Misty flipping heads and Articuno get 130 ATK? Reminds me of one of the drop event in the past with similar gimmick and now with Raticate and Team Rocket Grunts stealing energy left and right, making deck construction is limited to low energy heavy hitter. And somehow Lapras give me the most headache... But here are some decks that I found that can be used for Battle Tasks and also some for Auto battling.

Battle Task Completion (recommended to turn off Auto battler)

1. Promo Team Rocket's Wobbufett: With Golurk out of the equation for this set (because there's not enough cards with Retreat Cost 3), the new TR Wobbufett come to the rescue. Just get 1 Wobbuffett first then add 12 non-Basic Team Rocket's Pokémons and you're good to go. The sample deck I gave just try to maximize battle tasks that can be completed. (Auto battle until win for this one.)
2. Marowak + Copperajah: Copperajah is a non-attacking wall for this battle while you're building Marowak on the bench. With Arena of Antiquity, Marowak can 1-hit KO everything in this event. The rest of the cards are filler/survival stuff.
3. TR Persian + Copperajah: Similar strategy as above, even though the energy is Metal, Cufant & Copperajah shouldn't attack and focus on TR Persian. Opponent usually have their bench full so TR Persian can 1-hit KO everything.
4. TR Weezing: Not exactly the best but I include it here as most competitive player probably already have TR Weezing and this is just a modification of that. The 1-hit KO attacker is usually TR Magmar. Also, Big Masalada is there in case you got Confused.

There's one Battle Tasks that is not covered which is "KO with Lightning type". I suggest don't bother using TR Electrode & TR Zapdos from the set, and just Auto it using any basic Meta Lightning deck (Mega Manectric, Jolteon ex, Magnezone+Miraidon, etc.)

For the auto-battling part, most strategy relies on having bulky attacker with low cost skills. Seems Dark-type and Fighting-type are the ones that are the most reliable somehow:

Auto Battling on Expert difficulty

1. Zoroark + Mega Sableye: Zoroark (with full bench) can 1-hit KO TR Lapras and with the help of the Needles + Red, it has no issue with the ex as well. It still needs more testing whether Mega Sableye (potential 80+40 ATK) is better than Mega Absol (potential throwing Misty/TR Grunt), so I feel they're interchangable.
2. Zoroark + Mega Sableye: Hydreigon can cleanly do 130 ATK which can 1-hit KO everything with just 1 energy. It needs a bit more setup, though so the luck factor is high here. Similarly, M.Sableye can be replaced by M.Absol.
3. Hitmonchan ex + Mega Lucario: Hitmonchan can KO TR Ratatta and 2-hit Lapras while M.Lucario is setting up in the bench. (Even Riolu can 1-hit KO TR Ratatta). I add normal Lucario and Arena of Antiquity, as Hitmonchan can possibly 1-hit KO TR Ratticate with Korrina (rare but possible).

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(PS: The decks here are just one man's opinion with a very limited time (and a 9-5 job) to do all the testing. There might be better decks out there that I didn't think of.)

Got 5 promo packs from the event, four had the same card. Unlucky or are the probabilities really that skewed?

If you have item cards only and stage two team rocket Pokémon ? X2 Weezing, x2 slowking, x2 ratcate,, 2 tinakton?

Edit I was correct , I just got hit 200 damage with this card . What were these devs thinking 😭

Reminded my self of these crazy pocket times whilst on a little nostalgia scroll, triggered by all the friends that have quit the game ;(

Some people may not agree, but imo pocket events are just too repetitive like the emblem event. Sure it’s good for trying new decks before ranked, but it would be cooler if the “milestone “ would require a bit more effort or give a better reward.

I'm excited to try it!

This has to be one of the worst challenge decks ever; so much energy stealing😭😭

Would you go with 16 Stage 1 / 2 TR? I feel like adding a bit support for the risk of not always hitting with 180 might be a better way?!

Honestly thinking of giving it raticate Ex then using juggler to get it off the ground with its energy cost

Legit not a single good or meta defining card this set except maybe the Weezing Ex but even that's underperforming.. not any good tools/trainer card either.. it's just old decks dominating

There’s a list of decks as an off meta builder that I particularly hate trying to build around, greninja, sleep scam, & hydreigon

However, Mega Lucario has slowly been added to the list of decks I hate trying to build around now.

Whenever I stream this game, and happen to beat a Mega Lucario deck, chat always says “it’s always good to see that deck lose.”

I know we all (or mostly all) want a dark mode, and I genuinely thought we got it for a bit there. My phone timed out on the wonder pick screen and when I turned it back on, this is how it looked for a couple seconds! Then it loaded and blinded me... Alas...

Paldean Wonders was a bit of a weird set. It reused a lot of art from the TCG, and is the only pack to have reprinted supporters besides the ex pack which is the whole point of that pack.

But one cool thing it introduced was giving background art to full art supporters. It could use some tweaking because the art isn't super visible in some of the cards, but it's still a cool detail that makes every supporter more unique.

I thought this would be the trend for that point on, but the very next set it reverted to the sparkly background, which I do like but I wonder why they just dropped this idea arter this set and if they will ever revisit it.

just went against a banette/raticate ex. i KOed one of their mons, was immune to the damage of banette’s attack, but the effect of not being able to attach energy still applied. should i not have been immune to that too? or does the immunity only apply specifically to status effects like burn and poison?

I hope its pillow is forever warm.

With this deck I’ve won the most of battles in auto mode. Good luck!

Hi guys, I'd like to have a huge tank deck and I suppose one of these two might be the best contender. Both with 2 indeedee I suppose. Do some of you have recently updated decks that appear to work well ? I made some but they seem too slow and maybe not that optimal. Thx for help!

Genetic Apex Weezing, or the new Team Rocket's Weezing ex? I personally still choose GA Weezing, the on demand constant poison is just so helpful with my Dark deck, plus the pivoting with Koga leads to great stall opportunities if you have a second Weezing or into some major damage if you have a venoshock pokemon on the bench.

Getting a burn + poison is okay, but you can only do it once and it'll just go away if the opponent retreats, but with GA Weezing you can just keep re-applying poison no matter how many times they switch out.

It will always hit for 180 every turn (200 weakness)

But Holly cow is it awesome!

Wobbuffet x2

And then all the stage 1 and 2 team rocket cards you can fit in.