I’m getting frustrated with chingling + greninja + mega pokemon decks. Is there a good deck that counters this reliably?

Personally, I want a new way to build decks. Fast damage seems to be the continuous winner for the meta, and the other archetypes of battling just feel unusable many games. One good starting hand will spell the end of so many decks. The only time a control deck was strong to my knowledge was sleep (which worked too fast, and was basically not even control). My two ideas are either make trainers that buff specific Pokémon better, or really just create an entirely separate battle system that works in a way that benefits longer games. Maybe I just don’t like the game anymore, but I thought this could be cool.

After living through an eternal hell in ranked this season, cycling through most meta decks without consistent results, I crafted this just trying to have a bit more fun (I know it’s an updated version of an old list) and it turned out to be pretty good. It’s not amazing or game breaking but I was able to get an above 50% win rate, which I found impossible with most meta decks, going a solid 11-9 to finally get to master, so Im sharing it to maybe help others get out of their misery in the ranks.

It works pretty decently mostly because it catches people off guard, they ain’t sure how to play against it and always underestimate/forget about flail damage. Give it a go and tell me if it’s good to you!

I acquired a second 2 star Cyrus. I already have a 2 star oak (luckily). Should I trade for 2 star copy cat or some other meta 2 star supporter?

I believe in the current meta, Muk is a highly underrated card that can offer a great deal of utility against many common decks. By running this fine fellow in the Zoroark ex deck, I am able to seamlessly put into play a Muk by the midgame which completely shuts down several important cards in highly meta decks:

Miraidon ex is no longer the dangerous win condition that prevents this deck from attaining victory. Darkrai and Darkrai ex are no longer able to chip you down using their dangerous abilities, and you don't even need to use any tech attackers to handle the Oricorios you may well encounter. Even more understated abilities, like Legendary Pulse, or the vaunted Veevee-Volve ability do not function against you, while you suffer little in the domain of consistency for this inclusion. As you can see my win-rate during my climb was quite successful, and offered to me a painless way to achieve the oft-desired Master Ball rank. I suggest that you all do so as well. What do you think? Do you believe that Muk has finally had his day in the sun? Do you believe that Muk's recent deal with the CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Apple, may have had something to do with his meteoric rise? Let me know in the comments below.

Of course Deck space increase is a given as well.

Hi, I was wondering how FA Juliana value ranks with other trainer cards. (like what's a good comparison) Her rating is very low of the trade analytics website but I don't know if it's just cause she's still new. Would someone like Erika or Misty be considered more valuable just because they are older or even lesser extent like Lyra (due to less utility).

Since "Ruler of the Skies" is coming out in about a week, I have a theory/question thing.

It's pretty much very likely that Kyogre and Groudon are included in the set, and it might be in their Primal Reversion forms, but if they do. Would they have the 2 points rulebox for ex's or the 3 points for megas?

It can go both ways; yes they're modified forms of themselves like how Megas work but Ultra-Necrozma was released and it values as 2 points so...

Just curious. Assume DeNA loses their mind and gives every player ONE guaranteed god pack for the next one they open. It expires within a week so you can’t just hoard it indefinitely. What’s everybody hoping for?

30 of the 50 pre-Legends ZA Megas (including the 2 Primals) are already in Pocket at the time writing.

We know Mega Rayquaza is coming in the next set - Ruler of the Skies - but which other Megas do you think will be in it?

Then, there are the 45 new Megas that were introduced in Legends ZA. A number of them have already made their debut in the physical TCG but we have no word when these new ones will come to Pocket. Hopefully, it'll be soon.

EDIT: Golurk should be in Gen 5, not Gen 6. My bad!

Just had a good ranked match against a Mega Diancie/Mega Gardevoir deck. Lots of back and forth and strategy. They killed my Meowscarada but not before I reduced both their mega's HP. I could see them scramble to try and get more psychic energies to OHKO my Mega Sceptile, but my guy was caped, armed and ready.

They almost had me, but came short of two energies to take Sceptile out. They went down. Super satisfying and fun battle.

I get the Victory screen, take a screenshot to send to a friend out of the app. Talk for a few seconds. Open back up pokémon TCG, then I get the "you interrupted a battle do you want to continue" screen. I tap yes. Then I get hit with the "You failed to come back in the allotted time, this will be counted as a loss". I had no idea the Victory screen didn't count as the end of the battle!

Well played, Diancie. I definitely took psychic damage here. Enjoy the win and bragging rights.

Alot of times at work i will do the solo stepup on auto just to clear etc.
success is limited 🤣

Source - Pocket's official Twitter account

Do you think something like this could happen some time soon? (Like the upcoming 2 year anniversary of the game)

Personally I think 25K of shinedust per trade is insanely high considering the jump is for only 4K

Fingers crossed

Sad to say I lost to Ditto. Their mega absol/Hydreigon deck was the clear winner after they flipped heads 6 times in a row with a lucky pop + Indeedee to save his mega…

I know that we're always looking at the extremes of good and bad luck, but I'm just curious about the regular experience. I get on average 3 succesful wps per season, of course I keep doing them, but even after getting 2, I'm already prepared for complete failure, so it softens the hit for me lol

Edit: on % my average is between 10/15%, should've run the numbers before posting

After dropping way down with off meta decks, I went on this 14 win streak to MB.

Won 7 in a row yesterday and lost 9 in a row today with the same deck. What a wild RNG experience. One day you love your deck and the next day you want to throw it in the trash smh

went on an 8 game ranked win streak to reach master ball. this deck continues to help me climb. thanks to whoever originally posted this deck list last season!

So what if we had an ability based off protean. like the typing starts as normal and based off the most recent energy attached, it turns to that energy. so u could have something be a normal type then water type then turn into a psychic type etc for type match ups.

Lastly, would a static weakness or a changing weakness be better?

I have 19 non-paid poke gold. Should I just use them to open 10 packs? Is there any value in holding onto them? What do other f2p players do with their poke gold? Just keep holding? Thanks.

Anyone else notice with this season that they are losing so many matches by turn 3-4? i feel like i can never set anything up, i just get put to sleep with the my mega in the starting slot since i for some reason CANNOT pull anything other than the cards i don't want to start with and then i am getting 30-50 damage per turn over 3 turns from sleep scum and games over. Anyone noticing super quick games this season or is my RNG just that bad?

Didn't take long to climb at all. And flower trick is really fun to play with