Character info
The character
Slowbro is a Water/Psychic Pokémon known for its sluggish, dazed demeanor, caused by a Shellder permanently clamped onto its tail. Mega Slowbro is its Mega Evolution, in which the Shellder's influence intensifies, granting enhanced psychic power while the Pokémon remains famously slow to react. In the games and anime it is often portrayed as absent-minded but formidable once provoked.
This card
This is card 031/084 from the Pitch Black set, printed as a holofoil Stage 1 Pokémon ex with RR rarity. The artwork, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, depicts Mega Slowbro's gaping jaw and spiked shell rendered against a swirling, prismatic background typical of the set's Mega Evolution ex treatment. The card bears a 2026 copyright and is labeled a Japanese-to-English (J) printing under the PBL set code.
How it plays
Mega Slowbro ex is a Stage 1 Pokémon with 330 HP, a Psychic typing, weakness to Darkness types (×2), resistance to Fighting types (-30), and a retreat cost of three. Its printed attack, Shellnado Spin, costs three Psychic energy and deals 180 damage, with the added effect that during the opponent's next turn, if this Pokémon is damaged by an attack (even if knocked out), 12 damage counters are placed on the attacking Pokémon. As with other Mega Evolution ex cards, if this Pokémon is knocked out, the opponent takes three Prize cards.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Pitch Black, a set of 84 cards, rarity RR. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by 5ban Graphics and published 2026-07-17. 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
#80 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 157 different cards of it exist · it evolves from Slowpoke.
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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
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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.