Pokemon TCG Pocket is a fun way to engage with the Pokemon TCG, even if it feels designed to frustrate me. The Pokemon Trading Card Game has long stood as one of the pillars of the world’s most popular entertainment franchise.

Pokémon TCG Pocket is absorbing hours (and dollars) by the thousands since it came out, but it’s not always great about highlighting the features that can make your time with it better. We’ve got a good example waiting for you in this roundup.

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.

At present, all available cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket are from the Genetic Apex expansion, which features three types of booster pack: Mewtwo ex, Pikachu ex, and Charizard ex. No huge surprise, but the three headline cards have come to define the meta since the game’s release.

If you’re as Pokémon TCG Pocket -pilled as I am, you’re desperate for new cards to collect and new events to battle through. Fortunately, it sounds like players won’t have to wait too much longer for either one, at least according to the latest datamined leaks coming out of the mobile card game.

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 is brimming with all sorts of events and here are all of them, including past, ongoing, and upcoming events.

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,

A new five-day limited event is available in Pokemon TCG Pocket, and it's all about Fire-type Pokemon and Wonder Pick.

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.

Fire-type decks are extremely popular in Pokmon TCG Pocket. These are the then best Fire-type Pokmon in the game to be put into a Fire-type deck.