Ronald

Ronald is the rival of Mark and Mint in Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!. In the second game, he infiltrates Team Great Rocket under the identity of the Enigmatic Mask GRX.

In both games, Ronald appears at certain points and challenges the player to a duel that begins automatically, without any input from the player. Once he appears and speaks to the player, there is no opportunity to perform common tasks like editing the deck or saving the game before the duel starts.

Ronald
Origin
Origin	Pokémon Trading Card Game
Creator	Satoshi Tajiri
First Appearance	Pokémon Trading Card Game
Characteristics
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him
Sexuality	Heterosexual
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Japanese
Status	Alive
Alignment	Neutral Good
Archetype	Lancer, Rival
Occupation	Infiltrates Team Great Rocket as Enigmatic Mask
Time Period	Modern Day
Language	Japanese
Combat Style	Trading Card Combat
Homeworld	Earth
Relationships
Affiliations	Mint/Mark (Rival), Dr. Mason
Enemies	Mint/Mark (Formerly), Team Great Rocket

Background

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Ronald’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Pokémon Trading Card Game As the player character's rival, Ronald battles the player from time to time during normal gameplay. He uses four different decks as the player progresses through the game. I'm Ronald Deck After the player obtains the second Master Medal, Ronald appears in the club lobby and battles the player with the I'm Ronald Deck. The player only has one chance to win this duel. If successful, the player earns a promotional Jigglypuff card. Powerful Ronald Deck After the player obtains the fifth Master Medal, Ronald appears in the club lobby and battles the player with the Powerful Ronald Deck. The player only has one chance to win this duel. If successful, the player earns a promotional Super Energy Retrieval card. Invincible Ronald Deck During the story, there are two Challenge Cup matches. One takes place between the player's third and fourth Master Medals, and another between the fifth and sixth. Ronald is the third opponent the player faces in these matches, using the Invincible Ronald Deck. If the player defeats Ronald during the first Challenge Cup, the prize is a promotional Mewtwo card. The second time the player beats him, the prize is a promotional Mew card. Legendary Ronald Deck After the player defeats the four Grand Masters for the first time at the Pokémon Dome, Ronald arrives to battle with the Legendary Ronald Deck, using the Legendary Cards he just inherited. After his defeat, he loses the powers of the Legendary Cards and can never be battled again at the Pokémon Dome. He reappears occasionally at the Challenge Cup using the Invincible Ronald Deck. Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR! In Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!, Ronald appears multiple times throughout the game. At the beginning, when the player enters a club building for the first time, Ronald talks about Team Great Rocket and uses the Card Pop! function with the player. He also appears after the player earns two GR Coins, and if defeated, he gives the player a rare Super Energy Retrieval card. Ronald is encountered again on GR Island when the player first enters the Game Center, where he gives away the Bill's PC card. Shortly afterward, he may be seen again at the GR Grass Fort, now operating as a member of Team Great Rocket under the name GRX. He challenges the player to a six-prize match using a deck focused on Grass Pokémon. When defeated, he reveals his identity and his mission to recover the cards stolen by Team Great Rocket, then gives the player one booster pack each of Team Rocket's Ambition and We Are Team Rocket. After the player defeats the Fort Leader at either the GR Fire Fort or the GR Water Fort, depending on which occurs first, Ronald appears again. If the player defeats him in a six-prize duel, Ronald rewards them with a Computer Error card. Ronald is encountered once more at Team GR Castle. He has just been defeated by Biruritchi and wants to test the player. If the player wins the match, Ronald gives another copy of Super Energy Retrieval. After Biruritchi's defeat, Ronald can be found in Mason Laboratory working on a new deck, though he will not duel the player. If the player participates in the Grand Master Cup, Ronald challenges them with his Ronald's Ultra Deck.

Name Meaning

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ランド Lando	Possibly from hand or random.
English, French, German, Italian	Ronald	Similar to Japanese name.
Spanish	Ronaldo	Similar to English name.

Appearance

General Description: Ronald is a young man with a slim, athletic build and fair skin. He has dark blue hair styled with spiky sections framing his face. His eyes are brown.

Clothing/Outfit: A dark blue long-sleeved jacket with a high collar and green cuffs. A matching dark blue shirt underneath. Dark blue pants with green bands around the knees. Green and dark blue fingerless gloves. Green and dark blue boots with green soles and accents.

Accessories: A long, flowing magenta sash or ribbon is wrapped around his waist and trails behind him. He holds a small blue card or device featuring a Poké Ball design.

Personality

• Cocky: Ronald is overall cocky, thinking he can easily defeat Mint/Mark in every encounter and whenever he loses he considers it a fluke. Though Ronald stops acting like this in the sequel, professing that Mint/Mark is truly skilled to be capable of beating him.

Goals

• Collect the Eight Master Medals and defeat the Grand Masters at the Pokémon Dome (Succeeded).
• Gain the Legendary Cards (Initially succeeded but failed due to losing to Mint/Mark).
• Stop Team Great Rocket (Failed).

