Druddigon Tauros Control is ALL SKILL! High Level Tournament Matches for Pokemon Pocket

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Sorry the game audio is too loud on this one! I redid my system audio this weekend and forgot to double check levels before recording this. Will be better in the future.

[@ZkiART]

Maybe it's more of a "me" problem, but I'm find it hard to hear your voice over the game audio sometimes. Could you lower it just a LITTLE bit? Thanks, top notch deck as usual!

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Not you. Just redid my audio and it was definitely too loud in this set. Will fix it

[@ZkiART]

​@@HooglandiaPocket much love!

[@gav5568]

Your knowledge of match up/gameplans and self control when choosing exactly what basics you want on your bench early game is really impressive to watch. While watching the video i try to see how my decisions would differ from yours and im learning alot, thank you. Keep up the content, really loving it!

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Thanks! I have a good deal of competitive experience in other card games before coming to pocket and a lot of it definitely transfers here.

[@Poke_PalmGhost]

I DEF have to agree!! I’m trying to learn where I can make these better decisions for myself as well!! Appreciate you & your work!!

[@rexstillbottom7572]

Your narration and explanation of moves and planning is always so brilliant to hear. It helps so much to understand how to play. Thanks for the good work. Keep these types of videos coming.

[@DinoConV]

I love the durdle dragon. Such a fun design space that helps glue together a bunch of neat decks.

[@ThisB-q4x]

Alright, I've only played three battles but I'm already loving it, it's flexibility and consistency without relying on EX power or rng are exactly what I was looking for in a deck. This is now my go to deck. Thank you!

[@philipweidig270]

I've only played a few games with this deck, but it's the first one that's made me enjoy battling in Pokemon Pocket. What a banger.

[@OMGclueless]

I grinded 30 wins in the emblem event with this deck yesterday. Mewtwo ex decks hitting their magical christmasland Mewtwo + Gardevoir starts and then conceding because they have no way to attack without losing their Mewtwo is quite the feeling.

[@Pterrordon12]

Druggion + Tauros shell seems like the sleeper MVPs of this set. Based on Greninja and Pidgeot EX, it feels there's a ton of possibility space to be explored outside of mainstay tier 1 meta decks

[@kitkatkc9]

First time I’ve instantly made a deck after watching a vid like this and it’s performing so well! 🤩 I only have one leaf rn so I put in a potion instead. Thank you! Love the no-ex decks best for me Edit: your layout for the build is amazing btw, love the energy shown at top and BullFrog is nice name haha

[@ameansquirrel]

cool decks man! love how you build things and explain. Also, I think your format is entertaining to watch.

[@moonblastx1996]

Thanks for all the great Pocket content, you're always showcasing interesting decks that are actually good rather than entirely gimmicks, and it makes the game very fun for me

[@BWat17]

Thank you so much for this video, this has been my favorite deck I've played since release

[@ThisIsMrSomething]

Playing this deck and watching this vid has made me want to play in some of these tournaments for the first time. I'd been playing some of the more budget off-meta stuff like Blaine, but this one in particular feels very competitive while also being non-linear. Well-played in these tourney sets; cheers.

[@mattlepinski]

Great video. I learn a lot from listening to you talk through your thought process in tournament matches.

[@jasonwinterboer5232]

This deck looks amazing!!! Thanks for posting it Jeff!!

[@andrewmastrangelo8350]

im the pilot for the OG Machamp Persian. you were right, replaced red card with another Gio and have been much better.

[@unitesupportking3439]

Whats ur in game name? I saw your list in tournys, really unique love it

[@ShadowTags]

@@unitesupportking3439 BSK/Wuggzy

[@ShadowTags]

Hoogland stop deleting my comments I’m on your patreon❤

[@pandasawrus]

Love the celebi outro. A really stellar piece of art from the pokemon team.

[@bryanroth7248]

This deck has been an absolute banger. I played it almost all weekend. Loved it. Such a sweet brew.

