Beedrill ex

What Beedrill ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 76 lists we counted, this deck runs 19 to 26 Pokémon, 26 to 36 Trainers and 5 to 14 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Grass.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « beedrill-ex-cri ». 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, « CRI », is a set code: Chaos Rising. They spell it out because several cards share that name, and this deck plays that particular printing.

Look at the Energy: 5 to 14 out of 60, when half the 126 decks we track run 11 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 takes a while to set up. Beedrill ex is a Stage 2 Pokémon: you put down the baby, you evolve it, and then you evolve it again. Three cards stacked before anything attacks. That is what the hardest-hitting decks cost you, and it is also where they crack — a fast opponent can bury you before the line is standing.

Look at the Trainers: 26 to 36 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 126 decks we track. Inside that, 7 to 12 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 13 to 22 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 88 of the 126 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.

How Beedrill ex actually wins

Beedrill ex attacks with Rumbling Bees. It needs 1 Grass Energy attached, and it has 310 HP. Watch the damage box: "110×" is not a total. Here is what the card prints, word for word: "This attack does 110 damage for each of your Beedrill and Beedrill ex in play."

One Energy to attack is enormous, and it means the attack cost will never be what slows you down. What slows you down here is getting Beedrill ex up. Once the line is standing you swing every turn with nothing to recharge, and you can start again immediately when your attacker falls.

Energy is not your only clock. Weedle has to climb two steps before it becomes Beedrill ex, and an evolution asleep at the bottom of your deck does you no good at all. The list has that covered. Dawn, which the list runs 2 of, goes into your deck for an evolution. Careful, though: only 55 of the 76 lists bring it, so it is a choice, and players are still arguing about it.

Good news on mobility: pulling Beedrill ex back to the Bench costs you 1 Energy attached to it, and that is all. Retreating does not cost you your turn, so you step back and swing anyway. That matters enormously the day your opponent lands something nasty on it.

Beedrill ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes 2 Prize cards instead of one when Beedrill ex falls. They need 6 to win: 3 well-placed knockouts on that card beat you, where it would take 6 anywhere else on your Bench.

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

Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Close Beedrill exStage 2	310	Rumbling Bees	110×		Fire ×2	1
Close WeedleBasic	50	Surprise Attack	30		Fire ×2	1
Close KakunaStage 1	80	Hang Down	20		Fire ×2	3

The core: the 8 cards every list runs

These 8 cards appear in all 76 lists, without a single exception. That is 31 of the 60 slots. The other 29 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 31 slots break down: 14 Trainers, 12 Pokémon, 5 Energy. Nothing stands out in that split. What sets this deck apart is how thick its core is: 31 of the 60 slots are the same for everybody, when half the 126 decks we track fix 25 or fewer. Fewer choices left to you than usual, and fewer ways to get them wrong.

6 of those 8 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Kakuna (2 to 4), Buddy-Buddy Poffin (2 to 4) and Forest of Vitality (2 to 4), plus 3 more. Add those spreads up and you get 20 copies the 76 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
4	Close Beedrill ex	CRI 3	Pokémon	stays
2–4	Close Kakuna	CRI 2	Pokémon	stays
4	Close Weedle	CRI 1	Pokémon	stays
2–4	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	TEF 144	Trainer	leaves
2–4	Close Forest of Vitality	MEG 117	Trainer	stays
1–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
2–3	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
3–13	Grass Energy	MEE 1	Energy	stays

The 63 cards that change from list to list

63 cards fight over the 29 slots that are left: 11 above three lists in four, 44 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Dudunsparce at 99 %, Poké Pad at 99 % and Bug Catching Set at 97 %, plus 8 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Redeemable Ticket, at 46 %: 35 of 76 players took it, 41 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Rabsca (17 lists out of 76) and Rellor (16 lists out of 76).

