Act I: In which the HTL Tier List makes it's triumphant return

[Teebs]

http://nyanit.com/smashboards.com

 

[Javix]

Lol, Blade is trolling me pretty hard. And how the hell did you get 2 shooting quasar dragons first turn?

 

[Fancy Fanny]

Fableds are pretty shenanigan-y.

Edit: Also its because they can synchro level 5's like it aint no thang.

 

[Fancy Fanny]

I HATE TO DOUBLE POST.

But my Shooting Star Dragon should be SS tier.
For being such a huge troll. (mostly to me)

 

[Javix]

I swear I'll update this at some point in the near future. Or maybe just the future in general. Yeah, that sounds good.

 

[DtJ XeroXen]

This needs to be totally revamped, and we have to see if the Burger Palace replacement is good enough for top tier on this list. I forget what its called, but it better have some ****ing greasy burgers because I miss our old SS tier restaurant.

 

[Fancy Fanny]

Greasy food is disgusting though.

 

[DtJ XeroXen]

You don't understand the flair of Burger Palace and all its glory.

 

[Fancy Fanny]

Greasy food is still greasy food no matter where it's from.
You might as well drink a bottle of cooking oil.

 

[Sovereign]

On a new topic: I play Pokemon TCG, now. I'm going to try running a Dark/Electric Deck.

 

[DtJ XeroXen]

Zoruark from the B/W set looks pretty good. That's all I know about the TCG and Dark pokemon in it. lol.

 

[Sovereign]

Yeah, I've seen Zoruark. I wanna run Zekrom, though, and use some of my other favorites, like Luxray, Umbreon, and Absol in a deck.

 

[DtJ Composer]

Well you picked the best electric type in the format to build a deck around


Run Pachirisu and Shaymin and win tournaments.

 

[Sovereign]

Well you picked the best electric type in the format to build a deck around


Run Pachirisu and Shaymin and win tournaments.

I'm down for playing to win.

 

[DtJ Composer]

Basically, you run 4 Zekroms, 4 Pachirisus, 4 Shaymins.
Important trainers/supporters are Pokémon Collectors and Energy Searches.

Basically, the idea of the deck is that, on your first turn, you can start with Zekrom, collector to a Pachirisu and a Shaymin (or have any combination of them already in your hand) and have a hand of 3 energies, or a few energies and an Energy Search. You put Pachirisu on the bench and attach two Lightning to it, then put Shaymin on the bench and move them to Zekrom, then play a third Lightning for your turn to start swinging right away for 120 a turn.

The consistency on hitting that first turn is 50/50, but Zekrom is tough enough to survive whatever your opponent can hit you with in the first few turns (especially if you go first and your opponent's pokemon is still a basic--really the only exception is if your opponent goes first and runs Donphan Prime). You'll have Interviewer's Questions and Energy Searches to help get you to the Lightnings faster, plus stuff like Oak's or Juniper's to hand refresh if you're not feeling good about your opening hand (in which case Pokémon Communications and Dual Balls help you get to the basics you need since you already played one trainer that turn).

If the speed part doesn't work out, you can drop in cards like Cinccino or Bouffalant to run as back-up strikers (although once again, just building up one benched Zekrom while your active Zekrom takes hits is just as viable a strategy as any), and if you really wanted to splash Dark you could probably put in Zoroark or Liepard and still get away with having enough Lightning energies to Speed Zekrom.

 

[Sovereign]

Sounds really nice. I'll definitely have to make that build and use it competitively, and come up with my own build, to tinker around with.

Sora runs Rashiram, and builds him up fast with Ninetails and some other stuff as support.

What do you run, Jake?

 

[Jayford]

Basically, you run 4 Zekroms, 4 Pachirisus, 4 Shaymins.
Important trainers/supporters are Pokémon Collectors and Energy Searches.

Basically, the idea of the deck is that, on your first turn, you can start with Zekrom, collector to a Pachirisu and a Shaymin (or have any combination of them already in your hand) and have a hand of 3 energies, or a few energies and an Energy Search. You put Pachirisu on the bench and attach two Lightning to it, then put Shaymin on the bench and move them to Zekrom, then play a third Lightning for your turn to start swinging right away for 120 a turn.

The consistency on hitting that first turn is 50/50, but Zekrom is tough enough to survive whatever your opponent can hit you with in the first few turns (especially if you go first and your opponent's pokemon is still a basic--really the only exception is if your opponent goes first and runs Donphan Prime). You'll have Interviewer's Questions and Energy Searches to help get you to the Lightnings faster, plus stuff like Oak's or Juniper's to hand refresh if you're not feeling good about your opening hand (in which case Pokémon Communications and Dual Balls help you get to the basics you need since you already played one trainer that turn).

