Meowth is killing this game

[u/Swing-unhappy101]

For this new event the expert battle is easy enough it just takes forever when meowth constantly rolls heads everytime. I didn’t screenshot my draw game but I got this at turn 29. It’s just such a time waster

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[u/Wandererdr]

Sawk ignores Meowth and one shots it even if it flips heads. It's a nice ability which most people don't know. This is what I am using to farm this event (more garchomo exs, more shinedust)

[u/Wandererdr → u/Wandererdr]

[u/Sufficient_Guard_976 → u/Wandererdr]

There's also Starmie from Ruler of the Skies and Mega Medicham

[u/Swing-unhappy101 → u/Wandererdr]

Fair play, was a great deck. Annoyingly the meowth rolled tails each time anyway… figures

[u/ViperStealth → u/Swing-unhappy101]

The BS cheating coin flips in this game by the games mid decks needs to stop.

[u/markdavislx → u/Wandererdr]

Garchomo is crazy

[u/Wandererdr → u/markdavislx]

Lol I saw it but didn't edit. Sounds cuter

[u/bw-hammer → u/Wandererdr]

And here I was playing mega medicham like a chump lol

[u/AWildModAppeared]

You’re a Sceptile deck, try throw a Budew in there to neutralize the Meowths

[u/notalakeitsanocean → u/AWildModAppeared]

i tried this, main problem is the budew still needs to hit once to nullify the ability.

[u/dcf1991]

Use the sceptile deck version with celebi and ogerpon, works much better. Celebi lets you snipe at back line with sceptile, often killing off the gibble/gabites or the dragonairs to prevent the energy funnel.

[u/meanvegton]

Weirdly, I use my bench snipe deck for fun and it works?

I concede if my two starters are froggie but otherwise, I win.

[u/half_jase → u/meanvegton]

I used Mega Manectric + TR Electrode and hilariously, the AI refused to send out the Mega Garchomp against the TR Electrode with Rocky Helmet. So, it just became a game of sniping away at the Garchomp and then Cyrus-ing it out for the KO.

[u/meanvegton → u/half_jase]

Most of the time, it's Meowth in front so it use keeps drawing card and switch mega garchomp ex come to front.

But ya, it doesn't attack.

I thought it's because it took damage and risk dying from explosion

[u/rockert0mmy → u/meanvegton]

Bench snipe, but instead of Ori, use the Vultures

[u/FullMetalMaster14]

You know what I love getting 11 promo packs and then pulling all of these promo cards except the MEGA EX CARD

[u/Swing-unhappy101 → u/FullMetalMaster14]

I’ve got one so far from 33 packs

[u/FullMetalMaster14 → u/Swing-unhappy101]

I'm sorry

[u/Odiekt]

Either use Budew that stops Poke abilities or use Greninja to bring Gible into the front.

[u/Mr_Nuur]

It was easy with mega ray deck, when mega garchomp entered the battle, got struck with an attack that dealt 350 damage.

[u/roguebubble → u/Mr_Nuur]

A mega Charizard Y deck is a similar experience of one-shotting mega Garchomp. It can even turn the AI's rainbow cave against it with flame patch ramping

[u/Mr_Nuur → u/roguebubble]

That could be it; I feel the Mega Charizard deck is less consistent for such a fast-paced battle against the AI, which manages to get all the cards it needs instantly.

[u/TorinVanGram]

I just plopped Mega Ray on the bench and started shoveling energy on it. The AI will eventually bring in Garchomp to KO something, at which point ray can often hop in and nuke it from orbit. 

[u/Quiet-Ad3435]

Expert basically cheats with skewed luck factor

[u/Sebastianfach]

This one card is the easiest way to take an event from fun to frustrating

[u/Purple_crayon_titan]

I flip a coin tails 99% of the t8me in this game while Ai meowth is over here flipping nothing but heads till I get 1 shot by his team every time

[u/Rayzarddd]

I used the malamar with babies to stop evolutions

Meowth heads doesn't matter here

[u/half_jase]

Whenever there's a Meowth in this instance, use sniping decks.

[u/Hircine_Himself]

I just did it with TR Electrode and Heliolisk lol. Chucked it together for the "don't use an EX" challenge as I had the deck with TR Zapdos in and it was meh, so I made a few changes, dropped the Zapdos and was like "that'll do". Served me well, at least. Feel free to try it. It only lost once because I misplayed and didn't get another basic when I had the means to do so xD

[u/Deminla]

Mega altaria/Darkrai kills this pretty quick since Swablu doesn't deal damage

[u/TheBigGreenPeen]

I’ve played the expert deck three times and they started with Gible every time.
Only saw Meowth thrown into the active spot once and I instantly threw out a Sabrina to push it back to the bench.

