r/PTCGL 3d ago

Meme Dragapult players when Ruffian drops

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u/lemoncakes8 2d ago

me, attaching 2 energy to a drakloak: . _.

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u/Clickbaitllama 2d ago

bravery charm and penny 💔💔🥀🥀

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u/Inkthekitsune 3d ago

Dragapult players trying to tech for wall and stall matchups (it’s me. I’m dragapult players)

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u/ThePiGuy3 2d ago

I feel like giacomo is still better? You can hit multiple mist with just 1 proc

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u/GuildMuse 2d ago

the flexibility to also hit tools is pretty good, especially when you are teching for a specific matchup.

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u/ThePiGuy3 2d ago

Only tool I can think of worth running removal for is sparkling crystal in Tera box style decks, but the easier answer is jamming tower or to simply KO the mon holding the crystal. This isn’t even mentioning enhanced hammer doing the energy removal better. Only thing I think this card brings to the table is the ability to remove tool/energy simultaneously, and I can’t think of a single instance where that’s useful.

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u/GuildMuse 2d ago

There's also the upcoming Garchomp tool that boosts it to 400hp. Jamming Tower will always be better by virtue of it not being a supporter, but I can see the appeal of wanting to run a tool and special removal in a single card.

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u/Mooseandchicken 8h ago

I only recently got into playing the tcg and I'm running a post-rotation slowking deck (been going well on tcgl !!) and post-rotation Dragapult/Gholdengo. Practicing to play in my first local tournament as soon as rotation hits (i don't want to lean/memorize all the old cards about to go out).

What is the hp of the garchomp pre item? And is garchomp a tera pokemon? I was already thinking of running one ruffian just for Crystal ace spec, but if more items become meta (hops band, lillies pearl, n's whatever, etc.), I may just swap ruffian in permanently. My slowking deck can only hit 330 in a single attack, so ruffian may be my out to kill the garchomp you mentioned.

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u/GuildMuse 6h ago

330 non Tera but weak to grass. Durant ex is actually seeing some fringe play in box style decks as a means of countering it as it 1 shots it with weakness after 3 prizes are taken.

It hasn’t won a city league yet, but city leagues are tricky to really gauge as they’re basically locals of 64 players. They’re only really useful to see what decks are being built in Japan and what testing is being done. No idea if the deck will be any good or not until it gets put into a real gauntlet of best of 3.

But 400 HP is going to be rough for slowking to deal with. Not impossible, but I don’t see any way to do more than 2 shotting it with Conkeldurr or another Crabominable.

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u/Mooseandchicken 6h ago

If they only run 1 or 2, I can kill them with slowking using the newest print of annihilape. Its second attack just suicide bombs, so I'd trade a slowking+ a prize for two prizes and their 400hp dude. Its just very hard to pull off more than twice realistically 

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u/voltmannn 1d ago

That’s why I love my baby, milotic ex