The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon TCG n⛦ever ceases to amaze. As with all good competitive TCGs, there's more than enough room for players to mix and match bold new strategies. They work to varying degrees, of course. But every so often, something comes around that claims enough victories at tournaments to turn all our heads, from the most seasoned pros to the newest additions to the Pokemon TCG fandom.

Take th🥀e Inteleon VMAX deck. The Rapid Strike Inteleon VMAX deck, to be clear - not the Battle League deck from the Sword & Shield era that's now out of the rotation. (You can still play it to your heart's content in casual matches, of course.) This deck has only added to the legend of Inteleon within the Pokemon TCG, and like a starter Sobble who cries out in refusal to let go of the crown, it's still whipping up frenzies in the Scarlet & Violet era.

Inteleon VMAX Decklist

Inteleon VMAX Key Cards

These are the cards that really make the Inteleon VMAX deck tick. Th🐓en again, every card helps make it tick. But...👍 you get the point. These are the cream of the crop. Without 'em, there's no foundation.

Rapid Strike Inteleon VMAX

Rapid Strike Inteleon VMAX is all about taking its Double Gunner ability and turning into what we like to call Quadruple Gunner. If you have two Rapid Strike Inteleon VMAX in play, either on your bench or in the active position (the bench is preferable, as we'll get into later), you can use the Double Gunner ability once per turn from each of them. Provided, of 🍷course, that you have that Water Energy to discard for each🔯 usage.

Right from the jump, then, you've got a guaranteed 80 damage to spread across your opponent's team. This can help to ease looming issues with heavy hitters, but far better, you can take advantage of the many lower-HP Pokemon in common usage during these earlier Scarlet & Violet sets to wipe them clean off the board and take prize cards.

We've been speaking in terms of having two Inteleon VMAXs in the field, but that won't always happen. Even so, having just the one can be halfway to a game-changer. And goodness gracious, if you've got all thre🐼e of them out - and again, you can tap inꦗto the deck's other splendid cards to afford the payout - you can add another four damage counters per snipe.

Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX With Tower Of Waters

While Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX is, predictably, another star player, we can't talk about it without including an explanation of Tower of Waters. It's the synergy between them that can really put the heat on your enemies. By pulling Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX from your bench and into the active position, via Tower of Waters' allowance for the retreat cost of all Rapid Strike Pokemon in play to be reduced by two, something rather nifty happens.

Gale Thrust, which, under normal circumstances, only does 30 damage, shoots all the way up to 150 damage. While that's not enough in its own right to OHKO many of 🐻the tankier cards in the P𒆙okemon TCG, consider how capably it's boosted with those Rapid Strike Inteleon VMAXs of yours.

This doesn't mean you should never use G-Max Rapid Flow. The three-Energyღ discard cost is pretty steep for a deck with ten Energy in it, but we've got good enough flow for it to be worth the hassle sometimes. 120 damage to two Pokemon that your Inteleons just bruised so badly can be a game-changer in and of itself.

Medicham V

Last but not least on the hurt train is Medicham V, with its excellent Yoga Loop attack. When Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX's bludgeoning hits aren't the right call, or simply aren't available, getting that Medicham V of yours on the field instead can synergize terrifically with Rapid Strike Inteleon VMAX's sniping.

Once again, you're choosing the Pokemon to put damage counters on. This time, you're only doing 20 damage, but you can use Yoga Loop one more time on your turn (technically, you're taking another turn outright) if you knock out the target. While this can't be repeated infinitely (that would be... comically absurd), and while that 20 damage doesn't sound like a lot, you may very well be able to whittle down the opponent's team with Inteleon and/or Urshifu, then go in for two killing blows.

Radiant Alakazam

Last but not least, Painful Spoons, Radiant Alakazam's ability, lets you fine-tune your sniping i𝔍n conjunction with your primary attack to greatly increase the odds of ꦺknocking something out cold. If you've chipped away at one Pokemon, but another is in dire straits, you can even outright knock out that Pokemon with Painful Spoons prior to setting things up for your attack.

Melony

If you're running a deck in the Pokemon Trading Card Game that tosses away Energy cards as much as Inteleon VMAX's, you're going to need Energy retrieval power. Badly. Since Rapid Strike Inteleon VMAX (and many other Pokemon here, for that matter) are Water-types, getting a discarded Water Energy onto a Pokemon V - with the sizable benefit of drawing three more cards to keep 'em coming - is a must.

Klara

Of course, Melony alone isn't enough. Especially not for your Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX. Klara fulfills the classic archetype of straightforward Energy retrieval, permitting𝓡 you to pull two basic Energy back from the discard pile per turn. That's the long and short of it here.

Battle VIP Pass

The Battle VIP Pass is a first-turn-only card, but we want to stack our deck with a full quartet of them to boost the odds of us snagging it when it counts. If your drawꦺ is otherw🍎ise unsavory, finding two Basic Pokemon to place on your bench can be a real life-saver.

Rapid Strike Energy

Rapid Strike Energy counts as two Energy for Fighting- and Water-type cards. As you can see, that's kind of the bulk of this deck's power source. We've loaded up the deck (in fairness, it's hardly an original idea of ours - just 🐭a logical one all-around) so that Energy costs are cut significantly whenever possible.

Inteleon VMAX Deck Strategy

Getting those Inteleon VMAX on the bench ASAP lines you up for multiple snipes. Having Radiant Alakazam for its Painful Spoons ability signal-boosts that Double Gunner, andꩵ getting Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX in active play puts big chunks of damage all over the place.

Cards like Battle VIP Pass and Squawkabilly ex's Squawk and Seize give you multiple first-turn advantages to boost the strength of that ever-critical initial draw, all the more important since this deck has enough threats, and♔ a precise enough eꦑxecution, that you can quickly find yourself overwhelmed otherwise.

Solid recycling potential and the inherent excellence of the Rapid Strike Energy should do its job to prevent you from succumbing to the sort of Energy starvation that a deck like this one would often get smacked by without Melony and Klara. Forest Seal Stone furthers this by giving you a one-time-only any-card pull to advance to the next phase of your strategy.

Since the Arceus VMAX deck still sees lots of competitive play, the titular star Pokemon's weakness to Fighting-type moves makes Rapid Strike Urshifu a terrific check.

Inteleon VMAX Common Threats

Any deck that easily disables your abilities is going to shut down so much of that sniping potential. Without it, your Rapid Strike Inteleon Vs and VMAXs are nothing to write home about against talented players. That's not to say they're terrible in the active position; G-Max Spiral can do 140 damage without applying potential weaknesses. But that's really not go🌱ing to cut it on i🎉ts own merits.

If your opponent can block your Tower of Waters Stadium cards too swiftly, your Rapid Strike Pokemon won't gain access to 🀅that reduced Retreat Cost. It might not be a guaranteed loss if that happens, for sure, but again. This deck requires precision as much as general proficiency. Wrecking the flow of any key card ca🦋n lead to serious headaches.

Lastly, any deck that has a natural strength against your cards is an obvious rough spot. The most commonplace example of this right now is surely Miraidon ex. You've got enough going on with your Rapid Strike Urshifus and Radiant Alakazam to iron out a possible win, still, but there's a reason Boss's Orders is on darn near every competitive decklist. (Granted, it isn't on ours, but there are plenty of variations in which it is.) If Miraidon ex keeps pulling out your Water-types, that's bad. If it deals 440 damage to your three-prize Inteleon VMAX, that's really bad.