Azumarill deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Azumarill looks like when you open the box

Across the 31 lists we counted, this deck runs 17 to 25 Pokémon, 27 to 35 Trainers and 5 to 12 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Psychic.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « azumarill-ssp ». Every card named in that label turns up in the tables below, which is what makes it a fair name for the deck.

The bit they tack on the end, « SSP », is a set code: Surging Sparks. They spell it out because several cards share that name, and this deck plays that particular printing.

Look at the Energy: 5 to 12 out of 60, when half the 97 decks we track run 10 or more. This one is lean. It lives on cheap attacks and leans on Trainers to find the right Energy at the right moment rather than stockpiling it.

It sets up fast. Azumarill is a Stage 1 Pokémon: a Basic, one evolution on top, and you are attacking. Two cards instead of three. You lose fewer turns building, and you rebuild much more easily when an early knockout lands on you.

Look at the Trainers: 27 to 35 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 97 decks we track. Inside that, 7 to 17 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 11 to 20 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 57 of the 97 decks we track bring that many or more. Only one Stadium sits on the table at a time: the one you play sends the one already there to the discard pile.

What Tools and Stadiums do — the two Trainer families we skipped here — and why the Energy count says so much: how to read a deck list.

What the card in this deck's name actually does

Azumarill gives this deck its name. Here is what is written on it.

Azumarill is in all 31 lists, 3 copies of it. Its Ability is called Glistening Bubbles, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « If you have any Tera Pokémon in play, this Pokémon can use the Double-Edge attack for {P}. »

How Azumarill actually wins

Azumarill attacks with Double-Edge for 230. It needs 4 Psychic Energy attached, and it has 120 HP. And the number is not everything the card says. There is one more line printed under the attack, and it is the one everybody skips: "This Pokémon also does 50 damage to itself."

The cost of Double-Edge decides your first few turns. You only get to attach one Energy a turn, and that attack asks for 4. On your own attachments alone, your first real swing lands on turn 4. Except you are not on your own. Wondrous Patch, a single copy in the list, digs Energy out of your discard pile and puts it back on one of your Pokémon. One copy in the whole list, so do not build your turn around it. When it shows up it buys you a turn, and that is already a lot.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games. To pull Azumarill back to the Bench you have to discard 2 Energy attached to it. Retreating does not cost you your turn, you can step back and still swing right after. What it costs you is the 2 Energy you spent 2 turns attaching, and you start that climb again from nothing. Pack a card that moves it for free, or send it up knowing it stays up.

Not one ex Pokémon in the core, and only 21 of the 97 decks we track are in that position. It is a hidden advantage: every knockout your opponent takes is worth a single Prize, so they need 6, where 3 would do against a deck stuffed with ex cards.

The attackers in the deck's core, with their best attack, its cost and their Weakness

Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Close AzumarillStage 1	120	Double-Edge	230	Psychic + Psychic + Psychic + Psychic	Metal ×2	2

The core: the 6 cards every list runs

These 6 cards appear in all 31 lists, without a single exception. That is 20 of the 60 slots. The other 40 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 20 slots break down: 12 Trainers, 3 Pokémon, 5 Energy. Trainers outweigh everything else put together, which is the mark of a deck that goes and fetches its cards rather than waiting to draw them.

6 of those 6 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Azumarill (3 to 4), Boss's Orders (2 to 3) and Lillie's Determination (1 to 4), plus 3 more. Add those spreads up and you get 14 copies the 31 lists do not agree on, inside the core itself.

What "3 to 4" means in the copies column, what the "TWM 130" code under each name is for, and why we count dozens of lists instead of one: how to read a deck list.

The cards present in every list counted, with the number of copies

Copies	Card	Printing	Kind	Rotation
3–4	Close Azumarill	SSP 74	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
1–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays
1–4	Close Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays
2–6	Psychic Energy	MEE 5	Energy	stays

The 97 cards that change from list to list

97 cards fight over the 40 slots that are left: 6 above three lists in four, 68 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Buddy-Buddy Poffin at 97 %, Marill at 90 % and Night Stretcher at 90 %, plus 3 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Judge, at 52 %: 16 of 31 players took it, 15 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Meowth ex (7 lists out of 31) and Sacred Ash (7 lists out of 31).

Why a card at 45 % is not a bad card, and what order to buy all this in: how to read a deck list.

