Allergy Season — Deck Building in Budew’s World

[PMJ]

Hey everyone! It’s Charlie and I’m happy to be back with another article. In my last article, I went over Raging Bolt ex  , which is the deck I took to Atlanta Regionals. I finished 72nd, bubbling out of Top 64 with a record of 9-3-1. My losses were to a late penalty for missing Round 1 (a first in my 14-year career), a Gholdengo ex / Dudunsparce  deck, and Brent Tonisson’s Gardevoir ex deck. Gardevoir is simply a bad matchup for Raging Bolt as Lillie’s Clefairy ex makes quick work of all your Raging Bolt, but...

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[Grim Thoughts]

I’ve been saying this since it was first revealed, and I’ll say it again, this card was bad for the game. I don’t know what the designers were thinking when printing this card. The format was slowed down, but at what cost? If you need free item lock on a basic to slow the format down, either reduce the power level of items or stop printing overpowered aggro Pokemon, and wait a few years

 

[Steen]

If TPCi wanted us to play more supporters, they made it work. Never before would I be using Jacq, Janine's, and Brock's Hydreigon but because they completely killed the viability of an Item based meta that was *already going to fall off* when Budew was printed, every other deck suffers while Dragapult gets to hide behind the most obnoxious lock card in existence.

 

[ChrisKing]

Seismitoad EX still my GOAT after all these years.

 

[Jonathan Jung]

This little cancer should get banned

 

[Nintenfreak]

Budew: You think I'm going to let you just walk away?

 

[Halmar3157]

Budew has been a problem, but I think there are easy ways to deal with it, unfortunately for rush decks they play so many item cards that it REALLY slows down their consistency. if they did want to slow down the game they should've figured something else out besides a 30HP basic that can bring monsters like Charizard down to a Slakoth's pace in terms of speed

 

[smoothieshake]

I think Budew helped create a more diverse meta when it was first printed because it gave evolution decks a way to beat the oppressive Regidrago archetype at the time. There were more ways to deal with item lock then, as well. But now in post-rotation it overwhelmingly favors two decks, and Pult in particular, which overwhelms day twos. I understand why people want it banned.

 

[Vegeta77]

I believe we played 4 or 5 in Atlanta. I was )
Goldy/Pult. Really enjoyed the games. Great read on the article.

 

[Charmaster:)]

I think Budew helped create a more diverse meta when it was first printed because it gave evolution decks a way to beat the oppressive Regidrago archetype at the time. There were more ways to deal with item lock then, as well. But now in post-rotation it overwhelmingly favors two decks, and Pult in particular, which overwhelms day twos. I understand why people want it banned.

I mean, alternatively we can get more ways to deal with Budew. Pokémon almost never bans cards in standard.