Raichu
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About Raichu — Weaknesses
- Spark deals 40 damage for 2 energy (20.0 damage/energy) — about 34% below the average for Stage 1 cards, needs extra support to pull its weight.
- Weak to Fighting (+20 damage) — avoid facing that type's decks.
Raichu is a Rare card from the Promo A set. Check its attacks, retreat cost and which pack it drops from below.
Attacks
This attack also does 20 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.
Ability
If you have Arceus or Arceus ex in play, this Pokémon takes −30 damage from attacks.
Pokédex entry
Its tail discharges electricity into the ground, protecting it from getting shocked.
Which pack does this card drop from?
Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Raichu?
Is Raichu played in any meta deck?
This card is not in any openable pack: Raichu 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 Raichu's stat block
Raichu is a Rare Stage 1 card from the Promo A set with 90 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 1 — 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:
- Spark — 40 damage · cost Lightning + Lightning — This attack also does 20 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched 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
This card is not in any openable pack: Raichu 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
Raichu 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: Raichu 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 Raichu?
This card is not in any openable pack: Raichu 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 Raichu?
For Raichu 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.