The cards some lists run and others don't, most common first

Lists running it	Card	Copies	Printing	Kind
97 %30/31	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	2–4	TEF 144	Trainer
90 %28/31	Close Marill	3–4	ASC 83	Pokémon
90 %28/31	Close Night Stretcher	1–3	ASC 196	Trainer
87 %27/31	Close Area Zero Underdepths	1–4	SCR 131	Trainer
84 %26/31	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
84 %26/31	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1–2	JTG 56	Pokémon
74 %23/31	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1–3	TWM 112	Pokémon
74 %23/31	Close Switch	1–2	MEG 130	Trainer
71 %22/31	Close Fan Rotom	1–2	SCR 118	Pokémon
68 %21/31	Close Kieran	1	TWM 154	Trainer
68 %21/31	Close Wondrous Patch	1–2	PFL 94	Trainer
65 %20/31	Close Hoothoot	3–4	SCR 114	Pokémon
65 %20/31	Close Noctowl	3–4	SCR 115	Pokémon
65 %20/31	Close Air Balloon	1–3	ASC 181	Trainer
65 %20/31	Close Battle Cage	1–2	PFL 85	Trainer
65 %20/31	Close Brave Bangle	1	WHT 80	Trainer
55 %17/31	Close Shaymin	1–2	DRI 10	Pokémon
55 %17/31	Close Energy Search	1–2	POR 72	Trainer
55 %17/31	Close Telepathic Psychic Energy	1–4	POR 88	Energy
52 %16/31	Close Judge	1–2	POR 76	Trainer
48 %15/31	Close Crispin	1–2	SCR 133	Trainer
48 %15/31	Fighting Energy	1–2	MEE 6	Energy
45 %14/31	Close Hilda	1–2	WHT 84	Trainer
35 %11/31	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
32 %10/31	Close Latias ex	1–2	SSP 76	Pokémon
32 %10/31	Close Fighting Gong	2–3	MEG 116	Trainer
32 %10/31	Close Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
29 %9/31	Close Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex	1–2	TWM 64	Pokémon
26 %8/31	Close Brock's Scouting	1–4	JTG 146	Trainer
23 %7/31	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
23 %7/31	Close Sacred Ash	1–2	DRI 168	Trainer
19 %6/31	Close Terapagos ex	1–3	SCR 128	Pokémon
19 %6/31	Close Energy Switch	1	MEG 115	Trainer
19 %6/31	Close Lana's Aid	1	TWM 155	Trainer
19 %6/31	Water Energy	1–2	MEE 3	Energy
16 %5/31	Close Patrat	1	CRI 70	Pokémon
16 %5/31	Close Rare Candy	2–3	MEG 125	Trainer
16 %5/31	Close Sparkling Crystal	1	SCR 142	Trainer
16 %5/31	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
13 %4/31	Close Drakloak	3–4	TWM 129	Pokémon
13 %4/31	Close Dreepy	3–4	TWM 128	Pokémon
13 %4/31	Close Dragapult ex	1–2	TWM 130	Pokémon
13 %4/31	Close Pikachu ex	1–3	SSP 57	Pokémon
13 %4/31	Close Pikipek	1–3	PBL 66	Pokémon
13 %4/31	Close Toucannon	1–3	PBL 68	Pokémon
13 %4/31	Close Trumbeak	1–2	PBL 67	Pokémon
13 %4/31	Close Tera Orb	1–3	SSP 189	Trainer
13 %4/31	Close Prism Energy	1	ASC 216	Energy
10 %3/31	Close Marill	4	TEF 64	Pokémon
10 %3/31	Close Munkidori	2–3	TWM 95	Pokémon
10 %3/31	Close Dusclops	1	PRE 36	Pokémon
10 %3/31	Close Dusknoir	1–2	PRE 37	Pokémon
10 %3/31	Close Duskull	1–2	PRE 35	Pokémon
10 %3/31	Close Dawn	1–3	PFL 87	Trainer
10 %3/31	Close Cyrano	2	SSP 170	Trainer
10 %3/31	Close Pokégear 3.0	2–4	SVI 186	Trainer
10 %3/31	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
10 %3/31	Fire Energy	1–2	MEE 2	Energy
10 %3/31	Close Mist Energy	1–2	TEF 161	Energy
10 %3/31	Close Rocky Fighting Energy	1	POR 87	Energy
6 %2/31	Close Crustle	2	DRI 12	Pokémon
6 %2/31	Close Dwebble	2	DRI 11	Pokémon
6 %2/31	Close Tatsugiri	1–2	TWM 131	Pokémon
6 %2/31	Close Cinderace	1	MEG 28	Pokémon
6 %2/31	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–4	DRI 176	Trainer
6 %2/31	Close Pokémon Catcher	3	POR 82	Trainer
6 %2/31	Close Dragon Elixir	2	SSP 172	Trainer
6 %2/31	Close Gladion's Final Battle	1–2	PBL 77	Trainer
6 %2/31	Close Gravity Mountain	1	SSP 177	Trainer
6 %2/31	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
6 %2/31	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
6 %2/31	Darkness Energy	1–3	MEE 7	Energy
6 %2/31	Close Growing Grass Energy	2	POR 86	Energy
6 %2/31	Close Bubbly Water Energy	1	CRI 84	Energy
3 %1/31	Close Dudunsparce	4	TEF 129	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Dunsparce	4	JTG 120	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	3	MEG 104	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Arboliva ex	2	DRI 23	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Dolliv	2	DRI 22	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Smoliv	2	DRI 21	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Chien-Pao	1	SSP 56	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Frillish	1	WHT 44	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Incineroar ex	1	TEF 34	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Koraidon ex	1	ASC 121	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Litten	1	TEF 32	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Torracat	1	TEF 33	Pokémon
3 %1/31	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	2	TEF 145	Trainer
3 %1/31	Close Colress's Tenacity	2	SFA 57	Trainer
3 %1/31	Close Forest of Vitality	2	MEG 117	Trainer
3 %1/31	Close Energy Recycler	1	DRI 164	Trainer
3 %1/31	Close Handheld Fan	1	TWM 150	Trainer
3 %1/31	Close Jacinthe	1	POR 75	Trainer
3 %1/31	Close Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
3 %1/31	Close Lillie's Pearl	1	JTG 151	Trainer
3 %1/31	Close Maximum Belt	1	TEF 154	Trainer
3 %1/31	Grass Energy	2	MEE 1	Energy

