Hop's Trevenant

What Hop's Trevenant looks like when you open the box

Across the 94 lists we counted, this deck runs 13 to 19 Pokémon, 34 to 39 Trainers and 6 to 8 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Psychic.

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

Look at the Energy: 6 to 8 out of 60, when half the 125 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 sets up fast. Hop's Trevenant 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: 34 to 39 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 125 decks we track. Inside that, 11 to 16 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 11 to 17 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 5 Stadiums, and 21 of the 125 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 Hop's Trevenant actually wins

Hop's Snorlax attacks with Dynamic Press for 140. It needs 3 Colorless Energy attached, and it has 150 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 80 damage to itself."

The cost of Dynamic Press decides your first few turns. You only get to attach one Energy a turn, and that attack asks for 3. On your own attachments alone, your first real swing lands on turn 3. We have not found anything in this list that attaches Energy faster than that, so plan on holding out for 2 turns before you swing. Those turns still get played: you fill your Bench, you build your lines, and you keep something back to rebuild with when your attacker falls.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games. To pull Hop's Snorlax back to the Bench you have to discard 4 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 4 Energy you spent 4 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.

Lillie's Clefairy ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes 2 Prize cards instead of one when Lillie's Clefairy 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 Hop's SnorlaxBasic	150	Dynamic Press	140		Fighting ×2	4
Close Hop's TrevenantStage 1	140	Corner	90		Darkness ×2	2
Close Lillie's Clefairy exBasic	190	Full Moon Rondo	20+		Metal ×2	1
Close Hop's PhantumpBasic	70	Splashing Dodge	10		Darkness ×2	2

The core: the 12 cards every list runs

These 12 cards appear in all 94 lists, without a single exception. That is 38 of the 60 slots. The other 22 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 38 slots break down: 24 Trainers, 10 Pokémon, 4 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.

10 of those 12 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Hop's Phantump (3 to 4), Hop's Trevenant (3 to 4) and Hop's Snorlax (1 to 2), plus 7 more. Add those spreads up and you get 14 copies the 94 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 Hop's Phantump	ASC 95	Pokémon	stays
3–4	Close Hop's Trevenant	ASC 96	Pokémon	stays
1–2	Close Hop's Snorlax	JTG 117	Pokémon	stays
1–2	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	JTG 56	Pokémon	stays
4	Close Hop's Choice Band	JTG 148	Trainer	stays
3–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
3–4	Close Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays
4	Close Postwick	JTG 154	Trainer	stays
1–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
2–3	Close Night Stretcher	ASC 196	Trainer	leaves
2–4	Close Hop's Bag	JTG 147	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Telepathic Psychic Energy	POR 88	Energy	stays

The 51 cards that change from list to list

51 cards fight over the 22 slots that are left: 11 above three lists in four, 34 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Hop's Cramorant at 99 %, Team Rocket's Petrel at 99 % and Shaymin at 98 %, plus 8 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Special Red Card, at 44 %: 41 of 94 players took it, 53 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Hilda (23 lists out of 94) and Judge (22 lists out of 94).

