Banette Control

Danielr19 Danielr19 Expanded 2,679 views Jun 06, 2024
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Deck Primer

This deck focuses on using Banette ex as the main attacker of the deck. It is a control deck and it revolves around hitting with Banette's first attack to stop your opponent from using items and properly playing their deck.

The hardest matchups for this deck are:
Charizard ex
Ancient box
Decks which use very few items or dont depend that much on them
Decks which are able to easily switch bench pokemon to the active and viceversa

This easisest matchups for this deck are:
Chien pao
Gholdengo
Decks that heavily

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This deck focuses on using Banette ex as the main attacker of the deck. It is a control deck and it revolves around hitting with Banette's first attack to stop your opponent from using items and properly playing their deck.

The hardest matchups for this deck are:
Charizard ex
Ancient box
Decks which use very few items or dont depend that much on them
Decks which are able to easily switch bench pokemon to the active and viceversa

This easisest matchups for this deck are:
Chien pao
Gholdengo
Decks that heavily depend on item usage
Decks that don't have many switching options or have a small amount of energies

Charizard is indeed beatable but once charizard evolves it becomes way harder. The deck has 7 opponent active switching options (1 counter catcher, 3 boss's orders + 2 if you use pal pad for them, 1 prime catcher) and you can easily run through your deck with bibarel, iono and skwovet to increase your chances of having one of these or any needed hand in card. Eri is also very useful against stage 2 decks, such as charizard, by getting rid of rare candy so it becomes harder for your opponent to evolve.

With radiant alakazam you'll be able to snipe smaller pokemon in bench, while damaging one that is stuck in the active. TM Devolution can work alongside alakazam after placing a charizard on bench allowing you to make enough damage to devolve and knock out pokemon. With radiant alakazam you can also set specific amounts of damage so that when your opponent has many cards in hand you can pretty much guarantee a kill with banette's second attack. To properly use this deck it is very important to know the average count of trainers per deck in the meta so you can guess better when being forced to use banettes second attack. Enjoy :)

Card Types

Trainer 38
Pokémon 14
Energy 8

Energy Types

Psychic 8
Colorless 5
Water 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 8 attacks
8
47.1% of attacks
2 Energy 7 attacks
7
41.2% of attacks
3 Energy 2 attacks
2
11.8% of attacks

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Comments

grandmagusta5258 avatar

This deck and any deck running no Stage 1 but Stage 2 and Basics only are not friends I can assure you that.

Played Tsareena EX control with Pidgeot EX and got stomped when usually Tsareena does the stomping, big oof made me start using at least one stage 1 on each deck that uses rare candies.

Danielr19 avatar

Evn hi, I don't know if you are asking if Jamming Tower (Twilight Masquerade)  affects the deck negatively or if the deck could benefit from using it, so I'll answer both.

1.-Does Jamming tower affect the deck negatively?
It does, but not in a critical way. Jamming Tower may slow down the deck if it is placed turn one, but this is very unlikely. The deck benefits from going second and as far as I'm aware of there's no way to search for stadium cards at the moment, and if your opponent goes first they cant use supports to get new cards. Even if Jamming tower is placed at a critical moment, the deck has 2 lost vacuums and this item can be searched with arven if needed.

2.-Does the deck benefit from using Jamming Tower?
I think it depends on the current meta. Anything that can be used to slow down your opponent or prevent them from play their deck the way it is meant to be played, benefits this deck. Also, by blocking your opponent by using items you can prevent them from removing jamming tower from the field with a lost vacuum, limiting them to only removing the stadium with another stadium. Cancelling cologne or eri are cards that I think could be replaced for a Jamming Tower if needed, but again it would all depend on the current meta.


Evn avatar

I feel jamming tower affects this deck positively. Most decks have strong tools (maximum belt, heros cape) and I think this can shut them off plus you can control when jamming tower is in play by using lost vac if u want to use a tool your self. And unless they have another stadium thy can't use tools or items!

Evn avatar

Also since your deck shuts off items eri is not needed. Tho canceling cologne might be a good idea

Danielr19 avatar

Evn yeah, it can definitely benefit from jamming tower. I would at least keep one eri because there are times where you are forced to use banette's second attack in order to knock out an oponents pokemon. It machups like charizard just having one charizard evolve can make the matchup veru hard for banette. I sometimes would make my opponent increase their hand and then use eri before using the second attack only to discard rare candy or even superior energy retrieval which are super important cards for some decks and can sometimes guarantee you a win if your opponent can't use them at all.

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