Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant looks like when you open the box

Across the 36 lists we counted, this deck runs 10 to 21 Pokémon, 23 to 38 Trainers and 9 to 18 Energy. Its attacks do not ask for any particular type of Energy.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « kangaskhan-bouffalant ». 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: 9 to 18 out of 60, when half the 97 decks we track run 10 or fewer. This one carries more than most, and you feel it at the table — it wants to load up a big Pokémon and swing hard, even if that means drawing a spare Energy now and then.

Nothing here needs evolving — everything that attacks is a Basic Pokémon. Put it down, charge it, swing. That is as fast as the game gets, and it makes those turns where you draw nothing far less painful.

Look at the Trainers: 23 to 38 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 97 decks we track. Inside that, 7 to 18 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 10 to 21 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 cards in this deck's name actually do

Mega Kangaskhan ex and Bouffalant give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Mega Kangaskhan ex is in all 36 lists, 4 copies of it. Its Ability is called Run Errand, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, if this Pokémon is in the Active Spot, you may use this Ability. Draw 2 cards. You can't use more than 1 Run Errand Ability each turn. »

Bouffalant is in all 36 lists, 2 copies of it. Its Ability is called Curly Wall, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « As long as you have at least 1 other Bouffalant in play, all of your Basic {C} Pokémon take 60 less damage from attacks from your opponent's Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The effect of Curly Wall doesn't stack. »

How Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant actually wins

Mega Kangaskhan ex attacks with Rapid-Fire Combo. It needs 3 Colorless Energy attached, and it has 300 HP. The damage box reads "200+": 200 to start with, and 50 more per heads you flip.

The cost of Rapid-Fire Combo 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.

There is another trick in this list, and the whole of it happens in one turn. Team Rocket's Petrel goes into your deck for a Trainer card and puts it in your hand. Precious Trolley is one, and it puts as many Basic Pokémon as you like onto your Bench in one go. A full Bench on turn one is what decides the game: every Pokémon you put down is one more attacker, ready to take over when the one in front goes down. One rule to know: Precious Trolley is an ACE SPEC card. You are allowed just ONE ACE SPEC in your whole deck, so a second copy is never coming, and taking this one means giving up every other. One detail that matters: Team Rocket's Petrel is a Supporter, so that turn you play no other Supporter. Items all still go through.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games. To pull Mega Kangaskhan ex back to the Bench you have to discard 3 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 3 Energy you spent 3 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.

Mega Kangaskhan ex is a Mega Evolution ex, and that is the most expensive rule in the game: your opponent takes 3 Prize cards instead of one the turn it goes down. They need 6 to win the game, so 2 well-placed knockouts on that card beat you, where it would take 6 knockouts 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 Mega Kangaskhan exBasic	300	Rapid-Fire Combo	200+	Colorless + Colorless + Colorless	Fighting ×2	3
Close BouffalantBasic	100	Boundless Power	130	Colorless + Colorless + Colorless	Fighting ×2	2

The core: the 3 cards every list runs

These 3 cards appear in all 36 lists, without a single exception. That is 8 of the 60 slots. The other 52 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 8 slots break down: 2 Trainers, 6 Pokémon, 0 Energy. Pokémon dominate, which is unusual: this deck needs bodies on the board, and it depends on any single attacker less than it looks.

3 of those 3 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Mega Kangaskhan ex (2 to 4), Bouffalant (2 to 3) and Boss's Orders (1 to 4). Add those spreads up and you get 6 copies the 36 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
2–4	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	MEG 104	Pokémon	stays
2–3	Close Bouffalant	SCR 119	Pokémon	leaves
1–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays

The 98 cards that change from list to list

98 cards fight over the 52 slots that are left: 11 above three lists in four, 63 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Ultra Ball at 97 %, Mist Energy at 97 % and Jumbo Ice Cream at 94 %, plus 8 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Precious Trolley, at 50 %: 18 of 36 players took it, 18 put something else there. It is an ACE SPEC card, and you are allowed exactly one in your whole deck. The players who passed on it did not leave the slot empty: they put a different ACE SPEC there. Right at the bottom of the table, Energy Search (9 lists out of 36) and Mega Signal (9 lists out of 36).

