Destined Rivals
Team Rocket's Orbeetle
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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
- 130
- Type
- Psychic
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
- Resistance
- -30
- Regulation mark
- I
Its Ability
Rocket Brain
As often as you like during your turn, you may move 1 damage counter from 1 of your Team Rocket's Pokémon to another of your Pokémon.
Its attacks
Psychic
40+This attack does 40 more damage for each Energy attached to your opponent's Active 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
- It has an Ability, Rocket Brain. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- rocket-nidoking-ex runs it in 2 of the 22 lists we have read, seen across 2 different tournaments.
- Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Team Rocket's Dottler to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 1,987 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| rocket-nidoking-ex | 2 of 22 | 2 | DRI 89 |
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.
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 14 Orbeetle cards on one page, priciest first.