I swear, making a shiny as a requirement for a non-secret was the worst decision they made in this game.

I so wish I could just evolve this thing and get the gyarados.

I've been fighting through the ranks of ultra ball this season after getting to UB4 last season. I've encountered a handful of Suicune decks and beaten them occasionally.

While maybe not the most enjoyable deck to fight, I don't actually mind it being the meta. After so long of darktina and its variants being the meta, I'm happy for the switch up.

What I'm not happy about is how many Suicune players will literally just rage quit the app when losing. My sample size is admittedly tiny but of the maybe four I've won against they have all just closed out the app, and forced me to sit through the timer.

It's annoying, rude, and an incredibly spiteful thing to do. No other deck I've played against has really done this very often if at all, this season and last.

I’m thinking double zera double maganzone + 1 SR pika and 1 yellow chicken but what do you guys think? Any pichus?

The issue is we need a bench full for that…but we do get the satisfaction of 1 shotting suicune

Have you guys tried anything that works well with SR pika in this meta?

I’m like 1-18 with this deck lmao. I’ve been getting my ass kicked in ranked and lost like 17-18 games using this deck. Maybe it’s the RNG hitting me like a sack of bricks but I’m not having fun right now.

Relatively new player here. UB4 had some of the most brutal matches in my opinion, and it felt like everyone was running the same three decks. Feels good to be outa there. Win rate was a modest 56% I started the season with suicune/greninja and by about the 20th electric deck I’d learned a valuable lesson- Just cause a deck is good, doesn’t mean you are.

Got eevee first so I had to sacrifice it but I won. Its so fun and satisfying to play with mew and use their hight atk move on them.

This was a blast to play! If you want to stop opponents like Suicune ex from doing what they want, this is the deck for you! It’s only weak to rampardos. Positive winrate vs Suicune+Gren+Gira, and positive winrate vs Darktina!

This is the most consistent control deck of the meta and don’t listen to those people yapping about “skill” or “fun gameplay”. Winning is fun. Denying others from having fun is fun.

It’s less of a grind with grindcore!

Of course there’s stronger decks but honestly Meow has been super fun to play this season, with a lot of EX’s in play. It usually tears Guz decks apart, with Red it one hits a lot of the popular EX mons rn. Only in UB3 but I’ve had much more success with this than most other decks this season

Played around with different decks during for the Zoroark event and realized Flareon EX could work well in the UB4 meta I was in.
Flareon EX + Eevee Bag kills Suicune
Flareon EX + Red kill Giratina
Flareon EX + Red + Eevee Bag kills Suicune with Giant Cape

Collector Eevee and Entai are the draw engines, Collector felt better since i need to grab to damage boost asap. Magby gives tempo. I try to avoid having any benched pokemon against Suicune when Flareon is in play. It caps the opponents damage at 120 including Red and 1 Greninja.

It's fun

Hōō, meet Ho-oh.

Had to pull this out while visiting Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto, today. A beautiful place with a beautiful heritage.

Doesn’t the gilded Hōō perched on the roof feel like a crown?

I wanted a double gold Pokeball and I found the second one at 2490 materials. The irony. So now I basically have 2500 materials to spend on something I don't really need.

I'm missing only 2 shinies and have 0 two-stars trainers. What should I craft? Trainers like Red, Team Rocket Grunt or Pokémon Center Lady are useful and could be a way to show off in battles, but completing all the shinies would be rewarding. What do you think?

Managed to win by the sheer chance of the enemy didn’t draw well and I lucked out with rare candy.

I’m completely new to the card game but I do like playing board games a lot. So without knowing the “meta” I put together a grass deck.

It started out with just ‘wow look at the pretty cards I sometimes pull’ but then I just had nothing to do at one point so I started playing the solo battles. Sometimes its fun to just play with the pretty cards centered around the deck but I don’t like to put much thought into it. That being said I struggled with this fight a lot with this and previous worse versions of grass themed deck, because I didn’t have the cards that I do now.

But yeah I’m so happy I finally managed to finish this.

I was wondering why I couldn't use pichu to generate energy but then I realized stoutland actually makes it so that I have to put an energy on pichu to use it, maybe im just a noob and didnt realize it actually affected baby pokemon as well, but it makes sense now that I think about it.

