Aquapolis

Nidoking

Name: Nidoking AQ 150
Brand: Pokémon

AQ150· Rare

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP: 100
Type: Colorless
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Number: 150/147
Set: AquapolisAQ
Illustrated by: Hironobu Yoshida

Its Ability

Crystal Type

Whenever you attach a Grass, Lightning, or Fire basic Energy card from your hand to Nidoking, Nidoking's type (color) becomes the same as that Energy card type until the end of the turn.

Its attacks

Poison Horn

The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Rolling Thunder

Flip a coin, If heads, this attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. If tails, this attack does 10 damage to each of your Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness or Resistance for Benched 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.

A strength
100 HP. Only 5 cards in Aquapolis carry more.
A strength
It has an Ability, Crystal Type. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
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.
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.
Keep in mind
It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Nidorino to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
Keep in mind
Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,350 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

Aquapolis landed here on 15 January 2003.

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 23 Nidoking cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Nidoking card and its price

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP: 100
Type: Colorless
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Number: 150/147
Set: AquapolisAQ
Illustrated by: Hironobu Yoshida

Its Ability

Crystal Type

Whenever you attach a Grass, Lightning, or Fire basic Energy card from your hand to Nidoking, Nidoking's type (color) becomes the same as that Energy card type until the end of the turn.

Its attacks

Poison Horn

The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Rolling Thunder

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.

A strength
100 HP. Only 5 cards in Aquapolis carry more.
A strength
It has an Ability, Crystal Type. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
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.
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.
Keep in mind
It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Nidorino to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
Keep in mind
Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,350 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP: 100
Type: Colorless
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Number: 150/147
Set: AquapolisAQ
Illustrated by: Hironobu Yoshida

Its Ability

Crystal Type

Whenever you attach a Grass, Lightning, or Fire basic Energy card from your hand to Nidoking, Nidoking's type (color) becomes the same as that Energy card type until the end of the turn.

Its attacks

Poison Horn

The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Rolling Thunder

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.

A strength
100 HP. Only 5 cards in Aquapolis carry more.
A strength
It has an Ability, Crystal Type. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
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.
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.
Keep in mind
It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Nidorino to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
Keep in mind
Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,350 run at least one Pokémon of that type.