HydroPunch(Water/Fighting)
by Mark Gibson
On Cue
Gallipolis, Ohio
Saturday March 10th, 2001
About 30 participants
This is my first killer deck report. I've
been playing this deck for about 3 weeks and it has done pretty good so far.
Where I play most people use haymakers and wigglys so I decided to create a
unique deck that can beat them. A lot of people will say a deck like won't
work because there is a lot of evolvng in it. It has also been designed to
handle all eight gym challenges in year 2 of the league. This wasn't a
tournament so I only had to worry about what decks my oppenents were going to
use. The record for HydroPunch is 20-3 so it does work even with the evolving.
HydroPunch
Pokemon: 16
2 Wooper
2 Quagsire
1 Swinub
1 Squirtle
1 Wartorle
1 Blastoise
1 Horsea(fossil)
1 Seadra(neo)
1 Kingdra
2 Gligar
1 Phanpy
1 Donphan
1 Skarmory
Trainers: 18
1 Gold Berry
3 Berries
4 Bills
3 Prof. Oaks
3 Prof. Elms
1 Super Scoop Up
2 Double Gusts
1 Sprout Tower
Energy: 26
15 Water Energy
11 Fighting Energy
I wasn't paying a lot of attention to who I
battled or what they were using I just remeber what the people I've played
several times before used so that's all the matches I can talk about in
detail.
Match 1 vs Justin with a ColdFusion theme Deck
This was a quick match because I have a
coldfusion deck so I knew what to expect. It was over in about 8 turns. I got
Swinub and Gligar in my starting had so I led with Gligar. He got a Horsea and
Electabuzz to start with and led with buzz. My first turn I got a bill so I
used and got 2 more bills used them and got Squirtle, Horsea, Seadra, and
Wartortle.I atached a fighting energy to Gligar along with a berry then used
poison sting and got heads so that started his downfall. He attached a
lighting energy to buzz and passed. I drew got an oak. I played Sprout Tower,
a water energy to Horsea, evolved Horsea and Squirtle, then oaked I got an
elm, a bill, Kingdra, and four water energy. I used poison sting again leaving
buzz with 10 hp. He put a water energy on Horsea and passed. Electabuzz was
gone. I drew a Blastoise so I evolved attached a water energy to Seadra the
Evolved it to Kingdra Raindance 2 water energy onto Kingdra then used bill and
got a Wooper and a Quagsire. I retreated Gligar and sent up Kingdra and used
dragon tornado for the knock out.
Match 2 vs. Jacob with a haymaker
This was my quickest match. I got a wooper and
a swinub for my starters. I sent up swinub. He got a R. Zapdos for his
starter. I got heads. I attached a water energy and used powder snow. He
Didn't get a heads on the flip so attache a lighting energy and passed. I got
a Quagsire so I put a water energy on wooper retreated swinub and used amnesia
and picked plasma. He got heads. attached a rainbow energy doing 10 damage to
Zapdos then passed. I put a fighting energy on wooper and a berry then used
amnesia again and again picke plasma. He put down another lightning energy and
passed. I knew he was going to use elctroburn on his next turn so I attached
another fighting energy and used amnesia to stop electroburn because plasma
couldn't hurt wooper. He played a computer search and discarded 2 lighting
energy and searched for an oak. he oak then used plasma to get back a
lightning energy. I played a water energy on wooper evolved to quagsire and
used earthequake for the knockout. He forfeited after that.
I wasn't really paying a whole lot of attention
after that because those were all I needed to get my badge. I played 6 more
matches after that.
Thanks for reading!!!
Mark Gibson