u/SquidSystem

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined. This deck, conceptually, feels absolutely incredible. When it works, it is the greatest feeling you can experience. Getting to Deck and Cover, and then retreat back behind Flygon's sand slammer to rub salt into their paralyzed, poisoned wound is euphoric.

Unfortunately, actually getting this to work with the tools you have available to use Accelgor's attack is a fool's errand. There isn't really a good option for this other than Serperior, but needing to piece together 2 stage 2 lines with a stage 1 main attacker is honestly an act of cruelty. There is no other reasonable way to consistently attack with Accelgor, because 2 energy is way too expensive in this format on a type without the amazing ramp options of other types. And there also isn't really a better option for a pokemon to hide behind (maybe Gengar ex? You know it's bad when he's involved somehow). I wish we had a pokemon like Dragonair but for Grass types, maybe with a limitation like BST Cherrim from the mainline TCG. THAT would actually make this deck so much more pleasant to have to pilot lol.

Do any of you have any bright ideas on how to improve this deck? I know it's just trying to juggle too much but this is so fun! I really want it to work somehow.

I believe in the current meta, Muk is a highly underrated card that can offer a great deal of utility against many common decks. By running this fine fellow in the Zoroark ex deck, I am able to seamlessly put into play a Muk by the midgame which completely shuts down several important cards in highly meta decks:

Miraidon ex is no longer the dangerous win condition that prevents this deck from attaining victory. Darkrai and Darkrai ex are no longer able to chip you down using their dangerous abilities, and you don't even need to use any tech attackers to handle the Oricorios you may well encounter. Even more understated abilities, like Legendary Pulse, or the vaunted Veevee-Volve ability do not function against you, while you suffer little in the domain of consistency for this inclusion. As you can see my win-rate during my climb was quite successful, and offered to me a painless way to achieve the oft-desired Master Ball rank. I suggest that you all do so as well. What do you think? Do you believe that Muk has finally had his day in the sun? Do you believe that Muk's recent deal with the CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Apple, may have had something to do with his meteoric rise? Let me know in the comments below.

Is this a convuluted way of essentially getting Pursuit back? Maybe, maybe. I think Ghost and Fairy are two of the most annoying types currently, and while Ghosts used to be held back by the threat of being grabbed while running away, Fairies never suffered that consequence. I think this is a really strong effect, but it is kind of telegraphed, and only works once unless you reset it. I think this move should be distributed primarily to Psychic types and Pokemon with occult or spiritual connections, as it is essentially a ritual salt circle.

Some clerical things:

Tera would break the trap, but you can't Tera then switch so you're at minimum stuck for a turn.

U-turn and the like work, but you won't be able to actually leave the field.

As a hazard, it would be able to be cleared by any of the hazard clearing moves like Defog or Rapid Spin, and Heavy-Duty Boots would prevent the trap from being triggered (better hope you don't get knocked)

I know that this is a lot of insane investment, but I actually think this kinda rocks as a save tank. Is she gonna live the best nukes in the world outside of her once per turn Iron Fighter Roy Ring cheese? probably not! But just by being a save armor who can tank one hit, while also being able to provide that unique utility of Penalty cleansing, Liberate + Imbue support, Ice Lock, and tanking all at once, she compresses a lot of powerful things into one little package. I'm so glad that recent armor fodder has been pretty permissive of the alternative armor types, I think the ranged armor archetype is finally starting to see better days!! please don't ruin it IS

The Flygon doubters must admit defeat. Flygon goes crazy into the current meta. Sleep scam? Delicious free points from your Igglybuff. Literally won games against sleep scam where I never even announce an attack. Miraidon Magnezone? Those Magneton are not safe to build up energy for a second. Miraidon is always going to die in a counterattack no matter what against a set up Flygon board. Mega Absol Hydreigon decks? You might as well be conceding if Absol so much as touches the bench. There are no unwinnable matchups with this deck, even bulky Stage 2 Mega decks need some pretty good luck to survive the sand eroding their HP long enough.

The primary weakness this deck has is that it is vulnerable to bricking. Cleffa helps in dire situations or very early on to just pull Pokemon out, and even the fact you are a dual type dragon deck is sustainable (you really only need one big attack to win most of the time, setting up 2 trapinch with energy early is usually the move anyway), but sometimes you just get bad luck and lose. On the bright side, that's also literally what every deck is experiencing right now! More than anything, this deck really hopes for a better Trapinch and Vibrava. If they every print a Sand Tomb Trapinch this deck genuinely would become a tier 2 if not tier 1 archetype, mark my words.

I seriously recommend this deck full sail. It took until hitting UB4 before I even really encountered any resistance, and even then it was more bad luck/misplays holding me back than the deck itself. As long as sleep scam is meta, Flygon is the bulwark against nefarious naptime ne'er-do-wells.

I've been trying to decide if just throwing Instruct on Summer Alfonse is the best C option for him, I'm kind of guessing it would be, he plays well with Instruct with his Great Talent stack being a lot easier with it. I just really need a second opinion so I can press inherit and feel better

this is tagged as humor because otherwise I would be on the news

I think it would be really interesting to play with the concept of a Trick Room setting ability that is a lot more conditional, and doesn't use Trick Room in its traditional sense as a long term field effect, but rather, essentially a single turn phenomenon. I don't know if this would be particularly good, in large part because it is fundamentally stopped by Protect, but that would become predictable! I don't think any of the users i've suggested here would be particularly scary here, except for maybe Hoopa? But Hoopa is quite frail and if its going last, there's a good chance it will just get killed before it can do the job. What do you all think?

I finally cracked it. All the variants I tried to make Flygon work, and all it took was getting Flygon in touch with his inner child. Cleffa is iffy, but it's the best option we have to getting Flygon up without much issue. Cleffa is cruel, but getting that extra Pokemon draw while taking up very little deck space is so good. This meta plays so heavily towards Flygon's strengths. If you rely on a Mega, or 30 HP basics, Flygon is fuckin' invincible!! Who cares how scuffed the win is, all that matters is that I can Cyrus your benched Mega after a turn or two and auto win. You just get to play like a vulture, waiting to see what rots.

The thing that really got Flygon rolling for me was that thick healing package. A lot of Flygon decks I saw were going light on it, when you need to ability to survive as many fraudulent turns as possible. This deck is so much more consistent than I thought it would be. Dead draw and donk is an inevitability, but why fight it? This is well within the threshold of success for me. If you tried Flygon before but kept bricking, TRY THIS LIST. Trust me. Chip is back, like the good ol' days before Eevee Grove!

Reasoning should be self explanatory but I am prepared to provide more detailed explanations for each one. And yes the blank beast weapons and outburst being above the bottom 4 means I would rather have my units be equipped with absolutely nothing than those things