Entei V Deck [Brilliant Stars]

Overview

Entei V is going to be very popular when it will be released in English Version. In fact, Entei V is the Fire Version of popular Pokemon Suicune V as they both have same Ability and attack. The main difference is that Entei V [230 HP] has higher HP  than Suicune V [210 HP]. Due to its higher HP, Entei V needs 1 more Energy than Suicune V to retreat. 

Entei V Ability Fleet-Footed let you draw a card if this Pokemon is in the Active Spot. You will be able to use this Ability to draw extra card almost every turn since Entei V is the main attacker in this deck.

Entei V only attack, Burning Rodo requires 2 Energy [1 Fire Energy & 1 Colorless Energy] and has 20 base damage and does 20 damage for each Benched Pokemon of yours and your opponent's. Since both you and your opponent can put up to 5 Pokemon in respective Bench, Burning Rodo has max damage of 220. 220 damage for 2 Energy is very good deal.

Make it tougher

A lot of Pokemon VMAX can OHKO Entei V. To prevent that, you need to increase its HP so that Pokemon VMAX need to at least 2HKO your Entei V. The best way to increase Entei V HP is by equipping it with Cape of Toughness and this will increase its HP by 50. You can further increase its HP by 20 with Heat Energy. With the combine effect of Cape of Toughness and Heat Energy, you Entei V will have 300 huge HP. 

Even with very high HP, your opponent can still OHKO your Entei V with Water Pokemon. If you can somehow remove Entei V Weakness, you don't need to afraid of your opponent's Water Pokemon anymore. Chandelure Ability Protect Glow can remove Entei V Weakness as long as it has at least 1 Energy.

  

Energy Setup

It is possible to attack with Entei V on your first turn. To do that, you need to accelerate extra Energy by using Magma Basin Stadium. This Stadium let you attach 1 Fire Energy [Basic Fire Energy or Heat Energy] from your discard pile to your Benched Entei V. After than, you can attach 1 Fire Energy to Entei V from your hand. But, each time you use Magma Basin to accelerate Energy for your Fire Pokemon, this Stadium will put 2 damage counters on that Pokemon. So, Entei V HP will become 210 after using Magma Basin.

In order to use Magma Basin, there must be Fire Energy in your discard pile. There are many ways to discard Fire Energy from your hand and the most efficient way is by using Trainers. Apart from popular Trainers like Quick Ball and Professor's Research to discard cards, Milo can be used to discard Fire Energy. Although Milo Draw Power is not as good as Professor's Research, Milo doesn't require you to discard all cards to draw extra cards. Furthermore, Milo let you choose 1 or 2 cards to discard from your hand and draw extra 2 cards for each cards you discarded. 

  

Increase Damage

Sometimes, your opponent might choose to play with only 1 Benched Pokemon to reduce Burning Rondo damage. In that case, your Burning Rondo will deal only 140 damage [assuming that you have 5 Benched Pokemon.] And, you need to 3HKO your opponent Pokemon VMAX with 140 damage which is not efficient at all. 

That is where Echoing Horn comes in handy. You can use this Item to forcefully put 1 Basic Pokemon from your opponent's discard pile to their Bench. Doing so, Burning Rondo will have 160 damage and you can 2HKO most of your opponent's Pokemon VMAX.

Searching Trainers

You need  the help Trainers such as Cape of Toughness, Magma Basin and Echoing Horning etc to bring out the full potential of this deck. When it comes to finding Trainers from your deck, Shady Dealings Ability is the best in the Standard Format. This Ability let you search 1 or 2 Trainer Cards when you evolve Sobble into Drizzile with Shady Dealings or Drizzile into Inteleon with Shady Dealings. By the way, Item, Supporter and Stadium are considered Trainer.

 

Deck List [Standard D]

Pokemon - 18

• 4 Entei V
• 1 Litwick [Rebel Clash]
• 1 Lampent [Rebel Clash]
• 1 Chandelure [Rebel Clash]
• 4 Sobble Rapid Strike [Chilling Reign]
• 4 Drizzile [Sword & Shield]
• 1 Inteleon [Sword & Shield]
• 2 Inteleon Rapid Strike

Supporter - 10

• 4 Milo
• 3 Professor's Research
• 1 Raihan
• 2 Boss's Order

Item - 19

• 4 Quick Ball
• 4 Level Ball
• 2 Evolution Incense
• 3 Cape of Toughness
• 2 Echoing Horn
• 1 Ordinary Rod
• 1 Energy Search
• 2 Switch

Stadium - 3

• Magma Basin

Energy - 10

• 4 Fire Energy
• 4 Heat Energy
• 2 Capture Energy