According to Pokebeach, the Pokemon TCG Pocket game has a new set coming soon on October 30, 2025. Mega Pokemon makes it debut in the Mega Rising set.
The three featured Mega Pokemon are Mega Blaziken, Mega Gyarados and Mega Altaria. This set does not feature new Mega Pokemon like Mega Hawlucha. Maybe the new Megas from the Pokemon Legends: Z-A are in a later Pocket set.
Mega Pinsir ex is a Mega Basic Grass Pokemon with 170 HP, 2 retreat cost and Fire weakness.
The Critical Scissors attack does cost a bit at 2 Grass Energy and one Colourless Energy for 80 base damage. You deal 150 damage if you get Heads on the single coin flip.
You could supplement this with Serperior. It would take some deck space though.
Mega Blaziken is the Stage 2 evolution of Torchic. This has a whopping 210 HP, 1 retreat cost and Water weakness.
The Mega Burning attack requires 2 Fire Energy to deal 120 damage. The drawback is that you discard 1 Fire Energy from the Mega Blaziken ex but you burn the opponent's Active Pokemon.
Mega Gyarados is the Stage 1 evolution of Magikarp. This has a whopping 210 HP, 3 retreat cost and Lightning weakness.
The Mega Blaster attack is costly at 3 Water Energy and 1 Colourless. It does 140 damage plus it discards the top 3 cards of the opponent's deck. I think once this thing starts attacking, it is hard to stop. There is not much recovery in the game so discarding 3 cards is pretty devastating.
To beat this Mega Gyarados ex is to either have a lot of firepower to beat this, knock it out before it attacks or eliminate the weak Magikarps before this enters play.
I am not sure if this Mega Ampharos ex is good. 210 HP is very good for a Stage 2 Mega Pokemon.
The Lightning Lancer attack requires 2 Lightning Energy and 1 Colourless Energy to deal 100 damage plus a random 60 damage to the opponent's Benched Pokemon. This lacks some firepower I think.
Jirachi is an interesting attacker. The Star Drop attack requires 1 Psychic Energy to deal 30 damage to any 1 of your opponent's Pokemon (Active or Benched). This attack can bypass Active Pokemon walls and one hit knockout 30 HP Baby Pokemon like Pichu, Mantyke and Magby. The HP on Jirachi is low at 50 HP.
Mega Absol ex is somewhat similar to the physical TCG version. The Pocket version of Mega Absol ex here has 170 HP, one retreat cost and Grass weakness. The Darkness Claw attack requires 2 Dark Energy to deal 80 damage. This 80 damage is not much but the added effect is you can see the opponent's hand and discard a Supporter card you find there and discard it.
In the physical TCG version, Mega Absol ex lets you see the hand and discard any 1 card. With this one, you discard a Supporter card. Discarding cards from hand is generally really powerful. In the Pocket game, there is no real recovery for discarded Supporter cards. Watch out for this Mega Absol ex.
This Pidgey is not a great attacker but you need it for Pidgeotto and (maybe) Mega Pidgeot ex. I don't know why there is a Pikachu randomly there at the back.
This Growlithe art card looks cool. It looks a bit AI generated though. This has 70 HP with a simple attack that does 20 damage for 1 Fire Energy.
Here are the Pancham and Goomy art cards. They are very colourful.
Goomy's ability is somewhat annoying. If Goomy is in the Active Spot then the attacks used by your opponent's Active Pokemon cost 1 Colourless Energy more. One big weakness with the Goomy is that it weak at 40 HP.
Three new Trainer Supporter cards are revealed too.
Lisia allows you to put 2 random Basic Pokemon with 50 HP or less from your deck to your hand. This is good for decks that have weak Basic Pokemon for early turns setup. Lisia would not be great if your deck does not have any 50 HP or less Basics left.
Marlon is a niche Supporter card specific to decks that use Carracosta or Jellicent. Heal 70 damage from 1 of Carracosta or Jellicent. Healing 70 HP is a lot.
May is an interesting Supporter card. You put 2 random Pokemon from your deck into your hand. For each Pokemon you put in your hand in this way, you choose 1 Pokemon from your hand and put it into your deck. It is a Pokemon swap card between deck and hand.
I have not been playing much Pocket as I am little more focused on the regular Pokemon TCG and the latest Legends: Z-A game.
When this set releases, I will spend more time on this during my free time. I want to see how these Mega Pokemon play out in the Pocket game plus collect some stuff in-game.
In theory, I prefer the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Mega Pokemon. With Mega Basic Pokemon, I think it is risky to put them in play. The opponent can just knock it out and you lose. With a Mega Stage 1 or 2 Pokemon you can prize map in a way where you force your opponent to knock out 2 Single prize Pokemon and then have a Mega Pokemon ex as the last Pokemon as a final boss.
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