Raging Bolt ex (Journey Together)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 14,851 views Mar 27, 2025 Updated May 14, 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.
  • Squawkabilly ex (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.
  • Bravery Charm (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.
  • 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

Unsurprisingly, this deck is still really good in this current format and may be a lot more successful in Destined Rivals.

Strategy: Like many other Raging Bolt decks and players, going second is ideal as you can get set up really quickly. Going first does work out pretty well though so don't be upset if you go first. Now as always, during your first turn, get up your Ogerpon's, a Raging Bolt or 2, Latias, Fan Rotom, Squawk, and 2 HootHoot's onto your bench is ideal along with a Noctowl to have in

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Unsurprisingly, this deck is still really good in this current format and may be a lot more successful in Destined Rivals.

Strategy: Like many other Raging Bolt decks and players, going second is ideal as you can get set up really quickly. Going first does work out pretty well though so don't be upset if you go first. Now as always, during your first turn, get up your Ogerpon's, a Raging Bolt or 2, Latias, Fan Rotom, Squawk, and 2 HootHoot's onto your bench is ideal along with a Noctowl to have in hand. Also, yes the purpose of the 80 HP HootHoot is to ensure a HootHoot can survive a Hawlucha +  Phantom Dive against Dragapult. Alternatively, you could get Ditto up into the Active to get a Basic Pokémon you need like Squawk to use its Ability on your first turn, or something else needed like Latias. Now before you ask a question of why Bravery Charm instead of ABEC, the answer to that is, overall yes ABEC is much better for your Ancient Pokémon but Bravery Charm is more Versatile since you can put it onto Mew, Ogerpon, Squawk, Fez, and any other Basic Pokémon and can prevent your Opponent's Dragapult from OHKOing them. Jamming Tower is here to shut off Tool Cards but do be wary of it since you run Bravery Charm. Now the Draw Support, Sada's Vitality, Mew ex, Fez, and Ogerpon are your main sources of Draw Support, you will mostly use Ogerpon for Draw Support most of the time. The two copies of Crispin are really helpful since you can get out your Energy to attack with Bolt or to attach one to Bolt and get a Grass Energy for Ogerpon. Area Zero Underdepths or AZU for short, helps make your Bench Space a lot bigger, and if you cannot attack with Bolt yet, Fan Rotom helps as an Early Game Attacker as long a stadium is in play. Now for the ACE SPEC of choice, Prime Catcher, is really helpful in this deck as you can Gust up one of your Opponent's Pokémon and bring up one of your own which can help end games or in certain situations. Slither Wing can be opted out for Koraidon that swings for 180 if you used an Ancient's Pokémon attack the previous turn, but Burning Turbulence is a really versatile attack along with the burn which can help out if you need to attack with a single Prizer. Now for the Baby/Single Prize Raging Bolt, instead of it discarding Energy like the ex version, it does more damage for each Energy attached to it and is a snipe attack which is really versatile and too good to pass up on in this deck. There's not really anything else to say for this deck so feel free to make any changes or to leave any suggestions!

Edits:

Edit #1: I don't remember the exact changes, but I do know that a Grass Energy was removed, a 70 HP HootHoot was removed, 1 Iono, and some changes were made as well to make copying and pasting it is much more effective. The things that were added were 1 Raging Bolt (non-ex), Slither Wing, Mew, Ditto, 80 HP HootHoot, 2nd Crispin, and Bravery Charm.

Card Types

Trainer 28
Pokémon 21
Energy 11

Energy Types

Colorless 10
Grass 8
Dragon 4
Fighting 4
Lightning 3
Psychic 2
Darkness 1

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 10 attacks
10
38.5% of attacks
2 Energy 9 attacks
9
34.6% of attacks
3 Energy 7 attacks
7
26.9% of attacks

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar

Seems pretty good! Also, is it better to go first now with Raging Bolt ex?

LimeLemon avatar

Waffle Enthusiast Thank you for the feedback! Also, yeah from my experience with this deck in testing, it was way better going first instead of second.

deckdex avatar

ionos bellibolt is just better with raging bolt
pair that with a free 2 energy back w/ levincia, kilowattrel, only 2 energy types, and a insanely fast deck makes for plainly the better deck

LimeLemon avatar

deckdex Thank you for your feedback! You are right about Iono's Bellibolt being better and I probably will make a version with that one and keep this one up if anyone prefers the Ogerpon build.

LimeLemon avatar

Update: This deck will get updated and a much better description.

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