Charmeleon

Charmeleon

“Charmeleon” (B2b-008) is a Pokémon card from the Mega Shine set in Pokémon TCG Pocket, built around the Ability “Ignition”. Key details include evolves from Charmander, 80 HP, Fire, and Slash. Card description: It is very hotheaded by nature, so it constantly seeks opponents to battle against. Its aggression will not be quelled if it doesn’t win.

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Charmeleon Card Details

Illustrator·Shin Nagasawa

HP

80

TypesFire
Pokedex Number
#5
  • Ability

    Ignition

    Once during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may take a Energy from your Energy Zone and attach it to your Active Pokémon.

Charmeleon Attacks

  • Slash
    40
Weaknesses
Retreat Cost

How to get Charmeleon

Where Charmeleon 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.

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Build with Charmeleon

Seen in 6.4% of 3,523 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.

Tournament usage
6.4%
227 / 3,523 lists
Most common count
2 copies
97.8% of lists using it
Average copies
1.98
Among lists using it
Archetypes
6
Current decks using it

Decks that use “Charmeleon”

  1. Mega Charizard Y ex Entei ex
    1 copy
    1.6% (3)
    2 copies
    98.4% (186)
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  2. Charizard ex Mega Charizard Y ex
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (11)
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  3. Mega Charizard X ex Mega Charizard Y ex
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (6)
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  4. Ho-Oh ex Charmeleon
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (3)
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    Inclusion
    100.0%
    Meta share
    0.1%
  5. Mega Charizard X ex Entei ex
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (3)
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  6. Mega Charizard Y ex Charizard ex
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (3)
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Event window: Oct 3, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026

Charmeleon in tournament decks

This card appears in 6 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.

Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.

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Cards commonly played with Charmeleon

These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Charmeleon. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.

  1. Entei ex

    Entei ex

    A4a-010

    shared archetypes
    6
    avg. inclusion
    100.0%
  2. Flame Patch

    Flame Patch

    B1-217

    shared archetypes
    6
    avg. inclusion
    100.0%
  3. Poké Ball

    Poké Ball

    P-A-005

    shared archetypes
    6
    avg. inclusion
    100.0%
  4. Professor's Research

    Professor's Research

    P-A-007

    shared archetypes
    6
    avg. inclusion
    98.2%
  5. Mega Charizard Y ex

    Mega Charizard Y ex

    B1a-014

    shared archetypes
    4
    avg. inclusion
    100.0%
  6. Rainbow Cave

    Rainbow Cave

    B4-155

    shared archetypes
    6
    avg. inclusion
    77.3%

Guides selected from explicit entity references first, with conservative title matching as a fallback.

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  1. Deluxe Pack Mega: 27 Secret Cards, Meta Decks & Costs

    Oct 3, 2026

    Deluxe Pack Mega: 27 Secret Cards, Meta Decks & Costs

    Deluxe Pack Mega guide: 27 secret cards, which ones 4,659 tournament decklists play, Pack Point costs, missions and trading rules, checked Oct 3.

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