New Strategy: Gothitelle/Archeops

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trunks592002

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I have this idea and it goes like this: try and keep gothielle active to lock item cards keep restored archeus (the one that locks evolved pokemon) on bench. and have sigyphs on bench to counter exs. maybe even throw in garbodor to lock abilities when i need it and tool scrapper him when i dont. stupid idea, or am i on to something?

(and yes I know i typed the restored pokemon's name wrong, i dont know how to spell it.
 
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trunks592002 said:
I have this idea and it goes like this: try and keep gothielle active to lock item cards keep restored archeus (the one that locks evolved pokemon) on bench. and have sigyphs on bench to counter exs. maybe even throw in garbodor to lock abilities when i need it and tool scrapper him when i dont. stupid idea, or am i on to something?

(and yes I know i typed the restored pokemon's name wrong, i dont know how to spell it.
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Before any further advice is givin' I'd like to point out as a reminder, that Garbador's Garbotoxin shuts off ALL other Abilities, including the one's on the Pokemon YOU have.
 
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PumpedAaron said:
Before any further advice is givin' I'd like to point out as a reminder, that Garbador's Garbotoxin shuts off ALL other Abilities, including the one's on the Pokemon YOU have.
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I know, thats why I would put in tool scrapper to scrap him when I wanted the lock off
 
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I still think adding Garbador to a Deck full of Abilities is really splitting hairs, in a way. Garbador by himself is quite valuable with that Ability-lock, but just going off my intuition, it makes sense to pair him with purely strong Pokemon that don't use any Abilities.
 
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^ I agree. Shutting off your own Abilities and having to rely on Tool Scrapping your own Tools is ineffective. What about your opponent's Garbodors, by the way? I think you're better off running your rogue-style deck without Garbodor.
 
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PumpedAaron said:
I still think adding Garbador to a Deck full of Abilities is really splitting hairs, in a way. Garbador by himself is quite valuable with that Ability-lock, but just going off my intuition, it makes sense to pair him with purely strong Pokemon that don't use any Abilities.
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I concur, and that is coming from someone who is actually playing around with Garbodor in a deck with Abilities. Your Abilities are crucial for slowing your opponent down, and with Garbodor, you're only shooting yourself in the foot. Plus, if you have evolutions locked, Garbodor is really pointless since the most common threats with Abilities are Eels and Hydreigon, evolutions. If you're trainer locking, then that at least effects Darkrai since you will have to attach the energy directly rather than having Dark Patch'd one or moving it with Hydreigon, so with Gothetelle and Archeops, you in essence shut down just about all of the meta-prevalent Abilities anyway.
 
I've edited the title to make it a little more clear. In the future, please make sure your titles accurately express your topic without any vague wording.

dmaster out.
 
,,,Pardon me, but isn't this a lot like the scenario with Archeops/Vileplume? It doesn't really work because if you set up Archeops, you can't evolve to get more gothitelles, meaning that if they KO the 1, it's all over.
 
This strategy is really really weird. Besides the fact that you're attempting to get a Stage 2 out while also getting a restored Pokemon out(which is hard enough as it is without having another Pokemon thats a Stage 2) is the fact that if you have Archeops out FIRST, you can't even evolve your own Gothita/Gothorita to get to Gothitelle. Then you have to add in the fact that Gothitelle has to be first to be able to use her ability. All in all it's an idea that SOUNDS like it'd be really good lock down on paper, but in the end is just very very cluttered.
 
irondragon12 said:
All in all it's an idea that SOUNDS like it'd be really good lock down on paper, but in the end is just very very cluttered.
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It would be VERY cluttered. I'd like to help you with this deck, but the idea of an Evolution locking card and a Stage 2 in the same deck is close to impossible. Especially when you add Garbodor. To get these cards set up, you'd have to Bench a Trubbish, bench a Gothita, and use either Twist Mountain or Cover Fossil to get Archen out. Then, you'd have to make sure to Rare Candy into Gothitelle, evolve into Garbodor, evolve into Archeops, and then you'll be set up. That's a very very specific set up that you'll pretty much need to use to avoid early catcher kills and locking yourself down. Honestly, if you were wanting to play a combo of these cards, I would just go with Sigilyph/Archeops/Any other good attacker.
 
Not to mention your opponent KO's Gothitelle, and the only way to set another one back up is if you have Garbodor and Tool Scrapper...
 
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