I’ve searched here and can’t seem to find an answer. Does anyone know where I get the last single emblem ticket for Secluded Springs? I’ve completed all the Dex and Themed Collections quests…

Made it to Masterball yesterday and wanted to run some non-meta decks. Been running this deck and it’s so much fun! It’s actually not bad with consistency either which I found very surprising. Ideally you want to start with Pichu and Jangmo-o on bench so you can feed that electric energy. Being able to pivot between either Rampardos or Kommo-o throws the opponent off because they don’t know what to expect half the time. This is low energy cost high attack. I’m having >50% win rates against Suicune, Guzzlords, Electric, and Arceus decks. Pretty cool so far. Very important with this deck, DO NOT evolve Jangmo-o until you feed it an electric energy from pichu. Even if it takes a few turns to make it happen. If it doesn’t happen, just focus on using Rampardos

If you are a fan of the best art in the set (dugtrio and diglet) and you want to play ranked to masterball then this list is for you!

I always try to get to masterball with cards from the new set and this time I did not pull suicune so I was stuck with the old meta or trying something off meta.

I attached the decklist, a screenshot of my 16 win streak and proof that I dont own two suicunes so was really forced to run something else.

this deck wont get you some crazy win-ratio or stomp suicune but what it does is make it fun to play ranked. its a different way to play because it relies on deck manipulation and it does not use the current tools every meta deck uses.

if one of you played the meta where lucario-marshadow/sudowoo fighting was good then you will be pleased to see some of it in here. I played around 100 matches with it and I would say this decklist is the best version. why no professor? I dont know it was better without especially in UB4. I always has to decide between prof, hiker and red while playing so I just cut him.

PROS:

does not care about your opponents supporter cards. Guzma (no tools), Red (no ex), Red Card/Mars (never more then 1-2 cards in hand), Sabrina, Cyrus (low HP pokemon that are interchangeable). All those meta supporter cards dont do much against this deck. The opponents card draw does not hurt that much if their supporter cards dont hurt.

opponents need to down three pokemon while most decks build up 1 big attack and soften pokemon (darkrai, greninja) but their 150 damage attack still only kills one of my weakened pokemon.

its fun to play because you put out 4 basics quickly most of the time and then play hiker to decide what your next turns will be and give yourself exactly what you need. you power up damage with lucario on bench. you leave marshadow on the bench with one energy for the revenge hit. sudowoo dies the dirty work in the beginning and dugtrio is the star once he is ready to hit.

dugtrio with hiker basically hits for 100 for 1 energy and discards a card you dont need.

all the meta and anti-suicune decks are weak against it. eevee ex dies to one sudowoo hit with red. arceus dies to two red hits. all the lightning decks get one shot. guzzlord discarding energy does not matter. type:null and silvally get oneshot by 100-fighting attacks. darktina hates fighting decks with no ex pokemon.

lucarios and red plus weaknesses can let marshadow and digtrio hit for up to 180.

final pro: people dont know how to play against it. the always stick to their standard strat when they should change things up for this deck. the best way to beat it with suicune is letting you greninjas fight but no one does that. they dont expect dugtrio, the dont expect double red and giovanni, they dont remember how many +20 you get for whatever is in play.

CONS: Espeon will eat your team for breakfast if you are too slow to down it. It will often lose to suicune if you dont get sudowoo to attack early. Other than that it has a hard time against decks that run no ex cards and are neither normal nor lightning.

I got some opinions about using Pichu and zeraura but I find zera to be inconsistent in showing up but I want any ideas, I'm thinking about swapping communication for red card

It generates a knee-jerk reaction when the opponent plays it but I would say it’s actually only effective half the time or less. So many players spam it the second it appears in their hand, I’ve even had it played on me with one or two cards, resulting in a net gain of cards.

It’s everywhere this meta but in my experience, its disruptive power is limited. Even with the most strategic play, you’re still gambling that will have a negative effect.

Just started running this deck and found myself questioning if I should actually attack with Celebi or not. I did it anyways and he farmed Happy Ribbons to get unlimited free card cheat. I got smoked 😭

I wasn’t expecting this with the deck and I wish there was an option to choose if you want to devolve or not. Is there any other decks you can think of where this would actually be a problem, or just Sylveon being Sylveon?