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What’s up, PoTown readers?? Battle Styles has been out for about a week now, and I’ve had my fair share of time to test most of the new decks. While some of my other articles might feature Pokemon TCG cards that may require a handful of PTCGO code cards, this article has a bunch of cheaper decks to build. Some of the coolest decks don’t need to cost a whole bunch, like Primeape (Battle Styles), and they can compete with a lot of the best decks in the format. This article aims to share my favorite budget decks that are rocking out in the Battle Styles Pokemon metagame and let you know why they are so awesome! That being said, let’s hop into Weepinbell (Battle Styles) / Salazzle (Battle Styles).

Hi all, I’m Joe Bernard, one of the OmniPoke Youtube Channel members, which is focused on producing competitive TCG content. I rediscovered pokemon in 2009 and have been playing and collecting ever since. I have also been involved in Commentating National and International Championships for TPCI since 2016. 

What’s up, PoTown readers? Are you all excited for the release of Battle Styles? I’m beyond hyped to play around with these concepts and share my findings with our Pokemon community. That’s where I got the idea for this article - what if I shared all of my early findings here in this article? You would gain multiple resources, including my personal list of cards I’m looking to acquire in the set (so you know which cards to pick up and trade for) and a handful of early lists to test once the set goes live on PTCGO! I’m sure I’ll flesh these decks out in the future once the format is a bit more stable, but they should be a great place to start day one. That being said, let’s hop into it.

Battle Styles is upon us, and that means that new decks are coming. Many Players will quickly recognize that Battle Styles brings a lot of competitive edges that’s been incredibly necessary to our current standard format. With the release of Battle Styles, we will see a drastic change in the metagame that, hopefully, will be a positive shift toward a bright future. 

Lucario and Melmetal Tag Team GX (LucMetal) combined with Zacian V and Zamazentais a force to be reckoned with on the online scene. After winning the first Player’s Cup, it went on a tear online getting various cosigns from top players – the main strength of this deck is the high skill ceiling it can have. As a LucMetal player, you tend to play very methodically and slow the game down to a hault. Hiding behind Lillie’s Poke Dolls, you can buy yourself infinite amounts of time just using Zacian’s Intrepid Sword ability to attach extra energy, and draw into extra resources. Reducing damage is something that is always good, but this deck is arguably the tankiest one in the entire format – decks are going to have an extremely hard time taking down most of the Pokemon in this deck once you place some damage reduction buffs on them. I could talk about LucMetal all day, but let’s dissect what really makes this deck tick, and what the strategy is. Without further ado, let’s talk about LucMetal Zacian today!

Much like most schools, there’s many different cliques. There’s the cool kids, the smart kids, and jocks, and the geeks; in this case, a new kid just came into town. You guessed it, that new kid is Excadrill! Being brought to the scene by Sander Wojkic, the control master, he capitalized on his Player’s Cup II qualification with this deck that packs a surprise factor on the ladder! Excadrill is always something that has seen play in the Tier 3 bracket, but as of lately it’s been making a splash in an effort to counter some of the top dogs in the metagame – mostly Pikarom and Eternatus. Before Vivid Voltage is set to release, this Excadrill is probably the best Fighting-type attacker besides Marshadow and Machamp Tag Team GX, mostly due to its efficiency for being able to attack for a single energy. Being a 1-Prize attacker means that the game also will go on for longer than most other matchups, and gives the opponent less of a reward for getting a couple speedy KOs on our Pokemon. Today, we’re going over all things Excadrill.

Yo everyone! My name is Joshua Vanoverschelde but some of you may know me as ZapdosTCG. I've been playing the game for almost 10 years now and I owe a large amount of my success to playing Baby Blacephalon.

None of us can know for sure when the game will return to a semblance of what it looked like before, but what WE DO KNOW is that the GAME WILL HAVE CHANGED. Let's take a look into the current state of competitive play, how it got affected by global events and what the future of the Pokemon TCG might look like in the future.

Hello, it’s Jack, back again for another article! This time I will be going over the new set, Vivid Voltage. Vivid Voltage is an extremely interesting set, containing new Amazing Rare Pokémon and a very high number of new cards.

Hey everyone,   Levi here, today I'm excited to bring you my thoughts on the current state of the meta right before the Players Cup II commences. In this short article, I'm going to go over three of my favorite, most powerful decks.

PikaRom has been around in different styles since it was printed. It started out as an incredibly fast, hard-hitting deck that aimed to target down Tapu Lele-GX with Tag Bolt GX to try and get a 3 or 4-prize turn and then use Let Loose early and again later to completely reset an opponent’s board, sometimes before they could even get anything going for them. It shifted into a deck that relied on using Vikavolt V’s Item Lock early until a Full Blitz could get a KO and then going from there to try and maintain a game-winning board state, and now in it’s arguably weakest form it is utilizing Crushing Hammer with Reset Stamp to be a slower deck that has infinite options AFTER a Full Blitz but takes longer to reach that point.