Top 5 Decks November

What’s poppin’ Po Town readers? It’s your boy Zach Lesage (@ZachLesagePTCG) here and I’m here to cover the best decks from our Fusion Strike metagame! The set has only been out in North America for a few weeks, but there have been countless tournaments that I’ve been able to observe and track the top-performing decks. With everyone wondering what is the best deck or which cards they should trade for with their Fusion Strike codes, the goal of this article is to help inform you of those important decisions. The lists featured in this article are a combination of my personal findings, testing with my teammates, and top lists created by tournament champions! If you’re looking for any of the cards for these decks, consider picking up codes right here at the PoTown store! There is a large selection of many codes and they’re emailed right away! Anyways, let’s check out our first deck.

Sylveon VMAX (Evolving Skies) is an interesting deck because it requires you to have a bunch of different Pokemon types on your Bench for its Max Harmony attack. You can max out at 250 damage, but you also reap all of the benefits from having an army of different Pokemon on your Bench. Octillery (Battle Styles) can search out any Rapid Strike card, Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX (Battle Styles) is a great alternative attacker, and Galarian Moltres V (Chilling Reign) also increases your odds of winning against Pokemon weak against Darkness-type, like Mew VMAX (Fusion Strike). It seems like the Pokemon were randomly tossed into this deck, similar to a Deck Wizard deck on PTCGO, but they each fulfill a goal while powering up Max Harmony! Let’s check out this deck!

Upon first glance, Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX (Chilling Reign) doesn’t seem like much, but Ride of the High King can either OHKO Pokemon with lower amounts of HP or set up a 2HKO with Max Lance. Similarly, Max Lance looks like it peaks at 250 damage with the destructive cost of discarding your Energy, but there is a way to get around that. Inteleon (Chilling Reign) or you can aim for a 2HKO by using Blizzard Rondo on Suicune V (Evolving Skies). You can always accelerate Energy to your Pokemon by using Melony (Chilling Reign) to attack with any of your attacking Pokemon. Drizzle (Sword and Shield) allows you to piece those hard-to-find Trainer cards together and Path to thePeak (Chilling Reign) can slow down your opponent. This deck is fairly neutral in our Fusion Strike metagame so let’s check it out:

The strategy of this deck is simple on paper, but difficult to pull off with ease in-game. You want to streamline Blizzard Rondo quickly by utilizing Melony to accelerate your Energy. You want to use Drizzile to establish your board state with Shady Dealings and to eventually Evolve into Inteleon with Quick Shooting. Getting down a Lotad (Evolving Skies) early is important so you can eventually Rare Candy (Sword and Shield) into a Ludicolo (Evolving Skies) when you need to use Enthusiastic Dance to plan an OHKO on a Pokemon with a high amount of HP. The key focus point is to carefully calculate Quick Shooting, both players Benched Pokemon, and the potential option to use Enthusiastic Dance. There are cute comeback plays that you can utilize with Raihan (Evolving Skies) and you can even use Rare Candy to Evolve into an Inteleon in a pinch. Scoop Up Net (Rebel Clash) can also make for some interesting plays so it’s best to keep an open mind. Let’s check out this list:

Umbreon VMAX (Evolving Skies) is arguably one of the best cards in the game and for good reasons, it has a built-in Boss’s Orders (Shining Fates) with its Dark Signal Ability. The extra bonus is that it has the Single Strike stamp on it so it works great with other Single Strike cards, like Single Strike Urshifu VMAX (Battle Styles) and Houndoom (Battle Styles). The goal of this deck is to decide on the best-attacking type for each matchup, either Darkness-type or Fighting-type, power up that Pokemon with Houndoom, and hit for a lot of damage quickly. Strategies like this have been successful for the entirety of the game and I think this deck truly has potential. Let’s check it out!

Mew VMAX pops onto the scene and plays out similar to most other Mew cards of the past, like Mewtwo & Mew-GX (Unified Minds), by having a way to copy other attacks. Mew VMAX can copy any attack on your Benched Fusion Strike Pokemon with it’s Cross Fusion Strike attack for only two Colorless Energy. There are only a handful of Fusion Strike Pokemon to choose from, but I think the ones in this deck work out pretty well! The deck basically copies Genesect V (Fusion Strike) over and over again to use Techno Blast until you win the game. You can always increase that damage with Power Tablet (Fusion Strike) and use Switch (Sword and Shield) to be able to use the attack again and again. There are plenty of other cool techs to discover in this deck, but I’ll let you discover those by checking out this deck list:

All of these pokemon online decks seem to be performing really well in the new Fusion Strike metagame, but you never know when the game is going to be flipped on its head. Maybe a new promo card will come out or a top player will discover a new strategy! I love how Pokemon is inviting with many top decks in the format and that there are opportunities to be creative too! I can’t wait to test a bunch to try and maybe even uncover a new strategy myself! That being said, I’m gonna get back to testing more Fusion Strike decks so I can bring Po Town readers the freshest content available! I hope you’ve enjoyed this article and I wish you the best on your Pokemon TCG journey! Let’s get it!

Zach Lesage is a contributing writer for PoTownStore.com. As a Toronto local, he has been playing the Pokemon Trading Card Game since 2005 and creates Pokemon content as his full time career. Under the moniker of theloneblown, he creates YouTube content, streams on Twitch, and provides hot takes on his Twitter. With multiple prestigious accomplishments in the game, such as the 2020 Players Cup 2 Champion and the 2020 Oceania International Championships Finalist, he has proven his success in the game. Outside of the game, he travels the world, enjoys the culture of designer streetwear, and is a professionally trained chef. You can catch him at most Pokemon events and follow him on Twitter @ZachLesagePTCG.