Pokémon TCG Pocket's Step-Up Battles teach you how to battle and come with generous rewards. You can earn a whopping 366 Pack Hourglasses from completing the introductory missions, corresponding to 30 packs. Completing all these missions and opening the respective packs gets you well on your way to building the best decks in the game.

There are a whole bunch of quality-of-like changes that Pokémon TCG Pocket could stand to introduce, not least giving its UI a significant overhaul to make certain features much clearer. One of those buried features that’s genuinely useful,

Pokémon TCG Pocket has been quite the roller coaster ride. It’s absolutely got its hooks in a lot of us at Kotaku, and we’re playing it every day. But at the same time, it’s unquestionably a predatory gacha game using a children’s IP.

We scoured the Pokémon TCG Pocket meta to find the best decks in the game. There's plenty of variety here, so you don't have to stick with the same deck for every Versus battle. Sit back, load up Pokémon TCG Pocket on a big screen perfect for gaming, and get ready to win some battles.

Pokemon TCG Pocket may have fewer cards than the full version of the card game, but there are countless possibilities for those who love building decks. Competing against other players is a big step towards putting your deck to the test and it can get brutal at times.