Pokémon TCG Pocket Rayquaza ex event: All Battle Tasks and rewards

Pokémon TCG Pocket’s latest battle event is here to coincide with the launch of the massive Celestial Guardians expansion, and runs from today, April 30 to May 13, 2025. This event focuses on Rayquaza ex, a powerful legendary Pokémon that deals huge damage and can drop into any deck with ease. 

Like Drop events before it, the Rayquaza ex Drop Event has players taking on a series of increasingly difficult solo challenge battles. Also like the prior events, players will be able to earn a Rayquaza ex promo card, alongside a few new promo cards in a new promo pack that should help fill out your decks. 

Battle Events require event-specific stamina to participate in, with one gem of stamina recovering every 12 hours. Thankfully, you won’t expend any stamina if you lose the battle, and Event Hourglasses, which reduce the timer for stamina, can be earned by completing battles for the first time alongside a few other rewards. Each card battle also has a series of Battle Tasks, which upon completion give additional rewards, as well as Chance Rewards, which is how players will obtain rare promo cards.

Find all Pokémon TCG Pocket Rayquaza ex event Battle Tasks and their rewards below.

Pokémon TCG Pocket Rayquaza ex Drop Event: Battle Tasks and Rewards 

The Rayquaza ex Drop Event offers players four solo battles to take on against a CPU, each with a specific deck of increasing difficulty from Beginner through to Expert. In addition to first-time battle rewards and chance rewards, each battle comes with a selection of tasks, such as knocking out cards with Pokémon of specific types, using cards of specific rarities, and winning within a certain amount of turns. Each of these tasks can be completed once.

Here are all Rayquaza ex Drop Event Battle Tasks and their rewards:

Beginner

• Knock Out your opponent’s Active Pokémon 1 time with an attack from a Lightning-type Pokémon — Event Hourglass x5 
• Put 3 Basic Pokémon into play — Pack Hourglass x15

Intermediate 

• Knock Out your opponent’s Active Pokémon 2 times with an attack from a Lightning-type Pokémon — Event Hourglass x5 
• Put a Stage 1 Pokémon into play — Event Hourglass x5
• Win this battle by turn 14 — Pack Hourglass x15

Advanced 

• Knock Out your opponent’s Active Pokémon 2 times with an attack from a Lightning-type Pokémon — Wonder Hourglass x5 
• Win this battle using a deck where all Pokémon cards are of ♢, ♢♢, and/or ♢♢♢ rarity — Wonder Hourglass x5
• Win this battle by turn 14 — Pack Hourglass x15
• Win this battle without your opponent getting any points — Wonder Hourglass x5

Expert 

• Win this battle using a deck where all Pokémon cards are of ♢, ♢♢, and/or ♢♢♢ rarity — Wonder Hourglass x6
• Win this battle by turn 12 — Pack Hourglass x15
• Win this battle without your opponent getting any points — Wonder Hourglass x6
• Win 10 or more battles — Wonder Hourglass x7 
• Win 20 or more battles — Wonder Hourglass x7

Pokémon TCG Pocket Rayquaza ex Drop Event: All Rewards 

Players also earn rewards the first time they clear a battle during the event, and Chance Rewards, which offer a selection of rewards with weighted odds depending on the difficulty level and are awarded after every win. 

Here are the first-time rewards for each difficulty level: 

• Beginner: Pack Hourglass x15, Promo Pack, Shop Ticket
• Intermediate: Pack Hourglass x15, Promo Pack, Shop Ticket
• Advanced: Pack Hourglass x15, Promo Pack, Shop Ticket
• Expert: Pack Hourglass x15, Promo Pack, Shop Ticket

And here are the Chance Rewards for each difficulty level, along with their likelihood of being rewarded after each match: 

• Beginner: Promo Pack (51%), Shinedust x25 (100%), Shop Ticket (38.7%) 
• Intermediate: Promo Pack (64%), Shinedust x25 (100%), Shop Ticket (48.3%) 
• Advanced: Promo Pack (80%), Shinedust x25 (100%), Shop Ticket (60.4%)
• Expert: Promo Pack (100%), Shinedust x25 (100%), Shop Ticket (75.5%)

Pokémon TCG Pocket Rayquaza ex Drop Event: All Promo Cards

Players who earn Promo Packs during the Rayquaza ex Drop Event will have those cards added to the gifts menu on the home page of the app, where they can be opened one at a time to receive one card out of a pool of five. Each of these cards has an equal chance of appearing when opening a Promo Pack, so the Rayquaza ex is just as likely as the Froakie — it’s a 20% chance for each. 

Here’s the full list of cards in the Rayquaza ex Drop Event Promo Pack:

• Exeggcute 
• Froakie 
• Farfetch’d
• Rayquaza
• Rayquaza ex

Rayquaza ex is the clear draw card here, as it’s a great addition to just about every deck, thanks to its Colorless typing and status as a Basic Pokémon. Rayquaza ex’s big attack, Draco Meteor, deals 160 damage to your opponent’s Pokémon, in lots of 40 spread across four randomly selected targets, which is situationally very good — but the high energy cost might do it in for slower decks.  

The regular Rayquaza is also of note, since it also doesn’t have a main set counterpart. Its attack, Spiral Rush, is also high-cost, but does 70 base damage with the chance to increase it infinitely, provided your coin flips are lucky enough. The other three cards in the set are simply alternate artwork counterparts to main set cards.