Notes & Combos

dont ask about mirror matchups, youll have to learn that yourself so if you see me in ladder im sorry lol

before the tips, make sure you always bench 2 babies on your first turn with your arceus darkrai or snorlax becuase a sabrina or repel will be an instalose as you'll get locked in the active. and always cape your main attacker.

but for the basics, GOING FIRST:

against darktina youd hope for snorlax>arceus, ramp turn 1 and 2 for turn 3 attack, turn 4 potential 150-170 with darkrai ping, PCL is for when bigboi is asleep and you flio tails twice before turn 4.

against suigrentina mind how much you bench going first as they may have energy advantage, if they start froakie in active who cares, fill your board and ramp, play the same as darktina matchup as youd be ahead in energy. it they get suicune start dont bench your darkrai until you for sure have the energy to drop on him, other wise the turn after you drop him suicune may be able to one shot you since you probably still have at least one baby and arceus or arceus or snorlax on in play.

against oricorio is pretty tricky, you have no repels or sabrina so you have to have a darkrai and tyrouge (prefferably both tyrouges) in play and you need giovianni. with darkrai ping, weakness, and gio, tyrouge can one shot oricorio. repeat for the second and you'll have a built darkrai (hopefully caped) and a red card in hand maybe lol.

GOING SECOND:

in any matchup, if youre going second, the ideal sequence would be to drop 2 ramp babies, ramp up arceus for a turn 2 130-150 (gio or red) into a turn 4 130-170 (darkrai ping with gio or red). if you get snorlax instead of arceus youlk just be delayed by 1 turn, ramp turn 1-2, turn 3 130-150 with gio or red, turn 4 130-170 gith darkrai and gio or red or 150 with PCL if you had to wake up snorlax.

in any situation where you have to ramp darkrai, its not bad just slightly slower/weaker. instead of 130-170 you hit for 100-120. he is also not a bad start going second if youre against giratina in active.

wietd side tip! one thing i like to do is always bench just 1 baby in active at the start whether im first or second just so i have the option to choose which attacker i want to use (arceus or snorlax).

if darktina pops up ive learned snorlax is a better attacker than arceus as you heal from all darkrai pings and they need a darkrai ping + gio or red to kill. with cape you live no matter what.

for suicune i prefer the quicker arceus as suicune decks snowball.