Pokémon · EX
Electrike
Ruby & Sapphire · #53 · Common · 2003
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$0.61
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 53 / 109
- Release year
- 2003
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 50
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Manectric
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Pokédex #
- 309
- Series
- EX
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 20 damage
- 10 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Also does
Strategy & play
How Electrike 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.
- Inflicts Paralysis — the Defending Pokémon can’t attack or retreat for a turn. A reliable one-turn lock; chain it to stall the opponent out.
- Its main attack (Tackle) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Attacks on any Energy (Colorless cost) — splashable into any deck regardless of type.
- Lightning type, weak to Fighting ×2 — a Fighting attacker doing ≥25 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
How to beat Electrike
- Exploit its Fighting weakness — ≥25 damage one-shots it.
- On the receiving end of a condition? Retreat, switch, or evolve to wipe it — conditions only stick to the Active.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 1% of decks
- 2.69 copies on average · 387 decks
- Match win rate
- 36.8%
- -10.5 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.
Manectric
in 85% of decks · 67 seen
Voltaic Lightning Energy
in 96% of decks · 76 seen
Mega Zeraora ex
in 22% of decks · 17 seen
Tapu Koko
in 6% of decks · 23 seen
Mega Manectric ex
in 100% of decks · 379 seen
Mega Manectric ex
in 99% of decks · 78 seen
Mega Eelektross ex
in 80% of decks · 305 seen
Manectric
in 41% of decks · 156 seen
More by Mitsuhiro Arita
This card was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.
Building around Electrike?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
CSuper Thunder Wave
Flip a coin. If heads, each Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
CCTackle — 20
Weakness:F×2
Resistance:M-30
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Electrike has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Electrike — Mega Evolution
Played in 170 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 2026/07/04| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.30 | $0.62 | $20.68 | $0.61 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $6.14 | $11.04 | $70.00 | $7.92 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/22| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.19 |
| 7-day average | €0.26 |
| 30-day average | €0.28 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.19 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.04 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.80 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €1.60 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €2.30 |
| reverseHoloSell | €4.00 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.21 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €1.97 |
| Reverse holo trend | €2.66 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Electrike is real?
Electrike 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 Electrike worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Electrike is $0.61; 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 Electrike from?
Electrike is from the Pokémon set "Ruby & Sapphire" in the EX series, released in 2003.
What rarity is Electrike?
Electrike is a Common card in the Ruby & Sapphire set.
Other Electrike printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
