No. 24 · Kanto · Poison
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Arbok is a Poison-type Pokémon introduced in Kanto, number 24 in the National Pokédex. Its cards run from 1999 to 2025. Its cards are ordered by the art, the best first, rather than by set.
- Cards
- 20
- Sets
- 16
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Illustrators
- 15
- Sightings
- 2
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The strongest Arbok art

01/06Arbok
Illustration rare

02/06Arbok ex
Ultra Rare

03/06Arbok
Common

04/06Arbok
Uncommon

05/06Team Rocket's Arbok
Uncommon

06/06Dark Arbok
Rare
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Which is the better picture?
Two Arbok cards, side by side.
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Arbok by scene
Where its cards are set. Each opens a search of just those Arbok cards, the artwork that shows it most first.
How Arbok gets drawn
Arbok is usually drawn fierce, tense and moody, usually coiling, often painted.
Across 19 Arbok artworks, each picture counted once, next to how every other Pokémon is drawn.
1999–2025
Arbok through the years
Its strongest card of each year it was printed.
1999 Fossil
2000 Team Rocket
2002 Expedition Base Set
2003 Sandstorm
2004 Team Rocket Returns
2006 Dragon Frontiers
2008 Great Encounters
2014 XY
2017 Shining Legends
2019 Hidden Fates
2020 Champion's Path
2023 151
2024 Temporal Forces
2025 Destined Rivals
Evolves from
Ekans17 cards
Arbokthis page · 20 cards
Arbok sightingsspotted in 2 other cards
Cards where Arbok turns up in someone else's picture: behind them, beside them, or hiding.
Every Arbok card
20 cards, strongest artwork first.
Arbok in numbers
- Cards
- 20
- Sets
- 16since Fossil
- Illustrators
- 15most by Ken Sugimori
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Printed as
- Stage 1
- Sightings
- 2in other cards' art
- HP on card
- 60–270
They span 16 sets, from Fossil to Destined Rivals. 15 illustrators have drawn it, most often Ken Sugimori, Eske Yoshinob and Kyoko Umemoto.
Who draws Arbok
15 illustrators, by how many they have drawn.
Where it has been printed
16 sets, by how many Arbok cards each holds.
1512
Expedition Base Set2
Team Rocket2
Temporal Forces2
Champion's Path1
Destined Rivals1
Dragon Frontiers1
Fossil1
Great Encounters1
Gym Challenge1
Hidden Fates1
Sandstorm1
Rarity
Questions
- How many Arbok cards are there?
- There are 20 Arbok cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 16 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.
- Which Arbok card has the best artwork?
- That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Arbok art first, however common or rare the card.
- Who illustrates Arbok cards?
- 15 illustrators have drawn Arbok. Ken Sugimori has done the most at 3, followed by Eske Yoshinob and Kyoko Umemoto.
- What was the first Arbok card?
- Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Fossil, released in 1999. 8 of its 20 cards are Rare.











