Banette Control (Journey Together)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 3,165 views May 05, 2025 Updated May 16, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Shuppet (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Snorunt (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Artazon (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.
  • Counter Catcher (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.
  • Super Rod (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Devolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Evolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Town Store (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Make your Opponent reach 0 Cards in Hand many times in a game.

Strategy: I'd recommend to go second with this deck. Now to start off your Early Game you should set up your Shuppet's, Munkidori's, and Snorunt's. Get your Budew out if you're going second and then item-lock them or use TM: Evo to evolve your Pokémon. If you do go first just try to get out some of your Pokémon excluding Budew. Anyways, Froslass and Munkidori passively spread damage which can KO your Opponent's Pokémon

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Make your Opponent reach 0 Cards in Hand many times in a game.

Strategy: I'd recommend to go second with this deck. Now to start off your Early Game you should set up your Shuppet's, Munkidori's, and Snorunt's. Get your Budew out if you're going second and then item-lock them or use TM: Evo to evolve your Pokémon. If you do go first just try to get out some of your Pokémon excluding Budew. Anyways, Froslass and Munkidori passively spread damage which can KO your Opponent's Pokémon over time and you could potentially take many prizes by using TM: Devolution. Banette shuffles 3 cards from your Opponent's hand into their deck which can make them go down to 0 by using Xerosic's Machcinations or the ACE SPEC of choice, Unfair Stamp which is also a great disruption card. Iono can potentially do the same and Judge can make you bring them down to 1 Card. This deck does have a few flaws/counters like Iris's Fighting Spirit, Revavroom, and Iono's Kilowattrel being the main examples. I don't have much more to say for this deck so feel free to make any changes or to leave any suggestions!

Edits:

Edit #1: Removed 2 Psychic Energy they've been replaced with a 4th Shuppet and a 3rd Judge.

Card Types

Trainer 37
Pokémon 17
Energy 6

Energy Types

Psychic 13
Water 6
Darkness 2
Grass 2

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 12 attacks
12
60.0% of attacks
2 Energy 8 attacks
8
40.0% of attacks

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar

LimeLemon Interesting concept, I don't really have anything else to say about it.

inkessant avatar

Nice... I was just about to release about the same deck, lol.

LimeLemon avatar

inkessant Oh, my apologies if that offended you in any way.

inkessant avatar

LimeLemon not at all lol, I think it's kinda funny. I'll take the deck in another direction; I was planning on some mischief with Gothitelle (Paldea Evolved) anyway :)

LimeLemon avatar

inkessant Oh alright well good luck with that!

StevieJayDee avatar

Really vibe with this list, but I also really vibe with banette ex, as a way to get off big damage if the opponent ionos or something while under item lock. Any suggestions for potential substitutions for 1 or 2 of these?

LimeLemon avatar

StevieJayDee You could probably cut out  one Budew and a Psychic Energy but you should also try to get a 4th Shuppet in this list as well.

wilsonhalim avatar

nice list, i actually am doing this deck too, but i prefer to bring 4 Judge instead of Iono, because i would always want my opponent to have less than 4 cards with Banette, it would always be 1, with an Iono, early game, they could still have 4 in hand, and sometimes it does help them.

I think this list is pretty much perfect, except i would remove 2 Iono ( or maybe 1 ) and change to 4 or 3 Judge.

I also think 6 Psychic energy is too much, i think 4 Psychic and 3 Dark is all you need

LimeLemon avatar

wilsonhalim Thank you for your feedback! I'll go make modifications to this list later today but Iono does help out as Hand Disruption later on in the game so you probably could just run 1 instead of 2, now as for Judge, bringing that to 3-4 is more of a better idea for what you had said.

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