Pokémon · Scarlet & Violet
Team Rocket's Orbeetle
Destined Rivals · #198 · Illustration Rare · 2025
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Market reference
$3.77
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 198 / 244
- Release year
- 2025
- Rarity
- Illustration Rare
- HP
- 130
- Subtype
- Stage 2
- Evolves from
- Team Rocket's Dottler
- Retreat cost
- 2 energy
- Regulation mark
- I
- Illustrator
- HYOGONOSUKE
- Pokédex #
- 826
- Series
- Scarlet & Violet
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Attacker
- Damage efficiency
- 40 damage
- 13.33 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Stage 2
- Needs its evolution line or Rare Candy to set up
Strategy & play
How Team Rocket's Orbeetle plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- Its main attack (Psychic) needs 3 Energy — a turn-3 swing on manual attachment — you’ll want Energy acceleration to power it up on time.
- Needs Psychic Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Psychic type, weak to Darkness ×2 — a Darkness attacker doing ≥65 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- A Stage 2 — without Rare Candy you lose ~2 turns setting it up, and it’s gust-bait before it’s online (you must draw Team Rocket's Dottler first).
- Currently Standard-legal — usable in the main rotating format.
How to beat Team Rocket's Orbeetle
- Exploit its Darkness weakness — ≥65 damage one-shots it.
- Gust it before the evolution is set up.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 1.8 copies on average · 5 decks
More by HYOGONOSUKE
This card was illustrated by HYOGONOSUKE.
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About this card
"It emits psychic energy to observe and study what's around it—and what's around it can include things over six miles away."
Ability: Rocket Brain
As often as you like during your turn, you may move 1 damage counter from 1 of your Team Rocket's Pokémon to another of your Pokémon.
PCCPsychic — 40+
This attack does 40 more damage for each Energy attached to your opponent's Active Pokémon.
Weakness:D×2
Resistance:F-30
Retreat cost:CC
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
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Recent tournament results
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Pricing reference
Latest snapshot from the upstream catalog. Actual marketplace prices fluctuate by condition, edition, and grade — use this as a reference, not a quote.
TCGPlayer (USD)
Updated 2026/07/10| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holofoil | $3.00 | $4.64 | $43.04 | $3.77 | $4.80 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2025/11/18| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €4.36 |
| 7-day average | €4.11 |
| 30-day average | €4.00 |
| Low | €2.15 |
| Trend price | €4.06 |
| Low (excellent+) | €2.15 |
| averageSellPrice | €3.99 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Team Rocket's Orbeetle is real?
Team Rocket's Orbeetle is not on our list of commonly-counterfeited cards, but counterfeits exist across every set. Check the back-light test (real cards have a black inner layer that blocks light; counterfeits glow through), the rosette dot pattern on the back under magnification, font weight and kerning on the card name, and the holofoil pattern if applicable. For high-value copies we recommend submitting to a professional grader (PSA, BGS, CGC) for tamper-evident authentication.
What is Team Rocket's Orbeetle worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Team Rocket's Orbeetle is $3.77; there are no active listings on The Game Traders right now. Actual value depends on condition, grading, edition and printing variant — graded high-condition copies (PSA 9–10) trade at a substantial premium over raw copies.
What set is Team Rocket's Orbeetle from?
Team Rocket's Orbeetle is from the Pokémon set "Destined Rivals" in the Scarlet & Violet series, released in 2025.
What rarity is Team Rocket's Orbeetle?
Team Rocket's Orbeetle is a Illustration Rare card in the Destined Rivals set.
Other Team Rocket's Orbeetle printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