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
99 %75/76	Close Dudunsparce	2–3	TEF 129	Pokémon
99 %75/76	Close Poké Pad	3–4	POR 81	Trainer
97 %74/76	Close Bug Catching Set	2–4	TWM 143	Trainer
96 %73/76	Close Ultra Ball	1–4	MEG 131	Trainer
93 %71/76	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
92 %70/76	Close Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
89 %68/76	Close Fan Rotom	1–2	SCR 118	Pokémon
88 %67/76	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
82 %62/76	Close Dunsparce	1–4	TEF 128	Pokémon
82 %62/76	Close Dunsparce	1–4	JTG 120	Pokémon
80 %61/76	Close Sacred Ash	1	DRI 168	Trainer
72 %55/76	Close Dawn	1–4	PFL 87	Trainer
61 %46/76	Close Night Stretcher	1–3	ASC 196	Trainer
46 %35/76	Close Redeemable Ticket	1–2	JTG 156	Trainer
45 %34/76	Close Judge	1	POR 76	Trainer
43 %33/76	Close Max Rod	1	PRE 116	Trainer
43 %33/76	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
32 %24/76	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	1–2	TEF 145	Trainer
26 %20/76	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
22 %17/76	Close Rabsca	1	TEF 24	Pokémon
21 %16/76	Close Rellor	1	TEF 23	Pokémon
18 %14/76	Close Shaymin	1–2	DRI 10	Pokémon
17 %13/76	Close Colress's Tenacity	1	SFA 57	Trainer
14 %11/76	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–4	DRI 176	Trainer
11 %8/76	Close Mew ex	1	30C 66	Pokémon
9 %7/76	Close Budew	1–2	ASC 16	Pokémon
9 %7/76	Close Kieran	1	TWM 154	Trainer
8 %6/76	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
7 %5/76	Close Rare Candy	1–3	MEG 125	Trainer
5 %4/76	Close Buneary	1	PFL 83	Pokémon
5 %4/76	Close Mega Lopunny ex	1	PFL 84	Pokémon
5 %4/76	Close Gwynn	3–4	PBL 78	Trainer
5 %4/76	Close Hyper Aroma	1	TWM 152	Trainer
4 %3/76	Close Celebi	1–4	MEG 12	Pokémon
4 %3/76	Close Dudunsparce ex	1	JTG 121	Pokémon
4 %3/76	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–3	SVI 186	Trainer
4 %3/76	Close Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
4 %3/76	Close Black Belt's Training	1	JTG 143	Trainer
4 %3/76	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
4 %3/76	Close Growing Grass Energy	1–2	POR 86	Energy
3 %2/76	Close Mow Rotom	1	SCR 8	Pokémon
3 %2/76	Close Hilda	2	WHT 84	Trainer
3 %2/76	Close Lana's Aid	1	TWM 155	Trainer
3 %2/76	Close Surfer	1	SSP 187	Trainer
3 %2/76	Close Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer
1 %1/76	Close Teal Mask Ogerpon ex	4	TWM 25	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Arboliva ex	2	DRI 23	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Dolliv	2	DRI 22	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Drakloak	2	TWM 129	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Dreepy	2	TWM 128	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Smoliv	2	DRI 21	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Pinsir	1	TWM 3	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Rellor	1	DRI 24	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Snorlax	1	POR 63	Pokémon
1 %1/76	Close Dusk Ball	4	SSP 175	Trainer
1 %1/76	Close Emma	2	CRI 77	Trainer
1 %1/76	Close Energy Retrieval	2	SVI 171	Trainer
1 %1/76	Close Lacey	2	SCR 139	Trainer
1 %1/76	Close AZ's Tranquility	1	CRI 76	Trainer
1 %1/76	Close Deluxe Bomb	1	SCR 134	Trainer
1 %1/76	Close Maximum Belt	1	TEF 154	Trainer
1 %1/76	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy

The most common Beedrill ex list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 31 slots come from the core, the cards all 76 lists run. The remaining 29 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 17 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 20 Pokémon, 35 Trainers and 5 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 76 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.

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: 20
4 Beedrill ex CRI 3
4 Kakuna CRI 2
4 Weedle CRI 1
3 Dudunsparce TEF 129
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142
1 Fan Rotom SCR 118
1 Meowth ex POR 62
1 Dunsparce TEF 128
1 Dunsparce JTG 120

Trainer: 35
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
4 Forest of Vitality MEG 117
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
2 Boss's Orders MEG 114
4 Poké Pad POR 81
4 Bug Catching Set TWM 143
3 Ultra Ball MEG 131
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
1 Sacred Ash DRI 168
2 Dawn PFL 87
1 Night Stretcher ASC 196
1 Redeemable Ticket JTG 156
1 Judge POR 76
1 Max Rod PRE 116
2 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking TEF 145

Energy: 5
5 Grass Energy MEE 1

Total Cards: 60

Which decks beat Beedrill ex at tournaments

Here is how Beedrill ex did against every other deck at tournaments. Real games, real players sitting across the table from each other, and the platform those tournaments run on counts them one by one. All of them were played after 30th Celebration became legal for tournaments, and we read the table on 23 October 2026.

The format matters more than people think. When the next set lands, decks get rebuilt around the new cards, and a matchup that leaned one way can swing the other. What you are reading holds for today's format.

We start with the opponent that gives you the most trouble, because that is where the work is before your next tournament. The further down the list you go, the better it goes for you.

Always look at the number of games next to the score. Six wins out of ten happens on its own, even with a middling deck: it is the same as flipping six heads in ten tries. Six hundred out of a thousand, and luck has nothing to do with it. Below 100 games we show nothing at all, because at that count half the matchups look like they lean one way when they lean nowhere.

Against Dragapult ex: over 141 games, 53 won and 85 lost. 3 ended with no winner.

How many different cards Beedrill ex needs, and how long it will last

You need 71 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 8 of which nobody argues about. The rest is where lists differ from one another, and that is where you have room to choose.

All 76 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 33 took Max Rod, 33 took Unfair Stamp and 4 took Hyper Aroma. 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 Max Rod and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 1 of the 8 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Buddy-Buddy Poffin. The core table marks it. In copies, that is 4 of the 31 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Beedrill ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Fire, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 13 of the 126 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, Ethan's Typhlosion and Ceruledge ex, plus 10 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 13 decks out of the 126 we track. The other 113 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 Grass, and 24 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: N's Zoroark ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama and Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.