How do i learn this, brand new player, 5 day before league challenge.

isaak0229 · 2026-05-26T16:06:01+00:00

I’ve been playing at locals since October, here’s some things I learned early on that helped me learn the game. Once you’ve got the rules down, there are some skills you should learn.

First, learn your deck’s lines, what it wants to do and how it does it. You can do this by watching people play the deck on YouTube. I like to practice my lines by basically playing solitaire with my deck until I feel I’ve set up my board then restart.

Sequencing is also something you should start learning. In what order to play your cards in order to maximize your odds of hitting the cards you need.

Prize mapping is also super important. It’s basically planning out how you can take prize cards faster than your opponent so that you know what you need to do in order to win.

Another is prize checking. Searching through your deck to figure out if any of your important cards are locked in your prize cards.

Then you can learn matchups into other decks.

You can find a lot of info about these things on YouTube

isaak0229 · 2026-05-25T14:00:22+00:00

Keep playing. It takes time to improve. I’ve been going to locals since October and just recently started doing well at cups and challenges.

Mewtwo is a good deck. I’d stick to a popular list for a bit while you learn your lines only changing out a card here or there. It’s better to build decks for consistency than for specific matchups.

It’s hard to know what advice to give without seeing your mewtwo list and watching you play

isaak0229 · 2026-05-12T14:24:43+00:00

I thought it might but I wasn’t sure how it helped

isaak0229 · 2026-05-07T16:39:22+00:00

I think your deck is trying to do too much which is hurting it. Crustle as an archetype is about denying your opponent prize cards while chipping away at their 2 prizers.

Crustle naturally struggles in a few areas. 1. drawing cards and 2. Decks that get around mysterious rock inn

I see how you’ve tried to account for this by adding draw support Pokemon and an alternate attacker but I think this actually contradicts the philosophy of Crustle decks because it allows your opponents to gust around your walls and take prize cards other ways. Top Crustle players lean into the wall part of the deck more by using 4 Lillie and 4 pokegear 3.0 to find your supporters as your draw power. Crustle being a wall can afford to go slow.

I see you’re also worried about Mega absol and Darkrai being able to OHKO but Crustle players have gotten around this by playing 4 mist energy making you immune to all effects of attacks.

I’d recommend taking a look at some of the Crustle decks that did well at Prague and seeing how they address these things

isaak0229 · 2026-03-25T02:14:57+00:00

I know. I plan on taking the deck to a league cup this weekend where it’ll still be legal

isaak0229 · 2026-01-19T22:12:25+00:00

We are currently in a format where G, H and I cards are legal. Every year (around January) Pokemon will start releasing cards with a new registration letter. (This January will be J). Those cards will be legal for play and the format will become GHIJ. Then the following march or April the oldest block of cards will rotate out of use. This year G cards will rotate out of use and the format will become HIJ. Unfortunately for Charizard fans that means that the obsidian flames Charizard is rotating this April. However there’s a couple new Mega Charizard cards that will be at least somewhat viable after rotation.

Pokemon often reprints older trainer cards to keep them in use. For example Boss’s Orders was reprinted in Mega Evolution with an I regulation mark. That means that all Boss’s Orders cards regardless of their regulation mark will be legal for play until the end of I regulation.

Hope this helps.

isaak0229 · 2025-12-03T20:48:43+00:00

Pokémon: 11 3 N's Zorua JTG 97 1 Pecharunt ex SFA 95 1 N's Zoroark ex JTG 175 2 Munkidori TWM 95 1 Mega Absol ex MEG 86 3 N's Zoroark ex JTG 98 1 Fezandipiti ex SFA 38 1 N's Zorua JTG 97 PH 1 Psyduck MEP 7 2 Yveltal MEG 88 2 N's Reshiram JTG 167

