① Your Turn

• You gain mana each round (starts at 5, grows by 1 up to 12). Spend it, then press End Turn.
• Click a card in your hand to play it. Pokémon go onto your board (max 7).
• Mana refills fully every turn — there's no carry-over, so spend it all.

② The Shop

• Buy Pokémon (4 mana) and Magic cards (3 mana) from the offer row.
• Reroll (1 mana) for new offers, or Lock the shop to keep them next turn.
• Level Up the shop to unlock stronger, higher-tier Pokémon and evolutions.

③ Growing Your Pokémon

• Survival: a Pokémon that survives a turn gains a Survival level. At Survival 2 it unlocks its signature move — a 1-mana active ability (Pikachu's Thunder Shock, Snorlax's Hyper Beam, etc.). One use per turn.
• Evolve: spend mana on a basic Pokémon to transform it into its next stage (needs the right shop level + Survival).
• Shiny: play a duplicate of a Pokémon already on your board to merge it — boosting its stats and refunding 1 mana. Works even when your board is full.

④ Battle

• At End Turn your Pokémon fight. Toggle ⚔ Auto / ⚔ Manual in the battle bar:
• Auto: each Pokémon attacks left-to-right, favoring good matchups and avoiding bad ones.
• Manual: click your Pokémon, then click an enemy (or the enemy hero) to attack. Press Done Fighting when finished.
• ↕ Reorder lets you swap two Pokémon positions once per round — order matters in Auto battles.
• Drag a card from your hand or board to the 🗑 Sell zone to discard it for +1 mana.

⑤ Type Matchups — the heart of combat

Every Pokémon has one or two types. When attacking, the type chart decides the damage multiplier:

🔥 Fire melts 🌿 Grass  ·  💧 Water douses 🔥 Fire  ·  ⚡ Electric can't touch 🏜 Ground (immune)  ·  👊 Fighting can't hit 👻 Ghost.

💡 Dual-types stack: Electric hits a Water/Flying Gyarados for a brutal 4×. Hover any attack target to see its multiplier badge.

⑥ Type Synergies — stack the same type!

This is the core of deck-building. Every type grants a team bonus that grows with how many of that type you control (2+ to activate; dual-types count for both). There is no free card each turn — card advantage now comes from synergies like Psychic and Bug. Your live synergies show in the right-side panel.

• 🔥 Fire — +1 Attack each, per Fire
• 💧 Water — +1 defense to ALL, per 2 Water
• 🌿 Grass — neighbours get +10% Attack each
• ⚡ Electric — attacks chain to nearby enemies
• 🪨 Rock — bonus attack damage
• 🏜 Ground — take NO counterattack damage
• ⚙️ Steel — 2+ Steel take HALF damage
• 🔮 Psychic — search a Psychic each turn
• 👻 Ghost — negate the 1st hit each battle
• 🐉 Dragon — Dragon Cry: enemies −defense
• 🧚 Fairy — enemy debuffs become buffs
• 🐛 Bug — search a cheaper Bug on faint
• 🧊 Ice — freeze enemies when an Ice faints
• 👊 Fighting — each hit landed adds +1 Attack
• 🌑 Dark — steal a defeated enemy's card
• ☠️ Poison — poison foes for damage/turn
• ⭐ Normal — overkill damage heals your hero
• 🪽 Flying — dive at the hero, 1.5× damage

💡 A mono-type or two-type board turns these into game-winning engines. Mix for coverage, or stack one type for raw power.

⑦ Keywords

• 🛡️ Taunt — enemies must attack this first.
• Charge — can attack the turn it's played.
• Rush — can attack enemy Pokémon (not the hero) immediately.
• Windfury — attacks twice per turn.
• ☠️ Poisonous — any Pokémon it damages in combat faints.
• ✨ Divine Shield — blocks the first hit, then breaks.
• Lifesteal — heals your hero for damage dealt.

⑧ Progression

• Win battles to earn ⭐ wins and 💰 gold.
• Spend gold in the Shop & Collection to unlock new cards; wins unlock higher rarities.
• Use the 🛠 Deck Builder to craft a 30-card deck, or jump into a Quick Battle with a random one.