Secret Wonders

Absol

SW21· Rare
Absol SW 21

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What the card itself says

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HP
70
Type
Darkness
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
+20
Resistance
-20
Number
21/132
Set
Secret WondersSW
Illustrated by
Ken Sugimori

Its attacks

Baleful Wind

Choose a card from your opponent's hand without looking and discard it. If you discarded a Trainer, Supporter, or Stadium card, choose 1 more card from your opponent's hand without looking and discard it.

Dark Raid

10

If you played Absol from your hand during this turn, this attack's base damage is 40 instead of 10.

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.

  1. A strength

    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.

  2. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting +20. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 875 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Who plays it

None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.

When it came out

Secret Wonders landed here on 1 November 2007.

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 30 Absol cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Absol card and its price