Character info
The character
Pikachu is the Electric Mouse Pokémon and the best-known mascot of the Pokémon franchise. It stores electricity in the pouches on its cheeks and can release powerful shocks when threatened. The species has appeared throughout the games, anime, and trading card game as a beloved starter-adjacent companion to Ash Ketchum.
This card
This is Pikachu, number 005/025 from the Celebrations set, printed in 2021 as a Holo Rare bearing the 25th anniversary Pikachu stamp. The artwork, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, depicts a rounded, chibi-style Pikachu sitting among forest foliage with a small caterpillar Pokémon visible in the background. The card carries the Pokémon 25th Anniversary symbol beneath the illustration alongside the collector number and set icon.
How it plays
This Basic Pokémon has 60 HP and is Lightning type. Its first attack, Gnaw, costs a single Colorless energy and deals 10 damage. Its second attack, Thunder Jolt, costs one Lightning and one Colorless energy, deals 30 damage, and requires a coin flip; on tails this Pokémon also deals 10 damage to itself. It has weakness to Fighting type (×2), no resistance, and a retreat cost of one Colorless energy.
Written with AI from the card and its catalogue entry, and checked by WinnTCG.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Celebrations, a set of 25 cards, rarity Holo Rare. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita and published 2021-10-08. Both come from the public catalogue, not from WinnTCG.
A catalogue match is not the authenticity check. It confirms the card is the card it claims to be. Whether it is genuine was checked separately, on the card itself; see Authenticity below.
Authenticity
WinnTCG authenticated this card in hand, on the bench, against genuine Pokémon cards. It was checked four ways: light shone through it to check the core, its weight on a scale, its thickness measured, and its print pattern and surface texture under magnification.
How this card was graded
WinnTCG graded this card in hand, on the bench. The card was in our hands, and we sealed the case ourselves. We photographed it here under controlled light to show which card is in the case and where anything we marked sits on it.
If you are buying this slab: the grade is WinnTCG’s judgement of the card that was in front of us, and WinnTCG sealed this case. The photographs above are of that card. Compare them against what you can see through the case, because a case can be opened by anyone who has held it since.
The working behind this grade
Every grade here is published with its reasoning. The report states what each measurement returned, what the model proposed on each axis, where the grader disagreed with it, and every defect marked on the photographs above.