Alolan Ninetales ex

B4-225 · Ruler of the Skies
Shiny Super Rare W Water HP 150 Stage 1
M Weak to Metal (+20 damage) Retreat cost C C
W W Binding Snow 80
ex rule

When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent gets 2 points.

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About Alolan Ninetales ex — Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

+ Binding Snow deals 80 damage for 2 energy (40.0 damage/energy) — about 33% above the average for Stage 1 cards.

Weaknesses

- Retreat cost is 2 energy — fairly high, easy to get stuck Active under pressure.

- Must evolve from Alolan Vulpix before it can attack — slower than a Basic but usually stronger.

- It's an ex card — if Knocked Out, the opponent gets 2 points instead of 1, which can speed up their win.

- Weak to Metal (+20 damage) — avoid facing that type's decks.

Ruler of the Skies set · released 07/30/2026
About Alolan Ninetales ex

Alolan Ninetales ex is a Shiny Super Rare card from the Ruler of the Skies set. Check its attacks, retreat cost and which pack it drops from below.

Attacks

W W Binding Snow 80

During your opponent's next turn, they can't take any Energy from their Energy Zone to attach to their Active Pokémon.

Illustrated by PLANETA CG Works

Which pack does this card drop from?

Three ways to get this card

Buy it with Pack Points
1,350 PP
Every pack you open gives 5 Pack Points (an official in-game mechanic, not part of the drop-rate table), whatever you pull — no luck involved.
Trade for it
30,000 Shinedust

Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Alolan Ninetales ex?

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Same evolution line

Cards stacked in the same column are PARALLEL evolutions from the same parent card — they do not evolve one into the next.

Is Alolan Ninetales ex played in any meta deck?

Is it worth chasing

Alolan Ninetales ex is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. Chase it for the art and the collection, not for the ladder — spend Pack Points on core cards first, then come back for this one.

Same type in this set

Card name by language

EN Alolan Ninetales ex JA アローラ キュウコンex KO 알로라나인테일 ex ZH-TW 阿羅拉 九尾ex ES Ninetales de Alola ex

Reading Alolan Ninetales ex's stat block

W Water HP 150 Retreat cost 2

Alolan Ninetales ex is a Shiny Super Rare Stage 1 card from the Ruler of the Skies set with 150 HP. Every STAT on this page comes straight from the card record; the expected pack count further down is a statistical estimate recomputed from the pull table, not a promise.

Its weakness is Metal, which is the fastest way for an opponent to remove it in a straight trade, and its retreat cost is 2 — that is what you pay in energy to swap it out mid-turn, and it is the number people forget until the card is stranded in the active spot.

Its attacks:

  • Binding Snow — 80 damage · cost Water + Water — During your opponent's next turn, they can't take any Energy from their Energy Zone to attach to their Active Pokémon.

Read the energy costs together, not just the damage. A card with two attacks usually trades a cheap, weak opener for a pricier attack that does the real work, and the question that decides whether it belongs in a deck is whether you can actually pay for the big one on curve.

Which pack actually drops it

Ruler of the Skies

The per-slot rate table doesn't yet cover Alolan Ninetales ex's exact rarity grade, so no number is shown here — that's a data gap, not proof this is a PROMO card: Alolan Ninetales ex genuinely belongs to Ruler of the Skies. Use Pack Points or trading below while this gets filled in. This page shows no per-slot odds or expected pack count for Alolan Ninetales ex because the rate table doesn't yet cover its exact grade — making up a number here would be a lie. This is NOT a PROMO card: it belongs to Ruler of the Skies. Pack Points and trading below still work.

Three ways to own it

Which pack does this card drop from? Buy it with Pack Points Trade for it

For Alolan Ninetales ex, pulling packs is still a real path — it belongs to Ruler of the Skies — but the per-slot rate table doesn't yet cover its exact grade, so this page won't guess a number. The second path removes luck entirely. Every pack you open awards 5 Pack Points (an official in-game mechanic, not part of the drop-rate table) regardless of what comes out of it, and those points accumulate until you can redeem this exact card outright. Alolan Ninetales ex costs 1,350 PP — no pulls, no gambling, just the count. The third path is trading, which spends Shinedust rather than Pack Points, and whether it is open to you depends entirely on the card's rarity. For Alolan Ninetales ex: It can be traded for 30,000 Shinedust.

Evolution line and other printings

Alolan VulpixAlolan Ninetales

Alolan Ninetales ex evolves from Alolan Vulpix. The full line is: Alolan Vulpix → Alolan Ninetales · Alolan Ninetales ex. Some Pokémon are also printed more than once — across different sets or promo drops, with different art, different rarity, and sometimes different attacks under the same name. Where other printings of this card exist, they are linked on this page, because the stats can differ even when the name matches.

Where this card stands on the ladder

Alolan Ninetales ex is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. Chase it for the art and the collection, not for the ladder — spend Pack Points on core cards first, then come back for this one. The meta deck table is recomputed from tournament data (play rate plus win/loss/tie record), not from anyone's opinion. A card missing from that table can still be beautiful and still be expensive to trade for, but it will not win games on its own — those are two different questions and this page answers them separately.

Frequently asked questions

 Which pack should I open to get Alolan Ninetales ex?

Ruler of the Skies — the card genuinely belongs to that pack. The page just hasn't computed an exact percentage yet because the per-slot data doesn't cover this grade.

 Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Alolan Ninetales ex?

No reliable number here: the per-slot rate data doesn't yet cover Alolan Ninetales ex's grade, even though it does drop from Ruler of the Skies. Use Pack Points or trading while this gets filled in.

 Can I trade for Alolan Ninetales ex instead of pulling it?

It can be traded for 30,000 Shinedust. Trading uses Shinedust, and whether a card is tradeable at all is fixed by its rarity tier — Immersive Rare and Crown Rare cards can never be traded under any circumstance, so for those two tiers Pack Points or a direct pull are the only ways in.

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