Character info
The character
Pikachu is the Electric Mouse Pokémon, the best-known mascot of the franchise since the original games and animated series. It is small, yellow, and stores electricity in its cheeks, releasing powerful discharges when threatened or excited. Pikachu is closely associated with the character Ash Ketchum and remains the series' most recognizable figure worldwide.
This card
This is Pikachu V, card number SWSH198 from the SWSH Black Star Promos set, printed in 2022 as a full art holo promo. The artwork by 5ban Graphics shows Pikachu leaping forward mid-attack with lightning crackling across a bright blue and green background. The promo star symbol and SWSH198 collector number appear in the lower left of the card.
How it plays
Pikachu V is a Basic Pokémon with 190 HP and the Lightning Blast attack, which costs two Lightning Energy and one colorless Energy. Lightning Blast deals 100+ damage, and the player may discard all Lightning Energy attached to this Pokémon to add 120 more damage. The card has a weakness to Fighting type (x2), no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of one. As a V Pokémon, when it is knocked out the opponent takes two Prize cards instead of one.
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 SWSH Black Star Promos, a set of 307 cards, rarity PROMO. The details on this certificate match it.
Published 2019-11-15. 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 · 1,241 different cards of it exist.
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.