Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 6 lists we counted, this deck runs 14 to 17 Pokémon, 28 to 31 Trainers and 13 to 15 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Lightning and Fighting.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « reging-bolt-bellibolt ». The cards we can recognise in that label are Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex. The bit « reging » does not point at any one card in the list, so we leave it out of the name rather than make up a meaning.

Look at the Energy: 13 to 15 out of 60, when half the 91 decks we track run 10 or fewer. This one carries more than most, and you feel it at the table — it wants to load up a big Pokémon and swing hard, even if that means drawing a spare Energy now and then.

It sets up fast. Iono's Bellibolt ex is a Stage 1 Pokémon: a Basic, one evolution on top, and you are attacking. Two cards instead of three. You lose fewer turns building, and you rebuild much more easily when an early knockout lands on you.

On the Trainer side: 9 to 14 Supporters, 11 to 18 Items, 0 to 1 Tools and 2 to 3 Stadiums, out of 28 to 31 — the median across the 91 decks we track being 31. Items edge it without crushing the Supporters. And it runs up to 3 Stadiums, which is no accident: it plans on bumping the one across the table.

What those four families of Trainer actually do, and why the Energy count says so much: how to read a deck list.

What the cards in this deck's name actually do

Raging Bolt ex and Iono's Bellibolt ex give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Raging Bolt ex is in all 6 lists, 2 copies of it. Its attack Burst Roar costs 1 Energy (Colorless) and has no damage number printed next to it. That is why you will not find it in the attacker table lower down, which sorts by printed damage. Everything it does lives in its text: « Discard your hand and draw 6 cards. »

Iono's Bellibolt ex is in all 6 lists, 3 copies of it. Its Ability is called Electric Streamer, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « As often as you like during your turn, you may attach a Basic {L} Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Iono's Pokémon. »

How Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex actually wins

Iono's Bellibolt ex attacks with Thunderous Bolt for 230, and it costs 4 Energy (Lightning, Lightning, Lightning and Colorless), with 280 HP to absorb the answer. The whole list exists to get it online fast.

Do the arithmetic, it decides your first few turns. One Energy attached a turn, 4 to pay for Thunderous Bolt: with no help you swing on turn 4, and every card that accelerates Energy buys one of those turns back.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games: Iono's Bellibolt ex has a Retreat Cost of 2, which is a whole turn to get it back to the Bench.

Iono's Bellibolt ex and Raging Bolt ex carry the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes TWO Prize cards instead of one when one of them falls. They need six to win: three well-placed knockouts on those cards beat you, where it would take six anywhere else on your Bench.

The attackers in the deck's core, with their best attack, its cost and their Weakness

Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Iono's Bellibolt exStage 1	280	Thunderous Bolt	230	Lightning + Lightning + Lightning + Colorless	Fighting ×2	2
Raging Bolt exBasic	240	Bellowing Thunder	70×	Lightning + Fighting	none	3
Iono's KilowattrelStage 1	120	Mach Bolt	70	Lightning + Colorless + Colorless	Lightning ×2	1
Iono's TadbulbBasic	60	Tiny Charge	30	Lightning + Colorless	Fighting ×2	2

The core: the 16 cards every list runs

These 16 cards appear in all 6 lists, without a single exception. That is 54 of the 60 slots. The other 6 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 54 slots break down: 24 Trainers, 15 Pokémon, 15 Energy. The balance is a normal one, so it is the cards themselves, more than the split, that give this deck its character.

13 of those 16 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Iono's Kilowattrel (2 to 3), Iono's Wattrel (2 to 3) and Raging Bolt ex (2 to 3), plus 10 more. Everybody runs them, the last copy is arguable.

What "3 to 4" means in the copies column, what the "TWM 130" code under each name is for, and why we count dozens of lists instead of one: how to read a deck list.

The cards present in every list counted, with the number of copies

Copies	Card	Printing	Kind	Rotation
3	Iono's Bellibolt ex	JTG 53	Pokémon	stays
2–3	Iono's Kilowattrel	JTG 55	Pokémon	stays
3	Iono's Tadbulb	JTG 52	Pokémon	stays
2–3	Iono's Wattrel	JTG 54	Pokémon	stays
2–3	Raging Bolt ex	TEF 123	Pokémon	leaves
1–3	Iono's Voltorb	JTG 47	Pokémon	stays
2–4	Buddy-Buddy Poffin	TEF 144	Trainer	leaves
1–4	Canari	ASC 185	Trainer	stays
4	Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
2–3	Levincia	JTG 150	Trainer	stays
2–4	Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays
2–3	Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
2–3	Energy Retrieval	SVI 171	Trainer	stays
1–3	Night Stretcher	ASC 196	Trainer	leaves
10–12	Lightning Energy	MEE 4	Energy	stays
2–3	Fighting Energy	MEE 6	Energy	stays

The 16 cards that change from list to list

16 cards fight over the 6 slots that are left: 1 above three lists in four, 5 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Energy Switch at 83 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Judge, at 50 %: 3 of 6 players took it, 3 put something else there. Read its text before you decide. Right at the bottom, Shaymin at 17 % and Lana's Aid at 17 %: personal ideas, only worth copying if you know why.

Why a card at 45 % is not a bad card, and what order to buy all this in: how to read a deck list.

