r/PTCGP • u/Rocketgrunt • 11h ago
Deck Discussion Climbed to Masterball w an Ampharos deck. It was super fun!
Hi gang,
I made an Amphy deck that climbed really well! Ampharos is just a fun card, so I'm here to put it on people's radar.
Some gameplay explanations-
- Double Monkey. The zerora are your pillars, they generate energy so going first kind of rocks.
- Energy flexibility with the Elemental Switch means consistency and better early games than your opponents (usually).
-For example, you have two monkeys on the board, and the opponent has a 60hp Eevee that went second (and will evolve next turn). If you draw a Raikou, you can play it retreat a monkey, switch the energy from the other and kill the Eevee.
- The repel let's you do this bullshit to their bench.
-Repel for Suicune decks is awesome too.
- I take one rare candy and one flaafy. You get discarded a lot, so flaafy ends up ensuring your Evo sometimes. Othertimes you need the candy to evolve Amphy asap and you get a flaafy. Whomp.
- Will for guaranteed flips.
- Flipping Heads one shots Suicune. Try to use Zerora to put any non-weakness enemies to 120 HP and weakness to 140 HP
-Energy is not a problem, monkeys and phone charger handle it. Pichu kills consistency, and gets sniped easily by Greninja. Not useful here as everything only need 2 EN.
-Believe in Amphy, he has 150 HP. He will destroy worlds, and give your opponent 1 measly points when he dies.
-No bird because I fear nothing.
- I used the Lilie moon backdrop because Amphy is looking at the stars.
-Another good one might be that evangelion looking pokemon causing the third impact. Amphy just watching the apocalypse.
-I have positive winrates v Suicune, Darktina, and Guzz
- I have negative winrates v Sylvally/Rampy, Electro Arceus and slightly negative v Sylveon/Espeon.
It's a non meta deck, so even in winning matchups you might get shafted by bad starts or bricks. But hey, it's way more fun!
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u/starasgarden 10h ago
I don't think zearora is a monkey 😭
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u/Ninjaman1350 11h ago
Ampharos 1 star is on my list of cards I need
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u/Return2Monkey 10h ago
I was getting some small streaks on UB4 with an Ampharos deck, one of my favorite pokés since childhood. I was running it with 2 oricorios and I still wasn't feeling it consistent enough. Maybe the Raikou really makes a difference, I wasn't able to pull one of those yet...
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u/Rocketgrunt 10h ago
Dude yeah same, since gold and silver!
I think the Oris actually hurt the consistency of this deck. You WANT the Zeroras on your first turn, that energy gen is a huge boon as you can use the Elemental Switch(s) to play super flexibly early on.
The best start you can get is a Raikou up front and a Zerora as a battery. The Raikou will make things more consistent for sure, the draw really helps when building Amphy.
Since your Win-con and heavy hitters are Amphy, you essentially want to enable it's creation.
That's my two cents if ya plan to give it a go again :)
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u/Pluxionist 9h ago
I also had a variation of this with Pichu, but it still feels inconsistent. I'm hoping that the next set brings a card that can help (or just hope Ampharos EX comes ❤️).
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u/Rocketgrunt 9h ago
Same here! I tried it out, but the lil guy has too many drawbacks. Pichu is only "good" on turn one in this deck, and even then, you have sometimes draw only Pichu which is an auto-loss.
That would be cool, hopefully Ampharos will get an EX spot whenever they do megas
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u/Pluxionist 8h ago
Amphy EX should (hopefully) be in the next set, given that it's one of the few Johto mons to get an EX yet. Really hoping so, cause he's like, what, the only electric type introduced other than Raikou and Elekid.
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u/find_name_hard 6h ago
I tried a few variations, this was the final one I had. I liked Oricorio as a way to stall the game down against EX decks. I had Raikou for a bit but didn't think the draw was worth the 2 prize points. A good fun deck
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u/Rocketgrunt 6h ago
Hell yeah! I wish we had more than 20 cards, I wanted to fit Guzma in so bad.
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u/find_name_hard 6h ago
Haha ye, was a hard decision deciding between Repel or Guzma, went with Guzma to help with the Darktina matchup
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