Single Strike Anti-Meta

Horiz0ntal Horiz0ntal Expanded 1,558 views Mar 25, 2022 Updated Mar 28, 2022
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As the title describes, here's a single strike based deck focusing on shutting down the current meta, featuring a combination of Single Strike Urshifu and Gengar to cover our bases.

The main attackers are Single Strike Urshifu V and Gengar Vmax, and we are looking to attack our opponents for weakness as often as possible, and hitting for big damage with Gengar otherwise. After these past couple of regional events, the clear runaway meta decks that almost everyone plays are Mew Vmax, Gengar Vmax,

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As the title describes, here's a single strike based deck focusing on shutting down the current meta, featuring a combination of Single Strike Urshifu and Gengar to cover our bases.

The main attackers are Single Strike Urshifu V and Gengar Vmax, and we are looking to attack our opponents for weakness as often as possible, and hitting for big damage with Gengar otherwise. After these past couple of regional events, the clear runaway meta decks that almost everyone plays are Mew Vmax, Gengar Vmax, and some variation on Arceus Vstar. This deck is equipped to punish those decks with both of its main attackers being able to OHKO most of those decks. Against Mew, Gengar is the main attacker and will usually be able to need only 2 energy for knockouts with fear and panic. Against Arceus and Gengar, Single Strike Urshifu deals enough damage to OHKO both of them, and Gengar is still a solid backup against any pesky dunsparce.

Path to the peak is a solid option against most decks and only shuts off our Lumineon and Crobat, so we really have nothing to worry about in that regard, and is another strong deterrent for Mew Vmax and Arceus decks. I'm debating swapping out Lumineon, but I'm not positive what I'd put in its place, maybe another air balloon to swap attackers easier or a fourth Peak.

Another different pick from most of the old SS Urshifu decks is the 4 copies of Battle VIP Pass, as they can help establish a very strong board in the early game and catapult our plan into action, and now that Ultra Ball is in standard, we can use them as discard fodder in the later game.

Card Types

Trainer 35
Pokémon 18
Energy 7

Energy Types

Darkness 14
Fighting 3
Water 1

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 7 attacks
7
26.9% of attacks
2 Energy 10 attacks
10
38.5% of attacks
3 Energy 9 attacks
9
34.6% of attacks

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