Raging Bolt ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex

What Raging Bolt ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 83 lists we counted, this deck runs 8 to 23 Pokémon, 25 to 32 Trainers and 11 to 20 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Grass, Lightning and Fighting.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « raging-bolt-ogerpon ». 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: 11 to 20 out of 60, when half the 126 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.

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: 25 to 32 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 126 decks we track. Inside that, 7 to 14 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 11 to 23 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.

What the cards in this deck's name actually do

Raging Bolt ex and Teal Mask Ogerpon ex give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Raging Bolt ex is in all 83 lists, 2 copies of it. Its attack Burst Roar costs 1 Energy (Colorless) and has no damage number printed next to it. That is why you will not find it in the attacker table lower down, which sorts by printed damage. Everything it does lives in its text: « Discard your hand and draw 6 cards. »

Teal Mask Ogerpon ex is in all 83 lists, 3 copies of it. Its Ability is called Teal Dance, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, you may attach a Basic {G} Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon. If you attached Energy to a Pokémon in this way, draw a card. »

How Raging Bolt ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex actually wins

Raging Bolt ex attacks with Bellowing Thunder. It needs 2 Energy, 1 Lightning and 1 Fighting attached, and it has 240 HP. Watch the damage box. "70×" does not mean 70 damage: it means 70 per card you discard yourself to fire the attack. The total moves every turn.

The cost of Bellowing Thunder decides your first few turns. You only get to attach one Energy a turn, and that attack asks for 2. On your own attachments alone, your first real swing lands on turn 2. Except you are not on your own. Crispin, which the list runs 4 of, looks at the top of your deck and attaches the Energy it finds there. Teal Mask Ogerpon ex 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 Raging Bolt 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.

Teal Mask Ogerpon ex and Raging Bolt ex carry the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes 2 Prize cards instead of one when one of them falls. They need 6 to win: 3 well-placed knockouts on those cards 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 Raging Bolt exBasic	240	Bellowing Thunder	70×		none	3
Close Teal Mask Ogerpon exBasic	210	Myriad Leaf Shower	30+		Fire ×2	1

The core: the 8 cards every list runs

These 8 cards appear in all 83 lists, without a single exception. That is 26 of the 60 slots. The other 34 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 26 slots break down: 10 Trainers, 5 Pokémon, 11 Energy. Nothing stands out in that split. What sets this deck apart is how thick its core is: 26 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.

8 of those 8 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Teal Mask Ogerpon ex (2 to 4), Raging Bolt ex (2 to 4) and Crispin (3 to 4), plus 5 more. Add those spreads up and you get 22 copies the 83 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 Teal Mask Ogerpon ex	TWM 25	Pokémon	leaves
2–4	Close Raging Bolt ex	TEF 123	Pokémon	leaves
3–4	Close Crispin	SCR 133	Trainer	leaves
1–4	Close Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays
1–3	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
5–12	Grass Energy	MEE 1	Energy	stays
1–4	Fighting Energy	MEE 6	Energy	stays
2–4	Lightning Energy	MEE 4	Energy	stays

The 75 cards that change from list to list

75 cards fight over the 34 slots that are left: 16 above three lists in four, 53 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Latias ex at 98 %, Fezandipiti ex at 98 % and Meowth ex at 96 %, plus 13 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Iron Crown ex, at 55 %: 46 of 83 players took it, 37 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Passimian (18 lists out of 83) and Hero's Cape (11 lists out of 83).

