The Bubbling Tornado (Water)
                                                                      By: Harrison Wright                                                                                        

 Oneonta, New York

Tournament held at: The Gamers Bizarre

Day: 4/21/01

8 people attended

Pokemon x 24

4 mantine

2 marill (promo)

1 Azumarill           

2 psyduck (rocket) *note not gym hero

1 golduck

3 horsea (neo)

2 sedra (neo)

1 Kingdra

3 goldeen (base set)

2 seaking (base set)

2 seel (base set)

1 dewgong (base set)

    Trainer x 11

2 gust of wind

3 potion

2 challenge!!

1 pluspower

3 bill

    Energy x 25

25 water energy

                                            (24+11+25=60)

            This deck is based around a well balance of water pokemon.  I used the azumaril for its bench attacking attack (bubble shower).  I used the neo sedra because it can do 30 damage and a 50/50 chance of doing 10 to one of your apponents benched pokemon.   I also added Kingdra for its killer attack, which lets you switch the active pokemon with a bench pokemon if you don’t knock it out.  Even though mantine may be weak it is a great staller so you can build up you seels marills and the others. Golduck is another way to stall with its hyperbeam attack great way to stall for more time.  I added the seakings and dewgong for a fast way to rack up the damage done to the opponents active pokemon.

            Aa deck isn’t a deck without good ol’ bill so that is why I added him it also helps when you need some more energy or an evolvment. I then added challenge so I could fill up my bench with good staller pokemon in order to build up my other pokemon.

            During the tournament I faced three people One had a Psychic deck, the other a Fighting with a steelix, and a grass deck.

The psychic deck was a bit tricky lucky for me there wasn’t an alakazam to move around the damage.  Finally I had beat him after about 17 minuets.  So now you know that this deck is fairly good with psychic.  If you end up fighting an alakazam deck use gust of winds to send out chansey or pokemon with a lot of damage and destroy it.

The fighting deck was Rather easy.  Since mantine has a resitance to fighting I had the upper hand.  When he put out his steelix I had to do some thinking I decided to put out my Golduck and get ride of his metal energy.   Make sure when fighting a fighting type deck to use challenge and get mantines,

The battle with the Grass deck was Really quick.  My opponent had out a pinser and I had out a marill.  I went first and luckily I had just got drew a Azumarill so I put a water energy on marill and next turn evolved into azumarill and used tackle. Then I used bubble shower next turn and he still hadn’t drew a basic pokemon and gave up.  Due to this I am not sure how well this deck works against grass type decks.

At the end of the Tournament I had come in first place

Harrison P W

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