All ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ cards and best decks in Pokémon TCG Pocket

The “ Rayquaza ex Drop Event ” in Pokémon TCG Pocket allows you to battle against computers for a chance to get a Rayquaza ex card and a handful of other promo cards. The event — which started on Wednesday, April 30, and will run through Tuesday, May 13 — offers a chance to get promo cards like Rayquaza ex , Rayquaza , and Farfetch’d . The drop event is one of two events where players can currently earn a Rayquaza ex card, though if you’re looking for the full-art version, see our guide on how to get a free full-art Rayquaza ex .

This Pokémon TCG Pocket guide will go over all Rayquaza ex Drop Event promo cards and give you some ideas on the best cards to counter the Rayquaza ex decks you’ll be facing in the event. Table of Contents All ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ promo cards list How to get all ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ cards Best decks for the ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ All ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ promo cards list There are five promo cards you can earn through the Rayquaza ex Drop Event. Here they all are: Exeggcute is a basic grass-type card with 50 HP and a retreat cost of one energy.

It can use the move, Growth Spurt, and it allows the player to take a grass energy and attach it to Exeggcute. Froakie is a basic water-type card with 60 HP and a retreat cost of one energy. It can use the attack Flop.

It requires one energy to use and it does 10 damage. Farfetch’d is a basic type card with 60 HP and a retreat cost of one energy. It can use the attack Leek Slap, which does 40 damage and requires one energy to use.

Rayquaza is a basic colorless card with 100 HP and a retreat cost of one. It can use one attack, Spiral Rush. It requires four energy to use and does 70 base damage.

It can do 30 more damage if you flip a coin and you get heads. Rayquaza ex is a basic colorless type that has 140 HP and a retreat cost of two energy. It can use the move Draco Meteor.

This attacks chooses one of your opponent’s Pokémon at random four times and does 40 damage each time a Pokémon is chosen. How to get all ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ cards You earn cards by opening cards from Promo Pack A Series Vol. 7 .

These packs contain one promo card per pack and have a pink wrapper exterior. You earn them by completing the battles in the “Gible Drop Event.” One battle requires one token of Event Stamina , which recharges passively over time or can be replenished with Event Hourglass .

You aren’t guaranteed to win a promo pack for each battle challenge you win: The promo card packs are listed in the game as a “chance reward” for every single battle. However, in Polygon’s experience, we had a much higher chance of earning one from finishing battles on the “Expert” difficulty. In fact, it rewarded us with a promo pack every time we beat the bot on that level.

Best decks for the ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ There are four difficulty levels in the Rayquaza ex Drop Event: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert. The deck-building advice below will set you up to tackle the Expert difficulty, so you can breeze through the easier difficulties using the advice below. The decks in the Rayquaza ex Drop Event feature decks that use cards that are weak to lighting type attacks like Rayquaza and Greninja.

As a result, you will want to focus on building lighting-type decks for this challenge. If you just want a generally strong deck, you could use a deck based on Giratina ex or the new Alolan Raichu ex introduced in Celestial Guardians . If you want to clear the battle tasks and avoid using ex or other rare cards, we completed this challenge with a pretty straightforward deck that used Magnezone evolutionary line (with the Magneton from Genetic Apex Pikachu) and Electrode from Genetic Apex Pikachu.

Both of these cards, which are more common, are strong enough to take on Greninja, Rayquaza, and Rayquaza ex. Pokémon Tool cards be indispensable in challenges like these. In particular, we found that the Rocky Helmet was a useful card.

It allowed us to chip away and clear away a bunch of Froakie and other cards before the computer was able to set up anything too strong. Additionally, Giant Cape can beef up the HP of your basic Pokémon. Guides Mobile Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket guides.