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Game8's guide to get yourselff started on Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket (PTCG Pocket). Don't know where to start? What the symbols in the cards mean? Check out our tips to start collecting, trading and winning!
List of Contents
| Beginner Guides | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dailies and Challenges | Currencies and Hourglasses | Items and Customization |
| Friends and Wonder Pick | Battle System | Deck Building and Rentals |
| Premium Pass and Missions | New Account Tips | TCG Pocket Basics |
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Every day, you can open two booster packs by consuming pack stamina, which accumulates over time. Every 12 hours, players will have enough pack stamina to open 1 pack.
If you avail the Premium Pass, you can open a third Booster Pack per day by shortening the wait time to 8 hours. This will save you Hourglasses and Poke Gold in the long run so it's worth investing on.
If you don't want to wait for the packs to unlock, you can use Pack Hourglasses to skip an hour of waiting per hourglass. Pack Hourglasses can be obtained by completing missions.
Poke Gold is another way to unlock more packs by spending 6 Poke Gold to open 1 Booster Pack. Keep in mind that you can only use 720 Poke Gold per day to open packs.
Just like any other mobile game, the game will have limited-time events where you can obtain Cards and other accessories.
On top of your daily free Packs, you can participate in daily missions that you can complete for free items like Pack Hourglasses. These missions can range from simply logging in or opening booster packs.
Collection Challenges are simply what the label says. If you complete certain groups of Pokemon in a set, you will receive various rewards.
For example, completing the Eeveelutions in Genetic Apex will net you the play mat featuring all the Eeveelutions!
| Beginner Guides | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dailies and Challenges | Currencies and Hourglasses | Items and Customization |
| Friends and Wonder Pick | Battle System | Deck Building and Rentals |
| Premium Pass and Missions | New Account Tips | TCG Pocket Basics |
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| In-game Currency | Obtained via | Uses |
|---|---|---|
| Poke Gold | In-game shop using money | Redeem emblems that can be added to player profiles. Can replace the use of Pack Hourglasses by reducting the wait time by 2 hours. |
| Shop Ticket | Complete certain missions or battles | Used to obtain cosmetic items and accessories. |
| Emblem Ticket | Obtained by completing Themed Collections or Dex Missions | Redeem emblems that can be added to player profiles. |
| Special Shop Ticket | Obtained by consuming high rarity cards | Redeem special accessories. |
| Event Shop Ticket | Obtained by completing event missions. | Used to redeem limited-time items. |
Similar to Pokemon UNITE and Pokemon Masters EX, you can exchange tickets or spend real-world currency to obtain cards, knick-knacks, and other special accessories to personalize your set-up.
Pack Points are obtained for every Booster Pack you open. This is equivalent to a Spark System where you can spend points to get a certain Chase Card you're looking for. The table below shows how much Pack Points you need to spend to obtain a specific card for each rarity.
| In-Game Rarity | Pack Points Needed |
|---|---|
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35 Pack Points |
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70 Pack Points |
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150 Pack Points |
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400 Pack Points |
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500 Pack Points |
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1250 Pack Points |
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1500 Pack Points |
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2500 Pack Points |
Pack Points Explained: How to Craft Rare Cards
Pack Hourglasses decreases the time needed to wait for your next pack by an hour. You need 8 Pack Hourglasses if you want to immediately open another pack after opening one.
Wonder Hourglasses work in a similar manner to Pack Hourglasses but instead of Booster Packs, it is used to refill your Wonder Stamina to open more Wonder Picks.
| Beginner Guides | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dailies and Challenges | Currencies and Hourglasses | Items and Customization |
| Friends and Wonder Pick | Battle System | Deck Building and Rentals |
| Premium Pass and Missions | New Account Tips | TCG Pocket Basics |
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If you have duplicates of a card, these can be exchanged along with certain items to obtain flair. When applied on a card, these will imbue your card with special effects that you can view when sending them out to battle or just viewed from your collection.
How to Get Shine Dust and Customize Cards
Outside of your cards, you can also change up your card sleeves, the coin you use, the play mat, and the binders holding your card collection. These can be obtained by either completing missions, or as rewards from events.
