Tournament Winning Feraligatr (BUT BETTER!)

🐊MUDDY WATERS🐊

COMPETITIVE APPROACH, WITH A COMPLETE GAMEPLAY GUIDE!

(POST-ROTATION VERSION)

List based in the Feraligatr deck that won a japanese small tournament in the last few days, but with a lot of improvements.

*Feraligatr's ability works in it's pre-evolution attacks if you have Relicanth on your bench, so you can use Big Bite for a 130 damage attack that binds your opponent's Pokémon, or Reverse Thrust for a 150 damage attack with a "hit and run" effect. Counter Catcher is

🐊MUDDY WATERS🐊

COMPETITIVE APPROACH, WITH A COMPLETE GAMEPLAY GUIDE!

(POST-ROTATION VERSION)

List based in the Feraligatr deck that won a japanese small tournament in the last few days, but with a lot of improvements.

*Feraligatr's ability works in it's pre-evolution attacks if you have Relicanth on your bench, so you can use Big Bite for a 130 damage attack that binds your opponent's Pokémon, or Reverse Thrust for a 150 damage attack with a "hit and run" effect. Counter Catcher is great for the first attack, while a 170HP Luxurious Cape Mimikyu wall is the perfect "partner in crime" for the second option. Obviously, you also have access to Feraligatr's OHKO move, Giant Wave. Croconaw and Totodile can be used as annoying attackers to gain time in the earlygame, and can get tankier against bench snipers with the help of Luxurious Cape. Munkidori is probably the cherry over this cake, allowing you to heal your wall or a Feraligatr while moving that damage to your opponent's Pokémon, while Defiance Band also helps reaching the right numbers. Finally, we have Tatsugiri as our consistency engine, since it could be used as a free retreat pivot with a built-in Pokégear in it's ability, with the help of Rescue Board, Beach Court, Surfer or Switch (which are also ways to retreat your Mimikyu without needing to discard energies).

*Artazon helps filling your bench, while Arven helps you find almost any needed resource with a Poffin, Nest Ball, Ultra Ball or Earthen Vessel. Night Stretcher and Lana's Aid are ways of recovering any needed Pokémon or basic energy from your discard pile. Luminous Energy opens the possibility of attacking with Mimikyu if you ever want to. Paldean Student is a great inclusion, since it is already fine as a "find any 1 Pokémon you need", and just keeps getting better from that on; you can also use Arven for Ultra Ball or Earthen Vessel to discard any spare Paldean Student in your opening hand, speeding up the proccess. Finally, Neutralization Zone is your lategame "checkmate" play, if paired with Iono's hand disruption.

*This deck is insanely strong and has a lot of potetial, trust me! The only main issue is the lack of real draw engines, but it still works. Just get a Rescue Board Tatsugiri and a Luxurious Cape Mimikyu ASAP, and you should be fine.

*Be careful on how you fill your bench. The ideal scenario is having 1 Feraligatr, 1 Croconaw/Feraligatr, 1 Mimikyu, 1 Relicanth, 1 Tatsugiri and 1 Munkidori in play. You could go for double monkeys, but you would need to give up on the spare gator or the sashimi pivot for that, which means this is a higher risk and higher reward choice.

*Hope you enjoy this decklist and this gameplay guide! Please leave a "cool" reaction if you liked it! ;)

*I've also made a pre-rotation version in another post, check it out!

🌊HAVE FUN!