From: Matthew [yeagers@urx.com]
Sent:
Sunday, December 30, 2001 9:08 PM
To: Pojo's Pokémon TCG
Tips!
Subject: Why archetypes are good... By Matthew
Okay, certain nocturnal
birdies have been trying to get trainers to use non-archetype decks, and say
that archetypes really aren't that good.
Okay, let me say
something.
ARCHETYPES ARE GOOD! That's
why they're archetypes! Duh!
Let's
see...
So you can beat Slowking
with Muk. Again, duh! Muk metagames Slowking, as
it does Typhlosion, DK Vileplume, and various other decks. Metagame*! Guess
what? THAT DOES NOT MEAN SLOWKING IS BAD! Just because Slowking loses to
ONE LOUSY DECK TYPE does not mean it's weak, it just means it has weaknesses and
is not invincible. And why would anyone want to eliminate archetypes if
they're so weak, as has been implied? Here's why archetypes are
popular...
They're
good!
If you use a Jumpluff deck,
you lose. If you use a Southern Islands Pidgeot, you lose. Same with Base
Beedrill, 100 HP Gatr, Nidoqueen, Nidoking, Misty's Poliwrath, or most any other
stage 2. Typhlosion (I pray, I pray that you know which one...) is pretty much
the only tournament viable Stage 2 out there... not really because of difficulty
of getting it out quickly enough and having it stay out there (the pre-dominant
problem in the pre-Neo environment but much less of a problem now thanks to
Cleffa and Gold Berry, but because the previous stages are almost unanimously
pathetically weak, it takes up an excessive amount of deck space, while you
build it up you waste energy attachments, and because cheddar cheese is
yellow.
However, decks like
Wigglytuff, Clefable, Slowking, Electrosteelix, Typhlosion, and others are
popular because THEY WIN! That's it! Certain decks can beat them consistantly,
but really not any others.
So does that mean that you
can't use your favorites? NO! I like Sandslash, a lot! So I made a Brock's
Sandslash deck that worked okay, but didn't win against the tough decks in the
league. That was fine with me! I had a blast losing horribly to the better
decks. Why?
Because Pokémon is fun! Even
when you lose to ARCHETYPES!
Use archetypes if you want,
don't use them if you don't care for them!
This has been another
article by me, Matthew.
Matthew.