My Pokemon TCG Deck!

My Pokemon TCG Deck!

Type: Grass

Main Theme: Reduced Damage

Ok, so I just picked up on TCG like several months ago, only having a binder of about 300 some cards, all of them from the DP era. I'm was quite limited with what I could build a deck with to make it decent, but I found that I had some pretty solid Grass type cards that I could make into a deck, so I did. The underlying theme with this deck that I found was that quite a few of my Pokemon's abilities to reduce damage. That's it. That's my only 'strategy'... (remember; I'm limited). Though a friend of mine gave me some cards from a Pokemon World Championships 2015 pack that he had, and so I added some cards from that to my deck that I could use and... here is the result!

Grass Deck: Reduced Damage ('N' Stuff)
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Pokemon:

Grass-

1x Genesect

2x Surskit
1x Masquerain

2x Cherubi (One of them is German, just because I can lol)
1x Cherrim

2x Tangela
1x Tangrowth

3x Treecko's
2x Grovyle's
1x AND A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR- No wait, who am I kidding... it's Sceptile lmao

3x Bulbasaur
2x Ivysaur
1x Venusaur

Normal-

2x Kangaskhan EX
1x Mega-Kangaskhan EX

Trainers/Supporters:

1x Crystal Beach

1x Pokemon Rescue

1x Buffer Piece
1x Lucky Egg

1x Great Ball
1x Professer Elm's Training Method
1x Luxury Ball

2x Potions

3x Energy Searches
2x Energy Restores

1x Cynthia's fEELINGS (lmao the name of this card)
1x Cyrus's Initiative (thaaaat's better)
1x Professor Oak... 's Visit (Nope, not even Professor Oak) :(

Energies:

17x Grass Energies
1x Double Colorless Energy
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My analysis/break-down of my deck
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The Strats:

	Alrighty, so as I've already mentioned, I've noticed that several of my cards have an effect or ability to reduce damage inflicted upon them... those would be Masquerain, Cherrim and Tangrowth.
	Masquerain is purely for support; his "Intimidating Pattern" Poke-Body reduces any damage from an attack by 20 so long as he is your active Pokemon, and his "Skim Attack" does 30 damage with the effect of drawing 2 cards.
	Cherrim's "Cloudy Sky" Poke-Body reduces damage from attacks by 10 for any Grass or Fire type Pokemon. Now, I'd tried to make this deck a Fire/Grass type deck, except I had balances problems with the Pokemon cards, and my best Fire type Pokemon I'd added didn't fit with the deck, so I scratched that idea. Although this is the only Pokemon that isn't a sitting duck on my bench, it's only other attack is "Worry Seed," which all that does is do 30 damage for the chance to Confuse your enemy... not too good, but not necessarily bad.
	And lastly, Tangrowth's "Leaf Guard" attack, with a cost of 1 grass and colorless energy, does 30 damage with the effect of reducing 20 damage from attacks your opponent's next turn. In conjunction with this, his other attack, "Swallow Up," does 50 damage with the effect that if the defending Pokemon has fewer remaining HP then Tangrowth, the attack does 120 damage instead. With 110 HP, he actually does alright with being a tank and cannon in return.

My Main Attackers:

	As far as my main attackers are, they are (unfortunately) my two 2 stage evolution Pokemon: Sceptile and Venusaur.

	Sceptile, on one hand, has 130 HP. It's two attacks are it's "Leaf Supply," which does 30 damage with the effect of being able to attach a basic Energy card from your hand to any one of your Pokemon, and it's "Dual Cut," which flips 2 coins and does 70 damage for each heads. Pretty solid, right?
	Well, Venusaur on the other hand can give the opponent quite some trouble. It boasts 140 HP with a PokeBody and two attacks. It's "Green Aroma" Poke-Body removes all current conditions on all of your Grass type Pokemon, and prevents further conditions from being inflicted on said Pokemon. Pretty cool, eh? Well it get's better; it's "Desperate Pollen" attack does 30 damage, but if Venusaur has 8 or more damage counters on it, the defending Pokemon get's Burned, Confused AND Poisoned; the max amount of conditions that can be afflicted on a Pokemon! And finally, it's "Special Reaction" attack does 40+ damage with the effect of doing 40 damage more for each condition the defending Pokemon is afflicted with; in conjunction with the effects of Desperate Pollen, this attack does 160 damage! This venausaur is complete. and utter. POWER.

My Other Pokemon:

	Now these are the one's from the card pack that my friend gave me; my only cards within my entire collection that are up-to-date. My Genesect and Kangaskhan EX's + Mega Evolution.
	The Genesect can search up to two basic Grass type Pokemon from my deck and place them on the bench with it's "Call For Family," and has a fairly decent attacking move in Jet Impact.
	The Kangaskhan EX's are solely "staple" cards for my deck; they can draw three cards and do either 70 or 100 damage with their "Kindred Kick"s. The Mega version is just for more power... that's all there is to it.
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Final thoughts and questions:

	So there it is. That's my deck and my analysis/break-down of it. Now for final thoughts, and I hate to repeat this but some people might not get it; I am limited. All of the cards except for the last ones mentioned are from the DP era, and these cards were the only good cards I could use to make a decent deck. As you can see, I have pyramid'ed my Pokemon cards; having one more of each prior evolution then the other. I don't know if this isn't ideal or not, considering I have seen some people say that if you get one of the cards, all of it's prior evolutions are useless. But, with my basic/minimal knowledge of the TCG, I just went with it. Another thing is my card balance; right now I'm standing at x25 Pokemon, x17 Trainers/Supporters, and x18 Energies. Now from what I know about the TCG, many people would tell me right off the bat: "You need more trainers and energies and less Pokemon!" Well... it starts with the trainers, because, again, I'm limited. I only chose my best trainers and put them in there, I found all of the Pokemon mandatory (unless I change pyramid-ing them), and the Energies simply follow suit. But if you have any suggestions as to how I could better balance my deck, I'd appreciate any tips or advice or feedback! That's all I'll say for now, because I'm sure you just LOVED to read this huge wall of text (or you didn't at all, and just immediately clicked away when you saw the darn things.) Thank you for reading!

~Umbriel_Umbra