Okidogi / Barbaracle

What Okidogi / Barbaracle looks like when you open the box

Across the 79 lists we counted, this deck runs 14 to 18 Pokémon, 27 to 33 Trainers and 12 to 16 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Fighting.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « okidogi-barbaracle ». 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: 12 to 16 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. Barbaracle 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 33 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 125 decks we track. Inside that, 9 to 15 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 10 to 19 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

Okidogi and Barbaracle give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Okidogi is in all 79 lists, 3 copies of it. Its Ability is called Adrena-Power, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « If this Pokémon has any {D} Energy attached, it gets +100 HP, and the attacks it uses do 100 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). »

Barbaracle is in all 79 lists, 2 copies of it. Its Ability is called Stone Arms, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, you may use this Ability. Attach a Basic {F} Energy card from your hand to 1 of your {F} Pokémon. »

How Okidogi / Barbaracle actually wins

Barbaracle attacks with Hammer In for 80. It needs 3 Energy, 2 Fighting and 1 Colorless attached, and it has 130 HP.

The cost of Hammer In 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 it charges itself. Barbaracle, which the list runs 2 of, has an Ability called Stone Arms: it attaches Energy from your hand on top of the one you already play. An Ability costs you nothing: not your attack, not your card for the turn. Bloodmoon Ursaluna does the same job. That is where this deck buys its turns, and it is the first thing to look for in your opening hand.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games. To pull Barbaracle 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 26 of the 125 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 BarbaracleStage 1	130	Hammer In	80		Grass ×2	2
Close OkidogiBasic	130	Good Punch	70		Psychic ×2	2
Close SolrockBasic	110	Cosmic Beam	70		Grass ×2	1
Close LunatoneBasic	110	Power Gem	50		Grass ×2	1

The core: the 13 cards every list runs

These 13 cards appear in all 79 lists, without a single exception. That is 44 of the 60 slots. The other 16 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 44 slots break down: 19 Trainers, 12 Pokémon, 13 Energy. Nothing stands out in that split. What sets this deck apart is how thick its core is: 44 of the 60 slots are the same for everybody, when half the 125 decks we track fix 26 or fewer. Fewer choices left to you than usual, and fewer ways to get them wrong.

8 of those 13 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Okidogi (3 to 4), Solrock (2 to 3) and Lillie's Determination (2 to 4), plus 5 more. Add those spreads up and you get 14 copies the 79 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 Okidogi	TWM 111	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Close Solrock	MEG 75	Pokémon	stays
2	Close Barbaracle	POR 43	Pokémon	stays
2	Close Binacle	POR 42	Pokémon	stays
2	Close Lunatone	MEG 74	Pokémon	stays
4	Close Fighting Gong	MEG 116	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
3–4	Close Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
1–3	Close Air Balloon	ASC 181	Trainer	stays
2–3	Close Tarragon	POR 85	Trainer	stays
6–10	Fighting Energy	MEE 6	Energy	stays
4	Close Prism Energy	ASC 216	Energy	stays

The 56 cards that change from list to list

56 cards fight over the 16 slots that are left: 6 above three lists in four, 42 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Bloodmoon Ursaluna at 99 %, Night Stretcher at 99 % and Battle Cage at 92 %, plus 3 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Energy Retrieval, at 54 %: 43 of 79 players took it, 36 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Premium Power Pro (20 lists out of 79) and Munkidori (17 lists out of 79).

