Expanded Solgeleo GX Deck. (Need Help)

[Corgimaster]

Hello! I am new to Pokebeach, and am currently working on a new deck using a new seemingly powerful card from the Sun and Moon expansion: Solgeleo GX. The card itself, well, is basically a 250 HP tank, with a large gun that is the 230 damage Sunsteel Strike, which can KO most of the dominant megas in the format. The second thing is it's GX attack, which is ok, since it can power up sunsteel strike if you have no energy in your hand. After that rant, here is the deck:

Pokémon: 13
2x Solgeleo GX (SM base #89)

1x Cosmoem (SM base #65)

3x Cosmog (SM base #64)

1x Magernea EX (Steam Siege #75)

2x Skarmory (SM base #88)

2x Genesect EX (Fates Collide #64)

2x Shaymin EX (Roaring Skies #77)

Trainers: 31
3x Rare Candy (SM base #129)

2x Lysandre (Flashfire #90)

2x Professor Kukui (SM base #128)

1x Lille (SM base #122)

4x Ultra Ball (SM base #135)

4x Trainer’s Mail (Roaring Skies #92)

4x Professor Sycamore (BREAKpoint #107)

4x VS Seeker (Phantom Forces #109)

3x Energy Retrieval (SM base #116)

1x Town Map (BREAKthrough #160)

3x Professor’s Letter (SM base #)

Energy: 16
10x Metal Energy (SM base)

2x Shield Energy (Primal Clash #143)

4x Double Colorless Energy (SM base #136)


Hope it works

 

[Kietharr]

This deck and most Solgaleo decks in standard run into big problems against 1 prize attacker decks. Even with 3 energy retrieval you're going to have issues chaining 3 sunsteel strikes together, much less 4-6.

I don't feel that Genesect adds a lot to this deck as a metal attacker. He works very similarly to Solgaleo in that he needs to burn energy to hit big damage numbers, your alternate attacker option should be a more energy efficient attacker that can take on those decks that play the prize trade game. I'd recommend replacing those with a couple of Scizor-EX, which can be used in conjunction with Ultra Road to consistently hit 2HKO range on much of the meta while rotating between each other.

It'll leave you vulnerable to Garbodor, but I think it's a better alternate attacker option in a meta deprived of good metal options. Ideally you should drop the Skarmories for Jirachi-XY and drop the DCEs for more trainers but that's an expensive card especially if you're building online.

In terms of tech, max potions are great with Solgaleo. Weakness policies make the Volcanion-EX matchup less of an auto-loss, but that's a personal philosophy sort of call to make, some people just accept that their bad matchups are going to be really bad and tech to make the good/neutral matchups better.

A minor thing: Either drop Cosmog to 2 or increase Solgaleo to 3, there's not much of a point in pyramiding evolutions like this, you have no use for that 3rd Cosmog without a Solgaleo for it.

 

[Corgimaster]

OK! I'll try to incorporate your suggestions into my deck, and thanks!