Serperior Reuniclus Deck!

CloudTaster

CloudTaster

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Hey bros and bro-ettes, I just recently got into the competitive genre of Pokémon, having only collected from the beginning to... I believe Neo Genesis? Whatever the case, I only collected, so this is my *first* attempt at making a deck, and I thought I'd try to make a deck filled with lol-full gimmicks.

With the Reuniclus Serperior deck, which I'm sure has been done before, I just wanted to mess around as much as I could with the damage counters. In addition to this, I run Yanmega Prime for (I believe the term is) sniping, and Zekrom to wreak mortal havoc.

Where I get hung up mostly is Trainers/Supporters and energies. Having nearly *no* knowledge on that mechanic of the game, I was wondering what you guys thought would be cohesive to this deck?

Just a rundown of what Pokémon I run, I have...

3:2:2 Serperior (Royal Heal)
3:2:2 Reuniclus (Damage Swap)
4 Zekrom
3:2 Yanmega Prime
1 Smoochum (HGSS)

I'd love any tips. I know that things like Pokémon Catcher (should God grace me with such a pull) would be a must, along with rare candies and Oak's New Theory's. But is there anything else that would be fun/better?

Thanks guysssssssss
 
Just a piece of advice for anything Reuniclus based. Reuniclus is best paired with Vileplume UD. Why?

-Trainer Lock prevents Reuniclus from getting pulled out by Catcher. As you can see, Reuniclus is a soft 90HP piece of jello and it's low HP basics don't help either. It is very quick to pull out using Catcher and get KO'd. Most Reuniclus decks rely on it so much that it won't function without it. Basically, having no protection for Reuniclus will just render it useless.
 
Yeah, Reuniclus is best paired with Vileplume, but I think that would make this specific deck WAY too crowded, you would need to drop another Pokémon line if you wanted to add Vileplume. As for your Trainer and Supporter lines, I would try to work towards something like this.

4 Rare Candy (I know you don't have these yet)
3 Copycat. Great for activating Yanmega's Insight Body, and hand refresh is key.
4 Pokémon Collector. I would recommend putting this card on your most wanted list, it is pretty much a staple in every deck in the Metagame.
4 Pokémon Communication. Great search power.
2 Switch. Getting stuff Pokémon Catchered up out of your active, assuming it isn't dead.
2 Judge. More Insight stuff.
3 N. More hand refresh, Insight, disrupting opponents late game.
3 Junk Arm. Evens hand sizes, recovers Trainers.

As for energy, I think you probably want to focus on Zekrom's Bolt Strike more than attacking with Serperior, so I think you are going to want more Lightning Energy than Grass Energy in your list.

7 Lightning Energy
4 Grass Energy

Those suggestions would give you a 60 card list, however as a new player, I doubt that you have all of those cards. Those are just some suggestions as to what I think you should work towards getting. Most of those cards are good, or debatably needed in all of the decks in our current format, so they won’t be a waste of money. If you want to build a list out of cards that you already have, feel free to PM me a list of Trainers and Supporters from Heartgold Soulsiver through Noble Victories that you have right now, and I can help you pick out the ones that will be best for your deck. Hope this post helped!
 
I actually play this deck (with Vileplume), and it is kind of challenging to play. It's like a more crowded/advanced version of google.dec (Bulky attackers with Reuniclus/Vileplume to prevent ohkos, then heal with Blissey Prime all at once). This gives more consistent healing once set up, but is harder to set up. Unless you are really dead set on this, I would look for another kind of deck.

Also it is really tight on space, can be really slow and will take a lot of tweaking to get it right/playable.

If you decide to go this route drop the yanmegas, smoochum and at least 2 Zekrom, ideally 3, or even all 4 and replace it with something else with 130hp.

If you want one of my earlier lists pm me. I would give a more recent one but I don't have the deck with me and have nothing saved on my computer.
 
Vulpix Yolk said:
Yeah, Reuniclus is best paired with Vileplume, but I think that would make this specific deck WAY too crowded, you would need to drop another Pokémon line if you wanted to add Vileplume. As for your Trainer and Supporter lines, I would try to work towards something like this.
As for energy, I think you probably want to focus on Zekrom's Bolt Strike more than attacking with Serperior, so I think you are going to want more Lightning Energy than Grass Energy in your list.
Those suggestions would give you a 60 card list, however as a new player, I doubt that you have all of those cards. Those are just some suggestions as to what I think you should work towards getting. Most of those cards are good, or debatably needed in all of the decks in our current format, so they won’t be a waste of money. If you want to build a list out of cards that you already have, feel free to PM me a list of Trainers and Supporters from Heartgold Soulsiver through Noble Victories that you have right now, and I can help you pick out the ones that will be best for your deck. Hope this post helped!
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Yeah man, that helped a lot! I'll definitely be on the look out for those Trainer cards. Thanks!


