Next, if you have any more basic pokemon in your hand, then put them on the table as benched pokemon. These pokemon will act as your backup but cannot attack until you actually switch to them. Then, put the top 6 cards from your deck face down in front of you. These act as prizes whenever you knock out your opponent's pokemon. Flip a coin to decide who goes first.
Someone has to call it, and if they're wrong, then the opposing person goes first.
Whenever you need to discard a card in play, put it in your discard pile. You can only have 6 pokemon in play at once. After each turn, you must draw a card. If you finish drawing your whole deck, then you lose and your opponent takes the victory. If you run out of basic pokemon, then you lose again.