The most common Azumarill list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 20 slots come from the core, the cards all 31 lists run. The remaining 40 come from the table just above, working down it: the cards the most players chose, each at its most common copy count, until the total lands on 60.

This list is nobody's list in particular. It takes, slot by slot, what the most people played, under the guardrails a judge would hold you to: never more than four copies of a card, and one ACE SPEC. Behind the core it took 25 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 22 Pokémon, 31 Trainers and 7 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 31 lists we counted are all from players who came in the top twenty of their tournament. Nobody publishes the lists of the players who lost. So what you have in front of you is what the players finishing near the top bring most often.

The text under the table is the one the game expects: copy it, paste it into the deck manager, and the list builds itself.

There is no price total on this page. The readings we have are Cardmarket's, in euros, and the shop link further down sends you to TCGplayer, which quotes in dollars. Putting a euro figure next to a dollar shop would be one currency too many. The French and German pages carry the total.

Why we only read lists from players who came in the top twenty of their tournament, and what that changes about every percentage on this page: how to read a deck list.

Pokémon: 22
3 Azumarill SSP 74
3 Marill ASC 83
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142
1 Lillie's Clefairy ex JTG 56
3 Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex TWM 112
2 Fan Rotom SCR 118
4 Hoothoot SCR 114
3 Noctowl SCR 115
1 Shaymin DRI 10
1 Latias ex SSP 76

Trainer: 31
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
3 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
3 Poké Pad POR 81
3 Ultra Ball MEG 131
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
2 Night Stretcher ASC 196
2 Area Zero Underdepths SCR 131
1 Switch MEG 130
1 Kieran TWM 154
1 Wondrous Patch PFL 94
1 Air Balloon ASC 181
1 Battle Cage PFL 85
1 Brave Bangle WHT 80
1 Energy Search POR 72
1 Judge POR 76
1 Crispin SCR 133
1 Hilda WHT 84
1 Unfair Stamp TWM 165

Energy: 7
5 Psychic Energy MEE 5
1 Telepathic Psychic Energy POR 88
1 Fighting Energy MEE 6

Total Cards: 60

What Azumarill costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 103 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 6 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

29 of these 31 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 11 took Unfair Stamp, 5 took Legacy Energy and 5 took Sparkling Crystal. The flex table shows you all 7. You are allowed ONE ACE SPEC card in your whole deck, so a single copy covers it whatever it costs. New to this deck? Take Unfair Stamp and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 1 of the 6 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Azumarill. The core table marks it. In copies, that is 3 of the 20 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Azumarill struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Metal, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 11 of the 97 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Excadrill ex, Slowking (Metagross) and Cinccino ex (Genesect ex), plus 8 more decks. The table below takes them one at a time, and those are the lists you practise against first before an event.

This table counts one thing, Weakness, and that comes to 11 decks out of the 97 we track. The other 86 do not attack into yours, and this table says nothing about them. You will still run into them.

Going the other way, your attackers are Psychic, and 6 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Mega Lucario ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama and Greninja ex, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Azumarill deck list?

There isn't one, so we built one for you: all 60 cards are written out further up this page. Across 31 tournament lists harvested between 16 August 2026 and 1 September 2026, 6 cards turn up in every single one, 20 slots out of 60. The remaining 40 change from player to player, with 97 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

How many lists is this counted on, and where do they come from?

31 lists, played across 28 different tournaments, harvested between 16 August 2026 and 1 September 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 31 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Azumarill?

With the whole core: 6 cards, 20 slots. Inside it, buy the 12 Trainer slots and the 5 Energy first: they carry over into your next deck. Leave the 3 Pokémon slots for last. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Buddy-Buddy Poffin at 97 % and Marill at 90 %.

What beats Azumarill?

Its attackers are Weak to Metal, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 11 of the 97 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Mega Excadrill ex, Slowking, Cinccino ex and Steven's Metagross ex, among others.

Will Azumarill survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 1 core cards out of 6 carry the letter H, starting with Azumarill.

Are a lot of people playing Azumarill?

We have read 31 lists of it, which puts it 41st of the 97 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 42 entries for it, 0.1 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

These pages are about the same corner of the game. If you came away from this one still wondering about something, start with one of them.