The Venusaur drop event is a Solo Battle event where you face multiple stages of Venusaur-themed decks to collect event-exclusive cards and rewards:
- First-clear rewards when you win each stage for the first time
- Access to the next level of difficulty: Beginner > Intermediate > Advanced > Expert.
- A random chance for drop rewards.
- Additional battle tasks
Find out about the exclusive cards, the rewards, the CPU decks and how to beat them in this article!
This event ends at December 13, 2024 07:00.
How events work in TCG Pocket
You need Event Stamina to participate in an event battle. These are only consumed after you win a battle, so you waste nothing when losing one. You can use the Auto battle mode to gain time with no risk.
You start with 5 Event Stamina (the maximum possible). They recover over time (12 hours each) or by using Event Hourglasses or Poké Gold.
Event Hourglasses are obtained in some event rewards. They can be carried over from previous events and saved for future events. 1 Event Hourglass recover 1 Event Stamina.
What are the new cards?
This event features Promo Pack A Series Vol. 2 which contains only exclusive Promo cards. The best way to get it is by completing the Expert challenge over and over agaiin: it’s a guaranteed reward. In earlier stages, it can drop as a reward too, but it’s a percentage chance.
The highlight from this pack is the art rare Venusaur. There’s a 12.66% chance to open Venusaur in a Promo Pack A Series Vol. 2. It is an identical counterpart of the Venusaur from Genetic Apex, save for the brand new artwork.
It contains 4 other cards:
- Greninja, which is the same as Greninja from Genetic Apex except for the new artwork. There’s a 15.82% chance to open it.
- Onix, which is also an alternative art version for the Genetic Apex Onix. There’s a 23.84% chance to open it.
- Haunter and Jigglypuff. They’re both new cards and exclusive to this booster pack! There’s a 23.84% chance to open any of these
How to beat the Venusaur event decks?
If you were playing when the recent Fire type Mass Outbreak Event happened, and/or you opened Charizard packs, you might have enough to build a Blaine deck, a very budget and very deadly R type deck which will do wonder against all the G decks in this event.
If you just have a Blaine card, you have access to the Rental Blaine Deck. While slightly less powerful than a constructed deck, it will work just as good in this event to get the first time rewards. When it’s done, you can use your regular non-Rental deck in auto battle to rematch the CPU and collect more and more rewards.
Any R type deck such as Arcanine ex and Charizard ex will thrive. Other decks can perform just as fine: just make sure to pick a fast-paced deck as Venusaur and Venusaur ex are very difficult to knock out once it’s established on board.
Asleep challenge
In the Intermediate level, you can get 3 Event Hourglasses by making one of your opponent’s Pokémon Asleep 1 time. You don’t have to win the Battle to complete the challenge! You can concede immediately after putting your opponent’s Pokémon to sleep to save on Event Stamina.
Here’s a list of cards that inflicts the Sleep condition to your opponent’s Pokémon in TCG Pocket:
The easiest to obtain is the Promo Jigglypuff… that you can get in the Promo pack A Series Vol. 2 from the event! Since it attacks costs C, you can put it in any of your deck just to use its Sing attack once, and fulfill the mission. It’s an easier task to complete after you’ve collected some Promo booster packs by farming the Expert Battle.
Beginner - Ivysaur Deck, Rewards and Challenges
First Clear Rewards
2 Pack Hourglass 
50 Shinedust 
1 Shop Ticket 
25 XP 
Access to the Intermediate Venusaur challenge
Drop Rewards
After each victory, you have a random chance to earn these.
25 Shinedust (guaranteed)
1 Promo Pack A Series Volume 2(51%)
1 Shop Ticket (38.7%)
Battle Tasks
Knock Out your opponent’s Active Pokémon 1 times with an attack from a R type Pokémon
Reward: 3 Event Hourglasses
Put 3 Basic Pokémon into play
Reward: 3 Event Hourglasses
Intermediate - Venusaur & Scyther Deck, Rewards and Challenges
First Clear Rewards
4 Pack Hourglass
100 Shinedust
1 Shop Ticket
50 XP
Access to the Advanced Venusaur challenge
Drop Rewards
After each victory, you have a random chance to earn these.
25 Shinedust (guaranteed)
1 Promo Pack A Series Volume 2 (64%)
1 Shop Ticket (48.3%)
Battle Tasks
Knock Out your opponent’s Active Pokémon 2 times with an attack from a R type Pokémon
Reward: 3 Event Hourglasses
Make your opponent’s Pokémon Asleep 1 time
Reward: 3 Event Hourglasses
Win this battle by turn 14
Reward: 3 Event Hourglasses
Advanced - Venusaur ex Deck, Rewards and Challneges
First Clear Rewards
6 Pack Hourglass
150 Shinedust
1 Shop Ticket
75 XP
Access to the Expert Venusaur challenge
Drop Rewards
After each victory, you have a random chance to earn these.
25 Shinedust (guaranteed)
1 Promo Pack A Series Volume 2 (80%)
1 Shop Ticket (60.4%)
Battle Tasks
Win 5 or more battles
Reward: 4 Wonder Hourglass 
Win this battle using a deck where all the Pokémon cards are of , , and/or rarity
Reward: 4 Wonder Hourglass
Win this battle by turn 14
Reward: 4 Wonder Hourglass
Win this battle without your opponent getting any points
Reward: 4 Wonder Hourglass
Expert - Venusaur ex & Lilligant Deck, Rewards and Challenges
First Clear Rewards
8 Pack Hourglass
200 Shinedust
1 Shop Ticket
100 XP
Drop Rewards
After each victory, you have a random chance to earn these.
25 Shinedust (guaranteed)
1 Promo Pack A Series Volume 2 (guaranteed)
1 Shop Ticket (55.5%)
Battle Tasks
Win 10 or more battles
Reward: 5 Wonder Hourglass
Win 20 or more battles
Reward: 5 Wonder Hourglass
Win this battle using a deck where all the Pokémon cards are of , , and/or rarity
Reward: 5 Wonder Hourglass
Win this battle by turn 12
Reward: 5 Wonder Hourglass
Win this battle without your opponent getting any points
Reward: 5 Wonder Hourglass
