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Meowscarada ex Meowscarada
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Giovanni
Trainer
“Giovanni” (A1-223) is a Trainer card from the Genetic Apex set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Supporter, and its effect is: During this turn, attacks used by your Pokémon do +10 damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon.
Use this Giovanni page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Giovanni to your collection.
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Giovanni Card Details
Illustrator·Hideki IshikawaEffect
During this turn, attacks used by your Pokémon do +10 damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon.
How to get Giovanni
Deck snapshot
Where Giovanni 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
- 0.4%
- 12 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 100.0% of lists using it
Decks that use “Giovanni”
Small sample; interpret with care.
Event window: Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Giovanni versions and alt art
3 matching cards
Daily tournament data
Build with Giovanni
Seen in 0.4% of 2,912 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 1 copy.
Small sample; interpret with care.
- Tournament usage
- 0.4%
- 12 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 100.0% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 4
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Giovanni”
- Meowscarada ex Meowscarada
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (5)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 23.8%
- Meta share
- 0.7%
- Mega Altaria ex Chingling
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 16.7%
- Meta share
- 0.2%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Comfey
- 1× Tapu Lele
- 2× Mega Altaria ex
- 2× Chingling
- 2× Swablu
- 1× Oricorio
- 1× Giovanni
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Mars
- 1× Lisia
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Training Area
- 1× Field Blower
- 1× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Butterfree Mega Sceptile ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 0.7%
- Meta share
- 5.2%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Treecko
- 1× Grovyle
- 1× Mega Sceptile ex
- 2× Caterpie
- 2× Metapod
- 2× Butterfree
- 1× Giovanni
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Leaf Cape
- 1× Copycat
- 2× Quick-Grow Extract
- 1× Fragrant Forest
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Lucario ex Lucario
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 0.5%
- Meta share
- 6.4%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Hitmonlee
- 1× Lucario
- 2× Riolu
- 2× Mega Lucario ex
- 1× Giovanni
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Lyra
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Korrina
- 1× Arena of Antiquity
- 1× Elegant Cape
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Giovanni in tournament decks
This card appears in 4 current and 3 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.
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Giovanni
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Giovanni. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 99.5%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 98.9%
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 99.5%
Field Blower
B3-147
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 80.3%
Fragrant Forest
B3-153
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Leaf Cape
A3-147
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 98.8%
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