How Do Types Work in Pokemon TCG Pocket?

Pokemon types are an integral part of Pokemon games, and are also an important part of Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket (PTCG Pocket). Read on to learn all about types and how they affect gameplay!

How Do Types Work?

Types Give Pokemon Their Identity

Pokemon are assigned types, which are seen as a Pokemon's identity. In the image above, Venusaur is designated a Grass typing. This affects the type of damage it deals, dealing neutral damage to Pokemon who are not weak to it, and an increased +20 to Pokemon who are Grass-weak.

List of All Types

Pokemon TCG Types
Fire	Fighting	Lightning	Water	Grass
Psychic	Metal	Darkness	Dragon	Colorless

Fire

Fire-type Pokemon are often offensively oriented, and would usually have attacks that involve discarding Energy.

Fighting

Fighting-type Pokemon in the TCG include Fighting-types in the mainline video games, as well as Ground and Rock-types. These Pokemon often have expensive Retreat Costs.

Lightning

Lightning-type in the Pokemon TCG are Electric-types in the video games. These Pokemon will usually have inexpensive Attack costs and low Retreat Costs.

Water

Water-type in the TCG covers Water and Ice-types. These Pokemon will usually have Attacks that can be amplified with additional Energy attachments.

Grass

Grass and Bug-type Pokemon in the games will fall under Grass in the TCG. These Pokemon will often have HP recovery or be able to inflict Status on opponents.

Psychic

Ghost, Fairy, and Psychic-type Pokemon will fall under Psychic in the TCG. These Pokemon have strange and interesting effects with their Attacks!

Metal

Metal-type Pokemon are defense-oriented and will often be hard to KO!

Darkness

Poison and Dark-type Pokemon are categorized under Darkness in the TCG. These Pokemon are usually tricky, being able to inflict status, or deal big damage!

Colorless

Colorless Pokemon in the TCG consist of Normal and Flying Pokemon. These Pokemon are easily splashable into any deck and can be useful when deckbuilding.

Dragon

Dragon-types are powerful, but come with a downside of having complicated attack costs. These Pokemon also do not have Weaknesses.

Battle System Explained

Type Determines Weakness

Damaging a Pokemon for Weakness will result in an additional +20 damage, as opposed to the traditional 2x Damage in the TCG.

This means Weakness may not be as big a factor in the Pokemon TCG Pocket Meta in comparison to other formats!

How Do Weaknesses Work?

Type Determines Energy Used

Battles in Pokemon TCG Pocket notably lacks Energy Cards, but will feature a new Energy Zone which automatically generates Energy once per turn. Energy that the Energy Zone generates is determined by the Pokemon in your deck's types!

Energy Zone Explained

Pokemon TCG Pocket Related Guides

Battle Guides

Battle Guides

Status Effect Guides

All Status Effects Explained
Poison	Sleep	Paralysis