General Information

Name: Ronald

Origin: Pokémon Trading Card Game

Overall Series: Pokémon

First Appearance: Pokémon Trading Card Game

Latest Appearance: Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!

Company: Gamefreak

Creator: Satoshi Tajiri

Actor: N/A

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Handedness: Left-Handed (Official art showcases him holding his cards with his left hand)

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: Modern Day

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Trading Card Game Islands

Story Role: Rival

Legacy: City-Wide Legacy (Collected the Eight Master Medals and defeat the Grand Masters at the Pokémon Dome, being recognized by the legendary cards themselves before being defeated by Mark/Mint)

Influence: Event Influence

Language: Japanese

Ethnicity: Japanese

Religion: N/A

Classification: Trading Card Player

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Arceus

Occupation: Infiltrates Team Great Rocket as Enigmatic Mask

Ranking: Grand Master (Defeated the Club Masters and Grandmasters to collect the Legendary Cards)

Combat Style: Trading Card Combat

Affiliations: Mint/Mark (Rival), Dr. Mason

Enemies: Mint/Mark (Formerly), Team Great Rocket

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (Fought against Team Great Rocket, who was attempting to steal the Legendary Cards and kidnap many of the Club Masters)

Protection Level: Metropolitan Protector

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Growth Potential
• Level of Potential: Growth
• Description: Like Mint/Mark, grows stronger the more he battles.
• Limitations: Nothing notable.

Archetype: Lancer / Rival

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: 10-B. Varies-E with Cards

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Pokémon Cards

Attack Potency: Average Human level. Varies: Skill with Cards (The cards can range in power from getting Legendary Cards such as Zapdos, Articuno, Moltres, Dragonite, Mew, and Mewtwo, to lower tier cards such as Magikarp or Caterpie, some fights even require them to have conditions such as four Magikarps, only fighting with a specific type of Pokémon a specific type of energy, only using a certain number of Pokémon, etcetera)

Durability: Average Human level. Varies: Skill with Cards (The Legendary Cards imply to an extent that the player must use them to the best of their ability to deal with any obstacle, seeing as the cards directly amplified GR No. 4 with super strength and psychic powers, it is likely the cards amplify all of the players statistics or at least protects the player in battle)

Striking Strength: Average Human Class. Varies: Skill with Cards

Lifting Strength: Average Human Class. Varies: Skill with Cards

Travel Speed: Average Human Speed. Varies: Skill with Cards

Attack Speed: Average Human Speed. Varies: Skill with Cards

Reaction Speed: Average Human Reactions. Varies: Skill with Cards

Stamina: Average

Range: Standard Melee. Varies: Skill with Cards

Intelligence: Average Intelligence

Knowledge: Master level (Ronald was the one to defeat the entire Grand Masters and all the Club Leaders prior to Mint doing so)

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Powers and Techniques

By HimselfWith Cards

• Human Achievements (Became the card master of the Pokémon Trading Card Game prior to Mark/Mint)
• Accelerated Development
  • Battle
    • Skill: Like Mint/Mark, grows stronger the more he battles.
• Save and Load
  • Progression Recording: All humans can naturally save their progress.

• Resistance to
  • Extreme Heats (Can move around in the fire fortress just fine despite it being an active volcano)

Trainer CardsUnique Decks

• The Professor Oak card allows the players to discard their hands and then draw 7 cards.
• The Pokédex Trainer Card rearranges the players deck.
• Bill Card draws 2 cards from the deck and adds them to the hand.
• Purification (With Full Heal card, the Pokémon is no longer asleep, confused, paralyzed, or poisoned)
• Healing (With Potion card, restores lost health)
• Statistics Boost (With Plus Power, abilities deal +10 extra damage)
• Nullification (With Energy Removal, discards one energy card attached to the opponent's Pokémon)
• Resurrection
  • Resurrection from Exhaustion: With Max Revive, discards 2 energy cards from the player's hand in order to put 1 basic Pokémon from the discard pile back onto the bench)
• Forced Switch (WitH Switch, switches one of the players Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon)
• Evolution (With Pokémon Breeder Card, puts a stage 2 Evolution card from the players hand on the matching Basic Pokémon, ignoring the need for a stage 1 Pokémon)

Pokémon Trading Card GamePokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!

I'm Ronald DeckPowerful Ronald DeckInvincible Ronald DeckLegendary Ronald Deck

• Fire Type Moves
  • Fire Manipulation
    • With Charmander Card's ember, shoots out a flame.
    • With Charmeleon Card's flamethrower, shoots out a massive flamethrower. With Arcanine Card's flamethrower.
      • Breath Attack

• Water Type Moves
  • Water Manipulation
    • With Squirtle Card's Bubble, shoots out water bubbles to attack the opponent.
      • Paralysis Inducement (Flips a coin, if heads the opponent is paralyzed)
  • With Larpras Card's Water Gun, shoost out a jet of water.
    • Statistics Boost (Does 10 damage plus 10 more damge for each water energy attached to Lapras)

• Colorless Type Moves
  • Damage Reduction
    • With Squirtle Card's Withdraw, flips a coin and if heads, it prevents all damage done to Squirtle during the opponent's next turn. With Wartortle Card's withdraw.
    • With Cubone Card's Snivel, if the opponent attacks Cubone, during the next turn, any damage done by the attack is reduced by 20.

