Nidoking BS 11/102

Name: Nidoking BS 11/102
Brand: Pokémon

BSRare

Card language

Seller location

Nidoking has appeared in several sets: Base Set (BS 11) and Legendary Collection (LC 31). It is the same card every time — it plays the same, only the artwork and the price change. Here is what it does once it is on the table.

The market for this printing

Finish unspecified

No quotation can be assigned to this reference until its finish is identified. Card language: English. Sellers: European Union. Asking prices, excluding shipping and import charges.

When it came out

Base Set landed here on 9 January 1999.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

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

HP: 90
Type: Grass
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Number: 11/102
Set: Base SetBSSet guide
Illustrated by: Ken Sugimori

Its attacks

Thrash

30+

Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage; if tails, this attack does 30 damage and Nidoking does 10 damage to itself.

Toxic

The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. It now takes 20 Poison damage instead of 10 after each player's turn (even if it was already Poisoned).

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.

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 8,076 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 Psychic ×2. Against a Psychic Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 8,076 tournament lists we have read, 4,763 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Every version of this card

Look at the number printed at the bottom of your card. That is what tells you which version you are holding. Tap yours to open its page.

Nidoking BS 11/102Base SetRareThe one you are looking atRare
Nidoking LC 31/110Legendary CollectionRareRare

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.

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.

View all Nidoking cards

Nidoking BS 11/102

The market for this printing

When it came out