[@masontheartist]

Dude glad I found someone else thinking this feels like a control deck. I brewed basically the same but with no tauros, but lots of one of util cards like poke flute for various matchups. Feels like jeskai control in magic. I'll have to try this version out!

[@danmgs]

Greninja is probably the strongest card in the game, a lot of pressure and just chilling in the bench.

[@MyBTS91]

defi etly strongest tempo card

[@skotiaH2O]

assuming you can get to it in time, since it's a stage 2 you also have to hope the Froakies don't get in the way of finding your primary walls/attackers.

[@dariodavis56]

He's not the strongest but definitely one of the best especially when u consider he's only one prize point and can attack and retreat cheaply

[@MyBTS91]

@@dariodavis56 He is just super Flexible

[@saltydog7482]

​@skotiaH2O lost 3 in a row yesterday because either both frogadier or both greninja where in the bottom 3 cards

[@unitesupportking3439]

You are a gem sir. Im gunna try this deck today!

[@robertwallace5498]

Very cool deck. You do a good job of experimenting with a wide variety of pokemon

[@koalasama]

I'm crushing the pvp event with this deck ! cheers !

[@paintchip.buffet]

Just went on a heater with this for the event. Delicious brew. Thanks for the great video as always.

[@JoeyDubsJR]

Cool deck, I was already using Flareon instead of Tauros in what I cooked up but Tauros kind of makes more sense now thinking about it.

[@gilligan9849]

Pidgeot EX is definitely my favorite Druddigon partner so far but it’s cool seeing one of my favorite childhood pokemon Tauros getting some love

[@voychoi9923]

Druddigon+Greninja is a brutal combo. They fit so well together.

[@dinomorose4000]

Enjoyed this deck, some brilliant comebacks from losing position.

[@chadgamer]

Love this content, thank you for it!

[@TranceVivi]

Dam you cooked with this one Jeff 👌 nice mate

[@BushidoBoyd]

Really enjoyed this deck! Very different playstyle and stomps a lot of EX decks (especially Mew/Mewtwo). The main weakness is when facing non EX decks and/or never getting your greninja online. Other than that it's fairly consistent.

[@dariodavis56]

Since this deck is basically the Flareon deck that has now cut it out would it be smart to use one of your open slots to tech in a blue? With so many 100 hit point pokemon it gives u counter play into pika and starmie plus gio

[@HooglandiaPocket]

I don't think you need to hege good match ups extra.

[@robertcote3488]

Durdle dragon and the tourney play is great! Thanks for sharing!

[@robertcote3488]

Oh, and I named this deck in my editor, "Izzet Hoof?"

[@shenronsgoldfish]

Hey Jeff love the content and just wanted to say that by following your deck building recommendations I've built a fun aerodactyl ex deck that runs it and 2 marrowack and 1 marowhack ex. Rounding out my 5th basic is hitmonlee then using a mix of item cards and trainer cards to round out. It's been going okay for me and I just wanted to thank you for your informative and data driven analysis of decks ❤.

[@valentinafuffa535]

durdle dragon + greninja always does a surprising amount of damage for free

[@marc-andrecote2948]

Thoughts on blue? knowing u can die to 100 dmg celebi, or giovanni pikachu, ninetail & starmie It feels to me that for a control/defensive gamestyle u'd want to add it

[@HooglandiaPocket]

I think those matches tend to be good and you don't need to play specific cards to hedge them extra.

[@jareddoucette7193]

They really need to find a way to make 2 color decks less painful. I agree there should be some downside but when you just never get the second color, it’s brutal. Do you have any reasonable solutions?

[@omologo95]

I absolutely love this deck myself. I took it through the entire event, and I think I had a 45 - 7 W/L. And it's hilarious how much this deck dismantles Mewtwo.

[@tomeferreira3121]

Great games jeff. What did u place ?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

I dropped at 3-2 because it was late and I wanted to sleep rather than play 3 more rounds to try and make day two.