• Fighting Type Moves
  • Statistics Boost
    • With Cubone Card's Rage, does 10 plus 10 more damage for each damage counter on Cubone.
    • With Marowak Card's Bonemerang, flip 2 coins, dealing 30 damage times the number of heads.
  • Helper Call (With Marowak's Call for a Friend, searches the deck for a fighting Basic Pokémon card and puts it into the bench)
  • Disguise Mastery (Disguised himself as GR X to infiltrate Team Great Rocket)

• Lightning Type Moves
  • Electricity Manipulation
    • With Electabuzz Card's Thundershock, flips a coin, if heads the opponent is now paralyzed.
      • Paralysis Inducement
    • With Electabuzz Card's Thunderpunch, flips a coin, if heads the attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage.
      • Statistics Boost

• Fighting Type Moves
  • Bypassing
    • Resistance Bypassing: With Hitmonlee Card's Stretch Kick, attacks any of the opponent's benched Pokémon while ignoring weakness or resistances for them.

• Colorless Type Moves
  • Statistics Boost
    • With Doduo Card's Fury Attack, flips 2 coins and the attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.
    • With Kangaskhan Card's Comet Punch, flips 4 coins and deals 20 damage times the number of heads.
    • With Tauros Card's Stomp, flips a coin and if heads, the attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage.
  • Reactive Power Level
    • With Dodrio's Rage, does 10 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter on Dodrio.
    • With Tauros Card's Rampage, does 20 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter on Tauros.
  • Status Effect Inducement
    • Paralysis Inducement (With Lickitung Card's Tognue Wrap, flips a coin and if heads, the opponent is now paralyzed)
    • Mind Manipulation (With Lickitung Card's Supersonic, flips a coin and if heads the opponent is now confused)

• Psychic Type Moves
  • Statistics Boost
    • With Mr Mime Card's Meditate, does 10 damage plus 10 more daamge for each damage counter on the opponent.
    • With Jynx Card's Meditate, does 20 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter on the opponent.
    • With Jynx Card's Double Slap, flips 2 coins and the attack does 10 times the number of heads.
    • With Mewtwo Card's Psychic, does 10 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy card attached to the opponent.
  • Nullification
    • Power Nullification: With Mewtwo Card Barrier, during the opponent's next turn, prevents all effects of attacks including damage done to Mewtwo.

• Colorless Type Moves
  • Damage Manipulation (With Mr Mime Card's Invisible Wall, whenever an attack does 30 or more damage to Mr. Mime, it prevents that damage from happening)

Previous Kangaskhan Card.

• Colorless Type Moves
  • Paralysis Inducement (With Grimer Card's Nasty Goo, flips a coin and if heads, the opponent is now paralyzd)
  • Damage Reduction (With Chansey Card's Scrunch, flips a coin, if heads, prevent all damage done to Chansey during the next turn)

• Grass Type Moves
  • Statistics Boost (With Scyther Card's Swords Dance, during the next turn, Scyther's slash attack's base damage is 60 instead of 30)
  • Damage Reduction (With Grimer Card's Minimize, all damage done by attacks to Grimer during the opponent's next turn is reduced by 20)
  • Poison Manipulation
    • With Laboratory Card Muk's Toxic Gas, ignores all other Pokémon Powers other than toxic gases.
      • Nullification

• Fire Type Moves
  • Smoke Manipulation (With Magmar Card's Smokescreen, if the defening Pokémon tries to attack during the next turn flips a coin, if tails, the attack does nothing)
  • Poison Manipulation (With Magmar Card's Smog, flips a coin, if heads, the opponent is now poisoned)

• Fighting Type Moves
  • Statistics Boost (With Geodude Card's Stone Barrage, flips a coin until one gets tails, this attack does 10 damage times the number of heads)
  • Damage Reduction (With Graveler Card's Harden, during the opponent's next turn, whenever hit with 30 or less damage, it is prevented)

Previous Kangaskhan Card.

• Colorless Type Moves
  • Reactive Power Level (With Flareon Card's rage, does 10 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter on Flareon)
  • Statistics Boost
    • With Vaporeon Card's Focus Energy, during the next turn, Vaporeon's bite attack's base damage is doubled.
    • With Jolteon Card's Double Kick, flips 2 coins; this attack does 20 damage times the number of heads.
    • With Eevee Card's Quick Attack, deals 10 damage plus 20 more damage if coin lands on heads.
    • With Dragonair Card's Slam, flips 2 coins and this attack does 30 damage times the number of heads.
    • With Legendary Card Dragonite's Slam, flips 2 coins and does 30 damage times the number of heads.
  • Paralysis Inducement (With Stun Needle, flips a coin and if heads, the opponent is now paralyzed)
  • Nullification
    • Attack Nullification: With Eevee Card's Tail Wag, flips a coin and if heads the opponent can't attack Eevee during the next turn)
    • Energy Nullification: With Dragonair Card's Hyper Beam, if the opponent has any energy attached to it, choose 1 of them and discard it.
  • Damage Manipulation
    • With Legendary Card Dragonite's Healing Wind, removes two damage counters from each of the Pokémon's in the player's deck.