Use Display Boards to show off your rare cards to your friends! You can customize the backdrops and create style combinations with different backdrops and card illustrations.
Meanwhile, binders are used to showcase a collection of cards. When you want to display a lot of the cards you’ve collected, binders are the way.
For the complete TCG Experience, you can also change up the backs of your cards by using Sleeves, change the the play-zone with a mat and even choose the image on your coin. There are endless combinations you can use to fine-tune your battling experience!
| Beginner Guides | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dailies and Challenges | Currencies and Hourglasses | Items and Customization |
| Friends and Wonder Pick | Battle System | Deck Building and Rentals |
| Premium Pass and Missions | New Account Tips | TCG Pocket Basics |
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Jsut like the current mainline games, you can connect with anyone around the world and add them to your friends list to trade and battle! You can connect to each other through the use of inputting codes to connect without matching with strangers.
Trading will not be available on release, but it has been shown that you will be able to some time in the future. This will allow you to trade cards with other players so you can complete your collection faster.
When is Trading Coming to Pokemon TCG Pocket?
Wonder Pick is a separate system available to the player where you can get one of the cards from a booster pack that was opened by another player. It has its own wait time and currency so no need to worry about choosing between opening a Wonder Pick or a Booster Pack.
Also, should you wonder pick from a booster pack obtained by a player playing in another language, you can obtain the card in the language of the player you picked from. These alternate language cards count towards your card dex, so you can enjoy a more varied collection.
How to Get Other Language Cards
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If you want to practice how your deck and combos work, you can test it out by battling a CPU trainer. Use this chance to hone and swap around cards to make the perfect combos.
Using the cards you gathered, set up some TCG battles with friends. While there's no news of ranked matches yet, you can set up your own tourney with some friends instead!
If you just need to battle to complete certain missions but no time to focus on the game, you can have the CPU battle for you.
Battles in Pokemon TCG Pocket notably lacks Energy Cards, but will feature a new Energy Zone which automatically generates Energy once per turn.
If Energy is not used during the Pokemon Checkup phase between turns, new Energy will not be generated. When Energy is discarded through an attack, retreat cost, or from an effect of a Trainer Card, that Energy is permanently gone.
Cards that accelerate Energy through the effects of Attacks, Abilities, or Trainer Cards work as normal, but take from the Energy Zone instead of the player's hand.
This new mechanic makes it so Trainers will no longer miss their Energy attachments for the turn if they don't draw into it, allowing for a smoother, more consistent gameplay experience.
| Points Needed to Win a Battle | Points for Knocking Out a Pokemon | Points for Knocking Out an ex Pokemon |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | 2 |
You win a battle by scoring three points by knocking out three of your opponent's Pokemon. Some Pokemon, such as Pokemon ex allow you to get an extra point in Pokemon TCG Pocket.
| Beginner Guides | ||
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| Dailies and Challenges | Currencies and Hourglasses | Items and Customization |
| Friends and Wonder Pick | Battle System | Deck Building and Rentals |
| Premium Pass and Missions | New Account Tips | TCG Pocket Basics |
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Players will make use of 20-card decks instead of Pokemon TCG's standard 60, which will consist only of Pokemon and Trainer Cards. The notable exclusion of Energy Cards means that battles in Pokemon TCG Pocket does not need them for games.
At the beginning of the game, you draw five cards and place your Active Pokemon and up to three Benched Pokemon onto the field.
If you don't know much about building a deck no need to worry as you can get the game to automatically build a deck for you using parameters and specific cards you wish to use.
Deck Building Guide
While building up your collection, you can still battle friends and the like by using a Rental Deck that you can unlock by completing certain missions. These decks can be used to battle CPU or real people but will not be added to your collection.
Rental Decks
| Beginner Guides | ||
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| Dailies and Challenges | Currencies and Hourglasses | Items and Customization |
| Friends and Wonder Pick | Battle System | Deck Building and Rentals |
| Premium Pass and Missions | New Account Tips | TCG Pocket Basics |
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Just like any modern day mobile game, Pokemon TCG Pocket also has its own Premium Pass which rewards players with Promo Cards and Accessories like Card Sleeves and Coins. At release, players are able to try the Premium Pass for free for two weeks.
