The Brock Deck is a Fighting focused Deck featuring Dugtrio and Golem from the Genetic Apex Set in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket (PTCG Pocket). Read on for the complete list of cards in this deck, basic information on the deck, how to play the deck, and optimal matchups for it!

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Brock Deck Guide

Deck Evaluation

Ace Pokemon						Tier Ranking
Dugtrio Genetic Apex (A1)			Golem Genetic Apex (A1)
						Energy Type(s)
						F2P Friendly?
						✔️
						Deck Difficulty
						★★★
Deck Strengths
Good Evolution Pokemon Pokemon in the deck have high Retreat Costs
Deck Weaknesses
Pokemon's Attack costs are high May be inconsistent

Note: Tier Rating is ranked based only on available Rental Decks

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List of Cards

Brock Deck List
Pokemon Cards
Diglett ×2				Dugtrio ×2				Geodude ×2				Graveler ×2
Golem ×2				Onix ×2				Hitmonlee ×1				Hitmonchan ×1
Trainer Cards
Brock ×1				Potion ×1				Poke Ball ×2				Professor's Research ×2

Deck Building Guide

Packs Required for Brock Rental Deck

Pack	Featured Card

How to Play Brock Deck

How to Play Brock Deck
Core Combos and Interactions Starting Hand Deck Strategies Game Phases

Brock Deck Core Combos and Interactions

Tank	Dealer	Description
Dugtrio	Golem	・Dugtrio can effectively stall if lucky with Coin Flips. ・Golem's high damage can finish off defenders and secure points easily. ・Speed up energy stacking on Golem with Brock.

Best Starting Hand

Best Starting Hand

Starting out with your core carries would be optimal, giving you the least amount of time to set up Dugtrio, and start dealing damage and walling with Dig immediately.

Other Good Starting Cards

Recommended Starting Hand

Alternatively, you can start with Hitmonlee, and attack your opponent's Bench to prevent setups and evolutions while you build Dugtrio and Golem.

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Brock Deck Strategies

Brock Deck Strategies
Dig Wall Double Edge Sweep

Strategy 1: Dig Wall

Dig Wall

Playing Dugtrio while Golem is benched allows you to deal damage and effectively defend with Dig, while you stack energy on Golem.

Dugtrio will constantly hold out and receive no damage as long as you are lucky with Coin Flips, hopefully until you manage to stack enough energy on Golem.

Strategy 2: Double Edge Sweep

Double Edge Sweep

With 4 energy, Double Edge can OHKO most Pokemon, but also damaging itself in the process.

Ideally, you should buy enough time and deal enough damage with Dugtrio early on, while Golem nukes the defender to score the last 1 or 2 points for your team!

Game Phases

Early Game

Key Card(s) Required
Step	Description
1	Start with Diglett and bench Geodude.
2	Evolve into Dugtrio ASAP, and stack energy on Geodude when possible.

Mid-Game

Key Card(s) Required
Step	Description
1	Keep Dugtrio healthy, and continue evolving and stacking energy on Geodude.
2	Buy as much time as possible with Dugtrio.

Late Game

Key Card(s) Required
1	Have Golem as your active Pokemon, and start to go on the offense.
2	Use Potion to keep Golem healthy. Use Brock on Golem to give yourself additional energy if you need to bench Golem.

Brock Deck Best and Worst Matchups

Best Matchups

Deck	Commentary
Pikachu ex Decks	Type: ・Golem and Dugtrio are at a type advantage against Pikachu ex decks. ・Favorable point trades.

Worst Matchups

Deck	Commentary
Mewtwo ex Decks	Type: ・Hard to wall with Dugtrio against Psychic types. ・Mewtwo ex can easily OHKO Diglett with Psychic Sphere

Overall Consistency

The Brock deck relies heavily on Coin Flip luck, to deal the most damage and stall as much as possible for Dugtrio.

Double Edge can be detrimental if forced to use early, since it also takes a good chunk of HP from Golem, potentially leaving you in a tough spot with no carries if forced out early.

How to Unlock

Complete Brock Deck Mission

Mission	Reward
Collect the highlight card for Brock Deck (Genetic Apex)	Brock Rental Deck (10x Uses)
Collect the cards for Brock Deck (Genetic Apex)	Brock Rental Deck

The Brock Deck can be unlocked by completing the Deck Missions related to this Rental Deck.

Collecting the Highlight Card, Brock, gives you 10 Uses of the Rental Deck, while collecting all the cards within the Deck gives you the Recipe, allowing you to use the Rental Deck at any time.

List of Deck Missions

Brock Rental Deck

Brock Deck Evaluation

Ace Pokemon						Tier Ranking
Golem Genetic Apex (A1)			Onix Genetic Apex (A1)
						Energy Type(s)
						F2P Friendly?
						✔️
						Deck Difficulty
						★
Deck Strengths
Can deal high damage. Onix and Golem are durable Pokemon.
Deck Weaknesses
Heavily relies on Brock to provide energy. Golem also does 50 damage to itself when it attacks.

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Brock Deck List

Brock Deck List
Pokemon Cards
Geodude ×2				Graveler ×2				Golem ×2				Onix ×2
Trainer Cards
Brock ×2				Sabrina ×2				Potion ×2				X Speed ×2
Poke Ball ×2				Professor's Research ×2

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Meta Decks

Best Meta Decks
Mewtwo ex	Celebi ex and Serperior	Pikachu ex
Mew ex and Weezing	Vaporeon and Articuno ex	Volcarona and Arcanine ex
Scolipede and Weezing	Starmie ex	Arcanine ex
Blaine	Pikachu ex and Raichu	Gyarados ex and Vaporeon
Pidgeot ex	Venusaur ex	Charizard ex
Aerodactyl ex and Primeape	Exeggutor ex	Articuno ex
Dragonite

Off Meta Decks

Dragonite and Weezing	Lapras ex	Greninja
Mewtwo ex and Weezing	Marowak ex	Primeape
Venusaur and Weezing	Arbok Lock	Zapdos ex
Blastoise ex	Gengar ex	Machamp ex
Wigglytuff ex	Alakazam and Jynx	Melmetal
Koga	Omastar and Articuno ex	Kingler and Articuno ex
Frosmoth	Lapras ex and Butterfree	Poliwrath
Tentacruel and Greninja	Victreebel and Exeggutor ex	Gengar ex and Golbat
Persian and Mawile	Lickitung and Primeape	Exeggutor ex and Alakazam
Frosmoth and Articuno ex	Gyarados	Centiskorch and Moltres ex
Lt. Surge	Grapploct	Cinccino and Weezing
Brock	Kabutops	Aerodactyl and Dragonite
Eeveelutions and Ditto	Lickitung	Articuno
Zapdos	Moltres	Venusaur
Charizard	Blastoise

Rental Decks

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Venusaur ex Rental Deck	Charizard ex Rental Deck	Blastoise ex Rental Deck
Pikachu ex Rental Deck	Mewtwo ex Rental Deck	Machamp ex Rental Deck
Nidoking and Nidoqueen Rental Deck	Kanto Fossils Rental Deck	Koga Rental Deck
Brock Rental Deck	Blaine Rental Deck	Lt. Surge Rental Deck

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