How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read DRI 119/182 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Destined Rivals set, released here on 30 May 2025.

Destined Rivals

Team Rocket's Nidoking ex DRI 119/182

DRIKODouble rare

We are not buying this printing at the moment.

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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 DRI 119/182 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Destined Rivals set, released here on 30 May 2025.

When it came out

Destined Rivals landed here on 30 May 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 April 2025, under the code SV10. That is 42 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: 330
Type: Darkness
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: I
Number: 119/182
Set: Destined RivalsDRISet guide
Illustrated by: 5ban Graphics

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

Its attacks

Tainted Horn

100

Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned. During Pokémon Checkup, put 8 damage counters on that Pokémon instead of 1.

Kingly Impact

240

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
330 HP. Only 1 cards in Destined Rivals carry more.
A strength
Kingly Impact hits for 240 on 4 Energy. Nothing in Destined Rivals hits harder for that price.
A strength
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex runs it in 24 of the 24 lists we have read, seen across 22 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
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
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
It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Team Rocket's Nidorino to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
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

These decks really played this card at a tournament. We spot it by the little set code printed at the bottom, the one players copy onto their list — two cards sometimes share a name, the code never lies.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex	24 of 24	22	DRI 119

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.

See every Nidoking card and its price