Premium Pass Guide and Features
The Premium Pass will also unlock Premium Missions which will reward you with accessories and Promo Cards. These Promo cards will be available in the Booster Packs themselves so no need to worry if you're F2P.
All Premium Missions and Rewards
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While not confirmed, all Pokemon Mobile games can be linked to your Nintendo Account. So to prevent losing any progress, we advise you to link your game to your Nintendo account. Not only will this save your progress, but it will also allow you to play on other platforms.
Once you start, you can choose a pack where you can get a chosen Kanto Starter of your choice. This pack will contain a 1◆ and a 1★ version of the chosen starter to get you started!
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| Pokemon TCG Card Parts | |
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| Stage | Can be clasified Basic, Stage 1, and Stage 2 Cards. Make sure to have the proper pre-evolutions as listed on the top-left area of the card. NOTE: Certain cards can be Basic despite having a pre-evolution. These can be played as is. |
| Species | The Pokemon's Species can be found on top. It is currently unknown if Owner Pokemon will be added into the game. |
| Special Rules | The only special rule available which are ex cards. These cards are more powerful than their non-ex counterparts but come at the cost of giving your opponent an extra point when defeated. |
| Hit Points (HP) | This is how much damage your card can take before they get knocked-out. KO'd Pokemon need to be put into the discard pile along with ll the Energy equipped to them. |
| Type | The Pokemon's current type where damage dealt and received is affected by Weakness and Resistances. |
| Moves | You main method of damage to KO opponent's Pokemon. These need Energy to be used first. |
| Weakness | Damage modifier that can increase the damage dealt onto your Active Pokemon. |
| Retreat | Amount of Energy you need to discard from your active Pokemon before you can swap them out to another one at your Bench. |
| Rarity | Denoted by either a ★, ◆, or ♛. With ★ being rarer than ◆ cards, and ♛ as the rarest. |
| In-Game Rarity | Equivalent Rarity in Physical TCG |
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Common |
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Uncommon |
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Rare |
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Double Rare and Ultra Rare |
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Illustration Rare |
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Special Illustration Rare |
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N/A |
| ♛ (Crown Rare) |
Hyper Rare |
Each card will have their own rarities and will usually have an equivalent rarity in the physical TCG. The exception to this is the 3 Star Cards due to their immersive views that you can view when interacted with.
Crown Rares (♛) are the rarest type of card available and will feature golden full art cards and gold crown icons.
Card Rarity Guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Points | The amount of "health" a Trainer has. The main goal would be to gain three points while preventing your opponent from hitting that mark. |
| Turn | Refers to which player on the field will have the opportunity to make their play. |
| Evolution | A card you play on top of a Basic Pokemon card or on top of another Evolution card to make it stronger. |
| Draw | Refers to the mandatory action in certain phases where each player will draw a card from their Deck. You will lose once your run out of cards in your deck and cannot draw any more at the beginning of your turn. |
| Bench | The place for your Pokemon that are in play but are not actively fighting. They come out and fight if the Active Pokemon retreats or is Knocked Out. |
| Pokemon Cards | The primary cards that players use to deal damage against enemies. Knock your opponent's Pokemon out to gain points. |
| Trainer Cards | Special cards with unique effects. Effects can differ, ranging from searching your deck for specific cards or drawing cards, amongst other effects. |
| In Play | Cards that the players have drawn from their Deck and have been placed on the field. Cards in your deck and discard pile are not considered to be in play. |
| Retreat | When you switch your Active Pokemon with one of your Benched Pokemon. To retreat, you must discard Energy from the retreating Pokemon equal to the Retreat Cost of the Pokemon. You can only retreat once per turn. |
| Status Conditions | When your Pokemon are either Asleep, Burned, Confused, Paralyzed, or Poisoned. |
| Energy Zone | Exclusive to TCG Pocket, this is where you can get Energy so your Pokemon can perform their attacks. |
| Discard Pile | This is where you place your card once they have been used or Knocked out by your opponent. |
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