Hydrapple ex (Journey Together)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 3,184 views Mar 21, 2025 Updated Apr 20, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • 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: Evolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

No longer a Venusaur deck and has transitioned into a Hydrapple ex deck.

Strategy: Hydrapple is the primary attacker as it does more damage for each Grasss Energy which you can get pretty quickly due to Teal Mask.  Budew item-locks your Opponent earlier on. That or you use find a friend from Applin or TM: Evo to do what you need to. You can use Bug-Catching set to find the Pokémon a bit easier. Area Zero Underdepths can be taken advantage of due to Teal Mask being a Tera Pokémon

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No longer a Venusaur deck and has transitioned into a Hydrapple ex deck.

Strategy: Hydrapple is the primary attacker as it does more damage for each Grasss Energy which you can get pretty quickly due to Teal Mask.  Budew item-locks your Opponent earlier on. That or you use find a friend from Applin or TM: Evo to do what you need to. You can use Bug-Catching set to find the Pokémon a bit easier. Area Zero Underdepths can be taken advantage of due to Teal Mask being a Tera Pokémon so you can have a lot more in play to deal even more Damage with Hydrapple ex. The ACE SPEC of choice, Legacy Energy makes Hydrapple become a One Prizer which is really good as Hydrapple is already quite Tanky and can slow down your Opponent. Additionally, Dipplin helps as a backup attacker if needed which can help deal with Pokémon like Mimikyu and does more damage for each of your benched Pokémon which is quite helpful as your bench will most likely be full. Anyways, feel free to make changes or leave any suggestions!

Edits:

Edit #1: Removed a copy of Professor's Research, 1 Munkidori, a copy of Boss's Orders, and a Darkness energy. What replaced them are Petilil, Lilligant(Will be the one from Journey Together later on), and Two Copies of Arven. Suggested by: @Waffle Enthusiast for these changes.

Edit #2: Removed Iono, Darkness Energy, Munkidori, a copy of Earthen Vessel, a copy of Nest Ball, a copy of Binding Mochi, Ivysaur, and Sqauwkabilly ex, to compensate it I added three copies of Buddy-Buddy Poffin, Two Applins, and Two Hydrapple ex's, and a Grass Energy to bring it to 10 total. Suggested by: @sonicfanplus123 for these changes.

Edit #3: Swapped the Applin's for the dragon Applins and removed Bloodmoon Ursuluna ex and Black Belt's Training for 2 Bug Catching Sets. Suggested by: @MyceliumMADNESS for these changes.

Edit #4: Cut a Buddy-Buddy Poffin and replaced it with a 3rd Binding Mochi for better consistency.

Edit #5: This deck has been changed countless times to the point of it not even being much of a Poison Box. So I decided to just lean in into changing everything. Brute Bonnet's gone, Ancient Booster Energy Capsule's gone, Binding Mochi is gone. Their replacements are as follows: 1 Ivysaur, 1 Dipplin, 1 TM: Evo, 2 Bug-Catching Sets, and 1 Iono.

Edit #6: Iono has been cut out again, Latias ex was removed due to it being a deck of basically Stage Two's. Switch is still here if any Pokémon gets trapped. Petilil and Lilligant were removed as they take a bit of time to setup. To fix the consistency, 1 more Nest Ball was added, along with 4 Energy Switches. Suggested by: @deckdex for the changes of it being more consistent and for Energy Switches.

Edit #7: Removed an Arven, a Professor's Research, a Bug Catching Set, an Area Zero Underdepths, a Grass Energy, a Rare Candy, and Precious Trolley. The things that're added are as followed: Grand Tree, 1 Ivysaur, 1 Venusaur ex, 2 Buddy-Buddy Poffin, and 2 Iono. These changes were suggested by @deckdex.

Edit #8: Removed Professor's Research for a copy of Heavy Baton to help just in case Venusaur ex somehow gets knocked out so you can still keep your energy into play for Hydrapple ex.

Edit #9: Since I released a better Venusaur Build on 4/20/25 I decided to shift this deck to a Hydrapple deck.

