Books A Million, Charlotte, NC
15-20 people
Saturday, June 24, 2000

Hey Pojo,  Jake Reeder reporting another killer deck.  If any of you have already read my past reports, you'll know I ghosts and dragons.  They're the only pokemon (with a few exceptions) that have no weaknesses, but have resistances.  My basic strategy is to start with a none psychic poekmon like dratini, to avoid resistance and build up my psychic pokemon with dragonair's help.  In a way my deck is ready for almost any occasion.  I have created another weakless deck in the grass/psychic section.  Well, here is my revised Weakless deck:

Weakless

4x Gastly- No retreat cost, resistance to fighting, first turn attack that has a 50% chance of paralysis
3x fossil Haunter- No retreat cost, resistance to fighting, and if he attacks there is a 25% chance of him even being hurt
2x Genger- Dark Mind can hurt the bench and use curse to bring that damage back to the active pokemon
4x Dratini- First turn attack and nobody has a resistance to him.
3x Dark Dragonair- Evolutionary Light speeds up the evolution process as far as ghosts go.
1x Scyther- You're probably thinking he doesn't belong here, but I think he does
3x TR Rattata- He's slightly better than base rattata
2x Raticate- Pretty good for a stage 1 pokemon
24x Psychic Energy
2x DCE
3x Potion
3x Gust of Wind
2x Switch
3x Bill
1x Imposter Oak

Battles: At Books A Million, our gym leader puts up a reward if somebody can beat him.  His only rule about battling him was that you had to win a battle before you could fight him.  Since today there was nothing, but older trainers so it was obvious that I wasn't going to get his promo Mewtwo.  Now here are the battles:

Battle 1- Me VS Greg (Haymaker)

For those idiots, who don't realize the advantage my deck has over Haymakers.  He started with Hitmonchan and two machop on the bench.  I started with a gastly and one gastly and dratini.  I won the coin flip.  Summary- I overtook Hitmonchan with Gastly by paralyzing Hitmonchan when he tried to special punch.  I evolved dratini to dragonair and searched for Haunter after he evolved is benched machop.  I nightmared machop, then I evolved to gengar and beat it.  Unfortunatly he started on lucky streak, he evolved Machoke to Machamp after charging him up, then he placed a scyther.  His Machamp almost beat Gengar, but i beat him with 10 HP left.  scyther finished off Gengar, but lost to my dragonair.

Battle 2- Me VS Gym Leader (Damage Swap)

The promo mewtwo was as good as mine.  He started with abra and Mr Mime on bench.  I started with gastly and rattata on bench.  I almost beat abra by paralyzing him first turn, but he evolved to kadabra.  Even though he did this I beat kadabra.  Then I beat Mr Mime by licking him twice.  he never got another basic pokemon, so i won.  It wasn't very abnormal that I beat the gym leader because he wasn't very skilled because nobody would battle him, since he was a gym leader.

Reederpoketrainer@charlotte.infi.net