Gardevoir ex

The supporters in this deck play a vital role in winning. Your most important supporter is Arven which will enable you search your deck for a both an item card and a Pokemon Tool. Pokemon Tools are going to help you get off your most powerful attacks and gain that favorable Prize trade against two-prize Pokemon. Meanwhile, you also have a Professor Turo’s Scenario to bounce Pokemon with high HP damage on them back into your hand before your opponent can take the knockout. Last but not least,

The supporters in this deck play a vital role in winning. Your most important supporter is Arven which will enable you search your deck for a both an item card and a Pokemon Tool. Pokemon Tools are going to help you get off your most powerful attacks and gain that favorable Prize trade against two-prize Pokemon. Meanwhile, you also have a Professor Turo’s Scenario to bounce Pokemon with high HP damage on them back into your hand before your opponent can take the knockout. Last but not least, this deck runs one copy of Eri to slow your opponent down.

Both Scream Tail and Drifloon can have their HP beefed up by 100 depending on which Pokemon Tool they are using. With those huge boosts to their HP, they can start taking OHKOs when powered up with Psychic Embrace.

In some ways, this strategy is even stronger than relying on the Gardevoir from Chilling Reign. In order to get that Gardevoir into play and powered up you needed to ensure you had a relatively weak Ralts in play to evolve. Now, you can dish out insane amounts of damage via basic Pokemon, which is harder to counter.

You also have access to the powerful Evolution TM which will help you speed up your pace of play. Use TM as early as possible (and search it out with Arven) to get your Gardevoir ex in play much faster than would normally be possible, and without having to rely on Rare Candy.

Top players I’ve played against would rather give up a tow-prize knockout turn in favor of getting rid of Sableye when playing the Giratina VSTAR/Gardevoir ex matchup. The reason for this is that Psychic Embrace causes damage to Pokemon, and that means placing strategic damage counters on your opponent’s Pokemon with Lost Mine is a great way to prevent knockouts. If you’re running Lost Zone against this deck, look to get rid of Jirachi if you can, as it really hurts your chances of winning. Similarly, if you’re playing against Lost Box, get that Jirachi down as soon as they start building up cards in the Lost Zone