Card Types

Trainer 34
Pokémon 14
Energy 12

Energy Types

Grass 21
Dragon 3
Darkness 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 7 attacks
7
41.2% of attacks
2 Energy 6 attacks
6
35.3% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
23.5% of attacks

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar

Interesting list, though you could probably add Lilligant from Journey Together when it releases and by removing a Professor's Research and a Nest Ball. You should also probably make it 4 Arven's instead.

LimeLemon avatar

Waffle Enthusiast Thats a good addition and yeah it'd make more sense to use four Arvens as it does have a few tools. I'll start fixing it now. Thank you for the feedback!

sonicfanplus123 avatar

Nice deck, i just recommend playing 2x Applin ( Twilight Masquerade and/or Stellar Crown, any you want ), 2x Hydrapple ex ( Stellar Crown but also on the Prismatic Evolutions ), 1x Hisuian Lillgant V and 1x Hisuian Lilligant VSTAR ( both them from Stellar Crown ), 2x Kricketot and 2x Kricketune ( both them also from Astral Radiance ), 1x Rotom V ( Crown Zenith and/or Lost Origin, any you want ), removing 1 Nest Ball and adding 3x Buddy-Buddy Poffins. Hope i helped !

LimeLemon avatar

sonicfanplus123 Thank you for the recommendations, but this deck is for Post-Rotation while the Petilil and Hisuian Lilligant are placeholders for the ones coming in Journey Together besides that I will do what you suggested  of the Applin's and Hydrapple's same with the removing a nest ball and adding a Buddy-Buddy Poffin.

LimeLemon avatar

sonicfanplus123 No problem! Anyways here is the updated list for the suggestions for pre-rotation: https://pokemoncard.io/deck/venusaur-ex-poison-box-deck-horrible-120319

Note: It's quite a bit different than this one.

MyceliumMADNESS avatar

In my Hydrapple decks, I prefer using the dragon version of Applin (Twilight Masquerade).  Its find friend ability allows you to pull any pokemon from your deck, so you can grab something you immediately need, like a Teal Mask/Brute Bonnet/Latias/Fez, or an evolution. 

 

My only other suggestion is fitting in some Bug Catching Set (Prismatic Evolutions) since you are using a good number of grass pokemon.  Your deck already seems a bit tight, so not sure what I would swap out, but it would allow you to pull grass energy and pokemon a little more reliably.

LimeLemon avatar

MyceliumMADNESS Thank you for the suggestions! I will add these changes later today.

LimeLemon avatar

I decided to just fully lean into a normal grass deck because the cards that made a poison box all basically left.

deckdex avatar

ENERGY SWITCH

yo need that to get venusaur up quick and be fluiddddd

also lilligant is not needed because it takes too much to set up PLUS it is a set up pokemon

i recommend just keeping the venusaur, hyrapple, and oger boger pawn to make the deck more consistent and fluidddddddddddddddddd

LimeLemon avatar

deckdex You aren't wrong. Lilligant would probably take too much time and Energy Switch will be added. Thank you for the feedback!

deckdex avatar

3-2-3 line with venusaur and cut energy to 9 

cut bug catching set and add buddy poffin

cut arven, professors reasearch, rare candy, and a area 51 under deaths

add grand tree

add 2 ionos

 

 

yay

LimeLemon avatar

deckdex I have made those changes you suggested.

Rosewood Hollow avatar

interesting deck, but I still confuse who will be the main attacker?

LimeLemon avatar

Rosewood Hollow I apologize for the late response, but Venusaur is the main attacker unless you have enough energy in play for Hydrapple to attack.

Cloudyday2222 avatar

I like this deck, have you ever considered using the heavy baton tool for Venusaur? It seems like it could be good but I'm not sure. I also threw in the new Megearna from journey together and a rescue board when I was playing it, it was a cool tech card.

LimeLemon avatar

Cloudyday2222 Thank you for the feedback! I have at some point considered heavy baton but I don't know what to cut in order for it. Also, I might try out the magearna from Journey Together to try it out.

LimeLemon avatar

This is kind of an odd deck so I'm just gonna transition it into a Hydrapple ex deck.

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