Character info
The character
Pikachu is the Mouse Pokemon, National Pokedex number 025, and the best known Electric-type in the franchise. It serves as Ash Ketchum's partner throughout the Pokemon anime and acts as a mascot for the entire franchise. It is known for storing electricity in its cheeks and releasing powerful shocks when threatened.
This card
This is the Pikachu card numbered 27/111 from the Furious Fists set, printed in 2014 with common rarity. The artwork, illustrated by Sanosuke Sakuma, shows Pikachu leaping joyfully through a flower-filled forest clearing with floating bubbles around it. The card carries a Basic Pokemon designation and the standard black star common symbol.
How it plays
This Basic Pokemon has 60 HP and is Lightning type. Its only attack, Thunder Shock, costs one Lightning and one Colorless energy and deals 20 damage, with a coin flip that paralyzes the opponent's Active Pokemon on heads. It is weak to Fighting-type attacks for double damage, resists Metal by 20, and has 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 Furious Fists, a set of 111 cards, rarity C. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Sanosuke Sakuma and published 2014-08-13. 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 raises its tail to check its surroundings. The tail is sometimes struck by lightning in this pose.
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.