Pokémon · Base
Slowpoke
Fossil Set · #55 · Common · 1999
Listings
No active listings
From
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Market reference
$0.82
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Current listings on The Game Traders
No active listings for this card right now.
Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 55 / 62
- Release year
- 1999
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 50
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Slowbro, Slowking
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Miki Tanaka
- Pokédex #
- 79
- Series
- Base
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Recovery
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Strategy & play
How Slowpoke plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- A Basic — hits the board turn 1 with no evolution tax.
- Needs Psychic Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Psychic type, weak to Psychic ×2 — a Psychic attacker doing ≥25 effectively one-shots it.
- Seen in 5% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 4 copies.
How to beat Slowpoke
- Exploit its Psychic weakness — ≥25 damage one-shots it.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 5% of decks
- 3.94 copies on average · 2654 decks
- Match win rate
- 50.1%
- +3.0 pts vs the 47.2% field average
Plays well with
Cards most often run alongside this one in tournament decks over the last 180 days — ranked by how distinctive the pairing is.
More by Miki Tanaka
This card was illustrated by Miki Tanaka.
Building around Slowpoke?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"Incredibly slow and dopey. It takes 5 seconds for it to feel pain when under attack."
CSpacing Out
Flip a coin. If heads, remove a damage counter from Slowpoke. This attack can't be used if Slowpoke has no damage counters on it.
PPScavenge
Discard 1 Psychic Energy card attached to Slowpoke in order to use this attack. Put a Trainer card from your discard pile into your hand.
Weakness:P×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Slowpoke has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Slowpoke — Stellar Crown
Played in 987 recent decks
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 2026/07/07| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited | $0.15 | $0.61 | $18.72 | $0.82 | $0.48 |
| 1st Edition | $2.00 | $5.89 | $105.60 | $6.65 | $3.99 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/06/22| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.68 |
| 7-day average | €0.84 |
| 30-day average | €0.92 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.71 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.10 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.50 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.65 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.95 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.65 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.85 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Slowpoke is real?
Slowpoke 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 Slowpoke worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Slowpoke is $0.82; 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 Slowpoke from?
Slowpoke is from the Pokémon set "Fossil Set" in the Base series, released in 1999.
What rarity is Slowpoke?
Slowpoke is a Common card in the Fossil Set set.
Slowpoke in the news
Recent posts from card communities and trading-card press mentioning Slowpoke.
Other Slowpoke printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
