

Not to mention the Ultra Space Stadium helps to quickly fill up the bench, allowing Naganadel GX can take OHKOs on the likes of Buzzwole GX, Mewtwo GX and Necrozma GX. The deck can take advantage of powerful Ultra Beast cards like the damage-boosting Beast Energy and the situational-but-still-broken Energy-accelerator Beast Ring. Nearly every deck is built around hitting key numbers to take quick and efficient knockouts, but having multiple Stakataka GX on the bench with the damage-reducing Ultra Wall Ability throws a wrench in those carefully calculated plans.

The release of Celestial Storm’s Stakataka GX may have given Beast Box the tool it needs to join the Tier 1 club. At the end of the day, the fact remains that when a Greninja deck gets going, it’s hard to stop it no matter what you play, so it may indeed have a shot at going all the way this year. Plus it can utilize the new Shrine of Punishment to great effect. Still, the new Froakie (70 HP), Frogadier and Greninja GX offer the deck a few new tools, including a 130 damage snipe in the form of the Shadowy Hunter GX attack. Or that any deck can toss in the Giratina promo to shut off Greninja’s potent Ability and severely hamstring the deck.

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That’s not even considering how Garbotoxin Garbodor was in the deck that won the North American International Championships, meaning it’ll be out in full force at Worlds. Yet for as powerful as the deck can be with its snipe/Ability lock combo, Greninja’s greatest weakness remains its own inability to setup properly every game. Greninja BREAK took second place in the Masters Division at last year’s Pokemon World Championships, and even though a whole year’s worth of new cards have come out since then, it still looms over the field with its slimy scarf-tongue. You can flip through the slideshow below to see our picks or keep scrolling to read this piece as an article.
