Flying Pikachu VMAX Deck Celebrations ~ PTCG92

Overview

Flying Pikachu VMAX has quite low HP of 310 but it has good Fighting Resistance [-30 damage] and good Lighting Weakness. You might be wondering about its weird Resistance and Weakness although it is Lightning Pokemon. Lightning Pokemon usually have Fighting Wekaness which can also be represented as Ground Type in PTCG. This is probably because this Flying Pikachu VMAX might be Flying Type which has both Fighting Resitance and Lighting Weakness. But, somehow the designer chose to use Lighting Type for this particular Pokemon.

Although it has very big size, it has Retreat Cost. Having no Retreat Cost for VMAX Pokemon is great as you can freely switch it with Becned VMAX Pokemon in case its HP become very low to avoid giving your opponent 3 Prize Cards.

Its only attack, Max Balloon has 160 damage and has an effect of preventing it from receiving any damage from your opponent's Basic Pokemon attacks during your opponent's next turn. To use this attack, you need 1 Lighting Energy and 2 Colorless Energy to it. Since this effect comes from attack instead of Ability, your opponent's can't cancel this effect using Path to the Peak. Basically, this is the nightmare for all Basic Pokemon and there is no Trainers right now that can cancel the effect of attack in the current Standard Format.

On the other hand, Flying Pikachu V is not that useful. Since both of its attack are mainly to stall your opponent before your evolve it into Flying Pickachu VMAX. This first attack, Thundershock can paralyze your opponent's Pokemon if you get head from flipping a coin. The second attack, Fly can nullify both damage and effect of attack from your opponent's Pokemon if you get head from flipping a coin. But, this second attack also does nothing including no damage at all if you get tail.

Energy Setup

In this deck, Flaaffy Ability, Dynamotor will be used to accelerate Lighting Energy for Flying Pikcahcu VMAX. This Ability attach Lighting Energy from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokemon. You can setup 2 or 3 Flaaffy to use this Ability more than 1 time. For discarding Lightning Energy, you can either use Quick Ball or Professor's Research.

100% Heal

You can fully heal your Active Flying Pikachu VMAX by using when its HP becomes very low. You don't need to worry about all Lighting Energy that were discarded from using Cheryl as you can use your 3 Flaaffy Ability to re-attach those 3 Lighting Energy to your Benched Flying Pikachu VMAX. After that, you can retreat your Active Flying Pikcachu VAMX [0 Retreat Cost] and replace it with Benched Pikachu VMAX. Then, you can start attacking with your new Active Flying VMAX again.

Because of its low HP, you can equip Flying Pikachu VMAX with Bigh Charm to increased its HP to 340. This will reduce the chance of your opponent's Pokemon OHKO your Flying Pikachu VMAX.

Deck List [Standard D]

Pokemon - 17

4 Flying Pikachu V
4 Flying Pikachu VMAX
3 Mareep [Evolving Skies]
3 Flaaffy [Evolving Skies]
1 Vikavolt V
2 Crobat V

Supporter - 10

3 Professor's Research
3 Marnie
2 Cheryl
2 Boss's Order

Item - 18

4 Quick Ball
4 Level Ball
4 Evolution Incense
3 Big Charm
2 Air Balloon
1 Ordinary Rod

Stadium - 3

3 Stormy Mountain

Energy - 12

8 Lighting Energy
4 Speed Energy