SEMI-META Turbo Electric

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Pikarom has held on to competitive standards ever since its release.

Would definitely prefer suggestions on this one. It's kind of an archetype I never looked into because of how much I hated it back then. 

Pikarom can almost guarentee an attack on first turn with a tag call into pikarom + GandH, setting up mountain, energy, and either retreat or tank. With many acceleration options available, it should be able to ramp tons of energy the next turn. HOWEVER, there is a massive limitation to all

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Pikarom has held on to competitive standards ever since its release.

Would definitely prefer suggestions on this one. It's kind of an archetype I never looked into because of how much I hated it back then. 

Pikarom can almost guarentee an attack on first turn with a tag call into pikarom + GandH, setting up mountain, energy, and either retreat or tank. With many acceleration options available, it should be able to ramp tons of energy the next turn. HOWEVER, there is a massive limitation to all this. Pikarom is VERY SQUISHY as well as being a 3 prizer, remember me saying ADP is bad for this? well, Pikarom is even worse. Which is why the archetype cannot be considered META, but semi-meta as it's competitive potential isn't very lackluster either. 

Comment any suggestions or questions. 

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (11)
2 Pikachu & Zekrom-GX smp-SM168
$231.82 Lightning 240
1 Miraidon ex sv1-81
$0.77 Lightning 220
2 Boltund V swsh2-67
$1.44 Lightning 200
1 Raichu V swsh9-45
$1.73 Lightning 200
1 Zeraora-GX sm8-86
$7.73 Lightning 190
1 Dedenne-GX sm10-57
$15.94 Lightning 160
1 Tapu Koko ◇ sm9-51
$2.18 Lightning 130
1 Oranguru swsh1-148
$0.33 Colorless 120
1 Mew xy10-29
$13.67 Psychic 50
Trainer (38)
1 Aether Paradise Conservation Area sm2-116
$0.19
Trainer (38)
2 Bravery Charm sv2-173
$0.35
1 Computer Search bw7-137
$16.18
2 Electric Generator sv1-170
$0.15
3 Electropower sm8-172
$0.63
1 Float Stone xy8-137
$6.35
1 Forest Seal Stone swsh12-156
$0.38
1 Guzma sm3-115
$3.38
2 Guzma & Hala sm12-193
$7.34
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.28
4 Max Elixir xy9-102
$1.43
Trainer (38)
1 Penny sv1-183
$0.16
3 Professor's Research swsh45-60
$0.18
4 Quick Ball swsh1-179
$0.29
2 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.31
4 Tag Call sm12-206
$0.47
1 Thunder Mountain ◇ sm8-191
$2.10
2 Trainers' Mail xy6-92
$2.32
2 VS Seeker xy4-109
$4.25
Energy (11)
9 Basic Lightning Energy sve-4
$0.15 Lightning
2 Speed Lightning Energy swsh2-173
$0.28 Lightning

Card Types

Trainer 38
Pokémon 11
Energy 11

Energy Types

Lightning 9
Colorless 1
Psychic 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 5 attacks
5
27.8% of attacks
2 Energy 5 attacks
5
27.8% of attacks
3 Energy 8 attacks
8
44.4% of attacks

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Comments

Siegislash avatar
Siegislash

Thanks for this list! ❤️

 

I have a lot of these cards and wanted to make smth like this but I didn't know how to optimally use Pikarom 2024. 

As of suggestions I don't think I have any, this is probably as far as the archetype can go.

Maybe more mail, but I'm not rly sure what you would take out.

CountyGibbon798 avatar
CountyGibbon798

I'd consider this to me more of a Lightning Box than a PikaRom deck in my opinion. The only thing I could see this deck using is something like Cherish Ball or Electromagnetic Radar because of this deck's higher concentration of GX's, but I'm not sure what to take out for consistency.

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Battle Compressor

Ye CountyGibbon798 Cherish and Radar are decent suggestions. However, I am in no struggle to find pokemon, and the only advantage Cherish has over nest in this case is the ability to use dedenne, and I wouldn't sacrifice my miraidon and tapu koko search for that since Miraidon is the go-to search whenever your options aren't confined. 

Also yes it's not really a pikarom deck, pikarom is a great first attack as long as it survives. Think of it as a support almost. Boltund is the primary striker with pikarom and raichu as alternate options for openers and finishers.

And yes ur right the deck is very tight on stuff to pick out. Every time I pick out smth, it comes back to bite me when I test it. 

Evn avatar
Evn

I would run another miraidon ex. Also no Battle Compressor lol

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Battle Compressor

Evn Thats good advice. However, there are reasons I didn't run 2:

- It isn't NEEDED needed, like, you won't have crazy consistency issues without it.

- The deck is severely pressed in terms of space. Every card in this deck has proven during testing to be either a large step forward for consistency, or at least helpful. I only cards I could remove are maybe an electropower or a generator.

- Only one miraidon is needed for setup, any more would become stumps. 

- Not a decisive reason, but I do have hisuian heavy there.

 

Also ye it is very unfortunate that I cannot find compressor helpful here lmao

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