Absol ex (Journey Together)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 1,532 views Mar 20, 2025 Updated Apr 27, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Absol ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Brute Bonnet (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Roaring Moon ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Squawkabilly ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Arven (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Earthen Vessel (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Iono (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Nest Ball (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Professor's Research (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

A mixture of a Donk Deck and a Turbo Deck.

Strategy: You can decide whether to go first or second as both are great options for this deck. If you choose to go first, attempt to Donk your Oppnent, try to set up Brute Bonnet with ABEC, get Pecharunt in the Active, and Perilous Jungle into play. Carmine and Squawk help getting to those cards much more effectively as well. Now if you choose to go second, setup your Pokémon like Absol, Latias, Munkidori, Moon, etc. You can still use Pecharunt and

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A mixture of a Donk Deck and a Turbo Deck.

Strategy: You can decide whether to go first or second as both are great options for this deck. If you choose to go first, attempt to Donk your Oppnent, try to set up Brute Bonnet with ABEC, get Pecharunt in the Active, and Perilous Jungle into play. Carmine and Squawk help getting to those cards much more effectively as well. Now if you choose to go second, setup your Pokémon like Absol, Latias, Munkidori, Moon, etc. You can still use Pecharunt and Perilous Jungle as an early start for some easy 80 Damage as well. Munkidori, does help force damage onto your Opponent whilst healing your own Pokémon which also does allow Absol to have easier KO's. Absol ex can swing for 220 with the assistance of Xerosic's Machinations and can further that to 260 when Absol is poisoned and has Binding Mochi on, that's not just all as with Perilous Jungle and your Opponent being Poisoned can do 290 total but with Munkidori moving damage onto them can allow you to hopefully KO them the range being 300(Min)-320(Max), unless you've used Munkidori even more than once which does ensure KO's. Due to the loss of Dark Patch, you can use Janine's Secret Art and Energy Switch for a fraction of that lost Power but can still Poison Absol as well. Additionally, Roaring Moon acts as a backup attacker or a clean up Pokémon with Frenzied Gouging being able to KO anything and can swing for 220 when discarding the stadium and can do 260 as well if poisoned and has Binding Mochi on. The ACE SPEC of choice, Secret Box, is a great option in this deck as it helps you donk your Opponent and to get out the cards you need! Also, to decided whether to got first or second is if your Opponent has 1 Pokémon only at the start it's better to go first and if they have more than 1 go second unless your Opponent decides since it does depend on coin flips. Anyways, feel free to make any changes or leave any suggestions!

Edits:

Edit #1: Just noticed I had accidentally added in a Radiant Greninja which had just been removed and replaced for another Ultra Ball. My apologies for that.

Edit #2: Removed everything to prepare for Rotation so now instead of Dark Patch it's replaced with Energy Sticker, Pokéstops replaced with Cycling Road, Trekking Shoes with 4 copies Sada's Vitality, Hisuian Heavy Ball with another Roaring Moon ex, and Roaring Moon replaced Radiant Sneasler.

Edit #3: Removed all Energy Stickers and replaced it for 3 Janine's Secret Art and a 3rd Ancient Booster Energy Capsule as Energy Stickers feels too risky.

Edit #4: Removed 1 Janine's Secret Art, Prime Catcher, 2 Cycling Road, 1 ABEC, 4 Sada's Vitality's, Roaring Moon, 3 Darkness Energy, and 1 Roaring Moon ex. They have been replaced with 2 Pokégears, 2 Perilous Jungle's, a 2nd Professor's Research, 2 Carmine, 2 Energy Switch, Secret Box, Pecharunt, 1 Munkidori, 2nd Squawk, and a 4th Arven.

Card Types

Trainer 40
Pokémon 13
Energy 7

Energy Types

Darkness 16
Colorless 2
Psychic 2

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 5 attacks
5
29.4% of attacks
2 Energy 3 attacks
3
17.6% of attacks
3 Energy 9 attacks
9
52.9% of attacks

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar

This deck seems pretty fun to try out. Though, it seems that it would struggle against most Stage 2 decks(besides maybe Gardevoir). In that case wouldn't something like adding a copy or Kieran or Black Belt's Training help to knock them out?

LimeLemon avatar

Waffle Enthusiast Thank you yet again for your feedback, anyways it does struggle against Stage Two decks so you could add a Black Belt's Training or a Kieran, though, Roaring Moon ex can use  Frenzied Gouging to knock them out. Well just have fun with the testing if you do decide to!

LimeLemon avatar

Modifications coming shortly.

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