Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik

What Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik looks like when you open the box

Across the 93 lists we counted, this deck runs 15 to 25 Pokémon, 23 to 35 Trainers and 9 to 14 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Lightning.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « manectric-eelektrik ». 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 14 out of 60, when half the 125 decks we track run 11 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.

It sets up fast. Eelektrik 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: 23 to 35 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 125 decks we track. Inside that, 9 to 18 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 7 to 17 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 87 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.

What the cards in this deck's name actually do

Mega Manectric ex and Eelektrik give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Mega Manectric ex is in all 93 lists, 2 copies of it.

Eelektrik is in all 93 lists, 3 copies of it. Its Ability is called Dynamotor, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, you may attach a Basic {L} Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. »

How Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik actually wins

Mega Manectric ex attacks with Riotous Blasting. It needs 3 Lightning Energy attached, and it has 330 HP. The damage box reads "200+": 200 to start with, and 330 if you agree to discard every Energy attached to it. You hit enormously once, then you are back to nothing and everything needs recharging.

The cost of Riotous Blasting 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. Except you are not on your own. Eelektrik, which the list runs 3 of, has an Ability called Dynamotor: it digs Energy out of your discard pile and puts it back on one of your Pokémon. An Ability costs you nothing: not your attack, not your card for the turn. That is where this deck buys its turns, and it is the first thing to look for in your opening hand.

Good news on mobility: Mega Manectric ex retreats for free. You get it back to the Bench without discarding a single Energy, and you can still attack in the same turn. An attacker that comes and goes like that walks out of almost any mess.

Mega Manectric 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 Manectric exStage 1	330	Riotous Blasting	200+		Fighting ×2	0
Close EelektrikStage 1	90	Electric Ball	50		Fighting ×2	2

The core: the 4 cards every list runs

These 4 cards appear in all 93 lists, without a single exception. That is 16 of the 60 slots. The other 44 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 16 slots break down: 0 Trainers, 8 Pokémon, 8 Energy. Pokémon dominate, which is unusual: this deck needs bodies on the board, and it depends on any single attacker less than it looks.

4 of those 4 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Eelektrik (2 to 4), Tynamo (2 to 4) and Mega Manectric ex (2 to 3), plus 1 more. Add those spreads up and you get 11 copies the 93 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
2–4	Close Eelektrik	ASC 60	Pokémon
2–4	Close Tynamo	ASC 59	Pokémon
2–3	Close Mega Manectric ex	MEG 50	Pokémon
5–11	Lightning Energy	MEE 4	Energy

The 104 cards that change from list to list

104 cards fight over the 44 slots that are left: 11 above three lists in four, 78 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 99 %, Lillie's Determination at 99 % and Boss's Orders at 99 %, plus 8 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Hero's Cape, at 45 %: 42 of 93 players took it, 51 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, Stunfisk (23 lists out of 93) and Prime Catcher (22 lists out of 93).