If the speed part doesn't work out, you can drop in cards like Cinccino or Bouffalant to run as back-up strikers (although once again, just building up one benched Zekrom while your active Zekrom takes hits is just as viable a strategy as any), and if you really wanted to splash Dark you could probably put in Zoroark or Liepard and still get away with having enough Lightning energies to Speed Zekrom.

That sounds stupidly good. Is there any reason to not run that in tourney lol?

 

[DtJ Composer]

Sounds really nice. I'll definitely have to make that build and use it competitively, and come up with my own build, to tinker around with.

Sora runs Rashiram, and builds him up fast with Ninetails and some other stuff as support.

What do you run, Jake?

I usually try to build rouge/fun decks. At Nationals, and at the two GenCon badge tournaments I played in I ran Absol Prime/Lucario, and I've been messing around with a Mill deck that uses Emboar and Magmortar's Top Burner attack for awhile now. I have an idea for a fun Cubone deck too but I can't run it until Archeops comes out

That sounds stupidly good. Is there any reason to not run that in tourney lol?

The big problems is anytime Speed Zekrom runs into a Donphan deck and can't donk them, it loses. Being able to hit for 120 on turn 2 totally wrecks Zekrom. You can tech Lanturn Prime in the deck to help against Donphan but if you don't get to it, it's an uphill battle. Donphan is an easy card to splash into a deck since it only takes one fighting energy to run, and while it's not the most popular splash, people did start teching it in in fear of Speed Zekrom.

I think the popularity of Yanmega Prime kind of made it less popular as well, since you can run it in any deck that you run Judges and Copycats in, and the Judges are really strong hand disruption (and having a strong hand is really important for Speed Zekrom to succeed).

It really just depends on what decks you run into. A lot of the times against Magneboar you will set up way faster than them and be fine. Same with against Reshiram/Typhlosion. Reshiboar is probably pretty even at set-up depending on how lucky they get with Rare Candy. Plus, if they have one Yanmega out and you have a Zekrom available to hit it, you'll pretty much kill it (weakness! it's really just the hand disruption from Yanmega that hurts the deck).

 

[Rob_Gambino]

I was in Huntingburg yesterday, but I couldn't find any of you.

 

[Teebs]

I was in Huntingburg yesterday, but I couldn't find any of you.

did you look under all the random objects and peek into the smallest nooks and crannies?

 

[DtJ XeroXen]

Ducky and I were at the local game shop for a majority of the day.

 

[Fancy Fanny]

Suddenly pokemon.
Yall are nerds.

 

[Dooms]

Pokemon > Yu-gi-oh.

Yeah I went there.

:3c

 

[DtJ Composer]

Suddenly pokemon.
Yall are nerds.

Awfully black in this room of pots and kettles :3c

 

[Sovereign]

Are there any good builds around Luxray? Because Luxray is sexy and looks like he should've been Dark-type, but is an awesome Electric-type, which I don't mind.

 

[Teebs]

Suddenly pokemon.
Yall are nerds.

 

[DtJ XeroXen]

So, quick question. The Huntington Tier list team is working on something, and we need a banner for the Huntington Tier list. Seriously. Could somebody try to make that?

 

[Javix]

Also, further talk of the pokemon tcg will result in lower placement. You have been warned.

 

[Fancy Fanny]

What about yugimons?

 

[Sovereign]

Also, further talk of the pokemon tcg will result in lower placement. You have been warned.

I'm so confuzzled... the "Tier List" is littered with Pokemon... it's only right. You guys need to make up your mind.

 

[DtJ XeroXen]

pokemon tcg

Pokemon is pretty cool.

 

[Javix]

I take offense to your use of quotation marks. And yugioh is fine, as long as the cards mentioned aren't from any set after Crossroads of Chaos.

 

[Sovereign]

I take offense to your use of quotation marks. And yugioh is fine, as long as the cards mentioned aren't from any set after Crossroads of Chaos.

*Switches to face-up defense mode.*

 

[DtJ Composer]

That's dumb though.

 

[Javix]

Take it up with a committee member or something.

 

[DtJ Composer]

I'll let Sentinel know as soon as possible.

 

[Javix]

Unfortunately, Sentinel is being discharged from the committee sometime soon. Which leaves that spot open, if anyone is interested.

 

[Javix]

Also, Composer's avatar is amazing. I just now noticed it.

 

[DtJ XeroXen]

That IS amazing.

 

[Fancy Fanny]