Mega Absol ex, Mega Mawile ex, and Acerola’s Mischief from “Mega Brave” and “Mega Symphonia!”

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onJul 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM · 32 Comments

Mega Absol ex, Mega Mawile ex, and Acerola's Mischief have been revealed from Mega Brave and Mega Symphonia, which will release in Japan on August 1st. Thanks goes to JustInBasil for the translations!

Mega Absol ex - Darkness - HP280
Basic Pokemon

[D][C] Doom Period: If your opponent's Active Pokémon has exactly 6 damage counters on it, that Pokémon is Knocked Out.

[D][D][C] Cruel Claw: 200 damage. Your opponent reveals their hand. Discard a card you find there.

Mega Evolution ex rule: When your Mega Evolution Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.

Weakness: none
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Mega Mawile ex - Metal - HP270
Basic Pokemon

[M][M] Greedily Devour: This attack does 80 damage for each Prize card you have taken.

[M][M][C] Big Bite: 260 damage. If your opponent's Active Pokémon already has any damage counters on it before this attack does damage, this attack does 30 damage instead.

Mega Evolution ex rule: When your Mega Evolution Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.

Weakness: none
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Acerola's Mischief - Trainer
Supporter

You can use this card only if your opponent has 2 or fewer Prize cards remaining.

Choose 1 of your Pokémon in play. During your opponent's next turn, prevent all damage from and effects of attacks done to this Pokémon by attacks from your opponent's Pokémon ex.

You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn.

This leaves only Mega Camerupt ex, Mega Abomasnow ex, Mega Kangaskhan ex, and either Mega Manectric ex or Mega Ampharos ex to be revealed.

Mega Brave and Mega Symphonia will combine to form the majority of our international set Mega Evolution, which releases on September 26th.

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Interesting choice of trainers for this set. I guess it’s partly because ZA won’t be out yet so they’re holding off on Kalos characters
 
Ngl, they may be big basics with decent(?) attacks, but for the cost of three prize cards these megas feel incredibly underwhelming.

Though that could change based on what support the set has for each mega.
 
Acerola op fr fr (wrote this before they actually put down what acerola does)

in all honesty it's really funny to me how everyone was fearmongering about the new megas and with the exception of gardevoir and venusaur they're pretty mid lol
 
If Dark gets good accel options I think Absol Munkidori has potential to be extremely powerful

Mawile is functional, not amazing but it does swing good thresholds (esp with Vitality Band) and it has accel in Archaludon

"Choose 1 of your Pokémon in play" immediately makes Acerola nearly unusable.
 
excelsium2 said:
Ngl, they may be big basics with decent(?) attacks, but for the cost of three prize cards these megas feel incredibly underwhelming.

Though that could change based on what support the set has for each mega.
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Very glad they’re approaching this so conservatively. With the way the meta went the last time 3-prizers were introduced, they should be very careful. Honestly, it somewhat baffles me on why they think reintroducing 3-prizers is a good idea to begin with. I thought we’ve established by now that 1-prizers and 2-prizers are the way to go
 
Unfortunately I don't think Acerola or Mawile are good cards.

Absol, though? You need some kind of energy acceleration since you need 2 energy on it and some set-up munkidoris (or cofagrigus if you're a gamer), but the first attack is a somewhat easy way to steal KOs and the second attack one shots both regular and mega gardy ex. It probably needs more support but I think there's potential there.
 
With the remaining Megas yet to be revealed, I'm gonna predict that it will be Manectric, because there could be an opportunity for Ampharos to be a Dragon type, and there is also Charizard X as well.

EDIT: Thinking on from Ampharos, we could also see a Fighting type Mewtwo X in the near future if the TCG play their cards right.
 
excelsium2 said:
Ngl, they may be big basics with decent(?) attacks, but for the cost of three prize cards these megas feel incredibly underwhelming.

Though that could change based on what support the set has for each mega.
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I do see your point but I think these cards might be better off as being finishers based on their first moves
 
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