Fantastic article!!! I really like your analysis! I would say you probably need to test your darkrai/giratina and rainbow road matchups as those are closer to 50/50 in my testing. My question is how does it do against the mirror? Hope this helps and thanks for this great analysis of Yveltal!
Aw, thank you!!
Yeah, Rainbow Road can be pretty close. But Darkrai/Giratina: 50/50?
Oh man, the mirror....! Well, I would say that the more of these points that a given player achieves, the more likely they will win:
-gets off the first Pitch-Black Spear
-gets Parallel City out first (sticking the opposing Yveltal player with only three benched spots).
-successful Max Elixirs
-starts with either Yveltal BT or Mew
-is weary of benching EXs
-times Evil Ball KOs correctly: they KO the threat but have little enough Energy attached to make it difficult or impossible for an opposing Evil Ball KO.
-does the math!
-goes first!? Actually, it's really hard to say whether that's overall an advantage or not in the mirror (of course against every other deck in the meta, going first is definitely preferable).
Overall, the player with more experience playing the deck definitely has an advantage. Probably more-so than the Yveltal-EX decks of Expanded where T1 Ghetsis+Lab is often actually a factor.
It does and thanks again!