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 %93/94	Close Hop's Cramorant	1–2	JTG 138	Pokémon
99 %93/94	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	2–4	DRI 176	Trainer
98 %92/94	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
98 %92/94	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
97 %91/94	Close Hassel	1–3	TWM 151	Trainer
97 %91/94	Close Mist Energy	2–4	TEF 161	Energy
87 %82/94	Close Switch	1–3	MEG 130	Trainer
84 %79/94	Close Hop's Dubwool	1–3	JTG 136	Pokémon
84 %79/94	Close Hop's Wooloo	1–3	JTG 135	Pokémon
84 %79/94	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–4	SVI 186	Trainer
78 %73/94	Close Ultra Ball	1–3	MEG 131	Trainer
74 %70/94	Close Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
44 %41/94	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
30 %28/94	Close Latias ex	1	SSP 76	Pokémon
30 %28/94	Close Patrat	1	CRI 70	Pokémon
28 %26/94	Close Hop's Zacian ex	1	JTG 111	Pokémon
27 %25/94	Close Ruffian	1	JTG 157	Trainer
24 %23/94	Close Hilda	1–2	WHT 84	Trainer
23 %22/94	Close Judge	1–2	POR 76	Trainer
21 %20/94	Close Kieran	1–2	TWM 154	Trainer
19 %18/94	Close Surfer	1	SSP 187	Trainer
18 %17/94	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
17 %16/94	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
16 %15/94	Close Colress's Tenacity	1–2	SFA 57	Trainer
16 %15/94	Close Sacred Ash	1	DRI 168	Trainer
15 %14/94	Close Battle Cage	1	PFL 85	Trainer
15 %14/94	Psychic Energy	1–4	MEE 13	Energy
7 %7/94	Close Flutter Mane	1	TEF 78	Pokémon
6 %6/94	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
4 %4/94	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
3 %3/94	Close Enhanced Hammer	1	TWM 148	Trainer
3 %3/94	Close Gwynn	1–2	PBL 78	Trainer
3 %3/94	Close Lillie's Pearl	1	JTG 151	Trainer
2 %2/94	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
2 %2/94	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
2 %2/94	Close Team Rocket's Mimikyu	1	DRI 87	Pokémon
2 %2/94	Close Morty's Conviction	2	TEF 155	Trainer
2 %2/94	Close Crushing Hammer	1	POR 71	Trainer
2 %2/94	Close Eri	1	TEF 146	Trainer
2 %2/94	Close Lana's Aid	1	TWM 155	Trainer
1 %1/94	Close Frillish	1	WHT 44	Pokémon
1 %1/94	Close Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
1 %1/94	Close Rabsca	1	TEF 24	Pokémon
1 %1/94	Close Relicanth	1	TEF 84	Pokémon
1 %1/94	Close Rellor	1	DRI 24	Pokémon
1 %1/94	Close Tatsugiri	1	TWM 131	Pokémon
1 %1/94	Close Hyper Aroma	1	TWM 152	Trainer
1 %1/94	Close Lt. Surge's Bargain	1	MEG 120	Trainer
1 %1/94	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1	DRI 180	Trainer
1 %1/94	Close Prism Energy	2	ASC 216	Energy
1 %1/94	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy

The most common Hop's Trevenant list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 38 slots come from the core, the cards all 94 lists run. The remaining 22 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 14 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 15 Pokémon, 37 Trainers and 8 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 94 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: 15
4 Hop's Phantump ASC 95
3 Hop's Trevenant ASC 96
2 Hop's Snorlax JTG 117
1 Lillie's Clefairy ex JTG 56
1 Hop's Cramorant JTG 138
1 Shaymin DRI 10
1 Hop's Dubwool JTG 136
1 Hop's Wooloo JTG 135
1 Latias ex SSP 76

Trainer: 37
4 Hop's Choice Band JTG 148
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
4 Poké Pad POR 81
4 Postwick JTG 154
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
3 Night Stretcher ASC 196
2 Hop's Bag JTG 147
4 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 176
1 Secret Box TWM 163
2 Hassel TWM 151
1 Switch MEG 130
2 Pokégear 3.0 SVI 186
1 Ultra Ball MEG 131
1 Air Balloon ASC 181
1 Special Red Card CRI 82

Energy: 8
4 Telepathic Psychic Energy POR 88
4 Mist Energy TEF 161

Total Cards: 60

How many different cards Hop's Trevenant needs, and how long it will last

You need 63 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 12 of which nobody argues about. The rest is where lists differ from one another, and that is where you have room to choose.

All 94 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 92 took Secret Box, 1 took Hyper Aroma and 1 took Legacy Energy. 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 Secret Box and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 1 of the 12 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Night Stretcher. The core table marks it. In copies, that is 3 of the 38 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Hop's Trevenant struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Fighting, Darkness and Metal, so they take DOUBLE damage from those types. 41 of the 125 decks we track attack in exactly those types.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: N's Zoroark ex, Slowking (Metagross) and Mega Excadrill ex, plus 38 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 41 decks out of the 125 we track. The other 84 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 / Hariyama, Mega Lucario ex and Greninja ex, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.