Ascended Heroes
Pikachu ex
Versions of this card
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SSP 57Surging SparksDouble rarePurchase priceSold out
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SSP 238Surging SparksSpecial illustration rarePurchase priceSold out
SSP 247Surging SparksHyper rarePurchase priceSold out
PRE 179Prismatic EvolutionsHyper rarePurchase priceSold out
ASC 57Ascended HeroesDouble rarePurchase priceSold out
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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
- 200
- Type
- Lightning
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- H
Its Ability
Resolute Heart
If this Pokémon has full HP and would be Knocked Out by damage from an attack, it is not Knocked Out, and its remaining HP becomes 10.
Its attacks
Topaz Bolt
300Discard 3 Energy from this Pokémon.
What 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
- Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.
- It has an Ability, Resolute Heart. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Joltik runs it in 24 of the 24 lists we have read, seen across 22 different tournaments.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
- Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 760 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
- Mark H, and that is the letter the next rotation takes away. After that you will not be able to play it in Standard.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joltik | 24 of 24 | 22 | SSP 57 |
| Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex / Fan Rotom | 15 of 28 | 13 | SSP 57 |
| Azumarill | 4 of 32 | 4 | SSP 57 |
| Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant | 3 of 38 | 3 | SSP 57 |
| blissey-ex | 2 of 18 | 2 | SSP 57 |
| Blaziken ex | 1 of 20 | 1 | SSP 57 |
| mega-zygarde-ex | 1 of 18 | 1 | SSP 57 |
| Toucannon | 1 of 24 | 1 | SSP 57 |
When it came out
Ascended Heroes landed here on 30 January 2026.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 28 November 2025, under the code M2a. That is 63 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 187 Pikachu cards on one page, priciest first.