Hello everyone, PikaPoster here, and welcome to yet another deck tech post. Today we will be checking out one of my favorite new cards, Garchomp ULP.
Garchomp ULP
Garchomp 150HP [N]
[C][C] Quick Dive
This attack does 50 damage to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
[F][C][C] Royal Blades 100+
If you played Cynthia from your hand during this turn, this attack does 100 more damage.
Weakness – [Y]
Resistance – [NONE]
Retreat Cost – [NONE]
Strategy
Garchomp ULP is a great card. Affordable energy costs and nice damage, paired with a free retreat cost make this card quite nice. It is a stage 2, but there are ways around that. What is really nice is that if you play Cynthia, which is a good card in and of itself, you get a 100 damage bonus. This means 230 with Choice Band, enough to knock out nearly everything in the format.
Cynthia
Cynthia is kind of a given, as the deck needs it to functions properly. However, it is good to play a playset of them, as that lets you hit 6 times with pal pad.
Lance Prism Star
Shh… This card isn’t out yet. It was leaked on PokéBeach in this post. It lets you pull 2 dragon types, which don’t have to be basic out of the deck, as long as one of your Pokémon was knocked out last turn. This means a revenge kill with a 2 fresh Garchomps if you are in a bad spot. Once it comes out, I think it will be a pretty good card.
Lucario
Lucario is really cool, as it lets you pull any one card you want as long as you have a Garchomp in play. With two or three of them, you have all the draw support you could ever need.
Garchomp BKP
This card is a nice setup Pokémon, since you are already using its line. It allows you reattach your lost DCE, or fighting if you need.
Deck List
For my list I will be playing a 4-2-3/1 line of Gible BKP, Gabite ULP, and Garchomp ULP/BKP. The gibles I am using are fighting type simply because you gan grab them with brooklet hill. Also, you can substitute another Sycamore for the Lance if you want to play this as a currently standard deck.
Pokémon – 16
4 Gible BKP
2 Gabite ULP
3 Garchomp ULP
1 Garchomp BKP
2 Riolu ULP
2 Lucario ULP
2 Tapu Lele-GX / Oranguru
Trainers – 33
4 Cynthia
2 N
1 Sycamore
1 Lance ULP
3 Guzma
1 Brigette
4 Ultra Ball
4 Rare Candy
2 Pal Pad
2 Field Blower
1 Rescue Stretcher
3 Choice Band
2 Float Stone
3 Brooklet Hill
Energy – 11
4 Double Colorless Energy
7 Fighting Energy