4:30 And on this day, February the twelfth, in the year of our Lord, 2024, Charmaster finally realized that the dark shape on the disc on Energy Removal 2 was the silhouette of a Marill and not just a tattered hole from one of the other discs bursting through it.
That was a fun video! I've been playing some 2008 lately, so it's fun to see more battles from that format, and I remember Jay Hornung using Garchomp a lot the first time I played the format. Also, these are both decks I would consider building for my brother if he wanted to play retro Pokémon with me. One of the greatest strengths of Garchomp is being able to customize the basic Energy selection to adapt to a predicted meta. The list you built may be solid, but I would suggest re-evaluating the Energy with the decks Garchomp will be playing against in mind. I'm not suggesting changing the Energy before games... it gives Garchomp a significant advantage, and you wouldn't get that luxury in a tournament anyways... but adjust the Energy spread with the mindset of giving Garchomp as great a chance of success as possible if it was matched against a random deck from your library. If I remember correctly, your other 2008 decks are Gardevoir, Empoleon/Bronzong, Blissey, Scizor/Electrode/Toxicroak, Leafeon/Magmortar, Glaceon/Absol (featured in this video), and Skittles. Gardevoir features Psychic weak Pokémon, Empoleon features Lightning and Fire weak Pokémon, Blissey features Fighting weak Pokémon (though you may be better of not teching for it, since it runs four Holon Energy to remove that Weakness and will likely need to be 2HKOed anyways) (Jay Hornung says Blissey is such a bad matchup that the Fighting Energy doesn't make much difference, and I'm not sure if teching against Electrode is critical), Scizor/Electrode/Toxicroak features Fire, Fighting, and Psychic weak Pokémon, Leafeon/Magmortar features Fire and Water weak Pokémon, Glaceon/Absol features Metal weak Pokémon and a Fighting weak Pokémon that gets OHKOed anyways, and Skittles features a Water weak Ho-Oh and a Togekiss you probably won't be attacking with. That makes three decks with Fire weak attackers and two decks with Water weak attackers, which is probably not something the average Garchomp list techs for. Darkness Energy would also probably be solid against Dusknoir, but in this home meta, I'm not sure if it's worth running two Darkness Energy. One would probably be sufficient. Jay Hornung is more experienced at teching out Garchomp, so I would suggest giving his deck profile a look. Hope this is helpful.
I agree about the darkness energy, I can't see needing it all that much. Also, I don't have Skittles anymore, I took it apart to use its cards for other decks. It just wasn't that good.
@@holon_phantom Nooooo! Not Skittles! That was probably a good call, though. One Darkness Energy would probably be fine, Dusknoir does come into the Active to attack on occasion. With 10 damage from Garchomp Lv.X's Poké-Power, Garchomp would be able to OHKO it. Are there any other decks from your original check in video which you have taken apart? And are there any World Championship decks that just don't feel as good as you expected them to be?
Absol is so toxic😭 I wonder how people felt about this format at the time. I didn’t even know lv Xs shared deck space with the normal evolutions until recently
plz, don´t use dice, Probability and statistics are completely different, throwing a die is not the same as throwing a coin, if it were a coin Glacen would probably have hit the roof rack much harder. Good video, greetings from Chile.
2x Glaceon Lv.X
2x Glaceon
3x Eevee
4x Absol
2x Claydol
2x Baltoy
1x Jirachi ex
4x Team Galactic’s Mars
3x Bebe’s Search
3x Castaway
2x Island Hermit
2x Roseanne’s Research
2x Celio’s Network
4x Energy Removal 2
3x Crystal Beach
3x Cessation Crystal
2x Night Maintenance
1x Strength Charm
1x Team Galactic’s Wager
7x Water Energy
4x Call Energy
2x Multi Energy
1x Psychic Energy
1x Garchomp Lv X
3x Garchomp
1x Gabite
4x Gible
2x Claydol
2x Baltoy
2x Dusknoir
1x Duskull
1x Rotom
1x Chatot
4x Roseanne's Research
4x Felicity's Drawing
2x Bebe's Search
2x Team Galactic's Wager
2x Celio's Network
4x Rare Candy
3x Windstorm
3x Premier Ball
2x Pluspower
1x Night Maintenance
5x Psychic
2x Fire
2x Lightning
2x Fighting
2x Darkness
2x Metal
4:30 And on this day, February the twelfth, in the year of our Lord, 2024, Charmaster finally realized that the dark shape on the disc on Energy Removal 2 was the silhouette of a Marill and not just a tattered hole from one of the other discs bursting through it.
