Character info
The character
Heliolisk is an Electric-type Pokemon known for the frill around its head, which it flares out to generate and discharge electricity. It evolves from Helioptile and is capable of producing enough power to light up a skyscraper. It is recognized for its solar-powered, radar-like frill that doubles as a signal-boosting antenna.
This card
This is Heliolisk from the Ascended Heroes set, numbered 229/217, an Illustration Rare printed beyond the main set count. The artwork by Takeshi Nakamura depicts Heliolisk perched atop a rooftop with its frill flared like a sun amid satellite dishes and antennas, a scene that plays on its electrical and radar-themed design.
How it plays
This Stage 1 Pokemon has 120 HP and is weak to Fighting-type attacks (x2), with no listed resistance and a retreat cost of one. Its Ability, Frilled Generator, lets you search your deck for up to 2 Basic Lightning Energy cards and attach them to this Pokemon once per turn, but only if you played a card named Canari from your hand that turn. Its attack, Powerful Bolt, costs one Lightning and two Colorless energy and deals 70 damage for each heads flipped, once per Energy attached to this Pokemon.
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 Ascended Heroes, a set of 217 cards, rarity AR. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Takeshi Nakamura and published 2026-01-30. 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
#695 in the National Pokédex · a Generation VI Pokémon · 121 different cards of it exist · it evolves from Helioptile.
They flare their frills and generate energy. A single Heliolisk can generate sufficient electricity to power a skyscraper.
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
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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.