Raikou cards
Every Raikou card we could find. The priciest one we price is the Mega Evolution one at $0.61.
- The Thunder Pokemon. Raikou is #243 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. Neo Revelation, September 21, 2001.
- Type. Electric in the video games, which is printed as Lightning on a card. The eleven card types.
- Generation 2, Johto. Flagged Legendary in the Pokedex.
- Size. 1.9m (6ft 3in) and 178.0kg (392lb).
- Capture rate 3 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This is one of the hardest things in the games to catch.
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 Raikou we price
1 of the 42 printings we can name is in a set 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
Raikou does not evolve
It has no pre-evolution and nothing it becomes, which puts it with the 200 other species in the Pokedex that stand alone. The evolution chart lists every one of them.
Evolution line from the National Pokedex, pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026.
See it opened
We went hunting 1 time
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.
Everywhere else
Every other Raikou printing we could name
41 more from sets we do not price, English and Japanese. 31 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
- Raikou V Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery • GG41 Ultra Rare
- Raikou HGSS Black Star Promos • HGSS19 Promo
- Raikou Shining Legends • 32 Rare
- Raikou Skyridge • H26 Holo Rare
- Raikou ひかる伝説 • 033 Rare • Japanese
- Raikou ポケモンカード★VS • 094 Holo Rare • Japanese
- Raikou めざめる伝説 • 029 Holo Rare • Japanese
- Raikou 裂けた大地 • 038 Rare • Japanese
- Raikou 裂けた大地 • 039 Holo Rare • Japanese
- Raikou 金の空、銀の海 • 039 Shiny Rare • Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Raikou
Damage taken by an Electric Pokemon, computed from the type chart. Everything not listed does normal damage.
- x2Ground
- ½xElectric, Flying and Steel
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.