Pokémon TCG Pocket Energy – How to pick Energy for a deck

Struggling with cards you’ll filled to power multi-Energy big moves? You may have misunderstood how Pokémon TCG Pocket Energy works.

This common misconception could mean you’re making busy Pokémon Pocket decks to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. This simple fix can have you saying goodbye to filler that slows down your winning strategy.

How Energy works in Pokémon TCG Pocket

Rather than using actual Energy cards you draw from your deck, a single Pokémon TCG Pocket Energy is generated on each of your turns. You attach this to one of your in-play Pokémon to power their attacks.

Supporter cards like Misty and Lt. Surge, or passive abilities from Pokémon like Gardevoir, can allow you to set multiple Energy per turn, disregarding the Energy type your deck generates each turn.

Putting a Pokémon of a particular type into your deck automatically assigns its type as an Energy that can generated each turn. But it’s not a hard rule: it’s there to simplify the deck-creation process.

This has fueled a misunderstanding that including a Pokémon with mixed element Energy needs, like Dratini, requires including Pokémon of matching types: like Psyduck to generate Water Energy and Pikachu to generate Lightning/Electric.

This limits the flexibility of TCG Pocket’s 20-card decks by needing Basic Pokémon that ultimately add junk to a Poké Ball pull, per-turn draw, or risk becoming Bench targets to Articuno, Hitmonlee, Dragonite, and Sabrina. It could cost you a match.

How to set custom Energy in Pokémon TCG Pocket

You don’t need to include a Pokémon of a specific type to generate its matching Energy in Pokémon TCG Pocket.

When making your deck, you can overrule the automatic Energy allocation that happens when you add a Pokémon of that type. Here’s how:

On the deck edit screen (My Cards > Decks > Deck) just tap where it lists your available Energy. It’s right where you customize it with things like coins highlight cards.

Tap that (and then the Energy icon again depending on how you got there) to toggle the kinds of Energy the deck can generate during a match.

This means you don’t need to include Pokémon of various types to generate the Energy needs for multi-type attacks.

With three-stage Dragon-type Pokémon being the main users of multi-Energy attacks, this trick means you won’t have to reduce your chances of evolving them by including Electric and Water-type you don’t need. Check out the best Dragonite decks for ideas.

What are the odds of drawing Energy in Pokémon TCG Pocket?

The odds of generating each set Energy in a deck will always be equal. They won’t simply alternate or cycle. You might generate 4 Water Energy before a single Lightning Energy.

Reducing the types of Energy your deck can generate can massively help or hinder the chance of generating the Energy you need.

An Energy that goes unspent one turn is replaced by the next on the following turn. You can see which Energy type will be generated next by spotting the small type symbol beneath your current Energy.

Pokémon TCG Pocket reportedly passed $120 million in sales in around two weeks. Given its massive success and concrete plans for new much-requested additions like trading in the new year, there’s sure to be new cards that’ll demand mixed Energy strategies in the future.