At the shop I went to today, the League was running a League Challenge and a League Cup back to back. I did not participate in those events, but I did play a casual game with another professor who had been playing in the Challenge, although they had dropped from the competition.
Casual Game - Festival Lead Dipplin vs. Gholdengo ex
On its face, this is a bad match-up for me. Turns out that Gholdengo's resistance to Grass isn't relevant super often, but against a deck whose only attackers are Grass-type Dipplins, it's incredibly relevant.
I won the coin flip and went first so I could evolve as early as possible. My opponent, who is actually the person that gave me the list that I built, had a moment of forgetfulness about what Festival Lead allowed me to do, so I got two early Knock Outs against Gimmighouls. They then got a Gholdengo ex set up and things became much more difficult for me, especially with my Maximum Belt in my prizes. I tried to knock out a Fezadipiti ex, but didn't realize that it was weak to Fighting, rather than Grass, which meant it survived the hit quite comfortably.
The game wound up actually being a draw a few turns after. Without getting into detail, my opponent was in a somewhat sour mood for a number of reasons, and just didn't have the mental wherewithal to finish the game out.
The game ending in a draw aside, it was an interesting struggle to work around a bulky Metal-type who could resist my attacks, especially without my Maximum Belt available to help me get around that resistance.
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