
If you get Volcanion out and Centiskorch V on your Bench early, the deck is pretty hard to beat. Main Pokemon: Centiskorch VMAX and Volcanion Also the lack of Crobat V and Dedenne-GX can result in some dry turns. Pros: Very consistent, super-tanky, and hits hard.Ĭons: Auto-loss to deck like Centiskorch VMAX, Blacephalon, Green’s Reshizard, and Charizard-Leon. Main Pokemon: Zacian V and Lucario & Melmetal-GXĭeck Guide: Zacian V / Lucario & Melmetal GX deck guide I won’t call it inconsistent, but it can give you a hard time. Pros: 1-Prizer attacker that has Type-advantage against some of the most commonly encountered Pokemon in the game (Zacian V and LucMetal).Ĭons: The deck requires a lot of Energy, meaning you will have consecutive turns where you keep drawing Energy. Main Pokemon: Blacephalon, with lots of draw support Even with Coalossal VMAX having Type-advantage against it, it isn’t an auto-loss because of how quickly Eternatus VMAX can set up.Ĭons: Along with Coalossal VMAX, the upcoming Battle Styles Pokemon have some Fighting type Pokemon that look really good. Poison also makes it easy to go against cards like Decidueye.

Pros: Sets up quickly and hits like a truck. Eternatus VMAX Poison variantĭeck Guide: Eternatus (poison variant) deck guide This deck has been top-tier in the meta for over a year now.Ĭons: Ground-type weakness makes it an easy target for the Coalossal VMAX decks that have emerged from Vivid Voltage. Pros: Sets up quickly with Boltund V, has great support in the form of Tapu Koko Prism Star, and on top of that, PikaRom-GX racks up Energy quickly. Main Pokemon: Pikachu & Zekrom-GX and Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GXĭeck Guide: PikaRom deck guide (regular and Mewtwo variation) Also, putting “Ban this deck” in your post title gives you 99% upvotes on Reddit.Ĭons: One day you’ll take a break to test a non-ADP deck in Versus, and you’ll encounter an ADP deck and realize what you’ve done to the hundreds of players you defeated on turn two.

As if that wasn’t enough, you also take +1 Prize card every time you get a knockout. The Altered Creation GX is an absolutely broken attack, since it gives all of your Pokemon +30 damage for the rest of the game. ADP is weak against Fairy Types, a type that was discontinued earlier this year. On a serious note, the main advantage of this deck is how well ADP’s Steel Energy requirement goes with Zacian V. Main Pokemon: Arceus Dialga & Palkia-GX and Zacian V Here are the top 10 Standard decks in Pokemon TCG Online: ADP/Z (Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX) The decks in the list below aren’t in a strict order, but we do start with the obvious meta-winners at the top, and go down to those that don’t win tournaments very often but still hit really good standings consistently. We’re talking 100+ player tournaments, and not just the in-game Events.ĭue to the nature of Pokemon TCG Online, it is often hard to compare two decks that don’t have an obvious Type advantage against each other. The list below is made using a combination of my own in-game experience and Standard tournament results from the last three months. How do we determine the “best” Pokemon TCG Online decks? Sword & Shield and Darkness Ablaze have made some of the most significant additions to the meta, with some older decks like PikaRom continuing to shine. 2020 has introduced some of the best cards and decks Pokemon TCG Online has ever seen, and the meta has evolved quite a bit through some of the newer expansions. “What is the best deck in the game?” is the most timeless question in any card game.
