Drapion a locker?

blaZofgold

blaZofgold

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Well, Drapion is an underlooked card. I see some potential as a locker though! With Drapion SF, you have a no cost "paralyze or no retreat" lock move, moves to get rid of energies like DCE, and more. Drapion X has another lock and snipe move, plus with it's flip Heavy Poison, Damage can accumulate fast. With the new Triumphant Drapion, Drapion will now have the extra heavy damage dealing it didnt use to have, plus an all new guaranteed Badly Poison. Drapion can abuse Special Darkness and DCE, If you work it out right it can really help out some techs both Active and Benched!

Techs include Roserade GL, Crobat Prime, Vileplume UD, Nidoqueen RR, Toxicroak G, Muk UD, etc.

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Drapion from Stormfront.
Drapion LV.X from Platinum.
 
drapion's first move is 50/50 but even though I don't know why it wasn't just paralyze or no retreat, they're pretty much do the same thing locking wise, but yes Drapion LX does have a nice attack and very useful power, 2 special and DCE for 60, maybe even 4 with ebelt for 100 per turn, so it can be a dangerous and consistent snipe and lock your opponent's active, and if thats to annoying you use Circulator on a bench of support pokemon, then snipe there has been active for 100 while locking there now useless support. just an idea, if you got lucky. cya
 
I had a decent drapion deck and it does work dencently well. the only thing that stunk was its x2 weakness to gengar and uxie so I stopped using it. It does a wonderful job of disrupting though and it moves get on the bench pretty fast with spiritomb since its a stage 1
 
Yeah, it's too easy to belted Psychic Restore or Zen Blade for tons of damage, not to mention the oh-so-popular gengar SF.
 
Drapion is actually a neat rogue deck that's underrated, but I don't see it being used competitively. The paralyzing and discarding and stuff is cool but it's just not quite there yet.
 
Gengar SF can't do squat to this thing, and It actually has Gengar's weakness. Uxie wont last long after being sniped, I promise.
 
Gengar SF can do plenty to Drapion, especially if he's X'd. X-ing him allows for Shadow room, which can almost 2 shot him. And if you run spiritomb or vileplume, you're just helping Gengar's Poltergeist, which can and will one shot Drapion- especially the 2x weakness X. Gengar IS weak to Drapion, but its also the other way around. Its pretty much just who gets set up faster for the KO. Drapion's downside against Gengar is that even if you do manage to one-shot it, you still have a chance of falling to Fainting Spell.

Gengar is a tough match for Drapion. It ultimately comes down to who can get set up faster, and which coin-flip based power goes off first. If you can Tri-poison it, you can carefully play around it so that he dies from poison, and gets no fainting spell. But if they get set up before you, you're toast.
 
By the time that happens, Drapion X with 2 Special darks will already OHKO Gengar with the X move. Seriously, no prob.
 
Fainting Spell says hi, Drapion X.

I think you missed my point. I agree, Drapion can easily handle Gengar. But only IF you get set up first, and IF their fainting spell doesn't go off. There is no denying, it's a tough match for both decks. Both are weak to each other, and both have the potential to stomp the daylights out of each other. It all relies on who's faster, who the trainer lock helps/hurts more, and who's pokepowers actually work- Tri-Poison Vs. Fainting Spell, which are both coin flips.
 
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