Shaymin

'Cause there'll be the dodgy round where you should have won, but y- you bricked or whatever, [laughs] and that just kills you.

The, um, the only thing I will say for it is I feel like, uh, it was really interesting watching, like, Shaymin's, Shaymin's path ahead of Worlds, and one day it looked like it was going up in play, and then it looked like it was going down, and then Dragapult Blaziken started doing better, and that typically always plays Shaymin, so, like, it went up again.

So, um, I ...

The only thing I, like, that I think is worth keeping an eye on is, like, what rate of play, uh, Shaymin is at because, again, other than that, it's, like, Zoro's playing, um, Zoro's playing Darmanitan, which again-

It's Darmanitan

...

It never really goes lower than eight.

Um, you have the weird thing about Zoro, about whether they're playing Tome Darmanitan or whether they're playing the Liam Tord build or whatever.

Like, very vanilla.

Shaymin, obviously your Dedenne, two Enhanced Hammer, four Battle Cage, right? Wasn't going towards the nighttime, nighttime line.

Um, you know, two Air Balloon, one Lucky Helmet, and then two Genesect, right? And then an Eerie to try to snipe those, those, uh, you know, disruption cards.

So crazy.

Yeah, the really, the only big spice was, like, you have this, this Alakazam, and then you have Dusknoir.

Um, but probably haven't seen them paired together.

And, you know, played two Badu, a Shaymin, Patrat, uh, which I thought was, like, kind of one of those tech cards.

We did see Patrat more.

Anything with that, um, anything with that brass weakness, I think can be very, very good for you, especially when you get ahead on the prize trade, maybe against Dragapult.

You set up stuff like Rabsca, Shaymin, things of that nature, to be able to protect your bench and be able to force one prize every single time.

I think Festival Lead could be cool.

Um, but I think Grimmsnarl, right, we see Grimmsnarl get a lot of hype at the beginning of the formats and then just falls off.

I think it's, like, basically the same deck it was at NAIC.

Um, I think it's a little bit more on the radar now, so there's gonna be, like, a slightly higher Shaymin.

But I don't even know if that's true based on the tournament, 'cause I feel like the better the player is, as long as they have, like, an out for a matchup, they're less inclined to tech for the matchup, right?

Yeah.

Like, you never see Hedrick put a Shaymin in his Dragapult 'cause he feels like there's too many lines.

Maybe he's, maybe he would even think it's unfavored against Slowking, but he's like, "If I beat it 40% of the time, I have enough lines where I don't really care to, like, tech for it," right? Which is, like, definitely reasonable.

Um, yeah, I think Slowking still seems really solid, and, like, the biggest factor will just be, like, h- how many people are gonna play Shaymin.

And I mean, you can put it in the Zam, you can put it in the Festival Lead.

It doesn't fe- Like, Excadrill's gonna be, like...

Like, if you're not taking Shaymin in your deck for Slowking, I don't think you're taking Berry for Excadrill.

They're kind of on the same level.

I mean, there's this thing too, is, like, in theory, you know, there could be some math somewhere.

Um, I mean, it's a good, it's a fine deck, right? It's a fine deck.

[laughs]

And it's got Shaymin.

I'm just kidding.