How to make a good deck in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket

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Once you’ve unlocked the ability to battle other players online in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, you’ll first need to create your own deck using all the cards you’ve acquired through Booster Packs. The only issue here is that most new players may find it difficult to know what makes a good deck and which cards you should pick or avoid.

Only 20 cards can fit into each deck, and players have the option to choose whichever cards they would like. Picking at random isn’t a good idea, as there is a strategy to creating a deck, just as there is a strategy to playing the card game, and even the Pokémon video games themselves. To help you create amazing decks to win your card battles, here are six tips on how to make a good Pokémon TCGP deck.

Balance fighting, item, and trainer cards

Having a Pokémon TCGP deck only full of fighting Pokémon won’t get you very far in battles. You want to make sure you have a balance between the Pokémon, item, and trainer cards. The majority of your deck should be Pokémon fighters, so that would be around 12 to14 Pokémon. After that, include around two healing item cards, as well as trainer cards.

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Cards with people on them can perform actions like drawing cards from your deck or increasing your attack power. Anything left over can include other item cards like Pokéballs, which can pull a Pokémon from your deck into your hand. This way, you’ll have options to help yourself or hinder your opponents on top of having Pokémon that can fight.

Focus on only one or two Pokémon types

The easiest way to fumble in a Pokémon TCGP battle is to have a deck with more than two Pokémon types. Each Pokémon has a type or element, and nearly all Pokémon can only use actions when they have Energy of the same type. You only get one Energy of a certain type