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 %35/36	Close Ultra Ball	1–3	MEG 131	Trainer
97 %35/36	Close Mist Energy	1–4	TEF 161	Energy
94 %34/36	Close Jumbo Ice Cream	3–4	PFL 91	Trainer
94 %34/36	Close Crispin	2–4	SCR 133	Trainer
92 %33/36	Close Munkidori	1–3	TWM 95	Pokémon
92 %33/36	Darkness Energy	1–5	MEE 7	Energy
89 %32/36	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	1–4	TEF 145	Trainer
89 %32/36	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–4	SVI 186	Trainer
89 %32/36	Close Night Stretcher	1–2	ASC 196	Trainer
86 %31/36	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	3–4	DRI 176	Trainer
75 %27/36	Close Bouffalant	1	SSP 151	Pokémon
61 %22/36	Close Lillie's Determination	2–4	MEG 119	Trainer
58 %21/36	Close Latias ex	1–2	SSP 76	Pokémon
58 %21/36	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
58 %21/36	Close Poké Pad	1–4	POR 81	Trainer
56 %20/36	Close Energy Switch	1–4	MEG 115	Trainer
56 %20/36	Psychic Energy	3–5	MEE 5	Energy
53 %19/36	Close Switch	1–4	MEG 130	Trainer
50 %18/36	Close Precious Trolley	1	SSP 185	Trainer
50 %18/36	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
50 %18/36	Close Super Potion	1–2	JTG 158	Trainer
47 %17/36	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
44 %16/36	Close Team Rocket's Factory	2–4	DRI 173	Trainer
44 %16/36	Close Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
42 %15/36	Close Team Rocket's Transceiver	1–4	DRI 178	Trainer
42 %15/36	Close Backtrack Badge	1–3	PBL 74	Trainer
42 %15/36	Grass Energy	4–10	MEE 1	Energy
39 %14/36	Close Lumiose City	2–3	POR 77	Trainer
39 %14/36	Close AZ's Tranquility	1–2	CRI 76	Trainer
39 %14/36	Lightning Energy	1–4	MEE 4	Energy
36 %13/36	Close Joltik	1–2	SCR 50	Pokémon
33 %12/36	Close Galvantula	1	SFA 2	Pokémon
31 %11/36	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
31 %11/36	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
28 %10/36	Close Lana's Aid	1	TWM 155	Trainer
25 %9/36	Close Energy Search	1	POR 72	Trainer
25 %9/36	Close Mega Signal	1	MEG 121	Trainer
19 %7/36	Close Prism Tower	2	CRI 80	Trainer
14 %5/36	Close Smoochum	2	SSP 75	Pokémon
14 %5/36	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
14 %5/36	Close Lively Stadium	1–3	SSP 180	Trainer
14 %5/36	Close Brock's Scouting	1–4	JTG 146	Trainer
11 %4/36	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
11 %4/36	Metal Energy	2–6	MEE 8	Energy
8 %3/36	Close Pikachu ex	1	SSP 57	Pokémon
8 %3/36	Close Team Rocket's Articuno	1	DRI 51	Pokémon
8 %3/36	Close Team Rocket's Kangaskhan ex	1	ASC 162	Pokémon
8 %3/36	Close Handheld Fan	1–2	TWM 150	Trainer
8 %3/36	Close Gravity Mountain	1–2	SSP 177	Trainer
8 %3/36	Close Kieran	1	TWM 154	Trainer
8 %3/36	Close Light Ball	1	ASC 191	Trainer
6 %2/36	Close Teal Mask Ogerpon ex	3–4	TWM 25	Pokémon
6 %2/36	Close Transformation Tome	4	CRI 83	Trainer
6 %2/36	Close Glass Trumpet	2–3	SCR 135	Trainer
6 %2/36	Close Judge	1	POR 76	Trainer
6 %2/36	Water Energy	1–6	MEE 3	Energy
3 %1/36	Close Amaura	2	POR 23	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Aurorus	2	POR 24	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Bastiodon	2	PBL 62	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Dudunsparce	2	TEF 129	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Dunsparce	2	JTG 120	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Hoothoot	2	SCR 114	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Mega Audino ex	2	ASC 172	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Ninetales	2	CRI 9	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Noctowl	2	SCR 115	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Shieldon	2	PBL 61	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Shuckle	2	MEG 11	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Terapagos ex	2	SCR 128	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Vulpix	2	CRI 8	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Fan Rotom	1	SCR 118	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1	JTG 56	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Patrat	1	CRI 70	Pokémon
3 %1/36	Close Bug Catching Set	4	TWM 143	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Crushing Hammer	4	POR 71	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Pokémon Catcher	4	POR 82	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Battle Cage	3	PFL 85	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Fossil Quarry	3	PBL 76	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Antique Armor Fossil	2	PBL 72	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Antique Sail Fossil	2	POR 69	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Area Zero Underdepths	2	SCR 131	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Lucian	2	TWM 157	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Lucky Helmet	2	TWM 158	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Cyrano	1	SSP 170	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Energy Recycler	1	DRI 164	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Gwynn	1	PBL 78	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Lumiose Galette	1	POR 78	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close N's Plan	1	BLK 83	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Nighttime Mine	1	ASC 197	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Poké Vital A	1	SFA 62	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Powerglass	1	SFA 63	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Team Rocket's Venture Bomb	1	DRI 179	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Tera Orb	1	SSP 189	Trainer
3 %1/36	Close Wally's Compassion	1	MEG 132	Trainer
3 %1/36	Fire Energy	3	MEE 2	Energy
3 %1/36	Close Spiky Energy	3	JTG 159	Energy
3 %1/36	Close Magnetic Metal Energy	2	CRI 85	Energy
3 %1/36	Close Prism Energy	2	ASC 216	Energy
3 %1/36	Close Telepathic Psychic Energy	1	POR 88	Energy

