Ekans cards
Every Ekans card we could find. The priciest one we price is the Temporal Forces one at $0.40, and the cheapest is $0.26.
- The Snake Pokemon. Ekans is #23 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. Fossil, October 10, 1999.
- Type. Poison in the video games, which is printed as Darkness on a card. The eleven card types.
- Generation 1, Kanto. One of the 151 species that generation introduced.
- Size. 2.0m (6ft 7in) and 6.9kg (15lb).
- Capture rate 255 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This is about as easy to catch as the games get.
Artwork and Pokedex data from pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc.
Priciest first
Every Ekans we price
3 of the 34 printings we can name are in sets we hold prices for. Tap a card to see it full size.
Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. 2 cards of the 5,396 priced here are not listed by PriceCharting and keep their TCGplayer market price via TCGdex instead. Where a card comes as a normal, holo and reverse holo at different prices, the figure is the priciest of them. Prices move daily, so treat these as a ballpark. Search every card.
Evolution
The Ekans line
Ekans, which becomes Arbok. Each one has its own page and its own cards. The evolution chart draws every line in the Pokedex.
- Ekans#23 • 34 cards
Arbok#24 • 41 cards
Evolution line from the National Pokedex, pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. What each evolution actually takes differs between generations, so it is not stated here. Card counts are every printing we can name, in every language.
See these packs opened
We have filmed 20 rips of the 3 sets that print Ekans
Garbage Rips 585 is a Pokemon card pack opening channel out of Rochester, New York. We film every pack we open, hit or no hit.
- Destined Rivals Pack #12 ⚡ | Can We TOP The Mewtwo?! 😳
- Only Garbage Rips? 😬 Temporal Forces Booster Pack #2
- Only Garbage Rips? 😬 | Pokémon 151 Booster Packs
- Only Garbage Rips? 😬 | Destined Rivals Pack #11
- Temporal Forces Pack #1 😬 | Is This Set Any Good?
- Only Garbage Rips? 😬 | Destined Rivals Pack #10
Everywhere else
Every other Ekans printing we could name
31 more from sets we do not price, English and Japanese. 21 have a scan and are pictured below. The other 10 we can name but not show. No price on these: we only quote what we can source. Printings whose name we could not translate are left out rather than shown under a name we guessed at.
Named, with no scan to show
- Ekans Promos-A • 056 TCG Pocket, digital
- Ekans Shining Legends • 36 Common
- Ekans XY trainer Kit (Noivern) • 16 Common
- Ekans さいはての攻防 • 007 Common • Japanese
- Ekans スタートデッキ100 バトルコレクション • 430 Japanese
- Ekans ひかる伝説 • 037 Common • Japanese
- Ekans ロケット団 • 001 Common • Japanese
- Ekans 化石の秘密 • 001 Common • Japanese
- Ekans 基本拡張パック • 004 Common • Japanese
- Ekans 闇からの挑戦 • 002 Common • Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Ekans
Damage taken by a Poison Pokemon, computed from the type chart. Everything not listed does normal damage.
- x2Ground and Psychic
- ½xGrass, Fighting, Poison, Bug and Fairy
This is the video game chart, not the card game. The Pokemon TCG has eleven types and no type chart at all: Weakness and Resistance are printed on each individual card, and two cards of the same Pokemon can print different ones. What the card actually says. Type relations from pokeapi.co, read August 17, 2026.