Raichu
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About Raichu — Weaknesses
- Electro Ball deals 50 damage for 2 energy (25.0 damage/energy) — about 17% below the average for Stage 1 cards, needs extra support to pull its weight.
- Retreat cost is 2 energy — fairly high, easy to get stuck Active under pressure.
- Must evolve from Pikachu before it can attack — slower than a Basic but usually stronger.
- Weak to Fighting (+20 damage) — avoid facing that type's decks.
Raichu is a Crown Rare card from the Ruler of the Skies set. Check its attacks, retreat cost and which pack it drops from below.
Attacks
Ability
Once during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Which pack does this card drop from?
Three ways to get this card
Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Raichu?
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 Raichu played in any meta deck?
Raichu 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.
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Reading Raichu's stat block
Raichu is a Crown Rare Stage 1 card from the Ruler of the Skies set with 100 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 Fighting, 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:
- Electro Ball — 50 damage · cost Lightning + Colorless
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
The per-slot rate table doesn't yet cover Raichu's exact rarity grade, so no number is shown here — that's a data gap, not proof this is a PROMO card: Raichu 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 Raichu 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
For Raichu, 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. Raichu costs 2,500 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 Raichu: This rarity can never be traded — Pack Points or a direct pull are the only ways.
Evolution line and other printings
Raichu evolves from Pikachu. The full line is: Pikachu → Alolan Raichu ex · Alolan Raichu · Raichu · Raichu 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
Raichu 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 Raichu?
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 Raichu?
No reliable number here: the per-slot rate data doesn't yet cover Raichu'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 Raichu instead of pulling it?
This rarity can never be traded — Pack Points or a direct pull are the only ways. 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.