"Battle Styles - Gaming on a budget"

What’s up, PoTown readers?? Battle Styles has been out for about a week now, and I’ve had my fair share of time to test most of the new decks. While some of my other articles might feature Pokemon TCG cards that may require a handful of PTCGO code cards, this article has many cheaper decks to build. Some of the coolest decks don’t need to cost a whole bunch, like Primeape (Battle Styles), and they can compete with a lot of the best decks in the format. This article aims to share my favorite budget decks that are rocking out in the Battle Styles Pokemon metagame and let you know why they are so awesome! That being said, let’s hop into Weepinbell (Battle Styles) / Salazzle (Battle Styles).

Weepinbell / Salazzle is the newest combo deck available in our Pokemon TCG online metagame, and it can seriously pack a punch. Salazzle does 90x damage for each Special Condition on your opponent’s Active Pokemon with Derisive Roasting attack, and you can add up to three different Special Conditions. That’s where Weepinbell comes in, you can use Dangerous Mucus to inflict Burned and Poison to add to Derisive Roasting. Yell Horn (Darkness Ablaze) adds the third Special Condition, Confused so that Derisive Roasting is hitting for 270 damage + Burn (20) + Poison (10) for a total of 300 per attack. The combo is difficult at times, but it is certainly a blast to try out. Let’s see how this list looks like.

Primeape (Battle Styles) is mad, so mad that it hits hard with Steamin’ Mad Strike! That attack does 50x damage for each of your Benched Pokemon that has any damage counters on them. We need to address two issues immediately: Steamin’ Mad Strike can’t be powered up by a Twin Energy (Rebel Clash), and you need to add damage onto your Benched Pokemon. We can solve the first issue by adding in Houndoom (Battle Styles) to accelerate Single Strike Energy (Battle Styles) which means you can easily attack with Primeape. To fix the other issue, this deck plays Spiritomb (Unbroken Bonds) and Jynx (Unified Minds) to add damage counters into play. With all of these things going for the deck and the option to hit for 250+ damage, let’s peep out of this list!

Cherrim (Battle Styles) is great at accelerating Energy, but it comes with some serious limitations. Its Spring Bloom Ability is great at attaching Grass Energy, but you can’t attach them to Pokemon that have a Rule Box (Pokemon V, Pokemon-GX, etc., have Rule Boxes). So what Pokemon can you power up? The first Pokemon that comes to mind is Tapu Bulu (Battle Styles) because it doesn’t have a Rule Box and can hit for a lot of damage with Nature’s Judgment. Based on a simple Jirachi (Team Up) / Scoop Up Net (Rebel Clash) to maximize consistency, this deck seems to have a decent shot at working. Let’s check out this deck!

I hope this article has you hyped to pick up all of the Pokemon TCG code cards you need to grab to finish any of these fun budget decks! All of them seem to have a chance to shine in our PTCGO metagame and have a shot to beat some of the best decks available. If you have any other questions that you couldn’t find in this article, feel free to comment below or reach out to me on Social Media. I have thoroughly enjoyed writing this article, and I hope to create more great content for Po Town. Best of luck on your Pokemon journey!