Slowking 55/214 · Lost Thunder

Slowking is Pokédex #199, generation 2 (Johto). Slowking is a Stage 1 Water Pokémon with 120 HP. The card says it evolves from Slowpoke. In this catalog that name is Slowpoke (#079).

Slowking sits at 55/214 in Lost Thunder, position 55 of 240. Before it is 54 Slowpoke, and after it is 56 Lapras. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on November 2, 2018. The printed size is 214. This checklist is longer, at 240 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Memory Melt lists no damage number. The cost is Water. Look at your opponent's hand and put a card you find there in the Lost Zone. Psychic is another attack lists 60+ damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. This attack does 20 more damage times the amount of Energy attached to your opponent's Active Pokémon. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "This Pokémon is so famed for its intellect that a proverb still persists in some regions: "When in doubt, ask Slowking.""

Slowking (#199) has 25 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 18 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2025. The earliest other card is Slowking 14/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 120 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and sowsow illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 22 other cards of Slowking list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads sowsow. I count 104 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Lost Thunder set binder is where a full Lost Thunder set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Slowking can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.