[@user-dmiller]

Very cool deck. I have been enjoying this after watching you play on stream this week. Curious how the Pikachu matchade you feel about potentially Blue to play around Giovanni. Not certain but it seemed useful in that niche

[@monarch2500]

Probably a stupid question but how do u do ur setup , like the template that u r using

[@HooglandiaPocket]

I use my streaming software to cut up and rearrange Pocket so it maximizes the screen space for wide screen.

[@monarch2500]

@ gotcha that make sense, thank u 😊

[@mookmixx5785]

cam i ask you why not 1 potion for 4pokemon with 100 hp for mewtwo matchup?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Your Mewtwo match up is fine as is and most Mewtwo players don't want to hit your Drudd for 50 anyways.

[@ahmadaboo]

I used this deck to complete the single missions which i have to win with no ex deck , i one shot through all of them with ease, thanks.

[@taphly]

How well does this deck fair vs celebi?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

I think that match is good. Taruos plus one Drudd hit, Greninja or Gio clears Cele in one.

[@darksniper1n]

do you think 1 tauros can reasonably be swapped for mew? missing the second one.

[@HooglandiaPocket]

That makes your Celebi and Pikachu matchups significantly worse unfortunately

[@raphael571]

How do you know at the start of the game which cards your opponents using?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Tournaments tend to be open deck list.

[@abhinandhari7812]

Jeff, another card I really liked is bruxish with drugddigon. Drugdiggon feels very good ngl, though I would like to attack more with him

[@johnnyb813]

You should turn the music volume down in future videos IMO. Great video though. Love this deck list!

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Will be corrected in the future. Sorry about that.

[@darkly7749]

Sweet "control" deck, I enjoy the gameplan and single pointers only. I do wish they'd let us adjust energy ratios in the deckbuilder if they're not going to make changes to the energy system to reduce being colour screwed. It felt bad watching the 4+ fire energies in a row in your games but it is a testament to how well the deck performs when variance doesn't go your way.

[@saltydog7482]

No kidding. Dual energy decks are so fun to play and I like the planning for energy placement. Was using a gren flareon drudigon deck and getting only water for so long in a row kinda just sinks you

[@Scrappy-Wrestler]

You got saved my the arcane player who didn’t attack you. I don’t understand that play by them. It made no sense. Good plays by you. W video

[@lucky_mouse]

Y'know, you talk about playing basics to play around Sabrina and Red Card and stuff, but I don't think I remember you explaining these situations in which you *don't* want to put a basic down. I'm really curious now. Anyway, banger set of games, as always, Jeff.

[@bevo191]

This deck requires so much more tactical skill to play, but when done right every win is much more satisfying for the effort. Definitely my new favorite.

[@Laennec568]

Yeah absolutely

[@Lucky-bk2py]

All of these new decks only from a mini expansion. I am so excited for the big expansion in the future.

[@SpartanNinjaViking]

Greninja line + Druddigon is such a good shell. I have found success with almost any extra basic pokemon, but this package requires a lot more skill. A single energy misstep ruins you. Love the content.

[@Havok91]

Druddigon straight up gave me a win over a Celebi EX in my Pidgeot EX deck. They KO'd Drud, took the 20, then saw my Flute come down and it was over.

[@WKN]

2:13 Can anyone explain how he knows the two cards that he gets when he professor researcher????

[@HooglandiaPocket]

I actually asked for Froakie, I was simply speaking out loud what I'm looking for while taking game actions.

[@WKN]

@ Thanks for the reply your videos are so informative! Also, could you explain why someone would use professor’s research BEFORE using pokeball?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

@@WKN you research before you Pokeball when you want to be more likely to research into a basic. In this instance I was looking for two basics so I researched first.

[@duelistdecoolest1893]

I actually use this exact list, but I swap 2x Giovanni and 2x Tauros for 2x Flareon and 2x Eevee. Similar damage to Tauros for a similar energy cost, but it works against non-EX pokemon as well.

[@bryanmather7502]

I kind of think poke flute would be good in this deck, I might have to play around with this idea

[@ThatSneakyMexican]

nice deck, its been good for the event.

