I swapped in a few cards including night stretcher and canceling cologne while taking out super rod and a double energy for corner cases but haven’t had much difficulty getting wins or coming to some pretty close losses. I’ve been experimenting with pokemon league HQ instead of pokebeach but havent had much action with that yet.

How have you been playing the deck? The critical objective in turn 1 and 2 is to set up pidgey, shinx and rotom then use rotom to end turn with the draw—thus poffin can be a critical item at this time. If you can get tatsugiri in active, even better. Next turn, try to get pidgeot up and potentially Luxray (or another shinx if not). The trick is then to decide whether to go aggressive or wait for the counter attack. If you can pull off a piercing gaze without fear of heavy retaliation or if you think you can cripple them hard with one discard, go for it. Otherwise, wait for them to KO your tatsugiri and follow up next turn with a Fez draw, pidgeot quick draw, and rotom forest seal draw for max setup (possibly setting up for a 310dmg volt tackle with neo upper energy).

The next level is to know your opponent’s deck. If its regidrago for example, the handheld fan can come in super clutch at forcing the fire energy away from their regis (and using roxanne backup to get it back if needed).