• Lightning Type Moves
  • Bypassing
    • Resistance Bypassing
      • With Legendary Card Zapdos' Peal of Thunder, does 30 damage to a Pokémon other than Zapdos chosen at random and doesn't apply weakness or resistances.
        • Electricity Manipulation
      • With Legendary Card Zapdos' Big Thunder, does 70 damage to a Pokémon at random and doesn't apply weakness or resistances.
        • Electricity Manipulation

• Fire Type Moves
  • Restoration (With Legendary Card Moltres' firegiver, puts from 1-4 random energy cards into hand.

• Water Type Moves
  • Paralysis Inducement
    • With Legendary Card Articuno's QuickFreeze, when put into play during a turn, if the coin flips head the defending Pokémon is now paralyzed.
      • Ice Manipulation
  • Bypassing
    • Resistance Bypassing: With Legendary Card Articuno's ice breath, does 40 damage to 1 of the opponent's Pokémon chosen at random and ignores weakness or resistances for the attack.
      • Breath Attack
      • Ice Manipulation

Ronald's Uncool DeckRonald's GRX DeckRonald's Power DeckRonald's Super DeckRonald's Ultra Deck

Previous Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, Lapras, and Chansey Abilities.

• Water Type Moves
  • Damage Reduction (With Shellder Card's Hide in Shell, flips a coin, if heads, prevent all damage done to Shellder during the next turn)
  • Statistics Boost (With Coyster's Spike Cannon, flips 2 coins and the attack does 30 damage times the number of heads)
  • Status Effect Inducement
    • Paralysis Inducement (With Cloyster Card's Clamp, flips a coin and if heads, the opponent is now paralyzed)
    • Mind Manipulation (With Tentacruel Card's Supersonic, flips a coin and if heads, the opponent is now confused. With Shellder Card's Supersonic)
    • Poison Manipulation (With Tentacruel Card's Jellyfish Sting, the opponent is now poisoned)

• Fighting Type Moves
  • Counter (With Machamp Card's Strikes Back, whenever the opponent attacks damages Machamp, even if Machamp is knocked out, deals 10 damage to the attack power, ignoring weaknesses and ressitances)
    • Bypassing
      • Resistance Bypassing

• Grass Type Moves
  • Stealth Mastery (With Dark Golbat Card's Sneak Attack, allows one to choose one of the opponent's cards to attack)
  • Bypassing
    • Resistance Bypassing
      • With Dark Golbat Card's Flitter, chooses 1 of the opponent's Pokémon and does 20 damage to that Pokémon ignroing weakness or resistances.
  • Status Effect Inducement
    • With Dark Muk's Stick Goo, as long as Dark Muk is the active Pokémon, the opponent takes more energy to do things such as retreat.
    • Poison Manipulation (With Sludge Punch, the opponent is now poisoned)

• Colorless Type Attacks
  • Statistics Boost (With Quick Attack, flips a coin and if heads the attack deals 10 damage plus 10 more damage)
  • Bypassing
    • Resistance Bypassing: With Meowth Card's Coin Hurl, chooses one of the opponent's Pokémon, and flips a coin, if heads, it deals 20 damage to that Pokémon that ignores weaknesses and resistances.
  • Forced Switch (With Dark Persian Card's Fascinate, flips a coin and if heads, choose 1 of the opponent's Benched Pokémon to switch with the Defending Pokémon)
  • Poison Manipulation (With Dark Persian Card's Poison Claws, flips a coin and if heads the opponent is poisoned)

Previous Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Kangaskhan, Tauros, and Eevee abilities.

• • Damage Manipulation
    • With Laboratory Ditto's Morph, removes all damage counters from Ditto.

Previous Kangaskhan & Dratini abilities.

• Colorless Type Moves
  • Nullification
    • Power Nullification: With Ghastly Card's Spookify, the opponent cannot play Trainer Cards from their hand during the next turn.

• Psychic Type Moves
  • Restoration, Purification, & Healing (With Mewtwo Card's Complete Recovery, discards all energy cards attached to it and then removes all damage counters and makrers along with it no longer being poisoned or confused)
  • Statistics Reduction (With Psychoc Blast, flips a coin and if heads, discards the energy card attached to the opponent)
  • Statistics Boost
    • With Haunter Card's Poltergeist, deals 10 damage times the number of Trainer cards the opponent has in his or her hand.
    • With Mew Wizards Promo 8 Card's Psywave, deals 10 damage times the number of energy cards attached to the opponent.
  • Battlefield Removal
    • Applicated Based: With Gengar Card's Power of Darkness, flips a coin, if heads, chooses 1 of the opponent's Pokémon that they must return to the deck and remove all cards attached to his or her hand.
  • Status Effect Inducement
    • Sleep Manipulation
      • With Haunter Card's Bad Dreams, flip a coin if heads the opponent is now asleep.
      • With Gengar Card's Psy Horror, flips a coin and if heads the opponent is now asleep.
    • Mind Manipulation
      • With Ghastly Card's Fade to Black, flips a coin and if heads, the opponent is now confused.
      • (With Haunter Card's Bad Dreams, flip a coin if tails the opponent is now confused.
      • With Gengar Card's Psy Horror, flips a coin and if tails the opponent is now confused.
  • Evolution Manipulation (With Mew Wizards Promo 8 Card's Devolution Beam, chooses an evolved Pokémon and returns it to a lower stage on the player's hand)

