> > From: "Barbara Tunkis" > To: > Subject: Lightning Punch, Angel > Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 20:33:44 -0500 > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 > > I used a modified version of a haymaker deck, and I think it ended up being > pretty good. I went to a tournament at a comic book store called GenX in the > Dallas/Ft. Worth area on July 31 and I quickly found out that I was one of 3 > girls in the whole place out of 30 guys. Before the tournament started, the > judge said that since this was one of his first times in this area, he > restricted the decks to have only one Professor Oak. I had to quickly find > another card... Well, a male dominated sport needed taming so I decided to > kick some butt. > > 1 Scyther > 1 Lickitung > 4 Electabuzz > 4 Farfetch'd > 2 Hitmonchan > > 9 Fighting Energy > 11 Lightning Energy > 2 Double Colorless > > 1 Professor Oak (normally 2 but for the tournament I could only have 1) > 3 Bill > 4 Energy Removal > 3 Super Energy Removal > 2 Item Finder > 1 Plus Power (I added that instead of the 2nd Professor Oak) > 3 Potion > 1 Super Potion > 2 Energy Retrieval > 1 Switch > 1 Poke Ball > 2 Gust of Wind > 2 Scoop Up > > Round 1: > We were going to play best out of 3, but the first game took us so long that > we ended up playing only the one. I called heads and won the flip. I put > out my Hitmonchan while he put out his Charmander. I jabbed and then he > scratched. I then jabbed again, and he tried the first attack again while he > built up his machop on his bench. I energy removaled machop then knocked out > his charmander. Next, he evolved his machop and started dishing out some > damage. Luckily, I put my Scyther out there all built up and ready to fight > and started slashing. He retreated his pokemon and then evolved his > charmander into charmeleon. I retreated Scyther and put out my Electabuzz. > Paralyzed him and shocked him for 10. He then evolved into Charizard but > didn't have enough energy yet. He only had 3 on there after that turn. SO I > Super Energy Removed his energy and then hit him again. This happened about > twice and then I killed his Charizard. The game went pretty much my way > after that scary turn... during the whole Charizard battle, I didn't have any > pokemon except for a damaged Scyther and Electabuzz. I got out my Farfetch'd > next, then took 2 turns building it up while I energy removed his Machamp. > Then I knocked out his last pokemon and won. > > Round 2: > This round and the next blurred together.... They went by really fast. The > kid had a colorless deck with Dudrios, Meowths, Persians, Eevees, Dratinis, > Dragonairs, Jigglypuffs, and Wigglypuffs. I pretty much dominated with my > energy removal and my mega punch. That and the fact that he was weak to my > pokemon. Hehehe. IN any case, he didn't have a good draw that time. We > played again and it ended in 5 turns... pretty much the same thing. > > Round 3: > The finals round.... what a scary deal. My opponent was a jerk who hid all > his energy and wouldn't let me see how much he had so I couldn't fully check > to see if he wasn't cheating. In any case, he had a deck almost exactly like > mine except no Farfetch'd and more Scythers, and 2 Chancy's... He beat me 2 > games in a row becuase I couldn't get a good draw and he had a lot of energy > removal in his deck too. By the time I was getting the cards I wanted, I was > down by 4 prizes.... so I ended up almost beating him but losing when I had 2 > or 3 prizes left. Oh well. > > contact me, Angel, at: btunkis@dhc.net > >