| TPL's words of wisdom. This deck is typical of a begining player, and begining builder. This person obviously knows what Pokemon he likes, but his deck lacks strategy, structure, and development. He seems to have just thrown his 30 or so favorite Pokemon into a bunch and then wonders why his deck doesn't do well. The first reason is probably that he has an enormous number of single cards. Single cards will kill you. Since he has no strategy or concept to his deck, aside from it being made of water and grass Pokemon, chosing trainers to benefit his deck is nearly impossible. All changes made to this deck, are purely my own preferences, as his strategy doesn't help me very much in fixing it. |
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Rescue Me!!!! Date: 3/2/00 1:14:51 PM Central Standard Time From: ddreddragon@yahoo.com To: TheLady@pojo.com (Pokemon Lady) I beg of you, help me!!!!! My deck is called stingray, adn it sucks. Tell me what to do to make it stronger. please help me. I'm tired of losing. My strategy is I attack as often as I can adn try to evolve my pokemon as needed. It's a crappy strategy, but I'm a newby at this. Thank you Drake Gotemo, wannabe pokemon master |
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| Well, Drake. The first comment that I have for you is that you've picked incredibly weak Pokemon for the vast majority of your deck. You don't have nearly enough trainers, and you have so many Pokemon that it's difficult for me to figure out which ones to cut and which ones to keep. I'll stick to your basic theme, but I'm going to make some major changes to it. Be warned. | |
| Omanyte
x1 Omastar x1 Starmie x1 Staryu x1 Poliwag x1 Poliwhirl x1 Shellder x1 Cloyster x1 Seadra x1 Horsea x1 Seel x1 Dewgong x1 Krabby x1 Kingler x1 Psyduck x1 Golduck x1 Grimer x2 Muk x1 Nidoran Female x2 Nidorina x1 Nidoqueen x1 Nidoran Male x2 Nidorino x1 koffing x1 weezing x1 ekans x1 arbok x1 bulbasaur x2 ivysaur x1 tangela x1 energy search x1 energy retrieval x3 Mysterious fossil x2 grass x10 water x10 |
Water
and Grass can be a powerful combination of Pokemon if used correctly, and
I like that you've broken out and used some less used Pokemon.
Boost your Psyduck/Golduck family to 4-3, and boost your Seel/Dewgong family to 3/2. Now, since you've got Nidoran Female, pick that family up and make it a 4/3/2 evolution. POKEMON 21 4 Psyduck Now, looking at your trainers, I discover you don't have the basic trainers you need to succede. Take out the trainers you have, and put in instead, 3 Bill, 2 Professor Oak, 4 Energy Removal, and 3 Super Energy Removal. Also put in 3 CPU Search and 2 Item Finders. TRAINERS 17 3 Bill You've got some clue as to what you are doing with the energy, but you need some DCE. You'll have to adjust the energy yourself when you discover how the deck plays out. ENERGY 10 Grass I hope that this helps--you didn't give me much to work with. TPL |
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