• Colorless Type Attacks
  • Statistics Boost (With Pidgey Card's quick attack, flips a coin and if heads, the attack does 20 more damage)
  • Battlefield Removal
    • Application Based
      • With Pidgeotto Card's Twister, unless the attack knocks out the opponent, flip a coin, if heads, return all Trainer cards and Energy cards attached to the defending Pokémon to the opponent's hand.
      • With Pidgeot Card's Hurricane, unless the attack knocks out the opponent, returns the defending Pokémon and all cards attached to it to the opponent's hand.
  • Flight (With Pidgeotto Card's Fly, flips a coni and if heads, prevents all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Pidgeotto during the next turn)
  • Mimicry
    • Technique Mimicry: With Spearow Card's Mirror Move, if Spearow was attacked last turn, do the final result of the attack on Spearow to the opponent.
  • Statistics Boost (With Fearow Card's Agility, flips a coin and if heads, during the next turn prevents all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Fearow)

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Equipment

Manga TeamPokémon Trading Card GamePokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!

Seel → Dewgong
Debut	Pokémon Card GB The Comix
Dewgong is a Water-type card used by Ronald in his deck. Ronald began the duel with Seel as his Active Pokémon. On his second turn, Ronald Evolved Seel into Dewgong. As Dewgong, it Knocked Out Mark's Scyther using a combination of its Aurora Beam attack and PlusPower. Eventually, Dewgong was Knocked Out by Mark's Ivysaur.

Magmar
Debut	Pokémon Card GB The Comix
Magmar is a Fire-type card used by Ronald in his deck. Magmar was placed on the Bench on Ronald's fourth turn, and became the Active Pokémon on his fifth turn after Dewgong was Knocked Out. Magmar had the advantage over Mark's Ivysaur (and then Venusaur after it Evolved) due to the type advantage of Fire over Grass. However, it was Knocked Out by Mark's Charizard after it was swapped out from Venusaur.

Hitmonchan
Debut	Pokémon Card GB The Comix
Hitmonchan is a Fighting-type card used by Ronald in his deck. On his fourth turn, Ronald placed Hitmonchan on the Bench at the same time as Magmar, but it never became the Active Pokémon.

I'm Ronald DeckPowerful Ronald DeckInvincible Ronald DeckLegendary Ronald Deck

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
3×	Charmander
2×	Charmeleon
3×	Growlithe
1×	Arcanine
3×	Squirtle
2×	Wartortle
2×	Seel
1×	Dewgong
2×	Lapras
3×	Cubone
2×	Marowak
1×	Professor Oak	T
1×	Energy Retrieval	T
2×	Energy Search	T
1×	Switch	T
1×	PlusPower	T
1×	Defender	T
2×	Gust of Wind	T
9×	Fire Energy	E	—
10×	Water Energy	E	—
8×	Fighting Energy	E	—

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
3×	Electabuzz
2×	Hitmonlee
2×	Hitmonchan
1×	Mr. Mime
2×	Jynx
1×	Mewtwo
2×	Doduo
1×	Dodrio
2×	Lickitung
2×	Kangaskhan
3×	Tauros
2×	Energy Retrieval	T
1×	Super Energy Retrieval	T	—
1×	Energy Search	T
2×	Energy Removal	T
1×	Switch	T
2×	PlusPower	T
2×	Gust of Wind	T
1×	Full Heal	T
1×	Gambler	T
7×	Lightning Energy	E	—
9×	Fighting Energy	E	—
7×	Psychic Energy	E	—
3×	Double Colorless Energy	E

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
3×	Grimer
2×	Muk
4×	Scyther
3×	Magmar
3×	Geodude
2×	Graveler
2×	Chansey
2×	Kangaskhan
2×	Professor Oak	T
2×	Bill	T
2×	Energy Retrieval	T
2×	Energy Removal	T
2×	Scoop Up	T
2×	Gust of Wind	T
2×	PlusPower	T
1×	Gambler	T
7×	Grass Energy	E	—
6×	Fire Energy	E	—
7×	Fighting Energy	E	—
4×	Double Colorless Energy	E

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
1×	Flareon
2×	Moltres		—
1×	Vaporeon
1×	Articuno		—
1×	Jolteon
1×	Zapdos		—
2×	Kangaskhan
4×	Eevee
4×	Dratini
3×	Dragonair
2×	Dragonite		—
1×	Professor Oak	T
3×	Bill	T
1×	Pokémon Trader	T
2×	Pokémon Breeder	T
3×	Energy Removal	T
3×	Scoop Up	T
1×	Gambler	T
20×	Fire Energy	E	—
4×	Double Colorless Energy	E

