Hi! I know with Gym Challenge coming out everyone wants to make a special
"Gym
Challenge" deck. Probably you want to rush out and buy a deck of your
favorite Gym
leader, right? Hold on a second. Before you waste all $15 of your precious
money, find
out from me what's a good deck and what's not. Let's start with Blaine. The
original deck
is this:
28 Fire Energy-What else
for a fire deck?
1 Blaine's Arcanine-Don't
buy it yet.
3 Blaine's Charmander
Lv.18-Only for Charmeleon, possibly Carizard.
2 Blaine's
Charmeleon-Awesome for a Charmeleon.
1 Blaine's Dodrio-Only
for collecting.
2 Blaine's Doduo-Not bad
for a Doduo.
2 Blaine's Growlithe
Lv.15-Great if you happen to come up against a grass deck.
2 Blaine's Growlithe
Lv.20-Awesome for a Growlithe.
4 Blaine's Ponyta
Lv.13-What can I say; Stinks.
2 Blaine's
Rapidash-Awesome for a Rapidash.
2 Blaine's Vulpix
Lv.18-Okay.
2 Bill-Add some more.
1 Blaine-Of course keep
it in there! It's fantastic in this deck!
1 Blaine's
Gamble-Probably not.
1 Cinnabar City Gym-One
of the best stadium cards there is.
1 Max Revive-Could be a
life saver. (Note could.)
2 Potion-Good in this
deck for the little Pokemon.
2 Fervor-A pretty bad
card. Use Energy Search instead.
1 Super Potion-Out for
better and more important cards.
In my opinion this is the best Gym Challenge deck there is. Here are the changes
and
additions I would make:
1st, take out Doduo and Dodrio. They stink! 2nd, take out 1lv.15 Growlithe and
put in a
lv.20 Growlithe. Then add another Arcanine. Also, add a Charizard. 3rd, take out
the 2
Vulpixes. We don't need another family. 4th, take out 1 Blaine's Gamble, 2
Fervor, and 1
Super Potion. Then add in 2 Bills, and 2 Potions. 5th, take out 1 Ponyta.
Finally, add 4
Energy Searches. Then you will have a pretty good deck. You can substitute the 3
Ponyta
and 2 Rapidash for 3 Vulpix and 2 Ninetails if you want to.
Next is the Giovanni deck. The original deck:
20 Grass Energy-For the
Nidos.
8 Fighting Energy-For the
Machamp family.
3 Giovanni's Nidoran
(Girl)-Awesome for a Nidoran Girl.
4 Giovanni's Nidoran
(Boy)-Awesome for a Nidoran Boy except for 40 HP.
2 Giovanni's Machoke-Headlock
is okay. Mainly for Machamp.
4 Giovanni's Machop-Fury
Punch is okay. Mainly for Machoke/Machamp.
3 Giovanni's Meowth
Lv.17-Awesome for a Meowth.
1 Giovanni's Meowth
Lv.12-Stinks.
1 Giovanni's
Nidorina-Awesome for a Nidorina.
2 Giovanni's
Nidorino-Awesome for a Nidorino.
1 Giovanni's
Persian-Great Pokemon Power. Stinks otherwise.
2 Bill-Perfect.
2 Energy Removal-Perfect.
1 Full Heal-Take out for
better and more important things.
1 Giovanni-Great for
Machamp family/Nidos. Needs more.
2 Potion-Good for the
little Pokemon. Needs more.
1 Viridian City Gym-Needs
more.
2 Warp Point-Good in any
deck. Only need 1 though.
A good deck----if you have a lot of other cards. Here is how I would tweek the
deck:
1st, take out a Nidoran Boy and add a Nidoking. 2nd, take out a Machop and put
in a
Machamp. 3rd, take out 2 Meowths (1 lv.12 and 1 lv.17) and add in 2
Nidoqueens. 4th,
take out a Full Heal and put in a Nidorina. 5th, take out another Meowth and put
in
another Viridian City gym. 6th, take out a Warp Point and put in another
Viridian City
Gym. 7th, take out 2 Fighting Energy and 5 Grass Energy and add in 2 Magikarp, 1
Gyarados, and 4 Water Energy.
Next on the list is Koga. Deck list:
28 Grass Energy-What
else?
1 Koga's Beedrill-The
main hitter.
3 Koga's Ekans-Not bad.
More for Arbok than for attacking.
3 Koga's Grimers-Good for
a Grimer. More for muk than for attacking.
2 Koga's Kakuna-Great for
poisoning. Gets Beedrill out fast.
3 Koga's Koffing
Lv.10-Horrible.
1 Koga's Koffing
Lv.15-Better.
3 Koga's Pidgey-Awesome
for a Pidgey. Needs Pidgeotto.
4 Koga's Weedle-Awesome
for a Weedle.
2 Koga's Weezing-The only
reason you would put this in a deck is attack #2.
1 Energy Removal-Why only
one?
1 Fuchsia City Gym-Isn't
really good. Only in here because it applies to Koga.
1 Full Heal-Take out for
better and more important things.
2 Gust of Wind-Perfect.
1 Koga-We don't need more
poison! There's already enough!
1 Pluspower-Needs more.
3 Potion-Need 1 more.
Just need to remove some of the useless cards and shape the trainers and you
have a
pretty good deck. Here's what I would do:
1st, take out those horrible little lv.10 Koffings! Replace them for two more
lv.15
Koffings. 2nd, take out the Pidgeys. Too much energy and Pidgeottos are hard to
find.
Instead, put 3 more pluspowers in. 4th, take out a Grimer and put in a Muk. 5th,
take out
1 of the Weedles and the Koga and put in 2 Arboks. Finally, take out the Full
Heal and
put in another Potion. Probably the second best deck there is.
Last one: Sabrina:
28 Psychic Energy-What
else?
2 Sabrina's Abra
Lv.12-Okay. For Kadabra/Alakazam.
2 Sabrina's Abra
Lv.18-Very good for an Abra.
1 Sabrina's Alakazam-The
main hitter.
3 Sabrina's Drowzee
Lv.18-Awesome for a Drowzee.
4 Sabrina's Gastly
Lv.9-Awesome for a Gastly.
2 Sabrina's Haunter
Lv.29-Awesome for a Haunter.
2 Sabrina's Jynx
Lv.21-Horrible.
2 Sabrina's Kadabra-Good.
3 Sabrina's Porygon-
Stinks.
2 Bill-Good.
2 Potion-Good.
1 Sabrina-Okay.
2 Sabrina's Gaze-No.
1 Sabrina's Psychic
Control-Awesome card.
1 Saffron City Gym-Only
in here because it applies to Sabrina. Isn't that good.
2 Switch-Good.
A pretty good deck. Here are the changes I would make:
Take Out:
# To Add In:
3 Porygon
1 Lv.18 Abra
2 Jynx
2 Potion
2 Lv.12 Abras
2 Bill
2 Sabrina's Gaze 2 Switch
1 Gastly
1 Gengar
2 Hypno
You can write me at:
stephen.powell@valley.net if you
have any ideas or comments.
See ya! -Nick
P.S. Brock's Geodude's ( Lv.13 of Gym
Heroes) attack Hook Shot says don't
apply RESISTANCE for this attack. NOT weakness and resistance.