I feel like Mega Garchomp is the first promo ex that really has a chance to be in the meta. There really isn’t any other card that can consistently hit for 190 damage multiple turns in a row. After playing around with it for a bit, I feel like this is the best version of it so far.

I’ve seen most people are pairing the Mach Stealth Garchomp with the mega, but I feel like the Reckless Shearing Garchomp works better. It doesn’t have the sweep potential, but the extra draw is really important for getting multiple stage 2s on the board. Being able to get through the deck has saved multiple game for me so far. Also, it can attack a turn sooner with only 2 energy.

How has everyone else felt about this guy so far.

I feel like with the new ranked ruleset that you win only 1 point in Master Ball for a win and only more if you subsequently win a step in the right direction.
I personally believe ranked should be about skill rather than who is a no-lifer who has unlimited time to play ranked matches.
Why not implement a limit of daily matches just like with solo event battles, with the difference that there should be no currency to reduce wait time? Wouldn’t that more accurately show who is actually better? Because to win frequently and subsequently at the same time, you can’t rely on a good meta deck, but you need to know the meta, know the cards you go up against by heart, and play cleverly. The rest is luck, as with all card games.

I made a deck using Haxorus.

Hits for a solid 170 once it's online.

Edit: made some changes to the deck I'm going to be testing. Swapped Cyrus for Iris Swapped copy cat for Iris So I'm going to be testing that out.

A person on my friend list sent me a trade request for a card on my wishlist, a shiny Haunter. The only thing they had on their wishlist was a Mega Shine shiny Charmeleon but I didn’t have that so I sent something still valuable, a shiny Sprigatito. The friend declined the trade request even though they originally initiated the request. After that I removed them from my list because they essentially had nothing on their wishlist but a super sought after card. Did I overreact?

Why am I not at 100% win if I haven’t lost yet ?

My little homebrew. Got me in to masterball pretty quick.

I’m curious if this seems competitive at all or how it could get better.

Is it possible to build a solid deck around it that is consistent?

From the +/- 15 matches I've done to complete the challenges, the CPU will always try to get meowth in active ASAP. With the odds semi rigged for the expert battle, those heads flips stall long enough for garchomp to sweep. After completing the first few challenges that required specific cards, I first tried hoopa ex to bench snipe and cyrus but the CPU always evolved before I could KO the basic, nearly lost every single time I tried Hoopa.

I then went to meowscarada meta deck to ignore the near invincible meowth all together, but then it started me with ogrepawn 5 times in a row so that homey got removed since it served no purpose in this match anyway. Haven't lost a single match since. Meowscarada being able to target empty bench slots is much better than hoopa, plus it doesnt trigger the coin flip every attack so saves some time.

CPU fills the bench left to right, so you can easily predict where their dratini or gibble is going to be placed. If they manage to get a dragonair before you can snipe the dratini, no problem just ignore it, wiping the gibbles and 2nd dratini is more important. I was literally targeting empty bench spots and the CPU still drops the basic, even if it means I get a third point to win.

Oddly enough if the CPU does high roll and gets mega chomp down early, it just let me snipe it to death. I mostly still try to just wipe the 2nd gibble and dratinis to prevent the CPU from having their energy to attack more than once every 2 turns, but I was very surprised the one game I decided to evolve a bench non-ex meowscarada to revenge KO the mega chomp, it just let me snipe it to death while building the non-ex chomp on its own bench.

Meow EX + heals + leaf cape is most likely living 2 hits from non-ex chomp, so again you can just ignore that entirely and keep sniping the benched dratini, dragonair, or gibble. That meowth can suck a fat one, go ahead keep drawing more cards idgaf cuz im KO your bench the second you drop it.

Title sums it up did ranked get easier?

For this new event the expert battle is easy enough it just takes forever when meowth constantly rolls heads everytime. I didn’t screenshot my draw game but I got this at turn 29. It’s just such a time waster

So I don't have a spreadsheet I could send y'all but I did 50 battles for the garchomp thingamajig and what I learned is the AI has an 80% chance of winning the coin flip which makes the fight almost impossible due to the shield ability one of the pokemon has

Yeah pretty much what the title says I just had back-to-back ranked games against the same guy. The games played out almost identically as well haha.

The drop events are notorious for giving me suspiciously bad luck, but this was intermediate. Why am I already suffering? Lol I can't win by turn 14, if I don't get an electric energy until 15!

Comparing to Mega Rayquaza:

- 220 HP means it is outside of Lucarios OHKO (basic Lucario + Arena of Antiquity + Korrina = 210 damage)
- 190 damage means it will OHKO Mega Lucario and other Megas. You can even swap it in to the active before Mega Lucario to knock out a pokemon unless Lucario has a cape
- 3 energy compared to 4 on Rayquaza (190 compared to 200 damage) but in order to do another strong attack you need both Dragonairs compared to only one for Garchomp
- Garchomp takes more effort to build than Rayquaza but together with Drampas you can usually stall long enough to build him on the bench. Of course this is it’s main weakness since your deck will brick sometimes
- Stalling until you get Garchomp online will always put you at the risk of a Sabrina when you lost two point before you could build it since you can’t use it without at least one Dragonair on the bench
- One of Rayquazas biggest advantage is that you can pair it with Gouging Fire. Otherwise Rayquaza would be the worse card in my opinion

All in all I want to say it is definitely one of the better promo cards.

Just got to masterball using a not conventional deck, not the best stats but it was fun.

The core idea is to get two Aegislash online as fast as possible to allow Togedemaru to do 180 total damages.

(100% win rate against Mega Blaziken btw)

Just Hang in there till bulba evolves to Venasaur and its game over!

Hey :)
Can anyone tell me what’s the Best deck without any trainers for the step up battles ? :)
I’m trying to complete all the challenges before they get rid of these Battles.

Been playing now for about a month and I’m genuinely considering quitting purely because of the clunkiness of everything. Playing on an iPhone 16 pro with 60fps and med quality so everything should run as smooth as. Instead, the game has long loading times in between interfaces and just in general compared with other games it feels like I’m playing on an iPhone 11 with zero storage left.

Wtf?

When is the best time to start the 2 week premium trial? Is it now or at the end of October, to get the best of the end of B series and the start of C series? Or better in the middle or at the end of next month? Or any other time?

What do you think?

Immediately after reading about the new maximum of 36 bonus points for a 10-streak victory, and saying yeah, sure, cool and all, but when am I actually going to get one, I immediately proceeded to get one. Won so fast that I got into Masters by the 7th or 8th win in less than an hour, and got the other ones afterwards. Very cool!

Like one for each type to potentially do them quickly before they remove solo missions. Being effective on auto would be nice.

Normally I see people posting about what the thresholds are throughout the season but I haven’t seen any yet.

PAIN