Ronald's Uncool DeckRonald's GRX DeckRonald's Power DeckRonald's Super DeckRonald's Ultra Deck

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
3×	Tentacool
2×	Tentacruel
3×	Shellder
2×	Cloyster
2×	Lapras
3×	Machop
2×	Machoke
1×	Machamp
1×	Hitmonlee
2×	Hitmonchan
2×	Chansey
2×	Energy Search	T
1×	Professor Oak	T
2×	Super Energy Retrieval	T
2×	Gust of Wind	T
2×	Bill	T
15×	Water Energy	E	—
13×	Fighting Energy	E	—

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
4×	Zubat
3×	Dark Golbat
3×	Grimer
2×	Dark Muk
3×	Rattata
2×	Dark Raticate
3×	Meowth
2×	Dark Persian
1×	Professor Oak	T
2×	Gust of Wind	T
2×	Full Heal	T
3×	Bill	T
2×	The Boss's Way	T
2×	Double Colorless Energy	E
2×	Recycle Energy	E
24×	Grass Energy	E	—

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
2×	Flareon
2×	Vaporeon
2×	Jolteon
2×	Hitmonlee
2×	Hitmonchan
2×	Kangaskhan
2×	Tauros
1×	Ditto		—
4×	Eevee
2×	Super Scoop Up	T
2×	Imposter Oak's Revenge	T
2×	Computer Error	T	—
3×	PlusPower	T
2×	Switch	T
4×	Bill	T
2×	Full Heal Energy	E
2×	Potion Energy	E
4×	Double Colorless Energy	E
2×	Recycle Energy	E
16×	Fire Energy	E	—

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
4×	Gastly
3×	Haunter
2×	Gengar
2×	Mewtwo
2×	Mew		—
2×	Kangaskhan
4×	Dratini
3×	Dark Dragonair
2×	Dark Dragonite
2×	Energy Retrieval	T
2×	Gust of Wind	T
2×	Pokémon Trader	T
2×	Bill	T
1×	Bill's Teleporter	T
2×	Full Heal Energy	E
2×	Double Colorless Energy	E
23×	Psychic Energy	E	—

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
4×	Pidgey
3×	Pidgeotto
2×	Pidgeot
4×	Spearow
3×	Fearow
2×	Farfetch'd
2×	Moon Stone	T	—
4×	Gust of Wind	T
2×	Pokémon Trader	T
4×	Bill	T
2×	Imposter Oak's Revenge	T
2×	The Rocket's Trap	T
2×	Mr. Fuji	T
4×	Double Colorless Energy	E
4×	Full Heal Energy	E
4×	Recycle Energy	E
4×	Potion Energy	E
2×	Fighting Energy	E	—
1×	Fire Energy	E	—
2×	Lightning Energy	E	—
2×	Psychic Energy	E	—
1×	Water Energy	E	—

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Other

Standard Tactics: Ronald showcases careful planning along with attempting to overwhelm his opponent.

Weaknesses

• Unique Weaknesses: Is effectively useless without their tards.
• Card Type Weaknesses: Each type has their own special weaknesses and other types that resist them.
  • Colorless Weaknesses: Colorless has a weakness to lightning if the Pokémon is Flying-type in the games, fighting if the Pokémon is Normal-type in the games, and Colorless, if the Pokémon is Dragon-Type in the games. Psychic is resistant to Colorless if the Pokémon is Ghost-type.
  • Psychic Weaknesses: Psychic is weak to darkness, Psychic if the Pokémon is Psychic- or Poison-type in the games, and Metal if the Pokémon is Fairy-Type in the games. Colorless resists Psychic if the Pokémon is Normal- or Dragon-type in the games, Darkness resists Psychic, and Metal resists Psychic.
  • Darkness Weaknesses: Darkness is weak to Fighting, if the Pokémon is a Dark-Type or Poison-Type in the games and Grass if the Pokémon is Dark-Type in the games. Fairy is generally resistant to Darkness moves.
  • Metal Weaknesses: Metal is weak to Fire. Lightning resists Metal.
  • Dragon Weaknesses: Dragon is weak to Dragon and Fairy.
  • Fighting Weaknesses: Fighting is weak to Psychic if the Pokémon is Fighting-type in the games, Grass if the Pokémon is Ground or Rock-Types in the games, and Water if the Pokémon is Ground or Rock-Types in the games. Colorless resists fighting if the Pokémon is a Dragon-type in the games, Psychic resists fighting if he Pokémon is a Psychic-type or Ghost-type in the games, and any Pokémon that are Flying-type in the games, even if they have a different TCG type.
  • Grass Weaknesses: Grass is weak to Fire if the Pokémon is Grass-type or Bug-type in the games, and Psychic if the Pokémon is Poison-type in the games. Metal is resistant to Grass Pokémon.
  • Fire Weaknesses: Fire is weak to Water. Colorless resists Fire if the Pokémon is a Dragon-type.
  • Water Weaknesses: Water is weak to Lightning if the Pokémon is Water-type in the games, Grass if the Pokémon is Water/Ground-type or Water/Rock-type in the games, and Metal if the Pokémon is Ice-type in the games. Grass resists Water and Colorless resists water if the Pokémon is a Dragon-type.
  • Lightning Weaknesses: Lightning is weak to Fighting and Lightning if the Pokémon is a Flying-type in the games. Fighting resists Lightning if the Pokémon is a Ground-type.
  • Fairy Weaknesses: Fairy is weak to Metal.

