Platinum

Slaking

PL16· Holo Rare
Slaking PL 16

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What the card itself says

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HP
150
Type
Colorless
Stage
Stage 2
Retreat cost
4
Weakness
+30
Number
16/127
Set
PlatinumPL
Illustrated by
Masakazu Fukuda

Its Ability

Lazy Paunch

If Slaking used any attacks during your last turn, Slaking can't attack.

Its attacks

Best Dash

150

During your opponent's next turn, any damage done to Slaking by attacks is increased by 50 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

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

    150 HP, and nothing in Platinum goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.

  2. A strength

    Best Dash hits for 150 on 4 Energy. Nothing in Platinum hits harder for that price.

  3. A strength

    It has an Ability, Lazy Paunch. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  4. Keep in mind

    Retreat cost 4. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.

  5. 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.

  6. Keep in mind

    It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Vigoroth to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.

  7. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting +30. 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

Platinum landed here on 11 February 2009.

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 16 Slaking cards on one page, priciest first.

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