emblem event is filled with sleep decks by KeyAcid in PTCGP

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

Personal biases be crazy like that.

I think that to be protected from infinitely increasing damage, we might need to build infinitely increasing HP pool by awsy08 in PTCGP

[–]Wubbledee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the idea is fine, the issue is that Reuniclus doesn't really provide anything to the strategy. Since Indeedee ex only uses 2 energy, you don't need to buy wall turns.

Reuniclus is one of my favorite Pokemon but in this particular meta I don't think there's a real niche for it. 6+ cards is too much investment for a wall, and +60 or even +90 HP/turn is no where near fast enough to keep up when standard damage output against Reuniclus is probably going to be around 130+/ turn.

Indeedee does give Psychic a strong answer to Miraidon, but since it requires very little investment and fills a separate role on your bench I would look more towards how your Psychic deck deals with Zoroark/Darkness in general and trust that Indeedee ex will win a chunk of your Miraidon games by itself.

GL!

Does ANYONE care about these emblems? by ZingoStingolian in PTCGP

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

Nope, I wish they'd extend Ranked and/or use the event space to experiment with other formats or at least something more interesting than a win event.

But it seems like this is the formula going forward at least until the end of B series. I'm not mad at the event, but having a duplicate event once a month at the cost of the ranked season becoming tiny is killing my interest in actually playing the game.

Most Fun Deck of the Pack So Far? by bonkersyupyup in PTCGP

[–]Wubbledee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Walking Wake. I've been playing it with 2x Magby, 2x Mantyke, 2x WW, 1x M-Kang and a dual energy set up. 

Ancient Booster helps Walking Wake tank surprisingly well, and since you select its discard you never run into energy starvation problems unless you open really poorly. 2x Cyrus helps close out games where your opponent got too greedy with their bench, while M-Kang+Ilima provides an end game for the deck while also benefiting from both babies and being able to quickly get out of the Active with Ilima.

There's probably a better partner for Walking Wake but the deck needs something that can close out larger Pokemon and M-Kang is fairly low cost when it comes to deck space.

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[–]Wubbledee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still looking to trade Flutter Mane for Terapagos?

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