This is my first post. and I had to comment on this.
<<Let me clear things up in nice american english:
You said because I haven't played in any tourneys that
I haven't faced any good competition. Untrue, I have
played my best friend, who is the same age, started
playing TCG when I started, and has 7 decks of all the
basic types. I played him 3 times, all three he lost
to my Feraligatr/Blastoise/Kanghaskan deck. I also
battle adults at my pokemon league and have beaten
them too. So I don't just play kids. Thank You. My
Abomination Water Deck, 20-1. Period.>>
So you can beat your friend and a few league people.
Playing
the same people again and again let's you get a feel
for how
they play so that could attribute for your wins.
<<Second, super energy removals. Too easy to be
abused.
Even if both players have 4 in their decks, it is
still a luck card. Do you know what "luck" means,
anyways? The person that is lucky enough to get the
super energy removals at the right time will have the
advantage, because they will strip energy from your
active pokemon, not allowing you to attack in most
cases, and THEY will still be able to attack. Super
ER's are luck cards, whoever is lucky enough to get
them at the right time, say when your opponent brings
out a stage 2 with a 4 energy cost move, you super
energy removal, making it so they can't attack. They
ruin all strategies because I don't know of any deck
that can do anything without energy on their pokemon.
Worst case is you have a match where your not even
able to attack at all because the opponent gets all 4
super ER's out at the begining of the match. You say
that never happens, well it does. Try battling
someone 15 times that uses 4 super ER's in their deck
every time. My friend did that because his deck could
not beat my decks. It got so boring playing against 4
super ER's that I instituted the ban on them. See!
Period.>>
This is why you can't handle the tournament scene.
You
want everyone to play by YOUR rules so you don't get
the
full feel of the game and it's true competition. The
game
to me is fun because of the competition and never
knowing
what to expect from my next oppponent
<<FYI, I did not ban super energy removals from my
matches against my current water deck because they
hurt my deck. My water deck is fully capable of
surviving super energy removals. And I don't ban
cards now in hope that I can enter a tourney. I live
in Kalamazoo, MI. Any Idea where one is around
here?>>
WHat a contradiction!! Didn't you just get done
saying how
you banned them?? Nevermind. I'm sure if you look
hard enough
you'll find a place that's running a tournament so
just take the
time to look for one. And if your deck can handle
them then
why ban them at all??
<<Stadiums: They give an advantage to a certain type
of
pokemon. Cinnibar gym helps blaines fire pokemon.
Brocks stadium (forgot what it is called) helps brocks
pokemon. Erika's gym helps erikas pokemon. Misty's
gym helps misty's pokemon. Get the drift. But there
is no stadium that helps my water deck. I use
Blastoise/feraligatr/kanghaskan. I use lots of
trainers, they help the deck too much to use chaos
gym. I am going to super energy removals just because
the opponent can with my ban lifted, so eco and no
removal gym don't help. So what stadium helps out my
deck, huh? See my point. Period.>>
Ok first Brock's Gym is called Pewter City Gym. And
why
shouldn't a leader's gym benefit that leader's
pokemon??
And not all gym's are beneficial to certain pokemon.
Rocket's Minfield Gym, Rocket's Training Gym, No
Removal
Gym and others. So take the time to look over ALL of
the
Stadium cards. Boy I hate to think what you'll do
when
Neo Discovery comes out with the Unknowns. Those
things
only benefit each other Unknown on your side. I guess
you'll be banning them to huh???
<<multiple energy types. if you have say 3 energy
types
in your deck, that means logically, you must use less
of each energy. That means its much harder to get the
right energy at the right time. Now say you have more
than one evolution that takes 3 of one of the types of
energy to attack. If you only have 6 of the three
types of energy, that means you have to get 3 energies
on that pokemon, each with only a 1 in 10 chance of
getting one. I'm not am mathmetician and can figure
out the odds of getting 3 energy when you only have 6
in your deck, but those odds do suck, I know that for
sure. I almost always annialate multiple energy type
decks. Even my friend who doesn't believe hardly
anything I say realizes that good decks only have one
energy type.>>
Just because you can't handle a 2 type deck doesn't
mean
they are no good. All those Haymakers and Aero-Mews
and
Wiggly decks must be no good. I don't support those
decks
but even I can see that they work. I play a
Lightning/Fire
combo and It works very well for me so not all decks
with
2 colors stink.
<<Sure my loss was to an electrabuzz deck, but it was
my
weakness, and I'm not gonna feel sorry for it. Too
many problems in that match. Guess you can't have
good luck all the time. [Note to self: get rid of
luck factor in pokemon tcg.]>>
Yeah it's because most Poke's have weakness. It's sad
but true and too bad for you that Buzz had yours. As
far
as Luck is concerned, when you get rid of that factor
let
us all know how you did it. But all I can say is
Gooooooo
ooood Luck :)
<<I have around an 85% winning record against everyone
i've faced. No one has been able to consistently beat
me thats battle me more than twice. I even have a
winning recond against my closest friends who I myself
taught how to make good decks. Yeah, I know thats a
little cocky, but its true!>>
A little cocky?? You have an Ego bigger than my town.
So you build decks for friends. So do I but I build
them
with the best of my ability. There's a saying that
goes
"A teacher's best day is when his/her student
surpasses
him/her" Or something like that. Point is. SInce
you
build these people's decks do you think that has an
impact on it?? YOu know what to expect from the
deck.
That's all I'm done.
Ramza Beoulve,
Final Fantasy Tactics
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