difficult

Deck Traits: You want to draw many cards, and pivot smartly (You're okay with making sacrifices and aim to win games 3-2) ... however, because of this the deck is INCREDIBLY consistent and can outplay any matchup.

Early Game: Start  with Sigilyph or Mew EX as a wall, and build up an Abra line on the bench.

Always starts with a Zapdos EX, which can attack on your first attacking turn. 

Takes a few turns to power up, but high HP helps tank until that point. Use of Professor and Poke ball helps get the second one on the bench and powering up when the first is good to go. 

All the other cards help frustrate you opponents tactics, from red carding evolutions, or bring back low health basics to fill the bench. 

The goal of this deck is to annoy your opponent through constant sleep and occasional forced discard. Jigglypuff can be replaced with Promo Jigglypuff later on to maximize the annoyance. 

Even though the end goal of the deck is to get to Venusaur, you'll often find that Exeggutor can handle well on its own. The Exeggutors serve as a 1 energy tank that can deal damage while you build the Venusaur in the back. Generally, you would want Exeggutor to take you to the late gate which is when Venusaur serves as clean up with its high HP and sustain. This deck generally only allows room for 2 Pokemon to be fainted so you have to be careful with the Basic and Stage 1 Pokemon.

Charizard Ex deck - 122 split

This deck uses only 1 Charmander. The reason is:

• Once you have a Charizard Loaded you win
• Higher chance to start with Moltres
• Pokeball still gives 50% chance charmander after first moltres, or 100% moltres if you start with charmander

Strategy:

Load Charizard of energy, hopefully 5 before putting him on bench

In mirror, first player to play charizard in the active spot looses

Fossil tech, to avoid sabrinas
 

Flex Spots:

Reliant on Misty to generate energy quickly and start dealing damage. Avoid playing 2nd Lapras prematurely to avoid Sabrina, unless you have a fossil you can use for free retreats. If 1 Lapras dies, remove fossils to avoid Sabrina.

Cheaper version of Aritcuno 18T, Misses the attack for 2 energy but can help to start. If you get 1 Articuno, you can run it with 2 Lapras, and once you have the second Articuno, you can go to the Articuno 18T deck, or keep trying with some Lapras for extra pokeball consistency.

Hard to use deck that have a very high winrate against decks that primarily use pokemons with 120/130 hp. Very versatile as you can build both a Moltres/Arcanine ex combo, as well as a Wigglytuff ex to disrupt your opponent with sleep. The exception is decks that can reliably oneshot your Arcanine EX, where you NEED to build your Wigglytuff first. So meta and deck knowledge is needed.

Reliant on Misty to generate energy quickly and start dealing damage. Avoid playing 2nd Articuno prematurely to avoid Sabrina.

This deck is hilarious to play but incredibly frustrating for opponents, especially those with powerhouse decks that require heavy energy buildup.

Start with Bellsprout, aiming to evolve into Victreebel as your primary attacker. Build out Aerodactyl and a second Victreebel next, with Pidgeot as a backup option. Alternatively, starting with Aerodactyl can sometimes lead to a quick win if your opponent’s bench is empty.