How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read ASC 57/217 there. Its illustration is signed aky CG Works.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Ascended Heroes set, released here on 30 January 2026.

Ascended Heroes

Pikachu ex ASC 57/217

ASCKODouble rare

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?: Look at the bottom of your card: you should read ASC 57/217 there. Its illustration is signed aky CG Works.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Ascended Heroes set, released here on 30 January 2026.

When it came out

Ascended Heroes landed here on 30 January 2026.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 28 November 2025, under the code M2a. That is 63 days ahead of us.

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: 200
Type: Lightning
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: H
Number: 57/217
Set: Ascended HeroesASCSet guide
Illustrated by: aky CG Works

The Korean text is not available yet. Text shown: English.

Its Ability

Resolute Heart

If this Pokémon has full HP and would be Knocked Out by damage from an attack, it is not Knocked Out, and its remaining HP becomes 10.

Its attacks

Topaz Bolt

300

Discard 3 Energy from this 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
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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Resolute Heart. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Joltik runs it in 36 of the 36 lists we have read, seen across 33 different tournaments.
A strength
It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
A strength
Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
Keep in mind
Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,384 tournament lists we have read, 1,210 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 27, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

Every printing of Pikachu ex plays the same way at a tournament. So the decks below count them all together, and the last column shows the one players wrote on their list.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Joltik	36 of 36	33	SSP 57
Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex / Fan Rotom	20 of 39	18	SSP 57
Blissey ex	6 of 23	6	SSP 57
Azumarill	4 of 38	4	SSP 57
Toucannon	4 of 51	4	SSP 57
Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant	3 of 64	3	SSP 57
Blaziken ex	1 of 21	1	SSP 57
Flareon ex / Noctowl	1 of 38	1	SSP 57
Mega Zygarde ex	1 of 32	1	SSP 57

The other cards of this Pokémon

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