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 %92/93	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	2–4	TEF 144	Trainer
99 %92/93	Close Lillie's Determination	2–4	MEG 119	Trainer
99 %92/93	Close Boss's Orders	1–3	MEG 114	Trainer
97 %90/93	Close Canari	1–4	ASC 185	Trainer
97 %90/93	Close Night Stretcher	1–2	ASC 196	Trainer
95 %88/93	Close Ultra Ball	1–4	MEG 131	Trainer
90 %84/93	Close Manectric	1–2	PBL 24	Pokémon
90 %84/93	Close Voltaic Lightning Energy	2–4	PBL 84	Energy
81 %75/93	Close Battle Cage	1–4	PFL 85	Trainer
76 %71/93	Close Electrike	1–4	MEG 49	Pokémon
75 %70/93	Close Air Balloon	1–3	ASC 181	Trainer
72 %67/93	Close Switch	1–3	MEG 130	Trainer
71 %66/93	Close Judge	1–4	POR 76	Trainer
68 %63/93	Close Mega Eelektross ex	1–2	ASC 61	Pokémon
67 %62/93	Close Poké Pad	1–4	POR 81	Trainer
66 %61/93	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
58 %54/93	Close Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
45 %42/93	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
44 %41/93	Close Iono's Kilowattrel	1–3	JTG 55	Pokémon
44 %41/93	Close Iono's Wattrel	1–3	JTG 54	Pokémon
40 %37/93	Close Hilda	1–3	WHT 84	Trainer
39 %36/93	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
35 %33/93	Close Wally's Compassion	1–2	MEG 132	Trainer
33 %31/93	Close Electrike	1–4	PBL 23	Pokémon
33 %31/93	Close Fezandipiti ex	1–2	ASC 142	Pokémon
30 %28/93	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–4	DRI 176	Trainer
25 %23/93	Close Stunfisk	1–2	ASC 62	Pokémon
24 %22/93	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
23 %21/93	Close Mew ex	1–2	30C 66	Pokémon
23 %21/93	Close Zeraora	1	DRI 78	Pokémon
18 %17/93	Close Prism Tower	1–3	CRI 80	Trainer
18 %17/93	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1–2	SFA 64	Trainer
17 %16/93	Close Dudunsparce	1–3	TEF 129	Pokémon
15 %14/93	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
14 %13/93	Close Patrat	1	CRI 70	Pokémon
13 %12/93	Close Budew	1–2	ASC 16	Pokémon
13 %12/93	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
13 %12/93	Close Tatsugiri	1–2	TWM 131	Pokémon
12 %11/93	Close Naveen	1–3	POR 79	Trainer
11 %10/93	Close Dunsparce	1–3	JTG 120	Pokémon
10 %9/93	Close Waitress	1–2	ASC 215	Trainer
9 %8/93	Close Dunsparce	1–3	TEF 128	Pokémon
9 %8/93	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–3	SVI 186	Trainer
8 %7/93	Close Carmine	1–4	TWM 145	Trainer
8 %7/93	Close Jumbo Ice Cream	1–4	PFL 91	Trainer
8 %7/93	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
6 %6/93	Close Joltik	1–2	SCR 50	Pokémon
6 %6/93	Close Iris's Fighting Spirit	1–2	JTG 149	Trainer
6 %6/93	Close Levincia	1–2	JTG 150	Trainer
6 %6/93	Close Hand Trimmer	1	TEF 150	Trainer
5 %5/93	Close Zekrom ex	1	BLK 34	Pokémon
4 %4/93	Close Iron Thorns ex	1	TWM 77	Pokémon
4 %4/93	Close Mega Zeraora ex	1–2	PBL 27	Pokémon
4 %4/93	Close Explorer's Guidance	1–3	TEF 147	Trainer
4 %4/93	Close Scoop Up Cyclone	1	TWM 162	Trainer
4 %4/93	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1–3	DRI 180	Trainer
4 %4/93	Psychic Energy	2–3	MEE 5	Energy
3 %3/93	Close Eevee	2–3	TWM 135	Pokémon
3 %3/93	Close Sylveon	2	PRE 40	Pokémon
3 %3/93	Close Gravity Mountain	2	SSP 177	Trainer
3 %3/93	Close Energy Search	1	POR 72	Trainer
3 %3/93	Close Energy Switch	1–4	MEG 115	Trainer
3 %3/93	Close Eri	1	TEF 146	Trainer
3 %3/93	Close Haban Berry	1	PRE 111	Trainer
3 %3/93	Close Powerglass	1	SFA 63	Trainer
3 %3/93	Close Surfer	1–2	SSP 187	Trainer
3 %3/93	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
3 %3/93	Close Mist Energy	1	TEF 161	Energy
2 %2/93	Close Cinderace	4	MEG 28	Pokémon
2 %2/93	Close Electrike	1–3	DRI 75	Pokémon
2 %2/93	Close Buneary	1–2	PFL 83	Pokémon
2 %2/93	Close Mega Lopunny ex	1–2	PFL 84	Pokémon
2 %2/93	Close N's Zoroark ex	1–2	JTG 98	Pokémon
2 %2/93	Close N's Zorua	1–2	JTG 97	Pokémon
2 %2/93	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	1	MEG 104	Pokémon
2 %2/93	Close Cyrano	1	SSP 170	Trainer
2 %2/93	Close Payapa Berry	1	SCR 141	Trainer
2 %2/93	Close Spiky Energy	3	JTG 159	Energy
1 %1/93	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	2	JTG 56	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Abra	1	TWM 80	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Black Kyurem ex	1	SSP 48	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Cramorant	1	TWM 58	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Espeon ex	1	PRE 34	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Ethan's Pichu	1	DRI 71	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Galvantula ex	1	SCR 51	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Miraidon	1	PBL 28	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Morpeko	1	TWM 72	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Rotom	1	SSP 61	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Sylveon ex	1	SSP 86	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Thundurus	1	BLK 33	Pokémon
1 %1/93	Close Mega Signal	2	MEG 121	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close AZ's Tranquility	1	CRI 76	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Black Belt's Training	1	JTG 143	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Brave Bangle	1	WHT 80	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Brilliant Blender	1	SSP 164	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Clemont's Quick Wit	1	SSP 167	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Gwynn	1	PBL 78	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Maximum Belt	1	TEF 154	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Morty's Conviction	1	TEF 155	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Pokémon Center Lady	1	MEG 123	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Sacred Ash	1	DRI 168	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Scramble Switch	1	SSP 186	Trainer
1 %1/93	Close Team Rocket's Factory	1	DRI 173	Trainer

The most common Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 16 slots come from the core, the cards all 93 lists run. The remaining 44 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 21 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 18 Pokémon, 31 Trainers and 11 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 93 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: 18
3 Eelektrik ASC 60
3 Tynamo ASC 59
2 Mega Manectric ex MEG 50
1 Manectric PBL 24
3 Electrike MEG 49
1 Mega Eelektross ex ASC 61
1 Shaymin DRI 10
2 Iono's Kilowattrel JTG 55
2 Iono's Wattrel JTG 54

Trainer: 31
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
2 Boss's Orders MEG 114
2 Canari ASC 185
2 Night Stretcher ASC 196
4 Ultra Ball MEG 131
2 Battle Cage PFL 85
2 Air Balloon ASC 181
1 Switch MEG 130
1 Judge POR 76
3 Poké Pad POR 81
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
1 Hero's Cape TEF 152
2 Hilda WHT 84

Energy: 11
8 Lightning Energy MEE 4
3 Voltaic Lightning Energy PBL 84

Total Cards: 60

How many different cards Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik needs, and how long it will last

You need 108 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 4 of which nobody argues about. The rest is where lists differ from one another, and that is where you have room to choose.

92 of these 93 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 42 took Hero's Cape, 22 took Prime Catcher and 14 took Secret Box. The flex table shows you all 8. 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 Hero's Cape and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time, and the answer is a good one: not one of the 4 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation. This deck walks through the change whole.

What Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Fighting, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 14 of the 125 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama, Cynthia's Garchomp ex and Mega Lucario ex, plus 11 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 14 decks out of the 125 we track. The other 111 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 Lightning, and 21 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex, Mega Greninja ex and Team Rocket's Honchkrow, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.