Butterfree decks to try: Butterfree + lapras ex Butterfree + polywrath Butterfree + Weezing Butterfree + lilligant + 1 venusaur ex I absolutely love caterpie first, getting to draw into more butterfree pieces, and then evolve into metapod, tank, Evolve into Butterfree, and tank more, while you stack 2 on lilligant, switch out for the 1, and use the lilligant to ramp the second liligant , or the butterfree, or the bulbasaur of you got it
Melmetal is essentially a higher-damage and faster Venusaur, since it's a stage 1 and can accelerate its own energy. However, it's somewhat less tanky.
I found a lot of success by pairing it with Greninja with only Metal energy. You can run Misty solely to put a Water energy on Greninja, but even if you don't find any Misty or flip all tails, Greninja is still solid since its ability doesn't require any energy (meaning you can pump more into Melmetal) and both Froakie and Frogadier only need 1 energy of any type. Melmetal's Heavy Impact dealing 120 damage becomes even more threatening when Greninja is pinging things for 20 every turn.
As you said it’s one of the best things in pocket to work a deck from an ability, it’s a great card and has good synergy with melmetals -20 ability. Great vid it’s helpful to see these walkthroughs as some people don’t have all the cards and we get to see various battle scenarios before spending those precious pack points!
I think melmetal is a really good card is just there is not a lot of cards that support it, ramping into 4 energy and 3 of it has to be metal makes the card go online really slow compared to to the other cast
Dual energies is a gamble. I had a game, trykng dragonite weezing combo, where i filled my two dragonites with water energy... 4 energy each... And my weezing had 2 water energy also. And the next energy would be another water. When i conceded i went to deck edition to see if, for some reason, i had put the deck with only water. I didnt, it also hd lightning.
I genuinely had this same issue while trying out a VERY fringe build using Weezing, Gengar Ex, and a MewTwo EX. I think my strategy may have very well worked if I had gotten a SINGLE Dark energy before turn 5.
I had a tie game yesterday using a dark deck with a Greninja, I forgot to remove the water energy from what I generate. But I just could not get a dark type energy and had to keep using drive off and retreats until it came to 30 turns
My main i run is dark/steel, I have both king and queen in it with meltan and it's really good helps with the mewtwo deck that I keep getting put against. I also built this deck and won about half of my games.
1. Butterfree is my favorite card to splash into decks. 2. Building decks with unique synergies like this is my favorite thing to do. 3. Melmetal is one of the 9 cards I still don’t have a single copy of 😂 4. But I’ve been wanting to make this deck since day 2 of playing this game 😂
Same! I have 0 Melmetals. I have a B Tier deck with called Poli-free which runs the Poliwag family, Butterfree family and a Single Lapras EX and it is somewhat similar to this build. I would try this if I had the cards. Kinda tired of spaming Charizard Mewtwo S Tiers.
Its even a little hard getting the gardevoir tier 2 in mewtwo decks, so having a tier 1 (melmetal) as the carry in addition makes the deck even less consistent.
@@matt-ns8ze it does work on the bench. It works on Articuno’s blizzard, hitmonlees stretch kick, Zebstrika’s thunder spear, Dragonite’s Draco Meteor. Greninja’s water shuriken is not an attack. It just takes away 20hp.
@@JCannon38 Sry for the late reply, had my midterms lol, 2 copies of Weezing line 2 copies of Melmetal line, 2 pots ( i think pots is really efficient on melmetal) 1 x speed, 2 pokeball, 2 prof, 2 koga, 1 gio (for the starmie match up, ) 2 Sabrinas
I've been running Hypno/Mawile with Melmetal as a finisher because I'm a bad person haha How does your build perform against Mewtwo you think? This is a cool build and I'm super looking forward to trying it :D
sadly this deck melts against blaine since both melmetal and butterfree evos are weak against fire and the pressure of blaine is too high for this slow deck.
It is too slow unfortunately. 2 stage 2 Pokemon are needed. A Pikachu or Mewtu or fire deck (weakness) kill you before you have your pokemon on the field
Pls, it is so easy to take it down. Melmetal should have 140hp or at least require 1 energy less for the attack and it would be better, maybe. But now.. most of the meta decks destroy it
As they do most decks? Starmie + Articuno and Pikachu + Zapdos are two of the best decks in format and they only require 140 damage to one shot the bulkiest cards. Mewtwo is only 150 so it’s also taken out by opposing hits of 150. Super pointless take!
