Pokémon · EX

Hoothoot

Unseen Forces · #59 · Common · 2005

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Market reference

$0.31

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Card facts

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Set position: 59 / 145
Release year: 2005
Rarity: Common
HP: 50
Subtype: Basic
Evolves to: Noctowl
Retreat cost: 1 energy
Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita
Pokédex #: 163
Series: EX

Card analysis

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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

Attacker

Strategy & play

How Hoothoot 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 Confusion — they must flip to attack (tails fails and deals 30 to themselves). Soft, coin-flip disruption.
Its main attack (Peck) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
Attacks on any Energy (Colorless cost) — splashable into any deck regardless of type.
Colorless type, weak to Lightning ×2 — a Lightning 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 Hoothoot

Exploit its Lightning 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: 3% of decks; 2.48 copies on average · 1621 decks
Match win rate: 46.9%; -0.3 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.

Sylveon ex

in 17% of decks · 12 seen

Eevee ex

in 24% of decks · 17 seen

Leafeon ex

in 21% of decks · 15 seen

Flareon ex

in 23% of decks · 16 seen

Eevee

in 24% of decks · 17 seen

Noctowl

in 100% of decks · 1622 seen

Noctowl

in 100% of decks · 72 seen

Noctowl

in 100% of decks · 70 seen

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About this card

HP: 50Type:CColorlessSubtype: BasicEvolves to: Noctowl

CConfuse Ray

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.

CCPeck — 20

Weakness:L×2

Resistance:F-30

Retreat cost:C

Tournament legality

Current legal status across competitive formats.

unlimitedLegal

Tournament play

This printing of Hoothoot has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.

Hoothoot — Stellar Crown

Played in 804 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	$0.19	$0.35	$19.98	$0.31	—
Reverse Holofoil	$9.99	$25.00	$199.99	$15.72	—

Cardmarket (EUR)

Updated 2026/02/22

Variant	Price
1-day average	€0.20
7-day average	€0.22
30-day average	€0.28
Low	€0.02
Trend price	€0.26
Low (excellent+)	€0.03
Reverse holo low	€0.25
reverseHoloAvg1	€3.00
Reverse holo 7-day	€3.31
reverseHoloSell	€2.64
averageSellPrice	€0.36
Reverse holo 30-day	€5.19
Reverse holo trend	€4.49

Frequently asked

How can I tell if my Hoothoot is real?

Hoothoot 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 Hoothoot worth?

As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Hoothoot is $0.31; 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 Hoothoot from?

Hoothoot is from the Pokémon set "Unseen Forces" in the EX series, released in 2005.

What rarity is Hoothoot?

Hoothoot is a Common card in the Unseen Forces set.