Character info
The character
Squirtle is the Tiny Turtle Pokemon, numbered 007 in the national Pokedex, and is one of the three starter Pokemon available at the beginning of a Kanto adventure. It is a Water-type known for retracting into its shell and expelling water with great force. Squirtle later evolves into Wartortle and then Blastoise, and it remains one of the most recognizable Pokemon in the franchise.
This card
This is Squirtle, card number 015 out of 78 from the Pokemon GO set, printed in 2022 with a common rarity marking. The card features artwork by sowsow depicting Squirtle playing in a grassy, flower-lined stream. The card carries the Pokemon GO logo in the upper right of the artwork window, indicating the special crossover treatment tied to that mobile game.
How it plays
This Basic Pokemon card has 70 HP and a Water energy type. Its single attack, Water Gun, costs one Water energy and deals 20 damage. The card lists a weakness to Lightning type at double damage, 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 Pokémon GO, a set of 78 cards, rarity C. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by sowsow and published 2022-07-01. 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
#7 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 158 different cards of it exist.
When it retracts its long neck into its shell, it squirts out water with vigorous force.
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.