Chaos Rising
Kakuna
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What the card itself says
Everything below is written on the card itself: how much health it has, what it fears, and what its attacks cost.
- HP
- 80
- Type
- Grass
- Stage
- Stage 1
- Retreat cost
- 3
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- J
Its Ability
Exoskeleton
This Pokémon takes 20 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Its attacks
Hang Down
20What to make of it
Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- It has an Ability, Exoskeleton. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Beedrill ex runs it in 28 of the 28 lists we have read, seen across 27 different tournaments.
- Mark J. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.
- Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 816 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
Who plays it
These decks really played this card at a tournament. We spot it by the little set code printed at the bottom, the one players copy onto their list — two cards sometimes share a name, the code never lies.
| Deck | Lists | Tournaments | Printing listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beedrill ex | 28 of 28 | 27 | CRI 2 |
When it came out
Chaos Rising landed here on 22 May 2026.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 13 March 2026, under the code M4. That is 70 days ahead of us.
The other cards of this Pokémon
Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 22 Kakuna cards on one page, priciest first.