The cards some lists run and others don't, most common first

Lists running it	Card	Copies	Printing	Kind
83 %5/6	Energy Switch	2	MEG 115	Trainer
67 %4/6	Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
67 %4/6	Poké Pad	1–3	POR 81	Trainer
67 %4/6	Energy Search	1–2	POR 72	Trainer
50 %3/6	Judge	1–2	POR 76	Trainer
50 %3/6	Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
50 %3/6	Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
33 %2/6	Budew	1	ASC 16	Pokémon
33 %2/6	Crispin	2	SCR 133	Trainer
33 %2/6	Max Rod	1	PRE 116	Trainer
33 %2/6	Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer
17 %1/6	Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
17 %1/6	Lana's Aid	2	TWM 155	Trainer
17 %1/6	Air Balloon	1	ASC 181	Trainer
17 %1/6	Morty's Conviction	1	TEF 155	Trainer
17 %1/6	Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer

The most common Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 54 slots come from the core, the cards all 6 lists run. The remaining 6 come from the table just above, working down it: the cards the most players chose, each at its most common copy count, until the total lands on 60.

This list is nobody's list in particular. It takes, slot by slot, what the most people played, under the same guardrails a judge would hold you to: four copies of a card at most, one ACE SPEC, and a split that stays inside what these 6 lists actually showed. It comes to 16 Pokémon, 29 Trainers and 15 Energy.

A word on what it measures, because it changes what you can expect from it. The lists we read are the ones from players who came in the top twenty of their tournament. So there is no losing list to hold up against them, and "the cards that win" is not a sentence this count knows how to write. What you have in front of you is what the players finishing near the top bring most often. Start there.

One thing to fix before you play: there is no ACE SPEC card in these 60. Players split that slot so many ways that none of their cards climbed high enough to get in, and 6 of the 6 lists carry one. Take Unfair Stamp, the most chosen, and drop a card from the bottom of the table to make room.

The text under the table is the one the game expects. Copy it, open the deck manager, paste, and the list builds itself. Names in there are in English, with the set code and collector number right beside them: that pair points at one card and one only, whatever language you play in.

There is no price total on this page. The readings we have are Cardmarket's, in euros, and the shop link further down sends you to TCGplayer, which quotes in dollars. Putting a euro figure next to a dollar shop would be one currency too many. The French and German pages carry the total.

How to read the percentages in the table above, and what order to buy all this in: how to read a deck list.

Pokémon: 16
3 Iono's Bellibolt ex JTG 53
3 Iono's Kilowattrel JTG 55
3 Iono's Tadbulb JTG 52
3 Iono's Wattrel JTG 54
2 Raging Bolt ex TEF 123
1 Iono's Voltorb JTG 47
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142

Trainer: 29
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
4 Canari ASC 185
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
3 Levincia JTG 150
3 Ultra Ball MEG 131
2 Boss's Orders MEG 114
2 Energy Retrieval
2 Night Stretcher ASC 196
2 Energy Switch MEG 115
3 Poké Pad POR 81

Energy: 15
12 Lightning Energy MEE 4
3 Fighting Energy MEE 6

Total Cards: 60

What Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 32 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 16 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

Where the money goes, though, we can name: it is Iono's Bellibolt ex and Raging Bolt ex, by a distance. The 24 Trainer slots in the core cost next to nothing, and you probably own some already. All 6 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 3 took Unfair Stamp, 2 took Max Rod and 1 took Prime Catcher. You are allowed ONE ACE SPEC card in your whole deck, so a single copy covers it whatever it costs. New to this deck? Take Unfair Stamp and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 3 of the 16 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Raging Bolt ex, Buddy-Buddy Poffin and Night Stretcher. The core table marks each of them. The date belongs to the publisher, and we do not have it.

What Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Fighting and Lightning, so they take DOUBLE damage from those types. 15 of the 91 decks we track attack in exactly those types.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Lucario ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama and Cynthia's Garchomp ex, plus 12 more decks. The table below takes them one at a time, and those are the lists you practise against first before an event.

Do not stop at this table, though. This deck sets up fast, so what troubles it looks less like a Weakness and more like an opponent who absorbs your first hits and answers harder.

Going the other way, your attackers are Lightning and Fighting, and 23 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Festival Lead, Toucannon and Raging Bolt ex, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex deck list?

There isn't one, and that is the whole point. Across 6 tournament lists harvested on 16 August 2026, 16 cards turn up in every single one — 54 slots out of 60. The remaining 6 change from player to player, with 16 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

How many lists is this counted on, and where do they come from?

6 lists, played across 6 different tournaments, harvested on 16 August 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 6 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex?

With the whole core: 16 cards, 54 slots. Inside it, buy the 24 Trainer slots and the 15 Energy first — they are cheap and they carry over into your next deck. Leave Iono's Bellibolt ex and Raging Bolt ex for last, because that is the bill. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Energy Switch at 83 %.

What beats Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex?

Its attackers are Weak to Fighting and Lightning, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 15 of the 91 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Mega Lucario ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama, Cynthia's Garchomp ex and Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik, among others.

Will Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 3 core cards out of 16 carry the letter H, starting with Raging Bolt ex, Buddy-Buddy Poffin and Night Stretcher.

Are a lot of people playing Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex?

We have read 6 lists of it, which puts it 91th of the 91 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 6 entries for it, 0.02 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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