RE: The Official Future Metagame Speculation Thread
How do you play around Ghetsis? You use your trainers. Simple as that. So what if it happens T1? The probabilities of that happening is so low, because you would have to go first and have the Ghetsis in hand. Unless you play 4 Ghetsis (which is bad). You probably helped your opponent if you play a Ghetsis on the first turn. Imagine it's a Darkrai Deck and his hand is: 3 not trainer cards, a Dark Patch, a Poison Hypnotic Beam, a Catcher and a Juniper. If you played Ghetsis your opponent would probably thank you. Also, you don't get your supporter for the turn only. You draw cards with it, and the chances that there are some Trainers there are quite high.
How does Eelektrik get slammed by Ghetsis late game? It's the only deck that can survive with 0 cards in hand when set-up late game. I don't understand the reasoning behind that.
Also, you do know it's far more easy to get an early Lugia without Thundurus, right? You just go like this:
T1: Lugia active attach DCE
T2: Play Colress Machine and attach a basic Energy to Lugia.
You have got a T2 Lugia without wasting bench space and discarding Special Energys. Also, I have to remember you that acceleration from the discard through attacks aren't that great because you can't afford to lose a turn in this format.
And the last thing I want to say about Ghetsis and Lugia-EX is: If you check the Japanese results, not even 1 of the decks that made Top8 played either Ghetsis or Lugia-EX. This is by far the most irrelevant point, since the Japanese Meta has been proven right and wrong many times, but I think this time it will be right.
TrainerNaru said:MDL said:
mate how can you play around a ghetsis that happends turn one? just think about it
getting every trainer in your opening hand back into your deck now all that is left to do is play your one supporter of the turn
i can see elektrik gettin slammed by ghetsis and the late game potential is insane
and Thundurus ex first attack is actully pretty decent 30 dmg is not bad for one energy and then spam energy onto a lugia ex or something
turn 1 would be thundurus ex just dealing 30 dmg and hopefully you've gotten energies in the discard then attach it to lugia !or some other attacker
and with colres machine lugia should be ready to go by turn 2
i for one think that is kinda sick
and turn 2 just keep on charging your pokemon!
then slam your oppnent to the ground with lugia ex
How do you play around Ghetsis? You use your trainers. Simple as that. So what if it happens T1? The probabilities of that happening is so low, because you would have to go first and have the Ghetsis in hand. Unless you play 4 Ghetsis (which is bad). You probably helped your opponent if you play a Ghetsis on the first turn. Imagine it's a Darkrai Deck and his hand is: 3 not trainer cards, a Dark Patch, a Poison Hypnotic Beam, a Catcher and a Juniper. If you played Ghetsis your opponent would probably thank you. Also, you don't get your supporter for the turn only. You draw cards with it, and the chances that there are some Trainers there are quite high.
How does Eelektrik get slammed by Ghetsis late game? It's the only deck that can survive with 0 cards in hand when set-up late game. I don't understand the reasoning behind that.
Also, you do know it's far more easy to get an early Lugia without Thundurus, right? You just go like this:
T1: Lugia active attach DCE
T2: Play Colress Machine and attach a basic Energy to Lugia.
You have got a T2 Lugia without wasting bench space and discarding Special Energys. Also, I have to remember you that acceleration from the discard through attacks aren't that great because you can't afford to lose a turn in this format.
And the last thing I want to say about Ghetsis and Lugia-EX is: If you check the Japanese results, not even 1 of the decks that made Top8 played either Ghetsis or Lugia-EX. This is by far the most irrelevant point, since the Japanese Meta has been proven right and wrong many times, but I think this time it will be right.
