Venusaur ex (Destined Rivals)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 1,539 views Jun 26, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Bulbasaur (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Ivysaur (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Venusaur ex (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.
  • Technical Machine: Evolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Basically heal off a bunch of damage from your Venusaur with its Ability and through Munkidori's Adrena-Brain to further it.

Strategy: I'd recommend going second with this deck. Anyways, for your first turn, try and get out 1-2 Teal Mask Ogerpon's, 2-3 Bulbasaur's, and Budew if you're going second. Then use Budew's Itchy Pollen to item-lock them or to use TM: Evolution to get your Ivysaur's. Also, do note that this deck really struggles in this current format as it doesn't really do much. Anyways,

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Basically heal off a bunch of damage from your Venusaur with its Ability and through Munkidori's Adrena-Brain to further it.

Strategy: I'd recommend going second with this deck. Anyways, for your first turn, try and get out 1-2 Teal Mask Ogerpon's, 2-3 Bulbasaur's, and Budew if you're going second. Then use Budew's Itchy Pollen to item-lock them or to use TM: Evolution to get your Ivysaur's. Also, do note that this deck really struggles in this current format as it doesn't really do much. Anyways, use Teal Mask Ogerpon's Ability Teal Dance as your Draw Engine to then use Energy Switch to move it onto your Venusaur/Ivysaur/Bulbasaur while setting up your Attack. Anyways, once your Venusaur ex is establish along with a Munkidori or 2, start swinging for 150 + Poison Damage on your Opponent's Pokémon each turn while healing off your Venusaur ex with its Ability and Munkidori's Adrena-Brain. Bug Catching Set helps find basically all of your Pokémon and your Energes. Kieran is here to let Venusaur swing for 180 or for a switch card which has been quite helpful in many matches I've tested it in. Now the ACE SPEC of choice, Grand Tree, which helps evolve your Bulbasaur into a Venusaur immediately, though, there are other good options for it like Hero's Cape, Legacy Energy, and Secret Box. I don't really have much more to say about this deck so feel free to make any changes or to leave any suggestions!

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (17)
3 Venusaur ex sv3pt5-3
$1.29 Grass 340
1 Fezandipiti ex sv6pt5-38
$3.56 Darkness 210
3 Teal Mask Ogerpon ex sv6-25
$2.90 Grass 210
2 Munkidori sv6-95
$0.24 Psychic 110
2 Ivysaur sv3pt5-2
$0.30 Grass 100
1 Shaymin sv10-10
$0.28 Grass 80
3 Bulbasaur sv3pt5-1
$0.23 Grass 70
2 Budew sv8pt5-4
$0.15 Grass 30
Trainer (33)
1 Artazon sv2-171
$0.27
4 Arven sv1-166
$0.29
Trainer (33)
2 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.40
3 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.29
3 Bug Catching Set sv6-143
$0.20
1 Colress's Tenacity sv6pt5-57
$0.29
1 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
1 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.21
2 Energy Switch sv1-173
$0.21
1 Grand Tree sv7-136
$0.61
1 Heavy Baton sv5-151
$0.21
3 Iono sv2-185
$0.26
Trainer (33)
1 Kieran sv6-154
$0.17
2 Nest Ball sv1-181
$0.22
1 Night Stretcher sv6pt5-61
$0.34
2 Rare Candy sv1-191
$0.23
1 Technical Machine: Evolution sv4-178
$0.23
3 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.22
Energy (10)
2 Basic Darkness Energy sve-15
$0.14 Darkness
8 Basic Grass Energy sve-9
$0.13 Grass

Card Types

Trainer 33
Pokémon 17
Energy 10

Energy Types

Grass 22
Darkness 3
Psychic 2

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 2 attacks
2
10.5% of attacks
2 Energy 8 attacks
8
42.1% of attacks
3 Energy 9 attacks
9
47.4% of attacks

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Comments

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Sorry if the description is poorly made, I will still continue testing this deck to see if there are any other builds that are much better for Venusaur ex.

Seaotter avatar
Seaotter

Hey lime love your off meta decks! Would you say this deck is better than the joltik one? the joltik one feels p good, I'm trying to discern which venusaur deck is the best

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Seaotter Thank you for your feedback! Also, either build works but the Joltik Build is a bit more quick paced than this variant while this version is to stall a bit with Budew while you slowly set up. So it's up to you to choose which variant you'd rather play and I'll release an updated Joltik variant later on.

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