Captain Oats said:
I actually play this deck (with Vileplume), and it is kind of challenging to play. It's like a more crowded/advanced version of google.dec (Bulky attackers with Reuniclus/Vileplume to prevent ohkos, then heal with Blissey Prime all at once). This gives more consistent healing once set up, but is harder to set up. Unless you are really dead set on this, I would look for another kind of deck.

Also it is really tight on space, can be really slow and will take a lot of tweaking to get it right/playable.

If you decide to go this route drop the yanmegas, smoochum and at least 2 Zekrom, ideally 3, or even all 4 and replace it with something else with 130hp.

If you want one of my earlier lists pm me. I would give a more recent one but I don't have the deck with me and have nothing saved on my computer.
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google.dec seems kinda swamped with junk. Isn't 27 pokémon a tad bit usually?

When you say "this route", do you mean to keep the deck I'm thinking about? I really would like to, I have most the Pokémon for it, but I'm intrigued as to what you would want me to replace Yanmega, Smoochum and my Zekroms with?
 
google.dec isn't swamped with junk. It has a strange build compared to other decks because it is intentionally slower because it has to be to function. Breaking it down, it is just a high-classed toolbox deck that has incredible healing capabilities; you react to whatever your opponent sends out by sending out a counter of your own. Whether it be weakness, shutting down their power, exploiting a flaw, denying them something they need as a resource/tech, etc. And yes, 27 is normally a lot for a deck, but you never need everything in one match so you won't have to build everything at once. Any other deck, 27 is a bit much, but anything with the Vileplume/Reuniclus combo you should be fine.

By this route I meant adding Vileplume and taking the newer approach I mentioned (Vileplume). I'm not sure why Smoochum is in there to begin with really, so it should be taken out regardless. As for the other two attackers, replace them with counters to the current meta, but more specifically your own meta. Zekrom, specifically, because once you bolt strike you have 100 hp left, 120 if you are using Eviolite, and those are both reachable very easily in the current meta so you won't even get much of a chance to heal. Some options could include Donphan Prime, Suicune Entei Legend, Terrakion NV, Coballion NV, Virizion NV, any of the dragons for outrage (even Zekrom, I just can't think of anything important in this format he hits for weakness and people are already teching against lightning), Jirachi CoL, any of the EXs once they come out, any other legends that are already out, Serperior (since you are already running it and it has a decent attack), Basculin, Steelix Prime– really people run anything with the combo. Just look around and you can find a good list of options to use. The idea is just use a bulky attacker that won't get ohko'd easily or something with a really cheap attack that wrecks popular cards in the meta.
 
You could try Meganium Prime to move your energy around from the bench, so you can attack with Zekrom or maybe play Gothitelle so you can still use items.Blissey seems near essential.

Also double colorless would be good because you could play Tornadus for damage and move the energy back later.
This is a slow deck so play Ditto(TM) and igglybuff(HS). Obviously,3 or 4 rare candy and at least 2 evolite. Judge definatley because of Yanmega. Pokemon communication is good with anything. Junk arm gets back trainers. Pluspower to up zekroms bolt strike so it can take gothitelle and other dragons. Also, everyone needs draw supporters. Cheren is epic. Engineers is good if ur playing Blissey.
 
There are plenty of decks that use AT LEAST 4 stage 2s. Ditto and Igglybuff slow down you're opponent a TON. I play both.
 
Don't do what Magnezone said. No decks run four stage 2s and ditto and igglybuff aren't worth the space.
 
Still, Meganium might be a good idea because u can move energy from the bench rather than having to attack with serperior.
 
Magnezone_Elf said:
There are plenty of decks that use AT LEAST 4 stage 2s. Ditto and Igglybuff slow down you're opponent a TON. I play both.
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Name one and I will give you a round of applause. Ditto and Igglybuff are completely useless. They're just bench sitters asking to be catchered.
 
Just my two cents: The list in the OP could benefit from Cofagirus NV46. Damagriiigus would take the damage stored up on the pokemon you moved damage too and fire it back at your opponent.

Just a note: I said could as in it might, but there is room for error.
 
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