Character info
The character
Pikachu is the Mouse Pokemon and the franchise's best-known mascot, an Electric-type creature famous for the lightning-bolt tail and red cheek pouches that store electric charges. It serves as Ash Ketchum's loyal partner throughout the Pokemon anime and appears across countless games, movies, and merchandise. Pikachu is recognized worldwide as a symbol of the Pokemon brand.
This card
This card is from the Celebrations set, marking Pokemon's 25th Anniversary, numbered 005/025 and designated as a Holo Rare with an Amazing Rare treatment. The artwork, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, depicts a rounded, stylized Pikachu perched among leaves in a forest setting with sparking cheeks and a small frog visible in the background trees. The card carries the 25th Anniversary Pikachu-head icon in the lower left of the illustration.
How it plays
This Basic Pokemon 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 Pokemon also deals 10 damage to itself. It has a weakness to Fighting type (x2), no listed 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.
About this card
#25 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 968 different cards of it exist.
It has small electric sacs on both its cheeks. If threatened, it looses electric charges from the sacs.
From the card and the public catalogue, not written by WinnTCG.
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.