King's Song Politoed (Poliwrath / Politoed)

[Dappers]

I actually don't know if there's an abbreviation for Furious Fists yet so I'm using FFS!

Pokemon: 19

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  2 - Politoed FFS
  2 - Poliwrath FFS
  4 - Poliwhirl FFS
  4 - Poliwag FFS
  3 - Miltank FLF
  2 - Dusknoir BCR
  2 - Duskull FLF

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums: 37

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  4 - Rare Candy
  4 - Ultra Ball
  2 - Muscle Band
  1 - Escape Rope
  2 - Switch
  1 - Dowsing Machine ACE SPEC
  2 - Sacred Ash
  2 - Startling Megaphone
  3 - Hypnotoxic Laser
  
  3 - Sycamore
  3 - Skyla
  3 - N
  3 - Colress
  1 - Pokémon Fan Club
  1 - Lysandre
  
  2 - Virbank City Gym
  

Energy: 4

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  4 - Basic Water Energy

Strategy:

So Politoed's "King Song" ability removes the colorless cost of all the other Poli's attacks. Dusknoir allows Poliwhirl to always hit for 100 by simply moving at least one damage counter to their active (or however much is necessary for a KO) Miltank helps for damage spread and its just a great attacker in any Stage 2 deck!

I decided to add hypnobank as the stadium just to maximize damage output (Poliwhirl's Finishing Blow + Muscle Band + Hypnobank + 1 damage counter from Sinister Hand = 160 which is nice). It also helps to set up damage in the first few turns and perhaps stall with sleep flips!

Startling Megaphone is for Garbodor, I think is is pretty obvious, removing the tool with a well-timed Sinister Hand can remove Garbodor completely.

Overall the deck works fairly well (I've tested it a few times) but it doesn't seem to easily get out Politoed AND Dusknoir, I might need a heavier Dusknoir line or more draw power...

Considerations:

Celebi EX BCR: I like its ability, allowing my Poliwhirl/wrath's to use previous stages' attacks.
Heavier Supporter Lines: I'd love to run the standard 4-4 Syca/N but honestly I think Colress works a bit better due to all the bench sitters and Sycamore could discard some important cards.
A different non-Poli attacker: Something EX could be nice just for a sort of wall that can also hurt.. BUT of course that gives a whole new set of 2 prize KOs.. I also thought maybe a Safe guarder like Suicune/Sigilyph.

I'd love some help with this! Politoed has such a cool ability and I'd love to see this deck contend with some of the heavier hitters!

 

[José Barbosa]

RE: King's Song Politoed

Remove Dusknoir and then add Celebi Ex. Change the LaseBank for Training Center and your Poliwrath will have hp like a ex. Add Keldeo Ex and float stone to remove special conditions. And add max potions or super potions, you don't need to worry with energy discard. You has lysandre, megaphone and can sniper the bench for out garbotoxin.

Maybe:

-1 Miltank FLF
-2 Dusknoir BCR
-2 Duskull FLF

-1 Rare Candy
-1 Ultra Ball
-2 Virbank City Gym
-1 Escape Rope
-2 Switch
-3 Hypnotoxic Laser

+1 Keldeo Ex
+1 Celebi Ex
+1 Muscle Band
+2 Float
+1 Pokémon Fan Club
+1 Lysandre
+3 Training Center
+3 Max Potion
+2 Evosoda

 

[Dappers]

RE: King's Song Politoed

Remove Dusknoir and then add Celebi Ex. Change the LaseBank for Training Center and your Poliwrath will have hp like a ex. Add Keldeo Ex and float stone to remove special conditions. And add max potions or super potions, you don't need to worry with energy discard. You has lysandre, megaphone and can sniper the bench for out garbotoxin.

So removing Dusknoir, HypnoBank, and all switching cards would give a total of 12 available spaces (4 Dusk, 5 HypnoBank, 3 Switch) so I would probably add...

+1 Keldeo EX (Maybe 2.. I wouldn't want one prized
+2 Float stone (I've played Rush Float before and straight up lost because I lost my float stone, at least 2 is a must)
+2-3 Training Center? (I like this stadium but it actually ended up hurting me in a few match ups, but it certainly helps deal with EX)
+3 Max Potion (It's inclusion is obvious but I figured I'd get OHKO'd 99% of the time)
+1 Celebi EX (I wanted this in from the get-go! )

with 1 Keldeo and 2 Training Center that's 9 additional cards, leaving me with 3 empty slots.. hm..

-1 PoliWhirl
+1 Poliwrath
+1 Lysandre
+1 Politoed
+1 Muscle Band?

Hm.. the changes you wrote don't seem too bad, I'll have to test it out, thanks!

 

[José Barbosa]

Poliwhirl is a good attacker, can do 120 with muscle b., remember this.
You need to play 3 stadium for stadium battles, this stadium is much important to make yours pkm survive more than one hit, and you can play hard charm if you want to make it more tanker for max potions.
i suggest you to remove one miltank because him need energy to attack and you only play four, can be difficult to get this and then attack with her.
And pkm fc is for search pokemons in a item lock game, like call of family, evosoda for use poliwhirl, it has one good attack.

Report me about, later, plz.