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Team Rocket's Nidorino

Team Rocket's Nidorino

Team Rocket's Nidorino arrived with Destined Rivals on 30 May 2025. Here is what it does once it is on the table, and what it is worth right now.

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.

HP100
TypeDarkness
StageStage 1
Retreat cost2
WeaknessFighting ×2
Regulation markI

ITS ATTACKS

Hammer In30Darkness + Colorless
Horn Rend60+Darkness + Darkness + ColorlessIf your opponent's Active Pokémon already has any damage counters on it, this attack does 60 more damage.

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

  • rocket-nidoking-ex runs it in 21 of the 22 lists we have read, seen across 20 different tournaments.
  • Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.

WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR

  • Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,150 tournament lists we have read, 733 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

What it costs

We have no price to show you for this card today. The link below takes you where it sells, and you will see the day's numbers there.

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.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
rocket-nidoking-ex21 of 2220DRI 118

When it came out

Destined Rivals landed here on 30 May 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 April 2025, under the code SV10. That is 42 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 16 Nidorino cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Nidorino card and its price

Where to find it

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