Indonesia Premier Ball League 2026 results: Dragapult/Blaziken wins, and a list that went global

A week before Dragapult swept the top of the Brisbane Regional, it had already taken over in Indonesia. Jonas Xavier Dionisio won the Indonesia Premier Ball League on September 19 with Dragapult/Blaziken, and Dragapult decks filled more than half of the Top 32.

The event drew 1,384 players, according to Limitless TCG, which lists the Top 32. The card pool ran from Temporal Forces to Pitch Black, and Limitless notes that 30th Celebration was also legal. That makes it an early look at the format with the new set in it.

The numbers: Dragapult, and then Slowking

We counted every deck in the Top 32 on Limitless:

Deck	Top 32	Top 8	Top 16
Dragapult (all builds)	18 (56%)	4	9
Slowking	3	3	3
Zoroark	3	0	1
Dipplin/Thwackey	2	0	1
Metagross	1	1	1
Mega Sharpedo	1	0	1

Most Dragapult players split between three builds: six paired it with Blaziken, six played it alone and five paired it with Dusknoir. The other story is Slowking: only three players in the Top 32, and all three made the Top 8, including runner-up Katalio Krishna Adhisurya.

The winning list: Dragapult with a Blaziken engine

Dionisio’s deck keeps the usual Dragapult core, four Dreepy, four Drakloak and two Dragapult ex, and adds a Blaziken ex line. The attacker is still Dragapult ex’s Phantom Dive, 200 damage plus six damage counters spread across the opponent’s Bench. Blaziken ex changes how the deck runs out of steam:

• Blaziken ex’s Seething Spirit. Once during your turn, this Ability attaches a Basic Energy card from your discard pile to one of your Pokémon. Energy spent on attacks comes back, so Dragapult can keep diving.
• A second attacker. Blaziken ex’s own Smolder-sault attack does 200 damage, though it can’t attack again the next turn.
• Chi-Yu. Its Allure attack draws two cards, and Ground Melter does 60 more damage when a Stadium is in play, then discards that Stadium.
• Two Munkidori, Meowth ex and Fezandipiti ex, the same support package as the plain Dragapult lists, with three Rare Candy to speed up both evolution lines.

Limitless prices the list at about $39, roughly ₱2,400 by our conversion at ₱62.40 per US dollar, before shipping and local markups.

Adhisurya’s second-place Slowking list is a different animal. It runs four Slowpoke and three Slowking alongside Basic Pokémon such as three Mega Kangaskhan ex, two Latias ex and two Kyurem, plus four Academy at Night and three Boomerang Energy. It’s also the pricier of the top two lists, at about $50 on Limitless.

The Top 8

#	Player	Deck
1	Jonas Xavier Dionisio	Dragapult/Blaziken
2	Katalio Krishna Adhisurya	Slowking
3	Sudarto	Dragapult
4	Tito Santoso	Metagross
5	Dyo Christanto Bened	Dragapult/Dusknoir
6	Frederick Fuzi	Dragapult/Blaziken
7	Christian Hansen	Slowking
8	Daniel Ian	Slowking

All 32 players Limitless lists are from Indonesia.

The 18th-place list that won Brisbane

The most important deck at this event may not have been the winner’s. Daniel Ruslianto Putra finished 18th with a plain Dragapult list. A week later, Singapore’s Edmund Khoo won the Brisbane Regional with exactly the same 60 cards, according to Limitless, which groups identical lists. Seven players used it across four events in two weekends, including three at the Frankfurt Regional.

It’s a reminder that Asian events aren’t a sideshow. Lists from Southeast Asia are being picked up and played at the top level within days.

What it means for players in the Philippines

Indonesia is a close neighbour, and this was an Asian league event with 30th Celebration legal. Three takeaways:

1. Dragapult is the deck to beat in Asia too. More than half the Top 32 played it. If you’re heading to a GYM Battle, expect to face Phantom Dive and plan for bench damage.
2. Blaziken ex is the partner to test. It tied for the most popular Dragapult build and won the event. Seething Spirit’s Energy recovery makes long games easier.
3. Don’t sleep on Slowking. Three players, three Top 8 finishes. It’s a small sample, but a perfect one.

The Philippines uses the same league tiers: Pokémon TCG Asia’s official event search for the Philippines filters events by Great Ball, Premier Ball and Master Ball League. Gym Battles count toward the GYM Campaign 2026 from October 1, and our store directory lists official GYMs near you.