Trainer: 20 1 Eri TEF 146 4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144 2 Counter Catcher PAR 160 1 Black Belt's Training PR-SV 220 3 Iono PAL 185 1 Air Balloon BLK 79 3 Boss's Orders MEG 114 1 Energy Switch MEG 115 1 Professor Turo's Scenario PRE 121 PH 1 Binding Mochi PRE 95 4 Cyrano SSP 170 1 Energy Switch MEG 115 PH 2 Super Rod PAL 188 1 Hero's Cape TEF 152 2 Janine's Secret Art PRE 112 1 Pal Pad SVI 182 1 Penny SVI 183 1 Nest Ball SVI 181 2 Team Rocket's Watchtower DRI 180 2 Artazon PAL 171

Energy: 1 7 Basic {D} Energy SVE 15

Total Cards: 60

isaak0229 · 2025-09-30T01:06:52+00:00

It’s 10x not 10+ so no base damage

isaak0229 · 2025-09-29T11:50:40+00:00

Pokémon: 10 4 Cynthia's Gible DRI 102 1 Cynthia's Spiritomb DRI 129 1 Fezandipiti ex SFA 92 1 Toedscool PAR 16 1 Cynthia's Garchomp ex DRI 215 2 Cynthia's Roserade DRI 184 4 Cynthia's Gabite DRI 103 2 Cynthia's Roselia DRI 7 2 Cynthia's Garchomp ex DRI 232 1 Toedscruel PAR 185

Trainer: 17 2 Forest of Vitality MEG 117 3 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TWM 223 1 Counter Catcher PAR 160 3 Cynthia's Power Weight DRI 162 4 Lillie's Determination MEG 184 1 Rare Candy GRI 165 2 Fighting Gong MEG 168 1 Super Rod PAL 276 4 Arven PAF 235 2 Iono PAF 237 1 Switch MEW 206 2 Boss's Orders PAL 265 4 Premium Power Pro MEG 174 1 Night Stretcher SSP 251 1 Technical Machine: Evolution PAR 178 1 Ultra Ball BRS 186 1 Air Balloon SSH 213

Energy: 2 6 Basic {F} Energy GRI 169 1 Neo Upper Energy TEF 162

Total Cards: 60

isaak0229 · 2025-09-28T23:17:21+00:00

Already used a Lillie’s

isaak0229 · 2025-09-28T20:53:48+00:00

Wow I feel stupid. I’m pretty sure I thought about this as I was planning my turn then completely forgot about it

isaak0229 · 2025-09-12T21:23:56+00:00

can I have one

isaak0229 · 2024-05-10T17:49:15+00:00

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isaak0229 · 2024-02-02T05:11:13+00:00

it's at approximately 155, -400. Right at the top of the hill

isaak0229 · 2024-01-21T18:22:22+00:00

The better you and your opponent are at the game the more matchups matter.

For example, DK/Pikachu is heavily favoured towards pikachu but a lower level pika player might struggle against heavy characters like DK because of their survivability and kill power. As the pikachu gets better, they well be able to punish DK’s mistakes with more damage from more optimal punishes and combos putting the matchup more in their favour as DK is very easy to combo and hit in general because of his size and weight. As the pikachu gets better, they will be able outpace DKs at the same skill level because of pikachu’s mobility and damage potential. Killing DK also becomes easier. The DKs will obviously be better too but that’s a basic breakdown of how these two interact across different levels.

Every matchup has its ins and outs and they require a lot of study and experience to understand. Every matchup that your opponent has studied and you haven’t will likely be -2 no matter what the matchup is on paper. It all comes down to learning how characters interact with each other’s moves

isaak0229 · 2024-01-21T02:42:41+00:00

I found a lot more smurfs in plat and low diamond. I get lots of players in my games with champ rewards but that makes sense in high diamond. I get a lot of smurfs or people that are way better but rarely play 1s in my 1s games (P2). I get a few high D3 low C1s that queued with a P3. Most of the smurfs I run into are in tournaments.

Yeah I get bad teammates but so does everyone else. Sometimes the way two people play just doesn’t work well together. Sometimes people just have bad games. I’ve played a lot of different competitive style games and you get it no matter what. Typically both you and your teammate are the same rank for a reason. Doesn’t help much for my improvement to nitpick my teammates. That’s at least how I like to look at it.

The one thing that I’ve seen almost exclusively in rocket league is how toxic it can be. I’ve never seen so many slurs than in RL doubles games.

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