Snake Eater (Turbo Arbok)

I'm stiiillll in a dreeeeam~

An early Arbok ex list that tries to get Arbok out as soon as possible, immediately using Arbok's Menacing Fangs to force your opponent to discard from their hand while minimizing their ability to draw more cards with our Trainers (and Spiritomb). Mew helps you set up in the early game and can aid in getting Dark Patch into your hand, Greninja discards energy, Spiritomb turns off popular Vs with draw abilties like Genesect V, Raikou V, and Lumineon V to hopefully stop

I'm stiiillll in a dreeeeam~

An early Arbok ex list that tries to get Arbok out as soon as possible, immediately using Arbok's Menacing Fangs to force your opponent to discard from their hand while minimizing their ability to draw more cards with our Trainers (and Spiritomb). Mew helps you set up in the early game and can aid in getting Dark Patch into your hand, Greninja discards energy, Spiritomb turns off popular Vs with draw abilties like Genesect V, Raikou V, and Lumineon V to hopefully stop your opponent from escaping the hand lock.

I never played against Ting-Lu, but I could imagine that being annoying. Besides that, this deck does decently against most of the meta. As a little tip, targeting down opponent's Bibarel in the early game, sometimes over attackers, can leave them completely defenceless in the late game.

In terms of changes, I realize that Energy Search is not a very good card but I am the most unlucky person in the world and god wills that I will never draw the energy I need when I need it - Energy Search can be grabbed off of Mew. If you are more lucky than me, I would suggest dropping them for Trekking Shoes. You could run Cycling Road or Artazon over Path to allow consistent use of Greninja, but during my testing they didn't come in handy that often - Path and Judge can be particularly volatile against Pokemon like Chien-Pao ex and Charizard ex as well as opposing Greninjas which won't be turned off by Spiritomb (also the new Mew ex (151), which is why it's not in this list -- Paisley from the future editing this lol). Rigid Band allows you to live hits from Giratina VSTAR, but you could cut it for Spirit Mask or Cleansing Gloves. Finally you could elect to run something like Galarian Moltres V or Galarian Moltres as a backup attacker, but I couldn't find space for them (especially not the baby bird, since once again I'm the most unlucky person in the world).

Thanks for reading, any input is appreciated :]