Blurple tops Japan TCG meta
In Japan’s current Pokémon TCG competitive scene, Blurple‑style decks are dominating events, showing up strongly in national results and Worlds‑level lists. (x.com) Tournament trackers and sites cited in local posts are logging Blurple as one of the top-performing archetypes this month. (x.com)
Japan’s Pokémon Trading Card Game metagame has tilted hard toward Dragapult ex, with local trackers showing it as the country’s most-played and most-winning deck this month. (limitlesstcg.com) Limitless’s Japanese-format results page for the past three months lists Dragapult ex first at 20.18% of deck share, ahead of Gardevoir ex at 14.71% and Gholdengo ex at 11.96%. (limitlesstcg.com) PokecaBook’s April 13 roundup goes further for the latest weekend: across 66 events and 1,056 decks logged on April 11-12, Dragapult ex made up 279 decks, won 26 events, reached 21 finals, and posted a 26.4% metagame share. (pokecabook.com) In practice, “Blurple” in these posts refers to Dragapult lists, often including variants such as Dragapult-Blaziken, rather than a single fixed 60-card build. PokecaBook breaks out separate Dragapult branches including Dusknoir, Noctowl-based “Jewel Dragapult,” and Blaziken versions. (pokecabook.com) That spread matters in Japan because the format is moving under the new Ninja Spinner set environment, and Dragapult has held the top line through that shift instead of disappearing after the update. PokecaBook labels its current weekly results as the “Ninja Spinner environment” and still ranks Dragapult first by share and wins. (pokecabook.com 1) (pokecabook.com 2) The national-level picture is more mixed than the local weekly numbers. PokecaBook’s Champions League Osaka page shows Alakazam winning that event, Marnie’s Grimmsnarl ex finishing second, and Dragapult-Blaziken placing in Top 8, with a separate Dragapult list in Top 16. (pokecabook.com) So the story in Japan is not that one Dragapult list wins every major tournament. It is that Dragapult remains the deck family players have to beat across store-level events and broad metagame tracking, even when major events produce different champions. (limitlesstcg.com) (pokecabook.com 1) (pokecabook.com 2) The latest PokecaBook snapshot shows the gap clearly: Dragapult’s 26.4% share on April 11-12 was more than four times Raging Bolt ex at 6.3%, one of the next most visible decks in the same report. (pokecabook.com 1) (pokecabook.com 2) For players preparing for the next wave of Japanese events, the takeaway is concrete rather than theoretical: if a testing gauntlet does not include multiple Dragapult variants, it is not matching the field Japan is actually registering right now. (pokecabook.com) (limitlesstcg.com)
