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[mailto:ER2@houston.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 7:14 PM

Subject: Eric; ludicargo/milotic


Ludicargo/Milotic -Shenandoah Conference Center - Eric
Gym Challenge at
Shenandoah Conference Center
The Woodlands, Texas
Saturday, 6-25-05
About 150 People

I haven't played in a while, so I didn't have a very good idea on what to play. But after I finally made a good deck, playtested it, & changed it some more, I went to a gym challenge. So here's the deck:

Pokemon x22:
milotic x3 (hl)
feebas x3 (hl)
Ludicolo x3 (one happy dance, two swing dance)
lombre x2 (dx)
lotad x3 (1 surprise, 2 rain splash)
wobby x1
jirachi x1
dunsparce x2
magcargo x2 (dx)
slugma x2 (dx)

trainers x26:
frontier x1
desert ruins x1
atm rock x1
vs. seeker x3
copycat x3
Mr. briney x1
super scoop up x2
rare candy x3
potion x4
switch x2
reversal x2
celio x2
crystal shard x1

energy x12
rainbow x3
scramble x1
water x8

The strategy is , of course, to start with dunsparce, use SAR, search for a jirachi, evolve the other pokemon with make a wish, then use the swing dance smooth over combo for speed. BUT, this ludicargo deck uses milotic, because after ludicolo KO's a pokemon, & the opponent retaliates, I can evolve feebas into milotic to heal ludicolo, & use super scoop up/Mr. Briney to get the milotic back.

Here's how the tournament went:

Well to start off, when I got there I only had 40 of these cards (the rest were proxies). So I couldn't compete in the GBA tournament because I didn't turn in my deck list in time =P. But I did manage to get all the cards from trades (it took forever...). well after a bunch of playtesting, trading, etc, the tournament finally began:

Round one: vs. gardy/exeggutor (I cant remember the names =P)

The first thing that I noticed is that practically everyone was running this deck today, but luckily, this was the only one I had to play. Anyway, we both had pretty good starts, me with an almost fully powered bench (from SAR), & him with an exeggutor with like 4-5 energies on it. I had a jirachi out as active, & he had a wobby. None of us attacked for about 5 turns, giving us plenty of time. But the only problem was that he knew that against ludicargo, you need a small bench, so he had only 3 pokemon out the whole time. But when we started attacking, he made a HUGE mistake (yay): He used psy shadow on his exeggutor with only 10 hp left (lol), KOing it. Later, he got out a gardy ex & completely mauled me, too fast for me to evolve milotic & heal... it just went downhill from there... but it was a great game.

0-1-0

Round two: no one showed so I got a win (yay)

1-1-0

Round three: vs. dragtode

Now THIS one was a great game. Unusually, not very many people ran this deck today. We both have amazing starts, with both of us fully powered by turn 4. Then, when were pretty much even on prizes, he pulls out a rockets raikou ex (big mistake, but its power is pretty good). So I smooth over/swing dance for a reversal or two, & OHKO it for the last two prizes.

2-1-0

Round four: vs. dark gengar/something that's grass/parasect

Man, this was a very short battle... I only started with a feebas & a couple of water energies... and he goes first, poisoning me with paras, so feebas has 10hp left & its my last pokemon... so I use ascension, & thinking that the whole game relies on this one coin flip... & its heads! So I get my milotic to win the game.

3-1-0 vs. sceptile

If I had a score of at least 4-2, I could get into the top 16. Before, I murdered this guy in fun matches, so I was pretty confident. But things were pretty tough this time. We both got pretty good starts. Luckily, ludicolo isn't weak to grass, so i just focused on KOing his groviles & treekos. Then he swarmed me with sceptiles & killed off my remaining ludicolos with sceptile ex.

3-2-0

I was about to play the next round, hoping that I'd win & make it to the top 16, but i had to leave for dinner =(

Props & slops

Props:
getting the cards i needed
great games
getting a free win in round two
Mike & Mia Cook for organizing the tourney
great Chinese food for dinner... mmmm...
my dad for taking me

Slops:
leaving early
not getting my deck checked in time for the GBA tournament
almost everyone running exeggutor
almost everyone having BO
the traffic from after that baseball game
not entering the raffles
having more slops than props, but oh well, i had fun

Thanks for reading my report

Eric
er2@houston.rr.com