Hale Obernolte

Mega Absol took over in Milwaukee — and we’re thrilled to feature @HaleObernolte after his Top 4 with the brand new archetype! 🔥🪽 We also recap Milwaukee and Belo Horizonte, plus some of the greatest meme list submissions of the past few months 😱 Live everywhere now! 👇🏝️

@starostamp Absol just yveltal locks until they can get a big prize swing anyway - dont think this changes much of anything

A new friend for tera box? 🤔

@starostamp I beat a gholdengo rocks that had a 1-1 mega lucario, a premium power pro, 2 turo, AND 1 switch 🤷‍♂️

1-1 mega lucario ex in every deck, with a couple of luminous/fighting energy

@LyricOfWisdom Thanks! It's hard to attribute the matchup to just one thing, but without klefki to enable dusknoir you could just win the matchup with cornerstone, so basically yes

@HaleObernolte Hi Hale! Thanks so much for responding and congratulations! Was Klefki the hardest part for the matchup?

Would love to have some on the ground recaps if you played Mega Khangaskan/Mega Absol this weekend.. 1) When did you decide to play this deck? 2) What was your hardest matchup? 3) What was one thought of what you wished you had during your run? (Taking notes!! Thank you!!)

@TordReklev Thanks Tord! I was totally expecting it to be the two of us in the finals 😅 would have been a fun ending!

@HaleObernolte Well played and congrats! 🔥

Top 4 at Milwaukee with Absol box! Huge props to @TordReklev for the deck - it's super creative and it was an absolute blast to play. I barely got any time to test beforehand so I got to figure out most matchups on the fly which was awesome 😅

@SmartTCG @ProfWyattTCG @FCBCArmor Sure, would love to try them!

@ProfWyattTCG @HaleObernolte @FCBCArmor Hale I’ll hook you up with some @FCBCArmor if you want :)

TPCI alerting the judges to brainwash Hale into drawing 8 cards off iono to 6 so Gardy can win an unwinnable game

@TordReklev Congrats Tord on the run and also for making such a creative and cool deck! I was really hoping one of us would be able to take it all the way 🥲 will be interesting to see how this warps the meta moving forward!

TOP 8 MILWAUKEE

@Jctfordd Congrats on the win!!! So cool to see you finally get the win after believing in Charizard for so long

MILWAUKEE REGIONAL CHAMPION!!!

@Mateusz_Kappa @TordReklev Tord swapped to 3 munki, so it's probably correct 😂 too many reasons why to fit in a tweet. If gardy is playing turo consistently now (2 of the 4 I hit xid) it's probably less good though. This is the kind of deck that will definitely need to adapt to meta shifts

@HaleObernolte @TordReklev Congratulation! Amazing accomplishment ! How have you felt running only 2 munki? I understand that abosl is used for the second attack but having a good source of healing and potential 1hko on everything isnt good ?

@Jctfordd @TordReklev Thanks, congrats to you on the win!!! Knowing I would have probably just lost to you in the finals makes the DPL loss hurt way less 😂

@HaleObernolte @TordReklev Congrats on your run!

@GammermanBob @TordReklev @xanderpero 2 cornerstone really locks up matchups like gholdengo where you depend on it because you can charge the second on the bench and penny loop between them. Maybe not strictly necessary, but it definitely gets you lots of percentage points in those matchups

@HaleObernolte @TordReklev @xanderpero I don't think we need 2 Cornerstone in the deck unless someone can tell me why we need 2 cutting it for a budew #pokemontc

@ICheville @TordReklev It was indeed black katanas 😂 they stuck for the extra iono draw and it almost happened again right after on the lillie's draw. Im not upset about the DPL or anything (insanely good judging by pram to notice) but I'll definitely stick (get it) with dragon shields from now on

@HaleObernolte @TordReklev Are they the Black Katanas? In my experience, they are inexplicably way worse than any other color.

So excited for the world to finally see what we've been working on! PBA26 is going to be the best bowling game ever🎳

@lucasoldale Ignoring the fact that your matchup spread each round changes depending on your record (which is a huge thing to ignore), if P is the metadhare of the deck and N is the number of rounds it's 1 - (1-P)^N - (P)(1-P)^(N-1) (It's a binomial distribution)

@slibbitytablets @omgitskep @coolcat19394766 @Julius07142873 Just so you're aware, we are talking about pokemon, not magic :)

@omgitskep @coolcat19394766 @HaleObernolte @Julius07142873 Where is this cuz in magic you’re allowed to ask your opponent to concede to you

Judge Call I had a gentlemans agreement in round 12 and after +1 turns we have to decide the winner. Judge told us we can't check my opponents top deck to see who wins. However, on stream, top decks were checked. Is there an official ruling on this?

@slibbitytablets @Julius07142873 You're just wrong my guy. This used to be true only in Japan, but iirc even there it is now legal

@HaleObernolte @Julius07142873 I’m not sure you understand . Determining a winner in any way other than fully playing out the game unless time restrictions is illegal