All ‘Gible Drop Event’ cards and best decks in Pokémon TCG Pocket

The “Gible Drop Event” in Pokémon TCG Pocket allows you to battle against computers for a chance to get a full art Gible card and a handful of other promo cards.

The event is a chance to get promo cards like Gible, Raichu, and Staraptor. It started on Monday, March 3, and will run until Monday, March 17, when the servers reset at 10:00 p.m. PDT/1:00 a.m. EDT.

This Pokémon TCG Pocket guide will go over all Gible Drop Event promo cards you can earn in the event and give you some ideas on the best cards to counter the Gible evolutionary line decks you’ll be facing in the event.

All ‘Gible Drop Event’ promo cards list

There are five different promo cards you can earn as part of the “Gible Drop Event.” Here they all are:

• Cherrim is a stage one grass-type that has 80 HP and a retreat cost of one energy. It can use the attack Leech Seed, which does 60 damage to the opponent’s active Pokémon and heals 20 HP to Cherrim.
• Nosepass is a basic fighting-type card with 60 HP and a retreat cost of one. It can use the move Iron Defense, which allows you to prevent all damage done to this Nosepass if you flip heads on a coin toss.
• Staraptor is a stage two colorless-type with 140 HP and a retreat cost of one energy. Its ability, Defensive Whirlwind, makes it so that this card takes 30 less damage from attacks from fighting-type Pokémon. It has one move, Wing Attack, and it does 90 damage and requires three energy.
• Raichu is a stage 1 Pokémon with 90 HP and a retreat cost of one energy. This version of Raichu has an ability called Resilience Link that makes it so Raichu takes 30 less damage from attacks whenever you have an Arceus or Arceus ex in play. It can also use the attack Spark, which requires two energy. This attack does 40 damage to the active Pokémon and 20 damage to one of your opponent’s benched Pokémon.
• The promo Gible is a full-art card showing the stubby landshark in all its glory. It’s a basic fighting-type card with 60 HP and a retreat cost of one energy. It has one move, Tackle, and it does 20 damage.

How to get all ‘Gible Drop Event’ cards

You earn cards by opening cards from Promo Pack A Series Vol. 5. These packs contain one promo card per pack and have a pink wrapper exterior. You earn them by completing the battles in the “Gible Drop Event.” One battle requires one token of Event Stamina, which recharges passively over time or can be replenished with Event Hourglass.

You aren’t guaranteed to win a promo pack for each battle challenge you win: The promo card packs are listed in the game as a “chance reward” for every single battle. However, in Polygon’s experience, we had a much higher chance of earning one from finishing battles on the “Expert” difficulty. In fact, it rewarded us with a promo pack every time we beat the bot on that level.

Best decks for the ‘Gible Drop Event’

There are four difficulty levels in the “Gible Drop Event”: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert. The deck-building advice below will set you up to tackle the Expert difficulty, and is applicable for all lower difficulties as well.

The decks in the “Gible Drop Event” focus on fighting-type cards from Gible’s evolutionary line. The signature cards in the deck, like Garchomp ex, are weak to grass-type attacks. As a result, you’ll want to focus on building grass-type decks for this challenge.

• If you are lucky enough to have it, the Celebi ex and the Serperior deck is a fantastic way to take on this challenge. Celebi ex is one of the most powerful decks around. It can easily take on this challenge since it exploits Garchomp ex’s type weakness, and Celebi ex itself is one of the higher damage dealers in TCG Pocket.
• If you don’t have Celebi ex, you can pair Serperior with Dhelmise instead. This allows you to use Serperior’s Jungle Totem ability to quickly bump up attack power of Dhelmise’s Energy Whip attack up to 90 damage. This is strong enough to knock out most of the basic and stage one cards in the decks within a turn or two.
• We also successfully used the Venusaur ex rental deck to complete the Expert challenge. This deck can take more turns to set up, especially if you start first. However, Venusaur ex has 190 HP, allowing it to withstand Garcomp’s strongest attack, Dragon Claw.
• As always, you can use cards like Sabrina or Cyrus to force a switch on the active Pokémon to stall (and sometimes stop) the computer from setting up Garchomp ex.

One bothersome part about this challenge is that the Expert deck contains a Lucario with the Fighting Coach ability. Fighting Coach increases the attack power of moves used by fighting Pokémon by 20 damage and it can stack if you have two Lucario on your bench at once. However, you don’t need to be intimidated by it. Here are a couple of ways to deal with it.

• Erika is important for this challenge. This trainer card will allow you to heal 50 HP of a grass-type card and allow your cards to withstand attacks that are buffed by Lucario’s ability.
• Pokémon Tools will be a boon to your decks. Rocky Helmet can allow you to chip away at Pokémon’s HP more quickly while Giant Cape can mitigate the effects of Lucario’s ability.
• I haven’t seen it played a lot in competitive, but Shaymin is a nice little card for this challenge. Its ability, Fragrant Flower Garden, lets you heal 10 damage per turn. It’s nothing to write home about, but it can help you beef up your defensive abilities.