No. 34 · Kanto · Poison/Ground
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Nidoking is a Poison/Ground-type Pokémon introduced in Kanto, number 34 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
- 23
- Sets
- 17
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Illustrators
- 15
- Sightings
- 1
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The strongest Nidoking art
01/06Team Rocket's Nidoking ex
Special illustration rare
02/06Nidoking
Illustration rare
03/06Team Rocket's Nidoking ex
Ultra Rare
04/06Nidoking BREAK
Ultra Rare
05/06Nidoking
Rare
06/06Nidoking
Rare
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Which is the better picture?
Two Nidoking cards, side by side.
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Nine of the strongest Nidoking artworks as a binder page. Add it to your binder and swap any card. No account needed.
Nidoking by scene
Its cards do not gather in any one scene yet. Describe one in the studio and it will find the Nidoking cards that come closest.
How Nidoking gets drawn
Nidoking is usually drawn fierce, tense and moody, sometimes retro, often charging, under the stars.
Across 19 Nidoking artworks, each picture counted once, next to how every other Pokémon is drawn.
Drawn against type
The Nidoking pictures least like the rest.
1999–2025
Nidoking through the years
Its strongest card of each year it was printed.
1999 Base Set- 2000 Gym Challenge
2002 Legendary Collection
2003 Aquapolis
2004 FireRed & LeafGreen- 2006 Dragon Frontiers
2007 Secret Wonders
2009 Rising Rivals
2010 Triumphant
2013 Plasma Freeze- 2016 Evolutions
- 2019 Team Up
- 2023 151
- 2025 Destined Rivals
Evolves from
Nidorino16 cards- Nidokingthis page · 23 cards
Nidoking sightingsspotted in 1 other card
Cards where Nidoking turns up in someone else's picture: behind them, beside them, or hiding.
Every Nidoking card
23 cards, strongest artwork first.
Nidoking in numbers
- Cards
- 23
- Sets
- 17since Base Set
- Illustrators
- 15most by Ken Sugimori
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Printed as
- Stage 2, BREAK
- Sightings
- 1in other cards' art
- HP on card
- 90–330
They span 17 sets, from Base Set to Destined Rivals. 15 illustrators have drawn it, most often Ken Sugimori, 5ban Graphics and Naoyo Kimura. It has been printed as Stage 2 and BREAK.
Who draws Nidoking
15 illustrators, by how many they have drawn.
Where it has been printed
17 sets, by how many Nidoking cards each holds.
Aquapolis3- Destined Rivals3
- 1512
- Evolutions2
Base Set1
Base Set 21
Dragon Frontiers1
FireRed & LeafGreen1
Gym Challenge1
Legendary Collection1
Plasma Freeze1
Rising Rivals1
Rarity
Questions
- How many Nidoking cards are there?
- There are 23 Nidoking cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 17 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.
- Which Nidoking card has the best artwork?
- That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Nidoking art first, however common or rare the card.
- Who illustrates Nidoking cards?
- 15 illustrators have drawn Nidoking. Ken Sugimori has done the most at 5, followed by 5ban Graphics and Naoyo Kimura.
- What was the first Nidoking card?
- Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Base Set, released in 1999. 14 of its 23 cards are Rare.
