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Hoopa ex Mega Absol ex
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Repel
Trainer
“Repel” (A3a-064) is a Trainer card from the Extradimensional Crisis set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Item, and its effect is: Switch out your opponent's Active Basic Pokémon to the Bench. (Your opponent chooses the new Active Pokémon.).
Use this Repel page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Repel to your collection.
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Repel Card Details
Illustrator·Yoshinobu SaitoEffect
Switch out your opponent's Active Basic Pokémon to the Bench. (Your opponent chooses the new Active Pokémon.)
How to get Repel
Deck snapshot
Where Repel 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.
- Tournament usage
- 7.3%
- 214 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 100.0% of lists using it
Decks that use “Repel”
Event window: Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Daily tournament data
Build with Repel
Seen in 7.3% of 2,912 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 1 copy.
- Tournament usage
- 7.3%
- 214 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 100.0% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 18
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Repel”
- Hoopa ex Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (138)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 88.5%
- Meta share
- 5.4%
- Magnezone Miraidon ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (20)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 14.9%
- Meta share
- 4.6%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Magneton
- 2× Oricorio
- 2× Magnemite
- 2× Magnezone
- 1× Miraidon ex
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Repel
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Lisia
- 1× Clemont
- 1× Field Blower
- 1× Professor Turo
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Altaria ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (7)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 70.0%
- Meta share
- 0.3%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Comfey
- 1× Tapu Lele
- 2× Mega Altaria ex
- 2× Swablu
- 1× Bonsly
- 1× Furfrou
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Repel
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Lisia
- 1× Training Area
- 1× Field Blower
- 1× Small Balloon
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Hoopa ex Mega Sableye ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (6)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.2%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Darkrai ex
- 1× Mega Sableye ex
- 2× Hoopa ex
- 2× Cyrus
- 1× Mars
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Repel
- 1× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Field Blower
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Team Rocket's Raticate ex Alolan Ninetales ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (5)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 55.6%
- Meta share
- 0.3%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Alolan Vulpix
- 2× Alolan Ninetales ex
- 1× Minior
- 2× Team Rocket's Rattata
- 2× Team Rocket's Raticate ex
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Repel
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Small Balloon
- 1× Soothing Shore
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Entei ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (4)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Entei ex
- 1× Sabrina
- 2× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Repel
- 2× Flame Patch
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Starting Plains
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 1× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Mawile ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (4)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 80.0%
- Meta share
- 0.2%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Mega Mawile ex
- 2× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Irida
- 1× Big Malasada
- 1× Repel
- 1× Steel Apron
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Metal Core Barrier
- 1× Soothing Shore
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 2× Team Rocket's Master Plan
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Sableye ex Darkrai ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (3)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 75.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Darkrai ex
- 2× Oricorio
- 1× Pichu
- 1× Mega Sableye ex
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Repel
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Electric Generator
- 1× Clear Veil
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Repel in tournament decks
This card appears in 18 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
Rotom ex Pachirisu
Last seen Sep 3, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Dragalge ex Nihilego
Last seen Aug 1, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Rotom ex Raikou ex
Last seen Aug 30, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Melmetal ex Melmetal
Last seen Aug 3, 202666.7% card inclusion
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Repel
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Repel. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 18
- avg. inclusion
- 97.9%
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 17
- avg. inclusion
- 99.1%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 15
- avg. inclusion
- 75.4%
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 17
- avg. inclusion
- 99.5%
Lucky Ice Pop
B2-145
- shared archetypes
- 12
- avg. inclusion
- 70.0%
Field Blower
B3-147
- shared archetypes
- 13
- avg. inclusion
- 58.0%
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