Water Power (Water) This is my first deck report and I really like this deck because
well, #1
by Ryan
DeLaurentis
Super Trainer Showdown
Secaucus, New Jersey
Saturday, May 23rd,
2001
Roughly 400 people
because all of the POkemon in it are Water, #2 it isn't an
archtype, and #3 I
wanted to show everyonwe how great Water Pokemon realy
are. I wanted to play
a deck that nobody else had. So without further adieu
here is my deck report
on Water power in the STS.
4
Misty's Horsea Lv. 10 (Gym Heroes)
3 Misty's Seadra
4 Misty's Staryu Lv.
20 (Gym Heroes)
4 Misty's Starmie
4 Misty's Goldeen Lv. 10 (Common)
3 Misty's Seaking
1 Misty
1 Cerulean City Gym
1 Misty's Tears
1 Super Rod
1 Professor Elm
1 Master Ball
1 Nightly Garbage Run
1 Good Manners
4 Berry
2 Moo-Moo Milk
24 Water Energy
Some People might wonder why someone would use Goldeen but it
does really
good as you will soon find out in my deck report.
Round 1 vs Kid with Built up Erika Deck
I was nervous, since
it was my first tournament ever and i just wanted to win
against the first
person that I battled. He was sure that he would beat me
because he had a
grass deck and I had a water deck but boy was he wrong. He
did get out
Erika's Victreebel but it couldn't beat my Starmie. I just
paralyzed all of
his Pokemon with Starmie and it was about a ten minute win.
1-0
Round 2 vs Kid with I think a Fire/Colorless Deck
After my
first win I was feeling confident. I am still trying to figure out
just what
this kid was doing but all he got was Dratini and they could only
wrap which
wasn't very successful. I beat all of his Pokemon with Seaking.
2-0
Round 3 vs Kid with Typhlosion Deck
I thought that I would
crush this kid because he was using fire and I was
using water but he really
did good. he got all 3 Typhlosion 9the good one)
out and I struggled to beat
him but it came down to both of us with one prize
and we both only had one
Pokemon left, My Seadra vs His Typhlosion. Now I had
to have a successful
Knockout Needle to win because i already had twenty
damage and one more
attack would beat me. So i drew a card slapped on a water
energy and hoped
for two heads. I flipped one heads, then I flipped again two
heads!! I won
but boy was I luckky. The kid that was using this deck was
shocked for a bit
bu twas a really good sport about it.
3-0
We had lunch which wasn't
to hot and i just traded with some kids and I got a
bunch of Water Pokemon,
so I was happy.
Round 4 vs Mewtwo Deck
This was pretty quick
he got out Psyburn Mewtwo and he couldn't get it
charged up enough in time
and i beat it with Starmie.
4-0
Round 5 vs Psychic Deck
I
was happy to not have run ointo any Rocket Zapdos because my deck was
completely weak to Electric. He got out a TR Abra and I started with Horsea.
I takled and He psyshocked, then i evolved and Tail Snapped and he evolved
into Dark Kadabra, used its Pokemon Power but I guess he didn't get any
basic
Pokemon, and Mind shocked for 30 then i beat him with another Tail
Snap.
5-0
Round 6 vs Roicket Zapdos Deck!
I was really
scared and of course they had rocket Zapdos out first and Koed
all of my
Pokemon for the win.
5-1
Round 7 vs Another Rocket Zapdos
Deck!!
This time i confused his Zappy with Goldeen and it beat on itself
so it was
Koed. I had Starmie and I took out some Pokemon but it wasn't
enough to win.
:(
5-2
I guess i spoke too soon about being happy
that I didn't run into a R. Zapdos
deck
Round 8 vs Dark Dragonair
Deck
I beat This deck pretty quickly. They got out Dark Dragonair and
attached a
Dark Energy but that was stupid because TR Pokemon don't have the
best HP so
I took them all out quick.
6-2
Round 9 vs The
Third Rocket Zapdos Deck!!!
I did much better. Well I was up against a
kid who spoke no English and if
that wasn't hard enough he had Rocket Zapdos
in his deck. My Goldeen came
through again and beat one Zapdos, and After R.
Zapdos #2 toomk out some more
of my POkemon Starmie took it out. Then came
the Rocket Hitmonchan It was a
real pain and beat my Starmie for the win.
6-3
So i ended up in 59th place. I was happy to have gotten that far
since it was
my first tournament. I had a great time and I even found out
that the kid
with the Typhlosion deck new my family and he also lives in
Connecticut! So i
made a new friend and got some cool cards. I hope next
time we can use Neo
discovery and Jungle/Base Set 2 because I have a Promo
Scizor deck that will
blow everyone away. Maybe it will be a new
archtype. We will have to wait and
see.
Props
To Wizards for
havbing the tournament
To the people who traded me good cards
To my
Water deck for kicking some butt.
Slops
To ROCKET ZAPDOS!!
Thanks for reading,
Ryan DeLaurentis
ry1017@aol.com