[@thorstenrumpf1312]

Just love this deck i am 8-0 with it very fun thanks for sharing

[@probablyanotherfun]

this deck is super nice i wanted to see it against celebi had so manyy games that i was suppose to counter it and they instant roll some 2 coins early kill my dragons before i was able to build and they snowballed etc

[@pspsmallz]

Druddigon and Greninja are insane together. Have beaten Celebi, Mewtwo, Pikachu, CharizardBlaines and Poison multiple times with plenty of surprise KOs.

[@brandonstreet2351]

You should try the Gyrados version in place of Tauros, it is very strong.

[@HooglandiaPocket]

That deck is very good, but also plays very different from this one.

[@DatCrossGuy]

I’m testing committing to full water energy. Dragon gets tons of value without attacking, but of course the option to build him is optimal sometimes.

[@HooglandiaPocket]

You need Dragon to attack in this build. Look into something like Greninja Gyara if you want to play mono-color.

[@CopperAirplane]

Cool deck

[@ryantaylor9492]

I can't lose with this deck it's insane.

[@jairocardenescraff9686]

How is this Deck's Matchup against Celibi Variants? It's the most frequent Deck I'm facing at the moment

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Match up is strong. Tauros one shots Celebi with Gio, Ninja, or a single dragon trigger.

[@pg-erk3938]

We catching them all with this one

[@Saxmusik]

Is there a reasonable substitute for having pulled no new Tauros cards?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Flareon is OK.

[@Saxmusik]

@@HooglandiaPocketrunning one Evee and one Flareon and hoping for the best?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

@@Saxmusik two of each. Drop the xspeed and a gio.

[@bzzt5902]

This deck is kinda diabolical. Really interesting mash up of complimentary pokemon

[@aces6732]

Is Tauros Better than Flareon? And what about Mew over tauros?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

I like Tauros the most of those options. Basic and one KO point.

[@aces6732]

@@HooglandiaPocket and what about the Flareon version

[@HooglandiaPocket]

@@aces6732 I think it is generally worse.

[@danielellis8672]

I was rocking this deck but sub Marshadow for Tauros.

[@uabtodd]

I’ve never played in a tournament, is it typical that you always have your opponents decklist before each match starts? Seems like knowing exactly which cards they have is a pretty big advantage.

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Open deck lists is typical. It is an advantage both players have yes.

[@THEAWESOMEGHOST]

I ended up doing Drudddigon Pidgeot. Then I realized I could splash colors and added rapidash to counter all the celebis. Now I see rapidash everywhere and I’m thinking I should add a greninja

[@ghostlyluck4523]

Hey Hooglandia, I was wondering if you can try playing a deck that I made. This deck has Victreebel, Marshadow, Mew EX. This deck is fast paced using Farfetch'd as your lead attacker while Marshadow revenges. The Victreebel basically helps take down low pokémon at the back, also is good paired up with poké whistle. Lastly, Mew EX takes care of EX cards. This is a dual energy deck, it uses grass and fighting energy. (Feel free to change anything since I want to improve this deck) (I got wins against charizard decks, mewtwo decks, and celebi decks.) Deck: Bellsprout x1 Weepinbell x2 Victreebel x2 Marshadow x2 Farfetch'd x2 Mew EX x1 X Speed x2 Poké ball x2 Pokémon Flute x1 Professor's Research x2 Erika x1 Giovanni x1 Leaf x1

[@christophertherians2243]

I am losing this deck so much it is very fun, i just changed the xspeed for 1 copy of BLU that is often crucial againts celebi second heds, mew2 second hit etc for 100 hit point cards like tauros and druddigon.

[@gligurr]

Wouldn't potion just be better there

[@JCannon38]

@@gligurrno because if Celebi hits two heads tauros and drud aren’t living that. Blue makes so they do

[@gligurr]

@@JCannon38 Yeah, good for Celebi I guess. Though, nothing else hits for 100 and there's only ever a percentage chance that it even helps against Celebi to begin with

[@IvoHarrisIII]

Starmie Pikachu Drud with Giovanni hit for 100

[@actuallyitsandre3771]

What's the reasoning behind deck builds being public knowledge in tournament play?