I just realized that! I'm shocked...
Bro pls bring new videe😢😢
That was a fun video! I've been playing some 2008 lately, so it's fun to see more battles from that format, and I remember Jay Hornung using Garchomp a lot the first time I played the format. Also, these are both decks I would consider building for my brother if he wanted to play retro Pokémon with me.
One of the greatest strengths of Garchomp is being able to customize the basic Energy selection to adapt to a predicted meta. The list you built may be solid, but I would suggest re-evaluating the Energy with the decks Garchomp will be playing against in mind. I'm not suggesting changing the Energy before games... it gives Garchomp a significant advantage, and you wouldn't get that luxury in a tournament anyways... but adjust the Energy spread with the mindset of giving Garchomp as great a chance of success as possible if it was matched against a random deck from your library.
If I remember correctly, your other 2008 decks are Gardevoir, Empoleon/Bronzong, Blissey, Scizor/Electrode/Toxicroak, Leafeon/Magmortar, Glaceon/Absol (featured in this video), and Skittles. Gardevoir features Psychic weak Pokémon, Empoleon features Lightning and Fire weak Pokémon, Blissey features Fighting weak Pokémon (though you may be better of not teching for it, since it runs four Holon Energy to remove that Weakness and will likely need to be 2HKOed anyways) (Jay Hornung says Blissey is such a bad matchup that the Fighting Energy doesn't make much difference, and I'm not sure if teching against Electrode is critical), Scizor/Electrode/Toxicroak features Fire, Fighting, and Psychic weak Pokémon, Leafeon/Magmortar features Fire and Water weak Pokémon, Glaceon/Absol features Metal weak Pokémon and a Fighting weak Pokémon that gets OHKOed anyways, and Skittles features a Water weak Ho-Oh and a Togekiss you probably won't be attacking with. That makes three decks with Fire weak attackers and two decks with Water weak attackers, which is probably not something the average Garchomp list techs for. Darkness Energy would also probably be solid against Dusknoir, but in this home meta, I'm not sure if it's worth running two Darkness Energy. One would probably be sufficient.
Jay Hornung is more experienced at teching out Garchomp, so I would suggest giving his deck profile a look.
Hope this is helpful.
I agree about the darkness energy, I can't see needing it all that much.
Also, I don't have Skittles anymore, I took it apart to use its cards for other decks. It just wasn't that good.
@@holon_phantom Nooooo! Not Skittles!
That was probably a good call, though.
One Darkness Energy would probably be fine, Dusknoir does come into the Active to attack on occasion. With 10 damage from Garchomp Lv.X's Poké-Power, Garchomp would be able to OHKO it.
Are there any other decks from your original check in video which you have taken apart? And are there any World Championship decks that just don't feel as good as you expected them to be?
I love those cards from WCS Decks. Do you have a few cards from those decks to change or sell? I just find your yt channel and I like it.
Wasn’t around this format, I started around during the plasma era with plasma storm to XY furious fist which was a good format around the time (:
Absol is so toxic😭 I wonder how people felt about this format at the time. I didn’t even know lv Xs shared deck space with the normal evolutions until recently
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plz, don´t use dice, Probability and statistics are completely different, throwing a die is not the same as throwing a coin, if it were a coin Glacen would probably have hit the roof rack much harder.
Good video, greetings from Chile.
Thank you for watching, but since official pokemon tournaments use dice for their games, I will too