Explanations

Trading Card Game ExplanationsStatuses

How the Card Games Work

A battle in the manga effectively shows that the Pokémon can appear out of the cards and do attacks to the opponent, and in the games Pokémon have natural animations for all their attacks, even having an option in game to turn them on or off.

While one could argue this is merely through holograms or its inside of the player's head and they're visualizing it, this is disproven from the ending of the first Trading Card Game, where once defeating Ronald it's revealed that the Legendary Pokémon Cards have chosen Mark and vanish from Ronald's deck, they also directly float and glow in the air and speak to Mark.

There's even some implications of card abilities working on people in Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!. There, the GR No. 4 used the power of their super-strength which they note is the same power they used to brainwash everyone in the psychic club. Brainwashing referring to them being under literal mind control.

Brooke notes how because she made a large water area for her adorable water Pokémon, water takes less energy to retreat, this could only be possible if the cards were actually having some impact with reality.

Bernard explains that due to being around flowing lava, his fire types have their weakness to water ignored.

Brutus explains due to being focused and disciplined he can unleash the cards full power and have them ignore resistances when they strike.

Card Game Explanations

Energy

In order for Pokémon to do any act, they must have energy cards thus having no energy cards will make them unable to do any actions.

There consists of 7 types of energy cards: Grass, Fire, Water, Lightning, Psychic, Fighting, and Colorless. The type of energy needed is based on the Pokémon.

Attacking

The typical method of harming a defending Pokémon, this requires energy in order to do so.

Retreating

Unlike standard Pokémon games where retreat means to flee from battle, in the Trading Card game, it means switching the active Pokémon with a bench Pokémon. Energy is required in order to do a successful retreat, with the number of energy cards required varying on the Pokémon.

Evolving Pokémon

There are three types of Pokémon cards: Basic Pokémon, Stage 1 Pokémon, and Stage 2 Pokémon. For example, Squirtle is a Basic Pokémon type, Wartortle is a Stage 1 Pokémon type, and Blastoise is a Stage 2 Pokémon type. Only Basic Pokémon cards can be put directly into play which then leads into being able to evolve the Basic Pokémon into a Stage 1 Pokémon and then a Stage 1 Pokémon into a Stage 2 Pokémon.

Using Pokémon Power

Some Pokémon possess special abilities known as Pokémon Powers. Some activate as soon as the Pokémon is played whiile others must be directly chosen.

Ending Turn

The turn ends after an attack is initiated, if one has no energy or active Pokémon cannot move due to a special condition, the turn is ended by choosing the done command.

Win or Loss of a Duel

The win or loss of a duel is decided by prizes; these are cards that the players may draw when they knock out one of the opponent's Pokémon. A win is decided by if players knock out as many of the opponent's Pokémon as there are prizes to be drawn. Players also will lose the duel if they have no cards in their deck at the start of their turn or if there are no Pokémon in their play area.

Special Conditions

The following is an explanation of the various Special Conditions of the Pokémon Trading Card Game

