If you’re playing Pokémon Pocket competitively and trying to rank up to the Master Ball rank, well, you’ve come to the right place! The Pokémon TCG Pocket meta keeps evolving as new cards are released and players figure out the best competitive decks out there.
Here you’ll find the best decks with the highest win rates to increase your chances of winning and climbing fast to Master Ball rank!
Current Meta: A4 Wisdom of Sea and Sky
Giratina ex Darkrai ex
Giratina ex Darkrai ex is one of the popular choices to play. Using Darkness Energy, you can attach them to Darkrai ex to activate Nightmare Aura, dealing 20 passive damage without passing the turn. This weakens an opponent’s Active Pokémon, enabling you to knock it out more easily with your attacks. Darkrai ex can later attack with Dark Prism to deal 80 damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon.
Giratina ex can ramp through Broken-Space Bellow, getting access to Psychic Energy and eventually becoming capable of attacking. Since it can use 1 Colorless Energy, you can attach a Darkness Energy to Giratina ex to attack a turn earlier with it.
Buzzwole ex Pheromosa Celesteela
The Buzzwole ex deck has been crushing it in Pokémon Pocket meta! This deck uses Pheromosa as an early attacker, dealing 20 damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon and another 20 to a Benched Pokémon. In the meantime, you’ll be attaching Energy to your Buzzwole ex, getting it ready to take over and carry the game.
Celesteela lets you switch your Ultra Beast Pokémon without having to discard Energy, perfect to get your Pokémon out of harm’s way and have another attacker take over.
Silvally ex Oricorio
Oricorio can be a nightmare for ex-type Pokémon as they can’t deal damage to Oricorio thanks to its Safeguard ability. You’re capable of dealing 50 damage a turn with Oricorio’s Zzzap to eventually secure a knockout. In the meantime, Zeraora can ramp Lightning Energy through its Thunderclap Flash ability, getting access to Lightning Claw attack to deal 50 damage.
Silvally is your strongest attacker, dealing up to 100 damage if you’ve played a Supporter card during this turn. This is a single-point deck, so your opponent has to knock out 3 of your Pokémon to win the game.
Crobat ex Sylveon ex
Sylveon ex’s Happy Ribbon ability draws us two cards, helping us find the cards we need to add more consistency to the deck.
Since Crobat ex is a Stage 2 Pokémon, we’re heavily reliant on Rare Candy to evolve Zubat into Crobat ex. For only 1 Darkness Energy, you get to deal 70 damage to the opponent’s Active Pokemon and Poison it. Since Crobat ex’s Venomous Slash is only 1 Energy, we get to attach the rest of our Darkness Energy to Darkrai ex, dealing 20 additional damage to the Active Pokemon to make it easier for us to get a knockout.
Flareon ex Leafeon ex
Leafeon ex and Flareon ex can self-ramp with their abilities, giving you the Grass and Fire Energy you want to get their attacks online. Since their attacks require Colorless Energy, you can still attach an Energy or two manually to speed up the process.
Flareon ex is the main damage dealer, capable of dealing 130 damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon.
Charizard ex Sylveon ex
Charizard ex Sylveon ex is currently the strongest Fire-type deck out there. The list has Flareon ex and Sylveon ex as early Stage 1 evolutions, capable of dishing out damage until your Charizard is in play.
We rely on Rare Candy to get Charizard ex in play, skipping the Stage 1 evolution and going straight to Stage 2. Charizard ex is the power-house in this deck, using its Stoke to ramp Fire Energy and set up for Steam Artillery to deal 150 damage to the opponent’s Active Pokemon.
Espeon ex Sylveon ex
Espeon ex’s Psychic Healing allows you to heal 30 damage from one of your Pokémon if Espeon ex is in the Active spot. This makes it harder for the opposing player to set up a knockout on your Pokémon, buying you more time until you can get to your winning turn. Espeon ex acts as a damage dealer as well, pushing 80 damage with its Super Psy Bolt attack.
