>>33692508Not that guy, but I am the guy whose list you're copying from. The way I play Ninetales is as a pseudo toolbox deck but I primarily focus on Ninetales GXs damage output to win matches, baby Ninetales and Glaceon are just conditional cards for stall while I set up a GX on my bench. The problem with them (and why I only run one each) is that they're not always useful and don't hit very hard. Glaceon is primarily for Gardevoir/Metagross matchups and baby Ninetales keels over incredibly easily to most non-EX/GX support attackers so I've found it's better not to rely on them. You want Manaphy out all the time to swap between your stall pokemon and the GXs when necessary or swap a de-powered Ninetales after a Blizzard Edge into a fresh one, it's also useful after you Guzma out a target and need to swap back to your main attacker. Prize denial is another form of stall and putting a pokemon on your bench makes it much harder to KO. To help get your Ninetales GX set up you need Aqua Patches to recycle energies (which you can discard manually with Ultra Ball and Sycamore to great effect) and Max Elixirs to set up Glaceon/Vulpix early. Choice Bands pump your damage up to 190 which is enough to take out most EX/GX especially if you've managed to soften them up with Ice Blade first. Remember you can use Ice Blade and the GX with just a DCE, so I've found it to be smarter sometimes to just let your opponent dump damage on a Ninetales while you soften the bench then GX it away for a knockout/health reset while you also set up a Ninetales on the bench to continue the sweep. You really only want to use Blizzard Edge when you have a guaranteed KO or can follow up with one. It's tough to explain all the ins and outs of the deck though (and I'm running out of post space) so really I can just recommend playing it yourself to learn all the tricks.
