Spread vs Modified

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ThirdEye

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Just wondering what you guys preferred? A spread deck or a modified/set strategy (VileGar, BlazeChomp, etc..) and why...

Please discuss.
 
Not really. Your question isn't 100% clear about what you want, but i'll answer as best i can.

It really does depend on personal preference. It would be easy to just say that you want to play a meta deck and constructing it to fit your playstyle would be quite easy because all you need is a good skeleton list to get you going and there are enough of those on various forums, but if you wanted to build a spread deck and want to try and make it competitive then you can (as long as you know what you're doing).

But it would be best to probably go with a meta deck, seeing as spread based decks aren't best suited for out current format and it would be quite weak to SP decks.
 
Do spread decks not have a set strategy?
Anyways, I prefer the second one, even though I'm not completely certain what you're asking. Spread decks involve a bit more luck, and don't do extremely well in this meta.
 
Does Spread mean Rogue and Modified mean Meta?

It's kinda iffy. Modified generally means that a deck is legal (so MD-on). I guess most people would prefer Modified in that sense. XD

Not too many people play Nidoqueen anymore, so Spread decks could be viable I guess.

dmaster out.
 
I have alot of different decks..some fun, others meta (vilegar, luxchomp, etc)..it all depends on playstyle. I went 3-2 This season and almost topped with jumpluff..point being..a deck doesn't Have to be meta to be good
 
The problem is that the HGSS sets don't have very many Spreaders compared to how many there was in the DP sets like with Abomasnow SF and Bronzong MD. Gengar SF is a pseudo-spreader and Cresselia Lv. X used to help last format.

The only spreader from HGSS that comes to mind is Mamoswine from Triumphant and it's pretty lackluster especially with Steelix Prime being popular in today's format. So there's not a whole lot to work with at least until we find out what's in Call of Legends.
 
@ Card Slinger J um..it's still MD on you know that..right? Spritomb LA, zapdos MD..froslass..glaceon..they're all still in modified XD..and steelix prime isn't that popular..i've seen it played 0 times at cities/br's..except by people who didnt care if they won or noobs (no offense to anyone who plays steelix prime)
 
Like aishen, i think that spread decks are getting back (with me ^^ ) to the top, or somewhere middle... Lunatone SV and Solrock TR should be a common combo in any spread deck to mainly prevent garchomp c from healing everything and they have a built in shield vs garchomp c X.
 
True, but DGX takes away so much that it's not really an idea anymore to just say "DGX kills it". Vileplume UD is also useless when DGX is out but gengar X solves it. So it's just a matter of what you run if you need to tech agains it or not.

 
mlouden03 said:
@ Card Slinger J um..it's still MD on you know that..right? Spritomb LA, zapdos MD..froslass..glaceon..they're all still in modified XD..and steelix prime isn't that popular..i've seen it played 0 times at cities/br's..except by people who didnt care if they won or noobs (no offense to anyone who plays steelix prime)
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Yes I'm well aware that the format is still MD-On, thing is I usually build decks in advance of a 2 season survival much like with cards from the Platinum and HeartGold/SoulSilver blocks. There are some DP cards I run that everyone else runs but it's few at best. If you rely too much on decks based on Pokemon cards from Diamond/Pearl in this format you might fall short of being prepared in the next format.

Steelix Prime is good If you play it right, it's just that Charizard is popular and it poses a huge threat to the deck's stability right now. It seems like there's more playable decks that will only be around for this season compared to how less there are for those that survive at least 2 seasons.

Next Season is Rising Rivals-On and judging by the card pool and depending on what we get in Call of Legends that doesn't really leave a whole lot of deck ingenuity for people to work with other than what's popular right now:

* Mew Prime/Rhyperior Lv. X
* Victreebel/Vileplume
* Gengar/Vileplume
* Gengar Prime/Lost World
* Wailord/Feraligatr Prime
* Magnezone Prime/Feraligatr Prime
* Charizard
* Umbreon/Tyranitar Prime
* Donphan Prime
* Machamp Prime/Donphan Prime
* Steelix Prime
* Machamp Prime
* Torterra/Nidoqueen

That's basically 13 decks that are playable in the current format that will most likely be around for
Rising Rivals-On. With decks such as Abomasnow Spread, Regigigas, Gyarados, Kingdra, and SP decks they won't be so lucky.
 
^Rhyperior LV.X is from LA, so that won't be in format then. VileGar Gengar is from SF, so that will also go away.
Not a huge pool, but there are always plenty of rogue.
 
Flygon RR kinda lost it's luster when Claydol GE rotated out last format and it feels weird running Ninetales HGSS over Claydol with Flygon when you can run it with Charizard instead cause it has more synergy.

With Flygon all your benched Pokemon need to be evolved for Power Swing but with Charizard they don't have to be as long as they're all {R} Types for Fire Formation plus it takes less turns to setup as well.

Take into account that there's less Pokemon Lv. X's in MD-On compared to DP-On due to the popularity of Pokemon Prime's and that leaves the usage of Flygon Lv. X in decline quite a bit.

Scizorliscious said:
^Rhyperior LV.X is from LA, so that won't be in format then. VileGar Gengar is from SF, so that will also go away.
Not a huge pool, but there are always plenty of rogue.
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Yeah I forgot that MewPerior and VileGar won't make it for next season, my bad. :p
 
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