The most common Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 8 slots come from the core, the cards all 36 lists run. The remaining 52 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 24 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 13 Pokémon, 35 Trainers and 12 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 36 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: 13
4 Mega Kangaskhan ex MEG 104
2 Bouffalant SCR 119
3 Munkidori TWM 95
1 Bouffalant SSP 151
2 Latias ex SSP 76
1 Psyduck ASC 39

Trainer: 35
2 Boss's Orders MEG 114
3 Ultra Ball MEG 131
4 Jumbo Ice Cream PFL 91
2 Crispin SCR 133
2 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking TEF 145
2 Pokégear 3.0 SVI 186
1 Night Stretcher ASC 196
4 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 176
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
1 Poké Pad POR 81
1 Energy Switch MEG 115
1 Switch MEG 130
1 Precious Trolley SSP 185
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
1 Super Potion JTG 158
2 Team Rocket's Factory DRI 173
1 Air Balloon ASC 181
2 Team Rocket's Transceiver DRI 178

Energy: 12
4 Mist Energy TEF 161
4 Darkness Energy MEE 7
4 Psychic Energy MEE 5

Total Cards: 60

Which decks beat Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant at tournaments

Here is how Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant 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 Pitch Black became legal for tournaments, and we read the table on 5 September 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 Mega Excadrill ex: over 112 games, 54 won and 56 lost. 2 ended with no winner.

Against Dragapult ex: over 129 games, 73 won and 54 lost. 2 ended with no winner.

What Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 101 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 3 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

All 36 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 18 took Precious Trolley, 17 took Hero's Cape and 1 took Poké Vital A. 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 Precious Trolley and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 1 of the 3 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Bouffalant. The core table marks it. In copies, that is 2 of the 8 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Fighting, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 12 of the 97 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Lucario ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama and Cynthia's Garchomp ex, plus 9 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 12 decks out of the 97 we track. The other 85 do not attack into yours, and this table says nothing about them. You will still run into them.

Going the other way, none of the 97 decks we track have an attacker Weak to your types. So you are not going to win trades on Weakness — you will have to win them on raw damage.

Questions people ask

What is the Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant deck list?

There isn't one, so we built one for you: all 60 cards are written out further up this page. Across 36 tournament lists harvested between 11 August 2026 and 5 September 2026, 3 cards turn up in every single one, 8 slots out of 60. The remaining 52 change from player to player, with 98 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

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

36 lists, played across 32 different tournaments, harvested between 11 August 2026 and 5 September 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 36 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant?

With the whole core: 3 cards, 8 slots. Inside it, buy the 2 Trainer slots and the 0 Energy first: they carry over into your next deck. Leave the 6 Pokémon slots for last. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Ultra Ball at 97 % and Mist Energy at 97 %.

What beats Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant?

Its attackers are Weak to Fighting, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 12 of the 97 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Mega Lucario ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama, Cynthia's Garchomp ex and Greninja ex, among others.

Will Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 1 core cards out of 3 carry the letter H, starting with Bouffalant.

Are a lot of people playing Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant?

We have read 36 lists of it, which puts it 17th of the 97 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 326 entries for it, 0.8 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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