Delta Species

Slowking

DS28· Rare
Slowking DS 28

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What the card itself says

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HP
80
Type
Water
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
28/113
Set
Delta SpeciesDS
Illustrated by
Kagemaru Himeno

Its Ability

Prize Shift

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may choose a card from your hand and put it as a Prize card face up. If you do, choose 1 of your face-down Prize cards without looking and put it into your hand. This power can't be used if Slowking is affected by a Special Condition or if all of your Prize cards are face up.

Its attacks

Psychic Option

20+

If Slowking has a Water Energy card attached to it, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage. If Slowking has a Psychic Energy card attached to it, discard a Special Energy card attached to the Defending Pokémon, if any.

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

    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.

  2. A strength

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

  3. 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.

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Lightning ×2. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 336 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

Delta Species landed here on 31 October 2005.

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 26 Slowking cards on one page, priciest first.

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