Butterfree decks to try:
Butterfree + lapras ex
Butterfree + polywrath
Butterfree + Weezing
Butterfree + lilligant + 1 venusaur ex
I absolutely love caterpie first, getting to draw into more butterfree pieces, and then evolve into metapod, tank,
Evolve into Butterfree, and tank more, while you stack 2 on lilligant, switch out for the 1, and use the lilligant to ramp the second liligant , or the butterfree, or the bulbasaur of you got it
I've played butterfree lapras. Very inconsistent but satisfying when it works
Hey. I did the whole event with a Bisharp / Melmetal build. Honestly, I think people is sleeping on it and it’s really F2P
What else was in the deck?
deck list pls
Is it on pikachu EX deck? Been wanting to run melmetal deck to try something new. Tired of my mewtwo, weezing and primape decks hahaha
@@suicinekjdit works really good with Greeninja
@@suicinekjd I think it’s in mewtwo. Maybe you can check it after.
Melmetal is essentially a higher-damage and faster Venusaur, since it's a stage 1 and can accelerate its own energy. However, it's somewhat less tanky.
I found a lot of success by pairing it with Greninja with only Metal energy. You can run Misty solely to put a Water energy on Greninja, but even if you don't find any Misty or flip all tails, Greninja is still solid since its ability doesn't require any energy (meaning you can pump more into Melmetal) and both Froakie and Frogadier only need 1 energy of any type. Melmetal's Heavy Impact dealing 120 damage becomes even more threatening when Greninja is pinging things for 20 every turn.
As you said it’s one of the best things in pocket to work a deck from an ability, it’s a great card and has good synergy with melmetals -20 ability. Great vid it’s helpful to see these walkthroughs as some people don’t have all the cards and we get to see various battle scenarios before spending those precious pack points!
I think melmetal is a really good card is just there is not a lot of cards that support it, ramping into 4 energy and 3 of it has to be metal makes the card go online really slow compared to to the other cast
no steel support :(
Dual energies is a gamble. I had a game, trykng dragonite weezing combo, where i filled my two dragonites with water energy... 4 energy each... And my weezing had 2 water energy also. And the next energy would be another water. When i conceded i went to deck edition to see if, for some reason, i had put the deck with only water. I didnt, it also hd lightning.
I genuinely had this same issue while trying out a VERY fringe build using Weezing, Gengar Ex, and a MewTwo EX.
I think my strategy may have very well worked if I had gotten a SINGLE Dark energy before turn 5.
I had a tie game yesterday using a dark deck with a Greninja, I forgot to remove the water energy from what I generate. But I just could not get a dark type energy and had to keep using drive off and retreats until it came to 30 turns
My main i run is dark/steel, I have both king and queen in it with meltan and it's really good helps with the mewtwo deck that I keep getting put against. I also built this deck and won about half of my games.
Melmetal/Greninja. You’re welcome
Yeah, Metal Ninja decks are great. Melmetal/Pigeot is also really good.
Greninja melmetal can win vs mewtwo full HP
Its a better deck than butterfree
Shuriken + Giovanni melmetal can OHKO mewtwo when hitting first
Appreciate the overview man!
1. Butterfree is my favorite card to splash into decks.
2. Building decks with unique synergies like this is my favorite thing to do.
3. Melmetal is one of the 9 cards I still don’t have a single copy of 😂
4. But I’ve been wanting to make this deck since day 2 of playing this game 😂
Same! I have 0 Melmetals. I have a B Tier deck with called Poli-free which runs the Poliwag family, Butterfree family and a Single Lapras EX and it is somewhat similar to this build. I would try this if I had the cards. Kinda tired of spaming Charizard Mewtwo S Tiers.
You're the 1st person I've seen use a MetaMetal deck. I really like Metal/ Butterfree combo. Very very nice!
I run this same deck but without the Mawile. It’s fun and strong but can be frustrating when you don’t draw your pieces
Its even a little hard getting the gardevoir tier 2 in mewtwo decks, so having a tier 1 (melmetal) as the carry in addition makes the deck even less consistent.
Love the gen 3 music, perfect fit
Does melmetal power activate on the bench? Against articuno spread damage and hitmonlee?
Yeah he takes -20 everywhere on the field
No. Greninja has hit my Melmetal while on the bench and he took the 20dmg
@@matt-ns8zeactually the reason why Greninja is able to deal 20 damage to Melmetal is because it’s from an ability. It doesn’t count as an attack.
