Pokemon TCG Pocket: Best Grass-Type Cards, Ranked

Key Takeaways

• Grass-type cards excel in healing skills and status effects, like Asleep and Poison.
• Pinsir is the top basic attacker with potential RNG-dependent high damage output.
• Lilligant provides energy acceleration for long-term planning in grass-type decks.

Healing skills and status effects are the bread and butter of the grass-type cards in Pokemon TCG Pocket. If a deck requires Pokemon to stay alive for as long as possible, then this would definitely be the best choice of cards for competitive play. Also, the two most powerful status effects that green cards can inflict are Asleep and Poison.

This means that grass-type Pokemon are more fit for control types of decks that tend to win slowly but surely. They may not be the most powerful cards in terms of sheer damage output, but they can definitely defend themselves well. And the only type of deck that could seriously challenge them would be aggro fire-type builds.

8 Pinsir

Essential Basic Attacker Card

• Stage: Basic
• HP: 90
• Evolves from: N/A

Regardless of the type of deck that’s built around green-type cards, Pinsir should definitely be included in all of them. It’s the most powerful basic attacker in the game, with a potential 150 points of damage per turn. Of course, such high damage output depends on the RNG of the flipped coins, but getting it even just once a match would be fantastic.

The relatively high health allows for such a lucky RNG to happen. But even if the coins don’t flip as required, Pinsir still deals 50 damage a turn!

7 Venomoth

Best Card With Poison Effect

• Stage: 1
• HP: 80
• Evolves from: Venonat

Venomoth may not be able to deal too much damage per turn at only 30 points, but its Poison Powder ability guarantees that one of the active enemy Pokemon will get poisoned. This negative status effect will keep pressuring them and slowly build up damage over time, eventually killing it.

This means that Venomoth should be played strategically, allowing it to hit every turn without expecting to defeat the opponent too quickly. Just be sure to take enough time for the poison effect to do the rest of the job.

6 Lilligant

Best Card For Energy Acceleration

• Stage: 1
• HP: 100
• Evolves from: Petilil

Since most grass-type decks require more long-term planning, it’s important to build up as much energy as possible during any given match. Lilligant can transfer extra Grass Energy from the energy zone to one of the benched Pokemon, letting them build up all that attack power before moving into the active zone.

This strategy guarantees that Pokemon will have enough energy to attack and apply their abilities at the right moment. This may not be a swift victory plan, but it’s almost always guaranteed to win.

5 Exeggutor EX

Best Enduring Low-Cost Attacker Card

• Stage: 1
• HP: 160
• Evolves from: Exeggcute

Exeggutor EX has a lot to offer for just the first stage of the evolution. First, it has an extremely low-cost Tropical Swing attack, which requires just a single Grass Energy. It can potentially deal 80+ points of damage if RNG is on the right side during the coin flip. But even if the flip misses the mark, it still deals 40+ damage.

On top of that, Exeggutor EX has a very large HP pool, which is capable of keeping it alive for quite a long time. This increases both its overall damage and the chance to successfully flip that coin.

4 Butterfree

Best Card For Healing

• Stage: 2
• HP: 120
• Evolves from: Metapod

Butterfree is an essential grass-type card, which needs to be included in every green deck. It’s all about the Powder Heal ability, which allows it to heal 20 damage from every other friendly Pokemon. This skill can be used every single turn, which makes it so useful and unbearable for the opponent.

But this cute Pokemon can also sting, using its Gust attack that deals 60 points of damage. More than that, the retreat cost on Butterfree is extremely low, requiring only a single Colorless.

3 Vileplume

Best Card With Asleep Effect

• Stage: 2
• HP: 140
• Evolves from: Gloom

After deploying Oddish into the active zone, the next best step would be to evolve Gloom into Vileplume and start tranquilizing enemy Pokemon. Vileplume’s Soothing Scent attack will put one enemy Pokemon into an Asleep state every turn and deal 80 points of damage on top.

The Asleep status effect is very strong, as it renders the affected Pokemon completely useless. It can’t attack or retreat, and in such a fast-paced game like Pokemon TCG Pocket, that’s equal to being eliminated.

2 Victreebel

Best Card For Switching

• Stage: 2
• HP: 140
• Evolves from: Weepinbell

Victreebel is a high-risk, high-reward kind of card that allows players to switch to one of the opponent’s benched Pokemon and put them into an active zone. The risk is that an opponent may not have the best Pokemon occupying the bench, but the reward is that there could be something very powerful.

In either case, there’s always an option to hold off the switching, as the Fragrance Trap ability has no cost. But once a good opportunity comes around, it could deliver a devastating blow to any opponent.

1 Venusaur EX

Most Overpowered Grass Card

• Stage: 2
• HP: 190
• Evolves from: Ivysaur

Venusaur EX combines all the best elements of the grass-type cards. It has two strong attacks, Razor Leaf and Giant Bloom, as well as free healing that restores 30 HP from this Pokemon. Additionally, it carries a massive 190 HP pool that would be hard to reduce even for some of the strongest Pokemon in the game.

The only thing that keeps Venusaur EX from being a perfect card is a slightly high retreat cost at three Colorless. But when the HP total is so high, there won’t be much need for retreating anyway.