hi, there are many parry or blocking cards, or some reacting ones that when combined with the right strategy, can really help during battle... the game is after all, some luck and some strategy and that is what makes it interesting. That is why at the beginning you were asked to choose your offensive (fire) and your defensive types. So when something like ground or rock which is really effective against fire did attack you, you could switch and battle it that way instead. You can switch types provided you have a number of cards on your deck that are of a certain type, I think minimum is 10 or 15.
a good page suggested months before to see which type is stronger or neutral against which other one is found here:
https://pokemondb.net/type

And, depending on what you will be battling its better to have just attacking cards or mixing defensive ones ... for online its usually better to have cards that recover health, like honey treatment (from bug type) which will work regardless if you are a bug type or not, and lots of attacking cards so you can advance faster and hopefully is a smaller deck with more useful attacking cards, but again it boils down to strategy ETC.
oh yeah, there are I think 12 gyms in total . and there is the grand council one which mixes many types but you can unlock more cards faster using that one, or just doing online cooperative battles...

@UltraLeetJ, OK as I remember-
f1 to toggle chat messages should be recieved or not
f2 to send a chat message
f4 to turn player's location onn or off
j to check the number of players connected
c to check the score of each player
control k to kick someone
p i think check mps or something I don't remember .
And these are all which I remember.

@Tristan04, Thanks for this. I didn't knew some like moderation and all . Aah so that is what player's location means when we press f4 .

@jade, wow! I am not able to get all cards of all dec till the poison one also till now! Anyways I just would like to ask like which type of strategies will be good for making decs? Does anyone has any advice on this?

Okay, so I have some more questions and observations and whatnot. This might get a bit technical.

First, I'm utterly wrecking stuff with bug. I tend to ignore a lot of the weird stuff and just go for attacks. Bug actually hits freakishly hard, and if you pair it with fighting for Bulk Up and whatnot, it's nasty. Sure, it's got plenty of weaknesses, but in the gyms where it's got an advantage, it rips stuff apart. Can someone explain how Blood Meal works though? I'm going to be coming back to blood in a second. Also, can someone explain how the Combined Tackle thing works? You use a card, and then get a card, so you never run out but never seem to get more, and conceivably the max you can draw is four, so the Rampage skill will just use them up and you're screwed, correct? I tend to stick to that Concert of Bumblebee thing, or Pin Missile, or if a fight carries on, Giant Sting.

Dark...ho boy, this one is confusing me. So much stuff with blood, and sacrificing HP, and I just...don't get it. The only good thing it seems like you can do with blood in someone else's hand is that Open Sore thing, but what about blood in your own hand? What the heck is the point of Self-Mutilation, for either player? Totally confused. Also, dark seems to like snatching cards, but after all the cards I've earned, I'm still not sure what is the discard pile, what junking specifically means, what the discard pile is, and what the exile is. I've often found myself using a card for no apparent benefit even though I thought it was going to give me a card from my deck or recycle it from previous use. Are certain cards bugged? Sorry, I can't give specific examples...Determination, in the fighting type, maybe.

Psychic...okay, so how exactly does this phobia thing work? It looks like a ton of setup. Psychic looks extremely daunting - I'm currently using a bug deck to earn all the cards and am about 3/4 of the way there. Also, is there any point to Psychic Trauma when both you and your opponent take damage and then become afraid? Is there some way to manipulate that so that you are immune and your opponent is scared to death?

Grass...what's up with the Magical Flowers, and are they worth using? A lot of the stronger grass attacks tend to put you to sleep, so they might be worth combining with Insomnia or some such...but normally when I play grass, I just stick to damage and don't bother with anything except arrows and drains and Zenith, and sometimes the Elf card and Elfin Quiver.

If there's some sort of help system that can answer most of these, or a post which goes in depth already, please do let me know. I feel a bit like a novice here. Also, I don't know how to check my level for all active types on the fly; I can only apparently see the level in my main type, not my secondary. Does that reset to 0 if I switch, too?

That's about all, I think.

Oh wait, no, poison. What's with all the elixir stuff? Why would you deliberately want to poison yourself?