@Ringo57869 correct. That was the point I was making. Melmetal's ability doesn't work from the bench, not everywhere on the field.
@@matt-ns8ze it does work on the bench. It works on Articuno’s blizzard, hitmonlees stretch kick, Zebstrika’s thunder spear, Dragonite’s Draco Meteor. Greninja’s water shuriken is not an attack. It just takes away 20hp.
Tried this and did Meowth for Payday to get cards out quicker. Worked good
running it with koga weezing is great too! having lots of success
What is the deck build if you don’t mind me asking?
I did this for most of the event and was incredibly positive in terms of winrate
@@JCannon38 Sry for the late reply, had my midterms lol, 2 copies of Weezing line
2 copies of Melmetal line, 2 pots ( i think pots is really efficient on melmetal) 1 x speed, 2 pokeball, 2 prof, 2 koga, 1 gio (for the starmie match up, ) 2 Sabrinas
@@JCannon38 But i am also experimenting with the pokedex tech that i saw with a machamp ex deck
1500 cards unlocked.. 1 meltan 0 melmetal 🤣 still no Pidgeot either. I do have the top like 5 or so meta decks but I prefer these fun decks 🤣
XDD thats the worst.
I wrote off Steel in Pocket, glad this strat makes it viable. Just wish Mewtwo and all the EXs got sucked into a black hole and never returned.
I saw that same deck a day or two ago and it’s my favorite to run it’s just so fun
I've been running Hypno/Mawile with Melmetal as a finisher because I'm a bad person haha
How does your build perform against Mewtwo you think? This is a cool build and I'm super looking forward to trying it :D
Its alright. I think the farfetch tech is the best you can get for the matchup. Mewtwo is gonna be heavily favored regardless
Ive been using Melmetal, Wigglytuff, bisharp, and aerodactyl
Agro Blaine destroy this deck 100%
Running a tier 2 with a tier 1 is kinda scary tho. I feel like it may a bit too inconsistent/slow especially against the meta decks
yeah it def can be. I dont think its a huge hinderance overall though
Will be a plus having Metal be a weakness for pokemons. Cool video!
How are you playing this on your pc?
Clefairy / clefable are weak to metal.
They will add more fairies and they will likely also be weak to metal.
Frosmoth is weak to metal too, so that's good since it's played in a variety of decks
Mumu Player ✌
renaming the deck to healium would be a nice pun imo
Melmetal is great i think
I mmade metal butter a week ago! What made me stop using it is mewtwo just one tapping melmetal while melmetal needs 2 turns to kill one
Mewtwo be doing that to almost everyone 😭
I've opened a lot of Charizard packs. I've got 2 immersive zards and zero melmetal 🤷
I'd love to trade lol. Can't get zard ex to save my life.
XDD
I run nearly the same deck, just one less Sabrina and one more x speed
I'd put some fossils in there to deal with sabrinas
could be solid esp bc Melmetal needs some ramp time
sadly this deck melts against blaine since both melmetal and butterfree evos are weak against fire and the pressure of blaine is too high for this slow deck.
ive been memeing with a melmetal butterfree deck haha. oh shit thats the video deck..
Built this deck and i am winning!!!
It is too slow unfortunately. 2 stage 2 Pokemon are needed. A Pikachu or Mewtu or fire deck (weakness) kill you before you have your pokemon on the field
I can pull all the promo cards accept butterfree
Ez for cahrizard ex moltres ex deck
My melmetal and Greninja destroyed
I love tcg pocket, 20 cards with no energy needs to be the standard of all formats lol
What is up with the background music? Annoying
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👁 c u
NO IVE BEEN RUNNING THIS FOR A WEEK STOP GIVING OUT MY SECRETS
Pls, it is so easy to take it down. Melmetal should have 140hp or at least require 1 energy less for the attack and it would be better, maybe. But now.. most of the meta decks destroy it
Any atk with 150+ just destroy this deck
As they do most decks? Starmie + Articuno and Pikachu + Zapdos are two of the best decks in format and they only require 140 damage to one shot the bulkiest cards. Mewtwo is only 150 so it’s also taken out by opposing hits of 150. Super pointless take!
@@valiantboreas most decks don’t relay only on 1 pokemon with 4 energys. Both your examples can set at least 2 pokemons with 2 energys to hit
he did say this is a b- tier deck lol
@@jasonexperience8970nah it was reference for Melmetal card not deck
yes if they GET to the 150 attack
Mewtwo one shots him and you see so much