Pokémon TCG Pocket

I was still using a Blaine deck, but I was making no progress in ranked. It's good enough to hover about in UB1, but not good enough to get to UB2. So I switched to a Rampardos/Lucario deck and got to UB2 without too much difficulty even though I only have one rare candy. Haven't tried to progress to UB3 yet.

I pulled a second Solgaleo, but haven't really tried it out yet. The problem with stage 2 decks (or even stage 1 decks) is that they always have a chance to brick, whereas Darktina is so consistent because it's only basics. I'd like to try a Darktina counter deck, but I don't have any Oricorios.

Just some comments on the current state of competitive as I see them-

• Lots of decks are viable which is good.
• Even the meta decks have some variation so it's not exactly the same every time.
• Moving up in rank is extremely grindy once you are past the ranks that give bonuses for win streaks.
• It takes too many clicks to re-queue, like everything else.

I just came across someone playing a new deck: chatot/rampardos/kabutops.

Chatot is the only basic, so you always start with it and can reshuffle your cards until you find your fossils and rare candies. Chatot and Kabutops only one 1 retreat cost, so you can switch them about if you need to look for another fossil later and chatot survived.

I tried it out and it's pretty fun. Not sure if it's good yet.

Making steady progress but my goal of Master Ball still feels very far away. IMO the win streak bonus should carry deeper into ranked, but I guess it's meant to be grindy.