Slowking (Neo Genesis 14)

Slowking LV.39 ヤドキング Yadoking

Illus. Ken Sugimori

Evolution stage Stage 1 Pokémon Evolves from Slowpoke Card name Slowking Type Psychic HP 80 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion Neo Genesis Rarity English card no. 14/111 Japanese expansion Gold, Silver, to a New World... Japanese rarity For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Slowking.

Slowking (Japanese: ヤドキング Yadoking) is a Psychic-type Stage 1 Pokémon card. It is part of the Neo Genesis expansion.

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• Card text
  • English release
  • Japanese release
  • Pokédex data
• Release information
• Rulings
• Trivia
  • Origin

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Card text

English release

Pokémon Power:

Mind Games

ちえくらべ

Whenever your opponent plays a Trainer card, you may flip a coin. If heads, that card does nothing. Put it on top of your opponent's deck. This power can't be used if Slowking is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.

Mind Blast

マッドインパクト

20+

Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage and the Defending Pokémon is now Confused. If tails, this attack does 20 damage.

Japanese release

Pokémon Power:

Mind Games

ちえくらべ

You may use this Power if Slowking is your Active Pokémon. Whenever your opponent plays a Trainer card, you may flip a coin. If heads, that card does nothing. Put it on top of your opponent's deck. This power can't be used if Slowking is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.

Mind Blast

マッドインパクト

20+

Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage and the Defending Pokémon is now Confused. If tails, this attack does 20 damage.

Pokédex data

Slowking - Royal Pokémon

No.

199

Height

6'7" (2 m)

Weight

175 lbs. (79.5 kg)

Pokédex entry

When its head was bitten, toxins entered Slowpoke’s head and unlocked an extraordinary power.

かまれたとき、頭にしみこんだ毒素によってただならない能力に目覚めたヤドン。

Release information

This card was released as a Rare Holofoil card in the Neo Genesis expansion, with a different effect from its original Japanese release in the Gold, Silver, to a New World... expansion. This print misaligned Mind Blast's damage to the top instead of the center.

Rulings

• In the Japanese release, Mind Games can only be used if Slowking is the Active Pokémon. In the English release, the Active Pokémon stipulation was removed. This allows it to be used from the Bench, allowing players to use multiple Slowking to further reduce the odds of a Trainer card being successfully played to as low as to 1 in 16. Slowking became extremely popular, with games often coming down to who could play multiple Slowking first to shut their opponent out of search and draw power and clog their draws, all while being essentially shielded from attacks due to being on the Bench. Due to its widely perceived negative influence on gameplay, the card was banned from the Modified format at the end of 2002.
• This card received errata to clarify how Mind Games interacts with Chaos Gym. A Trainer card that fails to be used is to go atop its original owner's deck, not the deck of the player who attempted to use it.

Trivia

• This card was the last specific card to be banned from any official event until the Sandy Cloak Wormadam card from Secret Wonders and POP Series 7 was banned from the 2008 North American Professor Cup, after dominating the 2008 European Professor Cup due in part to being printed in POP Series 7 as an (all rarities are banned from use in the Professor Cup).
• This was the last specific card to be banned from organized play until Lysandre's Trump Card in June of 2015.

Origin

This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Silver.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.