The Pokemon National Championships are getting to be a bigger and bigger deal every year. If you browse the message boards you'll see a lot of complaints from participants who just enjoyed getting the shit kicked out of them by players with more expensive decks. Just like Magic: the Gathering, Pokemon card battles can get super frustrating when your talent falls victim to some foil-stuffed EX deck that a rich kid begged his mom to buy him. Playing against a deck that is strong against your chosen type is just as important of a problem, you're stuck struggling through a hopeless 6 kill duel that you can't possibly win. A colorless deck is the answer to both problems, and while players seem to avoid the normals like an uncool plague, colorless decks can be devastating when played with some clever combos. Here are the key pieces to my colorless deck, that is doing really well online.
Bouffalant is the perfect card to stop the bullshit EX cards that rookies throw out all the time. Gold Breaker is a cheap move that deals 120 dmg to any EX card. Also, since EX kills count for double the prize cards, you immediately halt any EX play for the duration of the duel. Boss.
Exploud has the potential to be an unstoppable tank. If you fill your bench with other Pokemon that have the Round ability, (Wigglytuff for instance) you then add 50 dmg multiplied by the number of Pokemon that have it. It's not a difficult task to manage 200+ dmg per turn with Exploud.
Wigglytuff is the perfect eve card because of the price. 3 energy gets you a 60dmg attack also has a possible side effect. Trust me, when sleep hits, and you do 60dmg for a couple turns to a Pokemon that can't hit back, you're hard to beat.
The Aspertia City Gym card adds 20 HP to all colorless Pokemon! The card stays on the field for the entire match, and the look on your opponent's face when you play it is worth every second you hoped to draw it.
Do yourself a favor, and buy some colorless energy. Go on Ebay, and buy a few of them for 3$. When you stock up on trainer cards that let you draw for energy, and you start pulling doubles out, you can win an entire match faster than your opponent can get their deck's gimmick rolling. A colorless deck must behave like the Zerg.
Two weaknesses that my colorless deck has; Fighting-types, and big hitting colorless Pokemon like Kangaskhan and Chansey live or die by the coin flip. Adding a couple Lopunnys will help knock your enemy's Pokemon back and forth from the bench to help stave off any Fighting types or Lucarios that your enemy sends out. At the very least, a colorless deck is an eyebrow raiser and nobody ever beats one according to plan. Every trainer should build one.
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