Ruby & Sapphire

Slaking RS 12/109

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Slaking RS 12

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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 RS 12/109 there. Its illustration is signed Ken Sugimori.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Ruby & Sapphire set, released here on 1 July 2003.

When it came out

Ruby & Sapphire landed here on 1 July 2003.

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What the card itself says

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

HP
120
Type
Colorless
Stage
Stage 2
Retreat cost
3
Weakness
×2
Number
12/109
Set
Ruby & SapphireRS
Illustrated by
Ken Sugimori

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Its Ability

Lazy

As long as Slaking is your Active Pokémon, your opponent's Pokémon can't use any Poké-Powers.

Its attacks

Critical Move

100

Discard a basic Energy card attached to Slaking or this attack does nothing. Slaking can't attack during your next turn.

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

    120 HP, and nothing in Ruby & Sapphire goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.

  2. A strength

    Critical Move hits for 100 on 4 Energy. Nothing in Ruby & Sapphire hits harder for that price.

  3. A strength

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

  4. 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.

  5. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,466 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 ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,466 tournament lists we have read, 1,227 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.

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.

See every Slaking card and its price