Pokémon TCG Pocket archetype
Whimsicott ex Ariados
Whimsicott ex Ariados is a Pokémon TCG Pocket archetype built from 12 tournament decklists across 9 events. It currently sits in Tier B on our meta tier list. It accounts for roughly 0.5% of tracked decks in the tracked sample. Players have converted it into 3 top-cut finishes.
Actual sampled list
Featured Tournament Deck
This complete 20-card list was selected automatically from tracked tournament results.
Pokémon (8)
Cottonee
Whimsicott ex
Spinarak
Ariados
Trainers (12)
Professor's Research
Sabrina
Copycat
Quick-Grow Extract
Poké Ball
Team Rocket's Goo-zooka
Fragrant Forest
Energy
Aggregate data
Consensus Card Pool
This is a data summary of cards commonly found across 12 sampled lists, not one playable deck. It may contain more than 20 cards because it combines recurring choices from multiple tournament lists.
Pokémon
- 2× Whimsicott exB1 16100% of lists
- 2× SpinarakB1a 5100% of lists
- 2× AriadosB1a 6100% of lists
- 2× CottoneeB1 1592% of lists
Trainers
- 2× Professor's ResearchP-A 7100% of lists
- 2× Team Rocket's Goo-zookaB4a 68100% of lists
- 2× Quick-Grow ExtractB1a 67100% of lists
- 2× Fragrant ForestB3 15383% of lists
- 1× Leaf CapeA3 14783% of lists
- 1× CyrusA2 15067% of lists
- 1× SabrinaA1 22567% of lists
- 1× CopycatB1 22567% of lists
- 1× LisiaB1 22642% of lists
Run Grass Energy in this deck.
Across tracked lists
Core Cards
The most frequently included cards, with inclusion rate and average copies from the current sample.
Pokémon (8)
Whimsicott ex
Spinarak
Ariados
Cottonee
Trainers (8)
Professor's Research
Team Rocket's Goo-zooka
Quick-Grow Extract
Fragrant Forest
Recent Top Finishes
| Place | Player | Record | Tournament | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | girlscented | View decklist | ||
| 5 | acebakun | View decklist | ||
| 6 | birdnest | View decklist | ||
| 6 | shinra67 | View decklist | ||
| 8 | shinra67 | View decklist | ||
| 10 | elluquitas96 | View decklist | ||
| 13 | birdnest | View decklist | ||
| 18 | nevaluze | View decklist | ||
| 23 | orex | View decklist | ||
| 24 | leviedelman | View decklist |
Variants
Related builds grouped under this archetype in the latest tournament snapshot.
Whimsicott ex Ariados
Current data snapshot
Strategy Snapshot
Whimsicott ex Ariados is a Pokémon TCG Pocket archetype built from 12 tournament decklists across 9 events. It currently sits in Tier B on our meta tier list. It accounts for roughly 0.5% of tracked decks in the tracked sample. Players have converted it into 3 top-cut finishes.
Most lists are built around Whimsicott ex, Spinarak, Ariados, with the remaining slots devoted to consistency and recovery. The list below is the consensus build — every card shown appears in at least 40% of the sampled decks.
Run Grass Energy in this deck.
All figures are derived from 12 tournament decklists collected from Limitless TCG. Sample sizes are shown so you can judge how settled the list is.
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Competitive data on this page is compiled from public tournament results published by Limitless and processed by simbozz.gg using our own meta-ranking methodology. Statistics update automatically as new tournament data is synced. See our Methodology page for how rankings are calculated.
Built from synced Pokémon TCG Pocket tournament decklists. Deck data, tier placement, and featured lists update automatically after meta rebuilds. Last rebuilt: Sep 26, 2026, 08:01 AM UTC.