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
98 %81/83	Close Latias ex	1–2	SSP 76	Pokémon
98 %81/83	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
96 %80/83	Close Meowth ex	1–3	POR 62	Pokémon
95 %79/83	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	2–4	MEG 104	Pokémon
95 %79/83	Close Energy Switch	1–4	MEG 115	Trainer
95 %79/83	Close Area Zero Underdepths	1–4	SCR 131	Trainer
94 %78/83	Close Night Stretcher	1–3	ASC 196	Trainer
93 %77/83	Close Cyrano	1–3	SSP 170	Trainer
92 %76/83	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1–2	JTG 56	Pokémon
92 %76/83	Close Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 64	Pokémon
92 %76/83	Close Glass Trumpet	1–2	SCR 135	Trainer
92 %76/83	Psychic Energy	1–2	MEE 5	Energy
92 %76/83	Water Energy	1–2	MEE 3	Energy
87 %72/83	Close Chien-Pao	1	SSP 56	Pokémon
78 %65/83	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	1–2	TEF 145	Trainer
75 %62/83	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
55 %46/83	Close Iron Crown ex	1	TEF 81	Pokémon
55 %46/83	Close Iron Leaves ex	1	TEF 25	Pokémon
42 %35/83	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
37 %31/83	Close Lillie's Determination	1–4	MEG 119	Trainer
33 %27/83	Close Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer
28 %23/83	Close Energy Retrieval	1–3	SVI 171	Trainer
22 %18/83	Close Passimian	1	SSP 111	Pokémon
13 %11/83	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
11 %9/83	Close Judge	1	POR 76	Trainer
11 %9/83	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
10 %8/83	Close AZ's Tranquility	1	CRI 76	Trainer
8 %7/83	Close Flutter Mane	1	TEF 78	Pokémon
8 %7/83	Close Tera Orb	1–3	SSP 189	Trainer
7 %6/83	Close Bug Catching Set	2–4	TWM 143	Trainer
6 %5/83	Close Enamorus	1	TWM 93	Pokémon
6 %5/83	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
5 %4/83	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
5 %4/83	Close Koraidon ex	1	ASC 121	Pokémon
5 %4/83	Close Pokégear 3.0	3–4	SVI 186	Trainer
5 %4/83	Close Energy Recycler	1–2	DRI 164	Trainer
5 %4/83	Close Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
4 %3/83	Close Fan Rotom	1–2	SCR 118	Pokémon
4 %3/83	Close Hoothoot	1–2	SCR 114	Pokémon
4 %3/83	Close Noctowl	2	SCR 115	Pokémon
4 %3/83	Close Koraidon	1	SSP 116	Pokémon
4 %3/83	Close Mew ex	1	30C 66	Pokémon
4 %3/83	Close Pokémon Catcher	1–4	POR 82	Trainer
4 %3/83	Close Poké Pad	2	POR 81	Trainer
4 %3/83	Close N's Plan	1	BLK 83	Trainer
4 %3/83	Fire Energy	1	MEE 2	Energy
2 %2/83	Close Paldean Tauros	1	SSP 18	Pokémon
2 %2/83	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1–2	DRI 180	Trainer
2 %2/83	Close Briar	1	SCR 132	Trainer
2 %2/83	Close Brock's Scouting	1	JTG 146	Trainer
2 %2/83	Close Energy Search	1	POR 72	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Yanma	2	DRI 2	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Yanmega ex	2	DRI 3	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Budew	1	ASC 16	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Hoothoot	1	PRE 77	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Iron Boulder ex	1	TEF 99	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Pecharunt ex	1	SFA 39	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Raging Bolt	1	SCR 111	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Stunfisk	1	ASC 62	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Tapu Koko ex	1	JTG 51	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Tatsugiri	1	TWM 131	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Volbeat	1	TWM 9	Pokémon
1 %1/83	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	4	TEF 144	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Battle Cage	1	PFL 85	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Enhanced Hammer	1	TWM 148	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Forest of Vitality	1	MEG 117	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Levincia	1	JTG 150	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Lillie's Pearl	1	JTG 151	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Ogre's Mask	1	TWM 159	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Sparkling Crystal	1	SCR 142	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1	DRI 176	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
1 %1/83	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer

The most common Raging Bolt ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 26 slots come from the core, the cards all 83 lists run. The remaining 34 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 19 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 20 Pokémon, 26 Trainers and 14 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 83 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
3 Teal Mask Ogerpon ex TWM 25
2 Raging Bolt ex TEF 123
2 Latias ex SSP 76
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142
3 Meowth ex POR 62
4 Mega Kangaskhan ex MEG 104
1 Lillie's Clefairy ex JTG 56
1 Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex TWM 64
1 Chien-Pao SSP 56
1 Iron Crown ex TEF 81
1 Iron Leaves ex TEF 25

Trainer: 26
4 Crispin SCR 133
4 Ultra Ball MEG 131
2 Boss's Orders MEG 114
4 Energy Switch MEG 115
3 Area Zero Underdepths SCR 131
2 Night Stretcher ASC 196
2 Cyrano SSP 170
2 Glass Trumpet SCR 135
1 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking TEF 145
1 Unfair Stamp TWM 165
1 Special Red Card CRI 82

Energy: 14
7 Grass Energy MEE 1
2 Fighting Energy MEE 6
2 Lightning Energy MEE 4
2 Psychic Energy MEE 5
1 Water Energy MEE 3

Total Cards: 60

How many different cards Raging Bolt ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex needs, and how long it will last

You need 83 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 83 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 62 took Unfair Stamp, 11 took Hero's Cape and 9 took Prime Catcher. The flex table shows you all 4. 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 Unfair Stamp and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 3 of the 8 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Teal Mask Ogerpon ex, Raging Bolt ex and Crispin. The core table marks every one of them. In copies, that is 9 of the 26 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Raging Bolt ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon 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, Lightning and Fighting, 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.