Loco Loco (Live! Expanded Volcarona)

[Last updated: Black Bolt/White Flare]

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After falling off of the game for a while, I thought I'd come back and try a little Expanded - and where else to start but a tried and true Volcarona V deck? Made for Live Expanded, which only allows cards going back to Sun and Moon base, this deck is both relatively cheap thanks to its large amount of Energy cards and performs well against a majority of the meta - particularly against anti-meta stall and mill decks.

The deck centers around

[Last updated: Black Bolt/White Flare]

-flame hyenard noises-

After falling off of the game for a while, I thought I'd come back and try a little Expanded - and where else to start but a tried and true Volcarona V deck? Made for Live Expanded, which only allows cards going back to Sun and Moon base, this deck is both relatively cheap thanks to its large amount of Energy cards and performs well against a majority of the meta - particularly against anti-meta stall and mill decks.

The deck centers around using Volcarona's Surging Flames attack, which can do up to 340 damage for a single energy if every other energy is in the discard pile. This can be achieved by the myriad of discard support in the deck, namely Zebstrika and Dedenne-GX, allowing Volcarona to take OHKOs even on Pokemon VMAX. The deck is fairly self explanatory and easy to pilot, with the only real tech card being Marshadow-GX. The Gloomdweller Pokemon allows the deck to take KOs on Mimikyu (Paldean Fates), a common wall in stall decks which Volcarona is unable to damage, as well as hit high HP opponents like Dracozolt VMAX for weakness.

I've been deliberating on whether Giant Hearth or PokéStop is the better Stadium card, but I think Hearth is probably more consistent. There's also always the option to run Path to the Peak, as decks like Mew VMAX often do, since the deck doesn't really rely on rule box mons after turn 1 - but because discard is so heavy in the early game you're likely to get rid of it before it can be of any use. Latias ex could also be run in place of Air Balloon, but I felt as if it would just clog the bench in a deck comprised mostly of single retreat cost mons.

As always, I'm happy to hear any feedback or questions for the deck :)