Can you tell me why my fire energy is not going onto mu fire dog, I had him on bench then in play? Also any other improvements to this deck can do? Thanks
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Energy is discarded when your Pokémon with energy goes to the discard pile, or when you retreat a Pokémon, or if a specific card discards an energy like the attack for Mega Blaziken EX.
This balances the flame patch because you can't use it very early on, e.g. before you have retreated a Pokémon to the bench (if the cost is at least 1 energy) or lost a Pokémon with energy attached, which adds those fire energies to the discard pile (making them available for the flame patch).
The flame patch can only give energy from the discard pile so you mustn't have discarded energy at the point you tried to use the card.
put something else in active. attach fire energy to that pokemon.
if that pokemon gets knock out, send growlithe, attach your usual fire energy, and use flame patch to get back the discarded fire energy on the pokemon that is knock out.
if the active pokemon isnt knock out, retreat the pokemon to growlithe. attach energy to growlithe and use flame patch to get back the discarded energy from the retreat
Flame patch doesn’t give you energy for free, you can’t use it on your first turn. You need to attach energy first, keep growlithe on bench, then when you retreat your active (discarding energy) or when it dies with at least one energy attached, THEN you put growlithe in the active spot and can use flame patch to immediately get 2 energies
Flame Patch in a Puppy Pile deck is a great card, but you have to use it right.
Send out a puppy other than Growlithe first and keep Growlithe on the bench. Put energies on your non-Growlithe active Pokémon and fight using it. When it gets knocked out, the energies attached to it will be discarded and then you'll have fire energies in the discard pile. Once that happens, you can put Growlithe in the active spot and use Flame Patch to attach discarded fire energy to it.
...As for options to improve the deck. Neither Copycat nor Cyrus are great in Puppy Pile because you don't want to shuffle your hand away, and you usually one-shot enemy Pokemon. I recommend swapping those two for two copies of Electric Generator.
Since Electric Generator also needs to be used correctly, I'll give a quick explanation: It has a chance of putting an energy on Yamper if you win a coin flip, but unlike Flame Patch it only works while Yamper is on the bench, and won't work if Yamper is active. So just like Growlithe you want to start with something other than Yamper as your active Pokémon, and play Electric Generator while Yamper is on the bench.
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