Puebla Regional: what the top 8 played

Dragapult took six of the eight top-8 seats at the Puebla Regional Championships: five Dragapult lists and one Dragapult Dusknoir. The other two seats went to Alakazam Dudunsparce in 3rd and Lopunny Dusknoir in 8th.

Puebla ran on 24 and 25 October in Puebla, Mexico, with 2,234 players in Masters. The records below are from the Limitless standings and include top-cut matches, and every name links to the full 60 on its list page.

The top 8

1. Andrew Hedrick, Dragapult, 14–2–1
2. Caleb Rogerson, Dragapult, 13–2–2
3. Nathan Ginsburg, Alakazam Dudunsparce, 12–2–2
4. Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Dragapult, 12–3–1
5. Eder Jarillo Soto, Dragapult, 11–2–2
6. Brent Tonisson, Dragapult, 11–3–1
7. Juan Daniel Juarez Nequiz, Dragapult Dusknoir, 11–3–1
8. Eduardo Dueñas, Lopunny Dusknoir, 11–3–1

One list, three Regionals in a row

Hedrick and Rogerson met in the final with the same 60. It is, card for card, the list Riley McKay won Louisville with at 15–0–3, and the list Yuya Kogai took to 5th at Nice a week later. That is three straight Regionals with this exact list in the top 8, and two wins.

Most of the other Dragapult players changed only a card or two from it:

• Yamaguchi (4th) played McKay's list with a Moltres in place of one Darkness Energy. It is the same 60 Pedro Pertusi and Rafael Yuiti took to 3rd and 6th at Recife.
• Tonisson (6th) swapped one Darkness Energy for a Dudunsparce ex, the same 60 Leo Orozco finished 6th with at Louisville.
• Jarillo Soto (5th) added both Dudunsparce ex and Shaymin, cutting one Crushing Hammer and one Night Stretcher to fit them.

Juarez Nequiz's Dragapult Dusknoir is the real departure. It drops Munkidori and the Dudunsparce line for a Duskull, Dusclops and Dusknoir line, runs no Crushing Hammer or Darkness Energy, and plays two Team Rocket's Watchtower as its Stadium in place of Risky Ruins.

If you are testing for the next Regional, the Dragapult hub on DeckSequence has the Dragapult lists from Recife, Louisville, Nice and Puebla side by side, and each list page shows the opening-hand odds for that exact 60.

The two that weren't Dragapult

Ginsburg's Alakazam Dudunsparce was the best finish by anything else. It runs four Abra, four Kadabra and three Alakazam with two Rare Candy, and runs four Dawn and four Hilda with no Lillie's Determination. It is on the Alakazam hub.

Dueñas's Lopunny Dusknoir is three cards off Tobias Niedziella's 8th-place list from Frankfurt. It cuts Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex, Frillish and one Jamming Tower for two Mist Energy and a Nighttime Mine. It is on the Lopunny hub.

What every list agreed on

Three cards made all eight lists: Buddy-Buddy Poffin, Boss's Orders and Poké Pad. Five more made seven of them: Lillie's Determination, Fezandipiti ex, Night Stretcher, Meowth ex and Ultra Ball. Ginsburg's Alakazam skipped four of those five, and Dueñas left out Fezandipiti ex.

Eight lists from one event is a thin sample for anything but what the top tables looked like. The repeat finishes say more: one Dragapult 60 has now made three top 8s in three weeks, and its close variants keep turning up beside it.

Taking a list home

Each list page has the full 60, its mulligan rate and opening odds, and a button that deals sample opening hands. Copy one into your own decks in DeckSequence and the numbers recalculate as you change it, so you can see what a Moltres or a Dudunsparce ex does to your openings before you test it. Save the change as a new version and the matches you log stay with the version you played. Deck versions explains how that works.

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