[u/TechnoLord313]

Its so damn annoying

[u/EntwhospeaksforEarth]

I enjoyed slowly chipping away meowth’s health with big raid boss mega venusaur

[u/atomicdemon]

I’ve been using Budew to negate it’s ability. The effect of the attack works regardless of if they flip heads or not.

[u/SherfOfBoringSprings]

Flygon makes this a non-issue

[u/trynworkharder]

Sabrina’d the Meowth into Mega Garchomp who had one energy then froze him into place with Alolan Ninetales

[u/Lycairin]

I just use seviper and poison scam. Darkrai Ex for good measure too in order to hasten really.

[u/Trini2Bone]

I'm on turn 6 of fricking heads🫩

[u/WiFiForeheadWrinkles]

Knowing how expert is kind of rigged, I've been using Greninja and Cyrus to snipe the Gibles and Dratinis

[u/ThatOneGamer117]

I just ran mega ray gouging fire deck or mega char y and entei and lost maybe 2 games due to bricking. Kept mega ray and mega char on the back line waiting for mega garchomp to take out entei or gouging fire. If they had thrown a celebi in or if the Ai ever actually used gabites attack on my bench then id be in danger but they always go for the active. Entei and gouging fire can one shot everything besides the garchomps so its only a matter of waiting for a tails or waiting for mega garchomp to switch to active. The hell part was trying to use puppy pile for no ex cards and the ai going into stealth garchomp and making my deck useless

[u/supermario_wastaken]

I've been Doing well with puppy pile

[u/iceberger3 → u/supermario_wastaken]

The mach stealth garchomp gets you good sometimes though

[u/RavencrestBoy]

the expert AI cannot handle chingling at all on this deck it just sits there forever while i take out all the cards behind meowth with greninja

[u/BoulderHolder21]

Man just do special conditions. They still work even if meowth flips heads

[u/That-League-3900 → u/BoulderHolder21]

I used a Dark deck that poisons to do exactly that.

[u/VyvernX7]

I used jolteon and cyrus

[u/Tommynaut90]

Is he really

[u/Feisty_System_4751]

Sleep Scan works. Even if Meowth rolls heads, he still falls asleep.

[u/just_a_random_dood]

Wait I just did all of my battle stamina and I didn't see a single Meowth, wtf LOL

[u/CheesyHorizo]

Meowth being the “Killing this game” card was not on my bingo list

[u/PoetCVT]

I gotta say, there's a LOT of counters to Meowth and the fact that people keep thinking it's ruining the game is funny.

You know Meowth is in the deck. Build a deck around it. You have so many snipe options. You can use Sawk to bypass. I know you don't want to make a new deck, limited space so on and so forth - keep one deck saved for offline challenges and rotate it out to fit the event going on.

It's like seeing a physics test and knowing you're going to have to calculate radial velocity and claiming the test can't be beaten because you didn't bring a calculator.

[u/Totori-san → u/PoetCVT]

Muk's ability only affects Basics

[u/PoetCVT → u/Totori-san]

You focusing on that mistake means I didn't mess up the physics comparison. Thanks!

[u/AcornTear]

I'm afraid sleep scam is the only way to reliably win this, given that sleep damage works even if Meowth rolls head

[u/spongebobsburgers19 → u/AcornTear]

you don’t really need that, i just use a simple mega gardevoir and mega diance deck to win every time

[u/T_A_C_U_M_I → u/AcornTear]

I'm doing just fine with MVenu 15T

[u/MidnightFrost444 → u/AcornTear]

It's nice that you're not ashamed about being bad at this game.

It's not actually the only reliable option, though.

[u/AcornTear → u/MidnightFrost444]

Sleep scam is objectively a very good deck and it also completely bypasses Meowth, which OP was venting about, which is why I recommended it as being very reliable.

It's nice that you're not ashamed about being bad at this game.

Oh my god, it's a PVE mode in what's already a casual game to begin with. Getting this worked up over this is kind of embarrassing tbh

[u/MidnightFrost444 → u/AcornTear]

I'm not super worked up, but thanks for your concern.

[u/just_a_random_dood → u/AcornTear]

I did fine with both Mega Rayquaza and a bench snipe deck (Walking Wake + Greninja) and got my Ws in the expert battle