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 %78/79	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna	1–2	PRE 54	Pokémon
99 %78/79	Close Night Stretcher	2–4	ASC 196	Trainer
92 %73/79	Close Battle Cage	1–4	PFL 85	Trainer
92 %73/79	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
82 %65/79	Close Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
75 %59/79	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–4	SVI 186	Trainer
65 %51/79	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
65 %51/79	Close Gwynn	1–2	PBL 78	Trainer
59 %47/79	Close Patrat	1	CRI 70	Pokémon
56 %44/79	Close Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
54 %43/79	Close Energy Retrieval	1–2	SVI 171	Trainer
37 %29/79	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 112	Pokémon
33 %26/79	Close Morty's Conviction	1–3	TEF 155	Trainer
29 %23/79	Close Hassel	1–2	TWM 151	Trainer
25 %20/79	Close Premium Power Pro	1–4	MEG 124	Trainer
22 %17/79	Close Munkidori	1–3	TWM 95	Pokémon
18 %14/79	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	1–2	TEF 145	Trainer
15 %12/79	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
14 %11/79	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
14 %11/79	Close Ultra Ball	1–2	MEG 131	Trainer
13 %10/79	Close Judge	1–2	POR 76	Trainer
13 %10/79	Close Rocky Fighting Energy	1–2	POR 87	Energy
11 %9/79	Close Colress's Tenacity	1–2	SFA 57	Trainer
10 %8/79	Close Brave Bangle	1	WHT 80	Trainer
9 %7/79	Close Gravity Mountain	1–2	SSP 177	Trainer
9 %7/79	Close Switch	1–2	MEG 130	Trainer
9 %7/79	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
9 %7/79	Darkness Energy	1–3	MEE 7	Energy
8 %6/79	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1–3	DRI 180	Trainer
4 %3/79	Close Crustle	1	DRI 12	Pokémon
4 %3/79	Close Dwebble	1	BLK 51	Pokémon
4 %3/79	Close Ethan's Sudowoodo	1	DRI 93	Pokémon
4 %3/79	Close Hilda	1	WHT 84	Trainer
4 %3/79	Close Lana's Aid	1	TWM 155	Trainer
4 %3/79	Close Growing Grass Energy	1	POR 86	Energy
3 %2/79	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1	JTG 56	Pokémon
3 %2/79	Close Crispin	2	SCR 133	Trainer
3 %2/79	Close Energy Switch	1	MEG 115	Trainer
3 %2/79	Close Kieran	1	TWM 154	Trainer
3 %2/79	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
3 %2/79	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1	DRI 176	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
1 %1/79	Close Chi-Yu	1	MEG 31	Pokémon
1 %1/79	Close Great Tusk	1	TEF 96	Pokémon
1 %1/79	Close Hawlucha	1	POR 46	Pokémon
1 %1/79	Close Crushing Hammer	2	POR 71	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Kofu	2	SCR 138	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Lively Stadium	2	SSP 180	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Brock's Scouting	1	JTG 146	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Deluxe Bomb	1	SCR 134	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Enhanced Hammer	1	TWM 148	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Lucky Helmet	1	TWM 158	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Megaton Blower	1	SSP 182	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Neutralization Zone	1	SFA 60	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
1 %1/79	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer

The most common Okidogi / Barbaracle list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 44 slots come from the core, the cards all 79 lists run. The remaining 16 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 11 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 16 Pokémon, 30 Trainers and 14 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 79 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: 16
3 Okidogi TWM 111
3 Solrock MEG 75
2 Barbaracle POR 43
2 Binacle POR 42
2 Lunatone MEG 74
1 Bloodmoon Ursaluna PRE 54
1 Moltres PFL 14
1 Shaymin DRI 10
1 Patrat CRI 70

Trainer: 30
4 Fighting Gong MEG 116
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
4 Poké Pad POR 81
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
2 Air Balloon ASC 181
2 Tarragon POR 85
2 Night Stretcher ASC 196
3 Battle Cage PFL 85
2 Pokégear 3.0 SVI 186
2 Gwynn PBL 78
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
1 Energy Retrieval SVI 171

Energy: 14
9 Fighting Energy MEE 6
4 Prism Energy ASC 216
1 Legacy Energy TWM 167

Total Cards: 60

How many different cards Okidogi / Barbaracle needs, and how long it will last

You need 69 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 13 of which nobody argues about. The rest is where lists differ from one another, and that is where you have room to choose.

All 79 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 73 took Legacy Energy, 2 took Prime Catcher and 1 took Deluxe Bomb. The flex table shows you all 6. 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 Legacy Energy and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 1 of the 13 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Okidogi. The core table marks it. In copies, that is 3 of the 44 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Okidogi / Barbaracle struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Grass and Psychic, so they take DOUBLE damage from those types. 48 of the 125 decks we track attack in exactly those types.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: N's Zoroark ex (Munkidori), Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex and Slowking (Latias ex), plus 45 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 48 decks out of the 125 we track. The other 77 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 Fighting, and 41 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex, Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex and Slowking, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.