Whenever you attach a Lightning Energy card from your hand to Raikou, if your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon. This power stops working while Raikou is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
Raikou
13 · Rare · Neo
- Set
- Neo Revelation
- Number
- 13
- Rarity
- Rare
- Category
- Pokemon
- Type
- Lightning
- HP
- 80
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- Fighting ×2
- Variants
- holo, first edition
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- 21/09/2001
Abilities
Attacks
Flip a coin. If tails, Raikou does 20 damage to itself.
The rain clouds it carries let it fire thunderbolts at will. They say that it descended with lightning.
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Market reference
- Average€98.18
- Low€20.00
- Trend€58.57
- 30-day avg€142.29
Cardmarket, EUR — a European market reference, not a UK valuation, and not converted. Observed 02/09/2026.