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Guzzlord ex Nihilego
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Poison Barb
“Poison Barb” (A3-146) is a Trainer card from the Celestial Guardians set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Tool, and its effect is: If the Pokémon this card is attached to is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an attack from your opponent's Pokémon, the Attacking Pokémon is now Poisoned.
Use this Poison Barb page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Poison Barb to your collection.
Poison Barb Card Details
Illustrator·Toyste BeachEffect
If the Pokémon this card is attached to is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an attack from your opponent's Pokémon, the Attacking Pokémon is now Poisoned.
How to get Poison Barb
Where Poison Barb 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 “Poison Barb”
Build with Poison Barb
Seen in 0.5% of 3,453 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
Small sample; interpret with care.
- Tournament usage
- 0.5%
- 16 / 3,453 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 56.3% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.56
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 5
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Poison Barb”
- Guzzlord ex Nihilego
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (3)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
- Giratina ex Darkrai ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 33.3%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 2-copy list
- 2× Darkrai ex
- 2× Giratina ex
- 1× Nihilego
- 1× Leaf
- 2× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Mars
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Red
- 2× Poison Barb
- 1× Guzma
- 1× Repel
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Sableye ex Darkrai ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 25.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Darkrai ex
- 1× Oricorio
- 1× Pichu
- 1× Chingling
- 1× Mega Sableye ex
- 1× Dawn
- 1× Mars
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 2× Poison Barb
- 1× Lyra
- 2× Lisia
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Starting Plains
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Hydreigon Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 1.2%
- Meta share
- 2.4%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Nihilego
- 1× Absol
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Deino
- 2× Hydreigon
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 2× Rare Candy
- 2× Poison Barb
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Dedenne ex Indeedee ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 1.1%
- Meta share
- 2.8%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Oricorio
- 2× Indeedee ex
- 2× Dedenne ex
- 1× Sabrina
- 2× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Poison Barb
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Protective Poncho
- 1× Field Blower
- 1× Small Balloon
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Poison Barb in tournament decks
This card appears in 5 current and 4 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.
- Archived meta snapshot
Dustox Mega Absol ex
Last seen Nov 2, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Team Rocket's Weezing ex Teal Mask Ogerpon ex
Last seen Sep 27, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Team Rocket's Weezing ex Mega Absol ex
Last seen Oct 19, 202675.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Team Rocket's Weezing ex Paldean Clodsire ex
Last seen Sep 8, 202666.7% card inclusion
Cards commonly played with Poison Barb
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Poison Barb. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 5
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 5
- avg. inclusion
- 91.0%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 5
- avg. inclusion
- 95.8%
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 5
- avg. inclusion
- 98.9%
Starting Plains
B2-154
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 45.7%
Lucky Ice Pop
B2-145
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 72.3%
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