Summary
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After a recent tournament, Gengar increased to the highest decks in Pokemon TCG Pocket.
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Gengar's sleep effect allows potential production of double damage.
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Despite the challenges, Gengar's success in various competing strategies in META suggests.
Gengar finally secured a place among the best decks in Major Pokemon TCG Pocket tournament. Pokémon has been fighting since Pokemon TCG Pocket 'With the first expansion, the genetic peak, and rarely it was a viable card in PVP or a competitive game.
Even then Pokemon TCG Pocket 'The triumphant light introduced the new variant of Gengar, Pokémon saw a small game in the metagam. Most players rejected GeGar A2A 033 as a “marginal” card due to its status 2 and a modest output of 70 damage. However, the recent result of the tournament has shown that this option has the potential to become a card defining an archetype.
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A player named Hydrapika recently piloted the deck of Gengar to fourth place in the Swiss rounds of $ 10,000 with more than 2,800 participants. While the deck was later excluded, the Gengar form Non-Ex has never achieved this level of success and alerted attention from the whole community. Some players at Reddit analyzed the Hydrapiky package and noted that Pokemon TCG Pocket 'The key to its breakthrough could be the condition of sleep caused by Gengar A2A 033.
A group of players suggested that the Gegar A2A 033 sleep effect has an unlimited chance of recurring, which often allows its attack on 70 damage to hit twice before the opponent can react. In other words, they argued that the Gengar triumphal light variant effectively causes 140 damage, not 70. Others attribute to Gengar's recent success Pokemon TCG Pocket 'With a new item card, a rare candy that speeds up evolution and effectively changes Gengara to phase 1.
The Hydrapiky deck, which is currently excluded from the Ursiiday $ 10,000 tournament, also contains two key attackers of the backup: ORICORIO A3 077 and TAPU Lele A3 084. Both cards debuted in Pokemon TCG Pocket 'With heavenly guards, they set and play key roles in supporting Gengar's strategy. Oricorio acts as an attacker of revenge and enters to complete the opponent after the main attacker is eliminated. On the other hand, Tapu Lele is a strong number of Giratina Ex and Dardrai Ex Meta, which causes severe damage to the energy download of Pokémon.
Despite the arrival of the Anti-EX card as oricorio in Pokemon TCG Pocket 'With the recent meta, the PVP scene remains strongly controlled by Giratina Ex. Gengar seems to become a consistent or top core of the deck for the time being. Yet his recent success for fans is a promising sign, suggesting that not all competing assemblies must rely on streamlining and meta defining cards.
