Professor’s Research
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About Professor’s Research — Weaknesses
- It's a Supporter card — only one can be played per turn, so timing matters.
Professor’s Research is a Common card from the Promo A set — a Trainer card. Check its effect and which pack it drops from below.
Card effect
Professor's Research Trainer - Supporter
Which pack does this card drop from?
Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Professor’s Research?
Is Professor’s Research played in any meta deck?
This card is not in any openable pack: Professor’s Research is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.
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Reading Professor’s Research's stat block
Professor’s Research is a Common card from the Promo A set — a Trainer card of the Supporter kind: no HP, no evolution, no attacks of its own. It hits the table, fires its effect, and steps aside.
What it does: Professor's Research Trainer - Supporter
Trainer cards are balanced by how often you may play them in a turn, not by damage. Read the effect against what your deck is short of — energy acceleration, draw, healing, or forcing a switch — because a Trainer is only strong when it solves the exact bottleneck your deck actually has.
Which pack actually drops it
This card is not in any openable pack: Professor’s Research is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.
Evolution line and other printings
Professor’s Research does not evolve from or into anything — it stands alone. 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
This card is not in any openable pack: Professor’s Research is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door. 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 Professor’s Research?
This card is not in any openable pack: Professor’s Research is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.
Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Professor’s Research?
For Professor’s Research the "open packs" route simply DOES NOT EXIST: no openable pack contains it, so any pull rate or expected pack count would be meaningless here.