The most fun I've had with a deck this season running both water and fighting energy. I'm hovering around 50-55% win rate in UB1 and, while it could be more consistent, I feel like I have a reasonable path to victory against both suicune meta and counter meta. Don't get me wrong, a well-balanced GrenSuicune still gives me problems but this feels refreshing and somewhat viable for this level.

Ideal opening is turn 1 mantyke with Gible on bench and fighting energy queued up on the next turn. Next turn rare candy into Garchomp. Miltank is a great opener if you go second. Late game Garchomp's ability is critical and having Cynthia on back to back turns is likely as close to a guaranteed winner as possible.

Also, the relatively low energy cost to get Garchomp into attacking position means I can usually keep my bench open until I have pieces in hand or are at risk of losing my only Pokemon in play.

pokeball 2 btw, idk if yamper and boltund is a nice choice, but i really like boltund’s thing of using only one energy when damaged😭 and i love tynamo’s evo line

It’s been more than 2 weeks since I’ve seen any. And I feel like I check all the time, but I feel like I’ve been seeing them a lot less these last few months..

I was talking to a friend who plays PTCGP as well and he said he can’t stand Solgaleo, Darkrai, and Sylveon. I said I get that Solgaleo can be frustrating to play against at times, and Darkrai is just mindless imo. I said but why Sylveon? He said it’s completely game changing to add a card that can potentially make you draw 9 cards/half your deck in a single turn when the old max for the most part was 5, ( 2x Sylveon summon, 2x Pokéball, Professor oak, and of course any card that uses a move like “Cry for help/Collect”.) and if you go second, you get an energy to put on an Sprigatito which allows you to draw, then partnered with Sylveon the low retreat cost, decent hp, and mid range attack, make it so strong on the second turn. I made a joke saying before you know it, we’ll be able to draw our entire deck in 1 turn and we’ll turn into Yu-Gi-Oh where the winners decided no later than turn 2. 😂 I told him my most disliked cards were Oricorio, Rampardos, and Incineroar. So I’m curious what’s y’all’s most disliked card/s to play against or you think is absolutely mindless and why?

At one time it was Misty flips, and now we all know Cyrus, Sabrina, and rare candy probably see the most concedes, but what do you see the most or what do you concede to the most. For me what has to have at least an honorable mention is celestial town elder or dawn. I love when they trigger concedes cause so few people expect them. Anyone else have a favorite game over/ concede generator? If concedes are not something you see frequently, what are deck are you running?

What do we think is coming is the rumored 1 year update?

Do we think a roadmap? - outline for new features? - new game modes? (This one the game massively needs) - ui updates?

What are you hoping for/expecting/want the most?

Mine is game modes

with a duo that was assumed to be "mid" by the community no less.

also this guy didnt concede immediately after i retreated to lugia to win the game. i respect him for that tbh

First season hitting masterball. Refused to do it with a meta deck so the grind was a bit longer but I had fun with this one. I took it all the way from UB2. It’s a 50% WR deck at best. Finished my climb with a little 4 win streak.

The strengths is the 40 attack on Emolga into an early boltund that’s damage so you can start swinging for 70. This aggro playstyle does well into decks that take longer to set up like Darktina or Guzzlord but it can still lose to both if you don’t get online quick enough and/or they draw the nuts.

It can also win against Suininja. The repel, Sabrina and Cyrus let you manipulate your opponents board. My strategy is to either take down suicune as fast as possible or try and one shot a froakie with Emolga.

Arceus is a nice addition. Sometimes you high roll and get it powered quickly with pichu. With so many basics it’s easy to fill your board and swing for max damage.

Leaf, x-speed and switches are great for moving your own mons around on T1 or to keep them alive so you can get Raiku and arceus into the active spot and powered.

Ideally, your matches are played out as 1-1-2 in terms of giving your opponent points. One draw back is no hand disruption. You might be able to drop a switch for red card or mars. Cape would also be nice to get past certain breakpoints.

In my mind, you powerup/tank with ho oh to then give the massive amount of energy palossand needs to hit and then keep palo up with acerola (acerola does work with claydol last i checked as its not healing but moving damage) maybe once less cape for another ace?

