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Best Gyarados Decks and Card List
★ Mega Rising (B1) introduces the Mega Evolutions!
☆ New Decks: Mega Blaziken ex | Mega Gyarados ex
Mega Altaria ex | Mega Absol ex | Greninja ex
★ Events: Wonder Pick | Anniversary Celebration
☆ Trading Board: A4b and B1 Available for Trading!
This guide will show you how to build some of the strongest Gyarados Decks. We'll cover the best Gyarados Deck builds, how to use them, as well how to beat Gyarados Decks, and more!
| The decks on this page reflect the meta around the Triumphant Light Expansion. |
List of Contents
| Related Decks | ||
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Best GA Gyarados Decks
| Gyarados Deck Variants | Strengths and Weaknesses |
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 Gyarados and Frosmoth Deck
[★ Best ★] |
Strengths:
• Disrupts the opponent's set up with Gyarados being able to discard the opponent's Energy. • Can be powered up with lucky Misty flips. • Frosmoth is used to stall by putting opponents to Sleep. Weaknesses: • Gyarados is Energy hungry and has a steep retreat cost. • Reliant on lucky sleep flips. • |
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Frosmoth can put opponents to Sleep with Powder Snow, giving you enough time to set up a Gyarados on the Bench. Misty and Manaphy are also available to accelerate Energy and speed up your set up.
Use Irida to heal your Pokemon when you have to, to help them stay in battle longer.
| Expansions | Cards to Get and Packs to Open |
|---|---|
| Genetic Apex (A1) | Gyarados x 2 (Pikachu Pack) Snom x 2 (Any Pack) Frosmoth x 2 (Any Pack) Misty x 2 (Pikachu Pack) |
| Mythical Island (A1a) | Magikarp x 2 (Mew Pack) |
| Spacetime Smackdown (A2) | Manaphy x 2 (Palkia Pack) |
| Triumphant Light (A2a) | Irida x 2 (Arceus Pack) |
| Shining Revelry (A2b) | No cards needed from this expansion. |
| Celestial Guardians | No cards needed from this expansion. |
| Extradimensional Crisis | No cards needed from this expansion. |
| Eevee Grove | No cards needed from this expansion. |
| Wisdom of Sky and Sea | No cards needed from this expansion. |
| Secluded Springs | No cards needed from this expansion. |
| Mega Rising | No cards needed from this expansion. |
| Promo-A | X Speed x 2 (Promo-A Pack) Poke Ball x 2 (Promo-A Pack) Professor's Research x 2 (Promo-A Pack) |
GA Gyarados Deck Strategy Guide
Use Energy Acceleration
Misty on turn 1 can swing games heavily in your favor by giving you a huge momentum swing on lucky heads flips. Gyarados fully set up for a Hyper Beam can also win you the game if your opponents can't find a suitable answer in time.
Alternatively, Manaphy is a more consistent Energy accelerator that does not require a coin flip. However, it has a low 50 HP, making it easy to pick off by Pokemon like Skarmory or Carnivine. These two Pokemon can also easily KO Magikarp and Snom.
How to Beat GA Gyarados Decks
Use Fast Lightning Decks
Gyarados can be dangerous once fully set up, so use a fast Lightning deck like Pikachu ex to inflict critical damage during the early game. The Water-type Pokemon in the deck are all weak to Lightning, and Pikachu ex can be set down right away and uses minimal Energy. It also has Zebstrika, which can attack Magikarp on the Bench—disrupting key set-ups.
Best Genetic Apex Pikachu ex Decks and Card List
KO Magikarp Before it Evolves
Hitmonlee can easily take out Magikarps as soon as they hit the field with Stretch Kick that deals 30.
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Gyarados GA with Crawdaunt is a god tier deck in the current meta that NOBODY is talking about, double the energy theft capability of this frosmoth deck. Add in one suicune and a couple mantyke and I get a 70% Winrate against DarkTina decks and the like. Arceus and ultra beast decks also crumble, usually. Buzzwole ex is hit or miss, though. Oricorio and Pikachu Ex decks die too, EASILY, despite the type counter.