I believe the difference between the discard pile and exile is that cards in your exile can't be used again unless you use specific cards to bring them back. When you no longer have anything in your deck, you get another one from your discard pile, as that's where they most often are when you play them or junk them. If a card lands in your exile it's due to effect of specific cards, not because you played/junk a card.
When you play Combined Tackle, you get another Combined Tackle card, but you also get another card that you draw at the beginning of each turn, unless something prevents you from doing it. As the power of said card depends on how many identical cards you have in the discard pile, it does get more powerful each time you play it. The Combined Rampage card doesn't sacrifice your Combined Tackle cards in any way, but you did well asking the question as some other cards that directly depend on another card tend to sacrifice it, like Sap Stream or Grease Canon, on which I will come back, as your next question was about Self-Mutilation.
That card is useful for some very particular setups. You may know that plant type has a Sap card that give +1 in plant type attacks when it is in someone's hand, and it does cumulate depennding on how many Sap cards you have. Same for the Mechanical Grease card for steel type. Now, blood can be turned into sap or grease via the Sap Blood or Grease Blood card. After that your plant or steel attacks can be much more powerful than they would normally be, and you can use cards such as Piston Shot, Grease Canon or Sap stream, that will sacrifice the card they depend on (except for Piston Shot), but they will be quite powerful because they get two different power bonusses, one due to the normal effect of Sap/Mechanical Grease, the other because there power directly depend from the number of said cards in your hand.
There are also other things with self-mutilation, like Blue Blood for Fairy Type or that Coagulation Factor/Pus Surge combo for poison type. Self-Mutilation setups are cool I guess, but you don't get to use them that easily, at least in my experience. And they do expose you to card such as Blood Meal, as it's usefulness/power directly depends on how many blood cards are in the opponents hand.
Blood Meal can really turn the table in a battle. Not only do you recover all the health you absorb, but it can poison opponents to a level that's equivalent to the amount of Blood cards they have in their hand. If a card depends on another card and it says for example +1 or +2 in poison or curse, multiply that amount by the number of the other mentionned card. Same for the power of cards like Sap Stream or Grease Canon mentionned above.
There are other card that depend on the same thing as Blood Meal, such as Bloody Panic, that you can follow with Shock from Terror for quite scary damage.
Next, the Phobia cards react when the concerned type is used against an opponent that has the coresponding card in his hand. That gives him +1 in fear for 1 or 2 turns. But as you say, that's quite a bit of setup.
There are a few things you can do with Psychic Trauma, either you play a card such as Elixir of Courage when you are about to get +1 in fear, either you keep one or more panic cards in your hands and wait for them to take effect when the moment comes. For example, Normal type as Natural Panic, Dragon type has Reptilian Panic, etc...
Finally for Magical Flowers, there are once again cards that depends on how many you have in your hand, I know some people like to play with them but that's not necessarily worth it, especially if your opponent only use physical attacks.
Pfew, that was long, and I fear I'm not so clear on some points, but I hope it will at least help you for some things.
PS: I like combining fighting type with things that use a lot of physical moves for the same reasons you said, which are the same for which I combine Psychic type with things that use special moves.
Edit: With all of that, I forgot to tell about the Elixir of poison. The reason why you would poison yourself is to use Transfusion, which will poison your opponent twice as much and for a longer period, at least if we are comparing with Elixir of poison. Then you could also use Elixir Delivery followed by Elixir Explosion, never tried that combo personally though.

I'm not sure I'm very good at making decks that are designed to play well for battles when you start with 30 hp for example, though they are certainly some rock and bug cards to help in that regard. Sometimes I stay alive long enough to play like several buff cards from psychic type and use concert of bumblebee for big damage, but if you want things to be quick you may also count on rock, steel or even fighting. I actually have a fighting/rock deck that doesn't necessarily take that much time to take big chunks of health to the opponent, but I guess one can do better.
As for combos, I think I told all the ones I knew, I didn't play much with environments and talents but there are certainly interesting things to do, such as aeromancer+sandstorm, or red dragon+oppressive heat.
Also, the Grand Council allows you to earn 10 cards from any type when beaten, and if you have 110 or 130 coins you get a gem. And yes, it is totally random.

Ahaha, I have the bug dark deck too, and I made the explosive one with poison and fire. The bloody one I think is actually too slow for ai battle, but I think it could work well on long online battles. To win ai battle fast I use my flying and kick deck, I can almost always play through the council loosing only one encounter.

The thing about my dark bug deck is that it doesn't waste time with success or stat drops. Almost everything it has will do damage of either dark or bug type, or will help me do it (dark night, sadistic, midnight ring, bulk-up, etc). I've got Royale Jelly and Honey Treatment in there so I don't get poisoned and can heal, plus some Elixir of Energy just for more cheap healing if I'm a wee bit fortunate. I also have Ejection of Pollen for a situational setup; my bug moves are weaker than my dark moves, but if I can make you a grass type and then pin-missile you, it's usually GG. I am actually thinking about removing Self-Mutilation and Blood Resonance from the strat though, since while it can do some insane damage, it also causes me to lose a lot of HP. That would give me room either for more bug/dark damage attacks, or more status, or god knows what. Pretty much all the attacks in the deck are physical, so I could probably put a few fighting cards in there and give myself tri-typing if I wanted over the Resonance strat.

A ghost deck is one I haven't tried out, but I'm considering toying around with it when I get home from classes this evening. I especially like Spectral Dimension, and suspect that the most effective ghost deck might actually involve more damage than tricks, but I'm not sure.

Will have to give your fairy-sound idea a try at some point, too. And poison-fire, eh? Ooh, that sounds like fun. Fire is another one I've yet to really get into...though Stir Up has enormous, enormous potential after you set someone on fire.

Ah yes, okay. Powder Explosion would work extremely well there. Requires me to take a lot of damage, but then, I can also use it to generate powders, turn them into elixirs and either quaff 'em, deliver 'em and blow 'em up, or, here's a better idea! Have a secondary water type and make them into elixir of energy for insane healing. Would probably take some luck and setup, but it sounds pretty legit.

I also think I have a neat idea for a fire deck, but haven't the time to test right now. Basically a gunpowder setup followed by a ton of burning. Or, failing that, an overheat+oppressive heat damage setup behind it, maybe with secondary psychic typing. Heck, could even go secondary water typing for protection against too much burning, and Boiling.

After a cursory try, I'm not really too impressed with ghost. Doesn't seem to do enough reliable damage, and Curse is just...too chancy to risk, IMHO. That, or there's some ungodly strategy I'm not yet figuring out. lol

Yesterday I tested also a deck dark grass with the blood sap and sap stream strategy. I have also blood resonance in there and things to recover health like nourishing roots, honey treatement and elixir of energy, but I don't know if is worth keeping it. I mean, having a second strategy available is great, but sap stream and sap cards in general can help you do a lot of damage! At list against the council. I also don't quite understand how blood resonance works, I know that it follows the cards in your hand and in the target's hand, but I don't know if is better to give more bleeding cards to the target, or the same number of bleeding cards to both.

I have a railway/grease deck somewhere, it's fine I guess but I would prefer using it in battles starting with as much health as possible because being able to really exploit the railway takes time.