Ambipom TR new disruption deck?

Aburame Yuki

Aburame Yuki

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So the i think that at least some people has noticed ambipom TR and it's potential as a deck and/or tech. So anyideas on what it could be played with? Since you need to discard cards to do some real damage the chose of main/secondary pokemon to run is important. And a good thing is that ambipom only needs 1 DCE to attack with any of it's attacks so the deck can be really fast.

The options for this deck is to make a new deck with ambipom and something, or to adjust an existing deck (like sablock) and add in ambipom as attacker/tech.

So should it be played with sableye/smeargle to disrupt with supporters and easier setup?

Or with another stage 1/2 pokemon to add attack power and damage output.

Or can these be mixed and if they can what pokemon would you run with ambipom? (excluding sableye/smeargle)

Ambipom TR
smeargle UD
sableye SF

 
The main issue with Ambipom is that it lacks any real damage output. If you switch from Ambipom to another attacker, you will lose your disruption powers and one topdecked Uxie can destroy the game for you.
This is why Houndoom UD is a better option - 30 more damage goes a long way. It allows Houndoom to better stand up against early attackers. If I get a Stage 2 attacker out vs Ambipom before it starts disrupting me, odds are that stage 2 can plow through 3/4 Ambipoms before it goes down. Whereas it will take out 2 Houndooms, max.
Not saying its a bad idea, just saying that its damage output is generally too low to work.
 
Well there are times when disruption isn't necessary. Like when your opponent only has 2-4 cards in hand, then you can just play cyrus's initiative (if you play it) and get the other pokemon you run to attack with higher damage. That way you are still able to hold the disruption and attack.
And if worried about top decking you could play chatot g or slowking HGSS. Also sablock don't really have a high damage output but is a great (awesome) deck anyway.

 
Sablelock's damage output far exceeds Ambipom's.

Houndoom can hold hands to 0, so that they have to rely on topdecks, which Slowking manipulates. While Ambipom can theoratically do the same and do so faster, Ambipom's meek damage output makes it less then desirable. If opponents have 1 card by the end of YOUR turn, they can Bebe/Communication. Which isnt good due to Uxie.
 
I have problems with these types of decks. The first and foremost is that you cannot control Uxie Threat. Because you randomly discard, I can hold 3 outs to Uxie in my hand, and reap the rewards. The deck cannot output a lot of damage, so you are eventually going to have to break your "lock". The new All-Around card, Smeargle, will also give you problems. A smeargle into Collector for Q, Uxie, and their main basic pokemon will wreck you. I'm just not seeing the deck working.
 
Yeah, you can just search them out again. This card alone dealt me my only loss @Prerelease, but only because there's no search or drawpower there. If someone sees an Ambipom, they'll use up necessary cards or give themselves ways to get them back, then KO Ambipom fairly quickly (Machamp SF even OHKOs it with Take Out despite not being Basic).
 
Thats one more reason to get a good secondary pokemon to support ambipom on situations like that.

I have built a random deck right now and it's not really competitive (yet but might become). It includes ambipom 2-2, 2-4 marowak TR 4-2 gyarados SF, 2 absol prime, and 2 mew prime. Those ore the pokemon in the deck (i also have 1 uxie, 1 unown dark, 1 umbreon UD, 1 mightyena LA, 1 drifblim SF ). The deck works fairly good for being just made from the card i have left after 3 other decks (i barely have cards for good 3 decks) And the deck lacks many things but thats not the point right now.. The deck is't really about disruption but about discarding my marowak(s) and magikarp(s) with ambipom or junk arm and stuff. Don't judge the deck to hard right now. It's just a fun deck with attacker's that can take out my friends deck (he he ^^'' ).

I'll get some feed back about how ambipom works in a deck were you need to discard cards. And if the disruption has helped me.

 
Aahhh so many attackers! I see the Gyara/Marowak synergy, but not much else. Ambipom doesn't halp much...
 
yeah there is a lot but it works. Also the thing ambipom dose is that it helps with the discarding of magikarp(s) and marowak(s). A friend had forgotten his deck and played with mine (this one) and managed to lock my hand with ambipom until he had gotten 3 magikarps to the discard pile. I still won the game because he could't play the deck and miss played a lot, but he would have won if he knew how to run it (maybe?).

 
Oh, that's true. Its second attack would help Gyara, I guess, while doing damage, but the problem would be that it still gets KO'd very quickly and putting Ambipom in there takes a lot of space, what with the DCE that should be in also.
 
When I saw Ambipom the first time I figured people would try to rogue it into Gyarados builds.

With Judge it could be possible to lock a hand with Astonish, but like everyone else mentioned the damage output is so low that most Supporters could disrupt your strategy when they search for key cards and get them into play.

Whether you're using Ambipom as a discard outlet in a Gyarados deck or as the hand control option in a DarkLock, I don't see the need to throw in any more than a 2-2 line.
 
So it appears this will only ever be used as a tech and not in its own deck. It still sort of takes up space by itself and having DCE for it with none for Gyara seems to take up more space than necessary. But I wouldn't know specifically, I don't play Gyarados - maybe it would work really well (after all, 60 damage for DCE while getting Gyara going isn't bad!)
 
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