Raging Bolt ex (Destined Rivals)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 1,098 views Jun 12, 2025 Updated Jun 12, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Ditto (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Mew ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Slither Wing (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.
  • Nest Ball (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Pal Pad (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Professor Sada's Vitality (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Seems to be a lot more versatile in Destined Rivals. Anyways, I do apologize for not posting this deck sooner I'm just really busy as of recent.

Strategy: This deck should be quite obvious on which to pick but if you don't know, going second with Raging Bolt is ideal. Anyways, for your first turn, get out 2-3 Teal Mask Ogerpon's, Fan Rotom, 2 HootHoot and Noctowl in hand, Latias, and 1-2 Raging Bolt's on the bench. This is an ideal set up but getting Ditto can help get a Pokémon you need like

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Seems to be a lot more versatile in Destined Rivals. Anyways, I do apologize for not posting this deck sooner I'm just really busy as of recent.

Strategy: This deck should be quite obvious on which to pick but if you don't know, going second with Raging Bolt is ideal. Anyways, for your first turn, get out 2-3 Teal Mask Ogerpon's, Fan Rotom, 2 HootHoot and Noctowl in hand, Latias, and 1-2 Raging Bolt's on the bench. This is an ideal set up but getting Ditto can help get a Pokémon you need like Bolt or Teal Mask and Mew can also be benched to get a bigger hand. Anyways, your goal is to get many Energies into play and into your Discard Pile to use Sada's Vitality in order to keep your Energy in play. Crispin helps get out your Energies like being able to attack with Bolt or get an Energy needed for Bolt and an Energy in hand to use Teal Dance. Area Zero Underdepths helps make your bench a lot bigger which helps further your damage output for Bolt at times and to have more space since your Bench will be flooded relatively quickly. Anyways, you have quite a few single prize attackers like Slither Wing which can help in certain matchups like against a Pokémon with safeguard or to hit Lightning Types for weakness which also helps against your Joltik Box matchup, Fan Rotom helps as an Early Game attacker while you're setting up, and Raging Bolt helps as a sniper the more Energy it has on it which is helpful but Shaymin does counter it sadly. Also, at times Iron Leaves ex can be helpful and take the Energy from your Teal Mask's to OHKO threats like Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex and Charizard ex. Judge helps as disruption as it can shorten your Opponent's hand size. Bloodmoon helps as a late game Attacker and is quite helpful to have overall in this deck. One final thing is the purpose of the 80 HP HootHoot is to ensure you can have one against your Pult Matchup especially when they combine Hawlucha and Phantom Dive. That's all for the strategy section, so feel free to make any changes or to leave any suggestions!

CTC: The cards will be listed with a brief description and the cards to cut for it should be quite easy to figure out since it's Raging Bolt.

- 3rd Raging Bolt ex - Provides more consistency.

- Squawk - The ability is really helpful at getting another hand.

- Turo's Scenario - Helps remove Noctowl from play and being trapped in the Active at times.

- Iono - Replacement for Judge if you prefer a good Endgame Disruption.

- Energy Retrieval - Helps recover your Energies after attacking with Bolt.

Card Types

Trainer 27
Pokémon 21
Energy 12

Energy Types

Colorless 10
Grass 10
Fighting 4
Dragon 3
Lightning 3
Psychic 2
Darkness 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 8 attacks
8
32.0% of attacks
2 Energy 8 attacks
8
32.0% of attacks
3 Energy 8 attacks
8
32.0% of attacks
5 Energy 1 attack
4.0% of attacks

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Comments

LimeLemon avatar

I was meant to release this way earlier today, sorry about that.

Waffle Enthusiast avatar

Seems decent, but Team Rocket's Watchtower shuts off your Noctowl's so wouldn't a card like Colress's Tenacity be helpful to find your Stadiums?

LimeLemon avatar

Waffle Enthusiast Welcome back! Also, you don't really need Colress's Tenacity since your draw engine with Bolt is already decently good.

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