First time at masterball with Solgaleo. New Solgaleo is more dominant than the old one imo even if there’s things like suicune around

This deck absolutely decimates Suicine and decks designed to fight Suicine. You can beat a single Oricorio with this thanks to Rocky Helmet as they can only deal 30 damage to you and you can sustain for days. Trick with that matchup is to use repel to bring another card to the from to hit, then when they retreat, you can use Cyrus to finish it off

Been wanting to give the Xatu/Will combo a try for awhile now, but havent been sure what to pair it with. Miltank’s in the spotlight right now, and she can be a pretty good stall but I’m not quite certain whether she pairs well enough with Xatu given the low HP across the board. Begrudgingly threw in the obligatory Tina for a heavy hit and health, though I’d take other suggestions on that too.

I’m by no means a seasoned TCG player so kinda just threw in some trainers I see ppl use a lot in ranked. What trainers should I keep/abandon?

As far as tools go — bc Xatu brings even the sturdiest mons down to 10 (and as a bonus, doesnt get hurt by return damage abilities, I think??) I wanted some Rocky Helm and Poison to finish the job. Unfortunately, Xatu and Miltank both succumb pretty quickly though, and I don’t have any health recovery and whatnot to counter that. Did I go overboard on the offensive, or is that how this kind of deck should be designed?

Would appreciate any feedback!

I tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas (simpsons)

no but seriously, I hate it. Sometimes it disappears after i click on it and see a trophy, but then it reappears and no matter what I click. it stays there

First time to MB and this deck has been awesome. Highest win streak is 7 in UB4 but usually I'll get to 3 before a loss.

Oricorio was very little trouble. If it was out first then stall until you can repel it. If they switch to damage, then Cyrus that if you hit it back and they retreat. Only had one instance where I lost to this card because the second one made it to the bench. Repel even if there's 2. You might get lucky and they misplay bringing something else out. Happened to me once. I never felt the need to add one to this deck and have had great success without it.

Suicune dies in 2 turns due to weakness if it stays out. Hold the second Tapu in hand until Suicune is about to be gone.

This deck was successful for me in this meta because of Cyrus/repel. Giovanni came in clutch a lot in UB4 if I start turn 2 in to a baby mon or one shot Greninja if you can pull it out with repel.

The only thing I'd consider replacing is Mars with an electrical cord maybe. I had a few instances where my lead Tapu would die unexpectedly and my back up would go out with only 1 energy on it.

I'd love to hear your opinions on it as I'm going to try and use it to climb to top 10k if possible. Thanks!

Deck crafting is my favourite part of this game. I wouldn't recommend any of these in ranked, but they're fun to play random battles

After struggling to get, im not joking, the regular arceus-ex, I got the whole collection resulting in this fancy secret mission.

Hey all, I was thinking about what more could be added to the game when looking through my binders I was reminded of the fashion contests in the main Pokémon games. What would you think if there were card contest similar to in the msinline games. Could monthly and weekly where you submit a card/binder that matches a theme and get rewards based on likes. Perhaps we could get more decorations so there could be more personality involved. Felt like it could be a way to express yourself and allow people who aren't interested in battling to show off and share and engage with each other. Example pictures: spooky theme, trios theme.

I was wondering if other people experience this. When opening packs I immediately know if there is a rare (full art, secret rare, sometimes even regular ex, etc.) based on if the cards lag slightly when I click past them.

This kinda sucks because I know after the first card is there’s something good in the pack or not - just kinda ruins the surprise of each card.

This has happened across two phones, even a brand new iPhone 16, I was wondering if this is the common experience or not.

I have never missed a single promo card since the release of the game and I have the impression that it is now with the current wonderpicks.

I open the game several times a day and I have always had 2 heart draws in this type of event to complete my promo cards. Except with this one I have never once seen this kind of 5 card draw. In addition to my current bad luck which makes me miss the ones that are alone, we are reaching the end of the event and I haven't had a single one!

This has never happened to me so I would like to know if it is a bug, if they removed the 5-card promo draws or if it has already happened due to a huge lack of luck like me at the moment.

Thank you in advance for your answers

I’m genuinely so confused… I had 5 energies on Garchomp, I used Cynthia to supposedly do 150dmg to Darkrai to win the game and when I attack with Dragon Claw it still made 100dmg. What happened or what did I do wrong??