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Public decks is more skill testing and makes it so people wanting to stream their games doesn't get punished for it.

[@actuallyitsandre3771]

@ love it, thanks!

[@chaldea_]

The game music is a bit too high, just a heads up.

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Yep. Will be fixed next time. Sorry bout that.

[@mrgarneau4895]

Druddigon was a pokemon that I wanted to play around with as soon as I saw it, there was something about that ability that I liked. I didn't expect it to be one of the top meta mons, like its proving itself to be

[@cridus_]

this one's crazy. too bad that I have only 1 druddigon and 0 tauros.

[@samuel.t.basilio]

Too good 😮

[@rface0]

Every time I've tried to play this deck tauros never bothers to show up

[@HooglandiaPocket]

We hit Celebi with it on the live stream yesterday iirc. Match up is fine with Tauros and bonus damage frying the onion

[@Largecow_Moobeast]

This deck is great, lots of mewtwos cry.

[@mig900]

When is it better to poke ball first before Prof Oak mate? And vice versa

[@cridus_]

if you need more basic pokemon at the start of a game use the research first, otherwise do the opposite.

[@bzzt5902]

Basically just maximize the likelihood that the 2 Oak cards are what you want, so leave the basic in the deck if you want more than one basic, take it out first if not.

[@hey77741]

game music is too loud

[@Zenderstrife]

My new deck

[@УходиОтсюда-с8и]

Great commentary but please turn down background music like twice or even more

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Audio levels will be better next time. Forgot to double check them for this off stream recording after making some adjustments. Sorry!

[@kevalevduqc9147]

Bruh I could watch you’re if brain play all day long

[@MontiiiTV]

Let loose the Bullfrog!

[@armorykittington]

holy audio

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Audio levels will be better next time. Forgot to double check them for this off stream recording after making some adjustments. Sorry!

[@KefoAtleta]

It is hard to hear you at some parts. Overall a good video though.

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Audio levels will be better next time. Forgot to double check them for this off stream recording after making some adjustments. Sorry!

[@KefoAtleta]

@@HooglandiaPocket No need for apologies I just had to tell you so you know that there might be something wrong with the set up or something. Take care and good luck!

[@antonkatsu6266]

hear me out, but I replaced one tauros with a red card. I felt like the 2nd tauros was barely used even in matchups against EX

[@HooglandiaPocket]

Some math on red card: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYXdcoeFjZWijZo

[@rokmare]

I had the same idea except I replaced gren ninja with dragonite because he win games 😂

[@Interstice1994]

How does this deck fair against my Grimerx1 (no muk)Sanlandit x1 homebrew Scolipede deck? Nice deck btw copied! 😂

[@trialconesiaur1638]

Is it appropriate to call this is a “stall” deck? I hate playing against control, so I need a more morally defensible term when I try it out

[@OMGclueless]

I think "prison" is a better term for it. Tauros puts your opponent into impossible spots where they lose if they attack while you slowly clock them with Greninja and build up a Druddigon to start forcing the issue.

[@pspsmallz]

It's much more controlled or tempo based because you force your opponent to make certain moves often

[@Niitori]

Stall is also an aspect that's done in control decks.

[@urwrldluv]

imo drudigon is way too squishy for 3 energy

[@HooglandiaPocket]

It's literally one of the best cards in the set. You should really watch the games.

[@pspsmallz]

Read its ability, combine with blue it's one of the best cards in the set

[@urwrldluv]

@@HooglandiaPocketyea Jeff but we’re not all blessed with high IQ plays like you 😭

[@jareddoucette7193]

They really need to find a way to make 2 color decks less painful. I agree there should be some downside but when you just never get the second color, it’s brutal. Do you have any reasonable solutions?