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Giovanni
“Giovanni” (A1-223) is a Trainer card from the Genetic Apex set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Supporter, and its effect is: During this turn, attacks used by your Pokémon do +10 damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon.
Use this Giovanni page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Giovanni to your collection.
Giovanni Card Details
Illustrator·Hideki IshikawaEffect
During this turn, attacks used by your Pokémon do +10 damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon.
How to get Giovanni
Where Giovanni is played
Observed use in sampled public tournaments. These figures are not ladder usage, a card win rate, or a recommendation to play a particular number of copies. Versions with the same effect are combined. Examples retain their source artwork.
Decks that use “Giovanni”
Giovanni versions and alt art
3 matching cards
Build with Giovanni
Seen in 0.3% of 3,453 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 1 copy.
Small sample; interpret with care.
- Tournament usage
- 0.3%
- 12 / 3,453 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 91.7% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.08
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 4
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Giovanni”
- Meowscarada ex Meowscarada
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (4)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 40.0%
- Meta share
- 0.3%
- Mega Tyranitar ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 33.3%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Larvitar
- 2× Pupitar
- 2× Mega Tyranitar ex
- 1× Giovanni
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Pokémon Communication
- 1× Lillie
- 2× Heavy Helmet
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× Red Card
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Raikou ex Pawmot
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 5.6%
- Meta share
- 0.5%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Pikachu ex
- 1× Oricorio
- 2× Raikou ex
- 2× Pawmi
- 2× Pawmot
- 1× Giovanni
- 2× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Field Blower
- 1× Light Ball
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Umbreon Mega Sableye ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 5.6%
- Meta share
- 0.5%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Eevee
- 1× Mega Sableye ex
- 2× Umbreon
- 1× Giovanni
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Eevee Bag
- 1× May
- 1× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Team Rocket's Goo-zooka
- 1× Eviolite
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Giovanni in tournament decks
This card appears in 4 current and 3 historical tournament archetypes.
Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.
Historical decks featuring this card
Archived tournament profiles where this card appeared in at least half of tracked decklists.
Cards commonly played with Giovanni
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Giovanni. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 89.8%
Rare Candy
A3-144
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 93.5%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 84.8%
Sprigatito
A2b-005
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Meowscarada
A2b-007
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
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