I was taking a look through a Neo Discovery spoiler...and I
saw this Beedrill. I constructed a deck on Apprentice and have done pretty
well so far. Here is the deck list:
SWARM
Pokémon - 12 Basic/ 2 Stage 1/ 3 Stage 2
3 Weedle (Neo II)
2 Kakuna (Base)
3 Beedrill (Neo II)
3 Cleffa (Neo)
3 Electabuzz (Base)
2 Rocket's Zapdos
1 Brock's Mankey (Taunt)
Trainers - 29
3 Professor Oak
3 Computer Search
4 Item Finder
3 Pokémon Trader
3 Pokémon Breeder
3 Lass
3 Nightly Garbage Run
3 Gold Berry
2 Scoop Up
2 Rocket's Training Gym
Energy - 14
7 Grass
7 Lightning
The basic strategy is to use the Cleffa/Lass combo first turn
(Scoop Up helps here...if I start with something other than Cleffa I can scoop
up my active to promo cleffa) and retreat for a Beedrill by turn 2. I then
use Triple Poison combined with Rocket's Training Gym to make it difficult to
retreat (there's nothing worse than finally poisoning a Sneasel, only to have it
retreat for another Sneasel then come hit you again). Nightly Garbage Run
helps get my evos back and also helps with the low energy count.
Electabuzz is helpful to stall if I'm caught without an offensive force, and it
can also take a few prizes while I'm preparing another Beedrill. Zapdos is
used as my cleaner in the late game when I can't seem to get another Beedrill
out, and he's also my main weapon against Fire decks. I chose Brock's
Mankey instead of Magby or Cleffa as my anti-Slowking tech since I don't have
any Gust of Winds in the deck, and Brock's Mankey is more useful in taking out
other support Pokemon that do not rely on powers. I think
everything else is self-explanatory. Hope you enjoy the opportunity to fix
a somewhat original deck.
Austin
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I looked through my inbox to find something that doesn't include Sneasel or
Murkrow, since it seems like almost every fix I do uses them. The deck I ended
up on is actually really good, it'll be hard to make it much better. But
nonetheless, I'll see what I can do.
I suggest you use the Neo Discovery Kakuna rather than the Base, it's
better in my opinion. Let's add in one more Weedle too just to make it easier to
get Beedrill out as fast as you can. Everything else looks good. I like that
Brock's Mankey in there, looks like it would combo well with your Rocket's
Training Gym.
With the trainers, let's start off by making some room by dropping two
Item Finder, a Nightly Garbage Run, a Pokemon Trader, and a Scoop Up. You should
be able to do well enough with one less of those cards. In their place, add in
another Oak and Computer Search, and another Rocket's Training Gym could help
when you face a deck with a lot of free retreaters. Then add one Gust of Wind,
for when you can't get Brock's Mankey out or you don't want to waste an attack
bringing out one of their benched pokemon.
The rest of your trainers and your energy look nice. I hope what little
help I could offer was of use to you. Good luck with the deck.
~ Monkey