Special Conditions

Name Effect Appearances Asleep The Pokémon cannot attack or retreat. It must be turned sideways (usually counterclockwise) to indicate its condition. During Pokémon Checkup (the between-turns step), the player whose Pokémon is Asleep flips a coin. If heads, the Pokémon wakes up and the condition is removed. If tails, it remains Asleep. Asleep is analogous to both the Sleep and Freeze status conditions in the core series games. It is replaced by Paralyzed or Confused if either is inflicted. The condition is removed if the Pokémon retreats to the Bench, evolves, devolves, or is affected by a card like Double Full Heal. Most Pokémon TCG Sets Burned The Pokémon takes damage during Pokémon Checkup. A Burn marker is placed on the Pokémon to indicate the condition. As of the Sun & Moon Series, 2 damage counters are placed on a Burned Pokémon during Pokémon Checkup. After placing damage, the player whose Pokémon is Burned flips a coin; if heads, the Pokémon is cured, but it remains Burned on tails. Prior to the Sun & Moon Series, a coin was flipped first; if tails, 2 damage counters were placed, and if heads, no damage was taken but the Pokémon remained Burned. Burned is analogous to the Burn status condition in the core series games. It can coexist with any other Special Condition. It is removed if the Pokémon retreats to the Bench, evolves, devolves, or is affected by a card like Double Full Heal. Most Pokémon TCG Sets (introduced in the Expedition Base Set) Confused The Pokémon's card must be turned upside-down to indicate its condition. If a Confused Pokémon tries to attack, the player flips a coin. If heads, the attack proceeds as planned. If tails, 3 damage counters are placed on the Pokémon and the player's turn ends. Confused is analogous to the Confusion status condition in the core series games. It is replaced by Asleep or Paralyzed if either is inflicted. The condition is removed if the Pokémon retreats to the Bench, evolves, devolves, or is affected by a card like Double Full Heal. Most Pokémon TCG Sets Paralyzed The Pokémon cannot attack or retreat. It must be turned sideways (usually clockwise) to indicate its condition. The condition automatically wears off at the beginning of the owner's next turn. Paralyzed is analogous to both the Paralysis and Freeze status conditions in the core series games. It is replaced by Asleep or Confused if either is inflicted. The condition is removed if the Pokémon retreats to the Bench, evolves, devolves, or is affected by a card like Double Full Heal. Most Pokémon TCG Sets Poisoned The Pokémon takes damage during Pokémon Checkup. A Poison marker is placed on the Pokémon to indicate the condition. During Pokémon Checkup, 1 damage counter is placed on a Poisoned Pokémon. Unlike Burned, no coin is flipped to cure the condition. Poisoned is analogous to the Poison status condition in the core series games. It can coexist with any other Special Condition. The condition is removed if the Pokémon retreats to the Bench, evolves, devolves, or is affected by a card like Double Full Heal. Most Pokémon TCG Sets Imprisoned The Pokémon cannot use its Poké-Power or Poké-Body, if it has any. A marker is used to denote a Pokémon as Imprisoned. Unlike other common conditions, a Pokémon stays Imprisoned if it retreats or is switched out. The only ways to remove it are by evolving the Imprisoned Pokémon, using a card effect that removes any condition such as Double Full Heal, or having the afflicted Pokémon leave play. This condition can only be inflicted by Gardevoir ex δ from the EX Dragon Frontiers expansion. EX Dragon Frontiers Shock-wave By itself, this condition does nothing. However, Tyranitar ex δ from the EX Dragon Frontiers expansion has an attack that Knocks Out any one of the opponent's Pokémon in play with this condition. A marker is used to denote a Pokémon as having the Shock-wave condition. Like Imprisoned, the Shock-wave condition does not get removed upon retreating or switching out, so the afflicted Pokémon has to evolve, leave play, or be manually healed for it to be removed. This condition can only be inflicted by Tyranitar ex δ. EX Dragon Frontiers

Trivia

• Ronald is mostly antagonistic to Mark in the first game, however it doesn't mesh as much as his personality in the second game and manga. This is likely due to localization translating him to work more like the stereotypical bully.

Codex Statistics Questions

• Q: Due to it basically being proven that the cards are capable of being used for attacking, how would they work in a Versus Threads scenario?
  • A: This is a good question with no true answer due to a couple of factors. The main one being that in the world of Pokémon Trading Card Game, everyone assumes by default that if one wishes to fight, it will be through a card battle. Much like how in the mainline Pokémon series if one wishes to fight, it will be through a Pokémon battle. However, as it's shown with GR, that they can directly amplify themselves with the cards, and can also amplify their own cards back, that they would be able to use all abilities from the cards in battle.

• Q: Would one be able to simply destroy the cards in order to defeat the player?
  • A: As we see in the intro to Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!, Mint/Mark losing their trading cards effectively made them a sitting duck and they needed to find new trading cards. Thus destroying the trading cards does seem like a way to defeat them. It should be noted however, that these cards are clearly not regular cards, they can sit around flowing lava without burning up, even amplfiying any card types that are fire types by having their weakness to water ignored. Thus it's likely the power of the Pokémon is equivalent to the power of the card.

• Q: How does one handle a lot of the luck mechanics, such as the coin flip?
  • A: That would need to be discussed thread by thread as that's entirely down to proability annd possibility. It's directly even noted by Mason himself that there is no true deck that can gurantee a win and much of the Card Battles are up to luck.

Battle Records

12 - 10 - 0

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

Ronald was the one to defeat the entire Grand Masters and all the Club Leaders prior to Mint doing so, meaning he had to beat:

• Gene
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Rock Club

• Mitch
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Fighting Club

• Mikki
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Grass Club

• Amy
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Water Club

• Isaac
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Electric Club

• Murray
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Psychic Club

• Rick
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Science Club

• Ken
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Fire Club

• Courtney
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Pokémon Dome

• Steve
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Pokémon Dome

• Jack
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Pokémon Dome

• Rod
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Pokémon Dome

• Mark - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Dr. Mason's Lab

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: After Getting Second Medal in any of the Clubs

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Challenge Cup

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch.
  • Location: After Getting Fifth Medal in any of the Clubs

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch.
  • Location: Challenge Cup

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch.
  • Location: Pokémon Dome

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Psychic Club

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Psychic Club

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch.
  • Location: GR Island, Water Fortress

• Mark/Mint - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch.
  • Location: GR Island, GR Castle

None.

Versus Threads

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

None.

None.

None.